Spiritual Church

I believe that this is our time, our hour, and our moment as Christians to be fully consumed by God. This book, Living a Life Consumed by God, is meant to equip and empower every believer to live our lives as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, so that we can live the full life of freedom that Christ has for us!

God makes amazing promises about what He will do when his people truly live in repentance. Perhaps nowhere else in the Bible is this promise so clear as in Acts 3:19 (NASB): “Therefore repent and return, so that your sins may be wiped away, in order that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord.” Repentance brings forgiveness from sins, but there is also a second promise attached to repentance: the presence of God.

When Satan claimed to have authority over the kingdoms of the world and said he could give them to whomever he chose, why did Jesus not contradict him? Why instead did Jesus go on to describe Satan as the "god of this world?" If Satan is the spiritual head over the world's governments, can there be such a thing as a Christian nation? In Fight the Powers, Cody Cook compiles the relevant biblical data which draws connections between political power and spiritual forces, seeking to answer the question of how Christians ought to relate to the state in light of these connections.

Traditionally, many churches offered unique Sunday school, Sunday morning, Sunday night and midweek services. Is that old-fashioned now? Should we still do that? Is there a precedent in God's Word to having evening services? A Case for Sunday Evening Church is a compelling look at some biblical, logical and practical reasons why our church chooses to conduct unique Sunday evening services.

The call upon God's people has always been to live as a demonstration of his gospel as well as to declare his gospel message to the world around us. A lack of understanding about walking in a culture of discipleship among God's people seriously hinders that call. It results in people self-identifying as Christians but not following Jesus or seeking to live according to his commands. Therefore, we need a revolution of discipleship among his people.

Although there are many religions to learn about and many people who practice different religions, do we truly know the difference between knowing about God and KNOWING God? With different examples from the Bible presented by Philip Guenaga, this book will provoke you to re-read the Bible and realize that we may have been deceived, regardless of what faith you may belong to.

The principal crime of the human race, the highest guilt charged upon the world, the whole procuring cause of judgment, is idolatry. Do you inquire whom he has slain? If it contributes ought to the aggravation of the indictment, no stranger nor personal enemy, but his own self. By what snares? Those of his error. By what weapon? The offense done to God. By how many blows? As many as are his idolatries.

God wants you to know, feel, and believe in his love and presence in your life each and every day—so don't put him off any longer!

This collection includes two fantastic early learning titles from accomplished author Crystal Bowman.

And so he gathered together a people for himself, and fostered them with many liberal distributions of his bounty, and, after so often finding them most ungrateful, ever exhorted them to repentance and sent out the voices of the universal company of the prophets to prophesy. By and by, promising freely the grace which in the last times he was intending to pour as a flood of light on the universal world through his Spirit, he bade the baptism of repentance lead the way.

Did you know that God isn't expecting you to clean up your life? Shocking right? God's goal for you goes so much deeper than your actions, his goal is to give you something most people dream of...new life. All of us have things in our past that we are not proud of. We probably have some things in our present we aren't too fond of either. What if God's plan for you was to let the past be the past...literally count the old you who messed up as dead, and let a new, better you be reborn. Well, that is his plan! This book holds the best news I have ever heard.

The Bible teaches us that we are to love our neighbors and even our enemies. In fact, Jesus said that this would be a distinguishing characteristic of his followers. In Love Is the Answer, Pastor Rick White walks us through 1 Corinthians 13, the love chapter. Pastor Rick will show scripturally how we can represent this love in our day to day lives.

This short book is a description of the vision the Lord gave me about what is messing with the churches and ministries in America and why they can't seem to change. If I'm right, this is a horrifying state of things - far worse than anyone knows and far more hopeless. This is not about deliverance or about fighting Satan. This is about what God himself has done to us because of our disobedience.

If our oneness was not important, Yahshua would not have declared and decreed it prior to His death, burial and resurrection. If our oneness is optional then we will never be one. My question is, how can we continue to support, foster, and even celebrate our division and relational dysfunction?

Senior Minister, Reverend Matt Broadbent of Los Altos, California Foothill Congregational Church, United Church of Christ, spoke with this writer by phone and webcam via Skype in February, 2010 about same sex marriage and same sex blessings. This is the first of a series of interviews with different clergy denomination members on the subject. Two other upcoming interviews are with The Rt. Reverend Marc Andrus of The Episcopal Church, USA (San Francisco Bay Area known as Diocese of California), and Rabbi Stephen Pearce of Reform Temple El Emanuel, San Francisco.