Spiritual Growth Love

The world is changing, along with our ideas around sexuality, authority, patriarchy, and truth. Despite the Church's best attempts at downplaying the changes, millions of intellectually honest people are entering into a process often referred to as deconstruction. In The Reconstructionist, pastor, and author Jonathan Foster offers up his own deconstruction story, how it stirred up the fear of his denomination, his subsequent expulsion, and how the insights gleaned might just point a way forward. It's based on three simple ideas: people > text, mercy > sacrifice, and love > fear.

“God is love is the radical claim of Christianity,” writes Frederick Bauerschmidt at the beginning of this little meditation on the essentials of Christian faith. In a rich yet accessible style reminiscent of C. S. Lewis and G. K. Chesterton, Bauerschmidt breathes life back into that claim, drawing from Scripture, great Christian and non-Christian writers of the past, and his own lived experience to show just how countercultural and subversive Christianity is actually meant to be.

If you love Jesus but are unhappy, disappointed, frustrated, disillusioned, or just plain burned-out with church or religion, I have good news for you. There is a problem with church, but it’s neither your fault nor God’s fault and you’re not required to “try harder” to fix it. Furthermore, you’re not alone. More and more evangelical Christians sense that church and religion are somehow at odds with a relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ. God has already given us the “way of escape.” His answer has always been hiding in plain sight in the New Testament.

As a pastor and author, Nicholas McDonald spent years helping people work through serious questions about the evangelical church’s gospel and its often hurtful responses to those confused by American Evangelical culture. He quickly realized that what these people needed—what he really needed—was not merely apologetics answers but the good news that speaks to their deepest dreams: love, beauty, and freedom—the very things Jesus promises to those who follow Him.

My book is about disappointment, love, pain, betrayal, and success. My dream was to finish high school in 1974 and go straight to college. I had a minor setback. My high school sweetheart was pregnant. I had a decision to make, either go to college or find a job. This was the most important decision I had to make in my life. But I chose to take care of my unborn child. I had to put college on hold. So at the age of eighteen, I married her.

Jesus promises that His burden is light, but how many of us are actually feeling, well . . . light? If life is like a long hike, most of us feel like we have a giant backpack of responsibilities and burdens that weigh us down and take the joy out of living. But Jesus offers another way.

In this unabridged audio edition— Love Mercy: A Mother and Daughter's Journey from the American Dream to the Kingdom of God—Christy award-winning novelist Lisa Samson and her daughter, Ty, experience a life-changing, soul-rattling journey on a mission trip to Africa. Confronted face-to-face with the AIDS crisis, poverty, prostitution, and illness, Lisa and Ty find something else as well: Christ’s love and redemption ablaze.

"Eternal Bond: A Widow's 40-Day Journey of Faith and Love" by William Gomes is a deeply insightful and supportive guide, specifically crafted for widows grappling with the intricacies of loss. Over a transformative 40-day period, this journey encompasses daily scripture readings, poignant reflections, and tailored personal exercises.

Este audiolibro, es una invitación a sumergirse en la experiencia del amor más puro y poderoso que existe: el amor inquebrantable de Dios. Un amor que no conoce barreras, que no se rinde ante la adversidad y que transforma todo lo que toca. Es el producto de casi 20 años, compartiendo el mensaje del amor de Dios delante de miles de personas; condensada en unas pocas páginas y que pueden ser de gran provecho para tu vida y la vida de tus seres más amados.

Donesa shares her heart from an abundance of lessons learned in life and through the word shows the rare beauty of scripture applied to our everyday activities. The wisdom and beauty shared is both beautiful and powerful through the word of God.

God has a place of profound influence for each of us. Penny Tucci shares her life with us in a way that is both vulnerable and challenging. She lets us in on the intimate details of a journey that is filled with painful obstacles and miraculous outcomes. She gives insight into the characteristics and qualities that open doors of influence in every relationship in our lives.

I wrote this book to share my testimony of the goodness of God. He did not promise me an easy life without pain or struggles, but he did promise me that he will always be by my side to help me to navigate this thing called life.

The best-selling album has inspired a heart-melting audio book. In Love Story, one of Christian music’s most remarkable singer-songwriters brings to listeners her proven gift for mining the gritty soil of everyday experience and emerging with poignant gems of spiritual insight. Based on the songs of the popular album, Music Inspired by The Story, Dove Award winner Nichole Nordeman takes us inside some of the pivotal moments of the people of Scripture, revealing a very human side that we’ve rarely glimpsed.

While most of us have the desire to share the gospel, we don’t know how to bring it up. Let’s face it… it’s not easy to go from “How is the weather?” to “Jesus died for you,” and no one is walking up to us on the street asking, “What must I do to be saved?” So what’s a well-intentioned Christian to do?

Has life ever broke your heart and left you with the broken pieces of what you thought your life would look like? Or have you hit a breaking point that has caused you to feel defeated and depressed? There may be breakups, life transitions, unexpected events, and moments that leave you feeling like moving forward is impossible, but it’s possible! You weren’t meant to stay stuck. God has big plans for you and He doesn’t want you wasting time and energy going around the same mountains that keep you frustrated or fearful.

If you are a new Christian, seeking to obey Jesus’ command to love others as yourself, this book will show you how to nurture that natural caring for others he places in all of us. If you are facing struggles and needing a guide to a better path, this book offers hope, wisdom and a trustworthy framework on how to grow in love.

What is a Masterpiece? What is it worth? It is a coveted thing of beauty, created as one of kind, by a Master Creator. God has designed each of us as masterpieces. None of us look the same nor have the same skills nor talents. God, the Master Creator molds us, sculpts us and creates us just to His specifications. Each of our journeys and experiences are specific to His creativity. Sometimes, that means we are broken, spilled out and remade. Whatever that journey is, join the author as she shares the possibilities of promise through the Word as we journey through the Masterpiece Price to discover not only are we His Masterpieces but He paid a heavy price to redeem us when we were broken and deemed unworthy.

We were set up to feel like failures in romantic relationships by the dysfunctional perspectives and expectations of love and romance we learned growing up. There is no happily-ever-after that we can reach when we find our prince or princess. As an adult you obviously know that intellectually - but emotionally you are still looking for it because it is what we were taught as children, it is part of the foundation programming that determines how we relate to life.

Transform your struggling relationship into a thriving one with God's Love Manual: A How-to Guide for Building Successful Relationships. Discover the secrets to building successful relationships and experience the benefits of a stronger, more loving connection.

In this short book, Joe Rigney offers a biblical vision that bypasses both ingratitude and idolatry and instead enjoys God in everything and enjoys everything in God. As we fix our eyes upon the Father of lights, the Giver of every good and perfect gift, we will notice that the things of earth grow strangely bright.