Wilderness Living

Do you sometimes feel that you are wandering in a wilderness of grief, confusion, and faltering faith? If so, you are not alone. Like the lost children of Israel, many have searched for a way through a personal wilderness. But just as those same Israelites followed God's leading to the Promised Land, you too can find the promised new life in the Spirit. Jamie Buckingham made such a journey - not only figuratively but literally. During a time of intense personal struggle, he traveled to the Sinai. There he found restoration and, in the solitude of a wilderness night, he learned ancient Bible truths that would alter his life forever.

Our news media seems to have daily stories of individuals who have been abused by clergy, church leaders, and even church organizations. Countless numbers of formerly faithful people avoid church because they were abused, while others, who are not religious participants, avoid experiencing faith communities because of what they have been hearing in news stories. How do clergy, church leaders, and congregations help in the healing of these abused people and assist them to move beyond the pain of abuse toward healing and even forgiveness?

In Faith in the Wilderness, editors Hannah Nation and Simon Liu pull together the insights of the Chinese Church for the West. These sermonic letters from Chinese Christians will awaken listeners to the reality of the gospel—the ground of our hope—in the midst of darkness.

If you have ever doubted your calling from God…If you have ever ceased to hear His voice…If you have ever felt Abandoned and alone…The heart cry of John the Baptist will call you home to your Savior and Lord.

Into the Wilderness offers an invitation to reframe our wasteland seasons. It's a celebration of God's relentless pursuit of our hearts, even in our moments of deepest pain. Using the second chapter of Hosea as her template, Tiffany Nesbitt candidly weaves together her personal experiences with the timeless love story of the Gospel, bringing the listener face-to-face with the passionate heart of Jesus for His beloved bride.

Embrace the serenity of off-grid living with these essential skills and strategies for self-reliant, secure, and sustainable living. With the rise in government unreliability, international conflicts, and increasing natural and environmental disasters, the sense of safety and security offered by cities appears to be diminishing. All these have also created a growing demand and a dwindling supply of goods, especially food and medicine necessary for survival.

Every Christian must pass through the desert on the way to their Promised Land. Wilderness experiences are often times of great uncertainty and change. Our faith in Christ is refined in the intense heat of the desert experience and our intimacy with him increases. Find out how to go from surviving to thriving by partnering with God as he leads you in the path that will strengthen your faith and prepare you to step into your destiny.

Every Christian must pass through the desert on the way to their Promised Land. Wilderness experiences are often times of great uncertainty and change. Our time in the desert seasons of our lives is lengthened or shortened depending on our response to each circumstance. Our faith in Christ is refined in the intense heat of the desert experience as our intimacy with Him increases.

A project manager, former corporate trainer, and technical writer, Brian Eckard shares his compelling story of losing a job that he loved and his struggle to support his family during this challenging time. Through stories and humor, he brings you along on his journey to land a permanent job as he follows Jesus, resolving not to accept anything less than God’s best. He shows you how God was with him even in his darkest moments, guiding his footsteps and helping him rise from the ashes of defeat to the job He had for him.

This book dares to win, equipping people of faith to fight victoriously, especially for family, when life is not as it should be. We live between two gardens: Eden and the New Jerusalem. Between the gardens there is only desert; a biblical metaphor for life. Three main words in the Hebrew language describe the desert: midbar, t’siyah, and yashiymown—three kinds of deserts and metaphorically three kinds of life experience.

Have you ever felt as though you were navigating desolate spiritual territory? Do you find yourself parched, wondering why your spiritual life seems so dry? You are not alone! The reasons we enter a spiritual wilderness may be many, but one thing is certain, our heavenly father wants us all to emerge as flourishing champions of the Christian faith. What is it that marks the difference between a resounding victory in the wilderness and a total disaster?

From the Wilderness to the Narrow Path: A Journey of Surrender and Course Correction is a powerful and thought-provoking exploration of the two paths we all face: the wide path that leads to destruction, and the narrow path that leads to eternal life.

The Lord’s Prayer is a beautiful, subversive passage of words given to the church by Jesus. It forms our imaginations and—given time—transforms us. And today, we are in desperate need of renewed imaginations. Christians are living in a wilderness of secularism. In Liturgy in the Wilderness, Anglican priest D. J. Marotta shows how the Lord’s Prayer provides a framework in our secular age for understanding, believing, and living in light of Jesus Christ.

Do you ever feel like Bible stories took place in a whole different world? Well, they did. And the settings in which they occurred provide clues to our better understanding of each. When you comprehend, for example, how dry and barren the wilderness actually is, you get a new dimension in your Scripture reading. John Beck combines his passion for God’s Word and his love of geography to share deep insights into how wilderness extremes factor into familiar Bible stories.

Do you want to know you’re ready and prepared for any conceivable contingency, regardless of life’s unpredictable twist and turns? Are you someone who is concerned for you and your family's safety ? With Wars brewing around the world, viruses crippling society, prepping is no longer a fringe hobby. It is more……it is cultivating your unshakable readiness. It is being resourceful and shifting to a can do attitude. Prepping is no longer for the extremist or the paranoid. It is for you…….a person who cares about not being victim to the whims of the word.

Everyone feels lost sometimes. We can't possibly know all the answers to life's most difficult questions. Life, though, continues, and it's up to us to adjust, assess, and act. Don't Know What to Do? aims to guide you down the right path in a world that may seem in a disarray or following a crisis in your personal life. This spiritual guide will show you the next plausible steps to make things right or prevent a disastrous outcome through God's words and his example.

Loving a prodigal is a long and desperate journey, filled with fear, worry, anger, self-recrimination. You wait for the phone call - will it be from jail or the hospital? You plead with your loved one. You search for help. You feel the shame. You cry out to God, "How long, Lord?" Author Judy Douglass knows these lovers of prodigals well. She is one herself and has created a large and growing community with others. When You Love a Prodigal is a collection of 90 essays - 90 days of perspective on what God offers to you as you love your prodigal.

Every one of us has spent some time in the wilderness - times of upheaval and pressure when we are forced to reckon with the way we have been living. God desires to turn these expeditions into moments of personal transformation. Using the life of Jacob as a biblical template, Pastor Tyler Warner provides a road map to follow through this spiritual wasteland. Examined in the light of Christ’s work on the cross, the story calls us higher and deeper into the things of God.