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Making Wise Choices in the Midst of Raw Emotions

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The disruption of strong emotions can feel jarring. It can feel like you're coming unglued...but you can learn how make your emotions work for instead of against you.

New York Times bestselling author Lysa TerKeurst admits that she knows what it feels like to praise God one minute and in the next yell and scream at her child. She, too, wonders why she can't always be serene and control her reactions.

In this six-session video Bible study (DVD/digital video sold separately), learn how to process emotions and resolve conflicts in ways that lead to wisdom, composure, and a more peaceful life.

Filled with honest personal examples and biblical teaching, the Unglued Participant's Guide will equip you to know with confidence how to:
Resolve conflict with wisdom and patience.Learn how to balance honesty and kindness when personally offended.Identify what type of reactor you are and how to improve your communication with others.Respond without regrets by managing your tendencies to shut down or explode.
Sessions include:
Grace for the UngluedFreedom for the UngluedFour Kinds of UngluedA Procedure Manual for the UngluedLingering Words for the UngluedImperfect Progress for the Unglued
Gain a deep sense of calm by responding to situations out of your control without acting out of control.

Designed for use with the Unglued Video Study (sold separately).

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Each day, the worlds urban population swells by almost 200,000. With every passing week, more than a million people new to cities face unexpected realities and challenges of urban life. Just like the sheer volume of people in the city, these challenges can be staggering. As with the height and breadth of our metropolises, the wonders of urban life can be breathtaking. Like the city itself, the questions and challenges of urban life are both sprawling and pulsing with vitality.

As part of Zondervan's Ordinary Theology series, this volume offers a series of Christian reflections on some of the most basic and universal challenges of 21st century urban life. It takes one important dimension of what it means to be humanthat human beings are made to be for God, for others, and for creationand asks, What are the implications of who God made us to be for how we ought to live in our cities?

This book is intended for Christians facing the riddle of urban creation care, discerning the shape of community life, struggling with the challenges of wealth and poverty, and wondering at the global influence of cities. It is meant for those whose lives and livelihoods are inextricably bound up in the flourishing of their neighborhood and also for those who live in the shadow of cities. Most of all, it is meant for those grappling with the relationship between the cities of tomorrow and the glorious city to come.

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Grow a Wildfire Faith that Will Endure Anything

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Where is your faith todayfirst sparks of faith, bright blue flames, radiating heat, raging bonfire, red-hot coals, cooling embers, cold grey ashes?  Is your love for God burning so brightly that you are consumed by its passion?  Are those who surround you drawn to its radiance and warmed by its heat?  Are sparks flying from you, spreading a wildfire faith that ignites passion in others?Or has your passion cooled, your light dimmed, or your fire been quenched?Throughout history God has chosen fire to represent his awesome power, his judgment and wrath, his protection, and his Shekinah glory: the flaming sword guarding Eden, the burning bush, the pillar of fire, the fiery furnace, the chariot of fire, the burning coal, the flame upon the altar, the lake of fire, and the flaming eyes of the Son of Man upon the thronethese are only a few of the images he has seared into our minds that we might know him more fully.God is the source of that first flicker that sparked your faith and one day you will stand in his holy presence, look into the flaming eyes of Jesus, and see his burning love for you face to face.  But between that first flicker and that heavenly meeting, there is life to be lived on this earth.  The challenge we all face is that life can dim our fire or even quench it, whether by the soggy mist of the mundane, or the quenching downpour of crisis.Carol Kent has discovered that Gods Word is filled with the secrets of nurturing his fire in our lives, sometimes painfully so, other times even undetected, refining, purifying, cauterizing, healing, and ultimately reshaping us into the image of his Son.Author and speaker Carol Kent will take you into Gods word, and into your own story, to reveal the true power of the fire God has placed in you, to fan the flames of your faith, stir your passion, and embolden you to spark wildfires that will spread to forever change the landscape of this world beyond your wildest imagination.Gods fire is in your life.  Fan the flames.  Burn brightly. Start a wildfire!

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Guided Reading Projects and Exercises in the Gospels

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This workbook accompanies Mark L. Strausss Four Portraits, One Jesus. Following the textbooks structure, it offers readings from the Gospels, activities, and exercises designed to support the students learning experience and enhance their comprehension of what can be known from the Gospels about the central defining subject of Christianity, Jesus of Nazareth.

Four Portraits, One Jesus is a thorough yet accessible introduction to the four biblical Gospels and their subject, the life and person of Jesus. Like different artists rendering the same subject using different styles and points of view, the Gospels paint four highly distinctive portraits of the same remarkable Jesus. With clarity and insight, Mark Strauss illuminates these four books, first addressing their nature, origin, methods for study, and historical, religious, and cultural backgrounds. He then moves on to closer study of each narrative and its contribution to our understanding of Jesus, investigating things such as plot, characters, and theme. Finally, he pulls it all together with a detailed examination of what the Gospels teach about Jesus ministry, message, death, and resurrection, with excursions into the quest for the historical Jesus and the historical reliability of the Gospels.

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Living the Story of the Bible to Become Like Jesus

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Its one thing to know the story of the Bible. Its another thing to live it.

Grounded in carefully selected Scripture, Believe, NKJV is a unique spiritual growth experience that takes you on a journey to think, act, and be more like Jesus. Pastor Randy Frazee walks you through the ten key beliefs of the Christian faith, the ten key Practices of a Jesus-follower, and the ten key Virtues that characterize someone who is becoming more like Jesus. Every believer needs to ask these three questions: What do I believe? What should I do? Who am I becoming?

What you believe in your heart will define who you become. God wants you to become like Jesus - it is the most truthful and powerful way to live - and the journey to becoming like Jesus begins by thinking like Jesus. When you study the life of Jesus you will notice a distinct pattern: Jesus faithfully lived in a purposeful way. Jesus compared the Christian life to a vine. He is the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in the vine of Christ, over time you will produce amazing and scrumptious fruit at the end of your branches for all to see and taste. You become like Jesus.

Each chapter uses short topical passages from the New King James Version (NKJV) to help you live the story of the Bible. As you journey through this Bible, whether in a group or on your own, one simple truth will become undeniably clear: what you believe drives everything.

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Frank and Beans and the Grouchy Neighbor

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A Lesson in Forgiveness.

Frank cant wait to go fishing until he finds out Mr. Granger is going too. And Mr. Granger doesnt like dogs! When Beans gets excited, it seems like the trip is ruined. Will Beans be forgiven?

This is a Level Two I Can Read! book, which means its perfect for children learning to sound out words and sentences. It aligns with guided reading level J and will be of interest to children Pre-K to 3rd grade.

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The Bible as One Continuing Story of God and His People

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"The greatest story ever told" is more than just a cliche.

God goes to great lengths to rescue lost and hurting people. That is what The Story is all about: the story of the Bible, God's great love affair with humanity. Condensed into 31 accessible chapters, The Story sweeps you into the unfolding progression of Bible characters and events from Genesis to Revelation. Using the King James Version of the biblical text, it allows the stories, poems, and teachings of the Bible to read like a novel. Like any good story, The Story is filled with intrigue, drama, conflict, romance, and redemption - and this storys true!

The Story features a foreword by Max Lucado and Randy Frazee. This book tells the grandest, most compelling story of all time: the story of a true God who loves his children, who established for them a way of salvation and provided a route to eternity. Each story in these 31 chapters reveals the God of grace - the God who speaks; the God who acts; the God who listens; the God whose love for his people culminated in his sacrifice of Jesus, his only Son, to atone for the sins of humanity.

Features:
Selections from the text of the King James Version (KJV)Events, characters, and teachings of the Bible are arranged chronologicallyShort transitions between each chapter to connect the reader to the continuing storyTimelines of Bible events

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John Ortberg speaks with humor, insight, and wisdom to graduates facing the work world or pursuing additional education. John gave us access to the Willow Creek archives to find new, previously unpublished material that will speak specifically to this target audience.

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Johanna Shelby could never have anticipated where that "fateful encounter" would lead her. She could not have known then how love for the young, rough-hewn, mountain doctor would cause her to turn her back on her privileged lifestyle, threaten to estrange her from her family, and bring her to the wild mountains of Appalachia. If she had known . . . But no! Nothing could hold her back. Not her adoring, worried parents. Not her snooty, so-called "friends." Not even her own flashes of doubt and fear. No, this love would not be denied. It was part of a larger pattern -like the pattern of one of the family quilts her aunts and cousins met weekly to stitch. Into those quilts went not just fabric, but meanings and memories; and when they were finished, the were more than just quilts- they were life stories. Johanna did not know what the future held. But she trusted God. . . And she knew that he would cause her own family quilt to be rich and beautiful -a pattern like no other.

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Learning to Identify, Choose, and Live with Acceptable Risk

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By avoiding risk, are you also avoiding your life's full potential? Join acclaimed neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson as he explores the life-changing power of taking the risk, even if you're afraid.

In our risk-avoidant culture, we place a high premium on safety. We insure our vacations. We check crash tests on cars. We extend the warranties on our appliances. But by insulating ourselves from the unknown--the natural risks of life--we miss the great adventure of living our lives to their fullest potential.

Dr. Ben Carson spent his childhood as an at-risk child on the streets of Detroit, and he took big risks in performing complex surgeries on the brain and the spinal cord. Now, offering inspiring personal examples, Dr. Carson invites us to embrace risk in our own lives.

In Take the Risk, Dr. Carson examines our safety-at-all-costs culture and the meaning of risk and security in our lives. Take the Risk guides you through an extensive examination of risk, including:
Risk-taking in historyAn assessment of the real costs and rewards of riskLearning how to assess and accept risksUnderstanding how risk reveals the purpose of your life
From a man whose life dramatically portrays the connection between great risks and greater successes, the insights Dr. Carson shares in Take the Risk will help you dispel your fear of risk in order to dream big, aim high, move with confidence, and reap the rewards of wise risk-taking.

Praise for Take the Risk:

"Whether you are a world-renowned neurosurgeon, a CEO, or a teacher, this book applies to anyone who ever wondered about the difference between the pacesetters and those who struggle to keep up. It is the pacesetters who Take the Risk, and this book explains when and why to take risks to empower everyone to become a trailblazer rather than a mere spectator. For anyone who wants to rise above mediocrity, this book is a must-read."

--Armstrong Williams, author and radio host, The Armstrong Williams Show

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The world has a love affair--with itself. Armed with Facebook, Twitter, and blogs, we think of ourselves as mini celebrities, and we use consumption and technology to convince our friends that this facade is who we are.

Veneer illustrates that consumption is more than just acquiring more stuff; it is a potentially dangerous mindset--a mindset turning everything, even people, into products. According to authors Timothy Willard and R. Jason Locy, there is evidence of consumption in all channels of culture--even the church.

Most Christian commentators suggest that the church should speak the language of the congregants. Willard and Locy suggest the opposite approach: if congregants are steeped in a culture of consumption, the church should not speak their language at all. Veneer encourages the church to become a refreshing voice amidst a veneered world, inviting you to lead an unveneered life of freedom, honesty, and beauty.

Taking on an original concept that addresses the potential dangers of consumption and technology, Veneer speaks to many Christians who are unsure how to live with true meaning among the ever-changing trends and technology our culture offers.

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Build a Biblical Foundation for Your Marriage

With devotions that reflect the concerns that many couples face today, the bestselling NIV Couples Devotional Bible is designed to help you build your relationship on the one foundation you can count on: Gods Word. The devotions cover many topics, including communication, work and career, sex, money, fears, setting goals, step parenting, forgiveness, and more. Because this devotional Bible was developed in partnership with the team at Christianity Today International, you can be confident that the devotions are relevant, trusted, and honest.

Features:
Complete text of the accurate, readable, and clear New International Version (NIV)260 weekday devotions by contributors such as Jennifer Schuchmann, Wayne Brouwer, and Carla Barnhill52 weekend devotions include advice from bestselling writers, marriage therapists, and pastors, including Les and Leslie Parrott, Gary Thomas, John Townsend, Henry Cloud, and Gary SmalleyWeekend devotions include tips, helps, quizzes, activities, and a Lets Talk section that promotes application and interactionBook introductionsSubject indexList of contributors

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Many Christians have an easier time being saved by grace than they do living in grace every day. But grace is at the center of the life God calls us to--and reflects the heart of the One who calls.These studies in Grace will help you make the connection between grace as a remote biblical concept and grace as a lifestyle--a reality you experience day in, day out. Through an unfolding study of Psalm 23, youll learn how God--our Good Shepherd--is for you, how he longs to walk with you through temptation, sorrow, and even deep regret. Youll discover Gods desire to make his joy your joy. Throughout, youll learn how enduring, powerful, and life-affirming Gods work in your life can beand rediscover why its called amazing grace.Leaders guide included!Grace group sessions are:Living in GraceGrace for RegretsSustaining GraceDelighting in GraceA Legacy of GraceGrace ForeverGrace to Share

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John Ortberg, Laurie Pederson, Judson Poling

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If You Want to Walk on Water, You've Got to Get Out of the Boat Bible Study Participant's Guide

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A 6-Session Journey on Learning to Trust God

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In this six-session study pastor and author John Ortberg teaches people how to trust God more fully. Using testimonial interviews to illustrate his talks, Ortberg teaches participants the skills essential for water-walking in faith with God. Designed for use with the video.

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John Ortberg, Stephen and Amanda Sorenson

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In Talking with Catholics about Jesus, author Chris Castaldo provides an easy-to-follow introduction to basic Catholic belief and practice, equipping evangelical Protestants for more fruitful spiritual conversations.

Written in accessible, non-technical language, this short book offers readers:
A more informed awareness of CatholicismEncouragement to move from a combative posture to a gracious oneClarification of erroneous caricatures of Catholics in favor of a more constructive understanding
Based in part on Castaldo's experience as a Catholic and time spent working professionally in the Catholic Church, Talking with Catholics about Jesus gives readers a framework for recognizing where lines of similarity and difference fall between Catholics and evangelical Protestants, along with handy tips for engaging in spiritual discussions.

Readers will gain encouragement and practical insights for gracious and worthwhile discussions of faith with Catholic believers.

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The Christian Atheist Bible Study Participant's Guide

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Believing in God but Living as If He Doesn't Exist

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Be more than just "Christian" in name.

In this six-session small group Bible study (DVD/digital video sold separately), pastor and author Craig Groeschel leads you and your group on a personal journey toward an authentic, God-honoring life. This honest, hard-hitting, and eye-opening look into the ways people believe in God but live as if he doesn't exist is a classic of church small groups and discipleship training.

You believe in God, attend church, and you generally treat people with kindness. But, have you surrendered to God completely, living every day depending upon the Holy Spirit?

In this small group Bible study, Groeschel encourages you and your group to develop your faith with the gospel, to be honest before God, and to break free of hypocrisy to live a more authentic, God-honoring life.

Sessions include:
When you Believe in God but Dont Really Know HimWhen you Believe in God but Dont Think Hes FairWhen You Believe in God but Arent Sure He Loves YouWhen You Believe in God but Trust More in MoneyWhen You Believe in God but Pursue Happiness at Any Cost When You Believe in God but Dont Want to Go Overboard
Designed for use with The Christian Atheist Video Study 9780310329794 (sold separately).

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NIV, Once-A-Day: Men and Women of the Bible Devotional

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365 Insights from Scripture's Most Memorable People

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The Once-A-Day Men & Women of the Bible Devotional ebook has 365 daily readings unpacking the most memorable people of the Bible. From Adam & Eve to David & Goliath to Mary & Joseph, and many more, each day's reading explores the key lessons from their lives. This devotional book will open your eyes to the joys, struggles, and life lessons you can learn from them today.

Each daily reading includes:
Scripture text from the most popular modern-English Bible translation, the NIV
A devotion from the trusted team that brought you the Life Application Study Bible notes, focused on one person of the Bible and how their life relates to yours
A thought to ponder, with room to jot down your reflections

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Strengthen your walk with God as you find your own way in life

Your college years are different from any other time in your life. You get a demanding new schedule and its yours to manage 100% on your own. You make new, lifelong friendships as you spend time with other people on a similar path in the journey. You face unique challenges as you begin to see the world differently, including what your impact on the world might be.

This special time in your life is also an opportunity for you to deepen your relationship with Jesus. The NIV College Devotional Bible will help you strengthen your walk with God as you find your own way in life. Its filled with stories that connect Scripture with the struggles, questions, and decisions every college student faces. In fact, its the same approach that Jesus used in his parablestaking stories from everyday life to illustrate eternal truths.

Features:
Complete text of the accurate, readable, and clear New International Version (NIV)222 school-year devotions with daily insights and applications on relevant topicsDevotions use a unique storytelling approach to connect Gods Word with your real-life questions, struggles, and decisions as a studentA practical reading plan that helps you stay connected to God during the 9 months of school each yearQuick-start guide shows you how to get the most out of reading the BibleSubject index for looking up topics of interest

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The NIV Application Commentary helps you communicate and apply biblical text effectively in today's context.

To bring the ancient messages of the Bible into today's world, each passage is treated in three sections:
Original Meaning. Concise exegesis to help readers understand the original meaning of the biblical text in its historical, literary, and cultural context.Bridging Contexts. A bridge between the world of the Bible and the world of today, built by discerning what is timeless in the timely pages of the Bible.Contemporary Significance. This section identifies comparable situations to those faced in the Bible and explores relevant application of the biblical messages. The author alerts the readers of problems they may encounter when seeking to apply the passage and helps them think through the issues involved.
This unique, award-winning commentary is the ideal resource for today's preachers, teachers, and serious students of the Bible, giving them the tools, ideas, and insights they need to communicate God's Word with the same powerful impact it had when it was first written.

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The NIV Application Commentary helps you communicate and apply biblical text effectively in today's context.

To bring the ancient messages of the Bible into today's world, each passage is treated in three sections:
Original Meaning. Concise exegesis to help readers understand the original meaning of the biblical text in its historical, literary, and cultural context.Bridging Contexts. A bridge between the world of the Bible and the world of today, built by discerning what is timeless in the timely pages of the Bible.Contemporary Significance. This section identifies comparable situations to those faced in the Bible and explores relevant application of the biblical messages. The author alerts the readers of problems they may encounter when seeking to apply the passage and helps them think through the issues involved.
This unique, award-winning commentary is the ideal resource for today's preachers, teachers, and serious students of the Bible, giving them the tools, ideas, and insights they need to communicate God's Word with the same powerful impact it had when it was first written.