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What's So Amazing About Grace?

by Philip Yancey

On the heels of Philip Yancey's bestselling The Jesus I Never Knew comes his equally insightful exploration of grace, the most powerful force in the universe and our only hope for love and forgiveness. Now available in softcover. Winner of the Gold Medallion Book Award, the Christian Book of the Year Award, and the Retailers Choice Award.

Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth, 25th Anniversary Edition

Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth, 25th Anniversary Edition

by Richard Foster

In the twenty years since its publication, Celebration of Discipline has helped over a million seekers discover a richer spiritual life infused with joy, peace, and a deeper understanding of God. For this special twentieth anniversary edition, Richard J. Foster has added an introduction, in which he shares the story of how this beloved and enduring spiritual guidebook came to be. Hailed by many as the best... (more)

Trusting God: Even When Life Hurts

by Jerry Bridges

WHY IS IT EASIER TO OBEY GOD THAN TO TRUST HIM? Because obeying God makes sense to us. In most cases, His laws appear reasonable and wise, and even when we don't want to obey them, we usually concede that they are good for us. But the circumstances we find ourselves in often defy explanation. When unexpected situations arise that appear unjust, irrational, or even dreadful, we feel confused and frustrated.... (more)

The Reformed Pastor: A Pattern for Personal Growth and Ministry (Classics of Faith and Devotion)

The Reformed Pastor: A Pattern for Personal Growth and Ministry (Classics of Faith and Devotion)

by Richard Baxter

Despite the title, this book is equally informative to those in the pulpit and those in the pew. It was penned when Baxter was unable to attend a meeting of ministers, so he wrote this to them. It covers what it means to take heed to ourselves, to the flock, to spiritual things, to church discipline. He prays for unity and peace in the churches, for greater vigor on the part of everyone in expressing our life in... (more)

The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life

The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life

by Os Guinness

The Call continues to stand as a classic, reflective work on life's purpose. Best-selling author Os Guinness goes beyond our surface understanding of God's call and addresses the fact that God has a specific calling for our individual lives. Why am I here? What is God's call in my life? How do I fit God's call with my own individuality? How should God's calling affect my career, my plans for the future, my... (more)

The Road to Reality: Coming Home to Jesus from an Unreal World

The Road to Reality: Coming Home to Jesus from an Unreal World

by K. P. Yohannan

It's not too late! Have you gotten sidetracked from your first love, Jesus? Do you hunger to be His faithful disciple, but often find yourself distracted by a lifestyle that subtly lures you away? It's not too late to get back on course. Just follow Jesus along The Road to Reality, and find your way back to the heart of Christianity. In this prophetic and practical book, K.P. Yohannan offers... (more)

Dangerous Wonder (with Discussion Guide)

Dangerous Wonder (with Discussion Guide)

by Mike Yaconelli

Recapture the joy of being a child and apply it to your relationship with God. Ask the difficult questions about faith, then just take Jesus at His word. Includes discussion guide.

If God Is Love: Rediscovering Grace in an Ungracious World

If God Is Love: Rediscovering Grace in an Ungracious World

by Philip Gulley

If God is love, why are so many Christians fearful, and why do so many church leaders sound hateful? Two controversial pastors address issues the church won't face, calling us to restore grace as the center of the Christian life. o In If Grace Is True , Pastors Philip Gulley and James Mulholland revealed their belief that God will save every person. They now explore the implications of this belief, and its... (more)

Reforming Marriage

by Douglas Wilson

How would you describe the spiritual aroma of your home? The source of this aroma is the relationship between husband and wife. Many can fake an attempt at keeping God's standards in some external way. What we cannot fake is the resulting, distinctive aroma of pleasure to God. Reforming Marriage does what few books on marriage do today: it provides biblical advice. Douglas Wilson points to the need for... (more)

The Prodigal God: Christianity Redefined Through the Parable of the Prodigal Sons

The Prodigal God: Christianity Redefined Through the Parable of the Prodigal Sons

by Timothy J. Keller

Newsweek called renowned minister Timothy Keller “a C. S. Lewis for the twenty-first century” in a feature on his first book, The Reason for God . In that book, he offered a rational explanation of why we should believe in God. Now, in The Prodigal God , he uses one of the best-known Christian parables to reveal an unexpected message of hope and salvation. Taking his trademark intellectual approach to... (more)

Sacred Marriage

by Gary Thomas

Starting with the discovery that the goal of marriage goes beyond personal happiness, writer and speaker Gary Thomas invites readers to see how God can use marriage as a discipline and a motivation to love him more and reflect more of the character of his Son.

Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places: A Conversation in Spiritual Theology

Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places: A Conversation in Spiritual Theology

by Eugene H. Peterson

Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places reunites spirituality and theology in a cultural context where these two vital facets of Christian faith have been rent asunder. Lamenting the vacuous, often pagan nature of contemporary American spirituality, Eugene Peterson here firmly grounds spirituality once more in Trinitarian theology and offers a clear, practical statement of what it means to actually live out the... (more)

The Purpose-Driven Life

What on Earth Am I Here For?

by Richard Warren

Now in trade paperback—The Purpose Driven® Life. With over 20 million copies sold worldwide, Rick Warren’s #1 New York Times bestseller guides you on a personal forty-day spiritual journey of discovery in search of answers to life’s most important question: What on earth am I here for? Five biblical answers will transform your outlook on life.

Twelve Ordinary Men: How the Master Shaped His Disciples for Greatness, and What He Wants to Do with You

Twelve Ordinary Men: How the Master Shaped His Disciples for Greatness, and What He Wants to Do with You

by John MacArthur

Contrary to popular belief, we do not have to be perfect to do God's work. Look no further than the twelve disciples whose many weaknesses are forever preserved throughout the pages of the New Testament. Jesus chose ordinary men - fisherman, tax collectors, political zealots - and turned their weakness into strength, producing greatness from utter uselessness. MacArthur draws principles from Christ's careful,... (more)

When Life Falls Apart

by Warren W. Wiersbe

Wiersbe offers a study of suffering, showing readers that God has a purpose for allowing hardships to occur.

Evangelical Eloquence: A Course of Lectures of Preaching

Evangelical Eloquence: A Course of Lectures of Preaching

by R. L. Dabney

The Shape of Practical Theology: Empowering Ministry With Theological Praxis

The Shape of Practical Theology: Empowering Ministry With Theological Praxis

by Ray Sherman Anderson

Too often in the life of the church, theological reflection and the practical matters of leading and serving have been considered independently. The result has been the impoverishment of both Christian faith and Christian practice. In this groundbreaking book Ray Anderson reflects theologically and practically on preaching, worship, ethics, social justice, therapy, family, homosexuality, burnout in ministry,... (more)

Ten Commandments:

by Thomas Watson

It is not enough to hear God's voice, but we must obey. Obedience is a part of the honour we owe to God. "If then I be a Father, where is my honour?" (Mal. 1:6). Obedience carries in it the life-blood of religion. "Obey the voice of the Lord God" (Deut. 27:10), and do His commandments. Obedience without knowledge is blind, and knowledge without obedience is lame. Rachel was fair to look upon, but, being barren,... (more)

Future Men

by Douglas Wilson

As much as it may distress us, our boys are future men. When Theodore Roosevelt taught Sunday school for a time, a boy showed up one Sunday with a black eye. He admitted he had been fighting and on a Sunday too. He told the future president that a bigger boy had been pinching his sister, and so he fought him. TR told him that he had done perfectly right and gave him a dollar. The stodgy vestrymen thought this... (more)

Federal Husband

by Douglas Wilson

Federal thinking is foreign to the modern mind. "Federal" has come to mean nothing more than centralized or big. Because our federal government has become so uncovenantal, it is not surprising that the original meaning of the word has been lost. But federal thinking is the backbone of historic Protestant theology, and the Church needs to recover the covenantal understanding of federal headship. Husbands are to... (more)

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Tags: practical theology

by Philip Yancey

by Richard Foster

by Jerry Bridges

by Richard Baxter

by Os Guinness

by K. P. Yohannan

by Mike Yaconelli

by Philip Gulley

by Douglas Wilson

by Timothy J. Keller

by Gary Thomas

by Eugene H. Peterson

What on Earth Am I Here For?

by Richard Warren

by John MacArthur

by Warren W. Wiersbe

by R. L. Dabney

by Ray Sherman Anderson

by Thomas Watson

by Douglas Wilson

by Douglas Wilson