While attending training at a military base, I started to develop symptoms associated with an incurable medical condition known as spinocerebellar ataxia. Consequently, my life changed in a matt...
The Carmelite nun Therese of the Child Jesus (1873-1897) lived a contemplative monastic life. Through her writings, she continues to help people who live in completely different contexts to discove...
If you believe you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer.-Matthew 21:22 Broken and desperate, she finally turned to God, because she needed a wa...
Amy Oxley Wilkinson was a well-known missionary in both China and the West in the early twentieth century. Initially setting up a mission station in a remote area of Fujian Province, she became awa...
The sole purpose of this book is to encourage you and to help you understand no matter what you are going through, you are not alone. No matter how hateful or hurtful this world has been to you, yo...
Aristotle and Plotinus set the horizon of inquiry--thinking is thinking on thinking. Discussion of mind, meaning, and subjectivity begins with the question, How is thinking on thinking different fr...
What makes for powerful preaching? Careful exegesis, logical structure, interesting illustrations, and clear speech can all help. But truly transformative preaching depends on divine power, not hum...
This Is the World that God Built is a retelling of the biblical creation story. A riff on the familiar nursery rhyme “This Is the House that Jack Built,” the story uses the ...
Given that Thomas a Kempis' Imitation of Christ is one of the most frequently translated and read late medieval books of devotion, it is surprising that there are few studies of the work in English...
Dr. Thomas A. Lambie was called a “loose cannon” by his Presbyterian missionary colleagues in British Sudan in 1907 because of his energy, vision, and spiritual fervor. Through combi...
Though the Mountains Tremble is a collection of random commentaries, from a biblical perspective, on issues and events in the contemporary world. Though most of the essays speak to specific events,...
Baptists in the nineteenth century grew from a small, struggling denomination to the second-largest Protestant denomination in America. They constructed conventions, schools, churches, and benevole...
Thoughts from Heaven is an example of God's use of ordinary people as vessels to share his message. He used a lame man as a visual example. He also used a man with a speech impediment to speak to t...
What is the secret of a vital, growing church? The answer Dr. Ortlund suggests in this book is deceptively simple - and life-changing. In thirty years of working with churches big and small, he has...
At sixteen, Alexandra Chenard gave birth to a baby she desperately wanted to keep but was never allowed even to see. Nine years later, she has strong reasons for finding the adopted child, but h...
Grief has been one of my best teachers. No one signs up for this process that will touch all of us at some time in our life.After the death of my late husband of thirty years, I knew I wa...
Have you ever experienced something challenging in your life? Was that moment so excruciating that you tried everything in your power to avoid feeling the pain it caused you? You, my friend, are...
Golgotha knows peace with the new queen. During her reign, Zenais and Kairi try to marry despite the objections of her father. When an unforeseen event threatens Golgotha, Zenais must put his pl...
Times Ten - (Urban definition) to the extreme; expresses magnitude. Merry-go-rounds are supposed to be fun and exciting. Times Ten chronicles a different kind of merry-...