By Philip Yancey Journalist and spiritual seeker Philip Yancey has always struggled with the most basic questions of the Christian faith. The question he tackles in What Good Is God? concerns the practical value of belief in God. His search for the answer to this question took him to some amazing settings around the world: Mumbai, India when the firing started during the terrorist attacks; at the motel where Martin Luther King Jr. was...
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By Jane Williams The aim of the “Church Times Study Guides” is to inform Christians about aspects of belief and practice in a systematic way so they may think, act and respond to the intellectual challenges of the day with greater confidence. Faith is one of the most commonly used words in Christian parlance. But what does it mean? Jane Williams traces the concept and the experience of faith through the Bible to discover...
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By Juergen Simonson Juergen Simonson was born in Dresden, Germany in 1924 and grew up under the Nazi regime. Because of some Jewish antecedents he was called up to do forced labour in France in 1944, escaped and after more adventures came to England in 1945. He was ordained into the Church of England in 1952, worked in Nigeria for seven years and spent the last 21 years in the parochial ministry in Putney and Barnes. He retired in...
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By Ann Weems Faith in Words is a timeless collection of essays and poems that reflect on living the life of faith. These meditative stories and essays and their apt metaphors will inspire Christian readers to seek a greater understanding of God and God’s presence in our daily lives. This volume includes works from such noted Presbyterian writers as Doris Betts, Kathleen Long Bostrom, Belden C. Lane, Katherine Paterson, J. Barrie...
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By John E. Castaldo, MD & Lawrence P. Levitt, MD In light of the escalating costs of healthcare in the U.S. and the on-going debate about appropriate health insurance reform, it’s easy to forget about the human side of medicine and the importance of the doctor-patient relationship. In Uncommon Wisdom, neurologists John Castaldo and Lawrence Levitt share what they have learned in their many years as doctors, not just from tests...
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By Kenneth Winston Tap the power of prayer and faith to heal whatever ails you. Prayer and faith can be potent cures for a whole host of emotional and physical problems. Hundreds of scientific studies prove it! But how do you access this hidden strength? This book will show you. (Product description) Available at Christian...
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By Sylvia Chang This is a story of prayer, faith, and hope in our Lord Jesus for His healing, and the intimate relationship of longing for our Heavenly Father in our personal lives. Through the knowledge of repentance and confession, we build the close relationship with Him daily in order to know His Heart, His thoughts and His ways in our personal lives. By the understanding that He is our Father and Creator, we have to draw back...
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By Janet Hodgson The Christian story has inspired centuries of art, of depicting the faith in images not least of Christ himself. Janet Hodgson has over many years collected images both contemporary and historical and encourages others to set up their own collections as a resource for creative worship and enabling people to articulate their faith. This workbook provides a wealth of material, designed to unlock people’s...
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By Paul Ferguson Liturgical texts, repeated week after week by hundreds of thousands of people, are an ideal starting-point for exploring deep matters of faith. Their rich theological content, their themes and their familiarity, can help us develop a more mature, informed faith and spirituality. Assuming no specialist knowledge but convinced that a good theological understanding is within everyone’s grasp, Paul Ferguson takes...
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By Ian Price This five-session group study explores each of the five senses as a doorway to deepening our faith and encountering God. Use it for a midweek group or a week-long focused study. Touch God through a hug from a friend, hear God in the laughter of a child, breathe in God through the aroma of the salty sea, see God in the wings of a butterfly, taste God in the texture of bread. Simple experiential exercises and activities...
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By Elisabeth Elliot Must we stumble through sorrow and tragedy without understanding or is there a lighted way – a path – through suffering? Elisabeth Elliot plots the treacherous passage through pain, grief, and loss a journey most of us will make many times in our life. Through it all, she says, there is only one reliable path, and if you walk it, you will see the transformation of all your losses, heartbreaks, and tragedies into...
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By Josh Ross Are You Scarred? Tired of platitudes that don’t heal your brokenness? Have you wondered if you’re allowed to say things like, “God, this doesn’t make any sense. Where are you?” Are you looking for the balance between honesty and faithfulness? This book is for you. Josh Ross lets you in on his own journey of grief as he discovers that faith is about experience, movement, and process. It is about adventure, adventure that...
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By Jim Cymbala (Dean Merrill, contributor) Pastor Jim Cymbala calls us back to a fiery, passionate preoccupation with God that will restore what the enemy has stolen from us: our first love for Jesus, our zeal, our troubled children, our wounded marriages, our broken and divided churches. Born out of the heart and soul of The Brooklyn Tabernacle, the message of Fresh Faith is illustrated by true stories of men and women whose lives...
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By L.B. Cowman (Edited by James Reimann) In a barren wilderness, L. B. Cowman long ago discovered a fountain that sustained her, and she shared it with the world, Streams in the Desert – her collection of prayerful meditations, Christian writings, and God’s written promises – has become one of the most dearly loved, best-selling devotionals of all time since its first publication in 1925. Filled with insight into the richness...
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By Douglas Knox “We’re going to storm the gates of Heaven until God brings healing. He’s going to give us our miracle.” The faith is sincere. The expectation is real. And sometimes God honors our prayers for healing. Sometimes, but not always. Instead of healing, God may choose to put us through grief. When loved ones die, even good Christians struggle to fathom the unfathomable. We count the months by the minute, waiting for the...
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By Bill Banks Many today have been taught that the only way to receive healing is to have personal faith for your specific healing. We must, it is implied, somehow “work up” or develop enough personal faith in order to be healed, and then we will experience God’s move on our body. The implication is that our personal faith is the determining factor, and it will in some manner acquire our healing. There is good news, however,...
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By Evangelist Ophelia Hunt At eight years old, I went to live with my grandparents in Mullins, South Carolina. My grandmother’s name was Rachel, and she was a woman full of love. It seemed as though God chose her to be that special, spirit-filled woman for the world to love, to those that knew her. I remember being burned; my grandmother called me over to her, and she began to mumble some words to herself. A few minutes later,...
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By Stephen Arterburn & Jack Felton Most of us began our journey into faith with trusting hearts. Yet incidents of abuse, media accounts of perverted religion, personal disappointments, loss, betrayal and even unrealistic expectations of God can cause us to develop a warped or damaged view of faith. Too often, what began as an authentic relationship with God deteriorates into a defective faith with an incomplete or poisoned view...
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By Bob Sorge Grow in the kind of faith that never stops contending for breakthrough. When Jesus gave us the prayer, “Get justice for me from my adversary,” (Luke 18:3), He equipped us with the most powerful prayer possible. Explore Jesus’s parable of the persistent widow and discover answers to some of the most perplexing questions about prayer: • Why is the cry for justice so empowering and strategic? • Can I know...
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By Ron and Glenda Pettey Heaven is Real is a short, very readable book that Pettey has written in collaboration with his wife Glenda. In the Foreword, Wanda Pridgeon, the wife of a Baptist minister, says that when she “heard about Ron’s out-of-body experience” she was “prepared to dismiss it as someone’s vivid imagination or wild dream,” but when she heard Ron speak of his experiences, she found she...
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