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Understand How God Banishes Your Sin, So You Can Let It Go Too
Every Christian has experienced days or even seasons of feeling extreme guilt over past or present sins, thinking that God is angry or disgusted with them-sometimes even wondering if they're truly saved. This often happens when believers fixate on their sins while forgetting what Christ has already done on their behalf at the cross. Sam Storms explains it this way: "What consumes us is...
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Bestselling Author Kevin DeYoung Offers Hope for Those Who Feel Like Christianity Has Become Hopelessly Crushing and Complex
The apostle Paul described the Christian life as a race, but to many believers it feels more like a punishing obstacle course. Fearing they'll never be able to do enough or give enough or be enough, they see themselves as spiritual failures. But Scripture offers good news: even in ordinary life, Christians can be faithful,...
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Practical Suggestions for Spending Quality Time in God's Word
Church Questions is a series that seeks to provide ordinary Christians with sound and accessible biblical teaching by answering common questions about church life. Each volume offers biblical answers and practical applications with the goal of nurturing healthy church practice and commitment.
Reading the Bible is essential to the Christian faith, but many believers struggle to study it...
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Pastor Dane Ortlund Explores Jesus's Heart to Reveal His Tender Love for Sinners and Suffers
Christians know that God loves them, but can easily feel that he is perpetually disappointed and frustrated, maybe even close to giving up on them. As a result, they focus a lot-and rightly so-on what Jesus has done to appease God's wrath for sin. But how does Jesus Christ actually feel about his people amid all their sins and failures?
This book draws us...
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In This Bestselling Book, John Piper Challenges Christians to a God-Exalting Life
Many spend their lives on trivial diversions, seeking earthly comfort and pleasure above all else. But Jesus said, "Whoever loses his life for my sake will save it," calling us into the eternal purpose and God-exalting life for which we were made.
In this bestselling book, John Piper warns readers of the dangers of an irrelevant life that counts for nothing and calls...
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The authors use an extended metaphor to serve up a little book with a big message about two essentials of the Christian life.
What do bookends have to do with the Christian life? They are a metaphor that Jerry Bridges has developed over the years, and which he and coauthor Bob Bevington flesh out in this small volume. The two "bookends" explain not only how we as sinners can be made acceptable to a holy God but also we can find the power to change....
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A Hopeful Puritan Perspective on Suffering and Death
In the throes of a long illness and confronting the possibility of death, 17th-century theologian Richard Baxter found comfort in the reality of heaven that awaits believers of Christ. During his recovery, Baxter wrote about the afterlife in what would become his best-selling book.
The Saints' Everlasting Rest meditates on what Scripture reveals about heaven, helping believers live an abundant,...
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An Examination of the Beatitudes and Jesus's Counterintuitive Promises
In our sinful world, we often struggle with anxiety, loneliness, and heartache. Everywhere we look, we see broken families and divided communities. How can we truly cultivate God's kingdom "on earth as it is in heaven" in such a broken place?
In the Beatitudes (Matthew 5:2–12), Jesus urges us to set ourselves apart from the world, living in a counterculture with a new identity...
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Romans 8:31-39 is a reminder of what the Lord Jesus has done. It is a picture of the grace of God providing all we need for salvation and a right relationship with God. It is about a God who has invested much in the lives of His children and who will do all He can to keep them. It portrays salvation from God's perspective. Paul's focus in these verses is not about our commitment to God but rather about His commitment to us.In this brief study of Romans...
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You do not have to be a prophet to know that a storm is coming to America. Just look around; watch a bit of news. What may surprise people - Christian people - is that the storm is intended for the church that resides here. This book is about that storm and the preparation of our spiritual house, that we might be a light and refuge when for the people of God. Importantly, the storm that is coming is not the only storm. Many of us have faced storms...
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Many Christians view the Ten Commandments as laws they are forced to obey in order to stay on God's good side. In her book His Loving Law, Our Lasting Legacy, Jani Ortlund invites readers to look at the Ten Commandments from a different perspective. Ortlund urges believers to recognize the Ten Commandments as a mirror, reflecting our need for God's cleansing and forgiveness.
Throughout the book, each commandment is presented not as another rule to...
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For those of us who are performance-oriented or for those who have long since thrown in the towel, a word about grace is in order.
Within these pages are 9 key messages on the grace of God. These are masterful lessons, built on Scripture, edifying and applicable for all who want to experience the freedom that comes from resting on the promise of God's unmerited favor.
Helping us to understand that we are not defined by what we do, but rather by who...
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The Gospel of Jesus Christ is essentially God's simple plan for the salvation of all mankind. Although the plan may be simplistic in nature, it presents us with the greatest and most difficult decision we will make in our lifetime. The consequences of our decision will not only significantly affect our lives in the here and now, but more importantly, this single decision will affect our eternal existence forevermore. Whether or not we choose to believe...
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One day the Lord Jesus was asked, "What is the greatest commandment of all?" He told his listeners that the greatest of all commandments was to love the Lord with all their heart, all their soul, all their mind and all their strength. There was nothing more important than this.What does is mean to love the Lore with all our heart, all our soul, all our mind and all our strength?As you read this study, you will be challenged to consider your own walk...
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Cultivating Humility in a Gospel-Centered Way
There are many misconceptions about what it means to be humble. Some think that being humble means hiding your talents and abilities or being weak and inauthentic. But the Bible paints a different picture-defining humility as a self-forgetfulness leading to joy and explaining that it is a life-giving virtue that frees you from the restricting needs of your ego.
In Humility: The Joy of Self-Forgetfulness,...
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Have you ever listened to what comes out of your mouth when someone asks you to describe yourself? The first thing you say in those situations can speak volumes about who you think you are. How we choose to identify ourselves most often can reveal our priorities in life. Since life is constantly changing, it only makes sense that priorities-and by extension some of our identities-will change along with it.But beyond these superficial identities, there...
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Jonathan Edwards's treatise Religious Affections is widely considered the most important and accurate analysis of religious experience ever written.
Unfortunately, many well-intentioned readers sit down with Religious Affections, only to give up in frustration over Edwards's lofty style and complex argumentation.
For this reason Sam Storms, one of evangelicalism's experts on Edwards, has attempted to bridge the gap between how Edwards said what he...
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