Funny stories. Make-you-cry stories. And all of them show us something about ourselves and our Savior we can never forget.-Dr. Tony Evans, President, The Urban Alternative, Senior Pastor, Oak Cliff Bible FellowshipKids have a way of saying things adults would never say and revealing profound—even biblical—truths in their unfiltered, unedited commentary on the world. In this inspiring book, Jon Guager shares important lessons he learned about God by observing kids. ...

Children today live in an unpredictable, disruptive, and often violent world. Many of them live in two different homes with different sets of expectations. They face bullying at school and online. They hear news of school shootings, and racially or religiously motivated violence. They may have lost a friend or a loved one.As parents, the impulse to protect our children is strong, but that very protection can end up handicapping them for life. Rather than seek to save them from the ...

Timeless and moral economic wisdom for life's choices and changes derived from the parables of the New Testament by famed free market advocate and Catholic priest Robert Sirico.Libraries are filled with books on the parables of Christ, and rightly so. In the words of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, “While civilizations have come and gone, these stories continue to teach us anew with their freshness and their humanity.” Two millennia later, the New Testament parables remain ubiquitous, ...

As our civilization rushes headlong towards collapse, it seems there is nothing we can do to avert catastrophe... or is there?For decades, American were vaguely aware that Islamist barbarians were in the deserts of the Middle East and in the mountains of Afghanistan and Pakistan, executing “infidels” and raiding villages with unrecognizable names. The Muslim world seemed far away, remote, and irrelevant to our daily lives.Then came the terrorist attack of 9...

Are near-death experiences reliable?New York Times best-sellers on near-death experiences depict:• A 3-year-old who meets Jesus and his rainbow-colored horse• A neurosurgeon encountering Om and the Orb on the wing of a butterfly• A real estate broker descending to earth’s center to discover hell is 300 degrees and zero humidityDo such exotic experiences provide trustworthy information about the afterlife? And, if not, how can w...

The Sermon on the Mount isn't hard--it's devastating.In The Impossible Teachings of Jesus, Andrew Farley takes readers straight into Christianity's most admired--and most misunderstood--sermon. For centuries, the Sermon on the Mount has been treated as a spiritual rulebook, a blueprint for moral success, and a road map to becoming "more like Jesus."This book turns that entire assumption upside down.Pluck out your eye. Anger is murd...

You are in the family of God... it can get messy. When you look at your church today, what do you see? A social organization that does good things for the community? A religious corporation with a CEO at the helm? A spiritual and self-help counseling center? Pastor Ross Parsley believes that none of these ideas captures God’s design. Instead, God sees us more like a family—a multigenerational group of real people who love each other and care for one another’s needs, no matter how messy. We...

In C.S. Lewis's classic The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, Lucy asks if Aslan the lion is safe. It is quickly clarified that Aslan is not safe...but he is good. That concept serves as the foundation for this collection of short stories. Our goal isn't comfort food for Christians or G-rated stories that offer simplistic lessons. Instead, we're serving up stories sharpened by faith. Stories that will engage, challenge, entertain, and stretch the listener. These stories aren't necessarily ...

In C.S. Lewis's classic The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, Lucy asks if Aslan the lion is safe. It is quickly clarified that Aslan is not safe...but he is good. That concept serves as the foundation for this collection of short stories. Our goal isn't comfort food for Christians or G-rated stories that offer simplistic lessons. Instead, we're serving up stories sharpened by faith. Stories that will engage, challenge, entertain, and stretch the listener. These stories aren't necessarily ...

This world isn’t what you think it is…Every day they slip across our borders to infiltrate our government, our schools, our neighborhoods. Homeland security can’t stop them. The armed forces are no threat to them. Powerful and unseen, they cannot be stopped.. and they have been doing this for millennia.On what should have been the best day of his life, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Grant Austin learns of a plan to assassinate the president of the United States. Every attemp...

Are you ready to move to the next level in life? Now?!Ask anyone what keeps them from reaching their goals and attaining success in life, and procrastination is almost always at or near the top of the list. It impacts levels of satisfaction in work and personal relationships and does tremendous damage to an otherwise healthy self-esteem.17 Proven Principles for Overcoming Procrastination will walk you through the causes, the excuses, and the steep costs that plague procrast...

“A wonderful introduction to our neglected Christian tradition.”Many Christians today tend to view the story of medieval faith as a cautionary tale. Too often, they dismiss the Middle Ages as a period of corruption and decay in the church. They seem to assume that the church apostatized from true Christianity after it gained cultural influence in the time of Constantine and that the faith was only later recovered by the sixteenth-century Reformers or even the eight...