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Desiring God
By John Piper
In this paradigm shattering work, John Piper reveals that the debate between duty and delight doesn't truly exist: Delight is our duty. Join him as he stuns you again and again with life-impacting truths you saw in the Bible, but never dared to believe.
Desiring God focuses on the importance of strengthening our relationship with God by enjoying Him and His creation. This rerelease is a classic that appeals to the growing number of readers interested in the works of John Piper, written for those who seek to know the Lord better. Filled with biblical reasons for living a life of celebration, this life-changing work helps readers discover not only why but how to more fully delight in the Lord.
The Eternity Portfolio
By Alan Gotthardt
All too often, Christians give out of guilt or legalism instead of joy and purpose. Even those who have a biblical perspective on giving rarely have a strategic plan for carrying out their beliefs. In The Eternity Portfolio, respected CPA and financial advisor Alan Gotthardt combines biblical teaching with modern investment-portfolio theory and offers fresh, practical how-tos for strategic, satisfying giving. A motivating and practical book from Generous Giving.
Fresh Power
By Jim Cymbala
Amazing things happen when ordinary men and women are led and filled by the Spirit of God. Yet how many of us today can make the same claim as Paul? We're good at teaching straight from the Scriptures, but too many hearts and lives remain unchanged. We need more than sound doctrine—we need the power of God.
With passion and conviction, Pastor Jim Cymbala of The Brooklyn Tabernacle reminds us that in this sin-torn, heart-broken culture, we cannot do without the Holy Spirit. And we can't afford to presume his presence. We need to seek him with the same fervor as the early believers.
Most of us are aware of excesses attributed to the Holy Spirit, from emotional fanaticism to outright charlatanism. But in the midst of the counterfeits, the Spirit remains real and available. He can't be manipulated by any person or defined by any movement. Instead, the Holy Spirit longs to reveal the mind of God to us and to release heaven's limitless resources to meet the desperate needs in this world today.
Fresh Power will expand your vision for what God can and will do, and inspire you to pray like never before for the power of the Spirit in your church—and in you.
Generous Living
By Ron Blue and Jodie Berndt
What do generous people know that makes them give gladly and liberally of their time, talents, wealth, and other resources? Why should you become such a person — and how can you?
Financial advisor Ron Blue explains why an openhanded spirit is the key to freedom, contentment, and joy. In Generous Living, he shows what happens when you become a giver, and helps you start right where you are cultivating a generous lifestyle.
He talks about why Christians should give, how to give, where is best to give, and when and how often to give. You'll also gain important insights into making a will, setting up a trust and foundation, and teaching your children to give.
"An outstanding book, greatly needed...thoroughly biblical and wonderfully practical." — Howard Dayton, President, Crown Ministries
Giving and Tithing
By Larry Burkett
• Does God need money?
• What is a tithe?
• Should I tithe from my net or gross income?
• How can I know which organizations to support?
Although it is better to give than to receive, giving is also much harder. Especially financially. Yet today's church needs physical and financial support from Christians. There are people who need God's help that comes through God's people.
Respected Christian financial counselor Larry Burkett uses God's Word to explain church benevolence ministries, showing the strong biblical basis for giving and serving in the church. Burkett says that God uses Christians to minister in His name, and knowing that fact is encouragement for you to set up a plan to give back to God out of what He has given to you. At the same time, you will be opening yourself up to opportunities to help others.
The God of All Comfort
By Hanna Whitehall Smith
God's has not called anyone to lead a spiritually uncomfortable life, but rather a life of promise and victory! He can be with you and comfort you every step of the way. Let Hannah Whitall Smith show you how to become better acquainted with God and experience all that He has for you.
This precious volume illuminates the true meaning and message of God, particularly in this age of so much doubt and fear: Become closer to God, believe what He has promised, and your troubled hearts will be filled with joy, for He will supply your needs, He will provide deep and lasting peace and comfort.
[Mentioned in our Easter Meditation article from April, 2000.]
How to Listen to God
By Charles Stanley
After becoming a Christian, believers discover the joy of God's voice, but often the purity and freshness of that initial experience becomes clouded by the daily routine of life. In How to Listen to God Dr. Charles Stanley helps readers rediscover how to distinguish God's voice from all other voices around them, and how to joyfully and obediently respond. Dr. Stanley uses personal experiences from his life and ministry to discuss: why God wants to communicate with us, how God gets our attention, how God communicates with us, and how to listen to God and enjoy His presence.
Money, Possessions, and Eternity
By Randy Alcorn
Randy Alcorn has provided a fresh mining of the biblical texts regarding money and possessions.
His work is well-researched and painstakingly biblical. Christians who want a balanced survey of the Bible's teaching on wealth will not be disappointed.
The four sections are:
- The challenges of money and possessions;
- Seeing money and possessions in eternity's light;
- Giving and sharing our money and possessions;
- Handling our money and possessions.
"The Christian who wants a balanced survey of the Bible's philosophy of wealth will not be disappointed with this book. The pastor who wants to teach his people and parents who want to train their children will get help from it. I especially liked his practical applications."
— Dr. Warren Wiersbe, Back to the Bible Broadcast, Lincoln, Nebraska
Money Talks, and So Can We
By Ron and Judy Blue
Ron and Judy Blue offer a framework through which couples can successfully communicate about their finances. By specifically addressing some of the most common conflicts, this book provides practical advice and valuable tools couples can use to strengthen their marriages and secure their financial future.
Conflict in marriage comes for many reasons-and when you mix in the subject of money, it's not hard to reach the boiling point. Ron and Judy tackle most of the specific problems that couples encounter, offering solutions that will help couples meet one another's needs, encourage communication, and provide practical financial tools and strategies for solving the part of the problem that involves money.
Everyday strategies for communication will help couples pay the bills without arguing, plan for the future, schedule regular time together and make the most of it, and discuss other important decisions including children, jobs, and church involvement. Whether a couple is just beginning their marriage or have been together for many years, Money Talks and So Can We makes sense of the dollars-and-cents part of being together.
The Pleasures of God, Meditations on God's Delight in Being God
By John Piper
Beginning where the foundational truth of Desiring God left off, that "God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him," this expanded rerelease of another classic by John Piper will further explore a life-changing essential — "We will be most satisfied in God when we know why God himself is most satisfied in God." Fully understanding the joy of God will draw the reader into an encounter with His overflowing, self-replenishing, all-encompassing grace — the source of living water that all Christians desire to drink. The Pleasures of God will again put God at the center of Creation and leave the reader very satisfied in Him.
The Power of His Presence
By Adrian Rogers
As Christians we are temples of the living God, but we don't usually think about ourselves in this way. The Power of His Presence is aimed at helping you integrate this grand truth into your life so you can start fully enjoying your true identity in Christ.
Raising Money-Smart Kids
By Ron Blue and Judy Blue
Based on the belief that parenting includes not only a huge financial investment, but also the investment of spiritual wealth, this book teaches parents how to train their children to be good stewards.
With their experience of raising five children, Ron and Judy Blue provide practical insight and a successful training system for preparing children for their financial future.
This is an easy-to-understand guidebook that shows how parents and children can enjoy a lifetime of financial well-being and security — leading to financial independence and family harmony. By offering hands-on worksheets and charts, this guidebook also gives parents the tools to teach children to make — and live on — a wise budget.
In today's world of debt, peer pressure, "scams", self-centeredness, countless investment options, and short-sightedness, this book instructs parents on how to help their children confront these pressures and receive the blessing of financial success.
The Treasure Principle
By Randy Alcorn
In this book, bestselling author Randy Alcorn introduces readers to a revolution in material freedom and radical generosity that will change lives around the world. Ninety-five percent of Christians have never come to terms with a biblical perspective on their material possessions, Alcorn writes. God has entrusted His wealth to us and called upon us to manage and invest His money. This is in everyone's best interests, including our own. When Jesus told His followers to "lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven," he intended that they discover an astounding secret: how joyful giving brings God maximum glory and his children maximum pleasure.
When the Game Is Over, It All Goes Back in the Box
By John Ortberg
Christians will especially appreciate Ortberg's wise counsel on being the kind of player other people want to sit next to, as he exhorts readers to learn to lose with grace, win with grace and forgive with grace. Perspective is key; after all, when the game is over, it all goes back in the box. Ortberg demonstrates some finesse in bringing together the extended game imagery with various real-life stories that are by turns comical and poignant. With excellent tools for personal and group study alike, this book's strategy offers a win-win solution.
Whose Money Is It, Anyway?
A Biblical Guide to Using God's Wealth
By John MacArthur
Reading books on money and giving typically makes us feel worse than when we began.
"I don't want you to feel worse; I want you to feel better. And the path to feeling better is understanding what the Bible really says about giving and spending. This book will help you do that." — John MacArthur
John MacArthur has written this no-nonsense book to affirm Christ's teaching that "it is more blessed to give than to receive." In this practical, easy-to-read book Christians can find out:
- How to give, where to give, and how much to give
- Scriptural guidelines for acquiring money and investing it
- The right and wrong ways to go about giving
- The connection between generous giving and prosperity
- Why get-rich-quick schemes like gambling are wrong
"When you give as God has commanded, you will find it liberating, rewarding, joyous, and profoundly enriching" — John MacArthur
Find out in this book how the blessings that go with giving can be yours.