Is your heart hurting? Are you struggling to 'keep it all together' under a heavy load? Is your journey leaving your heart battered and bruised? Are your life circumstances pinning you down and drowning your dreams? Ah, friend. I have been there, too. When your heart is hungry, when your spirit withers under fierce opposition, when your soul is desperate to find what it so desperately craves, nothing but more of Jesus, more of God's peaceful presence will satisfy. Come with me to the garden – its leafy boughs sing soothing songs, therapeutic to the soul. Its restful peace restores, its blossoms bless and encourage. The lessons a garden teaches are accessible to all – and God's green-leafed grace can bring health and vitality to your desolate spirit as you stroll its paths. So come with me to the garden. If you are anything like me, you will find what your soul thirsts for so frantically among its fruits and foliage. You may just find God there...

Get hungry for God's Word Many Bible believers aren't Bible readers, while others devour God's Word and are hungry for more. Whether you've read your Bible multiple times, only tasted bits and pieces, or are ready to finally whet your appetite for the first time ever, these forty daily devotionals will help you to taste and see how good and applicable God's Word is to your daily life. The 40-Day Feast invites you to the table to · learn how to ingest and digest whole passages for yourself · discover the transforming power bound up in your Bible · apply its truths to your daily life · awaken a deep hunger for more of God and less of the things that don't satisfy Now is the time to seek and find what God has to say and how we are to live as a result. Pull up a chair! Welcome to the feast! "Wendy's writing always makes me hungry for the Word of God and eager to grow in my love for its Author. The 40-Day Feast is such a gift! It will whet your appetite for God Himself as you grow to understand His Word."--Monica Swanson, author of Boy Mom and Raising Amazing

"Scot McKnight stirs the treasures of our Lord's life in an engaging fashion. He did so with The Jesus Creed, and does so again with 40 Days Living the Jesus Creed. Make sure this new guide for living is on your shelf." --Max Lucado "Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength. And...love your neighbor as yourself." Scot McKnight has come to call this vital teaching of our Lord the Jesus Creed. He recites it throughout the day every day and challenges you to do the same. You may find that, if you do, you will learn to love God more creatively and passionately, and find new ways to love those around you.

'40 Days of Grace' helps Christians to do more than simply reconnect with the central message of Christianity. This book encourages a lifestyle shift into living as a grace-filled Christian. Rich Miller, President of Freedom in Christ Ministries and co-author of 'The Grace Course', knows as well as most that good habits can easily be replaced by bad ones. We all start our Christian lives in the realization of being saved by grace alone, but somewhere along the journey we often slip into a rules-based religion. This is why this 40 day devotion is incredible important. Helping you to live in the habit of God's Grace, this book is designed to recalibrate the core of your Christian behavior.

Lent is a sacred time of the year. On the surface, many cringe at the thought of Lent approaching, but deep down, faithful Christians anticipate this holy time with hopefulness that it will produce good fruit in their lives. Recall Jesus saying, “Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the road broad that leads to destruction, and those who enter through it are many. How narrow the gate and constricted the road that leads to life. And those who find it are few” (Matthew 7:13–14). Entering through that “narrow gate” is a path that requires resolve and sacrificial love. In order to take that constricted and challenging road, we must face difficult aspects of our lives, including our sins. The purpose of this book is to offer meditations for the Lenten season that are based on Jesus’ forty days in the desert. The reflections for the traditional forty days of Lent begin with Jesus' forty days in the desert and include the seven capital sins and events of Holy Week. In addition, separate reflections for every Sunday of Lent are included.

This book provides summary apologetics from about 200 references. It is unique in that many authors with differing viewpoints are put together in brief key point summaries. Some of the books covered are 1100 pages long. The original authors views are briefly integrated and compared. The different views of creation are also discussed and compared and given a open minded weighing. Are you concerned about the fact that 70% of our youth no longer attend church and do not have a biblical world view? The naturalistic or humanistic world view they adopt from schooling favors the following: 1. Man evolved from primates and is a biological machine with no purpose. 2. There is no source of true morals and thus morals are relative and determined by whatever a given group decides or whatever is most popular. 3. Since man is only and animal, there is no basis for individual human rights, only rights for the masses. There are some good arguments provided in the book to counter all of this and provide a biblical world view. These arguments are brief and easy to share in witnessing situations.

THE PURPOSE OF THIS BOOK THIS BOOK WAS WRITTEN TO ASSIST YOU THROUGHOUT YOUR LIFES SPIRITUAL JOURNEY. IT IS INSPIRED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT TO HELP YOU FIND YOUR DIVINE PURPOSE AND DESTINY IN GOD. USE IT AS A DAILY ROADMAP USE IT AS A DAILY EXERCISE FOR YOUR SPIRIT MAN. IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR ABUNDANCE, DIVINE PEACE, SUCCESS AND PROSPERITY YOU WILL FIND CLEAR INSTRUCTIONS TO ACHIEVE YOUR HEARTS DESIRE IN THE PAGES OF THIS BOOK. GOD BLESS YOU ENJOY THE JOURNEY, TERRY E. PARRETT