Have you ever wondered if God is real? Questioned your faith? Lost a loved one? Battled cancer? Hoped for a reason to sing in the storm? You're not alone. This book, My Emmaus Walk Through Stormy Waters, contains stories of the author's struggle through two big storms in her life - grief and cancer. Discover how the foundation of faith that helped her navigate grief following her brother's death now provided freedom from fear when she was diagnosed with cancer. How it changed her perspective, delivering positivity. How she discovered joy, even in the thick of battle. How she found peace in the chaos. It's a love story. A story of God's love for us, and our love for God. Come...come and see...

For more than eighty years, The Minister's Manual has been the standard by which all other preaching annuals are measured. This year, a new design, revised content based on extensive market research, and a searchable CD-ROM make this non-denominational resource even more helpful to today’s busy pastor. The 2008 Minister’s Manual is still the comprehensive and traditional resource pastors have come to rely on, but now it has a more readable and attractive design and more practical and easy-to-use features. Turn to The Minister’s Manual for Complete sermons for the entire year Lectionary messages and worship aids to expand Sunday services Feature articles that speak to the hearts and minds of ministers A treasury of practical, contemporary, and relevant sermons illustrations A diverse group of contributors, a broad and contemporary range of illustrations and new and expanded preaching resources Children's sermons, based on the lectionary texts, for engaging young minds Musical suggestions, based on the lectionary texts, for each week of the year Calendars of important historical, cultural, and religious anniversaries Eloquent and useful messages for holiday, funerals and bereavement, communions, and missions A free and searchable CD-ROM of the entire contents to aid in adapting and using material for sermons, bulletins, and other messages

Fairacres Publications 173 John Moschus, a monk from a monastery near Jerusalem, set off with a companion in about AD 575, to tour the Christian centres of the eastern Mediterranean. He thought of the world as a spiritual meadow, where wild flowers of every kind grew in profusion. Like a bee, he visited one blossom after another, gathering tales from ordinary people in many occupations, in the belief that heroic deeds and unselfish sacrifice were not confined to the great and famous. The result was a unique piece of early investigative travel journalism, woven together by John Moschus into a book which he called The Spiritual Meadow. Ralph Martin provides us with a selection of some of the best stories from the complete work, in a new and lively translation from the original Greek.

[Publisher's note: This written statement was penned over a 100 years ago.] The following was written nearly six years ago It was only after much hesitation and prayer, that, at the repeated requests of some esteemed Christians, and after a careful revision, I have resolved to commit these notes to print. I confide in the well-known forbearance of my dear fellow Christians in this country, as to the imperfections of expression. The twenty-third Psalm has been so interwoven with the whole of my Christian course (of more than 26 years), and our gracious Shepherd has, from this precious portion of His Pasture, whenever I turned to it, so often blessed my soul, that I could resist no longer the desire to communicate to others what He has been pleased to give to me. The dispensational side of our Psalm I have only occasionally touched upon, as the chief object of it is the feeding of the soul on Christ. Consequently even the great Christian principles of truth, foreshadowed and embedded in this Psalm, are considered, only as far as they concern the flock of God; for instance, the question of worship at the Lord's Table, where we feed upon His death, when "We sing of the Shepherd that died, That died for the sake of the flock." For, however important a place the Church, as such, may occupy at that blessed Table of our Lord, and in His counsels, yet this portion of divine truth would be out of place in our Psalm. May God keep us from growing into cool and enlightened churchmen, to the neglect of the pastoring of the flock, for whom the Good Shepherd died.

My name is Jesus, your personal Shepherd. The 23rd Psalm may be the most-loved chapter in the Bible. Go deeper in your walk with God by making it a prayer from your heart. This book, written in first person, invites to you to encounter your Shepherd who leads, comforts, provides, and protects you. You will also learn how to apply the principles of Psalm 23 to your prayer life and experience the power of its words. Elmer Towns provides in-depth teaching, which prepares you for the 50 days of life-transforming readings. Take a journey with God through Psalm 23, traveling a new waypraying through the 23rd Psalm. As you do, something will happenyou will touch God, but more importantly, God will touch you. Follow your ever-present Shepherd into: Restoration of your closeness with Him. The joy of dwelling in His protection and blessing. The peace of living in the simplicity of obeying and trusting Him. Victory over sin and the storms that threaten you. Confidence that He will guide you through life into the next. Cultivate a faithful attitude of walking with your Shepherd every minute of every day.

In Simply Jesus, bestselling author and leading Bible scholar N.T. Wright summarizes 200 years of modern Biblical scholarship and models how Christians can best retell the story of Jesus today. In a style similar to C.S. Lewis’s popular works, Wright breaks down the barriers that prevent Christians from fully engaging with the story of Jesus. For believers confronting the challenge of connecting with their faith today, and for readers of Timothy Keller’s The Reason for God, Wright’s Simply Jesus offers a provocative new picture of how to understand who Jesus was and how Christians should relate to him today.

(Foreword by Warren W. Wiersbe) Warren Wiersbe calls these carefully crafted sermons biblical but not preachy, and contemporary but not trendy. Designed to confront contemporary life squarely with the unmistakable call of God to come to Him.