Parachins easy-to-read primer on how to be a better Christian is filled with anecdotes, examples, and tips for Christian action and has something for everyone. Using quotes from Ghandi to St. Paul and other rabbis, from saints to poets, from Nobel Prize winners to our neighbors, Parachin provides a road map for Christian living that is essential reading for our times.

The Christian life is built on three seemingly unremarkable practices: reading the Bible, prayer, and fellowship with other believers. However, according to David Mathis, such “habits of grace” are the God-designed channels through which his glorious grace flows—making them life-giving practices for all Christians. Whether it’s hearing God’s voice (the Word), having his ear (prayer), or participating in his body (fellowship), such spiritual rhythms of the Christian life have the power to awaken our souls to God’s glory and stir our hearts for lifelong service in his name. What’s more, these seemingly simple practices grant us access to a host of spiritual blessings that we can only begin to imagine this side of eternity—and the incredible joy that such blessings bring to God’s children today.

This completely updated and redesigned personal workbook companion to the bestselling The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens provides engaging activities, interactives and self-evaluations to help teens understand and apply the power of the 7 Habits. Sean Covey's The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens has sold more than 2 million copies and helped countless teens make better decisions and improve their sense of self-worth. Pairing new interactives with modern explanatory graphics, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens workbook reaches today’s teen generation effectively.

Christianity Today Book Award Winner Martin Institute and Dallas Willard Center Book Award You are what you love. But you might not love what you think. In this book, award-winning author James K. A. Smith shows that who and what we worship fundamentally shape our hearts. And while we desire to shape culture, we are not often aware of how culture shapes us. We might not realize the ways our hearts are being taught to love rival gods instead of the One for whom we were made. Smith helps readers recognize the formative power of culture and the transformative possibilities of Christian practices. He explains that worship is the "imagination station" that incubates our loves and longings so that our cultural endeavors are indexed toward God and his kingdom. This is why the church and worshiping in a local community of believers should be the hub and heart of Christian formation and discipleship. Following the publication of his influential work Desiring the Kingdom, Smith received numerous requests from pastors and leaders for a more accessible version of that book's content. No mere abridgment, this new book draws on years of Smith's popular presentations on the ideas in Desiring the Kingdom to offer a fresh, bottom-up rearticulation. The author creatively uses film, literature, and music illustrations to engage readers and includes new material on marriage, family, youth ministry, and faith and work. He also suggests individual and communal practices for shaping the Christian life.

Today's neurological research has placed habit at the center of human behavior; we are what we do repetitively. When we want to add something to our life, whether it's exercise, prayer, or just getting up earlier in the morning, we know that we must turn an activity into a habit through repetition or it just won't stick. What would happen if we applied the same kind of daily dedication to faith? Could faith become a habit, a given--automatic? With vulnerable storytelling and insightful readings of both Old and New Testament passages, Jen Pollock Michel invites the convinced and the curious into a 40-day Bible reading experience. Vividly translating ancient truths for a secular age, Michel highlights how the biblical text invites us to see, know, live, love, and obey. The daily reflection questions and weekly discussion guides invite both individuals and groups, believers and doubters alike, to explore how faith, even faith as small as a mustard seed, might grow into a life-defining habit.

In Not Leaving Your Child To Chance Do you know why God is bringing or has brought ‘your’ child into the world, by you as their parents? As parents, what good does it serve to find out that your fulfilled aspirations in your child are not in line with the stakes God had preset for them? You will find in the Bible that it is not a pleasant discovery. I believe you will not want that to happen to you!! Albeit, do you know how much God values you as parents, for the life of your child? There is a principle in this book that I will like you to ponder over for a moment - As God has ordered things to be in creation for certain specific functions, he has also rendered it certain in creation that without parents, his mission to form Christ’s oneness with the Church cannot happen; since parents are God’s created portals for bringing into the world the child who will become one with Christ, as a member of the Church; therefore, his body and bride. And so, what you have in your hand is this: The book – ‘The Six Habits of Highly Effective Parents,’ which comprise a 6-Point Principles of Christian Parenting. In it, you will learn the powerful lessons that will help you succeed in aligning your parenting with the eternal mission, objective, and the eternal vision of God, for entrusting your child into your hands, Amen!