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Fueled by Faith

Living Vibrantly in the Power of Prayer

“I had faith that God would do a certain thing, and then He didn’t.”

I will have to challenge you. You did not have faith. You had belief.

You cannot have faith in an outcome. You can only have faith in a person. Jesus said “have faith in God”. We find freedom from doubt when we do not confuse what He’s doing with how He’s doing it.

Do you want to know the difference between faith and belief? What is the source of faith? How does God speak His promises in the Present Tense? How does a promise come out of the Spiritual Realm into the circumstances of Earth? How does my faith affect my prayers?

Landmines

Charles F. Stanley

Nine landmines every Christian needs to be able to identify!

Pride, Jealousy & Envy, Compromise, Unforgiveness, Insecurity, Laziness, Immorality, Fear.

Many people mistakenly think that Satan uses obvious means to draw us off course. His most devastating weapons are barely visible, yet when we move towards them, they explode, inflicting deep heartache, sorrow and brokenness. The one thing that exposes, unearths and disarms any landmine is God’s truth.

“The Landmine of Compromise. if you are involved in an activity and every time you do it or think about it you feel guilty, then you need to know that God’s Spirit is warning you that you’re standing on a landmine. Satan gains a foothold in a person’s life by tempting him to yield to his relentless suggestions: Just once won’t hurt. Don’t you get tired of being lonely? Don’t you want to be part of the group? Anything that tempts you to abandon what you know is right should be viewed as deadly and dangerous and should be avoided at all costs.

Cure for the Common Life

Max Lucado

Living In Your Sweet Spot

The Cure for the Common Life offers practical cures to problems we all have. Maybe you don’t find meaning in your work, or you don’t believe your talents are used.

God endows us with gifts so we can make Him known. God implants passion in us. He has given us the ability to do certain things well. God never called you to be anyone other than you.

Exhibit God with your uniqueness.
When you magnify your Maker with your strengths, when your contribution enriches God’s reputation, your days grow suddenly sweet.

Use your uniqueness to make a big deal about God every day of your life.

Heart's Cry

Jennifer Kennedy Dean

Principles of Prayer

It’s not the cry of the lips, but the cry of the heart that God hears.

“Prayer. Is it a mystery to you? At times prayer is the most blessed thing I have in my life, and at other times i sit in wonder of how prayer actually works and why God chose to use that vessel to communicate with me. Heart’s Cry is the one book that will unpack the word prayer and give it meaning and significance to your soul. Whether you are just now taking baby steps to communicating with your heavenly Father or whether you are a seasoned prayer warrior, there are words in Heart’s Cry that will train and guide your conversation in the relationship that is critical to your spiritual walk. God could have chosen to sit in heaven and just look at our lives and “toss out” the answers we need, but ...

Prayer becomes the conduit between the need and the provision God made to meet that need. Dean has captured the basic principles of prayer and put them in a concise, easy-to-understand format. Is there a formula that will move the hand of God to answer our prayers? No. Prayer has never been about a formula - it’s always been about the relationship.”
- Jim Weidmann,Vice-Chairman
National Day of Prayer Task Force

SOUL revolution

John Burke

How Imperfect People Become All God Intended

Through real-life stories, explore how God takes imperfect people, regardless of their past, and leads them into a relational journey toward their heart’s greatest desire.

Experience for yourself how moment - by - moment connection to God with wide-open willingness fulfills our deepest longings and transforms us into life-giving people.

“What if life’s deepest longing sewn into the fabric of our souls, is to express and experience the love of the greatest, most beautiful, knowledgeable, caring being in the universe? To do life with the one who loves you more than any other?”

A Modern Girl's Guide to Bible Study

Jen Hatmaker

A Refreshingly Unique Look at God's Word

Jen Hatmaker introduces a refreshing way to learn and laugh while forming a deeper relationship with God’s Word.

This book was written specifically for today’s busy woman. Take some “me” time and let this simple format to Bible study radically change the way you interact with Scripture.

Even if you’re not in a group studying this book, there are strategies and guides at the back of the book so you can do this on your own!

Revolution Within

Dwight Edwards

A Fresh Look at Supernatural Living

Think about these things:
The main point of our spirituality according to the Bible, is the furthering of God’s glory, not the fixing of our lives. God does not exist for us; we exist for Him.

The most significant thing about your salvation and mine is the adoration and honor it brings to God.

Our ministry is important not primarily for how it blesses others, but for the recognition and renown it brings to God.

God’s reputation has always been the whole point of human history ... as the people of God lived out the commands ofGod, other nations would see His character fleshed out before them through acts of mercy, justice and righteousness.

Road Trip

Jen Hatmaker

Five Adventures You’re Meant to Live

Another in the “Modern Girl’s Bible Study” series, this is a road trip with your best friends. This is an amazing study that stays realistic, speaks to you in terms you can relate to, and opens your heart to so many wonderful things that God has in store for you. 

It’s funny, it’s eye-opening, and because you’ll want to dig deep – totally life changing!

Learn about Abram and faith, The Woman at the Well and identity, Peter and discipleship, Paul and contentment and The Church and service.

The Life You’ve Always Wanted

John Ortberg

Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People

God’s purpose in guidance is not to get us to perform the right actions.  It is to help us to become the right kind of people.  If you have ever been frustrated and wondered if real change is possible, realize that it happens when people become intensely serious about learning from Jesus how to arrange their lives. 

The Life You’ve Always Wanted is an encouraging and challenging approach to a Christian life that’s worth living.  Life on the edge that fills our ordinary world with new meaning, hope, change, and a joyous, growing closeness to Christ.

Just Do Something

Kevin DeYoung

A Liberating Approach to Finding God’s Will

Too often, Kevin DeYoung writes, God’s people tinker around with churches, jobs, and relationships worrying that they haven’t found God’s perfect will for their lives. 

Or – even worse – they do absolutely nothing, stuck in a frustrated state of paralyzed indecision, waiting … waiting … waiting for clear, direct, unmistakable direction. 

Time to try something new!

The Case For a Creator

Lee Strobel

A Journalist Investigates Scientific Evidence That Points Toward God

In recent years, a diverse and impressive body of research has increasingly supported the conclusion that the universe was intelligently designed.  At the same time, Darwinism has faltered in the face of concrete facts and hard reason. 

Join Strobel as he reexamines the theories that once led him away from God.  He interviews scientists on topics including cosmology, astromony, DNA research, physics and biochemistry.  It’s amazing! 

Crazy Love

Francis Chan

Overwhelmed by a Relentless God

Have you ever wondered if we’re missing it?  It’s crazy, if you think about it.  The God of the universe – the Creator of nitrogen and pine needles, galaxies and E-minor – loves us with a radical, unconditional, self-sacrificing love.  And what is our typical response?  We go to church, sing songs, and try not to cuss.

Are you hungry for an authentic faith that addresses the problems of our world with tangible, even radical, solutions?  God is calling you to a passionate love relationship with Himself.  Because the answer to religious complacency isn’t working harder at a list of do’s and don’ts – it’s falling in love with God.  And once you encounter His love, you will never be the same.  Because when you’re wildly in love with someone, it changes everything.

If You Want to Walk on Water,
You’ve Got to Get Out of The Boat

John Ortberg

You’re One Step Away From The Adventure of Your Life

Deep within you lies the same faith and longing that sent Peter walking across the wind-swept Sea of Galilee toward Jesus.  In what ways is the Lord telling you, as he did Peter, “Come”?

What an incredible journey awaits you outside your comfort zone!  It’s terrifying and it’s thrilling beyond belief!  Choose to align yourself with God’s purpose for your life. 

But … you’ve got to get out of the boat!

Too Busy Not To Pray

Bill Hybels

Slowing Down to Be With God

Here are 184 pages of amazing and life changing, yet timeless and practical ideas on how to slow down to pray.  Over our lifetimes the pace, intensity and number of distractions have increased.  Brokenness and pain in our lives and in the world also seem to have increased.  Let this book broaden your vision for what our eternal, powerful God does when His people show down and pray.

“What would happen if each of us made pressing into God through prayer a nonnegotiable part of our everyday experience?  I believe hearts would soften, habits would shift, faith would expand and love for the poor would increase.  A ravenous hunger would rumble through us all to get usable and to get used in significant ways by the one true God.  It all starts with learning, and loving to pray.”  Bill Hybels

Experiencing God

Henry & Richard Blackaby and Claude King

Knowing and Doing the Will of God

Are you frustrated as a Christian because you know God has a more abundant life for you than you are presently experiencing?  Are you desperately seeking to know and do these things?

• Believe and experience daily, God’s infinite love for you.
• Hear when God is speaking to you.
• Identify God’s unmistakable activity in your life.
• Believe Him to be and do everything He promises.
• Adjust your beliefs, character and behavior to Him and His ways.
• Identify a direction He is taking in your life, and recognize what He wants to do through you.
• Know clearly how to respond to what He shows you.
• Experience God doing through you what only He can do.

Interact with God as you read this book, asking Him to reveal the ways He wants you to apply these truths in your own life, family, ministry, job and church.  Watch while God turns you inside out and changes you.

The Divine Mentor

Wayne Cordeiro

Growing your Faith as You Sit at the Feet of the Savior

Life wears on us.  Noise. Chatter. Crowds. Politics. Worries. Deadlines. Bills. Responsibilities. Demanding children. Talk radio. TV. Endless chores. 

This book is a challenge to develop a lifelong habit – the one thing Jesus says is truly necessary – that will preserve your soul, establish your legacy and hold God’s Living Word inside you. 

Wayne Cordeiro originated the Life Journal plan of devotions and bible reading that Stonegate has put it’s cover on. 

Parenting Today’s Adolescent

Dennis & Barbara Rainey

Helping Your Child Avoid the Traps of the Preteen and Teen Years

friends & peer pressure
clothing & appearance
dating & sex
music & movie choices
jobs
spiritual growth
alcohol, drugs & smoking
grades, sports & activities
cars & driving

If you want help on how to prepare your child to live for Christ through a holy and productive life, this book’s for you! Growing up these days is tough. The unique focus of this book is the emphasis on helping parents develop their own convictions on issues before attempting to shape the convictions of their children.

Signs of Life
David Jeremiah
Would your life cause someone to approach you and say, “You must be a Christian”?

If every Christian showed the five signs of a life transformed by Jesus Christ, we could change our world. After all, people are watching to catch a glimpse of the Savior in us. They are straining to see His hands through our actions, hear His voice in our speech, feel His love through our kind acts and know His grace through our embrace. Explore five signs of life: dusty shoes, worn-out knees, rolled-up sleeves, an open hand, outstretched arms.

Sacred Parenting
Gary Thomas
How Raising Children Shapes Our Souls

Sacred Parenting turns the tables on parenting books and demonstrates how God uses our kids to change us … not how we can change them.

You’ve read all the method books. Now take a step back and receive some much-needed inspiration. You’ll be encouraged by stories that tell how other parents handled the challenges and difficulties of being a parent – and how their children transformed their relationship with God.

Twelve Ordinary Men
John MacArthur
How the Master shaped His disciples for greatness, and what He wants to do with you.

Who were these men? They weren’t saints. They weren’t scholars. They weren’t even religious sages. The men the Savior chose were ordinary. Hopelessly human. Remarkably unremarkable. But they were available and obedient to the Master’s call. Imagine what He has in store for you!

The Search for Significance
Robert McGee
Seeing your TRUE WORTH through GOD’S EYES.

The journey begins in a very private place: your thoughts. “When I fail at something, I feel lousy about myself … when others don’t approve of me, I can’t seem to get over it …sometimes I feel like I’ll never measure up”. Robert McGee confronts the lies, dismantles them and points you to a higher truth that is the source of meaning. And the source of life itself.

Cast of Characters
Max Lucado
Common People in the Hands of an Uncommon God

Story after story marked by scandal, stumble and intrigue. Who are these people? They’re the people of the bible. And they are us. We find our stories in theirs and we find our hope where they found theirs. In the hands of an uncommon God. Max Lucado tells the stories of some of his favorite bible characters – all of whom were very human and imperfect, just like us. If God can find a place for them … he just might have a place for us too!

Love & War
John and Stasi Eldredge
Finding the Marriage You’ve Dreamed Of

John and Stasi, authors of Captivating and Wild at Heart, candidly discuss their marriage and the insights they’ve gained from the challenges they have faced. Marriage is fabulously hard. Love & War shows couples how to fight for their happiness and love, calling on both men and women to step into the great adventure God has waiting for them together.

Sacred Marriage
Gary Thomas
What if God designed marriage to make us holy more than to make us happy?

Sacred Marriage doesn’t tell how to build a better marriage – it shows how your marriage can help deepen your relationship with God. This is a book that looks at how we can use the challenges, joy, struggles and celebrations of marriage to draw closer to God and grow in Christian character.

Faith & Doubt
John Ortberg
What if the most important word is the one in the middle?

We often think of doubt as the opposite of faith, but could it actually strengthen our relationship with God? Questions can expand our understanding, uncertainty can lead to trust, and honest faith can produce outrageous hope. This book will challenge , comfort and inspire you with the truth that God wants all of us – including our doubts.

Everybody’s Normal Till You Get to Know Them
John Ortberg
normal? who’s normal?

The need for community is woven into the very fabric of our being. Nothing else can substitute for the life-giving benefits of connecting with others. But there’s a hitch in our experience of community: we’re all weird. John Ortberg takes us through the ins and outs of conflict, forgiveness, confrontation, inclusion and gratitude. He opens our eyes and hearts to empathy – the art of reading people. He shows how community pays tremendous dividends in happiness, health, support, and growth.