God never intended for prayer to be a spiritual chore on your daily to-do list. Connected! unpacks the purpose and nature of prayer as God intends it to be.Awaken to prayer as the key to wholeness and power, expressing and reflecting your intimate relationship with God. Learn to sidestep the barriers that intimidate your desire to pray. Become aware of an often overlooked blind spot that hinders your prayer life.Most of all, let the journey of prayer begin anew as you disco...

Faith is often described, debated, and defended—but rarely understood at its core. In Aligned! Unlocking the DNA of Authentic Faith, Dennis E. Brown invites readers to move beyond vague ideas of belief and discover faith as it was intended: a lived experience rooted in relationship with God. Drawing from Scripture, theology, and decades of ministry experience, Brown reframes faith not as something we generate, manage, or perform, but as alignment with the heart, nature, and purposes of God...

We all walk through life carrying a silent, unshakeable assumption: that most reasonable people share our beliefs, values, and choices. This comforting thought makes the chaotic social world feel navigable and safe. But what if this feeling of universal agreement is nothing more than a biological mirage engineered by your brain? The False Consensus Effect is one of the most pervasive cognitive glitches in human psychology. It is the invisible force that makes brilliant marketers launch doo...

God never intended for prayer to be a spiritual chore on your daily to-do list. Connected! unpacks the purpose and nature of prayer as God intends it to be. Awaken to prayer as the key to wholeness and power, expressing and reflecting your intimate relationship with God. Learn to sidestep the barriers that intimidate your desire to pray. Become aware of an often overlooked blind spot that hinders your prayer life. Most of all let the journey of prayer begin anew as you discover the empower...

The Reformers viewed the gospel as not merely one thing among many in the life of a church but rather the means by which the church exists. When the gospel is rightly declared and applied to God’s people, the church becomes “a creature of the Word.” She understands, embraces, and lives out the reality of Christ’s birth, life, death, and resurrection in more than her doctrinal statement. The gospel impacts all the church is and does.Creature of the Word lays out this concep...

SING UNTO HIM A NEW SONG!!...(psalm 33:3)Did you ever wish you had permission to change the way you "do church"? Well, now you have it.You have permission to: Welcome His presence Grow in Christ as He has desired Experience a God-orchestrated meeting Become the Church, not attend the church Grow in intercessory prayerThis "how to" book provides proven tactics to move your churc...

For a Christian, an understanding of spiritual maturity and its development in one's life is, without a doubt, one of the most important elements of our faith. At the same time, it may be one of the most elusive. Here you will find a definition of spiritual maturity along with its parameters. Additionally, you will find the things you must work on in your life to develop that maturity.

Stand Strong in Life’s Furnaces How do you respond when the bottom drops out? What happens to your character quotient when things don’t go the way you planned? How do you react when the temperature is rising, you are under attack, and God seems far away? Daniel discovered that the furnace experiences of life refine and define us. Spiritual integrity rarely grows when everything goes our way. Instead, God uses things like a furnace, a lion’s den, a mad king, and exile in a foreign country t...

Over 300,000 Copies Sold!The Essential Workbook for Spiritual GrowthWe grow in Christ as we seek him together. Jesus' own pattern of disciple-making was to be intimately involved with others and allow life to rub against life. By gathering in twos or threes to study the Bible and encourage one another, we most closely follow Jesus' example with the twelve disciples. Discipleship Essentials by Greg Ogden is a tool designed to help y...

A Christian’s desire to grow in faith is beautiful and biblical, best illustrated in Jeremiah 17 where Scripture describes “The man who trusts in the LORD” as being “like a tree planted by water . . . It will not worry in a year of drought or cease producing fruit.”But how do people really grow? Transformational Discipleship describes the process that brings to life that kind of person described in the Bible. There’s no magic formula or mantra to recite here, but rather a ...

Finding common ground and earning the right to be heard is the secret to lifestyle evangelism. In this classic bestseller, now released as a mass-market paperback, Dr. Joe Aldrich shows us how we can build genuine, caring relationships with nonbelievers that will open their hearts to the gospel message. The author's approach is biblical, practical, and natural. Lifestyle Evangelism is the definitive work in introducing people to the Savior in a way that displays God's authentic love for th...

Many churchgoers complain that their churches lack a coherent plan for discipleship and spiritual growth. In turn, many church leaders lament their lack of resources to build and manage effective programs to help people become fully devoted followers of Christ. In Transforming Discipleship Greg Ogden introduces his vision for discipleship, emphasizing that solutions will not be found in large-scale, finely-tuned, resource-heavy programs.Instead, Ogden recovers Jesus' method of acc...