Why families fail, marriages grow sour, and children and grandchildren go wild? Is there a missing something that they lack that is preventing them from thriving? INVOCATION provides a link that is most often missing, an insightful practice that will bring your family out of the shadows into a place of flourishing. This is a book for parents, grandparents, spouses, and singles with nieces and nephews. Or if you plan on getting married and having children. This is a practical handbook that ...

This book is about you securing a place in heaven before death comes to you. The Bible and Christian theology teach that the offer to go to heaven is taken off the table when you die. The choice for heaven, therefore, must be made before death comes to you; otherwise, the opportunity for heaven is forever lost. You must have prior registration to the Lamb's Book of Life.Since there are many misconceptions as to who, how, and when you get to heaven, many people have a false sense of...

Leisured Resistance examines the varied ways in which cultured Roman aristocrats, of very different periods, used their country estates as a political and literary tool. While for some the villas were retreats in which to compose literature and to escape from politics, others adapted this same tradition of cultured otium (or deliberate retirement from everyday politics) to present radical and competing visions of society and literature alike.Examining in-depth sources from ...

This authored monograph presents the use of dynamic spatiotemporal modeling tools for the identification of complex underlying processes in conflict, such as diffusion, relocation, heterogeneous escalation, and volatility. The authors use ideas from statistics, signal processing, and ecology, and provide a predictive framework which is able to assimilate data and give confidence estimates on the predictions.The book also demonstrates the methods on the WikiLeaks Afghan War Diary, th...

What's on top of Danger Peak? That's what thirteen-year-old Robert Kin and his two best friends, wisecracking and loyal Chris and sweet but put-upon Rinnie, want to find out in their small suburban town of the late 1980s. The three teens are members of the motorbike-racing club the Wild Boars, and with the inadvertent help of their eccentric technology teacher, Dr. Howard (who prefers to be called "Doctor," not "Mister," thank you very much), they build Robert a better, faster, and stronge...

How do we put God first when managing money? Have you considered that giving money to God is an act of worshipping Him? What is the importance of giving as we consider sowing, cultivating, and reaping blessings in the future? These and many more questions about money’s role in the life of the Christian can be daunting.Internationally acclaimed Bible teacher Derek Prince helps you bring your finances in line with God’s perfect plan by taking you through specific steps that lead to a...

Over 250,000 copies soldHave we become so focused on "major" sins that we've grown apathetic about our subtle sins?Renowned author Jerry Bridges takes you into a deep look at the corrosive patterns of behavior that we often accept as normal, in this established and impactful book.Practical, thought-provoking, and relevant at any stage of life, Respectable Sins addresses a dozen clusters of specific "acceptable" sins that we tend to tolerate ...

Hidden in the Christian Bible, is an ancient mystery: the rise of an altered specie, made a little lower than angels. A capsule diffuses particles that seem like pico chips into their nervous system; slowly turning them into quantum humanoids.The particles supercharged the brain of this altered specie into an organic quantum CPU in pursuit of perceptive superiority. They are capable of love of hate of kindness and of jealousy. This is the story of the #EFANIs. Finding themselves in a multi...

Are we predestined, or not? Can we loose our salvation, or not? Can we be liberal in our considerations about sin or do we need to be conservative? Is it correct to demythologize the Bible, or should we take it exactly for what it says? And the list goes on and on. Christians seem to disagree on so many issues that non-Christians could easily look at Christianity wondering if we even know what we are believing. Debate after debate is raging through Christianity, causing the body of Christ ...

The apostle Paul says in Romans 9:4-5: "who are Israelites, to whom pertain the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service of God, and the promises; of whom are the fathers and from whom, according to the flesh, Christ came, who is over all, the eternally blessed God, Amen."Perhaps you hadn’t noticed this little gem tucked away in the middle of the letter, but it is a tremendous description of what it meant to be among God’s people in the past. We are no...

In Robert McGee's best-selling book The Search for Significance, he helps readers realize the fact that they will never be content if they search for their significance in accomplishments or the opinions of others. Instead, God has given them significance and worth through the work of Christ on the cross. Because of McGee's classic book, more than two million readers have learned what it means to be free to enjoy Christ's love and forgiveness.Now, McGee invites readers of ...

Who leads a church? Why is this important to God?God cares about his glory, and he means to display his glory through the church. For this very end, God has established elders and deacons, members, and congregational authority. This primer on church structure connects the different offices of the church to one another and to the glory of God.