It began with the breaking of the bread and became a movement.During a global Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, Australian entrepreneur Philip Ryall and his wife Jennie invited more than sixty church leaders from various Christian backgrounds and denominations into their home.Like yeast leavening a loaf of bread, out of that meal grew a deepening inspiration for the book Dear Unity: Overdue Love Letters to Heal a Divided Church, a collection of t...

This book is a guide and a daily routine to energize you and help bring more happiness and connection to your life. The following chapters are discussed; mind control, hot and cold treatments, connection and gratitude. By getting your mind set on track, reconnecting with nature and raising your voltage, good things will come to you.

Hamish Jones had a problem. His problem was that being Hamish just wasn't getting the job done. For somebody who was considered to be completely average, he was noticing a distinct inability to reach the expected average levels of girlfriends and acceptable weekly beatings from the local bullies. Clearly for him, something had to change.He had tried many schemes and plans to improve his image around the schoolyard, but to date none of them had even seemed close to working. Even a b...

An Unforgettable Story of Life After Death"The cold voice of the anesthesiologist recited the typical 'count backward from 10' cadence. Darkness closed around me before he got to 7. That's when I found out what it's like to die--and to come back from the dead."It was a beautiful winter's day, showing no signs of what was to come. Steve Sjogren, pastor of one of America's fastest growing churches, went into the hospital for routine gall bladder surgery and d...

The issue of baptism has troubled Protestants for centuries. Should infants be baptized before their faith is conscious, or does God command the baptism of babies whose parents have been baptized?Popular New Testament scholar Scot McKnight makes a biblical case for infant baptism, exploring its history, meaning, and practice and showing that infant baptism is the most historic Christian way of forming children into the faith. He explains that the church's practice of infant baptism...

Statistics tell us that Christianity has an image problem. But what are the stories behind the stats? This question led Jim Henderson, Todd Hunter, and Craig Spinks to host a national interview tour with young non-Christians and Christians in Kansas City, Phoenix, Denver, and Seattle. They wanted to hear why Christians get such a bad rap and what we can do to improve.Inspired by David Kinnaman's bestselling book unChristian, The Outsider Interviews provides close ...

What if you knew you were going to LIVE tomorrow? You've prayed the sinner’s prayer. You know that if you die tonight, you'll go to heaven. But Todd Hunter believes Christianity is a life, not merely a secure death. Which means that eternal life—abundant life—begins on earth, as soon as you become a follower of Jesus. This audiobook can lead you into this abundant way of living. Drawing from his leadership and ministry experience as president of Alpha USA and Vineyard Chu...

The constraints of the spiritual life, practiced in community, are what set us free. Practicing spiritual disciplines can seem difficult, especially when we undertake them as isolated individuals. But we were never meant to practice them alone.Jared Patrick Boyd reveals how the constraints practiced in Christian community shape us into the way of Christ. He re-anchors the practices of constraint within the ascetic tradition of monasticism, religious orders, and the...