Featured Titles - Spiritual Growth

Suffering can be one of the biggest challenges to faith. Tripp utilizes his personal story, years of counseling experience, and biblical insights to identify six traps to avoid---awareness, fear, doubt, envy, discouragement, and denial---and six comforts to embrace---God's grace, sovereignty, presence, purpose, people, and rest. An offering of hope amid trials. 240 pages, hardcover from Crossway.

If God had it His way, what would our churches look like?

In his most powerful book yet, Pastor Francis Chan digs deep into biblical truths, reflections on his own failures and dreams, and stories of ordinary people God is using to change the world.

As Chan says, "We've strayed so far from what God calls Church. We all know it. We know that what we're experiencing is radically different from the Church in Scripture. For decades, church leaders like myself have lost sight of the inherent mystery of the Church. We have trained people sitting in the pews to become addicted to lesser things. It's time for that to change."

When Jesus returns, will He find us caring for His Bride-even more than for our own lives? Letters to the Church reminds us of how powerful, how glorious the Church once was … and calls us to once again be the Church God intended us to be.

Bonus Videos: The 4 videos from Francis Chan's BASIC Study series (Fellowship, Communion, Teaching, Prayer) are included here as additional material for you to feel free to use in your church. They are not part of the "Letters to the Church" series.

Now pursuing his baseball dreams, Heisman Trophy-winning NFL star Tebow knows a thing or two about taking risks! In this gripping message, he encourages fellow Christians to live boldly for the Lord. Are you ready to quiet the inner voices of defeat and make a difference for God's kingdom? Learn why you should act today! Hardcover.

You were not made to live in disappointment, disillusionment, and defeat; God has given you the tools to live a life defined not by your trials but by your victories. In his new book, Overcomer, David Jeremiah offers his insights on one of the most quoted but least understood passages of the Bible: the apostle Paul's admonition to the Ephesians to take up the whole armor of God (Ephesians 6:10-18).

The story of Jonah is familiar to nearly all Christians, but it is also one of the most misunderstood. In The Prodigal Prophet, Bible scholar and teacher Timothy Keller takes readers beyond the Sunday school basics to uncover the connections between this rebellious prophet, Jesus, and the prodigal son. Why would Jesus compare himself to Jonah? And what does it mean for His followers today? Providing insight into Jonah's unusual conclusion, Keller shares the Gospel message at the heart of this parable. Hardcover.

What happens when we stop worrying about difficult people and simply love them? A revolution! In this follow-up to his best-selling Love Does, Goff shares how he learned to accept others without inhibition, insecurity, and restriction---including when he befriended a Ugandan witch doctor. Discover how a no-limits embrace of everybody can transform the world. Paperback.

Sometimes we ask What is God's will for my life? when we should really be asking Who should I be? The Bible has an answer: Be like the very image of God.

By exploring ten characteristics of who God is - holy, loving, just, good, merciful, gracious, faithful, patient, truthful, and wise - this book helps us understand who God intends for us to be. Through Christ, the perfect reflection of the image of God, we will discover how God's own attributes impact how we live, leading to freedom and purpose as we follow his will and are conformed to his image.

Our enemy may prowl like a lion, but his weapon of choice is deception. And too often, men believe him - causing pain, destroying relationships, and missing out on the life God intends. In Lies Men Believe, Robert Wolgemuth exposes some of the most common lies and explains how they hold you back from freedom, joy, and intimacy with the Lord and others. Foreword by Patrick Morley.

How can American Christians remain faithful in a culture increasingly hostile toward our beliefs? Like the Israelites in Babylon, we must find a way to maintain our faith in the midst of a pagan culture. In this incisive study of Jeremiah, Lutzer explains how we got here---and how we can navigate the difficult days ahead. Paperback.

Why settle for a listless life of mundane routine when you were uniquely designed to fit into God's exciting plan for the world? Drawing wisdom from extraordinary events in the life of Elijah, Jeffress explains how to discover the purpose for your life, wait on the Lord's timing, handle bad days, and pursue genuine significance. 240 pages, hardcover from Baker.

It's time to get our control under control.

The Bible is often summarized as creation, fall, redemption, and restoration. But we're destined for more! From the beginning, God's story has been headed toward consummation and glory. Guthrie traces nine themes that reveal God's plan for a new creation that's far more magnificent than the original---and explains how to recognize signs of it now. Paperback.