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Look Unto Me: The Devotions of Charles Spurgeon
by Jim ReimannFrom the pen of Charles Spurgeon: This year we will gather heavenly fruit on earthly ground, where faith and hope have turned the desert into the Lord’s garden. If “men ate the bread of angels” (Ps. 78:25) long ago, why not today? May God grant us the grace to feed on Jesus, and thereby eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan this year! Whether you are familiar with the works of this classic Christian author or discovering him for the first time, Look Unto Me offers a treasury of spiritual insight and inspiration. Charles Haddon Spurgeon was known as the Prince of Preachers, stirring audiences from his London pulpit from 1854 to 1892. Millions more who never heard him preach read his weekly sermons. Based on Spurgeon’s original devotional, Morning by Morning, Look Unto Me has now been edited for the modern reader with updated language and additional application commentary by bestselling author, Jim Reimann. Look Unto Me offers 366 of Spurgeon’s most powerful devotions, modernizing the language without changing the meaning and adding Scripture references and quotes in the NIV. Jim Reimann, editor of updated editions of Streams in the Desert and My Utmost for His Highest, has also added thought-provoking comments to deepen your understanding of the text, other Scriptures to consider, as well as application and closing prayers. This new edition also includes these new features: • Scripture quotes referenced in the context of each devotion • Scripture and subject indexes • Hymn quotes referenced with composer names and dates The material is profound, thought-provoking, and life-changing, but easy to follow. With Scripture references from literally every book of the Bible, this is the perfect book to help you dig deeper into God’s Word and be challenged to expand your faith. If you long for a deeper walk with Christ and a richer understanding of the Christian faith that can be applied to everyday living, Look Unto Me is the devotional you’ve been waiting for.
Look Unto Me: The Devotions of Charles Spurgeon
by Jim ReimannFrom the pen of Charles Spurgeon:This year we will gather heavenly fruit on earthly ground, where faith and hope have turned the desert into the Lord’s garden. If “men ate the bread of angels” (Ps. 78:25) long ago, why not today? May God grant us the grace to feed on Jesus, and thereby eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan this year!Whether you are familiar with the works of this classic Christian author or discovering him for the first time, Look Unto Me offers a treasury of spiritual insight and inspiration. Charles Haddon Spurgeon was known as the Prince of Preachers, stirring audiences from his London pulpit from 1854 to 1892. Millions more who never heard him preach read his weekly sermons. Based on Spurgeon’s original devotional, Morning by Morning, Look Unto Me has now been edited for the modern reader with updated language and additional application commentary by bestselling author, Jim Reimann. Look Unto Me offers 366 of Spurgeon’s most powerful devotions, modernizing the language without changing the meaning and adding Scripture references and quotes in the NIV. Jim Reimann, editor of updated editions of Streams in the Desert and My Utmost for His Highest, has also added thought-provoking comments to deepen your understanding of the text, other Scriptures to consider, as well as application and closing prayers. This new edition also includes these new features:• Scripture quotes referenced in the context of each devotion• Scripture and subject indexes• Hymn quotes referenced with composer names and datesThe material is profound, thought-provoking, and life-changing, but easy to follow. With Scripture references from literally every book of the Bible, this is the perfect book to help you dig deeper into God’s Word and be challenged to expand your faith. If you long for a deeper walk with Christ and a richer understanding of the Christian faith that can be applied to everyday living, Look Unto Me is the devotional you’ve been waiting for.
Look What You've Done: The Lies We Believe & The Truth That Sets Us Free
by Tasha LaytonFrom Dove Award-nominated artist Tasha Layton, Look What You&’ve Done is a diverse collection of stories and intimate self-reflections to encourage readers to follow where God leads them. Inspired by her powerful song of the same title, Look What You&’ve Done delves into Tasha&’s journey of finding freedom in Jesus through life's twists and turns. Tasha takes readers through her early days in small town South Carolina, to her big breakthrough as background singer on stage with Katy Perry, to the mission field in Kenya and beyond. Across many countries and all her days, the truest constant in Tasha&’s life has been the presence of God in both the highs and the lows. As her inspirational stories reveal the ways God has guided her journey, Tasha also shares vulnerable reflections on the struggles she&’s faced in her life of faith and music. Readers will identify with Tasha as she describes the lies that she allowed herself to believe as she struggled with comparison, self-image, and the uncertainty of finding her purpose. Through challenges like these, God continues to bring Tasha wisdom and truth regarding who He is, and who she is meant to be. Look What You&’ve Done helps readers to: - Discern God&’s truth from the world&’s lies - Find freedom, truth, security, and identity in Jesus - Become increasingly bold in prayer - Live as a Christian in an uncertain world - See God&’s miracles in their life - Begin to embrace seasons of waiting Look What You&’ve Done: The Lies We Believe & The Truth That Sets Us Free will inspire you to walk in boldness and love, sharing the goodness of God revealed in your life.
Look Who's Laughing
by Shari Macdonald Ann Spanglerrib-tickling stories of fun, faith, family, and friendship
Look Who's Laughing!
by Shari Macdonald Ann SpanglerThe best of the best—stories, one-liners, and jokes from some of today’s funniest Christian speakers and best-selling writers This new book, like its best-selling predecessors, is packed with the kind of smiles and smirks, chuckles and giggles that thousands of readers have come to love and expect. It includes some of the funniest stories from today’s Christian writers like Barbara Johnson, John Ortberg, Mark Buchanan, Patsy Clairmont, Becky Freeman, Chonda Pierce, and more. Whether the topic is kids, marriage, pets, church, parenting, aging, or life’s most embarrassing moments, the writers will help you keep life in perspective by revealing their own foibles, follies, and failings. Realizing that laughter and faith can go hand in hand, they offer real-life anecdotes that will keep your world in balance even—and especially—when life gets tough.
Look at It This Way: Straightforward Wisdom to Put Life in Perspective
by Jan SilviousEach person has his or her own particular way of looking at life: a kind of grid that helps readers process whatever comes their way. Though this grid can be a helpful tool, far too often it is a weight around the neck. So what can be done about it? How can readers change their perspectives–replacing the grid that drags them down with one that equips them to face life’s challenges and live victoriously? InLook at It This Way,author and speaker Jan Silvious explores, in-depth, vital truths that can help Christians reframe the way they think: breaking them out of their self-pity, anger, depression, anxiety and hopelessness, and equipping them to deal with the events, circumstances and people in their lives in a healthy and positive way. Jan highlights such key truths as “Whatever happens, it’s one event in a lifetime of events,” “For every choice there is a consequence,” “God isn’t angry with you,” “The last chapter has not been written,” and eight others. Deeply rooted in Scripture, these valuable insights will give readers hope and real help for managing their thinking, showing how they can, at last, move forward with the courageous and grace-filled life God intended them to live. From the Hardcover edition.
Look-Alike Lawman (Texas Twins)
by Glynna KayeIn this inspirational romance, an urban police officer discovers a twin brother he never knew—and falls for a single mom—in a small Texas town. When big-city cop Grayson Wallace visits an elementary school for career day, he finds his heartstrings unexpectedly tugged by a six-year-old fatherless boy. Gray offers to mentor the child, but widowed mother Elise Lopez wants nothing to do with men in uniform. Now he can't get the struggling Lopezes off his mind. All he can think about is what family means—especially after discovering the identical twin brother he hadn't known he had in Grasslands. Maybe a trip to ranch country is just what he, Elise and little Cory need.
Lookin' for Love: A Novel
by Susen EdwardsBased on a compelling and sometimes tragic true story, this novel follows young mother Ava from the go-go bars of the 1970s to the heart of Florida&’s drug trade to a Kenyan prison to, ultimately, a place of forgiveness, faith, and love through recovery.Inspired by a gripping true story, Lookin&’ for Love begins in 1963, when Ava, nineteen and pregnant, marries a violent alcoholic and is disowned by her abusive mother. She bears two sons, leaves her husband, and turns to go-go dancing to provide for her children, using alcohol and drugs to numb herself to the degrading work. Then she meets Mike, a charismatic drug dealer who promises to give her &“a beautiful life.&” They move to Florida and begin working for The Crew, one of the largest drug smuggling organizations in the country. The Crew sends Ava and Mike to Kenya to find farmers to grow marijuana—but while they&’re there, their home is raided, they&’re charged with international drug smuggling, and Ava is sentenced to serve time in a Kenyan prison. After her release, Ava struggles with sobriety but soon returns to dancing, alcohol, and drugs. Eventually, she hits bottom and surrenders her will to God. Once sober, she learns the power of forgiveness, faith, and love.
Looking Back, Moving Forward
by Girish DaswaniHow do Ghanaian Pentecostals resolve the contradictions of their own faith while remaining faithful to their religious identity? Bringing together the anthropology of Christianity and the anthropology of ethics, Girish Daswani's Looking Back, Moving Forward investigates the compromises with the past that members of Ghana's Church of Pentecost make in order to remain committed Christians.Even as church members embrace the break with the past that comes from being "born-again," many are less concerned with the boundaries of Christian practice than with interpersonal questions - the continuity of suffering after conversion, the causes of unhealthy relationships, the changes brought about by migration - and how to deal with them. By paying ethnographic attention to the embodied practices, interpersonal relationships, and moments of self-reflection in the lives of members of the Church of Pentecost in Ghana and amongst the Ghanaian diaspora in London, Looking Back, Moving Forward explores ethical practice as it emerges out of the questions that church members and other Ghanaian Pentecostals ask themselves.
Looking Unto Jesus: 30 Days of Transformation
by Steve FossThere is nothing that transforms the human heart like the revelation of the person of Jesus Christ. After reading this book, you will understand the characteristics of Jesus that have the power to demolish and destroy all the shameful attacks of the enemy that get thrown in your direction.There are countless sermons offering strategies for overcoming your past, building unshakable faith, or experiencing breakthrough. But there is nothing that can transform the human heart like the revelation of the person of Jesus Christ.In Looking Unto Jesus: Thirty Days of Transformation, Steve Foss will take you on a journey discovering thirty incredible descriptions of Jesus found in Revelation 1. These depictions unveil &“the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus&” (2 Cor. 4:6). Only as you see Jesus as He is will you be able to stand strong in these days of increasing crisis.This book will take you into the deep and intimate knowledge of Jesus&’ character, nature, authority, and coming kingdom. Through this thirty-day journey, you will learn the power behind certain characteristics of Jesus, such as:The faithful witnessThe firstborn from the deadHis eyes like a flame of fireWe are living in a time when God is opening His Word like never before and unveiling the greatest revelation of Jesus Christ the world has ever known. Through these thirty days of transformation, as you focus on Jesus and what He is focused on, the end of the age, you will be empowered and transformed from glory to glory.
Looking Up When Life Is Looking Down
by Beth MooreWhen life is looking down, look up and find God’s deliverance!Life can be hard…sometimes to the point of feeling as though your struggles will never end and God isn’t anywhere near. In Looking Up When Life is Looking Down, Beth Moore shares a prosaic message of hope and deliverance taken from Psalm 40, helping readers discover they indeed are not alone and that God’s gracious provision of love and faithfulness is at work in their circumstances. This lovely full-color gift book is based on Beth Moore's best selling book, Get Out of That Pit.
Looking Up: Trusting God With Your Every Need
by Beth MooreWhen life is looking down, look up and find God's deliverance!Life can be hard . . . sometimes to the point of feeling as though your struggles will never end.Looking Up Devotional is bestselling author Beth Moore's timeless message of hope and deliverance taken from Psalm 40 in a new deluxe edition. Each entry includes a verse, a daily reading, and a prayer. You'll discover you are indeed not alone, and that God's gracious provision of love and faithfulness is at work, pointing you toward a life of wholeness. Daily readings gently lead you into His arms finding lasting purpose and peace.Content for this devotional was adapted from Beth's bestselling book Get Out of That Pit.Trim Size: 5 x 7
Looking at Mindfulness: 25 Ways to Live in the Moment Through Art
by Christophe AndreStop doing, stop moving, stop twisting and turning. <P><P>These are the first steps toward inner calm and increased mental clarity, says psychiatrist and leading meditation practitioner Christophe André, whose book guides readers through the art of mindfulness beginning with art itself. Beautifully illustrated in color throughout, André curates a collection of classic and esoteric works, from Rembrandt to Hopper to Magritte, providing a lucid commentary on the inner workings of each painting--as he describes the dynamic on the canvas, he turns to the reader's own reactions, exploring the connection between what we see and what we feel. <P>Moving beyond the art on the page, André teaches us what it means to consider our surroundings, our daily interactions and obligations, and their effect on our inner well-being. The paintings are a visual and tangible first step to understanding mindfulness and the benefits of living in the moment. In practicing mindfulness, within ourselves and outside in the world, each of us can make immediate, meaningful and permanent changes in our wellbeing and the wellbeing of others.<P>From paying attention to our breath to accepting unhappiness as a part of life rather than a personal shortcoming, Looking at Mindfulness reminds us to stop rushing through the present and to embrace the things we deem ordinary as important and fulfilling. It challenges us to stop and use our senses - the only five tools we really need - and acknowledge the world around us and within us. Gently and thoughtfully, it reminds us to take notice, to digest, and to reflect.Beautifully written, wonderfully accessible for any novice or expert, Looking at Mindfulness delivers practical steps and a comprehensive understanding of the practice and meaning of mindfulness and meditation.
Looking for Easter
by Dori Chaconas Margie MooreLittle Bunny can sense something new in the air, and it smells like sunshine and warm breezes. "It smells like Easter!" his friends tell him. But Little Bunny wonders: what is Easter? So he sets out through the forest on an early spring day to find out . . . This sweet, simple story by Dori Chaconas conveys the spirit of the season through nature, while Margie Moore's gentle, detailed watercolors reveal the new life of springtime.
Looking for God in Brazil: The Progressive Catholic Church in Urban Brazil's Religious Arena
by John BurdickFor a generation, the Catholic Church in Brazil has enjoyed international renown as one of the most progressive social forces in Latin America. The Church's creation of Christian Base Communities (CEBs), groups of Catholics who learn to read the Bible as a call for social justice, has been widely hailed. Still, in recent years it has become increasingly clear that the CEBs are lagging far behind the explosive growth of Brazil's two other major national religious movements—Pentacostalism and Afro-Brazilian Umbanda. On the basis of his extensive fieldwork in Rio di Janeiro, including detailed life histories of women, blacks, youths, and the marginal poor, John Burdick offers the first in-depth explanation of why the radical Catholic Church is losing, and Pentecostalism and Umbanda winning, the battle for souls in urban Brazil.
Looking for God in Messy Places: A Book About Hope
by Jake Owensby“This is beautiful and brilliant stuff, profound and plain, incredibly human, wise and charming. I trusted and enjoyed every word.” –Anne Lamott, New York Times bestselling author about Looking for God in Messy PlacesFor any who feel frustrated and world-weary, and who want more than just wishful thinking or superficial spirituality, this book is for you! In these pages, my friend Jake Owensby poignantly shows how LOVE is what can truly give us hope to carry on: real love, God's love for us, our love for each other, right here, right now in all the struggles of this messy life. And God knows, we need this book NOW!—Bishop Michael Curry, Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church and author of Love is the Way: Holding on to Hope in Troubling TimesLife is messy. We can get discouraged by setbacks, overwhelmed by busyness, and shaken by worry. Hope is the power that gets us out of bed in the morning and gives us the courage to face adversity. Looking for God in Messy Places by Jake Owensby is a book about how love gives us an inextinguishable hope.This book is for anyone who has ever been frozen in place by loss or regret, anyone who has endured suffering, cruelty, or rejection. From word to word and page to page, readers will experience themselves as God’s beloved—so that they can be hopeful. From the introduction[This book is] For those whose struggles have been long and for those who are growing weary from heavy burdens. For those facing an unforeseen crisis or for those enduring a slow personal train wreck. For those whose throats have grown raw from crying for justice and for those whose wounds have gone unhealed. This is a book about hope, and I have written it especially for those who refuse to yield to discouragement and despair.Topics include:- The power of love to give us hope- The ways that God shows up in our daily lives- Recognizing God’s call in our lives- Becoming your true self - Having a sense of belonging- Forming a friendship with Christ- Contemplative faith
Looking for God: Seeing the Whole in One
by Chuck HilligA spiritual teacher’s romp through life’s most profound mysteries—the hole at the center of our lives, and the wholeness of our connection with God.In Looking for God, spiritual teacher and psychotherapist Chuck Hillig offers a simple yet profound message delivered in lighthearted prose. Guiding readers to explore “the empty wholeness of who you really are,” Hillig uses the central metaphor of a hole—represented in this eBook edition by a large black dot at the center of each page. By pointing to the hole, Hillig asks us to confront the emptiness we may fear in ourselves, while also recognizing the (w)holeness of our unity with God. This unique and uplifting book is a gift of inspiration to all readers who search for happiness and love.
Looking for Home
by Arleta Richardson Scott Johnson Chris EllisonWith his mother dead, his father gone, and his older brothers and sisters unable to help, eight-year-old Ethan Cooper knows it's his responsibility to keep him and his younger siblings together--even if that means going to an orphanage. Ethan, Alice, Simon, and Will settle into the Briarlane Christian Children's Home, where there's plenty to eat, plenty of work, and plenty of talk about a Father who never leaves. Even so, Ethan fears losing the only family he has. How can he trust God to keep him safe when almost everything he's known has disappeared? The first book in the Beyond the Orphan Train series, Looking for Home takes us back to 1907 Pennsylvania and into the real-life adventures of four children in search of a true home.
Looking for Mary, or the Blessed Mother and Me
by Beverly DonofrioWhen Beverly Donofrio enters her fortieth year, she begins a love affair with the Virgin Mary. Suffering over a grown son she's neglected and unsure of where her life is really headed, she feels she's entered her own version of Dante's dark wood. So she begins to meditate - and to collect Virgin Marys at yard sales. Beverly is hardly a devout Catholic: she starts out thinking of her Mary collection as nothing more than kitsch. But by effectively making a shrine of her home, she has invited the Virgin Mary in. Knowing a good opportunity when she sees one, the Virgin Mary sneaks into Beverly's heart. Following the idea that if she could just act as if she believed, then belief might follow, Beverly the "lapsed Catholic" begins reciting Hail Marys, reading the Bible, and traveling to Mary sightings around the United States. And she embarks on a pilgrimage to the holy city of Medjugorje - with forty-nine rabid Catholics in tow. There, she prays more rosaries in one week than she had in her entire childhood. She also learns that Mary comes into your life only when pride steps out of it, and receives a bonus: hope.
Looking for Me … in This Great Big Family: ... In This Great Big Family
by Betsy R. Rosenthal"Rosenthal's spare writing superbly captures the emotional growth of a girl on the cusp of adolescence, despite its specific historical context."--School Library Journal "The overall tone is one of solidarity in spite of difficulties."--Booklist "This would serve as an excellent class readaloud as well as appealing to fans of both poetry and memoir."--Bulletin —
Looking for Miracles
by Lynn BulockLori Harper was on her own. Recently widowed with a young son to raise and a baby on the way, she had no one she could rely on. And when she went into labor in her isolated home with no way to call for help, she prayed for a miracle....Delivering gifts to needy families on Christmas Eve, fire department volunteer Mike Martin never imagined he’d be called on to nearly deliver a baby! Drawn to Lori’s unbelievable faith and optimism despite her dire circumstances, Mike was determined to take care of her family as best he could. Even if it meant believing in the power of miracles.
Looking for You All My Life
by Melody CarlsonAward–winning author Melody Carlson offers another heartwarming story of love new and renewed and of God’s redemptive tenderness. The small town of Pine Mountain has much to offer a big–city girl: clean air, beautiful scenery, a marvelous mix of townspeople both funny and friendly. And though Maggie did not come to Oregon looking for love, she found it with Jed Whitewater. Or did she? While the possibility of a serious relationship exists with this enigmatic man, circumstances intervene in their lives that could spell disaster for both their dreams. What will Maggie have to sacrifice for the good of her new community? And will Jed ever be able to share his heart with her? Book 3 in the series.