Enter His Gates

In this compact edition of Dr. Charles Stanley's best-selling daily devotional, readers will be encouraged to strengthen their Christian walk. Each month readers will focus on themes such as setting goals, preparing for challenges, communicating with God, and overcoming adversity. Perfect for the on-the-go individual, this compact devotional fits easily into a purse or briefcase.

One book in a series of three, each one featuring devotional writings based on the Psalms with an accompanying CD of worship music.

"Enter His Gates: A Guide to Deepening Your Praise and Worship" is a practical and inspirational book that helps readers to develop a more meaningful and powerful worship perspective and experience. This book is designed to guide readers through the process of deepening their relationship with God through praise and worship. Throughout the book, Kevin emphasizes the importance of developing a heart of worship, making worship about Jesus and not ourselves. How you can defeat the enemy with your praise. Kevin offers advice on how to overcome common obstacles that can hinder worship, such as life distractions and more. Ultimately, "Enter His Gates" is a book that seeks to help readers experience a deeper, more authentic connection with God through praise and worship. Whether you are a seasoned worshipper or just starting out, this book offers practical tools and insights that can help you to enter into God's presence and experience the fullness of His love and grace. To go deeper in His presence, worship has to be about Him and not about us. When we get out of the way, His presence can come and live and move in and through us. The ultimate goal is to worship with Him in Heaven around the Throne for eternity.

My husband Patrick is a minister, and we were married in 1993. We’ve learned that God can be trusted. Through a storm in our lives, God worked in marvelous ways. When we needed encouragement, it came from Him. We now pass it on to you. This book is not about us but the Savior who saves.

I must stay in the world to do battle until the Lord calls me home. At 36, Howard Rea was searching for what God had in mind for him. He knew he wanted to be sold out to his Savior. What he never expected was that the answer to his prayer lay in the diagnosis of a brain tumor that would leave him paralyzed. Surely this wasn’t how a loving God worked! How could this debilitating life allow him to be a good father to his three children and husband to his wife? How could he work? How could God use him now? Howard could no longer provide, but would God? I Will Enter His Gates wrestles with the timeless question, “Why is God allowing this to happen?” Writing with poignancy and immediacy, Jan takes you through the memoir of their lives, allowing you to travel along with Howard as you read his intimate, spiritual journal. You’ll embrace the answers Jan and Howard find and they’ll transform you as it did them. I Will Enter His Gates is written for those who: are experiencing personal crisis chronic illness those making the uphill battle of uncertainty, those facing death or looking for answers from God inspired by His Word. You will be given hope and perspective as through the pages you see God molding Howard and Jan into understanding through His Word the hope found in who He is and knowing His ways.

Everlasting hell and divine judgment, a lake of fire and brimstone--these mainstays of evangelical tradition have come under fire once again in recent decades. Would the God of love revealed by Jesus really consign the vast majority of humankind to a destiny of eternal, conscious torment? Is divine mercy bound by the demands of justice? How can anyone presume to know who is saved from the flames and who is not? Reacting to presumptions in like manner, others write off the fiery images of final judgment altogether. If there is a God who loves us, then surely all are welcome into the heavenly kingdom, regardless of their beliefs or behaviors in this life. Yet, given the sheer volume of threat rhetoric in the Scriptures and the wickedness manifest in human history, the pop-universalism of our day sounds more like denial than hope. Mercy triumphs over judgment; it does not skirt it. Her Gates Will Never Be Shut endeavors to reconsider what the Bible and the Church have actually said about hell and hope, noting a breadth of real possibilities that undermines every presumption. The polyphony of perspectives on hell and hope offered by the prophets, apostles, and Jesus humble our obsessive need to harmonize every text into a neat theological system. But they open the door to the eternal hope found in Revelation 21-22: the City whose gates will never be shut; where the Spirit and Bride perpetually invite the thirsty who are outside the city to "Come, drink of the waters of life."

A man arrives at the gates of heaven holding a faith that’s not his own; another clutches a suitcase he’s unwilling to give up. One woman demands to be sent back, while another asks for a new name. Hands empty or full, hearts joyful or disappointed or appalled, these people and others approach the twelve open gates of heaven, only to discover the truth about their loves…