God Grows Our World

¿The purpose of my sharing the Gospel of Christ is to offer the opportunity to everyone who has an ear to hear.¿ The author, Jane Parker, is a woman of humble means, and she humbly offers a way to reach the lost, with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. She understands that it is essential for people to know that they need to have a close relationship with God, to learn who He is. Judgment Day is coming. When that is, no one knows. But she recognizes that this doesn¿t mean we should drag our feet in preparing for Jesus¿ return. She wants everyone to be informed. She wants everyone to be saved. She wants everyone to know what it means to be saved.

We live in a world today where chaos and uncertainty rule the world. God's story offers the opportunity to thrive and coexist in our own communities. This book offers a chance to help people to connect with God in a relationship that is very different than the fearful world that surrounds us. Our World... God's Story is about a road that leads to the path of righteousness and the kingdom of heaven.

People in our society are constantly searching for the answers to two questions. They want to know who God is and what He is doing in the world today. The book of Romans contains a wealth of information about who God is and what He is like. From this we can learn about what He is doing and how His people play an important role in His wonderful plan. In WHAT IN THE WORLD IS GOD DOING? Dr. Dino Pedrone goes through each chapter and verse of the Apostle Paul's letter to the church at Rome and brings to light many practical applications for our own lives and the world we live in now. WHAT IN THE WORLD IS GOD DOING? is a book that can assist any believer in finding out what the Lord's plan is for this world and how he or she fits into it. The truths explored in these pages can give you guidance that leads to a more fulfilled Christian life. Dr. Dino Pedrone has served as senior pastor of New Testament Baptist Church in the Miami-Ft. Lauderdale area since 1995. A veteran of more than 40 years of ministry and a sought-after speaker around the world, he oversees a church with three locations and is president of two Christian schools. He also is president of Davis College in Binghamton, New York, the Florida Association of Christian Colleges and Schools, and the International Association of Christian Colleges and Schools. He has written numerous books and contributed to dozens of magazines and other publications. His insightful Bible teaching is heard every weekday on the radio in south Florida. He and his wife Bobbi have four grown children and three grandchildren.

This resource provides a weekly reflection piece for teens that aims specifically at helping them to integrate their faith into their lives more fully. Each weekly resource includes a scripture reflection, a challenge for action, and reflection questions. This resource speaks to the third goal of the USCCB’s “Renewing the Vision: A Framework for Catholic Youth Ministry”: “To foster the total personal growth of each young person.” Parents, Catholic high school teachers, and catechists often find that teens compartmentalize themselves, and may demonstrate faith-filled actions within the church or youth ministry setting, but behave very differently in other areas of their lives. Teens often mold their actions to obtain the approval of those around them, and may be one way at church, another way at home, and another way with their friends. This resource aims to help them to see the importance and rewards of integrating their faith into their life at home, school, church, in sports and activities, with friends, and even online.

Providing an accessible one-volume guide to Christian doctrine, this is a thorough re-write of the first edition. Since the original was published, many students and teachers of doctrine, in theological colleges and beyond, have been learning to take more seriously the global context of their work, and to recognise the difference made by facets of their identities and social locations like race, class, gender, and disability. In this edition, Mike Higton seeks to do justice to this learning, and invites readers to understand doctrine as an unfinished conversation between many different voices. Fully updated for clarity and yet retaining its role as a rigorous introduction to its subject, the book includes new ‘interruptions’, which introduce voices that question the book’s arguments and offer new directions for readers to pursue.

In 1981 a beautiful lady appeared to six young people in the village of Medjugorje in what is now Bosnia-Herzegovina. She said, "I have come to tell the world that God exists. He is the fullness of life, and to enjoy this fullness and peace, you must return to God." She told them that She was the Blessed Virgin Mary, the "Queen of Peace." She has continued to appear since 1981 to give messages of peace, love and joy. She is confiding ten secrets to each visionary and promises to leave a visible sign at the place of the apparitions in Medjugorje. This time of grace is for conversion and deepening of faith. After the visible sign, those living will have little time for conversion. Many books have been written about Medjugorje, but this one, and Volume I and Volume II of this series, are different. They include not only information about Medjugorje and talks and interviews with the visionaries, but also heartfelt testimonies of people who have been healed and changed through Medjugorje, and advice, written from the heart by ordinary people, on how to live the messages. This book will truly touch your heart and lift your spirits.

This lively book celebrates the flourishing of all living things. A tiny seed grows into a tree, a rose bud blooms, and a butterfly bursts from her cocoon as children read along. Cheerful verse infuses every color-packed spread with the vibrant hum of life. Parents will love this educational board book that teaches children that God grows everything, even the seeds of faith planted in a child's heart.

In this new edition of his popular book, Craig Dykstra explores the contributions of the traditions, education, worship practices, and disciplines of the Reformed Christian community in helping people grow in faith. In doing so, he makes the case that the Christian church, in its own traditions, has a wealth of wisdom about satisfying spiritual hunger and the desire to know God deeply--wisdom that offers coherent, thoughtful guidance in such diverse settings as congregational life, families, youth groups, and higher education.