“Fireseeds is a book of stories – stories of how God has worked in and through generations past.” The great connection of these stories is how often God started His work of revival on a college campus and it spread like wide fire across the land. This is the vision that author Dan Hayes has for the Christian college students of today – to desire and pray for revival to begin anew in the…
Their love story is not one of fairy tales. It is one of faithfulness from the beginning through to its tragic ending. Richard and Margaret Baxter had been married only nineteen years before she died at age forty-five. A prominent pastor and prolific author, Baxter sought consolation and relief the only true way he knew- in Scripture with his discipline of writing. Within days he produced a lov…
In this brief collection of poems and essays, the renowned professor of linguistics at the University of Michigan and member of the Board of the Wycliffe Bible Translators addresses himself to the problems facing college students of today. Dr. Pike sees the vocation of today's youth as being to “stir, change, create.'' This ideal requires the re-evaluation of the status quo and demands tha…
Had evolutionists been in charge, they wouldn't have made the mosquito, planetary orbits would align perfectly, and the human eye would be better designed. But they tend to gloss over their own failed predictions and faulty premises. Naturalists see Darwin's theories as "logical" and that's enough. To think otherwise brands you a heretic to all things wise and rational. Science's Blind Spot tak…
Even when we encounter the most traumatic setbacks in life such as death or divorce, God can use those events to propel us forward. Beloved author Evelyn Christenson shows how the hardest of times can make us spiritually richer in this treasured resource. Evelyn Christenson's book "Gaining Through Losing" can help you understand how God can turn your most traumatic setbacks into gains. Disco…
Writing The Eyes Are Sunlight not only allowed Shirley Koers to work through the grief of a deep, personal loss, it provided a “faith experience in which I confronted the demands of God in the depths of my soul." The experience resulted in a superbly written and soothing reflection on the death of her husband and her own grieving process. “However,” she explains, “the story is incidenta…
What does Scripture say about dating? Nothing―and everything! This book offers a biblical view of relationships but doesn’t shy away from discussing attraction, first dates, commitment and more elements that need to come together to make a successful relationship.
Satisfaction…Happiness…Joy. According to John Piper, the pursuit of pleasure in God is not only permissible, it’s essential. Desiring God is a paradigm-shattering work that dramatically alters common perspectives on relating to God. Piper reveals that there really is no need to choose between duty and delight in the Christian life. In fact, for the follower of Jesus, delight is the duty…
For Christians, weakness should be a way of life. Yet most of us try desperately to be sufficient on our own, and we resent our limitations and our needs. Renowned theologian and Bible teacher J. I. Packer reflects on his experience of weakness-having been hit by a bread truck at a young age and now facing the realities of aging-in order to teach us the importance of embracing our own fra…