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What is true happiness, and how can we find it?

Everyone wants to be happy. We spend our money, time, and energy chasing after “the good life,” and we run ourselves into physical, mental, and emotional exhaustion on the way. But what if the happiness we’re all striving for isn’t the happiness we were created for?

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“Chase your dreams and follow your heart, no matter the cost” is the call of the world today. The opposite extreme, often advised by well-meaning Christians, is to lay down all of our dreams and passions, avoiding all self-interest.
 
One narrative says to follow a passion, and the other says to lay it down. Both claim to offer happiness and purpose on the...

Whether it’s fearful side hugs on one side or sexual abuse on the other, both the culture and the church aren’t doing very well with touch. Singles are staying single longer, dating is wrought with angst over purity, and marriages struggle to not interpret all forms of touch as sexual. Even the Bible seems to have endless rules about not touching things...

What do you do when cutting your budget no longer cuts it?
 
From pastors in the pulpit to people in the pews, many people have cut and cut, but still find themselves struggling to pay the bills. Their full-time job is giving them barely enough to get by; how could they even begin to think about eliminating debt, saving, and living generously?
 
Financial...

An encouraging and empowering read, Eat, Sleep, Save the World reminds every parent of a child with special needs that they are, in fact, superheroes.
 
Parenting is hard—for everyone. And it takes a lot of inner pep talk and prayer to be the kind of parent your child needs. Eat, Sleep, Save the World is the rallying voice for the parenting special needs...

“Lord, I believe. Help my unbelief!” (Mark 9:24)
 
Her circumstances might not have been as dramatic as the father begging Jesus for a miracle, but Robin felt just as desperate in her faith. Feeling lost in a spiritual desert, this was the most honest prayer she could offer. Can you relate to struggling in your faith but longing to believe?
 
Faith is tidy...

God created you with unique potential and placed you on planet Earth for a specific purpose.
 
But in the busyness of life and the activity of church, you’ve probably never identified your specific calling in a way that brings life-changing clarity. Unfortunately, most people haven’t. Like a distinct echo, the promise of life with a vision remains elusive...

There are more than 40 million enslaved people in the world today.
 
This is overwhelming. A number so large leaves us asking, What could I even do to help?
 
In his book Vulnerable: Rethinking Human Trafficking, Raleigh Sadler, president and founder of Let My People Go, makes the case that anyone can fight human trafficking by focusing on those who are...

En Chica gay, Dios bueno, la autora Jackie Hill Perry comparte su propia historia, ofreciendo herramientas prácticas que le ayudaron en el proceso para encontrar su integridad. Jackie creció sin una imagen paterna y eso le causó confusión con su género. Abrazó la masculinidad y la homosexualidad con cada fibra de su ser. Sabía que los cristianos tendrían...

Americans are crazy about retirement. 
 
Everywhere we look there are books, articles, and websites dedicated to the subject—most of which are about how to get there fast, and how to enjoy it when you’re there. In this book, Chris Cagle, himself a recent retiree, challenges us to reimagine retirement from a distinctly Christian perspective. In the process...

Bestselling author Nik Ripken, mentored by believers in persecution, offers a 90-day devotional to help you align your heart with God's, seeing the role sacrifice plays in the life of every follower of Jesus Christ.

Individuals and families will be challenged to embrace sacrifice as their daily offering to God. It is through offering ourselves that we...

Robby Gallaty is not who you think he is.

In Recovered, pastor and author Robby Gallaty tells the story of how God radically saved him from his addictions and called him into a life of discipleship.
 
Robby grew up in a very religious Catholic family who attended church every Sunday and confession on Saturday if needed. Very rarely did he miss a Saturday...

Few books have more influenced those called to gospel ministry than Charles Spurgeon’s Lectures to My Students. This influence of this book, like the Prince of Preachers himself, reverberates to our present age.
 
Carrying forward this tradition is Jason Allen’s Letters to My Students. Dr. Allen serves as president of Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary...

This isn’t where you thought you would be.

You were meant for more. Your money was meant for more. You and your money are meant for an exciting, adventurous, and satisfying purpose. God designed you, not to be a hoarder, but a conduit through which His generosity flows.

In The Money Challenge, Art Rainer takes you on a journey to financial health. But it is...

God has a plan for your marriage and your money. It starts with a challenge. Will you accept?

For many couples, the collision of marriage and money is the beginning of relational havoc. But does it have to be this way?

What if the collision of marriage and money no longer tore couples apart but brought them together? What if money was no longer a topic to...

Our world is filled with fake facades, from the unrealistic filters used on social media to the “holier than thou” personas seen in certain hypocritical believers.

To combat the fake trends, a new trend has emerged—one that fights the facade with transparency and vulnerability. Instead of being filtered or super-spiritual, we’re told to be real and honest...

The Christian life was so much more than just a one-time decision to secure a place in heaven.

What if you could experience heaven on earth today? Not flying angels singing on clouds, but the fulfilled, abundant life Jesus promised in the Bible—a life that, regardless of your circumstances or your present context, experiences joy, happiness, and peace that...

How do you forgive when the wound is still open?
People often ask Sarah, "How did you forgive your alcoholic mother?”

How do you forgive someone who carelessly brushed aside your pain, who caused such destruction, and who doesn’t show remorse? How do you know when to stay and when to go?

In The Complicated Heart, you will travel through Sarah's story ...

Se ha dicho que “la iglesia no es un museo de santos, sino un hospital para pecadores”. Todos estamos quebrantados y heridos de una forma u otra. Desafortunadamente, muy a menudo tenemos la necesidad de esconder el dolor y ponernos una careta, de esconder las lágrimas y mostrar que vivimos una “vida victoriosa”. Habiendo ministrado a mujeres de Iglesias...

Este estudio bíblico se centra en la vida de ocho mujeres de la Biblia, cómo sus decisiones cambiaron sus vidas para bien o para mal, y lo que podemos aprender de ellas en su propio viaje. A lo largo de seis semanas de estudio personal y discusión grupal, las mujeres aprenderán a aplicar las enseñanzas de este estudio bíblico a sus propias vidas y podrán...

Hard times come for all in life, with no real explanation. When we walk through suffering, it has the potential to devastate and destroy, or to be the gateway to gratitude and joy.

Elisabeth Elliot was no stranger to suffering. Her first husband, Jim, was murdered by the Waoroni people in Ecuador moments after he arrived in hopes of sharing the gospel. Her...

Life is a gift from God.

Living Fit: Make Your Life Count by Pursuing a Healthy You, was written to equip you for living a healthy life, in all areas of your life. Author and pastor Ronnie Floyd will help you pursue a healthy tomorrow... spiritually, physically, relationally, financially, and emotionally.

People often take life for granted, rather than...

Este libro se basa en una reconocida serie de sermones de Timothy Keller, autor de varios libros exitosos. Revela a toda persona —cristianos, escépticos, solteros, matrimonios veteranos y quienes apenas están por comprometerse— la visión de lo que debe ser el matrimonio según la Biblia.

La cultura moderna preferiría que todos creyeran que cada uno tiene su...

Timothy Keller, pastor fundador de la Iglesia Presbiteriana Redeemer en la Ciudad de Nueva York, aborda las frecuentes dudas que escépticos e incrédulos plantean al mundo de la fe. Mediante literatura, filosofía, antropología, cultura popular y razonamiento intelectual, Keller explica cómo la creencia en un Dios cristiano es, de hecho, una creencia racional...

Timothy Keller, pastor y autor de títulos exitosos del New York Times, comparte su sabiduría sobre cómo comunicar la fe cristiana desde el púlpito y también en una cafetería.
Casi todos los cristianos —incluyendo a los pastores— tienen dificultad para comunicar su fe de una manera que aplique el poder del evangelio para cambiar la vida de las personas...

How are Christians to live in such difficult times?

Unique of all people, Christians are called to embrace a hopeful outlook on life. Mere Hope offers the core, Christ-centered perspective that all Christians share, and that Christians alone have to offer a world filled with frustration, pain, and disappointment. For those in darkness, despair, and...

“I used to be a lesbian.”
 
In Gay Girl, Good God, author Jackie Hill Perry shares her own story, offering practical tools that helped her in the process of finding wholeness. Jackie grew up fatherless and experienced gender confusion. She embraced masculinity and homosexuality with every fiber of her being. She knew that Christians had a lot to say about...

I know God is loving; I know He is good; I believe He is big and powerful. But sometimes I wonder if He is really kind— really deeply always kind.

Is He?

Christians love to talk about how God is in control, but that’s harder to grasp when things aren’t going like you thought they would, when your life looks quite different than you imagined.

For centuries...

Their paths to God’s purpose led them together.

Many know the heroic story of Jim Elliot’s violent death in 1956, killed along with four other missionaries by a primitive Ecuadorian tribe they were seeking to reach. Many also know the prolific legacy of Elisabeth Elliot, whose inspiring influence on generations of believers through print, broadcast, and...

VIVIMOS EN UNA ÉPOCA en que se valora la razón empírica, la evolución del progreso humano y el derecho de todos a elegir su más auténtica expresión del sentido de la vida, de propósito y de gozo. Entonces, ¿tiene sentido la noción de un Dios o de un poder superior? ¿La fe y la religión ofrecen algo de valor?
En este nuevo libro intelectualmente estimulante...

Most church members don't see their churches clearly.

In almost all of Thom S. Rainer's consultations, church members perceive their church to be friendly. But as he surveyed guests, he found that the guests typically saw church members as unfriendly. The perception chasm existed because the members were indeed friendly . . . to one another. 

The...