God Alone

Devotions to Fit Your Busy Life It can be hard to carve out quiet time with God when so many things are competing for your attention. But the benefits of spending just 15 minutes a day drawing closer to Him greatly outweighs the commitment. Nurturing your relationship with your Heavenly Father will not only strengthen you spiritually, it will help you accomplish all you set out to do. Each entry in this beautiful edition of the bestselling 15 Minutes Alone with God (over half-a-million copies sold) features a short Scripture reading, key verse, an inspiring devotion, easy action steps, and additional verses for further study. Let these heartfelt insights from Emilie Barnes bring you into deeper fellowship with God. Emilie's heart was always to help women like you in practical ways as you manage your busy home and life, and her words remain as inspiring today as when they were first published.

When someone is grieving, what should you say? How can you help? How do you comfort without offering shallow platitudes? The Book of Comforts stands in the gap between suffering and hope, offering readers the abiding comfort found in Scripture and personal experience. The Book of Comforts is unlike other books on grief--with beautiful four-color interiors and an inviting format with brief devotions. Readers will gain: Long-term comfort from scripturally focused entries A deeper understanding of their grief, loss, and pain, and discover the richness of God's love A meaningful way to walk through hurt, heartache, challenges, and difficulty through the truth of God's Word Scripture deals plainly and honestly with suffering and simultaneously points people to the rich hope we find in God. The Book of Comforts is a beautiful and comforting gift for those in hard places--because even though we don't always know what to say, the gift of divine consolation is always helpful.

Since she first began writing devotionals for "Our Daily Bread" in 1994, Joanie Yoder has been a favorite of readers. She connected with them as she shared her own struggles, joys, sorrows, and challenges in a heartfelt, transparent, and God-honoring way. Having experienced the pain of miscarriages, depression, and a dependency on prescription drugs, Joanie learned firsthand about true dependence on God and His life-changing power. She shared many of those stories of the Lord's grace, healing, and unfailing sufficiency, always pointing everyone to her Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

For over 30 years trusted pastor and teacher John MacArthur, Jr. has delivered practical, Biblical insights for helping Christians grow in their own journey of faith. Now David C Cook is offering the very best of John MacArthur Jr.'s Christian living titles in a repackaged and revised format. Based on the timeless originals, these new editions feature a fresh look and study guides for both personal and group reflection, all centered on topics and issues that matter most to believers. We all know that spending time with God is essential to an intimate, growing relationship with Him. Yet many of us struggle to make prayer a consistent, dedicated part of our daily lives. Alone with God offers powerful encouragement for anyone longing for a deeper, richer time of prayer. Here John MacArthur turns to the perfect mentor on prayer, Jesus Christ, as he explores the profound insights found in the Lord's Prayer.

What does it mean to live for God alone? “Prefer nothing to the love of Christ”; “My God and my all”; “God alone suffices”—these statements from the saints express the single desire that unified their hearts and gave direction to their lives. “God alone” was the constant theme of Saint Rafael Arnaiz (1911–1938), the expression of the search for God that informs any monastic vocation. Saint Rafael was profoundly and thoroughly a monk, even though ill health repeatedly forced him to leave the monastery, and he was never formally professed. With his single-hearted love for Christ and for the Blessed Virgin, he faithfully walked a path of trials and suffering that matured his faith, sharpened his longing, taught him to wait and to hope in God, and opened his heart to love. To Live for God Alone invites the reader into the compelling story of Rafael’s personal journey and into his penetrating insight into the cross and the Christian vocation.

Leave God Alone combines humor, philosophy, analysis and anecdotes in a freewheeling volume that challenges those who call themselves Christians to confront prejudices and examine biases regarding faith, worship and other religious matters. Dr. carr explores issues ranging from the role of ministers in society to attitudes of believers inside and outside the church, as well as the tendency of some women to romanticize Christ and approach him in a rather worldly manner. His style and candid observations may provoke, amuse, rankle or stimulate, but they won't bore or tire anyone. As an ordained minister as well as an actor, director and now artistic director of Amun Ra Theatre, Dr. carr's background provides him with a unique view of the secular and spiritual universes. This book seeks to combine the down-to-earth approach of the street with the optimistic worldview of a true believer unafraid to confront injustices and untruths wherever they occur, and courageous enough to offer solutions and fresh approaches for a new century and contemporary constituency.

DIVIn today's fast-paced society it is easy to get distracted until your much-needed time with God is lost. But God wants your attention more than anything./div

Many people are unsure about how to live righteously in today's uncertain world, where morals are rapidly declining. God Alone Is the Truth and the Way is a step-by-step guidebook that will reveal the cause and effect of the lies we believe, teach you how to take the blinders off, change your way of life, and live with a sense of peace. America and Americans are making the same fatal flaws that signaled the demise of Rome and the Romans and other once-prominent Western civilizations. Author Frederick Mahan attributes affluence, prejudice, and the seven deadly sins to the deterioration. He analyzes the fall of other Western civilizations and compares the phenomena with what is happening in America today. Mahan then calls on insight from history, religion, literature, and philosophy. He cites gifted contributors who share the truths about love, marriage, democracy, and freedom, and shares personal accounts of his own spiritual failures and successes. He ultimately invites and motivates you to explore a relationship with God personified in Jesus Christ. This ultimate survivor's manual will show you the way to live in an ever-changing and faithless world with a sense of direction and purpose and a genuine peace of mind.