Christian Life

In The Grace of Giving, John Stott takes you through the Apostle Paul’s teaching on giving. He’ll help you answer questions about when to give, what to give, and in what spirit. These 10 principles of Christian giving offer sound guidelines for you as you make decisions about finances. Chris Wright’s The Risky Business of Handling Money, now included, walks us through familiar Bible passages, raising questions about how we let biblical models shape our approach to financial responsibility. The Apostle Paul sets a clear standard for the church, and the principles easily transfer to any charity or organization.

We live in a world overwhelmed with hurt. Our past seems riddled with its scars and shrapnel, damaging just about every aspect of our existence and influencing many of the choices we make. We have allowed that hurt and pain to define us, blinding us from being able to even acknowledge our need for help; It has become so infused into who we are and how we see ourselves. It has affected the way we let others see us and treat us. It has clouded our faith, clouded our view of God and clouded how we perceive God should act for us and toward us. The Great Embrace offers a guiding hand through the crushing fog of despair, leading you to a place filled with hope! Here you will find a strength to steady you, a faith to free you and the courage to take a small step forward into a life not removed from your past, but one that is miraculously free of the shackles that bound you to it.

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 mirror the nature of the Father who gave His only Son to be crucified, and the nature of the Son who gave His very life to save sinners. Through this book readers will discover that their sacrifice can lead others, across the street and across the oceans, to discover new resurrection life in Christ.

Grandmothers--you love your grandchildren and want what's best for them. Nourish your own soul so you can nurture your grandchildren. Start with The Inspiring Grandmother, featuring 90 devotions written by top Christian authors such as Elisa Morgan, Cynthia Heald, Karen Kingsbury, Ruth Graham, and Carol Cymbala. Each devotion contains a relevant topic, two prayers (one for you and one for your grandchildren), and practical guides for you to share your love and God's Word with your grandchildren. Make an impact and give them a legacy.

A fascinating and eye-opening book' - Tom Holland, author of Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind Our greatest need is to be recognised - to be seen, loved, and embedded in rich relationships with the people around us. But for the last century, we've displaced that need with the ease of technology. We've dreamed of power that doesn't require relationship (what the premodern world called magic) and abundance that doesn't require dependence (what Jesus called Mammon). Yet even before a pandemic disrupted that quest, we felt threatened and strangely out of place: lonely, anxious, bored amid endless options, oddly disconnected amid infinite connections. In The Life We're Looking For, bestselling author and cultural critic Andy Crouch reveals how we traded lives of rich relationship for a world of impersonal power - and how each of us can fight back. From the generosity of early Christians to the efforts of entrepreneurs working to create more humane technology, Crouch shows how we can restore true community and put people first in a world dominated by money, power and devices. There is a way out of our impersonal world, into a world where knowing and being known is the heartbeat of our days, our households, and our economies. Where our human vulnerabilities are seen not as something to be escaped but the actual key to our becoming who were made to be together. Where technology serves us rather than masters us - and helps us become more human, not less. Review A fascinating and eye-opening book on the need to discover what might, perhaps, be called the Holy Ghost in the machine. -- Tom Holland, author of Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind It is time to coin the term "Crouchian" for writing that is profound, accessible and challenging, theologically rich and widely relevant. Only a handful can do it and Andy is the master. This book troubled and inspired me in equal measure. -- Elizabeth Oldfield, host of the Sacred podcast If you harbour a suspicion that the latest technological advance may not be all good news or that the latest life-changing gadget may not be life-changing, at least not for the better, then this book is for you. While far from being a Luddite manifesto, it asks some big questions about what it means to be a person and how technology might serve that end rather that hinder it. More than that, it begins to sketch out a better way of being human together. Read it, then give it to a friend and talk it through - face-to-face. -- Tim Chester, author and senior faculty member of Crosslands Training This is a timely and prophetic remedy for our lonely, isolated times. I cannot recommend it enough. -- Sheridan Voysey, presenter of Pause for Thought on BBC Radio 2 In his book, Andy Crouch offers us a way through our technologically driven world that is both realistic and challenging. However, more than this, he gives us a compelling vision for a life lived to the full, one that hits directly at our hearts and ignites our deepest human desires. This book breaks the enchantment that technology has cast over us, propelling us to abundant human living. -- Dr Sara Schumancher, Lecturer at St Mellitus College If the genius of apocalyptic literature is to unveil concealed truths, then this book is apocalyptic. Andy Crouch exposes deep and uncomfortable realities about our world and our selves: how technology, money and convenience veil dynamics of slavery, addiction and abuse, and how aspects of modern society seduce us to pawn our personhood for superficial superpowers that diminish our humanity. This is crucial reading for everyone who wants to understand the devices and desires of our contemporary hearts. -- Christopher Watkins, Professor at Monash University, Australia Whimsical and sincere, perturbing and delightfully hopeful, The Life We're Looking For is a meditation on love, loneliness and human connection from one of the most insightful writers in his field. -- Alastair Gordon, artist and author of WHY ART MATTERS This book, at once prophetic and wise, is just what we've been looking for. Andy is a trusted guide to make culture and places where life can flourish. But in the face of big-tech and its magical promises, we need his vision to form the kind of whole-life persons able to resist false charm and instead seek the peace of the city. -- Dr Dave Benson, Director of Culture and Discipleship at The London Institute for Contemporary Christianity (LICC) In this acutely insightful exploration of our relationship with technology and with one another, Andy Crouch gives us a direct line back to the scriptures that will have you questioning the endless scrolling that consumes so many of our waking hours. -- James Poulter, CEO of Vixex Labs Profound, captivating and wise. Andy Crouch combines penetrating and astute insights into our all-pervasive technological culture, with fresh retelling of the revolutionary communities that the early Christian church established. An inspiring and hopeful read for those who are feeling weighed down by social polarisation and post-pandemic gloom. -- John Wyatt, Emeritus Professor of Neonatal Paediatrics, Ethics and Perinatology, UCL This elegantly written book should start a conversation and I trust lead to a shift in our thinking and practice ― Inspire Magazine

You will discover that you are potentially far more important then you have ever imagined. No mater how mundane your life, your every move will now take on more meanining. You will find encouragement in these pages you'll see nowhere else. As a bonus, everything here is 100% compatible with the fundamental truths most of us were raised on since childhood. And that is surprising because the final chapter presents an exhilarating alternative to the ancient institution we fondly know as "the church."