We have a tendency to complicate Christianity. Jesus simplified it with one commandment: Love God with all of your heart, soul, mind, and strength. In Primal (Multnomah Books, December 22, 2009) Mark Batterson explores the four elements of Great Commandment Christianity: compassion, wonder, curiosity and power. Along the way, he calls Christians to be a part of God’s reformation, starting in their own lives.
“Is there a place in your past where you met God and God met you?” asks Batterson. “A place where your heart broke for the things that break the heart of God? In that moment, God birthed something supernatural in your spirit. You knew you’d never be the same again. My prayer is that this book would take you back to that burning bush—and reignite a primal faith.” Batterson says that that moment may have been during a sermon, on a mission trip or at an altar, but regardless of the time or place, a return to a primal faith is essential to all believers.
According to Batterson that primal faith will lead Christians to a new reformation, an overhaul of the way they love God. “Reformations are born out of primal truths rediscovered, reimagined and radically reapplied to our lives,” he says. And the importance of rediscovering the need to love God with all that we are can’t be measured. Primal will help readers live in light of what matters most and discover what it means to love God, becoming great at the Great Commandment.
Mark Batterson is the author of Wild Goose Chase and In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day. He serves as lead pastor of National Community Church in Washington, D.C. One church with nine services in five locations, NCC is focused on reaching emerging generations. Mark has two Masters degrees from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Chicago. He and his wife, Lora, live on Capitol Hill with their three children. www.markbatterson.com
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Logos Bible Software today announced the release of the newest version of Logos Bible Software, Logos 4. Three years in development, Logos 4 is not simply an upgrade to the previous version of Logos, this is a complete re-imagining of what Bible study software ought to be. It is streamlined, powerful, and uncomplicated—it is the perfect tool for everyone from the seasoned scholar to the man or woman simply wanting to get more from his or her time in God’s word.
With far too many upgrades, features, and resources to cover in a single post, you can visit www.logos.com/4 to see what Logos 4 can do to take your study of the Bible to the next level.
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Get geared up for Advent! Coming Home: Devotions for Advent is available soon! Brief meditations include Scripture readings and questions for thought or journaling. Excellent for personal, family, or congregational devotions. Makes a great gift, too.
Looking for a great gift idea? Order before December 4, 2009, and get 25% off these Faith Alive titles:
Pursued by God - a new John Calvin biography
God Loves Me Christmas Storybook Set - four colorfully illustrated books for preschoolers
Sixty at Sixty - 60 devotional readings based on the psalms
It’s All Grace - a collection of Eppinga’s best Banner magazine columns
Easy online ordering at www.FaithAliveResources.org/Gift or call 1-800-333-8300!
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As children, youth, and adults travel on their faith journey, it’s important to mark the milestones along the way and celebrate God’s faithfulness. In Celebrating the Milestones of Faith, you’ll learn why and how to build a milestone. You’ll also get hundreds of practical, creative ideas for celebrating baptism, profession of faith, first communion, and many other faith milestones. Read a sample chapter.
Unlock the mysteries of Revelation and the end times with God Wins, a new DVD-based study for small groups or adult education classes. View the video trailer online at www.GodWinsStudy.com or call 1-800-333-8300 for more information.
Bethesda: Come to the Water is a new Bible study that invites women struggling with emotional pain to experience healing and restoration through the love of Jesus and the support of a small group. Read a sample chapter.
Check out all of our resources in our Fall 2009 catalog. View it online or request a copy!
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What if I told you that you missed a miracle yesterday?
I would understand if you were doubtful.
Yet most of us can identify an event in our lives that seemed impossible to explain without saying, “That was a miracle!” We call these experiences divine coincidences, miracle moments, supernatural provisions. It’s as if God Himself stepped through the curtain that separates seen from unseen to make something amazing happen, something only He could do.
Not that we expect such a thing to happen again any time soon.
Or can we?
I wrote this book to help you see that the land of personal, everyday miracles is your rightful home turf. Instead of focusing on the nature-defying acts that God could do, this book invites you to encounter the miracles that God does do on a regular basis, and to embrace your exciting part in making them happen.
The truth is, you were born to live a supernatural life doing God’s work by God’s power. You were born to walk out your door each morning believing that God will use you to deliver a necessary miracle to someone in need.
You were born for this.
—Bruce Wilkinson, You Were Born for This (avaialble September 15, Multnomah Books)
for more information visit www.waterbrookmultnomah.com
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Every one of us will experience suffering. Many of us are experiencing it now. As we have seen in recent years, evil is real in our world, present and close to each one of us.
In such difficult times, suffering and evil beg questions about God–Why would an all-good and all-powerful God create a world full of evil and suffering? And then, how can there be a God if suffering and evil exist?
These are ancient questions, but also modern ones as well. Atheists such as Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and even former believers like Bart Ehrman answer the question simply: The existence of suffering and evil proves there is no God.
In his captivating new book, If God Is Good (available September 15, Multnomah Books), best-selling author Randy Alcorn challenges the logic of disbelief, and brings a fresh, realistic, and thoroughly biblical insight to the issues these important questions raise. Alcorn offers insights from his conversations with men and women whose lives have been torn apart by suffering, and yet whose faith in God burns brighter than ever. He reveals the big picture of who God is and what God is doing in the world—now and forever. And he equips you to share your faith more clearly and genuinely in this world of pain and fear.
For more information on If God Is Good, visit www.waterbrookmultnomah.com.
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Faith Alive Christian Resources has just released Behind Closed Doors, a book by two psychologists that chronicles the problem of addiction to Internet pornography among Christians, including pastors, describes problems that this type of addiction can create, and provides solutions for how people can break the cycle of addiction.
“I highly recommend the book to those trapped in the destructive cycle of Internet pornography and cybersexual behavior.” —Dave B. Wardell, Ph.D., co-founder of Promise Keepers
Read a sample chapter online or call 1-800-333-8300 to order.
While you’re on our website, be sure to check out the new fall Faith Alive catalog.
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You’ve never seen a Bible Giveaway like this before!
Over the next 6 months Logos Bible Software is giving away 72 premium print Bibles on Bible.Logos.com—worth over $11,500.00 in rare and ultra-premium Bibles! That’s 12 winners every month! We’ve made it even easier to win—you can enter up to five different ways every month.
Every month from July thru December, we will give away 12 premium Bibles featuring the most popular translations from Bible.Logos.com, including ESV, KJV, NIV, NASB, NLT, and NKJV. From the finest you can imagine top-end offerings in leather and calfskin—to the limited production run—“only a handful in existence” type heirloom quality of ultra-premium goatskin in a custom-carved Rosewood box imported from England, these Bibles are the top-of-the-line versions and feature the highest quality leather and binding—some are valued at over $400.
With so many Bibles to give away and the opportunity to enter up to 5 different ways each month for six months, your chances to win one of these 72 distinctive Bibles have never been better.* So what are you waiting for? Visit the new Bible.Logos.com for the Great Bible Giveaway’s details as well as for the full contest rules and prize list!
Also, don’t miss a single chance to enter. Sign up to get a reminder when the next giveaway period begins and enter again!
* Chances of winning depend on number of entries received.
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John Calvin, born July 10th, 1509, was a theologian, pastor, biblical exegete, and tireless apologist who helped establish the Protestant Reformation.
To celebrate, Logos Bible Software has assembled the largest collection of Calvin material in the English speaking world!
Place your order now at Calvin500.com/PR0709!
The Calvin 500 Collection (97 Vols.) contains advanced search tools for research and study, extensive cross-referencing and tagging, and it seamlessly integrates into the world’s most powerful digital library system, Logos Bible Software.
Collection Includes:
- Calvin’s Institutes (9 Vols., 3 Translations)
- Calvin’s Commentaries (46 Vols.)
- Letters & Correspondence (4 Vols.)
- Tracks & Treatises (8 Vols.)
- Biographies on Calvin’s Life & Work (10 Vols.)
- History & Influence of Calvinism (20 Vols.)
Plus, in honor of Calvin’s birthday…
We are giving away a free copy of Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion.
Get your copy now at Calvin500.com/PR0709!
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Inspired by 1 Corinthians, in which Paul answers a series of questions posed by the people in the Corinthian church, Mark Driscoll set out to determine the most controversial questions among visitors to the Mars Hill Church website. The result was 893 questions and 343,203 votes. Religion Saves contains Driscoll’s answers the nine questions receiving the most votes–ranging from humor and dating to birth control and the emerging church.
In Counsel from the Cross, Elyse Fitzpatrick and Dr. Dennis E. Johnson explain how advices that neglects the work of Christ will inevitably result in either pride or despair. They furthermore exemplify a counseling model based on Scripture, applying both gospel declarations and gospel obligations to the problems we encounter.
Southern Baptist Identity gives readers the unique opportunity to take an inside look at the SBC as 16 leaders address key issues and pave the way for necessary renewal. There are biblical convictions that cannot afford to be lost in an age of cultural accomodation. May this strengthen churches within the SBC and other denominations facing similar issues.
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