The Power of Being Thankful


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In this 365 day devotional New York Times bestselling author Joyce Meyer explores the life-changing power of a grateful heart. Through uplifting Scripture, Joyce illustrates God's never-ending love, inexhaustible grace and always-accessible presence in our lives. As we develop a renewed outlook, we will better recognize and be further blessed by God's abundant goodness. Each devotion will also include a prayer of thanks, so that we may begin every day ready to receive the transforming power of a thankful heart.




The Hebrew Gospel of Matthew


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For centuries the Jewish community in Europe possessed a copy of Matthew in the Hebrew language. The Jews' use of this document during the Middle Ages is imperfectly known. Occasionally excerpts from it appeared in polemical writings against Christianity.




Astonished by God


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Here are the ten astonishing, compassionate, life-giving, joy-awakening, hope-sustaining truths that have held everything together for veteran author, pastor, and Christian statesman John Piper. For 2000 years they have been turning the world upside down, and they will continue to do so as the gospel of Christ advances in distance and depth.




To Be Like Jesus


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Emphasizing a different theme each month, this daily devotional calls us into a deeper fellowship with God and equips us for the journey. Each reading is a moment with the master--another step in an ever-sweeter journey with Jesus.




Rich Wounds


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Profound reflections on the cross that help you to meditate on and marvel at the sacrificial love of Jesus. This book can be used as a devotional, especially during Lent and Easter. These profound reflections on the cross from David Mathis, author of The Christmas We Didn’t Expect, will help you to meditate on and marvel at Jesus’ life, sacrificial death, and spectacular resurrection-enabling you to treasure anew who Jesus is and what he has done. Many of us are so familiar with the Easter story that it becomes easy to miss subtle details and difficult to really enjoy its meaning. This book will help you to pause and marvel at Jesus, whose now-glorified wounds are a sign of his unfailing love and the decisive victory that he has won: “He was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed.” (Isaiah 53:5) This book can be used as a devotional. The chapters on Holy Week make it especially helpful during the Lent season and at Easter.




Illuminating the Sermon at the Temple and Sermon on the Mount


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In 1990 John W. Welch's book The Sermon at the Temple and the Sermon on the Mount presented a thorough Latter-day Saint interpretation of the Savior's greatest sermon, drawing on insights from Jesus's Sermon at the Temple in 3 Nephi to shed light on his Sermon on the Mount in the Gospel of Matthew. Illuminating the Sermon at the Temple and Sermon on the Mount builds on that earlier study with substantial additions based on insights gleaned throughout a decade of continuing research. The basic analysis remains unchanged: understanding the Sermon (meaning both texts in their shared, collective meaning) as a temple text reveals that it has far more power and unity than a mere collection of miscellaneous sayings of Jesus.










Unveiling Scripture


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This book is a journey through the New Testament focussed on the ministry of Jesus and the responsibilities given to the church, particularly, in stewarding the truths of the word of God. It is looking afresh at these truths and reminding us of the responsibility the church has of ensuring each generation knows what has been committed to them by the Lord. We begin by looking at the impact of the ministry of the Lord Jesus Christ while on earth, particularly, from the perspective of encounters that ordinary men and women experienced. Their reaction and responses lets us know what resonated with them. Whether it was Jesus teaching in their Synagogues or on a hillside we continually hear expressed how they were astonished at His doctrine. They would even ask the question ‘what new doctrine is this.’ It is gleaning from the Lord so that we follow in His footsteps that we might see a similar response in these days as the word of God goes forth. As the church grew and expanded throughout the Roman Empire a number of revelations were committed into the hands of the church. These revelations were defined as mysteries in the New Testament which have to be passed from generation to generation. The Apostle Paul provides details of eight of these mysteries, the Apostle John speaks of two mysteries, and the Lord Himself gives us one mystery. Part two of this book explores these mysteries.




Bible PerVERSIONS


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Since “holy” means perfect, sinless perfection, there can only be one “Holy Bible” in each language. With hundreds of English translations available, which one is God’s Holy Bible? “Bible PerVERSIONS: How Satan Changes God’s Word To Lead You Astray” starts with a ten-page introduction, concluding that the King James Version is God’s only English Holy Bible today. It then gives over 200 pages of quotations from the four most popular English translations (KJV, NIV, NKJV, and NLT), detailing what the modern versions have changed and what those changes mean doctrinally. If that is too much detail, 20% of the passages are highlighted as being the worst perVERSIONS of God’s Holy Bible.