2019-01-01 There's no lack of people out there telling you to find your passion and dream big. But why does it seem like when we try, we so often end up more lost and overwhelmed than when we started? Liz Forkin Bohannon wants you to rethinkeverythingyou've been told about finding your passion and following...
2003-01-01 More than a decade ago, Jerry Sittser prayed for the protection of his family, yet three of his loved ones---his daughter, his wife, and his mother---died in an automobile accident. What went wrong? 'Why wasn't my prayer answered?' he asks. 'It is no longer an abstract question to me. What should...
The AERDO Occasional Papers series is publichsed by the Association of Evangelical Relief and Developement Organizations. Its purpose is to provide a forum in which critical issues in relief and developement can be raised and discussed.
2016-01-01 In these pages,New York Timesbestselling author Shauna Niequist invites you to consider the landscape of your own life, and what it might look like to leave behind the pressure to be perfect and begin the life-changing practice of simply being present, in the middle of the mess and the...
2003-01-01 John Piper writes,"I will tell you what a tragedy is. I will show you how to wasteyour life. Consider this story from the February 1998 Reader's Digest: A couple 'took early retirement from their jobs in the Northeast five years ago when he was 59 and she was 51. Now they live in Punta Gorda,...
2009-01-20 Is our faith just about going to church, studying the Bible and avoiding the most serious sins-or does God expect more? Have we embraced the whole gospel or a gospel with a hole in it? Ten years ago, Rich Stearns came face-to-face with that question as he sat in amud hut in Rakai, Uganda,...
2015-01-01 Strachan paints the picture of a man who was sold out to the gospel that saved him from himself and dedicated to proclaiming it to the broken world that he knew all too well. He uses the accomplishments of this hero of the faith to stir evangelicals to action in the public square, confronting the...
2011-01-01 Life is busy. We live like slaves to our fast-paced, suffocating schedules. We spend our energy and time in triviality, relegating God to the background. He seems distant to us, and we resist the idea that God wants to give, say, and show us more; we dismiss it as rumor. But Jesus calls us to a...
2011-01-01 According to Pastor Mark Batterson in this expanded edition ofThe Circle Maker, "Drawing prayer circles around our dreams isn't just a mechanism whereby we accomplish great things for God. It's a mechanism whereby God accomplishes great things in us." Do you ever sense that there's far more to...
2016-01-01 "There must be more to the Christian life than this―more than church each Sunday and waving to my neighbors and giving some clothes to Goodwill when I go through my closet each spring."These aren't bad things, of course. But they're safe and comfortable and easy. And there's a reason they're not...