Synopsis
Laura Story's life took an unexpected turn when her husband, Martin, was diagnosed with a brain tumor. The devastating news forever changed their lives and brought Laura's dreams of a fairy-tale life to an end. Yet her struggles to accept her new situation also brought her deeper joy and intimacy with God as she allowed him to rewrite her story.
In this five-session curriculum (DVD/digital video sold separately), Laura examines the twists and turns that took place not only in her own life but also in the lives of many of the heroes of the faith. She reveals how God used crises in the lives of people such as Abraham, Sarah, David, and Paul to bring them closer to him and set them on the path he wanted them to take. She also shows how God used each of these individuals in spite of their flaws and brokenness.
God may not fix everything in our lives. In fact, our situation might not ever change or get better. But we can know that God will lead us to a place where we are better because of it.
This study guide includes leader helps, video discussion questions, Bible exploration questions, and personal study and reflection materials for in-between sessions.
Sessions include:
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>> Don't Be Surprised by Trouble
>> Best-Made Plans
>> When God Doesn't Fix It
>> Why? The Question on Replay
>> A Better Broken </ol>
Designed for use with When God Doesn't Fix It Video Study (sold separately).
Review
Laura Story is a songwriter, worship leader, author, artist, and Bible teacher. Her songs-which have won Grammys, Billboard Music Awards, and Dove Awards-include "Blessings," "Mighty to Save," and Chris Tomlin's "Indescribable." Laura has a master's of theological studies and a doctorate in worship studies, and has served as a worship leader at Perimeter Church in Atlanta since 2005. Her greatest joy is being a wife to Martin and mother to Josie, Ben, Griffin, and Timothy.
When God Doesn't Fix It
Laura helps us understand we arent the only ones whose lives have taken unexpected turns. She examines the brokenness of some of the heroes of our faith, and shows how despite their flaws and flawed stories, God was able to use them in extraordinary ways. And it was not because of their faith, but because of the faithfulness of their God. God may not fix everything. In fact, although your situation might not ever change or get better, with Jesus you can.
Laura helps us understand we arent the only ones whose lives have taken unexpected turns."
God Doesn't Believe In
This book proves to atheists that they don't exist, reveals to agnostics their true motives, and strengthens the faith of the believers. This book answers questions such as 'Who made God?' and 'Where did Cain get his wife?' The book uses humor, reason, and logic to send a powerful message. Here are some reactions from atheists who read the book . . .
This book answers questions such as 'Who made God?' and 'Where did Cain get his wife?' The book uses humor, reason, and logic to send a powerful message. Here are some reactions from atheists who read the book . . ."
When God Doesn't Answer Your Prayer
This is a book about the mystery of unanswered prayer. Why does God fail to answer some of the most heartfelt prayers when Scripture promises He will? Sitters probes the hard questions of faith for readers who want to move beyond the clichs.
This is a book about the mystery of unanswered prayer."
When God Doesn’T Heal
You have prayed for healing and it hasnt happened yet. Now what? Do you need more faith? Is God not happy with your life? Or perhaps its something else altogether. Larry lived by and taught a mixed message of law and grace. One of the greatest lies he taught was the more we please God, the more He will be pleased with us and answer our prayers. Many in the body of Christ today have made healing a type of law. They believe the reason God hasnt healed them is because they dont have enough faith to be healed. While many books suggest ways to be healed and stay healed, this book addresses what happens when God doesnt heal. Lets face itsickness and disease are bad enough, but to add such issues as feeling God is displeased with us, and He is punishing us because of our lack of faith makes matters that much worse. In When God Doesnt Heal, author Larry Silverman blends his understanding of grace into the practical reality of living with sickness and disease, especially detailing his battle and victory over cancer.
They believe the reason God hasnt healed them is because they dont have enough faith to be healed. While many books suggest ways to be healed and stay healed, this book addresses what happens when God doesnt heal."
When God Doesn't Heal Now
Written for those who suffer and are not healed, this book offers balanced, biblically-based hope to those who await God's healing today.
Written for those who suffer and are not healed, this book offers balanced, biblically-based hope to those who await God's healing today."
21 Days to Childlike Prayer
“21 Days to Childlike Prayer makes you want to pray.” —Donald S. Whitney, author of Praying the Bible Childlike Prayer Is Life-Changing Prayer God doesn’t need great prayers to do great things. When you speak to Him in simple, trusting faith, you find yourself in a new story where anything is possible, where you always get what’s best, and where your problems become opportunities for a greater experience of Jesus. In 21 Days to Childlike Prayer, you’ll witness how God responds in power and love to your specific prayers. As you dive into what the Bible says about communing with God, you will… identify what prayer is, how it can change you, and what major prayer pathways are laid out in Scripture learn easy-to-remember prayer strategies that help you overcome challenges and pursue goals discover inspiring true examples—both biblical and contemporary—of God’s miraculous answers to his people’s prayers This concise 3-week devotional journey will show you how to turn your daily worries, frustrations, and dreams into prayers throughout your Christian life. This transformative resource is perfect for individual and group study, empowering you to be intentional—and fruitful—in your time with God.
In 21 Days to Childlike Prayer, you’ll witness how God responds in power and love to your specific prayers."
Plan B
Learn how God often does his best work in our most hopeless situations. What do you do when a shattered dream or an unmet expectation causes you to turn to Plan B? Pastor and author Pete Wilson uses real life stories of disappointments and tragedy along with biblical stories such as David, Joseph, and Ruth to help readers face their own overwhelming situations and through them to learn God is working to help them surrender their plans to receive his. He identifies our common responses to difficulties and offers hope, helping us to: Understand what God might be up to See how surrender helps us to receive God's plan Embrace the community of believers Reconcile a God of love with a life of tragedy and suffering. Wilson points readers to the cross as not just the starting line but the centerpiece of our stories with God where we turn in our Plan B and find the undeniable relationship between crisis and true spiritual transformation.
What do you do when a shattered dream or an unmet expectation causes you to turn to Plan B? Pastor and author Pete Wilson uses real life stories of disappointments and tragedy along with biblical stories such as David, Joseph, and Ruth to ..."
God Doesn't 'Do' Anything
In God Doesn't Do Anything, Ms. Packard moves away from God as concept object to whom we owe religious adoration and toward an experience of God as Pure Essence, having the power to change who we are as we divest ourselves of egotistic energy. This essence which can be felt as God Presence brings the soul alive. She further believes that the self can then experience itself in a more integrated way and becomes more responsible for its own being. Defenses wane and the person becomes more open and accepting of his own experiences. He accepts himself as the locus of his evaluations, realizing that no one has a monopoly on Truth. His decisions are guided by love rather than archaic rules and regulations. Having had a life-long love and interest in the Bible, especially the New Testament, she finds richer, more meaningful substance in its allegorical inspiration than literal interpretation. Finally Ms. Packard offers some tips that have proven useful to her over the years in accomplishing her goals in hope that the reader may be able to profit by her experience.
In God Doesn't Do Anything, Ms. Packard moves away from God as concept object to whom we owe religious adoration and toward an experience of God as Pure Essence, having the power to change who we are as we divest ourselves of egotistic ..."
God Doesn't Do Waste
Meet 'the Bookless bunch', a very ordinary family who went green. When God challenged him over his attitude to the environment, Dave Bookless did a total rethink. This led to major changes, not only in his family's lifestyle but also eventually in his career: full-time involvement in the global A Rocha movement that aims to care for God's fragile world. But in one sense this book isn't about going green at all. It's a personal account of a life lived in relationship. It's about roots and belonging, suffering and healing, identity and meaning, faith and doubt. It's about how in God's economy nothing need be wasted. This is a story about the messiness that each human being wades through in every area of their lives, and about a God who can take all that seems most wasteful and useless, and recycle it into something of infinite worth.
This is a story about the messiness that each human being wades through in every area of their lives, and about a God who can take all that seems most wasteful and useless, and recycle it into something of infinite worth."
Why God Doesn't Hate You
Due to the supposedly losing war that Christianity has fought against the decline of its values for the last one hundred years, Christians seem to have entered a sort of “siege mode”; they are afraid that acceptance of “liberal ideas” about women, homosexuals, and the transgender community are a part of the increasing moral decadence of our society. As a result, they have defensively shut their gates against such perceptions, leaving many of us out in the cold. Is this God’s will? No. Why God Doesn’t Hate You is the result of transgender Roman Catholic consecrated maiden Tia Michelle Pesando’s extensive theological research, and it brings to light several startling truths. No longer should we feel the need to choose between science and faith, or between religion and our own understanding of what is right and wrong. The knowledge contained herein both reassures and provides an excellent defense for those minorities previously persecuted by Christians, as Tia Michelle knows from her own experience coming out after thirty years in the guise of a man. Recently, she walked into a Roman Catholic church just before mass dressed as a woman, wearing the veil of the consecrated maiden, and approached the priest with the statement, “I have assembled a rock-solid argument in favour of homosexuality.” The positive response she received alone shows that there is hope.
Is this Gods will? No. Why God Doesnt Hate You is the result of transgender Roman Catholic consecrated maiden Tia Michelle Pesandos extensive theological research, and it brings to light several startling truths."
God Doesn't Need a Badge
Proverbs 15:3 says, "The eyes of the Lord are everywhere, keeping watch on the wicked and the good." This book brings these verses to life. These are the stories of a police officer who has witnessed miracles, both on duty and off duty. The miracles that God allowed him to be part of taught him many lessons about prayer and paying attention. The miracles forever changed his life. The story about a doughnut shop employee who was held up at gunpoint is truly amazing. God solved this crime. Do you believe God cares about the police and their doughnuts? The bike story and the jewelry store robbery are two of the most amazing police stories you will ever hear. Only God could have solved these two crimes the way the cases unfolded. In fact, God is the greatest detective on the case. He has been paying attention to every crime committed from the beginning of history. This eye-opening book will inspire readers to pray for miracles, and then pay attention to the answers. They will not be disappointed.
Proverbs 15:3 says, "The eyes of the Lord are everywhere, keeping watch on the wicked and the good." This book brings these verses to life. These are the stories of a police officer who has witnessed miracles, both on duty and off duty."
Goliath Awaits
There were six knife-carrying bullies in our community during my teen years that kept us farm boys living in fear that they might engrave their initials on our skin. Until one day, my mouth overtook my brain, and I challenged them to clean up or clear out. What I thought was a deadly mistake turned out to be a blessing. I cleaned the plow of all six of these brothers by taking down their big cousin that I called Goliath. I became known as the giant killer, the one that cleaned the plow of seven all at one time all by myself. Our trials should be kept as treasuries for strength for another day, another battle, as did David when facing Goliath. The clouds that appear in our lives are Gods way of creating a dark background for grace to paint a new picture of our life. Contributing authors Mike and Vickie Oliver tell about their dark experience as parents of a prodigal, as their youngest daughter ran away from home with an illegal immigrant and was without news of her for seven months, until the master artist took the brush of grace and painted a picture of hope, and their nightmare of harrow turned into a blessing that would benefit many. Trials are not pleasant to our flesh or spirit; however, if we can glean and draw strength from them, somewhere in our future we can use them as arrows in our quiver to thwart the progress of defeat. I never imagined fifty-years later my experience as a teen would become a part my book series, Goliath Awaits.
I never imagined fifty-years later my experience as a teen would become a part my book series, Goliath Awaits."
Through Our Brokenness (God DoesnÕt Throw Us Away)
This book shares with its readers relevant and biblical insights that will encourage your heart and mind with the determination to keep fighting and never quit on life
This book shares with its readers relevant and biblical insights that will encourage your heart and mind with the determination to keep fighting and never quit on life"
So Long, Normal Study Guide plus Streaming Video
Untether from your sense of "normal" and fall into the abundant life God intends. Singer-songwriter and Bible teacher Laura Story gets what it's like to have plans altered and to surrender security when faced with circumstances beyond our control. But she also understands the blessing of having a Father who loves you enough to place you in the best possible scenario for good and growth. The So Long, Normal video study guide (streaming included) walks small groups through the process of leaving behind the idols of comfort, caution, and routine so you can live strong and well--even when life takes an unwelcome turn. This study guide has everything you need for a full Bible study experience, including: The study guide itself--with discussion and personal reflection questions, video notes, and a leader's guide. An individual access code to stream all five video sessions online (you don't need to buy a DVD!). Laura Story looks at the obstacles of attachment to comfort and leads the way to learning how to trust our unknown future to a faithful God. With personal stories and deep dives into biblical stories of people who wavered between God and earthly comfort, this five-session study is for anyone who finds themselves paralyzed by fear in the inevitable changes of life. When we say goodbye to normal, our joy and peace are no longer tethered to our circumstances; we can truly experience the abundant life Christ offers his children.
This study guide has everything you need for a full Bible study experience, including: The study guide itself--with discussion and personal reflection questions, video notes, and a leader's guide."
God Doesn't Do the Obvious
From Fireworks celebration all around with very friendly people to Guns firing, bombs exploding, helicopters flying over, power outages and siren with voices of angry people, and even a couple of Jihadist, and all this was taking place in the Holy land where the Lord himself sent me to pray for peace. My life with the Lord began when I was 5 but my journey began when I turned 45. This was the year I died to myself and began my relationship of obedience to the Lord Jesus
I have been told by the ones that I asked to read my story before publishing, They all want to edit the book or feel the need to tell me about the grammar."
When People Throw Stones
Pastor Blaine Allen helps leaders under attack respond to criticism biblically. He shows them what to do when they cannot take anymore, when the criticism is accurate, and when they don't want to forgive.
This is a worthy addition to every pastor's library." --Rev. Dan Davidson Pastoral Ministries, Focus on the Family Blaine Allen (Th.M., Dallas Theological Seminary; D.Min."
When God Doesnt Heal
You have prayed for healing and it hasn't happened yet. Now what? Do you need more faith? Is God not happy with your life? Or perhaps it's something else altogether. Larry lived by and taught a mixed message of law and grace. One of the greatest lies he taught was the more we please God, the more He will be pleased with us and answer our prayers. Many in the body of Christ today have made healing a type of law. They believe the reason God hasn't healed them is because they don't have enough faith to be healed. While many books suggest ways to be healed and stay healed, this book addresses what happens when God doesn't heal. Let's face it--sickness and disease are bad enough, but to add such issues as feeling God is displeased with us, and He is punishing us because of our lack of faith makes matters that much worse. In When God Doesn't Heal, author Larry Silverman blends his understanding of grace into the practical reality of living with sickness and disease, especially detailing his battle and victory over cancer.
They believe the reason God hasn't healed them is because they don't have enough faith to be healed. While many books suggest ways to be healed and stay healed, this book addresses what happens when God doesn't heal."
The Well-Played Life
Discusses the role of play in a relationship with God, describing how joy, creativity, and enjoyment are important elements of the spiritual life.
Discusses the role of play in a relationship with God, describing how joy, creativity, and enjoyment are important elements of the spiritual life."
God Doesn’T Exist
The developed theme is based on the initiatory knowledge, taught by the great masters that have existed through humanity (primary gnosticism), pure Christianity, this book encloses itself art-science-philosophy and religion, with simple basic explanations that any interested person can practice, besides that for the science of the spirit can be complete it must meet the requirements described above. The author speaks and clarifies that it is not his knowledge but the extract of part of the teachings given by his teachers, since it is a universal knowledge, given to the few, only for those truly serious in investigating their own origins and their previous lives. It is simply a compilation of part of the teachings described and that can be extended to other deeper ones in future publications, it is only the beginning of all that we still need to know about ourselves, that is why we were taught in the initiatory temples homo , nosce te ipsum , man, know yourself, and you will know the universe and the gods. Words of the author. Bagnavanny.
The developed theme is based on the initiatory knowledge, taught by the great masters that have existed through humanity (primary gnosticism), pure Christianity, this book encloses itself art-science-philosophy and religion, with simple ..."
God Doesn't Make Trash
In Publisher’s Weekly April 23, 2001 issue, the industry magazine spotlighted the LGBT book scene in 2001. In his article prefacing a list of nearly 200 selected Gay and Lesbian titles, Charles Hix stated: “Significantly, the number of books dealing primarily with AIDS is down compared to 2000...AIDS is now more likely to be treated as an incidental fact, not a focus.” Indeed, scanning the titles and descriptions of the books listed in the article, I counted only eight titles that spoke of AIDS specifically. There appears to be little interest anymore in the personal stories of those lost. Indeed, it takes the stature of an Edmund White to even interest a major publisher in another collection of cenotaphs. What then do we make of Barbara Rose Brooker’s brave little book recounting the stories of friends and acquaintances long dead from AIDS? The book’s title comes from a conversation Brooker had with former Marlboro Man and later AIDS model, Christian Haren. Brooker, a struggling novelist with two young daughters had been a reluctant but loving witness to her next door neighbor’s early agonizing victimization and discrimination preceeding his death from the virus and its complications. In an effort to fulfill a promise to her friend, Brooker sets about taping interviews with AIDS patients in a half-hearted attempt to document their stories. Christian Haren was her first interviewee. Galvanized by anger and illness, co-opted by the nascent AIDS response movement as a poster child, Haren is in a unique position to usher Brooker to the Castro and San Francisco General Hospital’s earliest AIDS ward in the rapidly blackening early days of the pandemic. Constantly, Haren pushes her to listen, to record, to write. Alternately cajoling and hectoring, the dying Haren manages to inspire the straight, Jewish, liberal Brooker to undertake a project which was to haunt her for the following fifteen years. The product of that haunting, some twenty-nine chapters profiling men and women, gay and straight in the grips of a time and a disease, is really as much a portrait of middle class America’s dawning awareness of and helpless witness to the pandemic as it is of the dying’s. The dying themselves are vibrantly recalled in Brooker’s tender, elegaic chronicalling, but it is the portrait of Brooker herself that is most compelling. Her journey from sympathetic bystander to paralyzed witness to stoic promise-keeper is a genuine document of a time and a place that seems, unfortunately, to have an expired shelf-life. That is the pity and the promise of this fine little book. Pity that it might easily go unread and ignored for now, but it promises to be a classic for the times to come. I have written before that history is most intimately experienced by small people in small places. We are lucky to have this small history now and waiting again in a huge unknown future. -by Jay Quinn Lambda Book Report July/August 2001
That is the pity and the promise of this fine little book. Pity that it might easily go unread and ignored for now, but it promises to be a classic for the times to come."
What Happens When God Doesn't Move the Mountain?
Twice the Lord told his disciples that if they had faith like a mustard seed they could do jaw-dropping things. In Matthew, mustard seed faith is tied to expelling a demon, and Jesus says those who have such faith can move mountains (Matt. 17:20). In Luke, those with mustard seed faith will be able to forgive those who sin against them since such faith can pluck up mulberry trees and cast them into the sea (Luke 17:6). All kinds of questions enter our minds.What is faith like a mustard seed?Why doesn't our faith move mountains?Are we failing to see great things from God because of our lack of faith? You will find the answers here, in this bookIn the stories recounted in both Matthew and Luke, the disciples long for more faith. Then they could do great things for God. Then they could cast out demons and forgive a brother or sister who's especially annoying. Jesus tells them they don't need great faith; they need just a little faith. He clearly speaks of a small amount of faith since the mustard seed was the smallest seed known in his day. Jesus also informs his disciples that the kingdom of heaven is as small as a mustard seed (Matt. 13:31).We're prone to think if we just had more faith, then God could do amazing things through us. But Jesus tells us something quite astonishing. The issue isn't whether we are full of faith but whether we have any faith. If we have the smallest amount of faith, God works on our behalf. Jesus stops his disciples short and asks them: Do you believe in me at all? Do you trust God at all?ALL THESE QUESTION HAVE ANSWERS INSIDE THIS BOOK
If we have the smallest amount of faith, God works on our behalf. Jesus stops his disciples short and asks them: Do you believe in me at all? Do you trust God at all?ALL THESE QUESTION HAVE ANSWERS INSIDE THIS BOOK"
The Blessedness of Brokenness
"God doesn't use the blessed but BROKEN the most" Society suggests that if you are bruised, battered or broken you are trash. We got GOOD NEWS for you! It's true "One man's junk is another Man's treasure." Just because you are down doesn't mean you are done. Have you ever sat in an audience and watched someone speak or sing on stage and think "everything they did in life must have been easy. I bet everything they touched turned to gold. They must have been born with a silver spoon in their mouth?" We all have but in this book you will learn that your disappointment is a Divine Appointment. For every pain God still has a Plan. The reason stained glass windows are expensive is not because of the colors but the cracks. When the Light shines through the cracks the colors EXPLODE! Your adversity today is preparing you for Varsity tomorrow. The brokenness in your life is not your enemy but a friend you just haven't met. You will never consider setbacks the same. The same folks you see on stage all have a story. This book is filled with 17 amazing stories that will reveal the "story behind the story-tellers." You see their platform but you may not be familiar with their pain. We see some of their celebrity but now learn firsthand their calamity in anonymity. Indeed, God doesn't use the blessed but broken people the most. Like a rubber band, tough times are not snapping you but SHAPING you to be more like God. Even demotion comes before promotion in the dictionary. The resistance in your life today will determine your distance you will fly in a future tomorrow. Don't get sour but soar to heights you could never imagine when you give God your broken pieces and watch Him make something beautiful. Authors include: Pastor Matthew Barnett, Dr Junior Hill, Zoro The Drummer, Brenda Epperson, Sam Glenn, Jamey Ragle, Shelley Hendrix, Andy Williams, Dr Tim Lee, David Edwards, Lex Luger, Rev Christian Harris, Brandon Crouch, Dr T.A. Powell, Rev Marvin Harris, Buddy Mullins, Acton Bowen, Matt Brown & Frank Shelton
You will never consider setbacks the same. The same folks you see on stage all have a story. This book is filled with 17 amazing stories that will reveal the "story behind the story-tellers."
God Doesn't Do Focus Groups
Why doesn't God do things the way we think He should? All of us have an uncanny desire to improve nearly everything we are a part of, from books, to streaming services, to products, to politics, and even to our faith. We want to be invited to give input. We want our voices to be heard, our opinions to be known. Focus Groups are a formalized way to gather and process input so that consumers' ideas can be better served. This works great in the business arena, but when we take this approach in our relationship with Jesus Christ, we are set up for a lot of frustration. There are many ways we try to tell Him how He can improve our religious experience with Him. If He would only listen... but we find God Does Not Do Focus Groups. God is only interested in having us move toward Him on His terms. This book helps us see the ways we try to leverage God into doing a focus group with us and then explains why it is in our best interest that He NEVER will.
God is only interested in having us move toward Him on His terms. This book helps us see the ways we try to leverage God into doing a focus group with us and then explains why it is in our best interest that He NEVER will."
God Doesn’t Make Mistakes
The knock at the front door brought with it an unexpected change in their lives. Alex and Emily lived from payday to payday but they had always relied on God to see them through the hard times. What happened over the next few days was a huge blessing from God. But Emily felt there would be a price to pay. Now that they were financially sound they had to decide to move in order to receive her inheritance. The next few years brought changes in their lives that brought both sorrow at times and also joy. Through it all she could always hold on to Alex’s words, ‘God doesn’t make mistakes.’
The knock at the front door brought with it an unexpected change in their lives."
God Doesn't Exist
While I can make various arguments for the harm that religion does in the world, and the dangers represented by a faith mentality, the primary issue that I remain passionate about is that religion is false. The underlying premise is untrue, which means that everything that is built upon that premise is also untrue. The staggering amount of time, money, emotional energy and bloodshed expended in the name of something completely fictitious is a crime against humanity. So while there are debates about religion's place in society, whether the charitable works they do add value, whether they should have tax exemptions and access to power in government, whether the comfort some people seem to derive from their faith is worthwhile and should be left unchallenged, I will focus on one thing: To show that the God of Abraham, from which the three great monotheisms were spawned, does not exist.I have read many books on the subject of gods, religions and belief in the supernatural. I've watched many debates on the matter as well, and one particularly vexing issue comes up frequently and leaves me feeling dissatisfied. That issue is the one of disproving the existence of God. Scientists will often stop well short of even making a claim about the existence of God, answering instead that one cannot prove a negative, i.e. we cannot prove that God doesn't exist. Many debates about the existence of God are often mired down in that esoteric point and the natural progression from there to debates regarding who carries the burden of proof. Arguments are presented and then countered and in the end, people must decide for themselves if they heard anything that impacted their thinking on the subject.I began to think that I could build a compelling argument for the non-existence of God, but I wanted more than just arguments: I wanted proof. What you will find in this book is a combination of both. Part I features arguments supporting my statement that the god of monotheism; the God of Jews, Christians and Muslims featured prominently in the Holy Bible and the Quran, does not actually exist. In Part II of the book, I will use evidence, or more precisely, the lack of evidence where evidence should exist, to show beyond a reasonable doubt that the Biblical God is a mythical figure no more real than Zeus, the King of Gods from Greek Mythology.
What you will find in this book is a combination of both."
God Doesn't Live Here Anymore
The church in Canada is in trouble. Media reports suggest that nine thousand churches are likely to close over the next ten years. The United Church of Canada reports closing a congregation a week. The Anglican Church of Canada anticipates closing its last congregation by 2040, and the Roman Catholic Church, Canada’s largest religious denomination, reports having closed one-fifth of the tradition’s 2,500 congregations. God Doesn’t Live Here Anymore traces the story of the church in Canada from its far off historical roots in biblical times, rise to dominance in medieval Europe, role in the colonization of Canada, strained relations with Canada’s First Nations, twentieth-century prominence, and the church’s dramatic decline and loss of influence entering the twenty-first century. Wood Daly pulls no punches in calling the church to accept responsibility for its own decline, while maintaining hope that resurrection is still possible. The church, as Canadians may know it, might disappear, but for Christians death has never been the end of the story.
The church, as Canadians may know it, might disappear, but for Christians death has never been the end of the story."
When God Shows Up
A bestselling author teaches life-transforming principles he has learned after he encounters God through an unexpected spiritual experience. Kendall provides the principles for learning to recognize God's presence in the midst of life's trials, temptation, and disruptions of every kind.
In When God Shows Up, R. T. Kendall presents the life-transforming principles he learned when he encountered God through his own unexpected spiritual experiences."
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