Discover the keys to pulling down the stronghold of your giants... The six-week study titles include: 1) Fruitful or Fretful 2) Worry versus Worship 3) Cull and Cultivate 4) Perfect Peace...Please! 5) Powerful Praise 6) I am not a Grasshopper When the Enemy--your personal giant--tries to make you feel like a grasshopper in his sight, remind him, "God is aware of me every moment of every day. He bottles my tears, orders my steps, numbers the hairs of my head, and knows my joy and my sorrow. Nothing I face is ever too small or of no interest to my God. Every detail of my life matters to Him. I rest assured knowing that He has me covered and is constantly watching over me. I abide in the shadow of the Most High God, and the Enemy cannot come near my dwelling place."

These sermon outlines on various topics were chosen for their strong scriptural support and solid expository structure. They will enhance pulpit ministry and encourage those in the pew.

You may have experienced the loss of a loved one, a divorce, suicidal thoughts, a broken heart, a physical ailment that left you all bent and out of shape. You wonder if God has forgotten you. You may feel you can’t take the scrutiny of the crowd that passes your way, and you’ve been lonely and afraid. Your circumstances and life’s trials have jaded your view of whether you can face tomorrow with confidence. Depression and phobias have magnified and distorted what could have been the brighter side of life. In Bent but Not Broken, author Patricia Clarke Rolle shows that even though your life may be bent and distorted, you’re not beyond help. Through quotes, scripture, and Bible stories, she speaks to the the inner pain every human being feels at different stages in their lives. She also speaks of how you view what life’s experiences have taught you, while encouraging you to not be a victim. Rolle communicates the importance of inner healing and the ability to be set free by allowing Jesus Christ to touch you by faith. If you’re troubled in your attitude, in your physical body, and in your spiritual life, it’s not over; the God of might and miracle calls you to stand up and be healed.

Explore the Book is not a commentary with verse-by-verse annotations. Neither is it just a series of analyses and outlines. Rather, it is a complete Bible survey course. No one can finish this series of studies and remain unchanged. The reader will receive lifelong benefit and be enriched by these practical and understandable studies. Exposition, commentary, and practical application of the meaning and message of the Bible will be found throughout this giant volume. Bible students without any background in Bible study will find this book of immense help as will those who have spent much time studying the Scriptures, including pastors and teachers. Explore the Book is the result and culmination of a lifetime of dedicated Bible study and exposition on the part of Dr. Baxter. It shows throughout a deep awareness and appreciation of the grand themes of the gospel, as found from the opening book of the Bible through Revelation.

Shut The Door! - Three little words that jumped off the pages at me as I looked again to a very familiar and loved passage of scripture found in 2 Kings 4. Two very different women with two very different stories are found in this chapter in the Word. I have heard these stories countless times over the years, but I had never noticed those words, "shut the door," until this time in my study. Why now? What was it that The Lord wanted me to see? In this study, we will take a look at these stories. We will understand from the Word of God exactly what we need to do to shut the door to the enemy and his influence in our lives. We will read about these two very different women with very difficult problems - but their answer was the same! God delivered them both as they shut the door to the circumstances they were faced with, and instead deliberately set out to hear from God. They then walked in obedience to the leading of the Spirit of God, and the results for both were beyond their hopes and dreams. God's plans always exceed our dreams!Shut the Door is a six-week Bible study from Church of God Women's Discipleship.

Celebrate a vulnerable and open life by overcoming your fear of criticism and start living the life God intended. ​ Fear of criticism has turned into a massive epidemic harder than ever to overcome. It prevents people from speaking up; it's why most people struggle to make decisions; it's why we're uncomfortable with vulnerability and openness; and it's why so many are unable to meet their full potential. But it doesn't have to be that way. Through the Bible story of King David dancing naked in the streets while his distant, guarded, and critical wife watches from a window, Naked and Unafraid provides a visual contrast of these two characters that sheds light on the way we all approach life and explains how the fear of criticism impacts our lives much more than we realize or are willing to admit. God didn't create us to live guarded, isolated lives. Our greatest fulfillment isn't found in the window. It's found in the street. Everything in our lives, including our relationships, our work, our emotional and spiritual health, gets better in a place of openness and vulnerability. But that doesn't mean it's easy. . . because it's not. Vulnerability is risky. Exposure is scary. Naked and Unafraid pushes readers to: Find the courage to not let criticism control or determine who they are and what they do. Stop living in the shallow end of relationships and experience the rewards that true vulnerability can bring. Abandon smallness and live the life they were born to live. Discover how the fear of criticism diminishes in direct proportion to understanding it. Reject the limitations and inhibitions of "window living," so they can experience the freedom and rewards of "street life." Confront their own worst critic that counts them out of what God has included them in. God will help you move away from window watching, and toward street dancing. Know who He says you are, and live in that freedom!

“Through the pages of this book, I invite you into various spaces of sanctuary—not as places of retreat, but for the deepened resistance, vision, and transformation that these days, and the gospel, require.” Throughout her nearly forty years in ministry, Heidi Neumark has strived to make communities of faith into sanctuaries amid the turmoils of life. Now, with the social and political upheaval of the years since Donald Trump was elected president, Neumark believes the true Christian calling is to live out a counterpoint to today’s prevailing spirits of exclusion and hatred. Using her own bilingual, multicultural congregation as a model, she moves through the seasons of the church calendar to reflect on what it looks like to live out essential Christian convictions in community with others. Sanctuary is an amplifier for the many voices crying out against policies and rhetoric that are cruel, dehumanizing, and dangerous. Neumark begins each chapter with a quote from Donald Trump that she defies and dismantles with the power of her own stories—anecdotes about offering shelter for queer youth in her city, supporting immigrants and asylum-seekers being harassed by ICE, and embracing her church’s diversity with a Guadalupe celebration, to name a few. Timely, but also timeless, this book speaks to the deep wounds of this era, inflicted before and during the Trump presidency, which will remain long past its end.