Understanding and applying fresh insights and practical principles from Scripture will dramatically improve relational patterns that will transform your church into a healthy powerful community as you learn to minister to people's emotional needs.

Motherhood is both a constant joy and a continual challenge. During sleepless nights soothing restless babies, tense conversations with teens, or counseling adult children, it's easy to become exhausted and worn thin. Thankfully God has not left you alone as you parent your children. In fact, He's with you at every turn, in every moment, leading, guiding and empowering your parenting if you'll let Him work through you. In Never Alone, Jeannie Cunnion will help you see what supernatural motherhood looks like--explaining who the Holy Spirit is, what He does, and how His life in you matters so much to you as a mom. Over 8 sessions, learn that the Holy Spirit is not just for the super spiritual or the super strange, but He's at work in every believer making Jesus beautiful to you and your children. Good news, Mom. The Holy Spirit has been working in your home all along and He wants to help you parent in His power and strength as you rest in His love for you. Features: Personal study segments with homework to complete between 8 weeks of group sessions Leader helps to guide questions and discussions within small groups Benefits: Come to know the Holy Spirit as your intimate Companion and Friend. Deepen your understanding of the Holy Spirit's role in your spiritual growth. Learn how to discuss the Holy Spirit with your children. Experience the freedom that comes from resting in the Holy Spirit, as you depend on Him to shepherd your children's hearts.

October, 1987. I'm standing on a sidewalk on the tough edge of downtown Dallas--desperately looking for the address the woman had given me on the phone. All the words you would use to describe a place like this: seedy, gritty, crime-infested (and the more politically correct "transitional") all seemed to line up and describe this spot. Right before noon a crazy grab-bag of humanity began to make their way down a dirt alley between two boarded up storefronts. That alley looked incredibly dangerous but I took a deep breath and followed them. What I found there was something I had been looking for my whole life and hadn't even known how to ask for. I was born on a Sunday and was in church the next Sunday. I had been taught and trained at two Christian universities and a seminary. I was 34 years old and the Sr. Pastor for one of the largest churches of my denomination in the world. I witnessed "church" that day for the first time in my life. These were the people who would save my life, re-write my theology, and change me forever. My life was about to turn upside down and go to places I could never have imagined.

When life feels depleted, does God care I'm facing an onslaught of challenges, will God help When life grows dark and stormy, does God notice I'm facing the fear of death, will God help me The answer in the life-giving miracles in the Gospel of John is a resounding yes. In You Are Never Alone, Max will help you: Realize that Jesus is walking with you and lifting you out of your storms. Dwell in the grace of the cross, the miracle of the empty tomb, and the assurance of restoration power. Believe that God is your ever-present source of help. Recognize that you are never without hope or strength because you are never, ever, alone. Today, take courage that you are stronger than you think because God is nearer than you know.

A major response to Westminster Seminary in California by Reformed theologians on controversies surrounding the New Perspective of Paul, the Federal Vision, Law and Gospel, and the teachings of Norman Shepherd (a contributor to this work)

"Never Alone is an update of the Christian devotional classic The Practice of the Presence of God, by Brother Lawrence. It has been re-written for youth and young adults"--Provided by publisher.

In Never Alone, Bekele Shanko begins with his childhood in the shadow of Ethiopia's Hambaricho Mountain, where his entire community lived in abject material poverty and deep spiritual darkness. But God began to reveal himself vividly to Bekele's father, and soon thereafter, the entire family experienced the transforming power of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Even at age 5, Bekele knew that he had been transferred from the kingdom of darkness to the kingdom of life, and he would never be the same. Bekele's father immediately began preaching the gospel of Jesus, boldly inviting his neighbors to reject their worship of evil spirits and follow the true God. Bekele himself would end up wearing the same mantle -- speaking of Christ to all who would listen. His own sphere of spiritual influence, however, would expand far beyond that Ethiopian village. Just as he had seen God transform his own life, and that of his family and his community, Bekele would come to believe that God wanted to also transform his nation's capital, all of Ethiopia, the entire African continent and the world. Thus began Bekele Shanko's journey to bring that vision to others -- inviting them to trust God for more than they might think possible, and to do so as partners in the vision. Follow along as Bekele narrates his journey from an impoverished village to conversations about Christ in classrooms and boardrooms, before presidents and the most ordinary of citizens. Along the way, he weaves in lessons on leadership and the power of partnering in ministry. Indeed, he calls partnership "God's signature on my life." Throughout his life, Bekele has focused on humbly working alongside fellow believers -- tapping into each other's strengths and resources to accomplish daring spiritual goals. "We're not competing with each other," he says. Instead, believers can more quickly reach God's kingdom goals when they combine forces. Bekele started with citywide strategies, inviting others to trust God for more than they could personally imagine. From there, he easily envisioned a countrywide goal, even as others questioned if this could be possible. Today, Bekele's example spurs Christians the world over to consider creative ways to usher more and more people into God's presence and his kingdom. If there are 5 billion people who do not yet know Christ, why not strategize ways to bring the gospel to them? "If we had a church, a faith community or a group of disciples -- actively witnessing for Jesus in word and deed -- in every rural village, suburban neighborhood, urban high-rise, digital space, and in and through every relational network," he writes, "then we could say the gospel had gone to every tribe, tongue, people and nation." In Never Alone, readers will be challenged to join Bekele in believing God for more than they might have thought possible, yes. But they will also be offered practical principles to follow, thought-provoking questions to ponder and proven strategies to implement. "Without partnership," Bekele says, "life itself is impossible." But with partnership -- partnership with God, his Holy Spirit and each other -- the spiritually impossible is right at hand.

When lobbyist Faith Lockhart stumbles upon a corruption scheme at the highest levels of government, she becomes a dangerous witness who the most powerful men in the world will go to any lengths to silence in this #1 New York Times bestselling thriller. In a secluded house not far from Washington, D.C., the FBI is interviewing one of the most important witnesses it has ever had: a young woman named Faith Lockhart. For Faith has done too much, knows too much, and will tell too much. Feared by some of the most powerful men in the world, Faith has been targeted to die. But when a private investigator walks into the middle of the assassination attempt, the shooting suddenly goes wrong, and an FBI agent is killed. Now Faith Lockhart must flee for her life--with her story, her deadly secret, and an unknown man she's forced to trust...