Recommend a Life-Changing Book, Bible or CD for Christmas:
Posted 7/5/2007
We'd love to hear about any life-changing resources you've given to a friend or family member in the past or are planning to give this year. Tell us about a special CD, book or Bible that has impacted your own life as well.
Need a gift recommendation? Visit our special pages for Gifts for Him & Gifts for Her.
Want to keep Christ the focus of your celebration this Christmas? Take a look at the following Christmas Books, Christmas Music & Christmas Videos. From our family to yours, we pray you have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Growing Up Spiritually:
Posted 7/5/2007
There’s a process God begins to take us through where he starts knocking the blocks out from under us and we think “that’s so cruel and so horrible” but that’s what God has to do at times. Look at Jesus in John 6. He just walked on water and fed 5,000 people and then he launches into the real cost of following him. These people look at him and think that all the cool stuff was great but don’t want to deal with the hard parts and leave. And instead of Jesus saying, stop I’ll make it easier, he turns to his disciples and says, “So, you leaving too?”
They respond, “Where would we go, your words have eternal life?”
THAT is what it means to really make your faith your own. It can’t be a means to an end or to please someone else. Where it truly becomes what you truly believe because there is no other place to go.
