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Recommended Reading
Here are some great books you may want to check out that are recommended by our members!
Crazy Love
By Francis Chan
God is love. Crazy, relentless, all-powerful love. Have you ever wondered if we’re missing it? It’s crazy, if you think about it. The God of the universe--the Creator of nitrogen and pine needles, galaxies and E-minor--loves us with a radical, unconditional, self-sacrificing love. And what is our typical response? We go to church, sing songs, and try not to cuss. Whether you’ve verbalized it yet or not...we all know somethings wrong. Does something deep inside your heart long to break free from the status quo? Are you hungry for an authentic faith that addresses the problems of our world with tangible, even radical, solutions? God is calling you to a passionate love relationship with Himself. Because the answer to religious complacency isn’t working harder at a list of do’s and don’ts--it’s falling in love with God. And once you encounter His love, as Francis Chan describes it, you will never be the same. Because when you’re wildly in love with someone, it changes everything.
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Wild at Heart
By John Eldredge
Every man was once a boy. And every little boy has dreams, big dreams, dreams of being the hero, of beating the bad guys, of doing daring feats and rescuing the damsel in distress. Every little girl has dreams, too: of being rescued by her prince and swept up into a great adventure, knowing that she is the beauty.
But what happens to those dreams when we grow up? Walk into most churches, have a look around, and ask yourself: What is a Christian man? Without listening to what is said, look at what you find there. Most Christian men are . . . bored.
Wild at Heart has healed and freed the hearts of millions of men around the world as John Eldredge invites men to recover their masculine heart, defined in the image of a passionate God.
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Mere Christianity
By C. S. Lewis
“As we witness Lewis develop we find that these volumes are working as a kind of unconscious autobiography.”
“C. S. Lewis understood, like few in the past century, just how deeply faith is both imaginative and rational.”
One of the most popular and beloved introductions to the concept of faith ever written, Mere Christianity has sold millions of copies worldwide.
The book brings together C. S. Lewis’s legendary radio broadcasts during the war years, in which he set out simply to “explain and defend the belief that has been common to nearly all Christians at all times.”
Rejecting the boundaries that divide Christianity’s many denominations,Mere Christianity provides an unequalled opportunity for believers and nonbelievers alike to absorb a powerful, rational case for the Christian faith.
God's Brilliant Plan
By Mark Drake
After 25 years of success in both ministry and business, I was now experiencing external failure and internal meltdown. The foundation of everything I believed about myself and about God was being shaken, and I was in the middle of the most painful, embarrassing season of my life. And no amount of prayer and fasting could stop it. This became the catalyst for the greatest discovery of my Christian life and it drove me into an all-consuming search to find the 'Easy and Light' life Jesus promised. With these words, Mark begins describing the 'perfect storm' of circumstances that drove him to depression and despair. After five years of agony, he found himself in the midst of an inexplicable encounter with God. For seventeen days the very foundation of Mark's life was torn out and then rebuilt with a new understanding of what it means to experience 'Christ in me, the hope of glory' And everything changed! Mark's transparent and disarming description of his journey has given hope and brought transformation to people from every walk of life. As a fellow seeker, you may finally choose to resign from the 'Promise Makers' Club and start experiencing the easy and light life Jesus wants for you. Then you may find yourself empowered to help others discover this amazing life of grace!
70x7 and Beyond
By Monty Christiensen
"The Monty Christensen story is honest, vivid, direct. He offers a compelling testimony to the amazing grace and forgiveness of our God - and His sovereign power to restore His children."
- Chuck Colson
This is the story of Monty and Holly, two people on the fringe of society, wishing they were inside the circle. It is a story about love, and pain, and forgiveness. About two steps forward and one step back. About winning.
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70x7 and Beyond gives insight and encouragement... Those who read the book will never be the same.
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Mike was born in New York and grew up mainly in Connecticut. He graduated from the University of Houston with a Bachelors Degree in History and a Minor in Psychology. Several years later Mike added a degree from CC School of Pastoral Ministry.
Mike’s working career began with his first job at a golf course in Connecticut picking of golf balls on the driving range. Eventually Mike progressed both on the job and with his golf game and become the Assistant Golf Professional.
After an invitation by a friend Mike switched jobs and began working in the Restaurant business where he would soon find another passion, cooking. As a Head Chef for nearly nine years, Mike excelled in the culinary field and even had some of his creations featured on the LA News. But, after volunteering in ministry for many years Mike finally left the restaurant business for full time ministry.
Mike served in several pastoral positions from Youth pastor to Senior Pastor and it was during Mike’s time as a Senior Pastor that he began to feel that God was leading him to pursue writing.
Having two books published Mike is working on his third book, which will be his first work of fiction. Sure to be a hit Mike is weaving together and end-times action adventure called "The Armageddon Conspiracy."
Mike lives in Southern California with his wife Colette where he continues to write and speak. In his spare time Mike enjoys reading, surfing, traveling, playing guitar, trying new food creations, and taking walks with his Beagle.
Unoffendable
By Brant Hansen
Not entitled to get angry? Really?
It’s a radical, provocative idea: We’re not entitled to get offended or stay angry. The idea of our own “righteous anger” is a myth. It is the number one problem in our societies today and, as Dallas Willard says, Christians have not been taught out of it.
As it turns out, giving up our “right” to be offended can be one of the most freeing, healthy, simplifying, relaxing, refreshing, stress-relieving, encouraging things we can do.
In Unoffendable readers will find something of immeasurable value—a concrete, practical way to live life with less stress. They’ll adjust their expectations to fit human nature and replace perpetual anger with refreshing humility and gratitude.
The book offers a unique viewpoint, challenging the idea that Christians can ever harbor “righteous anger” or that there evenis such a thing for believers.
Few other books exist with such a radical, provocative proposal to consider. We have no right to anger. We are to get rid of it, period. Completely. And it is possible to choose to be “unoffendable.”
Through the author’s winsome, humorous, and conversational style, this book doesn’t add another thing to do on a stressed-out person’s ever-growing list. Better, it actually seeks to lift religious burdens from readers’ backs and allow them to experience the joy of gratitude, perhaps for the first time, every single day of their lives.
The Messiah Code
By Bob Mitchell
Did God encode the identity of the Messiah within the names and events recorded in the Old Testament? Did he also bypass the understanding of the Old Testament authors and place the identity of the Messiah within the ancient Hebrew Pictographs in such a way that the message could only be accomplished by a Divine hand? This book reveals God as the author of the Old Testament with stunning evidence that only the most die hard sceptic will deny.
Among the Wolves
By Norman Brown
Among The Wolves is an eye-opening book, which exposes the dark world of false (fake) Prophets and their schemes, helping the reader to recognize their lies, extortion and deception by the Spirit. This book is intended to bring guidance and clarity to the reader by bringing spiritual awareness, which will lead to spiritual healing.
Christian Fiction
The Great Divorce
By C. S. Lewis
“Much deserves to be quoted... attractive imagery, amusing satire, exciting speculations... Lewis rouses curiosity about life after death only to sharpen awareness of this world.”
C. S. Lewis's dazzling allegory about Heaven and Hell-and the chasm fixed between them-is one of his most brilliantly imaginative tales, where we discover that the gates of Hell are locked from the inside.
In a dream, the narrator boards a bus on a drizzly afternoon in Hell and embarks on an incredible voyage to Heaven. Anyone in Hell is invited on board, and anyone may remain in Heaven if he or she so chooses. But do we really want to live in Heaven? This powerful, exquisitely written fantasy is one of C. S. Lewis's most enduring works of fiction and a profound meditation on good and evil and on what God really offers us.
The Traveler's Gift
By Andy Andrews
Forty-six-year-old David Ponder feels like a total failure. Once a high-flying executive in a Fortune 500 company, he now works a part-time, minimum wage job and struggles to support his family. Then, an even greater crisis hits: his daughter becomes ill, and he can’t afford to get her the medical help she needs. When his car skids on an icy road, he wonders if he even cares to survive the crash.
But an extraordinary experience awaits David Ponder. He finds himself traveling back in time, meeting leaders and heroes at crucial moments in their lives—from Abraham Lincoln to Anne Frank. By the time his journey is over, he has received seven secrets for success—and a second chance. The Traveler's Gift offers a modern day parable of one man's choices—and the attitudes that make the difference between failure and success.
Safely Home
By Randy Alcorn
In 2001 Randy Alcorn wrote a novel about the persecuted church in China that changed the face of christian fiction. Alcorn weaved a tale of intrigue and hope as he took readers on a journey from corporate America to the persecuted church in China. Today, the novel challenges readers to consider if they are prepared to suffer and die for their faith, while reminding them of the hope of heaven and the importance of living with eternal matters in their daily lives.
Is this the day I die?
Quan stiffened at the shout behind him. “You meet in the night like the criminals you are. How dare you defy the law? In three minutes we will shoot every man, woman, and child who does not declare himself loyal to the people rather than the gwelios, foreign devils.
American business executive Ben Fielding has no idea what his brilliant old college roommate is facing in China. But when they’re reunited in China after twenty years, the men are shocked at what they discover about each other.
Thrown together in an hour of encroaching darkness, watched by unseen eyes, both must make choices that will determine not only the destinies of two men, but two families, two nations . . . and two worlds.
The Shack
By William P. Young
Mackenzie Allen Philips' youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later in the midst of his Great Sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his better judgment he arrives at the shack on a wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare. What he finds there will change Mack's world forever.
In a world where religion seems to grow increasingly irrelevant The Shack wrestles with the timeless question, "Where is God in a world so filled with unspeakable pain?" The answers Mack gets will astound you and perhaps transform you as much as it did him. You'll want everyone you know to read this book!
This Present Darkness
By Frank E. Peretti
Ashton is just a typical small town. But when a skeptical reporter and a pastor begin to compare notes, they suddenly find themselves fighting a hideous plot to subjugate the townspeople—and eventually the entire human race. A riveting thriller, This Present Darkness offers a fascinating glimpse into the unseen world of spiritual warfare.
"This Present Darkness is a novel about how a few Christians fight for the soul of a small town named Ashton that is being taken over by a conspiratorial form of the New Age movement. Author Frank Peretti expands the reader's perspective of the fight beyond just the human level to the spiritual — where demons influence humans and battle angels. This expansion is Peretti's imaginative interpretation of what Paul might have had in mind when he wrote Ephesians 6:12, "For we are not contending against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world rulers of this present darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places" — Reviewed by Dean C. Halverson