Keep Your Clothes on Companion Guide for Couples, Group, and Group Leaders
What Christians Ought to Believe, Second Edition
The Apostles' Creed is a treasure trove of basic Christian beliefs and wisdom that helps ensure the integrity and orthodoxy of our faith.Sadly, modern churches have often hesitated to embrace the ancient creeds because of our "nothing but the Bible" tradition. In?What Christians Ought to Believe, Second Edition?Michael Bird will open your eyes to the possibilities of the Apostles' Creed as a way to explore and understand the essential teachings of the Christian faith. This updated edition enhances the explanations to provide even more thorough expositions and illustrations of the basic tenets of Christian faith.Bringing together theological commentary, tips for application, and memorable illustrations, ?What Christians Ought to Believe, Second Edition?summarizes the basic tenets of the Christian faith using the Apostles' Creed as its entryway. After first emphasizing the importance of creeds for the formation of the Christian faith, each chapter, following the Creed's outline, introduces the Father, the Son, and the Spirit and the Church. An appendix includes the Apostles' Creed in the original Latin and Greek, as well as the Nicene Creed.What Christians Ought to Believe, Second Edition?is ideally suited for both the classroom and the church setting to teach beginning students and laypersons the basics of what Christians ought to affirm if they are to be called Christians.
Perspectives on Pastoral Ministry
"Pastoral care" is still a high priority in a world which is no longer familiar with the church's ministry. Though the church has receded into the background, her vision for human life has not. Human beings have retained their unique value within our post-religious world! The culture is still convinced of the need for compassion even if there is less consensus about what that should look like. This publication shares that common vision for the care and nurture of human beings, but with the added conviction that Christianity's unique role in fostering such a worldview makes it the ideal resource for figuring out what will enable human life to flourish. Over the span of this book, readers will learn about the history of pastoral care, what it actually entails, and what it is aiming towards. All of the writers have proven pastoral experience, and they bring their knowledge to bear on virtually every major expression of pastoral ministry. This is an ideal book for all who care for others but especially for those exercising ministry in churches, seminaries, chaplaincies, hospitals, or pastoral teams.
The Faithfulness Trap
The Faithfulness Trap is a compassionate, trauma-aware guide for women of faith who feel torn between devotion and survival. With clarity, gentleness, and deep spiritual insight, this book explores the hidden forces that keep women emotionally, spiritually, and relationally stuck - even when staying feels costly.Through honest reflection and careful teaching, the book untangles the confusion between faith and fear, obedience and self-erasure, endurance and holiness. It offers language for experiences many women carry silently and invites readers into discernment without shame or pressure.Rather than telling readers what decision to make, this book provides something more powerful: understanding. It examines how hope, loyalty, culture, spiritual teaching, and trauma responses shape the choice to stay - and how clarity can be rebuilt slowly and safely.Inside, readers will discover: Why staying is often a survival response, not a moral failure How faith teachings can become tangled with fearThe difference between forgiveness and reconciliationHow spiritual language can be misused to silence painThe hidden emotional and identity cost of long-term enduranceA gentle path toward clarity, self-trust, and restored voiceWritten with deep respect for faith and emotional complexity, The Faithfulness Trap does not rush, pressure, or condemn. It walks beside the reader - honoring their story, their safety, and their spiritual journey.This is not a book of ultimatums. It is a book of truth, compassion, and clarity.
Exposing the Fig Leaf Conspiracy
Have you ever felt called to something greater, but held back by other's opinions and your own shortcomings? Your identity in God was stolen in the Garden of Eden. Delve into the central problem of humanity from a biblical perspective and discover the issue plaguing humanity since the dawn of time. Shed the fig leaves of guilt and shame and be covered with God's glory! Follow Jesus into God's original, intended purpose, achieving all that He created you to be.
Lessons for Sharing the Gospel
With simplicity and wisdom, Fr. Jacques Philippe shares how evangelization comes from a deep compassion for others that arises out of our own personal experience of God's love and a living relationship with Jesus. There is no greater joy than to see a heart transformed!
How to Beat Satan and Help Others
You've learned how to recognize Satan's tactics in your own life-and how to protect your family. Now it's time to take the next step: helping others walk into the freedom Jesus already won for them.In How to Beat Satan and Help Others: A Guide for Spiritual Warfare, deliverance minister and teacher Kathleen Myers equips mature believers, prayer partners, and ministry leaders to stand on their God-given authority and minister freedom with wisdom, discernment, and biblical balance. Building on How to Beat Satan at His Own Game (Book 1) and How to Beat Satan and Free Your Family (Book 2), this third volume focuses on how demons operate-and how to cooperate with the Holy Spirit to see people set free.You'll learn what demons are, how they attack, and how they gain "legal rights" through footholds, strongholds, generational curses, the occult, spiritual trauma, and personal sin, along with practical steps for repentance, forgiveness, inner healing, and deliverance. Myers also outlines a simple model for Deliverance Ministry-including preparation, breaking legal rights, casting out demons (even in dreams), and wise aftercare-always keeping Jesus at the center as the true Deliverer.Publisher: BookFuel
Systematic Theology for Beginners
This book provides a structured and accessible introduction to systematic theology, presenting the core doctrines of the Christian faith and explaining how they relate to one another and to everyday life. It examines key theological themes such as the nature of God, the Trinity, creation, humanity, sin, salvation, the work of Jesus Christ, the role of the Holy Spirit, the church, and Christian hope for the future. The content is organized to help readers understand how individual beliefs form a coherent theological framework rather than isolated ideas. Written for beginners and non-specialists, the book is intended for new believers, long-time Christians seeking clarity, and small groups or study settings. It adopts a clear, explanatory approach that emphasizes understanding over debate, combining doctrinal explanation with practical reflection to show how theology informs personal faith, ethical decisions, and daily Christian living.
