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The Power of the Spirit

A Concise Exposition on the Holy Spirit

William Law / CLC Publications

"In all my reading I have never found anyone who has so helped me in understanding the Scripture truth of the work of the Holy Spirit," Andrew Murray said of this book, which he admired so much that he brought it back into print in 1896. Law emphasizes "the truth of our dependence upon the continual leading of the Spirit, and the assurance that that leading can be enjoyed without interruption."

Although this volume is generally a modernized version of Murray's edition, Dave Hunt has also drawn upon several of Law's other books, including his well-known A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life, as well as a number of his private letters. By weaving together appropriate thoughts from Law's major works, Hunt enriches the book for today's reader. More info...

Healthy Choices Cookbook

Keepers at Home readers / Carlisle Press

No sugar. No white flour. No artificial anything. The cookbook for people who want wholesome, nutritious food, from the kitchens of Keepers at Home readers.

Are you looking for a common sense approach to a healthier lifestyle? We, with contributions from the Keepers at Home readers, compiled Healthy Choices Cookbook to help you provide nutritious food for your family and friends. The recipes in Healthy Choices are sugar-free, use no white flour and don't ask for artificial ingredients. In the long run, no one maintains vibrant, growing health on radiated, fumigated, pasteurized, homogenized, chemical-laden, and nutritionally dead food. Living cells require living foods.

While its sometimes hard to decide the exact place where dead food stops and healthful food starts, and certain foods "don't agree" with some people as they do with others, Healthy Choices with its 1,093 recipes offers a wide range of traditional and modern recipes that help you protect, maintain and encourage the good health God gives you and your loved ones. Take the first step toward better health—start with healthy food choices. More info...

Personal Appearance in the Light of God's Word

Lloyd Hartzler / Christian Light Publications

This booklet examines the Biblical principles for proper dress from the Fall to the New Testament, with guidance for practical application. More info...

Overcoming Evil God's Way

Stephen Russell / Faith Builders Resource Group

We live in a world wracked with violence and despair. Does that mean that every act of violence must be met with an equal or greater counterblow? Overcoming Evil God's Way asserts that the biblical message offers hope of repentance, forgiveness, and reconciliation in place of hatred, vengeance, and fear. This book looks at both the historical and the biblical evidence for the nonresistant lifestyle of the Christian. Some of the themes the book deals with:

• Why do Christians disagree among themselves about war?
• What is the overarching narrative of the Bible, and what does it have to say about peace?
• What is the Christian's right and just battle?
• What is the biblical model for the Christian life?
• How have platonism and Islamic thought weakened the church's grasp on nonresistance?
• What place does the gospel of peace have in winning Moslems and others who have discounted the Christian message, life, and community?

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God's Miracle--an Egg

Rebecca Newswanger / Christian Light Publications

Let's peek inside our chicken house;
Oh, look! See what I found
In this soft nest; it still feels warm;
It's hard and kind of round.

An egg! An egg! You guessed it right!
Who could have put it there?
Our pretty chicken laid this egg
Let's handle it with care.

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Yes! God Still Speaks Today

Stirring Testimonies of God's Intervention, Guidance, and Grace

Norma Plank (compiler) / Christian Light Publications

In the Bible we see God revealing Himself to man and intervening in affairs on earth. He spoke to Adam, Noah, and Abraham. He thundered and shook Mount Sinai. He parted the waters of the Red Sea and led the children of Israel with a pillar of cloud. He brought fire upon an altar on Mount Carmel and whispered to Elijah. He sent his Son who healed the sick, opened the eyes of the blind, and raised the dead. Through the power of the Holy Spirit, Christ's disciples also did mighty works.

Throughout history many other Christians have testified of God's faithfulness and loving care. But is God involved in the lives of His children today?

Yes! God Still Speaks Today is a compilation of true accounts that cry out, "Yes!" A Chinese church prayed for Bibles. God heard. A single sister desperately needed guidance. God supplied. A widow faced a $3,500 dental bill. God met the need. A discouraged mother struggled to find peace. God confirmed His love and care. A malnourished Christian prisoner asked God for an egg. Morning light revealed an egg on his cell floor. A minister leaving from a pastoral visit felt compelled to return and plead again with a lost man. The man was saved.

Yes! God Still Speaks Today will touch your heart and increase your faith in God, who loves and cares for you. More info...

Square Peg -- Round Hole

A True Story

Anna May Strite / Christian Light Publications

Being thirteen is important to anyone. Amy finds that knowing Jesus can help with the doubts and struggles in this period of life. A true story for young teens. More info...

The Work of Thy Fingers

Amazing Wildlife of Latin America

Pablo Yoder; Jacinto Yoder (primary photographer) / Christian Light Publications

How big are your fingers?
How big are God's fingers?
What can your fingers make?
What did God's fingers make?

When I consider thy heavens,
the work of thy fingers,
the moon and the stars...
What is man, that thou art mindful of him?
—Psalm 8:3-4

My fingers can make some little things. But God's fingers made the earth, the oceans, the sky, and all that is in them. His fingers made heavens, moons, and stars. Everything we see out there was made by God's fingers!

Amazing!

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Will the Theologians Please Sit Down

David Bercot / Scroll Publishing

When Christianity was young, the focus was on Jesus Christ and His kingdom—not theology. To be sure, there are foundational doctrines that Christians have always considered essential to the faith. But somehow the things considered essential have grown from a few sentences to a long list of theological tenets, many of which were unknown to the early Christians.

In the beginning, Christians understood that the essence of Christianity was an obedient love-faith relationship with Jesus Christ. This was not just any relationship, but a relationship that produced genuine kingdom fruit.

But then something happened: Theologians took over the church. Once they took over, the emphasis soon changed from godly fruit to "orthodox" theology. Christianity became Doctrianity. In this provocative work, Bercot argues that it's time to let Jesus speak through the pages of the Gospels without filtering His teachings through the denials and mental gymnastics of the theologians. It's time for the children of the kingdom to stand up for Jesus and the gospel He preached—and for the theologians to sit down. More info...

Life Journal

Life Resources

This is a best-selling book—yet it has no words! It's a blank devotional book and you are the author. The Life Journal comes with a Bible reading plan to take you through the whole Bible—the Old Testament once a year, and the New Testament twice. Through decades of refining with tens of thousands Christians doing daily devotions, we include Life Journal instructions. Not only will you get something out of your daily Bible readings, but the Bible will also get into your life. The Life Journal also includes 4 handy perforated scripture memory cards. More info...