Faith Alone: A Daily Devotional

"It is faith -- without good works and prior to good works -- that takes us to heaven."
Martin Luther, Faith Alone: A Daily Devotional (an updated edition in today's language edited by James C. Galvin)

When Good Men Are Tempted

"As you understand who you are in Christ, you'll no longer let lust steal your identity and control your behavior."
Bill Perkins, When Good Men Are Tempted (updated edition)

Charts of Ancient and Medieval Church History

"Part of the problem, if truth be told, is that in many of our educational institutions and churches Christians are not being grounded in their heritage."
John D. Hannah, Charts of Ancient and Medieval Church History

Is the Father of Jesus the God of Muhammad?

"There is much in the Koran that is consistent with God's revelation in the Bible."
Timothy George, Is the Father of Jesus the God of Muhammad?

What Cancer Cannot Do: Stories of Hope and Encouragement

"Nothing -- not the probing fingers, the painful needle stabs, the interminable waiting for results, the surgery, the pathology reports, the naming of the dreaded word cancer -- can separate us from the love of God."
What Cancer Cannot Do: Stories of Hope and Encouragement

Loving Your Parents When They Can No Longer Love You

"Aging, in this generation and at this time in history, just happens to be the vehicle through which struggle seems most evident and present: the struggle to be weak when we desire to be strong, to be helpless when we want power, and to be sacrificial when we'd really rather be selfish."
Terry Hargrave, Loving Your Parents When They Can No Longer Love You

The Unity of the Bible

"The Bible proceeds according to a plan. Beginning with the creation of the world, it then relates and interprets a series of historical events that lead to the grand climax and goal of the world's history."
Daniel Fuller, The Unity of the Bible

What Matters Most

"Busyness does not equal effectiveness."
Doug Fields, What Matters Most

When God Doesn't Answer Your Prayer

"The problem is, all of us pass through stretches of time -- sometimes long stretches of time -- when God does not seem willing or capable of answering our prayers."
Jerry Sittser, When God Doesn't Answer Your Prayer

The Challenge of the Cults and New Religions

"Freemasonry teaches that all religions believe in the same God. So despite the fact that Masonry denies teaching a doctrine of God, it is in fact doing just that."
Ron Rhodes, The Challenge of the Cults and New Religions

Finding a Church You Can Love and Loving the Church You've Found

"The church is the place where we can discover who we really are."
Kevin & Sherry Harney, Finding a Church You Can Love and Loving the Church You've Found

Just As I Am

"I have been asked hundreds of times in my life why God allows tragedy and suffering. I really do not know the answer totally, even to my own satisfaction. I have to accept, by faith, that God is sovereign, and He is a God of love and mercy and compassion in the midst of suffering."
Billy Graham, Just As I Am

God and Government

"Since the state cannot legislate love, Christian citizens bring a humanizing element to civic life, helping to produce the spirit by which people do good out of compassion, not compulsion."
Charles Colson, God and Government

Living with Questions

"Behind all the noise in our world, life was originally supposed to be meaningful. All the fashion, popular music, and diversions are just a flashy tinfoil that covers what we long for most."
Dale Fincher, Living with Questions

Faith in Action Study Bible

"The Christian faith is a faith of bold and revolutionary action. It was revolutionary in Jesus' time, and it is still revolutionary in ours."
Faith in Action Study Bible

Christian Men Who Hate Women

"Even in sensitive churches, prejudice against women -- and indeed hatred for women -- still exists."
Dr. Margaret Rinck, Christian Men Who Hate Women

Effective Men's Ministry

"A healthy men's ministry in a church will create a framework of vital relationships among men, within a distinctly masculine context, that will intentionally reconcile men to God and to each other."
Phil Downer, Effective Men's Ministry

The Dad in the Mirror

"Effective dads move from 'fathering for performance' to 'fathering the heart.'"
Patrick Morley & David Delk, The Dad in the Mirror

Celebrate Recovery Bible

"Denial only extends our hurts and multiplies our problems. Truth, like surgery, may hurt for a while, but in the long run it cures."
Celebrate Recovery Bible

The Book of Revelation for Blockheads

"We may not understand every detail, but we know that, in the end, God wins."
Douglas Connelly, The Book of Revelation for Blockheads

Serving in Your Church Music Ministry

"The role of keyboardists in worship is not to bedazzle the congregation with technical wizardry or to show how loudly the organ can be played, but rather to use music to bring people around the throne of God."
Randall D. Engle, Serving in Your Church Music Ministry

Holy Discontent

"The irresistible attraction to a specific cause that compels people to invest joyfully of their time, their money, and their energies always links back to a single spark of frustration that fuels what is a raging fire in their souls."
Bill Hybels, Holy Discontent

If You Want to Walk on Water, You've Got to Get Out of the Boat

"In what area of your life are you shrinking back from fully and courageously trusting God? Fear will tell you what your boat is. Leaving it may be the hardest thing you ever do."
John Ortberg, If You Want to Walk on Water, You've Got to Get Out of the Boat