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Your Story Has a Villain Bible Study Guide plus Streaming Video: Put on the Armor of God Each Day
by Jonathan PokludaEach day, the villain in your story cunningly plots to destroy every part of your life. Your marriage, your friendships, and your faith are just some of the things that Satan is out to ravage. However, in Ephesians 6:10–20, the apostle Paul shows how you can resist him.In this five-session video Bible study, bestselling author and pastor Jonathan "JP" Pokluda helps you understand the nature of your Enemy and how he plots against you. You will discover how to put on the belt of truth, breastplate of righteousness, shoes of the gospel of peace, shield of faith, helmet of salvation, and pick up the sword of the Spirit to fight back against him. All these pieces of the armor of God will enable you to not only take a stand against Satan, the villain in your story, but also to gain the victory over him.This study guide includes:Individual access to five streaming video sessionsVideo notes and comprehensive structure for group discussion timePersonal study for deeper reflection between sessionsA guide to best practices for leading a groupStreaming video access included. Access code subject to expiration after 12/31/2030. Code may be redeemed only by the recipient of this package. Code may not be transferred or sold separately from this package. Internet connection required. Void where prohibited, taxed, or restricted by law. Additional offer details inside.
Your Story Has a Villain: Identify Spiritual Warfare and Learn How to Defeat the Enemy
by Jonathan PokludaAre you ready to change your narrative and live a different story today? If you're weary from the struggle and ready to experience life as God intended, this book will help you explore the tactics of Satan, equip you to overcome spiritual battles, and remind you of the victory already secured through Jesus.There is an Enemy among us. You may know who he is, but you may not know what he is about. Do you know how he wages war? Do you know how he targets you specifically? He's the Villain who wants to change your story in the hopes you live isolated, powerless, discouraged, and defeated.Satan has waged a war with the Almighty, the Creator and Sustainer of the universe, and his sole desire is to keep you from God's goodness. He knows that he has been defeated by Jesus' death and resurrection, but until the final battle when he is cast into hell for eternity, he and his demons roam the earth like a roaring lion looking for anyone to devour. He is far more disruptive to our lives than we realize, and it's time to take action. In Your Story Has a Villain, bestselling author Jonathan "JP" Pokluda will help you:Stand against the thief of life, who wants to take you out.Understand the tactics the Enemy utilizes in your life.Align yourself with God through prayer as you battle each day.Rely on the truth and power of Scripture to counter the Enemy's lies and accusations.Know that Jesus has already defeated Satan, so you can live victoriously. Yes, your story has a villain, an unseen enemy disrupting your life more than you realize. But remember the hero, Jesus Christ, who came so that we may "have life, and have it to the full" (John 10:10). We know the grim, eternal outcome for Satan and his demons, but the battle still rages. Are you ready to fight back, find freedom from sin and toxic thinking, and walk in the abundant life available to you?
Your Time-Starved Marriage: How to Stay Connected at the Speed of Life
by Parrott LesThis is not a book about being more productive—it’s a book about being more connected as a couple. In Your Time-Starved Marriage, Drs. Les and Leslie Parrott show you how you can create a more fulfilling relationship with time—and with each other. The moments you miss together are gone forever. Irreplaceable. And yet, until now, there has not been a single book for couples on how to better manage and reclaim this priceless resource. The Parrotts show you how to take back the time you’ve been missing together—and maximize the moments you already have. Your Time-Starved Marriage shows you how to: • relate to time in a new way as a couple • understand the two lies every time-starved couple so easily believes • slay the “busyness” giant that threatens your relationship • integrate your time-style with a step-by-step approach that helps you make more time together • stop the “time bandits” that steal your time • maximize mealtime, money time, and leisure time • reclaim all the free time you’ve been throwing away. Learn to manage your time together more than it manages you. Dramatically improve your ability to reclaim the moments you’ve been missing. Your Time-Starved Marriage gives you tools to feed your time-starved relationship, maximizing the moments you have together and enjoying them more. Also available: unabridged audio CD.
Your Treasure Hunt: Disabilities and Finding Your Gold
by Katherine SchneiderThe author tells her story about growing up blind.
Your True Home: 365 days of practical, powerful teaching s from the beloved Zen teacher
by Thich Nhat Hanh Melvin McleodBringing the energy of true presence into our lives really does change things for the better--and all it takes is a little training. This treasury of 365 gems of daily wisdom from one of the most beloved Buddhist teachers of our age is a help and support for anyone who wants to train to meet every moment of life with 100 percent attention. Thich Nhat Hanh shows how practicing mindfulness can transform every area of our lives--and how its benefits radiate beyond us to affect others and the whole, larger world.
Your Vocational Credo: Practical Steps to Discover Your Unique Purpose
by Deborah Koehn Loydthe true meaning of vocationhow to redeem past pains in your lifeyour personal vocational preferencesa unique plan for your life?s work
Your Whole Life: The 3D Plan for Eating Right, Living Well, and Loving God
by Maggie Davis Carol ShowalterThe key to change is not thinking thin, but thinking whole!Your Whole Life will help you find the freedom that only comes by accepting yourself and discovering the unchanging love of God.
Your Word For Mine: Real Crises-Real Rescue
by Jane Schlenvogt-DewEvicted. Broken. Unplanned. Guilty. Misled. Unfulfilled. Empty. Overwhelmed. Abandoned. Faint. Discouraged. Alone. If you were to describe yourself, you probably wouldn\u2019t want to use the words above. But many of those words are how we feel when we experience troubles, trials, and tragedies in life. The true stories in this book are built around the words above. Yet, as these 12 Christian women share some of their deepest struggles, their vivid and visceral stories also reveal the beautiful words God spoke to them—even in their darkest moments. Words that changed everything for them. Words that can change everything for you. Dear reader, in this inspiring book you'll discover how God speaks words of rescue to you to
Your Words Have Power
by R.T. Kendall'I tell you that men will have to give account on the day of judgment for every careless word they have spoken.' (Matthew 12:36) R. T. Kendall admits that this Bible verse worries him, as he knows he will one day have some explaining to do! If you are honest, how does it make you feel? Controlling the tongue - having the wisdom to know what to say and when to say it - is one of the toughest biblical commandments we face. We often fail to realise the power of the spoken word, and our careless talk can sometimes be more damaging than we realise. But in this unique book R. T. demonstrates that, with the help of the Holy Spirit, the challenge is not beyond us. Learning to control the tongue will not only make you faithful to God's call but will also strengthen your character, making you more like Jesus.
Your Words Hold a Miracle: The Power of Speaking God's Word
by John OsteenAt some point in every person's life, we will need a miracle from God. It may be for us, a family member, or a troubled child. It might be a mountain of family or financial trouble, or some unseen force that fills us with fear.The late John Osteen has good news for us. We can have a miracle from God, for God is a miracle worker. And He has recorded many of His miracles in His Word, the Bible. Rather than running around searching for needed miracles, Osteen shows us how to put the power of God's Word into daily practice. When we agree with, believe in, and confess the Word of God, miracles reveal themselves.
Yours Faithfully: Virtual Letters from the Bible (BibleWorld)
by Philip R. Davies'Yours Faithfully' presents an anthology of virtual letters from the Bible, in which leading scholars imagine correspondence between biblical characters. Each letter conveys the insights that a given character might have and, together, the letters provide a rich sense of the concerns which propel and characters who inhabit the Bible. The letters are written in a range of styles - from the strictly historical to the very contemporary - and embrace the serious and the playful. The aim is to offer a commentary on familiar texts and events and to continue a long tradition of retelling stories from the Bible.
Yours Is the Day, Lord, Yours Is the Night: A Morning and Evening Prayer Book
by David P. GusheeYours Is the Day, Lord, Yours Is the Night gives a framework for prayerful devotions with a morning and evening prayer for each day of the year. The prayers have been selected to reflect the seasons and the liturgical calendar. They are intended not to replace your personal, spontaneous prayers but to serve as a springboard for them. Editors Jeanie and David Gushee have collected inspiring contributions from Protestant, Catholic, and Eastern Orthodox sources; from all continents; from the Old Testament; and from each century of Christian history. Yours Is the Day, Lord, Yours Is the Night will enhance your commitment to God and personal connection to the Christian tradition and the Church universal.
Yours, Jack
by C. S. LewisC. S. Lewis spent a good portion of each day corresponding with people via handwritten letters. Over his lifetime he wrote thousands of letters in which he offered his friends and acquaintances advice on the Christian life, giving away a bit of himself to each of these correspondents as he signed his notes with a heartfelt and familiar, "yours, Jack." Most of these letters are currently only available in their entirety-a collection consisting of three hefty tomes. Yours, Jack features the best inspirational readings and sage counsel culled from C. S. Lewis's letters, offering an accessible look at this great author's personal vision for the spiritual life. This thematic selection from his letters offers the freshest presentation of Lewis's writings since his death in 1963. Yours, Jack will showcase Lewis's remarkable teachings and vision for a new generation.
Yours, Mine, and Ours (BOFFO, Book #2)
by Maryjanice DavidsonFrom New York Times bestselling author MaryJanice Davidson comes the next hilarious installment in her laugh-out-loud trilogy featuring an unconventional FBI agent who finds love in the most unexpected places It's Christmas season, a holiday Cadence adores. Her relationship with Patrick has been progressing nicely, and they are beginning to wonder if it might be time to bring things to the next level --unprecedented in Cadence's life. That is until she meets the completely dreamy Dr. Max Gallo and he throws Cadence and her sisters for a tailspin. And if the threat of Dr. McDreamy weren't enough there is a new BOFFO employee, Emma Jan Thyme, whose reputation precedes her. She has a doctorate from Harvard, speaks seven languages, and is a remarkable actress. But she's harboring a secret of her own. In addition to adjusting to a new co-worker's foibles, shopping for her Secret Santa, and trying to find the perfect Christmas gift for Patrick, a new serial killer appears to have blown into town. For four Junes in a row perfectly ordinary fourteen year olds have disappeared. The only things the victims have in common are their ordinariness-- and it's up to Cadence to figure out the case before another innocent teen dies.
Yours, Not Hers: 40 Devotions to Stop Comparisons and Love Your Life
by Kari KampakisDiscover the guide to true confidence and authentic living for today&’s teen and college-age girl! Celebrated author and speaker Kari Kampakis helps you stop playing the comparison game and embrace the unique purpose God has for your life. From navigating social media to making friends to deepening your faith, this 40-day devotional will help you become braver, bolder, and more authentically you!Chances are, you feel confident some days. You feel ready to take on the world. But then you start scrolling on social media, and your confidence tanks. Rather than embrace your life, you suddenly wish you had her life. With Yours, Not Hers: 40 Devotions to Stop Comparisons and Love Your Life, you can take the first daring step to a faith grounded in God and a life brimming with confidence.This 40-day devotionalis for teen and college-age girls who want to make real connections with others, feel comfortable in their own skin, and deepen their faith;focuses on topics such as loneliness, anxiety, self-image, new beginnings, grace, and faith;includes reflection questions and space for journaling; andis a perfect choice for a graduation or birthday gift, for reading during Lent and Easter, or for a Bible study for your youth group or college dorm.This isn&’t just a book; it&’s a best friend and mentor wrapped in the written word that addresses the real issues you face each day. With Yours, Not Hers in hand, you can love your own life, unlock your potential, and follow the unique plan God has just for you!
Yours, Till Heaven: The Untold Love Story of Charles and Susie Spurgeon
by Ray Rhodes Jr.Enter the remarkable untold love story of Charles and Susie Spurgeon.Charles Spurgeon is esteemed for his writing, preaching, and passion for the Lord. But behind the great man was a great wife—and between the man and wife was a profound marriage. Yours, Till Heaven invites you into the untold love story of Charles and Susie Spurgeon to discover how the bond between this renowned couple helped fuel their lifelong service to the Lord. Discover how Charles and Susie traversed the challenges of loneliness, physical affliction, popularity, controversy, and other trials together with a heavenly vision. Just as the Spurgeons lived their lives as witnesses of Christ, in Yours, Till Heaven their marriage continues to be an example for how all marriages today can remain faithful, loving, and joyful despite the challenges that life may bring. With historical precision and narrative craft, Spurgeon scholar Ray Rhodes Jr. captures the inner-life of this Victorian romance that not only served the Spurgeons in their day, but that can also continue to empower and encourage couples today. For more on the lives of the Spurgeons, find Susie by Ray Rhodes Jr.
Yours, Till Heaven: The Untold Love Story of Charles and Susie Spurgeon
by Ray Rhodes Jr.Enter the remarkable untold love story of Charles and Susie Spurgeon.Charles Spurgeon is esteemed for his writing, preaching, and passion for the Lord. But behind the great man was a great wife—and between the man and wife was a profound marriage. Yours, Till Heaven invites you into the untold love story of Charles and Susie Spurgeon to discover how the bond between this renowned couple helped fuel their lifelong service to the Lord. Discover how Charles and Susie traversed the challenges of loneliness, physical affliction, popularity, controversy, and other trials together with a heavenly vision. Just as the Spurgeons lived their lives as witnesses of Christ, in Yours, Till Heaven their marriage continues to be an example for how all marriages today can remain faithful, loving, and joyful despite the challenges that life may bring. With historical precision and narrative craft, Spurgeon scholar Ray Rhodes Jr. captures the inner-life of this Victorian romance that not only served the Spurgeons in their day, but that can also continue to empower and encourage couples today. For more on the lives of the Spurgeons, find Susie by Ray Rhodes Jr.
Youth Culture 101
by Walt MuellerCPYU President Walt Mueller's critically acclaimed book, Understanding Today's Youth Culture, is widely recognized as one of the most thorough and comprehensive overviews of youth culture today. This Gold Medallion Book Award winner is used as a seminal text in colleges, universities, and seminaries around the world, but is especially noted for its honest and easy to read style. The book approaches youth culture from a distinctively Christian perspective and contains chapters on a variety of topics including: music, media, sexuality, materialism, drugs and alcohol, and spirituality. A great resource for parents, educators, youth workers, and pastors.
Youth Ministry 3.0: A Manifesto of Where We've Been, Where We Are and Where We Need To Go
by Mark OestreicherOver the past several decades there have been three significant shifts in youth culture; each new shift brought with it different values and priorities in the lives of teens. Youth ministries adapted and responded to the first two shifts, but we're missing the boat on the third. The result? Youth ministry isn't addressing the realities and needs of today's youth culture. After nearly three decades in youth ministry, Mark Oestreicher has lived through a lot of those shifts himself. In recent years, he's found himself wondering what needs to change, especially since so much of what we're doing in youth ministry today is not working. In Youth Ministry 3. 0, youth workers will explore, along with Marko and the voices of other youth workers, why we need change in youth ministry, from a ministry moving away from a dependence on programs, to one that is focused on communion and mission. They'll get a quick history of youth ministry over the last fifty years. And they'll help dream about what changes need to take place in order to create the next phase of youth ministry --- the future that needs to be created for effective ministry to students.
Youth Ministry 3.0: A Manifesto of Where We’ve Been, Where We Are and Where We Need to Go
by Mark OestreicherOver the past several decades there have been three significant shifts in youth culture; each new shift brought with it different values and priorities in the lives of teens. Youth ministries adapted and responded to the first two shifts, but we’re missing the boat on the third. The result? Youth ministry isn’t addressing the realities and needs of today’s youth culture. After nearly three decades in youth ministry, Mark Oestreicher has lived through a lot of those shifts himself. In recent years, he’s found himself wondering what needs to change, especially since so much of what we’re doing in youth ministry today is not working. In Youth Ministry 3.0, youth workers will explore, along with Marko and the voices of other youth workers, why we need change in youth ministry, from a ministry moving away from a dependence on programs, to one that is focused on communion and mission. They’ll get a quick history of youth ministry over the last fifty years. And they’ll help dream about what changes need to take place in order to create the next phase of youth ministry—the future that needs to be created for effective ministry to students.
Youth Ministry In A Multifaith Society: Forming Christian Identity Among Skeptics, Syncretists And Sincere Believers Of Other Faiths
by Chap Clark Len KagelerIn simpler, more homogenous times, youth ministry was a relatively straightforward activity. The church's youth gathered (occasionally inviting their unchurched friends from school), played together, sang together and listened together to a message from a bright, engaging youth minister, selecting from a relatively defined set of topics: "What does it mean to follow Jesus when it comes to _______?"Now Christian youth must make sense of their faith, with its exclusive claims, in light of their close friends who are Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist, atheist, "other" or even "none. " And increasingly other religions are taking their cues for rooting and establishing their youth from Christian ministry practices, so that our kids are being invited to outreach events sponsored by other faiths. Veteran youth minister and researcher Len Kageler digs into the data surrounding this exciting multifaith era and offers surprising confidence that our kids can be guided into mature Christian faith while simultaneously learning to love their neighbors of other religions.
Youth Ministry Management Tools 2.0: Everything You Need to Successfully Manage Your Ministry
by Mike Work Ginny OlsonYouth ministry isn't just meeting with students and teaching them God's truth. It also involves a myriad of administrative and operational details. Youth Ministry Management Tools 2. 0 provides youth ministers and volunteers with helpful insights, advice, and practical resources to successfully manage a youth ministry. You'll find sample budgets, release forms for trips, and clear direction for screening applicants for volunteer positions. Authors Mike Work and Ginny Olson provide you with quick and accessible answers to all of your management, administrative, and supervisory questions and needs. Sprinkled throughout the manual are brief personal anecdotes by actual, in-the-trenches youth workers, case studies of church-office debacles, pivotal lessons learned over decades of ministry, nightmare scenarios to avoid, and glorious successes to emulate. No other book provides everything a youth ministry leader needs in one place at such an affordable price. This revised and updated edition of a youth ministry classic includes bonus online content, copy-ready pages and forms, and loads of other highly practical material.
Youth Ministry Nuts and Bolts, Revised and Updated: Organizing, Leading, and Managing Your Youth Ministry
by Duffy RobbinsYouth ministry veteran and bestselling author, Duffy Robbins, offers an updated and revised edition of his book about the important, behind-the-scenes mechaincs of youth ministry. The tasks of budgeting, decision-making, time management, team ministry, staff relationships, conflict resolution, working with parents, and a range of other issues, are the things that keep a ministry together and functioning well. Nobody gets into youth ministry because they want to think about these things; but a lot of people get out of youth ministry because they didn't think about them. All youth workers--whether paid or volunteer, full-time or part-time--will find Youth Ministry Nuts and Bolts to be a thoughtful, fun, practical guide to youth ministry administration.
Youth Ministry That Transforms: A Comprehensive Analysis Of The Hopes, Frustrations, And Effectiveness Of Today's Youth Workers (YS Academic)
by Karen Jones Dave Rahn Merton P. StrommenA first-of-its-kind study of Protestant youth ministers reveals the hopes, frustrations, and effectiveness of today’s youth workers.Of the 7,000 youth workers assembled in 1996 under Atlanta’s Georgia Dome, a sample of 2,130 full-time youth ministers from dozens of Protestant denominations and parachurch organizations answered a battery of exhaustive, deliberate questions covering:What they liked best about youth ministryWhat particularly pleased them in their work with youthWhat they found most encouraging or discouragingTheir biggest obstacle to an effective youth ministryTheir biggest concern in youth ministryTheir answers revealed a dedicated group of professionals, concerned a out the students in their ministries, but troubled with a variety of perplexing issues. And their answers form the backbone of Youth Ministry That Transforms, a comprehensive analysis of this groundbreaking study (funded by the Lilly Endowment) focusing on the hopes, frustrations, and effectiveness of today’s youth workers.Spearheaded by Merton Strommen--one of America’s most exemplary and influential thinkers and authors in youth and family ministry--the research-writing team is joined by Karen E. Jones and Dave Rahn of Huntington (Indiana) College’s Link Institute for Faithful and Effective Youth Ministry, and acknowledged leader in the task of undergirding youth ministry with a research base. These three deliver thorough analysis and sound interpretation regarding the state of youth ministry at the dawn of the 21st century.Youth Ministry That Transforms belongs on the desks and in the classrooms of all who are concerned with this developing profession, including denominational and parachurch leadership, professors, youth ministry students, and thoughtful youth workers themselves. It is also an insightful resource for any who want to understand youth ministers and their profession: senior pastors, executive pastors, and other individuals and committees charged with hiring and supervising youth workers.
Youth Ministry as Mission: A Conversation About Theology and Culture
by Brian Hull Patrick MaysEquipping youth ministers with the tools of a crosscultural missionaryThe parallels between ministry within youth culture and global missions have long been touted by youth ministry experts, yet few resources exist to help youth workers benefit apply the insights of missiologists. In Youth Ministry as Mission, Brian Hull and Patrick Mays fill this gap with an introduction to missiology, missions practice, and missionary witness tailored especially for a youth ministry context.Youth ministers will discover missiological language that not only describes realities they face regularly, but also provides practical cross-cultural activities that translate well to youth ministries. Hull and Mays address issues such as these:• Avoiding ethical relativism while understanding historical and methodological changes in missions• Translating stories and practicing storytelling as preparation for witnessing• Training for witness in a multi-religious contextYouth Ministry as Mission will be a valuable guide for college and seminary students but will also be a breath of fresh air to those already working as youth directors and youth ministers.