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From the time you were in your childhood, did you begin to wonder what the meaning is of your Orthodox Christian beliefs? Especially, what the significance is of the prayers, hymns, the Epistle and Gospel readings, and communion during the Divine Liturgy? As you get older you may read books about the Orthodox Christian Church, attend religious education workshops and seminars, and look at video tapes; and start to compile the answers to the questions you had. This book helps you to better understand the doctrines, beliefs, the Holy Traditions, the faith, sacraments, and worship of the church. Also in this book, you comprehend a very important aspect as to how the Christian religion got started, and the connection of the Orthodox Christian Church to our Lord Jesus Christ, His apostles, the early church fathers, and the Seven Ecumenical Councils. This puts you on a path where you regularly attend, participate in, and better understand the Divine Liturgy. You learn that the Divine Liturgy in the Orthodox Christian Church has remained the same for more than 1500 years. You begin to understand that the Orthodox Christian Church is the true path to Jesus. When you begin to read the Holy Bible daily, you learn about the ministry of Christ and how to better live our lives. We should regularly say our daily morning prayers and nightly prayers, and our special prayers when needed. The fruit of prayer is inner peace, healing power, the Holy Spirit, union with God, and love. If we still have doubts in our minds about the existence of a mighty power, our God, then all we have to do is to look all around us. Everything is arranged in an orderly manner, and there is a grand purpose in every aspect of the human, animal, and plant kigndoms - and the planet earth within an infinite universe. The evidence that is presented in this book truly confirms that God is with us and all around us.

The issues presented here are addressed to the type of thinking that has not considered the importance of the questions they raise. The results of their reading are committed to the Spirit of God who is the guide to all truth.

The Lord Jesus said “the wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from or where it goes. So is everyone that is born of the Spirit.” John 3:8

In above writing it is hope that objective of its reading would be a cause of being borne by the Spirit.

Do you know how to lead someone to Christ? This book will make you think again. Do you know the gospel message? Do you know the purpose for church leaders? Are you fully birthed into the family of God? Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed? Think again. That is what this book will challenge you to do. The Rev. Paul Hoyt, a retired Church of the Nazarene pastor, said of the book, “My mind is being challenged and stretched.”

The question is simply, “What does the Bible say about how New Testament believers became Christians?” What were their experiences, and what does the Bible say they believed and understood about those experiences? This book will challenge you to rethink commonly held positions and universally understood practices and beliefs.

Don’t be alarmed. This book is completely Jesus-focused. The age-old biblical truths about Christ are not being challenged. Jesus is God, the second person of the triune Godhead, born of a virgin, crucified and resurrected bodily and spiritually to new life. His blood cleanses mankind of all sin, no one comes to God except through Him, and the Bible is the Word of God.

But the evangelistic message and experiences of the Bible of those early believers about this saving Jesus should correspond to the thought and practice of present-day evangelism. The disparity, however, might surprise you. This book will help the Church get back to a New Testament evangelism that has somehow been lost along the way.

Do you know how to lead someone to Christ? This book will make you think again. Do you know the gospel message? Do you know the purpose for church leaders? Are you fully birthed into the family of God? Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed? Think again. That is what this book will challenge you to do. The Rev. Paul Hoyt, a retired Church of the Nazarene pastor, said of the book, “My mind is being challenged and stretched.”

The question is simply, “What does the Bible say about how New Testament believers became Christians?” What were their experiences, and what does the Bible say they believed and understood about those experiences? This book will challenge you to rethink commonly held positions and universally understood practices and beliefs.

Don’t be alarmed. This book is completely Jesus-focused. The age-old biblical truths about Christ are not being challenged. Jesus is God, the second person of the triune Godhead, born of a virgin, crucified and resurrected bodily and spiritually to new life. His blood cleanses mankind of all sin, no one comes to God except through Him, and the Bible is the Word of God.

But the evangelistic message and experiences of the Bible of those early believers about this saving Jesus should correspond to the thought and practice of present-day evangelism. The disparity, however, might surprise you. This book will help the Church get back to a New Testament evangelism that has somehow been lost along the way.

Where do I go for deliverance?
How should I do a prayer session?
Where can I receive this kind of training?
Can you recommend a deliverance ministry to me?

These are common questions Kathy got asked too many times. Passionate about setting the captives free Kathy felt there had to be a way to establish more deliverance ministries around the world.

In this book get the facts of how to equip yourself to:

• Lead a successful deliverance prayer session.
• Overcome roadblocks of deliverance and blockages during a session.
• Find and equip a spirit led team to stand along side you as you defeat the enemy.
• Know when someone might be under demonic influence.
• Discern the spiritual realm.

Filled with details of everything you will need to start your own ministry including:

• How do I minister to the person coming for freedom?
• How do I stay spiritually strong and protected?
• What kind of spiritual covering do I need?
• What supplies and reference materials are needed?

It is time to quit thinking I want to do this someday and take action! Jesus came to “Set the Captives Free.” Through this ministry equipping book learn how to be an extension of Jesus in a hurting world. Start bringing people out of captivity so they can experience the fullness of God and be equipped to their full potential for advancing the Kingdom of God!

Where do I go for deliverance?
How should I do a prayer session?
Where can I receive this kind of training?
Can you recommend a deliverance ministry to me?

These are common questions Kathy got asked too many times. Passionate about setting the captives free Kathy felt there had to be a way to establish more deliverance ministries around the world.

In this book get the facts of how to equip yourself to:

• Lead a successful deliverance prayer session.
• Overcome roadblocks of deliverance and blockages during a session.
• Find and equip a spirit led team to stand along side you as you defeat the enemy.
• Know when someone might be under demonic influence.
• Discern the spiritual realm.

Filled with details of everything you will need to start your own ministry including:

• How do I minister to the person coming for freedom?
• How do I stay spiritually strong and protected?
• What kind of spiritual covering do I need?
• What supplies and reference materials are needed?

It is time to quit thinking I want to do this someday and take action! Jesus came to “Set the Captives Free.” Through this ministry equipping book learn how to be an extension of Jesus in a hurting world. Start bringing people out of captivity so they can experience the fullness of God and be equipped to their full potential for advancing the Kingdom of God!

Author Braxton King has put together basic fundamental guidelines for a church in the process of making an earthly decision for the office of deacon.

King points out very vividly that there are divine requirements to be followed by the person seeking this office, along with the church requirements, before ordination can be conducted.

The men who must fill the shoes of deacon must be able to stand at a time when the rising tide of secularism is smashing in the walls of the church. They have inherited this responsibility because it is through lack of responsibility and trust in God that the church lays in grave decline and demise of spiritual obedience.

King has observed that the church has wallowed in fragments of Christian clichés and paraphernalia, causing people who look for answers at church to wonder through life with little meaning and fulfillment. The Bible message that they hear in many churches from men is so watered down that it has almost no relevance to what people face in real life.

The Brother Up Next seeks to turn the men of the church to the motive of being obedient to God’s word.

Many people, both inside and outside of the church, are uncertain on the subject of end times. There are many people inside the church who view end times as unresolved, indeterminable, or totally up in the air. Those outside the church view end times as random, chance, or arbitrary. The schedule of events is established; the only uncertainty is the hour or day they will begin (1 Thess. 5:2).

Both inside and outside of the church, inconclusive views, partial dispositions and false teaching are widespread concerning end times; which promotes uncertainty.

Some interpreters point to every flood, earthquake or political upheaval as a sign that the final days are fast approaching. While these events may signal the approach of the final days, they are not definitively supported in the Bible.

It is important to study Bible passages within their context. Taking verses out of context leads to error and misunderstanding. To fully understand context, four principles must be considered: literal meaning, historical setting, grammar, and synthesis. Context is crucial to biblical exegesis, in that it is one of its most important fundamentals. When you finish reading END TIMES … Five Resurrections and the Rapture, you will have a clear understanding and a heightened level of confidence about the final days, an understanding you will want to share with others.

A paralyzed youth declares his faith, gets out of bed, and walks.
A permanently injured pilot determines to fly again and regains perfect health.
A woman battles breast cancer with only her faith in God and recovers.

While a reporter explores these and many other supernatural healings, she discovers not one person ever doubted it was God’s will to heal.

Ford asked the universal questions while exploring the scriptures in support of these miracles. Before she completed the book, she took hold of truth and experienced her own healing from a painful condition she had suffered for more than twenty years.

Here is a set of tools—weapons of warfare—gleaned from victorious believers; these are tools you can wield as you develop your own faith for healing.

The study questions are insightful, thought provoking, and faith building.

God truly rewards those who diligently seek Him. He promises that if you seek, you shall find. This book is for those who seek, knock, and ask until they find the victory.

Meditating on the character of God is a duty of delight. In a fast-food culture of busy schedules and social networking, God quietly calls us to enjoy fellowship with him. This book of meditations is designed to usher you unto the green pastures of God's transformative grace by focusing your thoughts on His manifold attributes. At the center of it all is the glorious Gospel of Jesus Christ. Cosby guides the reader through each attribute by providing prayer, biblical perspective, and reflective questions to direct the meditation on God's character. Take God's exhortation to be still and know that He is God.

Do you ever ask yourself why the first celebration of Holy Communion that we have says nothing about the forgiveness of sins, why the Apostle Paul is very careful about the way he describes the cup as a new covenant, or why doesn’t he demand that the leader of the congregation in Corinth straighten these folk out? What happened that caused Holy Communion today to become all about the forgiveness of sin? Would those Corinthians have any conception of a charge that they had caused Jesus to die for them? Paul doesn’t accuse them.

The True Meaning of the Last Supper: Welcoming Others seeks answers for these and other questions.

Developments in church life in the first century described in the pages of the New Testament—but also gleaned from the history of that first century and succeeding years—may change your understanding of Communion today.

Do you ever ask yourself why the first celebration of Holy Communion that we have says nothing about the forgiveness of sins, why the Apostle Paul is very careful about the way he describes the cup as a new covenant, or why doesn’t he demand that the leader of the congregation in Corinth straighten these folk out? What happened that caused Holy Communion today to become all about the forgiveness of sin? Would those Corinthians have any conception of a charge that they had caused Jesus to die for them? Paul doesn’t accuse them.

The True Meaning of the Last Supper: Welcoming Others seeks answers for these and other questions.

Developments in church life in the first century described in the pages of the New Testament—but also gleaned from the history of that first century and succeeding years—may change your understanding of Communion today.

YOU ARE RICH

2 Corinthians 8:9 says, “Yet for your sake [Christ] became poor, so that you by his poverty might become rich.” But what does that mean? What does it mean that we have “become rich” through Christ? In Our Generous God, author Joel Bruce explores how God has made us rich in Christ and demonstrates how generous God has been to us through Him. Our God has abundantly blessed His children. If you are in Christ, you are truly rich, because God has lavished His gifts on you.

Throughout the book, you’ll discover the five gifts you receive as a follower of Christ: salvation, adoption, spiritual family, position as an heir, and an inheritance. Any one of those gifts alone would be incredibly valuable, but we are given all five gifts when we receive Christ. And each of those gifts is yours, free of charge. You receive them when you place your faith in Christ. The gifts we have are much more valuable than any material possession we could own. Our gifts from God are priceless and eternal.

Many Christ followers go through life thinking they are poor. Or they keep hoping for the day when they will become rich. But as you’ll discover in Our Generous God, your Father in heaven has already made you far richer in things that matter. In fact, He has generously given to you because you are His child and He loves you. Our God has given us so much in Christ.

When you read Our Generous God, you’ll come away with a greater appreciation for who God is. Your Father is incredibly generous to you, because His generosity is an expression of His very nature. And you have received so much from Him because He is generous.