In You Are Never Alone, pastor and New York Times bestselling author Max Lucado will show you that you're stronger than you think because God is nearer than you know. You'll be comforted by the living, loving, miracle-working God who doesn't think twice about stepping into the thorny thickets of your world to lift you out. When life feels depleted, does God care? When I hear him say "No", does he have a response? I'm facing an onslaught of challenges,...

"Kathie Lee Gifford has for decades had deep conversations about her faith with anyone who is interested in talking about it. What she discovered early on is most people want to talk about Jesus: atheists, agnostics, Scientologists, broken-hearted Catholics, confused Baptists, Pentecostals, Sikhs, Buddhists, and Hindus alike. While some do not share her belief that Jesus is the Messiah, they nonetheless have a universal fascination with Him. This...

Life is full of transitions. When we seek God's guidance in finding our way through the doubt and fear that change often brings, we can experience a journey of joy that truly enriches our lives. The Author's personal meditations, prayers and experiences help us to apply lessons he has learned in God's Word as we navigate through our own seasons of transition. It is the Author's hope that perhaps somewhere along the line, someone going through an unexpected...

Decalogue: A Meditation on the Ten Commandments is true to its title. It is a reflections on the ten-pillar Mosaic code. For three millennia, the Ten Commandments have had a profound influence as a central moral framework for human society. "Decalogue" plumbs afresh this moral influence, while also arguing for the code's metaphysical and remedial importance. Matteson mostly sidesteps interpretations of the Commandments relating to particular contemporary...

Jesus was a Jew. Yet nineteen centuries after his death, hatred inspired in part by the long-standing tradition of Christian anti-Judaism played a significant role in the murder of six million Jews in the Holocaust. How are Christians and Jews to deal with this jarring historical incongruity? In Jesus and the Holocaust Joel Marcus-a Jew by birth, a Christian by choice-offers stirring meditations on the relationship between the deaths of...

El Reino de los cielos es un reino mayor a todos los reinos humanos, es un reino eterno que siempre ha existido y que jams ser derribado. En el Reino de los Cielos el Rey de Reyes es Jesucristo y nosotros somos reyes con autoridad delegada. Este reino no es nicamente un lugar fsico sino que tambin es el sistema de gobierno de un reino de poder. Jesucristo vino a establecer el sistema del Reino de los Cielos en la tierra como en el cielo. En la tierra,...

The Treasure of the Word: Commentary on Biblical Readings for Sundays, Feast Days, and Solemnities, Cycle C walks the reader through the lectionary's year of readings, beginning with Advent, the first season of the liturgical year. In his reflections on the passages appointed for each Sunday, feast day, and solemnity, Rev. Fr Isidore Okwudili Igwegbe highlights the major themes of the selections. Growing out of his own prayerful study of the readings,...

These twenty-two meditations on the songs, prayers, and stories of the Bible invite readers to imagine themselves as part of a world in which human beings may fully live into their sufferings and joys as part of a vibrant while still critically searching faith in God. Here we see prophets and poets, as well as ordinary men and women, embrace the realities of life without apology or fear. Each meditation opens with the author's fresh translation of...

Jesus said, "Your mistake is that you don't know the Scriptures, and you don't know the power of God." Mark 12:24 NLT. Thus, to be successful in life, it is vitally important to get Scripture into your mind. There are many ways to accomplish this, from reading a favorite version of a print Bible, to listening on an audiobook, to using a Bible app on the phone or a devotional book. Mostly Scripture q.d. takes a somewhat different approach, it is "mostly...

If we choose to be disciples of the Lord, not bystanders but true followers, then we must be conformed to his Word --From the Introduction. Are you connected to the latest technology cell phone, PDA, iPod, Internet but not connected to the Word of God as it comes to us in Scripture? The Bible not only nourishes us, Pope Benedict XVI has said, it also dispels the darkness of fear and lights up the path in difficult times. Meditating on Scripture is...