Review from Publishers Weekly
Atheist-turned-Christian Strobel, with four Gold Medallions and other awards, focuses on rediscovering the real Jesus, whose identity and message have come under attack in recent years. He addresses six major challenges and claims: that a different Jesus is seen in ancient documents that seem as credible as the four canonical gospels; that tampering by the church has damaged the Bible’s portrayal of Jesus; that new explanations refute Jesus’ resurrection; that Christianity copied pagan religions regarding Jesus; that Jesus didn’t fulfill messianic prophecies; and that contemporary people should be able to choose what to believe about Jesus. As with his previous books, Strobel attacks the issues as an investigative journalist, though one with a clear agenda. He searches out experts (including Craig A. Evans and Michael Licona) to refute each objection, offering readers top evangelical scholarship revealed in everyday language while challenging the claims of liberal writers like John Shelby Spong, Bart Ehrman and others. In the end, he says, none of these seemingly daunting challenges turned out to be close calls… they were systematically dismantled by scholars… with facts, logic and evidence. Evangelical readers will come away with deeper understanding of the various arguments about Jesus.

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Surely there’s more than one way to get to heaven? Bestselling author Andy Stanley addresses this popular belief held even among Christians. But believing that all good people go to heaven raises major problems, Stanley reveals. Is goodness not rewarded, then? Is Christianity not fair? Maybe not, he says. Readers will find out why Jesus taught that goodness is not even a requirement to enter heaven - and why Christianity is beyond fair. Andy Stanley leads believers and skeptics alike to a grateful awareness of God’s enormous grace and mercy.

About the Author
Andy Stanley is a graduate of Dallas Theological Seminary and the pastor of North Point Community Church in Atlanta , Georgia . He carries on a tradition of excellence in ministry with a youthful congregation of over 12,000. Andy is the author of the 1998 Foreword Book of the Year finalist Visioneering and the bestseller Like a Rock. He and his wife, Sandra, have two sons, Andrew and Garrett, and a daughter, Allison.

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Discover the secret of reigning over every adversity, lack and destructive habit that is limiting you from experiencing the success, wholeness and victory that as a Christian you were destined to enjoy.

Find out how it is not about what you have to do, but what has already been done. It is not about using your will power to effect change, but His power changing you.

Start reigning over sickness, financial lack, broken relationships and destructive habits today! This book is about being radically transformed by His grace and His grace alone.

Man has developed many strategies, methodologies, techniques, and tactics for achieving personal success. Yet there is a higher way than relying on your own efforts to achieve success in life. The Bible says in Psalm 1, “Blessed is the man who walks not in the council of the ungodly.” Hence, while there is some counsel in ungodly resources, there is a higher way for the believer! Why rely on self-help when you can have direct access to God’s help?

Are you ready to be radically blessed and transformed by His grace and to give up on your own efforts to have success, wholeness, and a victorious life? Once you begin to take this journey of discovering His radical grace, your life will never be the same again.

About the Author
With almost two decades of full-time ministry behind him, Pastor Joseph Prince has become the leading voice for a new generation of believers — a generation that builds its hope on the abundance of God s grace and the gift of His righteousness.

A founding member and pioneer leader of New Creation Church, Pastor Prince initially served as an elder and associate pastor. However, his appointment as senior pastor marked a turning point in the history of the church, which started experiencing growth at an accelerated rate never before seen in its history. Under Pastor Prince’s leadership, the church congregation has grown by a hundredfold from about 150 to more than 15,000!

Pastor Prince’s humorous, personal and practical style of preaching complements the fact that he is an anointed teacher of the Word of God. His dynamic messages have always been centerd on the pure gospel of the grace of God based on the finished work of Jesus Christ.

He moves in a strong worship anointing, ministering healing and prophetic words by the gifts of the Holy Spirit. Over the years, Pastor Prince’s ministry has helped to set many people free from guilt and condemnation, and caused them to fall in love with Jesus afresh as they see His love, goodness and grace.

Having built and established the leadership and congregation of New Creation Church on the finished work of Jesus Christ, Pastor Prince is now actively fulfilling the mandate that God has given him to Bring My Son Back to the Church. He leads an international ministry called Joseph Prince Ministries, Inc., a non-profit organization that focuses on unveiling the person of Jesus and liberating people with the new covenant realities based entirely on the cross at Calvary. A highly sought-after international conference speaker, Pastor Prince has also impacted many church leaders and ministry servers around the world. His sermons are now broadcast weekly to millions of households across America, Canada, Australia and Uganda. Pastor Prince has experienced, first hand, the amazing grace of God in his own life. That is why he believes the best of people and in what God can do for them, in them and through them, by His grace. His desire is to help this generation of Christians realise how greatly blessed, highly favoured and deeply loved they are by their Father in heaven, so that they may be blessed to be a blessing.

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PAUL’S PRAYER FOR SPIRITUAL EMPOWERING

When I think of the wisdom and scope of God’s plan, I fall to my knees and pray to the Father, the Creator of everything in heaven and on earth. I pray that from his glorious, unlimited resources he will give you mighty inner strength through his Holy Spirit. And I pray that Christ will be more and more at home in your hearts as you trust in him. May your roots go down deep into the soil of God’s marvelous love. May you experience the love of Christ, though it is so great you will never fully understand it. And may you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love is. Then you will be filled with the fullness of life and power that comes from God.

Now glory be to God! By his mighty power at work within us, he is able to accomplish infinitely more than we could ever dare to ask or hope. May he be given glory in the church and in Christ Jesus forever and ever through endless ages. Amen. Ephesians 3:14-21 NLT (1997)

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

For some time, I have made it a practice to reword the prayers of Paul included in his letters. Changing the pronouns to refer to myself (i.e., “at home in my heart as I trust in him”). I was delighted to find a book about the prayers of Paul that contained all of them already reworded for my use and for use in praying for someone specific. Read more »

And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:19 NKJV

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I’m thinking today about the phrase according to. Strong’s Greek Lexicon defines this phrase as used in Philippians 4:19:

by, after the manner of, by any means, beyond measure

We can see that the phrase according to does not mean only that God supplies our need from His riches in glory.

For example, Bill Gates, I believe, is the richest man in the United States-surely one of the richest. He could quite easily supply some of my financial need from his earthly riches. He could do that by giving me $100. That amount would not go far but he would be supplying me from his riches.

However, if he were to supply my need after the manner of his riches he would be treating me as if his riches were mine. I would be living after the manner of Bill Gates!

That is what God promises us—in greater terms than what could be offered us by any earthly billionaire! Read more »

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

If you haven’t read my previous post “New Bible Reader? Here’s Where To Start” you might want to do so before reading on.

After a study of Ephesians, Philippians and Colossians, here’s my recommendation for your next study. Oh, and by the way, by “study”, I don’t mean some theological exercise but, instead, just reading with an open mind and heart. Before reading, just ask God to open these scriptures up to you and cause His Holy Spirit to help you to see into–and accept–the concepts you see introduced there. Let God, our Abba Father, show you how much He loves you through His Word. Read more »

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. 2 Corinthians 5:17

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

Depending on the translation you read, over 130 times in the New Testament we find the words “in Christ”, “in Him”, or “in Whom”. If you look at the book of Ephesians you will find all of these phrases 11 times in the 1st chapter alone! (NKJV) Read more »