Church Age

Pride Horizon church has been my family's place of worship for as long as I can remember. I've never visited Pastor James privately in his office, but today he's insisted I stay behind after church. Pastor has new teaching for me now that I'm eighteen--a rite of passage that will show my devotion to my leaders, to the church, and to the Lord. A rite of passage all the men of Pride Horizon have gone through before me. Pastor leads the way, by taking off both sets of his shirts and hanging them on the rack behind his desk. Now all that's left is for me to prove I have what it takes to be his ...

From the marvelous author of Heartstopper comes an exceptional YA novel about discovering that it's okay if you don't have sexual or romantic feelings for anyone...since there are plenty of other ways to find love and connection.

The first six centuries of Christianity were colorful ones indeed. The early Church, as an extension of the Apostolic age, represents the living Bible which is practiced daily; it reveals biblical and heavenly thought. She also manifests her dogma, order, economy, and behavior as the bride of Christ and His ambassador in the world. The Church lived bearing the features of her crucified Christ, gladly and joyfully accepting persecution. These first six centuries were also characterized by councils, controversy, and heresy in the sincere quest for an understanding of the true faith. The ...

Betrayal. Enslavement. Redemption. Experience the story of Exodus like never before! Joseph, son of Jacob, is dead. His children – the people of Israel, are enslaved at the hands of the Egyptian pharaohs, beaten and oppressed. A single child is saved by his mother, given to the river for protection. He is found by the most unlikely of people – and grows to become the savior of the chosen people. From exile, kinghood, the Plagues all the way through to the Promised Land, Exodus Age is a retelling of the age-old history of Moses and his people through Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and ...

Reverend Smith is responsible for leading Pride Horizon Church in communion. Every Sunday he leads the congregation in the ritual of taking the body and the blood of Christ. My next step to Holy Ordinance at Pride Horizon is getting a lesson from the Reverend in what it really means to take the body, to come closer to your church leaders, and thereby closer to Christ. Reverend Smith takes me to the communion room where the wine is kept. He pulls it out, takes a sip, and commands me to take it from his mouth and into mine. Then I notice something in his pants, also begging me to take it in ...

Loveday Cardew prefers books to people, and her job in a York bookshop is her refuge. If you look carefully, you might see the first lines of the novels she loves the most tattooed on her skin, but there are secrets Loveday will never share. Into the bookshop come a poet, a lover, a friend and three mysterious deliveries, each of which stirs unsettling memories she wants to forget. Turning the pages of her past will be the hardest thing Loveday has ever done. Can she trust those around her?

In this groundbreaking, inspiring book, Robin R. Meyers, the senior minister of Oklahoma City’s Mayflower Congregational United Church of Christ, shows how listeners can move from a theology of obedience to one of consequence. He argues that we need to stop seeing our actions as a means for pleasing a distant God and rediscover how God has empowered us to care for ourselves and the world. Drawing on stories from his decades of active ministry, Meyers captures how the struggles of ordinary people hint at how we can approach faith as a radical act of trust in a God who is all around us.

Have you ever struggled when someone challenges your faith in God? Maybe you don't know what to say, or you don't understand their objections--or maybe you just aren't as prepared as you want to be. This book is designed just for you! Using his own personal studies with others, as well as sharing expert testimony from others, Mark Tabata wants to help you become a great defender of the truth that God exists! Brought to you by your friends at Cobb Publishing

The true queen of Weirandale has returned. Cerulia has done the impossible and regained the throne. However, she's inherited a council of traitors, a realm in chaos, and a war with Oromondo. Now a master of her Gift, to return order to her kingdom she will use all she has learned - humility, leadership, compassion, selflessness, and the necessity of ruthlessness.

The soliders of Oromondo have invaded the Free States, leaving a wake of misery and death. Thalen, a young scholar, survives and gathers a small cadre of guerilla fighters for a one-way mission into the heart of an enemy land. Unconsciously guided by the elemental Spirits of Ennea Mon, Cerulia is drawn to the Land of the Fire Mountains to join Thelan's Raiders, where she will learn the price of war.

In the long, hot summer of 1995, 22-year-old Alice Lang rents a caravan on a holiday park on the outskirts of the lively holiday resort of Severn Sands. She befriends Marnie, a shy, damaged little girl whose father is the park's caretaker and whose mother died a few months earlier. Will, whose mother runs the bar, falls in love with Alice and is unbearably jealous of anyone else she sees. Tensions rise until one evening Alice disappears from her caravan. She's never seen again, and only her scarlet dress is found washed up on the shore.

Have you ever wondered how and perhaps why God, our Heavenly Father can love us even when we know we still make mistakes and don't always trust as much as we would like to? This book gives some insights, encouragement and comfort into this and more! This book can be used for the reader to receive powerful help from God, it also can be used as a resource to help others. In its pages you will find special assistance in dealing with forgiveness, accepting others, accepting yourself and allowing the God who really cares for you to come to your aid. The teachings in this book come from years of ...

Sixteen-year-old Amina Conteh has always believed in using her tongue as her weapon—even when it gets her into trouble. After cursing at a classmate, her father forces her to volunteer at their church with Pastor Johnson. But Pastor Johnson isn’t the holy man everyone thinks he is. The same voice Amina uses to fight falls quiet the night she is sexually assaulted by Pastor Johnson. After that, her life starts to unravel: her father is frustrated that her grades are slipping, and her best friend and boyfriend don’t understand why the once loud and proud girl is now quiet and distant.

The Lord’s Prayer is a beautiful, subversive passage of words given to the church by Jesus. It forms our imaginations and—given time—transforms us. And today, we are in desperate need of renewed imaginations. Christians are living in a wilderness of secularism. In Liturgy in the Wilderness, Anglican priest D. J. Marotta shows how the Lord’s Prayer provides a framework in our secular age for understanding, believing, and living in light of Jesus Christ.

One September afternoon in 1999, teenagers Matthew, Zoe, and Duncan Lang are walking home from school when they discover a boy lying in a field, bloody and unconscious. Thanks to their intervention, the boy’s life is saved. In the aftermath, all three siblings are irrevocably changed. Matthew, the oldest, becomes obsessed with tracking down the assailant, secretly searching the local town with the victim’s brother. Zoe wanders the streets of Oxford, looking at men, and one of them, a visiting American graduate student, looks back.

He’s big city, she’s small town. He’s a fast-paced businessman, she’s a slowed-down artist. He loves the night life, she loves the quiet life. He’s wealthy, she... well, isn’t. Can such opposites make love work? Successful Austin CEO Isaiah Williams rarely gives himself the luxury of time off. He thrives on the buzz of making deals and signing multi-million dollar contracts. But spending the holidays in a small Oregon town with his former business partner will let him finalize the purchase of his friend’s share of their business. Plus, even better, he'll get to spend more time...

Cool secrets exist throughout God's wondrous world as Christian kids read about: 1. Tricky Tadpoles 2. Wise Cracks 3. Wolf Wonders 4. Tornadoes 5. Open Your Eyes 6. Life and Bubble Gum 7. Word Birds 8. All Puffed Up 9. River Of Miracles 10. All People 11. Underground Fire 12. New Again 13. Perfect Vision 14. A Light In The Dark 15. All About Alligators 16. Goose Bumps 17. Wonderful Water 18. All In God’s Time 19. Under Attack 20. Patience Pays 21. Underwater Singers 22. The Unlovely Lobster 23. The Sea That’s A Lake 24. The Human Body—A Living Miracle 25. Off The Bench and Into The Game

Things are racing toward the era known as the Tribulation, though most people are oblivious. A group of Christians works to create a resource to help the people who will be left behind after the rapture. Other people just live day to day. Politicians scheme for power and riches. The Bible’s End Times events are closer than any of them think. In the Great Surprise, millions are taken to heaven. Is there hope for the people who are left behind?

The prospect of blending the authority of spiritual institutions with the machinery of secular governance has long sparked apprehension among historians, theologians, and political theorists alike. The concern arises not merely from abstract principle but from a tapestry of lived experience, woven through the centuries by communities that have tasted both the allure of joint power and the bitterness of its consequences. At the heart of this dilemma stands the persistent question of how a faith tradition, founded upon ideals of humility, service, and moral conviction, can maintain its ...

In this groundbreaking book, renowned scholar Philip Jenkins explores a vast and forgotten network of the world’s largest and most influential Christian churches that existed to the east of the Roman Empire. These churches and their leaders ruled the Middle East for centuries and became the chief administrators and academics in the new Muslim empire. The author recounts the shocking history of how these churches—those that had the closest link to Jesus and the early church—eventually died.