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Heart of the Matter: Daily Reflections for Changing Hearts and Lives by Christian Counseling , Educational Foundation $2.99 on Vyrso Description on Vyrso: Start a Year of Deep-Down Change Today! Change that goes deeper than the surface of our lives happens as we daily remember the truths of the gospel. Every day we need to be reminded that Jesus, God’s own Son, came to this world to save us from sin, sorrow, and death. We need to remember every day how Jesus’ life, death, resurrection, ascension, and promised return change the way we view ourselves and others. This devotional will be a daily reminder of these life-changing truths. The 366 selections, anchored in Scripture and saturated with the gospel, will help the reader to: • Learn how God in his Word addresses a host of life situations • Focus on how the gospel intersects with life • Look beyond circumstances to God’s purposes • See how God values relationship and to learn to value it too by persistin...

Love into Light: the Gospel, the Homosexual and the Church 99 cents By its endorsements, this looks like a book you can trust. I bought one and I am looking forward to having a class discussion on it among our teens and young adults.  Why Believe the Bible by John MacArthur $1.99 The Grand Weaver: How God Shapes us by the Events in our Lives  by Ravi Zacharias  $1.99 The HCSB Study Bible  for $2.99 (love these study Bible deals) FREE: Depression: Looking up from the Stubborn Darkness by Ed Welch

Gregory Jantz and Ann McMurray emphasize a whole-person approach to depression. Not everyone, they state, comes to depression from the same root issues. Therefore, various routes to recovery are needed, not one size fits all. The five areas of concentration in the whole-person approach identified by the authors are emotional, environmental, relational, physical and spiritual. They make a claim that this method has a 90% success rate. If true, that is quite remarkable and should encourage the average person struggling with depression to seek the wisdom found in this book. A variety of helps are given by Jantz and McMurray. They cover issues such as relationships that may drain or fill, relational back stories that feed negative self-talk, nutrition and exercise concerns that can exasperate or lengthen depression and on and on. Self-analysis symptoms are listed for the reader to get a grasp as to if this area or   that one is relevant to their individual stru...

Road Trip to Redemption left me in a quandary. It was as if I were at a fork in the road with no certain way to go with this review. In some ways the book was good and in others not so much. Even as I write this, I wish not to go overboard in one direction or the other. Conflicted would be a good word for my reaction. Let me start with the good. Brad Mathias tells a story that represents every Christian parent/spouse's fear. His family is in serious jeopardy and he shares enough of the blame to truly humble a guy. Brad recognizes the error of his ways, he is sensitive to the Spirit's leading and he makes some huge strides in the right direction. What grips the reader is the question that must have overwhelmed him: is it too little too late? On the negative side, I think that what I shared above that made the book relevant was hurt by an expensive trip that is way beyond the budget of time and money of most Americans, especially in these economic times. To be honest, I'm ...