God Under Fire: Modern Scholarship Reinvents God

Author(s): Zondervan, et. al.
Publisher: Zondervan Academic
Price: $4.49       (Limited Time Only)

God Never ChangesOr does he? God has been getting a makeover of late, a “reinvention” that has incited debate and troubled scholars and laypeople alike. Modern theological sectors as diverse as radical feminism and the new “open theism” movement are attacking the classical Christian view of God and vigorously promoting their own images of Divinity.God Under Fire refutes the claim that major attributes of the God of historic Christianity are false and outdated. This book responds to some increasingly popular alternate theologies and the ways in which they cast classical Christian theism in a negative light. Featuring an impressive cast of world-class biblical scholars, philosophers, and apologists, God Under Fire begins by addressing the question, “Should the God of Historic (more…)

Intellectuals Don’t Need God and Other Modern Myths: Building Bridges to Faith Through Apologetics

Author(s): Alister E. McGrath
Price: $2.99      

Rethinking Effective Apologetics for the Present Age.

Christians have always had to defend their faith against all kinds of criticism and misunderstandings, but these attacks change overtime, and the strongest arguments of the famous classical apologists who preceded us are not necessarily the strongest today.

Intellectuals Don’t Need God is written to today’s faithful apologists who are trying to commend Christianity in terms of its relevance to everyday life and not just its inherent rationality. Its focuses are:

Understanding and overcoming the barriers of faith in today’s culture.
Presenting the points of contact between daily life and spiritual longing.
Demonstrating the apologetics of today in action.
Theologian and scientist, Dr. Alister McGrath (author of the ECPA 2014 Christian Book Award Winning biography of C. S. Lewis) (more…)

Another Day, Another Dali (Serena Jones Mysteries Book #2)

Author(s): Sandra Orchard
Publisher: Revell
Price: $0.99       (May 23 – May 28)

A Fast-Paced, Keep-You-Guessing Whodunit with a Dash of Romance

When a valuable Salvador Dali painting belonging to her grandmother’s friend is mysteriously replaced by a forgery, FBI Special Agent Serena Jones is called in to investigate. Serena hopes finding the thief will also mean finally measuring up to Nana’s expectations. But when the evidence points to members of the owner’s own household, it becomes increasingly clear that Serena won’t be winning any popularity contests.

The Dali isn’t the only painting that’s fallen prey to the forgery-replacing thief, raising the specter of a sophisticated theft ring–one with links to dirty cops, an aspiring young artist, and the unsolved murder of Serena’s grandfather.

With plenty of edge-of-your-seat moments, Another Day, Another Dali gives the plucky Serena Jones–and readers–a new high-stakes case to crack.

When the Day Comes (Timeless Book #1)

Author(s): Gabrielle Meyer
Publisher: Bethany House Publishers
Price: $0.99       (Ends Nov 1)

ow will she choose, knowing all she must sacrifice?

Libby has been given a powerful gift: to live one life in 1774 Colonial Williamsburg and the other in 1914 Gilded Age New York City. When she falls asleep in one life, she wakes up in the other. While she’s the same person at her core in both times, she’s leading two vastly different lives.

In Colonial Williamsburg, Libby is a public printer for the House of Burgesses and the Royal Governor, trying to provide for her family and support the Patriot cause. The man she loves, Henry Montgomery, has his own secrets. As the revolution draws near, both their lives–and any hope of love–are put in jeopardy.

Libby’s life in 1914 New York (more…)

Bible Deals: Sept 10/25

The Story: The Bible as One Continuing Story of God and His People
Publisher: Zondervan
Price: $2.99       (Ends Sept 30)

“The greatest story ever told” is more than just a cliché.

God goes to great lengths to rescue lost and hurting people. That is what The Story is all about: the story of the Bible, God’s great love affair with humanity. Condensed into 31 accessible chapters, The Story sweeps you into the unfolding progression of Bible characters and events from Genesis to Revelation. Using the world’s most popular modern-English Bible, the New International Version, it allows the stories, poems, and teachings of the Bible to read like a novel. Like any good story, The Story is filled with intrigue, drama, conflict, romance, and redemption – and this story’s true!

The Story features a foreword by Max Lucado and Randy Frazee. This book tells the grandest, most compelling story of all time: the story of a true God who loves his children, who established for them a way of salvation and provided a route to eternity. Each story in these 31 chapters reveals the God of grace – the God who speaks; the God who acts; the God who listens; the God whose love for his people culminated in his sacrifice of Jesus, his only Son, to atone for the sins of humanity.

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NIV, Bible in 90 Days: Cover to Cover in 12 Pages a Day
Publisher: Zondervan
Price: $3.99       (Ends Sept 30)

Read the Bible cover to cover in just 12 pages a day!

The NIV Bible in 90 Days guides you through Scripture by using bite-sized pieces, so what may have seemed to be an overwhelming challenge is now doable and enjoyable. Insights and encouragement from creator Ted Cooper, Jr., founder of The Bible in 90 Days program, and William P. Campbell, President of Scripture Awakening, the ministry that shepherds the program, help you get the most out of your reading experience.

Features:

Complete text of the accurate, readable, and clear New International Version (NIV)
Start and end markers help you know where to begin and end each day’s reading
Front matter articles

Broken Children, Sovereign God

This e-book was chosen by our readers to be placed on sale.

Author(s): Leslie Schmucker
Publisher: Christian Focus Publications
Price: $2.99       (Sept 20-21)

A testimony to the sufficiency of God in the gruelling day–to–day reality of raising a child with a mental health disorder.

Mental health disorders have become increasingly prevalent, especially in children and teenagers. Suicide is the 3rd highest cause of death in fifteen– to nineteen–year–olds around the world. This effect of the Fall has left thousands of families in despair, confusion, and impotent desperation. Leslie Schmucker knows this all too well.

Writing to encourage other parents who find themselves in a similar situation, she explores different aspects of her and her family’s experience with their daughter, Jackie. Through violence and mayhem, joy and hope, intense isolation, shame and confusion, Leslie’s honest testimony to the goodness of God is humbling.

Leslie’s testimony is split into four sections:

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Refresh: Spiritual Nourishment for Parents of Children with Special Needs

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Author(s): Kimberly M. Drew
Publisher: Kregel Publications
Price: $2.99       (Sept 23-24)

More than one-fifth of US households with children have at least one child with special needs. Raising a child with special needs is spiritually, emotionally, mentally, and physically challenging. Parents of these children need encouragement to restore hope and a passion for God in their lives—but the realities of having to be parent, nurse, therapist, and caregiver make it difficult to find the time or initiative to seek encouragement.

Packed with encouragement from parents who understand this complicated balancing act, Refresh is designed to provide just what these parents need. The devotional guides parents to spiritual truths that can be applied to the demands they face every day. It offers perspective and hope through the varying stages and phases families experience, from diagnosis to loss and grief.

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