Adolescence isn't terminal: it just feels like it
 By: Dr. Kevin Leman
Your child’s teen years won’t kill you. It just feels that way! By the time you finish reading this book you will know twenty rules parents must know for surviving their child’s adolescence. What is really happening on planet peer pressure? How do you pass important values to your teen? What pressures are teens facing about dating and sex? Discover a teenager's ten commandments to parents and more. This book is available at RLC.
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ax-i-om
By: Bill Hybles
This book if full of powerful leadership proverbs. In this book are 76 God-given convictions that have directed his leadership strategy for more than three decades as senior pastor of Willow creek Community Church, one of the most innovative and well-attended churches in North America. It is a book that is hard to put down but it is ok if you do. Each axiom is a chapter unto itself. Read as many or as few as you wish.
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Covenant and Kingdom
By: Mike Breen
This insightful book provides a very helpful “lenses” to understanding the major theological themes of the Bible.
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Crazy Love
By: Francis Chan
It is crazy if you think about it. The God of the universe loves us with a radical, unconditional, self-sacrificing love. Does something deep inside your heart long to break free from the status quo? Are you hungry for an authentic faith that addresses the problems of our world with tangible, even radical solutions? God is calling you to a passionate love relationship with Himself. The answer to religious complacency isn’t working harder at a list of do’s and don’ts. It is falling in love with God. And once you encounter his love you will never be the same.
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Cure for the common life
By: Max Lucado
Ever swung a baseball bat of paddled a ping-pong ball? If so, you know the oh so nice feel of the sweet spot. Life in the sweet spot rolls like the downhill side of a downwind bike ride. But you don’t have to swing a bat or club to know this. What engineers give sports equipment, God gave you! A zone, a region, a life precinct in which you were made to dwell. He tailored the curves of your life to fit an empty space in His jigsaw puzzle. And life makes sweet sense when you find your spot.
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Facing the giants
By: Eric Wilson
This book is written from the screenplay of the movie by the same name. Its writers are the same gentlemen who wrote the movie “Fireproof”. There are three premises: never give up, never back down and never lose faith. It has been six years without a winning season and Coach Grant Taylor’s job is on the line. Unless the Shiloh Christian Eagles turn things around-and fast- he is history. Unfortunately, the team’s leading scorer has just left for a rival school and the team has lost its drive. The pressure is on. On the home front things aren’t much better for Grant. The house is falling apart. The old clunker of a car keeps dying and the coach and his wife have been unsuccessful in trying to start a family. But God is on the move in many ways. Only by turning their lives over to God can Coach Taylor and the Eagles find their true purpose in life and rise above the fear and failure that have kept them down for so long.
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Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire
By: Jim Cymbala
Jim is pastor of Brooklyn Tabernacle, a congregation that he first ‘grew’ from 25 to 20. Then they began to pray and God began to move and lives were changed by the hundreds in the name of Jesus Christ. This is the story of what happened to this broken down church in one of America’s toughest neighborhoods. What Pastor Cymbala discovered is that prayer brings a new spiritual vitality to life in the church and our lives in general. Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire shows what the Holy Spirit can do when we set aside our own agendas, take Him at His word, and listen for His voice.
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GO Put Your Strengths To Work
By: Marcus Buckingham
Recent data suggests that most people feel they do not come close to making full use of their strengths at work and in fact only 17% feel they use all of their strengths on the job. This book aims to change that number through a six step, six week experience that will reveal the hidden dimensions of your strengths.
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iFaith Connecting with God in the 21st Century
By: Daniel Darling
We are always plugged in and wired. Has the digital and technological revolution made us more impatient with the God who delights in making His people wait? We are accustomed to having answers at the snap of our fingers. We are used to being in control. But what effect has our hustling and bustling, hurrying and worrying had on our communication with God? Has faith been replaced with a false sense of security? iFaith is a unique look at prayer and faith in the 21st century, calling us back to a place of rest, silence, and peace with God.
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Just Courage
By: Gary Haugen
There is more to the Christian life than church each Sunday, waving to our neighbors and giving clothes to Goodwill each time we clean out our closets. Those things aren’t bad but they are safe, comfortable and easy. We were created by God for adventure and Mr. Haugen has found that engaging in the fight for justice is a deeply satisfying way of life. This book shows how we too can be a part of God’s great expedition.
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Prayer
By: Philip Yancey
The question Yancey asks is; does prayer make any difference. According to the Bible there was a time when God and Adam walked in the garden and conversed as friends. Prayer was as natural as a conversation with a friend. Yet today we often view prayer differently. One young woman said this about prayer: “I am not always sincere when I pray. Sometimes it feels forced, more like a ritual. I seem to be just repeating words. Does God hear those prayers? In this book Yancey explores the questions like: Is God listening, why should God care about me, why do so many prayers go unanswered, does prayer really help with physical healing and how can I make prayer more satisfying. He maintains that prayer is the place where God and humans meet.
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Prayer books bibliography
By: Various
Too Busy Not to Pray
by Bill Hybles
Pray Big, the power of poignant prayers
by Will Davis Jr.
A Layman Looks at the Lord’s Prayer
by W. Phillip Keller
Praying the Psalms
by Walter Brueggemann
Prayer
by O. Hallesby
Teach Us to Pray, overcoming obstacles to daily prayer
by Bradley Hanson
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Principles of Lutheran Theology
By: Carl Braaten
This little book sets forth the main principles of classical Lutheran theology. The author highlights the impact of the gospel on the criteria of theological method applied within the classical Lutheran tradition.
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Take your best shot
By: Austin Gutwein
This book captures Austin’s amazing adventure and challenges readers that no matter where you are, no matter what your skills are, no matter what your age, you can make a difference. You can do something bigger than yourself. Only God could weave a story that would captivate people all over the world, bring thousands of people from seventeen countries to a free throw line, raise over a million dollars in international AIDs relief and build a school and medical clinic in Zambia.
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The Hole in the Gospel
By: Richard Stearns
This book asks the question what does God expect of us. Have we embraced the whole gospel or a gospel with a whole in it? This book is the compelling true story of a corporate CEO who set aside worldly success for something more significant and in the process discovered the full power of the gospel of Jesus Christ to change his own life. He uses his journey to demonstrate how the gospel…the whole gospel…was always meant to be a world-changing social revolution, a revolution that begins with us.
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Too Small to Ignore
By: Wess Stafford
Dr. Stafford is the president of Compassion International and is an internationally recognized advocate for children. He believes it is vital for children to be a priority in every area of life. He grew up in an African village, the son of missionary parents, and challenges us to change the world one child at a time.
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Unbroken
By: Laura Hillenbrand
This book tells the story of Louie Zamperini and his incredible survival during WW11 and conversion to the Christian faith.
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