The Believer's Bookshelf

The Don’t Waste Your Life Sentence DVD depicts the lives of those within Louisiana’s Angola prison complex. Angola is one of the nation’s most secure and criminally severe prisons, comprised with the nation’s most severe sentenced inmates. Many of these individuals’ sentences are a life-term and some of them await a death-row sentence. In this [...]

“In a world starving for genuine, lasting intimacy, a loving Christian marriage is a powerful witness to the gospel and the goodness of God. Let’s overturn the worldly notion that only newlyweds can be expected to make frequent, romantic, touching a matter of lifestyle.” (page 79) C.J. Mahaney’s Sex, Romance, and the Glory of God: [...]

Joshua Harris’ Sex Is Not the Problem (Lust Is): Sexual Purity in a Lust-Saturated Worldaddresses a critical area for our world today. While there have always been sexual sins and struggles throughout history, it does seem increasingly prevalent and even acceptable in our world today. Harris adds his book to the list of other Christian [...]

Ed Welch’s Crossroads: A Step-By-Step Guide Away from Addiction: Facilitator’s Guideaims to guide addicts and those involved in addict counseling/discipleship to point to a life of freedom and hope in Christ. Although there are several good resources available for counseling addictions, another curriculuum based work is always helpful. Welch is also the author

Steve Gallagher returns along with his wife Kathy with a ever-increasing needy resource, Create in Me a Pure Heart: Answers for Struggling Women. Steve and Kathy take the principles from At the Altar of Sexual Idolatry and adapt them to

At the Altar of Sexual Idolatry by Steve Gallagher stands in a needy gap, dealing with society’s insatiable appetite for all things sex. Gallagher, founder of Pure Life Ministries seeks to hit this issue head on through the angle of

Addictions: A Banquet in the Grave : Finding Hope in the Power of the Gospel (Resources for Changing Lives) by Edward Welch stands as a vital collection of thoughts relating the subject of addictions. Welch’s title is descriptive of a grim reality; what he terms a “worship disorder.” All life boils down to worship; the [...]