Books
The Passionate Pursuit
Getting Closer and Closer to God
Many people reach a juncture in their spiritual journey and don’t know what to do next. Their spiritual life is like swimming in thickly congealed Jell-O or running in a melting, sticky tar pit. By mapping the methods and contemplating the conditions for knowing God, the spiritually stuck condition can be avoided. This book sets forth a spiritual-growth itinerary that leads to levels of living not previously experienced.
Praise and Worship
Transitioning from Spectator to Practitioner
The heart response many have toward worship is characterized more by yawning than yearning. Perhaps this is true because these people have never experienced the worship described in the Bible. Instead, they have found themselves stranded in the outer court, stuck with protocols having more form than force. They may want God to make them into a fervent worshiper, but nothing in their past experience, or on the present horizon, gives them any hope at all this is going to happen. So, pursuing an agenda where hope becomes reality, this book examines each component of worship with the goal of transitioning the believer from being a spectator to becoming a practitioner of true worship.
Walking in Fellowship
By Activating the “One Another” Principles
Fellowship—the sharing of the inner life, in the context of God’s Word, and in the energy of the Holy Spirit—is essential to a successful pursuit of God. The “one another” principles in Scripture provide a cameo-sharp picture of what biblical fellowship really looks like. However, determined to distort whatever Scripture depicts, the truth-twister today wants us to think that small groups and fellowship are practically synonymous. They are not. This book offers a vision-casting view of fellowship and an in-depth analysis of the dynamics that make it work.
The New Nature
The Most Astounding Doctrine in Scripture
The new nature, the most astounding doctrine in Scripture is also the least understood. This book explains what the new nature is, how it was created, how it is received, how it is released, and how it can be sustained. Designed to help believers who are chug-chug-chugging along on two cylinders instead of eight, this book explains why spiritual growth only occurs when the new nature is released. When the seed of God’s Word lands on the mind only, this isn’t good ground for a harvest. Without the new nature, the believer may be deceived into trusting USDA prime flesh; and that produces nothing God will reward.
The Cross: His and Ours
The Accomplishments of His Cross and the Benefits of Ours
The losses that come from only a partial understanding of the cross are of great consequence to believers. If we don’t know all that Jesus’ cross accomplished, we won’t claim what could be ours. Moreover, if we don’t know the benefits of the crucified life, we’ll miss out on those benefits, too. Under the mud and the blood of the cross is buried a rich treasure that this book uncovers. When activated today, the cross removes that imposter self within us that has been causing so many problems. Finally, once the cross is no longer in our rearview mirror but is front and center daily directing our life, the divine life emerges.
How to Become a Word Processor
Letting the Word Translate You
There is an enormous difference between accessing the Word and processing the Word. Accessing the Word identifies truth; processing the Word actualizes truth. Accessing the Word doesn’t necessarily change us; processing the Word does. To generalize truth is one thing; to internalize it is another. For many Christians there is a Grand Canyon gap between belief and behavior, between their talk and their walk, between what they know and what they grow. This book will help believers close that gap.
How to Make a Faith Transaction
Step-by-Step Instructions for Releasing Faith
Faith has been heralded for its importance, trumpeted for its outcomes, lionized for its heroes, lauded for its accessibility, and subsequently summoned from every believer—but without explanation! People are told to exercise faith, but they aren’t taught the Scripture-stipulated steps for making a faith transaction with God. Because faith is the only way to lay hold of God—in conversion and in every aspect of the abundant life—this book sets forth a step-by-step procedure for releasing faith.
How to Pray Effectively
What Most Christians Don’t Know
Believers may be earnest and honest in the prayers they say, but there is an enormous difference between saying prayers and praying. To speak to God from our own minds is one thing. To have a prayer birthed in us by the Spirit and then borne by him to the Throne Room of the universe is another. We must be clear on what effective prayer is, and isn’t. This book examines the purposes of prayer, the problems of prayer, and the methods for prevailing prayer.
School of Obedience
How to Live a Consistently Obedient Life
The fact that sinning keeps winning is a lamentable legacy for many Christians. Despite renewed vows—each preceded by clenched-teeth resolve and followed by red-eye remorse—the serpent’s hissing continues to indict: s-s-s-sin! Obedience has a pivotal importance for our spiritual growth. Yet, despite this importance, obedience school has become a concept for poodles and not people. The sad result is a defeated church. This book sets forth the exact principles needed to show people how to “want to” when their “wanter” doesn’t want to.
Of Kings and Thrones
God’s Forecast Calls for More Reign
Whenever low vision neutralizes great promises, it isn’t humility at work; it’s unbelief. The visionless Christianity that is widespread in the church today amazes angels and amuses Satan. But how can this be? Heaven stands ready to back the church! There are vast resources at the church’s disposal, if only faith would requisition them. This book elevates the vision of what our service can achieve. The book also explains how we can be both servant and king, as we resonate to the fact that God’s forecast calls for more reign. Included in this book is a rich teaching on throne life.
Group Leader’s Guide
Developing the Holy Habits of Faith
This leader’s guide explains how to launch OMEGA in the church. This guide also offers specific suggestions for a group leader, with different contingencies contemplated and different options presented for every chapter in every book. In addition, the Group Leader’s Guide provides training for effective group dynamics.