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Unashamed by Robby Gallaty

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Pastor Gallaty explains that Christ-like living requires a boldness and sacrifice often opposed to today's norms. In Unashamed: Taking A Radical Stand for Christ, Pastor and Bible teacher, Robby Gallaty provides a thorough examination of 2 Timothy along with clear instructions and relevant application. In this book, Pastor Gallaty expalains that Christ-like living requires a boldness and sacrifice often opposed to today's norms.

Should faith really be all about personal fulfilment? Not according to the Bible. Robby takes a look at 2 Timothy, the last written words of the Apostle Paul. Unashamed provides clear instructions and relevant application, revealing that Christ-like living requires a boldness and sacrifice often opposed to today's norms. Don't be ashamed of your faith in Jesus Christ; be unashamed in sharing both His grace and truth with a world in desperate need of both.


EAN: 9780899579573
Product Type: Adult Books
ISBN: 0899579574
Publisher: Amg Expository
Published: 10/2010
Media: Book
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224 pages

Biography



Gallaty, Robby
Robby Gallaty is senior pastor of Brainerd Baptist Church in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He is the author
of Creating an Atmosphere to Hear God Speak and his popular syndicated radio and television Bible-teaching program, "A Word from His Word," airs nationwide and online at awordfromhisword.org.

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Heaven is for Real

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Heaven is for Real

Heaven is for Real


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As the apocalyptic leaders of Iran call for the annihilation of Israel and the U.S., CIA operative David Shirazi is sent into Tehran with one objective: use all means necessary to disrupt Iran’s nuclear weapons program just as an obscure religious cleric known as the Twelfth Imam rises to power.

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Unashamed by Robby Gallaty

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Unashamed by Robby Gallaty

Product Description Pastor Gallaty explains that Christ-like living requires a boldness and sacrifice often opposed to today's norms. In Unashamed: Taking A Radical Stand for Christ, Pastor and Bible teacher, Robby Gallaty provides a thorough examination of 2 Timothy along with clear instructions and relevant application. In this book, Pastor Gallaty expalains that Christ-like living requires a boldness and sacrifice often opposed to today's norms.

Should faith really be all about personal fulfilment? Not according to the Bible. Robby takes a look at 2 Timothy, the last written words of the Apostle Paul. Unashamed provides clear instructions and relevant application, revealing that Christ-like living requires a boldness and sacrifice often opposed to today's norms. Don't be ashamed of your faith in Jesus Christ; be unashamed in sharing both His grace and truth with a world in desperate need of both. Mtl bookstore mtl christian bookstore
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Christian Atheist

The Christian Atheist, by recovering Christian Atheist Craig Groeschel, is an honest, hard-hitting and eye-opening look into the ways people believe in God but live as if he doesn't exist. From his own lapses in faith as a young man to the painful self-admission he had to make as an established pastor, Groeschel's own journey will immerse you and challenge you into a deeper, Christ-filled life.
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What a season this has been! First, I spent two months in a cabin reading the stories you sent to me. Ten thousand stories to be exact! They came in from all over the U.S. and twenty different countries around the world. During that time, I grew a beard down to my knees, read your stories, and wrote songs inspired by them. Well, actually, I just did two out of those three. Then, I headed into another cabin that was actually a recording studio to make this record. And now, here we are. The record is about to release on October 5th!

I am so excited to share these new songs with you, as well as the stories behind the songs. This has been a season of change for me, personally. I have had my eyes opened be all of the stories that I read. I feel like each story allowed me an open window to look inside and see each life. To all of those who sent me their stories, I thank you. You are the inspiration behind this record, and I want you to know that your stories are going to be used to encourage many others to tell theirs. This is the Story of Your Life, and it’s a story worth telling… mw

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Today's Devotion: Jesus, Perfect Lamb of God
On September 17th, Jews around the world will celebrate Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, which is considered the holiest and most solemn day of the year in modern Jewish practice. What relevance does this Jewish celebration have for Christians? Biblically, quite a lot.
Yom Ki...ppur is also known as the Day of Atonement, which is the climax of the Old Testament sacrificial system and is the most solemn day on the Jewish calendar. It was a day of great bloodshed and a day on which the gravity of humanity’s sin could be seen visibly. Because of its importance, it eventually became referred to simply as “the Day.”
The Center of the Pentateuch
The primary section in Scripture concerning the Day of Atonement appears in Leviticus 16-17. This passage functions as the center of the book of Leviticus, which is itself the center of the Pentateuch. This day speaks of the Lord’s gracious concern both to deal fully with his people’s sin and to make them fully aware that they stand before him, accepted and covered in respect of all iniquity, transgression, and sin (Lev 16:21).
On this day, the high priest would enter the Holy of Holies to atone for the sins of Israel in order to avert the holy wrath of God for the sins of the past year and to remove their sin and its stain from them. Two healthy goats without defect were chosen. They were therefore fit to represent sinless perfection.
Two Images of the Atonement
The first goat was a propitiating sin offering. The high priest slaughtered this goat, which acted as a substitute for the sinners who deserved a violently bloody death for their many sins.Then the high priest, acting as the representative and mediator between the sinful people and their holy God, would take the second goat and lay his hands on the animal while confessing the sins of the people. This goat, called the scapegoat, would then be sent away to die in the wilderness away from the sinners, symbolically expiating or removing the sins of the people by taking them away.
The sacrifices of the Day were designed to pay for both sin’s penalty and sin’s presence in Israel. The shedding of blood and the sending off of the scapegoat were meant to appease God's wrath against sin and to cleanse the nation, the priesthood, and even the sanctuary itself from the taint of sin (Lev 16:30).
The Lamb of God
The Day of Atonement was a foreshadowing of Jesus, the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world, and our great High Priest who is able to sympathize with us in our weakness. These great images of the priest, slaughter, and scapegoat are all given by God to help us more fully comprehend Jesus’ bloody sacrifice for us on the cross.
Jesus’ fulfillment of the Day of Atonement is why we are forgiven for and cleansed from our sins. To preach anything else is to proclaim a “different gospel,” which is no gospel at all (Gal 1:6-7). Spurgeon drives this point home: “Many pretend to keep the atonement, and yet they tear the bowels out of it. They profess to believe in the gospel, but it is a gospel without the blood of the atonement; and a bloodless gospel is a lifeless gospel, a dead gospel, and a damning gospel”.
Jesus Christ fulfills and accomplishes forever what the two goats symbolized. The Old Testament sacrifice of animals has been replaced by the perfect sacrifice of Christ (Heb 9:26, 10:5-10; 1 John 2:1-2 and 4:9-10). Christ paid sin’s penalty (Rom 3:25-26 and 6:23; Gal 3:13). He redeemed us (Eph 1:7), paying the price that sets us free (1 Cor 6:20; Gal 5:1). He turned away God’s wrath (Rom 3:25) and reconciled believers to God (Eph 2:16) so we can be forgiven for our sins and cleansed from all unrighteousness (1 John 1:9).See More
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Christian Co-Op

Christian Co-Ops

As the buy local movement seems to have last some steam in the last year as people look for the cheapest and most convenient as they face the realities of a recession and high unemployment that does not look to ease. Local business will have to go the offensive even more to survive and hope that their message gets out.

Through marketing, word of mouth, and customer service independent local businesses can take on the larger retails even if they have higher prices. A strategy needs to be set and implemented on a regular basis to keep customers coming and new avenue need to be pursued.

Today we will be looking at Christian bookstores which I estimate half of which have disappeared in the last ten years. These stores have been a victim to Amazon, EBay, CBD, and other online stores. They have also faced competition from large brick and mortar stores such as Walmart, Target, Books a Million, Borders, and Barnes and Noble. To have proof of the shrinking market share of the independent Christian bookstore one has to look no farther than their trade organizations (CBA) trade show. The number of attendees and vendors has declined significantly over the last ten years. The largest Christian publisher Thomas Nelson, even choose not to attend the show for the past two years. CBA (Christian Book Association) just let its president of many years go after many years on the job because of the performance of the organization. The organization had upward of 50 employees ten years ago compared to an estimated six today.

The way for these independent stores to survive and prosper is to market to their customers on a regular basis and pursue other avenues of business. I have seen Christian stores add new revenue streams such as gifts, mail stores, thrift stores, office supplies, floral shops, coffee shops, and more. The idea is to create traffic and diversify their potential income. Other stores are having Bible studies and meeting space in their stores to bring in Christian consumers. Others are joining local buy local groups to minister as well as to get the word out about their store.

What most Christian consumers do not realize is that by shopping online or at large secular stores, they are doing a large disservice to a ministry in their local community. Will a sales associate at a large store tell them about Christ? Pray with them? Tell them the differences between Bible translations? No to all of these questions. At some point the Christian community will need to realize independent Christian stores are a vital part of their community.

This leads to the Christian Co-op and what it can do for the stores. Wikepedia defines a Co-p as an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social, and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly-owned and democratically-controlled enterprise. It is a business organization owned and operated by a group of individuals for their mutual benefit. A cooperative may also be defined as a business owned and controlled equally by the people who use its services or who work at it.

As I Google Christian Co-Op the only thing that comes up are home school co-ops that help with teaching. A few others show some basic websites lacking substance. There are options out there though. Such as Christian marketing groups that help bring down the cost of printing by printing for many bookstores at a time. These groups are Parable, Munce Group, and Covenant. All have the mission to help independent Christian bookstores in their marketing needs. There is also the website www.MTLBookstore.com which helps stores have an ecommerce site with very little investment. This site gets to the heart of the Co-op idea. For a small fee they become a member of the site and when a customer checks out, and chooses their local Christian bookstore that store gets credit for the sale. Other companies such as Bookstore Manager and Signature Websites provide more customizable websites, but with significant cost involved. MTL Bookstore could provide a significant help to smaller stores by providing a national brand that goes along with its MTL Magazine brand.

In the end independent Christian stores like the church will need to work on relationships in the store, with churches, online through social media and email, and in the community at book tables when the occasion arises. I hope they make it both for their communities, their mission, and to provide an income for store owners and their families.

By Graham Livingston
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Church Foreclosure

Church Foreclosure

In the last year churches have been hit hard with budget short falls as members have cut back on giving due to their financial situations. If unemployment is averaging 10.4% and others are underemployed and equity has been lost this can affect the donations a church receives significantly. Sadly churches have taken the American view that borrowing money is ok.

So much emphasis has been put on building beyond the means and needs of a congregation, how many churches will fall into foreclosure in the next five to ten years will probably be significant and could be a black eye on the church. On the positive side it will hopefully get Christians and the church back into the business of The Great Commission. It could be a time to reinvent the church in a way that is more flexible more agile and more suited to work and deal with the community around them. Hopefully the church will no longer be many separate lighthouses in a city, but a bright light encompassing the whole community.

Churches in the last 15 years have started moving away from the traditional church building with a big front door and a steeple. Churches have started occupying community centers, strip malls, old office buildings, old retail stores, movie theaters, restaurants, bars, the beach, ski slope, and anything in between. The church of yesterday will probably only survive in small communities or in buildings that have been long paid for and who’s members do not mortgage the property to pay for today’s bills or what they think they will get tomorrow.

As I hear lay leaders say if we only had this much money we could do this. Very few people want to start at the bottom of the ministry ladder of face to face contact and work their church up to more integrated programs. The church will need to get more relational to convert people to Christ and to grow the Kingdom of God. Small groups do this, but sadly some churches cannot even get these going do to inter congregational conflicts or lack of interest. Small groups are where church relations start and where community starts. A church with a building full of strangers is bound to die with its preacher or just dissolve over time.

Small groups really get back to the early foundations of the church; there is very little hierarchy, a sense of sharing as group leaders share their home, coffee, and more. It does what some do not want to be done it takes the church out of the building and puts it out in the world.

The most interesting thing to observe will be the way members of a church respond to seeing their church building go into foreclosure. Will they run from it, will they fight for the building, will they downsize and start over, we they lose their faith over the whole experience. Seeing a building go into foreclosure after a lifetime of attending and tithing could be devastating to a member. I see most churches hanging on until the bank comes and keep hoping for a miracle. While miracles can and do happen and I do not want to discount them, I feel most churches in financial problems will be banked owned.

I think most churches need to start reacting today that are currently in financial trouble or see it looming in the future. The best thing would be to sell their property and pay off the debt if they are in the position. Hopefully at this point the money would be available to buy a smaller building or rent a comparable space, or to find a space near were most of their congregation lives or a place in the community that has a real need for a church. The main issue seen with selling a church to a non church is building use. Most churches lack a good layout to be converted to offices or stores. Leaving the value mostly in the land, and I think most churches will be faced with the realization that their property is worth only half of what they think it is worth.

In the end a building is dust to dust and not where our treasures lye and hopefully the church body will keep that in mind when making choices about budgets, loans, building, and more.

Heaven: What is it Like?

Let me start with what Heaven won't be: boring. It is not a place where we will be ghosts or angels endlessly floating around on clouds, strumming harps, and wishing we'd brought a magazine.


Usually when we refer to Heaven, we mean the present Heaven where followers of Jesus go when we die. Though the present Heaven is a wonderful place, it's not the place we're made for—the place where God promises we can live forever. The Bible calls that future Heaven the New Earth. Sometime after Jesus returns, he will bring us to live on that New Earth—a place beautiful beyond our wildest imagination.

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Free Book

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NFL

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Airport

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You can see the new MTL Video on You Tube by typing in More to Life Book Talk. You will then see my smilling mug, or somthing like that. Taling about Beth Moore's new book So Long Insecurity. John Ortberg's book The Me I Want to Be, Amith fiction called The Choice, and what might be the biggest book of the year Free Book by Brian Tome.