NEW RELEASES
(CHRISTIAN LIVING)
Max
on Life - Max Lucado
Lucado—with more than 100 million books and other products available —gathers nearly 180 questions he's fielded over the years as both author and pastor to create a compendium of sound, biblical advice sure to resonate with readers. The San Antonio, Tex., pastor's down-to-earth style is much in evidence, as is his acute understanding of Scripture and how to apply it. He answers such tough questions as, "Does God lead us through feelings?"; "How can I increase my faith that my prayers will be answered?"; and "What does God think of the suicide victim?" Readers will find questions about sex, working overtime, purgatory, and worry; just about everything a Christian might ask, Lucado answers with logic, spiritual insight, and wisdom. Sections include Hope, Hurt, Help, Him/Her, Home, Haves/Have-Nots, and Hereafter. Lucado also offers an addendum of his best advice for writers, as well as Scripture and topical indexes. Max's many fans will snap up this book; those looking for answers will search its pages as well. (Apr.)
Love
Wins ~Rob Bell
Millions of Christians have struggled with how to reconcile God's love and God's judgment: Has God created billions of people over thousands of years only to select a few to go to heaven and everyone else to suffer forever in hell? Is this acceptable to God? How is this "good news"?
Troubling questions—so troubling that many have lost their faith because of them. Others only whisper the questions to themselves, fearing or being taught that they might lose their faith and their church if they ask them out loud.
But what if these questions trouble us for good reason? What if the story of heaven and hell we have been taught is not, in fact, what the Bible teaches? What if what Jesus meant by heaven, hell, and salvation are very different from how we have come to understand them?
What if it is God who wants us to face these questions?
Author, pastor, and innovative teacher Rob Bell presents a deeply biblical vision for rediscovering a richer, grander, truer, and more spiritually satisfying way of understanding heaven, hell, God, Jesus, salvation, and repentance. The result is the discovery that the "good news" is much, much better than we ever imagined.
Love wins.