Recommended reading

KILL THE DRAGON

Reclaiming Your Life From the Dark Side of Religion

by Gunter Akridge

We must overcome a dragon that holds us captive - a dragon called the religious spirit. Journey through "Kill The Dragon" and discover a realm beyond the shackles of religion. Whether you've been wounded by religion or envision a better Church, "Kill The Dragon" offers clarity, healing, and a way forward. This book will help you:

Recognize the religious mindsets that are clouding your spiritual view.
Expand your spiritual horizons beyond your current view of God and what He has for you.
Find healing from wounds caused by misguided religion.
Safeguard your life from the influence of religious mindsets that destroy and divide.
Believe in the Church again.
Find the freedom and adventure your heart longs for.

FRIENDSHIP WITH GOD

Discover God's Relational Presence and Receive Peace, Identity, and Purpose for Your Life.

by Jamie Moore

Are you tired of feeling bored and disconnected from God and others? Have you read the Bible and had an underlying dissatisfaction in your relationship with God? Maybe you have heard about individuals who the Bible called “friends of God,” who partnered with Him to do amazing things—all the while you are bored, disconnected, ashamed, and afraid. This conversational and practical book is an invitation to start a friendship between you and God. 

Deep friendship with God is not only possible, it’s why He created you.

ABBA’S CHILD

by Brennan Manning

We’ve bought into the lie that we are worthy of God’s love only when our lives are going well. If our families are happy or our jobs are meaningful, life is a success. But when life begins to fall through the cracks and embarrassing sins threaten to reveal our less-than-perfect identity, we scramble to keep up a good front to present to the world―and to God. We hide until we can rearrange the mask of perfection. Sadly, it is then that we wonder why we lack intimate relationships and a passionate faith.

All this time God is calling us to take the mask off and come openly to Him. He longs for us to know in the depth of our beings that He loves us and accepts us as we are. When we are our true selves, we can finally claim our identity as God’s child―Abba’s child―and experience His pure pleasure in who we are. Brennan Manning encourages us to let go of the impostor lifestyle and freely accept our belovedness as a child of the heavenly Father. In Him there is life.

LOVING YOUR KIDS ON PURPOSE

by Danny Silk

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love (1 John 4:18 NKJV).

Loving Our Kids on Purpose introduces paradigms, perceptions, skills, and ideas that will help parents reduce fear by eliminating the tool of punishment and strengthening the core character of their children by empowering their self-control and value for their relationship with their parents.

KEEP YOUR LOVE ON

by Danny Silk

Keep Your Love On reveals the higher, Jesus–focused standard defined by mature love―love that stays ‘on’ no matter what. Danny Silk’s practical examples and poignant stories will leave you with the power to draw healthy boundaries, communicate in love, and ultimately protect your connections so you can love against all odds. As a result, your relationships will be radically transformed for eternity. When you learn to keep your love on, you become like Jesus.

TRANSFORMING GRACE

by Jerry Bridges

Grace is amazing because it is God’s provision for when we fall short of His standards. Unfortunately, too many of us embrace grace for our salvation but then leave it behind in our everyday lives. We base our relationship with God on our performance rather than on His love for us, even when we intuitively know that our performance cannot earn us the love we so desperately crave.

Isn’t it time to stop trying to measure up and begin accepting the transforming power of God’s grace? The product of more than ten years of Bible study, Navigator author Jerry Bridges’s Transforming Grace is a fountainhead of inspiration and renewal that will show you just how inexhaustible and generous God’s grace really is.