Mark A. Weathers. How to Pray for Your Wife: A 31-Day Guide. Crossway, 2006. 158 pp.
Introduction
Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
—Genesis 2:24
I see a unique tree every day while traveling to the church building where I minister. It’s a dogwood, and for the majority of the year it looks like any other dogwood in the southeast—slender divided trunk with a bushy green top. But this past spring it caught me off guard as it was coming into full bloom. The tree boasted of both white and pink blossoms intermingled throughout its branches.
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C. J. Mahaney. Living the Cross-Centered Life: Keeping the Gospel the Main Thing. Multnomah, 2006. 176 pp.
At the Core
Life’s Most Important Truth Can Be the Easiest to Forget
Each of our lives is centered on something. What’s at the center of yours? . . .
It could be one of any number of good things, but when it comes to centering our life, what really qualifies as the one thing God says should be the most important? . . .
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Bryan Chapell. Praying Backwards: Transform Your Prayer Life by Beginning in Jesus’ Name. Baker, 2005. 208 pp.
Praying for Change
How would your prayer change if you began where you normally end? We habitually end our prayers with the phrase “In Jesus’ name, amen.” The amen means “truly” or even “I really mean this.” But what are we actually saying? We are supposed to be saying that everything we prayed for was offered “in Jesus’ name”—for his honor and purposes. When we pray “in Jesus’ name,” we pray for his sake more than our own. We still present our desires and concerns to God, but we do so in the context of yielding our priorities to Christ’s priorities. The final phrase of our prayer reminds us, as well as commits us, to submit all our requests to the glory of Jesus.
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Jason Janz. Alone with God: A Practical Plan for Dynamic Devotions. JourneyForth, 2006. 156 pp.
Chapter 1: It’s All about a Relationship
During my college years, I took a year off to travel. During that year, I took a trip that changed my life. My best friend and I planned a three-month missionary trip to Africa. We spent six weeks in the jungles of the Congo and six weeks in Kenya, a more modern African country. Plans developed smoothly until just before departure. I fell madly in love with a girl named Jennifer.
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