Our Next Study

Here are the suggestions I received for our next study, in no particular order. You can click on the name to see the book's page @ Amazon. Remember, voting closes Sunday @ 6:00 pm. That means you can vote at my house Sunday night.

1. Soul Talk - In this extraordinary book, Dr. Larry Crabb introduces a revolutionary way for Christians to experience God. "Soul talk" happens when two Christians talk to each other in a way that results in their passion for God being stirred, ignited, and released.

2. Waking the Dead - Eldredge, who helped to redefine the Christian men's movement with Wild at Heart, broadens his scope to offer this more general spirituality title on being "fully alive." Such a state of total animation is achieved only when Christians can integrate all four "streams" of their lives: discipleship, counseling, healing and warfare. (This last part may surprise some readers, but Eldredge insists that awareness of spiritual warfare actually "may be the most critical" aspect of being fully alive.)

3. What Are Spiritual Gifts? - Those who hold the conventional view of the spiritual gifts listed in Ephesians 4, Romans 12, I Corinthians 12odescribe them as special abilities, powers and enablements. Contrary to this viewowhich, the author asserts, leads believers to focus on individual gifts or powers as opposed to God.

4. Spiritual Gifts - Spiritual Gifts: Their Purpose & Power is a balanced, popular treatment of the gifts of the Spirit. The work includes teaching on thirty spiritual gifts from the Old and New Testaments. A biblically-grounded presentation that includes a clear understanding and respect for the various approaches to modern-day spiritual gifts.

5. Five Love Languages - A seasoned marriage counselor says people feel most loved in a marriage in one of five ways: quality time, words of affirmation, gifts, acts of service, and physical touch. Though we have a primary love language, we can learn a second language so that our spouse's needs are met.

6. Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith - God never changes, nor do the central truths of Christianity. But our understanding of those truths is in constant flux. Christians will always be exploring and discovering what it means to live in harmony with God and each other. Now in softcover, Velvet Elvis offers original and refreshingly personal perspectives on what Christianity is really about.