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God has given you strengths and a divine purpose, but sometimes life has a way of beating us down and robbing us of our confidence. If you’re struggling with feelings of unworthiness, inadequacy, or invisibility, Nancy Gavilanes’s Dare to Dream speaks directly to your heart, offering hope and encouragement through six transformative truths―that you are Created, Called, Chosen, Conformed, Clothed, and Commissioned―which will help you break free from the chains of doubt and fear.

Many evangelical churches face the problem of the open "back door"--even as new people arrive, older members are leaving, looking for something else. Combined with this problem is the discipleship deficit, the difficult truth that most evangelicals are not reaching the unchurched at the rates...

The American church faces a discipleship crisis. Instead of following the values of Jesus, many Christians are chasing after what our culture prizes: power, money, and political influence. In Your Jesus Is Too American, Baptist pastor Steve Bezner invites Christians to rediscover what Jesus treasured and incorporate those kingdom values into the church's witness. Bezner shows that Jesus's vision of discipleship points the way toward a different way of being in the world.

Becoming a dragon is a dangerously subtle process: a series of seemingly small choices add up until our hearts and skins are hardened, and we don’t recognize ourselves in the mirror. If you’ve ever felt like you aren’t who you used to be, or who you’re supposed to be, there is a way out...