We know we are made for more. We know something is wrong. We know it needs to be set right again. Three tenets of a creed we all share, drawing us closer to a God we all know. Every person is on a spiritual journey---and deep within, each of us suspects there is something more. We find hints of what we seek in the stories we tell, the wonders we create, and the religions we profess. Inklings of God explores the ways we find meaning in the joys and pains of everyday life, offering glimpses of someone who is with us in our searching, who is searching for us in return. Author Kurt Bruner says, 'I want us to feel our way together along the cracks of life in order to discover the unknown God who constantly drops hints all around us, and to explore what our common encounters suggest about our common creed. The hints I'll give grow out of those times I have paused after stumbling---unexpected moments when the heart invites us closer to God.' Bruner takes a fresh, provocative approach to some of the most difficult questions of human experience: How can a good God allow suffering? Why is there evil in the world? Do all religions lead to the same God? He finds answers to these burning questions in such unexpected places as laughter, music, sex, sorrow, art, science, beauty and even death. Through it all, he shows how each moment offers an opportunity for intimate encounters with a God who is never far away. Moving beyond the comfortable assumptions of canned religion, Bruner writes for everyone desperate to scratch their spiritual itch, helping all of us recognize and heed the inklings of God in our everyday experiences. Inklings of God traces every clue to its source to discover what we've suspected: the finger behind the fingerprints, the author behind the story, and the artist behind the masterpiece called life.

Inklings of God: What Every Heart Suspects

Religion & Spirituality

Bruner, Kurt

Christian Books & Bibles

Zondervan

Let the critics take their best shot. When the smoke clears, Christianity is still standing. Lots of books have been written on apologetics---savvy defenses of the Christian faith. But should your faith really depend on your ability to outsmart every critic? I Still Believe invites doubters, skeptics and others to open fire through candid interviews with a wide range of unbelievers, from the gentle offended to the angry antagonist. Rather than making a case for faith, it turns the tables by asking unbelievers to make their case for unbelief. When you truly listen, you gain a better understanding of their underlying feelings and mind-set; suggesting a deeper, unspoken reason millions reject Christian truth. See for yourself why the burden of proof lies with the unbeliever, not you. I Still Believe lets you eavesdrop on conversations with people who find Christianity hard to swallow. Hear what they've got to say with a compassionate heart, but also an objective mind. You'll understand them better. But in the end, you'll also be able to look them confidently in the eye and say, 'I still believe.'

I Still Believe: How Listening to Christianity's Critics Strengthens Faith

God Has a Purpose for Your Family Turnaround at Home is a guide to creating a God-honoring home for your kids, no matter what model you had as you grew up. Drawing from their own inspiring stories, the authors: Help you understand your emotional, spiritual, and social background Give biblical encouragement for creating positive cycles in marriage and parenting Offer 50 practical ideas for becoming intentional as couples, parents of young children, parents of teens, and grandparents Family patterns can be renewed in your generation. Turnaround at Home will help you make changes for good—starting at home.

Turnaround at Home: Giving a Stronger Spiritual Legacy Than You Received

HIBBS, JACK

Hibbs, Lisa

David C. Cook

Family Growth Electives brings together adults from similar life stages and situations to share the major concerns of their lives. Choose from seven titles that draw adult students into open sharing that provides collective wisdom and insight on marriage, parenting, and other family matters. Includes reproducible student pages.

Building a Heritage (Heritage Family Builders)

About the Author\nKURT BRUNER hosts DriveFaithHome.com to help churches reach and disciple busy families. He has worked with hundreds of churches as they customize a ministry model pioneered while he served as pastor of spiritual formation at the 20,000 member Lake Pointe Church in Rockwall, Texas. The bestselling author of more than twenty books, Kurt spent twenty years with Focus on the Family where he served as Vice President over films, books, magazines, radio drama, broadcasting, and other media groups including the popular Adventures in Odyssey team.\nSTEVE STROOPE (B.A., Hardin Simmons University; M.Div., Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary) served as the Lead Pastor for 40 years at Lake Pointe Church in Rockwall, Texas. He is now the Founding Pastor. Church attendance under his leadership grew from 53 at its inception to over 11,000 today. Steve also provides coaching to partnership churches and missionaries in Africa, Australia, New Zealand, China, Cuba, Russia, Mexico, France, South Africa, and North America. He is a sought-after speaker, both nationally and internationally, and is co-author of Money Matters in the Church. He and his wife, Marsha, have two grown daughters and five grandchildren.\nAs Your Children Grow, Will Their Faith Grow Too? 
As both stories and statistics attest, the number of evangelical children who abandon Christianity in adulthood is staggering. To see effective change, parents cannot leave their child’s faith to chance. Rather, families must start nurturing faith early—you cannot start once your child is grown, you must start at home. 
Strengthening family and home life is the best way to encourage your children to maintain a lifelong faith. It Starts at Home upholds marriage and family as the proving ground for lasting success. Experienced pastors Kurt Bruner and Steve Stroope provide a clear purpose, an effective strategy, and a simple plan for anyone who wants to be intentional in their homes. Their insights will help leaders recalibrate their priorities by asking them to evaluate their leadership where it counts most. This newly revised edition evaluates the current trends families and young adults face that can contribute to this crisis. Don’t let your child’s faith fade to memory—learn how you can create a home that will prepare them for lifelong faith.

It Starts at Home: A Practical Guide to Nurturing Lifelong Faith

Stroope, Steve

Moody Publishers

Over the past several years church leaders have seen one report after another stating that over 50% of evangelical kids walk away from Christianity as adults. Believing the best strategy for turning the tide is to strengthen families, the authors seek to challenge leaders to restore their homes as the proving ground of meaningful success. It Starts at Home upholds marriage and family as the proving ground for lasting success. It helps recalibrate a leader’s priorities by asking them to evaluate their leadership where it counts most. Experienced leaders, speakers, and pastors Kurt Bruner and Steve Stroope provide a clear purpose, an effective strategy, and a simple plan for couples, parents, grandparents, and church leaders in this movement toward intentionality in the home. (120 Day Assessment, Plan &amp; Ideas included.) It isn't too late.

Recently named the number-one piece of twentieth century literature, The Lord of the Rings trilogy is more than a great story. It's a much-needed reminder that, like J. R. R. Tolkien's hobbits, we Christians are all on an epic quest. In examining the Christian themes in the trilogy, authors Kurt Bruner and Jim Ware find that truth and fiction are not as far apart as they seem. And that although Tolkien never intended for these books to present the gospel, when read in the light of Scripture they offer a rich tapestry of redemption, values, and faith against all odds from which we may learn much.

Finding God in the Lord of the Rings

Ware, Jim

History

SaltRiver

From the parenting experts at Focus on the Family comes a practical resource to help you teach your children what they need to know about God at every age and stage. This book will help you steer your child along the path of knowing, loving, and living with God, offering age-appropriate milestones from the time your child is a toddler until she enters her teen years. From giving your toddler a firm faith foundation to helping your preteen make the right choices, Teaching Kids about God provides specific ways to give your child a solid spiritual base so he can grow up to be all God made him to be.

Teaching Kids about God: An age by age plan for parents of children brom birth to age twelve. (Heritage Builders)

Trent, John

Focus on the Family

In Finding God in the Land of Narnia, best-selling authors Kurt Bruner and Jim Ware explore the deep spiritual themes of redemption and grace found in the popular Chronicles of Narnia series by C. S. Lewis. With amazing clarity that captures the tone and style of C. S. Lewis himself, the authors offer a depth of insight that will surprise even the most ardent Lewis fan. Each chapter will help readers gain not only a deeper understanding of the popular Lewis series, but a deeper understanding of God himself.

Finding God in the Land of Narnia (Saltriver)

Recently named the most popular books of the twentieth century, The Lord of the Rings trilogy is more than a great story. It's a much-needed reminder that we Christians are all on an epic quest. In examining the Christian themes in the trilogy, authors Kurt Bruner and Jim Ware find that truth and fiction are not as far apart as they seem. When read in the light of Scripture, Tolkien's trilogy reveals a rich tapestry of redemption, values, and faith against all odds.

Finding God in The Lord of the Rings

Tyndale Momentum

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Inklings of God: What Every Heart Suspects

I Still Believe: How Listening to Christianity's Critics Strengthens Faith

Turnaround at Home: Giving a Stronger Spiritual Legacy Than You Received

Building a Heritage (Heritage Family Builders)

It Starts at Home: A Practical Guide to Nurturing Lifelong Faith

It Starts at Home: A Practical Guide to Nurturing Lifelong Faith

Finding God in the Lord of the Rings

Teaching Kids about God: An age by age plan for parents of children brom birth to age twelve. (Heritage Builders)

Finding God in the Land of Narnia (Saltriver)

Finding God in The Lord of the Rings