Bring Your Vision to Life: The guide to turning 'What if?' into Reality

by Ralph McCall

What are your dreams and desires? What are your recurring imaginings or wishes of how things could be that, if fulfilled, would make a significant difference in your life and the lives of others?

What are the dreams that are deeply rooted in your heart? Can you answer this question? Articulating this is often difficult, but this book helps you to do that. If you can articulate your deepest, God-given desires, narrow them down to their essence, and plan for their realization, you can bring them to life.

You could have a vision. But not just a vague idea of a future when you are done with school or your kids are. Whether small or large, your dreams can begin today. This book enables you to take action and journey through the concrete process of identifying, managing, and achieving your vision.

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Social Code

by Cass Tell (a novel)

One billion websurfers; beware of the Social Code Society! Doby, a curious and resourceful software engineer, plays an online computer game that rapidly invades his computer and his life.

After encountering a sensual virtual character, and discovering the game’s nefarious intentions of dominating its players, he attempts to keep from being sucked into the game . . . and to stay alive.

This speedy and suspenseful book presents the reality of an internet world where one’s personal preferences are monitored for marketing purposes, and as a means to dominate and control. It is imperative that you understand this power; otherwise you may unwillingly become part of the ‘Social Code Society’. Social Code: "The rules are good."

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Courage and Calling: Embracing Your God-Given Potential

by Gordon T. Smith

God has called you--first to himself, to know and follow him but also to a specific life purpose, a particular reason for being. This second call, to a defining purpose of mission in life, is often termed a vocation, from the Latin root meaning "calling." And while it has implications for your work or occupation, it also reaches wider. It includes your giftedness, your weakness, your life in community, what you do day to day. In this book, Gordon Smith invites you to discover your vocation by listening to God and becoming a coworker with him.

Questions dealt with: What is my calling? How do I live it out in the midst of difficult relationships or moral challenges? Will my vocation change as I enter a new stage of life? As I cope with competing needs and demands, how can I craft a balanced, ordered way of living? Where do I find the courage to follow God's call?

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Beginning Well

by Gordon T. Smith

"Saints are made by good conversions." In this challenging and provocative book, Gordon T. Smith contends that a chief cause of spiritual immaturity in the evangelical church is an inadequate theology of conversion. Conversion, he says, involves more than a release from the consequences of sin--the goal is spiritual transformation. But there is little transformation without a complete and authentic conversion. The key is beginning well.

In this age of false starts and stunted growth, maturing Christians need help reflecting on and interpreting their own religious experience. Christian leaders need to rethink the way that conversions happen. Beginning Well is a catalyst toward this end. Surveying Scripture, spiritual autobiographies and a broad range of theologies of conversion (Protestant and Catholic, Reformed and Wesleyan), the author seeks to foster in the Christian community a dynamic language of conversion that leads to spiritual transformation and mature Christian living. In the process he moves us from a short-sighted "minimalist" view to one that recognizes seven elements necessary for good conversions.

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Listening to God in Times of Choice, The Art of Discerning God's Will

by Gordon T. Smith

All Christians yearn to live at the center of God's will. But how to discern his will is an art that eludes many of us. And the advice we get often conflicts. Some tell us to look for a divine "blueprint"-the one perfect plan for our lives that we need to find. We are encouraged to search the Scriptures and hunt for signs, trying to uncover the map of our lives that God has drawn.

Others have rejected the blueprint school of guidance for the "wisdom school." With minds renewed by the teaching of Scripture, we are to develop the wisdom necessary to make wise choices. We are told not to expect that there is just one answer to God's will for every decision we face. Several may be possible.

The difficulty with both approaches, writes Gordon Smith, is that they minimize the presence and voice of God in times of choice. Instead, he argues for a third way. He suggests that we develop discernment as a spiritual discipline. By stressing the personal aspects of growing in our relationship with God, we can understand his will, not just in times of crisis but throughout our daily lives.

This book provides no magic formulas, no recipes for guaranteed success-just a lot of insight, gleaned from centuries of lived Christian experience, that will guide and encourage you in the art of discerning God's will.

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