Eddie Rasnake

The Bible likens the Christian life to a marathon. The apostle Paul said, "Run in such a way that you may win." Following God(TM)" First Steps for the New Christian will help you start out on the right foot and stay there with practical studies designed to get new runners in shape to finish the race. As a new or maturing Christian, you probably have many questions about your faith and are struggling to find the answers. Don't feel alone In this book, Eddie Rasnake vividly recalls his own early struggles and insecurities. He felt compelled to write this book in an effort to encourage new believers in their faith. Designed as a twelve-week study course, each lesson has been prepared to ground you in an essential stepping-stone of the faith.

"How can the contents of a book written so long ago have anything to do with me?" some might ask. The truth is that Luke's narrative of the first century church is justs as relevant today as the day it was first penned. It's message is needed just as much, and its impact has not faded over the generations. In the words of author Eddie Rasnake, "The book of Acts are more than mere history. It is full of life principles for today to guide the chruch and the Christian's walk " The desire to learn from the first century church prompted Eddie to search out the practical life principles within Acts and their timeless applications. The Book of Acts, part 1, is a twelve-week interactive Bible study that covers every single verse in the first twelve chapters of Luke's Biblical record, centerng on the Apostle Peter and the early church. Each week's lesson digs deeply into this treasure trove of spriritual principles called "Acts." As you walk verse by verse through its chapters and become intimately acquainted with all its wealth, you will learn the results of the Holy Spirit coming to dwell in believers and how the gospel spread from Jeruslem and Judaea to the uttermost parts fo the world. In the pages of this of this book you will find spiritual principles for your walk with God like: - How to wait on God - What it means to surrender to the Lord - Trusting God's sovereignty - Dealing with persecution - How to be a witness for Christ Leader's Guide included in the back.

There are 59 "one another" statements in the New Testament that are direct commands. Together, they define God's desire for His people - how He wants us to interact in relationship with each other. The Bible makes it clear that our faith is not an individual sport. In our modern age of isolation, the timeless message of Scripture calls us back to being the "body of Christ" - an interconnected amalgamation of diverse individuals living in community with each other. Over the course of this devotional, we will look at every "One Another" command in the Bible, and hopefully move closer to being the community God desires and Christ is praying for us to be.

This Bible study booklet is a guided self-discovery journey into the Apostle Paul's second letter to the Corinthians. It contains twelve lessons of structured questions designed to help you dig deeper into God's Word. Each lesson also includes challenging prompts for modern application. Topics you will cover include: Trials, A Clear Conscience, Motivations for Ministry, Christian Giving, Repentance, and other related topics.

This Bible study booklet is a guided self-discovery journey into the Upper Room discourse (John 13-17). It contains seven lessons of structured questions designed to help you dig deeper into God's Word. Each lesson also includes challenging prompts for modern application. Topics you will cover include: Unconditional Love, the Second Coming, the Holy Spirit, Eternity, Abiding in Christ, and other related topics.

This Bible study booklet is a guided self-discovery journey into the New Testament book of James. It contains eleven lessons of structured questions designed to help you dig deeper into God's Word. Each lesson also includes challenging prompts for modern application. Topics you will cover include: Trials, Temptation, Obedience, the Tongue, Prayer, Worldliness, and other related topics.

This Bible study booklet is a guided self-discovery journey into the letters to the seven churches in Revelation. It contains seven lessons of structured questions designed to help you dig deeper into God's Word. Each lesson also includes challenging prompts for modern application. Topics you will cover include: leaving your first love, mixing worldly philosophies with the Word of God, tolerating sin, spiritual stagnation, self-sufficiency, and other related topics.

This Bible study booklet is a guided self-discovery journey into selected Psalms. It contains seven lessons of structured questions designed to help you dig deeper into God's Word. Each lesson also includes challenging prompts for modern application. Topics you will cover include: adoration, How God is known, the attributes of God, how to worship, confession and repentance, and other related topics.

This Bible study booklet is a guided self-discovery journey into what the Scriptures teach about the miraculous gifts of the Holy Spirit. It contains six lessons of structured questions designed to help you dig deeper into God's Word. Each lesson also includes challenging prompts for modern application. Topics you will cover include: Words of Wisdom and Knowledge, Faith, Healing, Prophecy, Distinguishing of Spirits, Tongues and Interpretation, and other related topics.

This Bible study booklet is a guided self-discovery journey into the New Testament book of Jude. It contains ten lessons of structured questions designed to help you dig deeper into God's Word. Each lesson also includes challenging prompts for modern application. Topics you will cover include:

This Bible study booklet is a guided self-discovery journey into the Apostle Paul's letter to the Colossians. It contains ten lessons of structured questions designed to help you dig deeper into God's Word. Each lesson also includes challenging questions for 21st Century application. Topics you will cover include: The centrality of Christ, the Christian Walk, the mission of the Church, competing philosophies, putting on the new self, the mission of submission, and other related topics.

A thirty-year-old mother with four small children - the youngest barely three months old - learns she has a rare and aggressive cancer that threatens to alter her family forever. She is diagnosed with stage four non-Hodgkin's T-cell lymphoma, that has metastasized throughout her body. Scans reveal over twenty tumors, scattered in her chest, spine, pelvis, lymph nodes and liver. Initially she is given a 40% chance of survival. After three months of brutal, high-dose chemotherapy her odds of living are reduced to only 20% if chemotherapy has put her into remission. Then she and her husband are given the devastating news: she is not in remission. Doctors offer only one remaining option - a risky, bone marrow transplant with her brother as donor.This gripping story reads like a fast-paced novel, but it is not fiction. Her first-hand account relates how her faith is tested through intense trial, and how she and her husband are able to walk in God's powerful grace when they believe she is going to die. And then...the story takes a miraculous turn At the eleventh hour, God astounds her physicians as He intervenes in a supernatural way.

David as a young man anointed as king over Israel... Josiah, the "boy king..". Nehemiah leads the people to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem... These men and others are Old Testament examples of leadership qualities we can all learn from today. Both the good and the bad are examined in-depth to show insights in Following God's Life Principles from the Kings of the Old testament. As part of the following God's Character Studies," this workbook study contains twelve lessons on men whose lives God worked to shape and teach others in Israel, in Judah, and for future generations who read God's Word. In the study you will come face to face with such questions as: "* What does is mean to truly confess sin (as in the life of David)?" "* What is true wisdom (as in the life of Solomon)?" "* Who really gets glory in times of victory (Asa)?" "* Who can we turn to when our enemies rise up against us (Nehemiah)?"

"God Recorded Their Lives for a Purpose-So We Can Learn from Them." " " "Noah and the ark...Jacob's ladder of angels...Joseph's coat of many colors...Moses and the burning bush...Joshua and the Battle of Jericho...Samson and Delilah." "All of these are stories many of us have bee familiar with since we were children, and they're the same stories we tell our own children. It can be all too easy to see these people as merely characters. In fact, that's what we often call them- Bible characters." But they are so much more than that " "They're real people, with all the joys and sorrows, successes and failures, satisfaction and disappointments that make up life. They're people who had to learn to follow God through all kinds of circumstances, and even stumbled on occasion-just like we do. Yet God recorded their lives for a purpose: so we can learn from them what God is like and what it means to follow Him. " "Each of the men in this study found that out in their own unique way, and as you look at their lives you'll soon realize that there's no formula to following God. There are only principles He's giving us, and examples to look at, listen to, and learn from." "In the pages of this book you will come face to face with such questions as: " "* Do you know and accept God's design and purpose for you?" "* Have you committed your life to following God, in spite of the cost?" "* What is God's view of Sin? What are some of sin's consequences?" "* Does a sovereign, almighty God give us choices?"" "