The providence of God is a doctrine Christians struggle to understand. Scripture affirms that God is sovereign and that he governs all the affairs of creation - yet we, his creatures, make choices every day, and God holds us morally responsible for those choices. How can human freedom fit into the “purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will”? Bruce Ware explores this question in God’s Greater Glory.

On January 11, 2020, a novel coronavirus (COVID-19) reportedly claimed its first victim in the Wuhan province of China. By March 11, the World Health Organization had declared a global pandemic. In the midst of this fear and uncertainty, it is natural to wonder what God is doing. In Coronavirus and Christ, John Piper invites readers around the world to stand on the solid Rock, who is Jesus Christ, in whom our souls can be sustained by the sovereign God who ordains, governs, and reigns over all things to accomplish his good purposes for those who trust Him. What is God doing through the coronavirus? Piper offers six biblical answers to that question, showing us that God is at work in this moment in history.

Be inspired by love and forgiveness that conquered communist prisons. Pastor Richard Wurmbrand suffered fourteen years of imprisonment and brutal torture, while his wife Sabina, was treated as a slave in a labor camp. Their only “crimes” were their faith ad witness for Jesus Christ. Through it all, they loved their enemies and sought to win their torturers for Christ. Filmed entirely on location in Romania, including in the very prison where Richard endured torture and solitary confinement, Tortured for Christ is the cinematic retelling of one of the most powerfully inspiring and historically significant testimonies of all time.

Hindsight by Rhonda Taylor Madge takes readers on a journey through a young woman’s tumultuous past, revealing how she fell prey to anxious thoughts that molded her mind and led her to believe she was someone other than who she was created to be. A battle that raged for half a lifetime found resolution only after she allowed God to remove the veil of deception from her eyes that she might see and know the truth.

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