Recommended Reading

Learning to pray is an important part of any faith journey. But prayer can seem like a mystical thing -- a rite reserved for pastors, priests and clerics. When we do try, we often feel stiff, calculated and dry, searching for words that sound "religious." In reality, God doesn't care how you pray; He merely wants to hear from you. More importantly, He's happy to hear anything you have to say. He wants to know the real you -- the you that's filled with doubt, anger, joy and sadness. Through this study, come discover and explore a deeper understanding of prayer. Click on the button below to download and print a copy, or pick up a copy at Horizon in the Chapel Foyer book case.

Download A Pathway to Prayer

Experiencing Prayer with Jesus: The Power of His Presence and Example

By: Henry Blackaby

It’s not an activity. Nor a chore. Prayer is a way of life. Here’s how you can move beyond rituals and discover new intimacy with Jesus. Henry and Norman Blackaby’s thorough study of Jesus’ prayer life reveals astounding truths about God’s intent for prayer. By the time you turn the last page of this 2006 National Day of Prayer book, your old notions will be replaced by the reality of Jesus’ example. You’ll experience the power of heaven and earth being joined together as the King of all creation lays His heart over yours. Your will becomes aligned with His. Discover freedom from methods and formulas, the beauty of a gentle step-by-step reformation process, and let God unfold His mighty purposes for you.

The Power of a Praying Parent

By: Dennis & Barbara Rainey

Stormie Omartian's bestselling The Power of a Praying(R) series (more than 28 million copies sold) is re-released with fresh new covers and new material to reach a still-growing market of readers eager to discover the power of prayer for their lives. After 20 years of raising her son and daughter alongside her husband, Michael, Stormie looks back at the trials and joys of parenting and the power in praying for her children. In these easy-to-read chapters, Stormie shares from personal experience as to how parents can pray for their kids.

Two Hearts Praying As One

Dennis and Barbara Rainey, founders of FamilyLife, help couples establish the important daily habit of praying together, offering personal stories and answering questions about the dynamics of prayer. Daily entries -- including a short devotion, questions for reflection, and a prayer -- take husband and wife through topics related to prayer, spiritual growth, and key marital issues.

The Power of a Praying Woman

Stormie Omartian's bestselling The Power of a Praying(R) series (more than 28 million copies sold) is re-released with fresh new covers and new material to reach a still-growing market of readers eager to discover the power of prayer for their lives. It may seem easier to pray for your spouse, your children, your friends, and your extended family, but God wants to hear your requests for your life too. He loves it when you come to Him for the things you need and ask Him to help you become the woman you have always longed to be. The Power of a Praying(R) Woman is just for you. You'll find personal illustrations, carefully selected Scriptures, and heartfelt prayers to help you trust God with deep longings, not just pressing need

The Power of a Praying Wife

Stormie Omartian's bestselling The Power of a Praying(R) series (more than 28 million copies sold) is rereleased with fresh new covers and new material to reach a still-growing market of readers eager to discover the power of prayer for their lives. Stormie joyfully inspires you to develop a deeper relationship with your husband by utilizing the amazing power of prayer. This uplifting resource is packed with practical advice on praying for specific areas of your husband's life, including his

The Power of a Praying Husband

Stormie Omartian's bestselling The Power of a Praying(R) series (more than 28 million copies sold) is rereleased with fresh new covers and new material to reach a still-growing market of readers eager to discover the power of prayer for their lives. In The Power of a Praying Husband, you'll find the excitement and hope that come from inviting the God who hears and answers prayer into your marriage. Packed with real-life examples and refreshing honesty regarding her own marriage, Stormie encourages you to lovingly intercede for your wife in every area of her life, including her

Custom Home - A Pathway to God's Plan for Your Life

Jesus related to people personally by creating a customized approach for each individual according to their unique doubts, questions, and needs. Come discover how God’s personalized attention can meet us as we search for meaning in our work, relationships, decisions, and faith. The series will feature profiles with historic academics, skeptics and business leaders investigating Christ’s unique strategy. Through this study, come discover how God's personalized attention can meet us as we search for meaning in our work, relationships, decisions, and faith! Click on the button below to download and print a copy, or pick up a copy at Horizon in the Chapel Foyer book case.

Download Custom Home Pathway

Serving - Dig

Reckless Faith

'The stories in the chapters that follow aren't chronological. They're not a history of how I found myself living on the side of a mountain in Mexico, and I'm not sure that would interest anyone but my mother and her friends anyway. Instead, I've mined my journals for those moments when God used the very people I thought I was in Mexico to lead, to lead me. Time and again I've been led to trust God, with my little mustard seed of faith, to see how he not only shows up in our circumstance---but he shows off! It's not because he needs to prove himself; rather, he is demonstrating to a forgotten population---the orphans that I serve---that he will be their Father and Protector and Provider.'

Relentless Hope

“There are far more sticky situations in my day than miraculous moments. I want to hear and see and experience challenges, difficulties, and setbacks and not immediately focus on the failure. Rather, I want to train my eyes to ‘extract the precious’ (Jeremiah 15:19, NASB)—the precious promises, truths, and intimacy God has written into the seemingly worthless pain, setbacks, and suffering we endure.”

Tales of the Defended Ones

Ben and Joseph lose their mothers, but find a family looking just for them. Antonio is rescued from what seems like a hopeless situation. Caitlyn dares to trust that truth will set her free. Jorani is delivered from slavery into the arms of grace. Follow these real-life stories as they take you on a journey to foreign places and extreme struggles. Travel through their challenges and see the hand of the great Storyweaver - our Defender God shielding and defending the defenseless in the amazing ways only he can. These are the tales of the ones left wounded and weak-ones made whole and strong . . .

Tales of the Not Forgotten

Follow these real-life stories as they take you on a journey to faraway lands and unknown faces. Travel through their challenges and see the hand of the great Storyweaver writing endings you’d never imagine! Joel dares to ask for what he can’t have. Seraphina sacrifices what she can’t afford to give. Ibrahim looks for an answer buried out of reach. Christiana, saved by a mission, searches for her own. These are the tales of the ones the world doesn’t see . . . the tales of the not forgotten.

Tales of the Ones Led Out

Priyanka opens her eyes to hope. Adrian stops walking in anger and steps out in faith. Anne-Marie anxiously waits to be heard. Steve runs from his past into a future he couldn't imagine. Shannen spreads the story of the one who never let go. Five real-life stories from around the world show what happens when children listen to the Shepherd who calls them by name. In this collection of 5 real-life stories, a compelling storyteller reveals how God is working in 5 different cultures, calling out to children and adults alike to listen to his voice and follow his leading. Like the other titles in the Storyweaver series, this book highlights some of the difficult and complex physical, emotional, and spiritual struggles of children who have been neglected and abandoned, but makes these struggles

Varietal - Dig

Coincidental - A Pathway to Purpose

Does life ever feel like a series of unconnected, disjointed, and confusing set of events? Esther, a woman of incredible authority and position in the Persian Empire, had a complex and difficult decision to make which threatened not only her position, but the lives of many of her friends. Read this Pathway Study Guide to unravel the story of Esther’s life and in turn help you learn how to recognize God’s unique purpose for yours. Click on the button below to download and print a copy, or pick up a copy at Horizon the Chapel Foyer book case.

Download Coincidental - A Pathway to Purpose

Experiencing God

By: Henry Blackaby

The Experiencing God ministry is even more vibrant today than when it began. As it continues to rise, and the world continues to change, the Experiencing God book has been revised and expanded with more than seventy percent of its material newly written. A modern classic that has sold millions of copies worldwide, Experiencing God is based on seven Scriptural realities that teach us how to develop a true relationship with the Creator.

Godonomics

By: Chad Hovind

How to save our country - and protect your wallet - through Biblical principles of finance

Heaven

By: Randy Alcorn

What will heaven be like? Randy Alcorn presents a thoroughly biblical answer, based on years of careful study, presented in an engaging, reader-friendly style. His conclusions will surprise readers and stretch their thinking about this important subject. Heaven will inspire readers to long for heaven while they're living on earth.

Humility: The Beauty of Holiness

By: Andrew Murray

Often so practical in application that it is overlooked, the answer is found by studying the life and words of Christ (whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your slave). This little book is a loud call to all committed Christians to prove that meekness and lowliness of heart is the evidence by which those who follow the meek and lowly Lamb of God are to be known. Never mind that your initial efforts will be misunderstood, taken advantage of, or even resisted. Instead, learn from the One who came not to be ministered unto, but to serve. For a Christian to be alive, for the life of Christ to reign in and through us, we must be empty of ourselves, exchanging our life for His life, our pride for true, Christlike humility.

Knowing God

By: J. L. Packer

Knowing God brings together two important facets of the Christian faith― knowing about God and also knowing God through the context of a close relationship with the person of Jesus Christ. Written in an engaging and practical tone, this thought-provoking work seeks to transform and enrich the Christian understanding of God. Explaining both who God is and how we can relate to him, Packer divides his book into three sections: The first directs our attention to how and why we know God, the second to the attributes of God and the third to the benefits enjoyed by a those who know him intimately. This guide leads readers into a greater understanding of God while providing advice to gaining a closer relationship with him as a result.

Lord Change My Attitude

By: James McDonald

A bestseller since 2001, Lord, Change My Attitude Before It's Too Late is classic James MacDonald: bold, practical, and communciated in a way designed to set readers free from the negativity that erodes happiness. This new revision now includes study application questions in each chapter to help readers identify the attitudes of the heart that need change in order for God's abundance to flow. While patterns of thinking won't always change overnight, Pastor MacDonald shows readers how to begin to recognize wrong attitudes and work on replacing them with the right ones.

Sitting at The Feet of Rabbi Jesus

By: Ann Spangler

Sitting at the Feet of Rabbi Jesus takes you on a fascinating tour of the Jewish world of Jesus, offering inspirational insights that can transform your faith. Ann Spangler and Lois Tverberg paint powerful scenes from Jesus' ministry, immersing you in the prayers, feasts, history, culture, and customs that shaped Jesus and those who followed him. You will hear the parables as they must have sounded to first-century Jews, powerful and surprising. Sitting at the Feet of Rabbi Jesus will change the way you read Scripture and deepen your understanding of the life of Jesus.

Surprised by Joy

By: C. S. Lewis

"A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere . . . God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous." This book is not an autobiography. It is not a confession. It is, however, certainly one of the most beautiful and insightful accounts of a person coming to faith. Here, C.S. Lewis takes us from his childhood in Belfast through the loss of his mother, to boarding school and a youthful atheism in England, to the trenches of World War I, and then to Oxford, where he studied, read, and, ultimately, reasoned his way back to God. It is perhaps this aspect of Surprised by Joy that we—believers and nonbelievers—find most compelling and meaningful; Lewis was searching for joy, for an elusive and momentary sensation of glorious yearning, but he found it, and spiritual life, through the use of reason.

The Purpose Driven Life

By: Rick Warren

Translated into over 50 languages, The Purpose Driven Life is far more than just a book; it is a guide to a spiritual journey that has transformed millions of lives.Once you take this journey, you’ll never be the same again.

The Way of The Shepherd

By: Dr. Kevin Leman

The Way of the Shepherd is a compact, heart-warming story dotted with humor. It will teach you how to lead the people close to you so they will view their work as a calling rather than merely a job, a place to belong rather than a place to work. It shows leaders how to infuse work with meaning and how to engage, energize, and ignite their workforce and gives employees a better understanding of what makes for a quality work experience.

Waking the Dead

By: John Eldredge

Waking the Dead will help us all find the life Christ promised. Jesus said, “I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.” That’s the offer of Christianity, from God himself. Just look at what happens when people are touched by Jesus―the blind see, the lame walk, the deaf hear, the dead are raised to life. In other words, to be touched by God is to be restored. To become all God meant you to be. That is what Christianity is supposed to do for you―make you whole, set you free, bring you fully alive.

Walking in The Dust of Rabbi Jesus

By: Lois Tverberg

In Walking in the Dust of Rabbi Jesus, Lois Tverberg challenges readers to follow their Rabbi more closely by re-examining his words in the light of their Jewish context. Doing so will provide a richer, deeper understanding of his ministry, compelling us to live differently, to become more Christ-like. We'll begin to understand why his first Jewish disciples abandoned everything to follow him, to live out his commands.

You Can Understand the Book of Revelation: Exploring Its Mystery and Message

By: Skip Heitzig

Revelation. It’s often the book of the Bible that Christians, pastors, and seminaries have the most trouble understanding. But Skip Heitzig, the dynamic senior pastor at Calvary of Albuquerque―one of the nation’s largest churches―is eager to bring clarity to the mystery of Revelation and share why it’s an important, relevant, and exciting book to explore.

Leader of Leaders - Dig

Moses: A Man of Selfless Dedication

By: Charles Swindoll

Was he the sleek-and-trim, fun loving animated man in The Prince of Egypt or the handsome, strong-hearted, superstar played by Charlton Heston in The Ten Commandments? The most likely answer is "neither." The Bible gives a much more accurate picture of the Moses God used in such remarkable ways, Charles Swindoll paints a portrait of the biblical Moses in this fascinating look into the heart and mind of Moses: A Man of Selfless Dedication.

Healing/Grieving - Dig

A Grief Observed

By: C. S. Lewis

Written after his wife's tragic death as a way of surviving the "mad midnight moment," A Grief Observed is C.S. Lewis's honest reflection on the fundamental issues of life, death, and faith in the midst of loss. This work contains his concise, genuine reflections on that period: "Nothing will shake a man -- or at any rate a man like me -- out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself." This is a beautiful and unflinchingly honest record of how even a stalwart believer can lose all sense of meaning in the universe, and how he can gradually regain his bearings.

Parenting - Dig

Boundaries With Kids

By: Henry Cloud

What the award-winning Boundaries has done for adult relationships, Boundaries with Kids will do for you and your children. Here is the help you need for raising your kids to take responsibility for their actions, attitudes, and emotions.

Grace Based Parenting

By: Tim Kimmel

Kimmel, author and founder of Family Matters ministries, likens many Christian parents' attempts at rearing children to putting together a puzzle without first studying the completed picture located on the box's cover. Kimmel states that families of faith tend toward extremes, either being overly permissive or overly legalistic. Kimmel asserts that this "radical" mode of parenting will meet the three essential needs in kids' lives: for security, significance and strength. He assures parents that these needs can be met with grace-laced love, purpose and hope. Kimmel's gentle heart is evident in every chapter, and his obvious passion will spur frustrated parents to keep at the task with new resolve and optimism.

How To Really Love Your Child

By: Dr. Ross Campbell

You know you love your child. You attend school events, care for physical needs, and discipline when needed. But did you know that most children, even in loving households, doubt that they are genuinely and unconditionally loved? In Dr. Ross Campbell’s groundbreaking book, he explains the emotional needs of a child and provides you with skills that will help your child feel truly loved and accepted. Using eye contact, affirmation, and spiritual nurturing, you’ll learn to really love your child no matter what the circumstances.

How To Really Love Your Teen

By: Dr. Ross Campbell

Even parents who deeply love their teen don’t always know how to express that love in a way that makes their teen feel loved and accepted. In How to Really Love Your Teen, Dr. Campbell helps you create a balanced approach to parenting in the teen years.

Raising a Modern Day Knight

By: Robert Lewis

The medieval custom of knighthood offers an unique approach to shaping a boy into a strong, godly man. Centuries ago, select boys went through a rigorous, years-long process of clearly defined objectives, goals, and ceremonies―with the hope of achieving knighthood. Along the way, they acquired a boldly masculine vision, an uncompromising code of conduct, and a noble cause in which to invest their lives. They were the heroes of their age.

Women - Dig

Discerning the Voice of God: How to Recognize When God is Speaking

By: Priscilla C. Shirer

From the pen of one who has been where you are: loving God and longing to hear his voice, Priscilla Shirer shares her insights based on practical experience and years of biblical study in this new edition of Discerning the Voice of God. In it she writes: Through His longsuffering and steadfastness, God has invited me to know Him better. And the more intimate I’ve become with Him, the more acquainted I’ve become with His voice. He has proven Himself to me not because I’m more special than anyone else, but because He loves proving His Word is true—to all His children. To you.

The Power of a Praying Woman

By: Lenya Heitzig and Penny Rose

Stormie Omartian's bestselling The Power of a Praying(R) series (more than 28 million copies sold) is re-released with fresh new covers and new material to reach a still-growing market of readers eager to discover the power of prayer for their lives. It may seem easier to pray for your spouse, your children, your friends, and your extended family, but God wants to hear your requests for your life too. He loves it when you come to Him for the things you need and ask Him to help you become the woman you have always longed to be. The Power of a Praying(R) Woman is just for you. You'll find personal illustrations, carefully selected Scriptures, and heartfelt prayers to help you trust God with deep longings, not just pressing need

Having A Mary Heart in a Martha World

By: Joanna Weaver

With nearly a million copies sold, Joanna Weaver's popular book shows women how to blend intimacy with Jesus and service for Him. An invitation for every woman who feels she isn't godly enough...isn't loving enough...isn't doing enough. The life of a woman today isn't really all that different from that of Mary and Martha in the New Testament. Like Mary, you long to sit at the Lord's feet...but the daily demands of a busy world just won't leave you alone. Like Martha, you love Jesus and really want to serve him...yet you struggle with weariness, resentment, and feelings of inadequacy.

Jesus Calling: 365 Devotions for Kids

By: Sarah Young

After many years of writing in her prayer journal, missionary Sarah Young decided to listen to God with pen in hand, writing down what she believed He was saying to her through Scripture. Others were blessed as she shared her writings, until people all over the world were using her devotionals. They are written from Jesus' point of view, thus the title Jesus Calling. It is Sarah's fervent prayer that our Savior may bless readers, and now young readers, with His presence and His peace in ever deeper measure.

Live Beautifully: A Study in the Books of Ruth and Esther (Fresh Life Series)

What kind of beauty does God honor? It doesn’t have to do with being a size six. Of course, you might know that in your head already. But how can the truth sink into your heart? Live Beautifully explores the stories of Ruth and Esther, two women who lived out true beauty. Ruth was a foreigner who made a scandalous choice that brought God’s favor. Esther was a Jewish orphan in a foreign land whose risky decision saved an entire nation. God saw beauty in Ruth’s and Esther’s lives—just as he sees radiant beauty in you. Come embrace that truth through the lessons in Live Beautifully. Each twenty-minute lessonis structured in five parts: Lift up (prayer), Look at (God’s Word), Learn about (new insights), Live out (application), Listen to (quotes from other believers). The Fresh Life series was created by women, for women—women who crave a profound experience of God’s Word without an overwhelming commitment of time. With each lesson, you will come to a deeper understanding of the truths of the Bible and develop a deeper intimacy with God.

Pathway to God's Plan: Ruth and Esther (The Women's Bible Journal)

By: Lenya Heitzig and Penny Pierce Rose

Bible study, commentary notes, and journaling questions guide women through Ruth and Esther, helping them apply biblical truths to their lives. Whether sharing their discoveries in small groups or using the book for individual study and reflection, women will find fresh insights in this book.

The Confident Woman

By: Anabel Gillham

Many women believe that if they try hard enough to be the perfect Christian woman, God will honor their efforts. But God does not call them to be perfect. He wants them to be confident--confident in His love and acceptance. As a mentor, friend, and former perfection-seeker, Anabel Gillham shares how women can experience the transforming touch of confidence as they: understand who they are in relation to Christ and to others, recognize their three biggest needs and discover how God meets them, and rely on God for their value, worth, and success.

Men - Dig

The Man God Uses: 14 Characteristics of a Godly Man

By: Chuck Smith

Do you want to become an instrument that God can use to accomplish His will? In this inspiring book, Chuck Smith, examines the personal characteristics of the people God used throughout the Scriptures. What made these people so different that God chose them? With remarkable insight, Chuck reveals five essential components of prayer; the danger of a lukewarm Gospel; and the secret to the apostles' boldness.

The Man In The Mirror

By: Patrick Morley & R.C. Sproul

The Man in the Mirror has established itself as a cornerstone in men's literature since its 1989 release. Winner of the prestigious Gold Medallion Award and appearing on the bestseller list eighteen times, it has helped thousands of men understand the person who stares back at them from the glass each morning and know what to do about his twenty-four most difficult problems. Written by a foremost Christian men's leader, this powerful book invites men to take a probing look at their identities, relationships, finances, time, temperament, and most important, the means to bring about lasting change.

Marriage - Dig

Boundaries

By: Henry Cloud

Learn when to say yes and when to say no--to your spouse and to others--to make the most of your marriage Only when a husband and wife know and respect each other’s needs, choices, and freedom can they give themselves freely and lovingly to one another. Boundaries are the “property lines” that define and protect husbands and wives as individuals. Once they are in place, a good marriage can become better, and a less-than-satisfying one can even be saved.

Love and Respect

By: Emerson Eggerichs

Based on over three decades of counseling, as well as scientific and biblical research, Dr. Emerson Eggerichs and his wife, Sarah, have already taken the Love and Respect message across America and are changing the way couples talk to, think about, and treat each other. What do you want for your marriage? Want some peace? Want to feel close? Want to feel valued? Want to experience marriage the way God intended? Then why not try some Love and Respect.

Love and War

By: John and Stasi Eldredge

With astonishing vulnerability that engages readers from the first page, John and Stasi Eldredge openly discuss their own marriage and the breakthroughs they have won from the challenges they’ve faced. Each talks to the reader about what he and she have learned, providing a balance between male and female perspectives that has been absent from previous books on this topic.

Rocking the Roles

By: Robert Lewis

Rocking the Roles explains how marriage can be a perfect blend of structure and equality, balance and beauty. Transform your relationship by learning about: Common misunderstandings about marriage Core roles that don’t limit choices What spouses most need to understand about each other What submission and authority is and is not Sexuality Build a marriage on a firm foundation of Scripture, forgiveness, and a healthy understanding of who we are in Christ.

Sacred Marriage

By: Gary Thomas

Your marriage is more than a sacred covenant with another person. It is a spiritual discipline designed to help you know God better, trust him more fully, and love him more deeply. What if God’s primary intent for your marriage isn’t to make you happy . . . but holy? Sacred Marriage doesn't just offer techniques to make a marriage happier. It does contain practical tools, but what married Christians most need is help in becoming holier husbands and wives. Sacred Marriage offers that help with insights from Scripture, church history, time tested wisdom from Christian classics, and examples from today's marriages.

Staying Close

By: Dennis and Barbara Rainey

Countless married couples end up living alone – in the same house. Over twenty-eight years of conducting "Weekend to Remember" conferences have convinced Dennis and Barbara Rainey that isolation is the number-one problem in marriages today. But they believe it's possible to overcome "marital drift" and experience the miracle of oneness. This book provides a positive, workable strategy for keeping your marriage vital and intimate.

Related to Horizon Message Series - Dig

Coincidental - A Pathway to Purpose

Download Coincidental - A Pathway to Purpose

Honest to God - A Pathway to Prayer

Download A Pathway to Prayer

Custom Home - A Pathway to God's Plan for Your Life