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Since its original publication, over 15 million copies of More than a Carpenter have been distributed in more than 85 languages and changed countless lives. Now, this inspirational classic has been updated for a new generation of seekers with a fresh look, revised material, and a new chapter. Former skeptic Josh McDowell is now joined by his son, Sean, as they examine the evidence about Jesus. Is this first century Hebrew carpenter truly the God he claimed to be? Or was he just a good man and maybe a little crazy? More than a Carpenter offers arguments for faith from a skeptic turned believer and now includes new content that addresses questions raised by today’s popular atheist writers. Read the story. Weigh the facts. Experience his love. And then watch what happens. (
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Is the Bible historically reliable? Is there credible evidence of Christ's claim to be God? Will Christianity stand up before 21st century critics? In this culture where truth is relative and all religions are seen as equal, Christians face a growing challenge to know their faith is relevant and credible. 
Jessica falls for the enemy’s lie until she learns the truth about the truth. Members of the Westcastle church youth group sign on for a mission trip to a remote Mali tribe. Jessica, who is sixteen, finds that she cannot cope with the kind of “truth” that she has believed in because of the difficulties she encounters – the breakup with her boyfriend, theft of her valuable heirloom jewelry, and terrifying nightmares. The group’s leaders, who her that truth is not individually determined, it is discovered in the Bible and is real and unchangeable. Unseen forces pull Jessica in the opposite direction. The devious demon Ratsbane directs his hideous underlings to cause chaos and confusion in the mission camp. Jessica must choose to endure the terror of her nightmare in real life or see someone who has wronged her suffer without mercy. 
Tired of endless battles to stay hot and be cool with the “in” crowd? Wondering if there’s more to life than what the world tries to sell you? Willing to make a daily sacrifice to experience a total life worth living? Then refuse the cheap substitutes that the world calls “the good life.” Revolt against the fatal urge to follow the path of least resistance. The devotions in Youth Devotions 2 can provide your life with a daily blast of power and purpose for your real-world existence. It’s the ultimate transformation by Christ – into a life of deep conviction and devotion to the one true God. The One Year Do-Able Daily Devotions. Start any day. The one year way. Do-able – Just pick up this book and start on today’s date. Daily. Learn about God and what’s really important, a little bit each day. Devotions – Find out how you can connect with God! Grow with God the One Year way. Jesus Christ is the true source of power to let you be what you were meant to be and live as you were meant to live. 
Research reveals that more than three out of four teenagers (78%) named their parents as the greatest influence on their thoughts and actions – greater than fourteen other sources of influence. In fact, parents have three to seven times more impact on their families than does the culture. That means you as a parent have more influence over your children than their peers, teachers, the church and even the Bible! Josh, along with Kevin Johnson, offers inspiration and challenge through captivating stories and insights from the pages of Scripture in Family Devotions 2. Your family will reap the benefits of a systematic journey together into the truth of God’s Word. 
Written for teenagers to use in their daily quiet time readings, this book will make them laugh or cry. Some are fiction, some are stranger than fiction, but each will help you discover how to make right choices in the everyday ups and downs of life. Josh McDowell’s One Year Book of Youth Devotions is a daily adventure in making right choices. Teens will be challenged and inspired to live as “children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe” (Philippians 2:15). (Also see: 
With a one page devotion for each day of the year, this book will help your family discover the truth about always making right choices. Each day includes a short Bible reading, a key verse, and a fun-filled challenging or inspiring short story designed to enable you to pass on biblical values to your children. Use Josh McDowell’s One year book of Family Devotions to equip those you love to think and live as “children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe” (Philippians 2:15). (Also see: 
This book explains the philosophy behind the current use of the term “Tolerance”, and why is it a flawed concept. Christians need to take a public stand for truth and teach their children an absolute sense of right from wrong. In The New Tolerance, Josh McDowell and Bob Hostetler provide for us a picture of the true nature of this cultural movement of “tolerance” and its dangerous agenda. The New Tolerance will help you understand the modern doctrine of tolerance and equip you to counter its dangerous and subtle effects on your children and your faith. 
This Is Christ Really God 13-Session Interactive Group Course features Josh McDowell sharing how your young people have adopted distorted beliefs about God, truth and reality and what you as adults can do about it. Step-by-step he explains how to lead your kids to know "why we believe what we believe" and how that is truly relevant to their everyday lives. This series provides the perfect launch for your group to build the true foundation of Christianity in the lives of the family, beginning with adults. The kit includes five sessions on DVD of approximately 30-minutes each, a DVD Leaders Guide, an 8-session interactive course with leader instructions for eight 60-minute lessons, and a complimentary copy of The Last Christian Generation companion book. 
Companion Children’s study to Adult & Youth Study “IS CHRIST REALLY GOD?” Josh McDowell believes that the majority of our children are not embracing the foundational truth of Christianity. Unless this trend is reversed within four to eight years, the children you minister to will have their entire Christian faith undermined. Because of your children move into adolescence and adopt the distorted beliefs not embraced by most churched teenagers. . . Nearly two out of three won’t believe that Jesus is the Son of the one true God. Half will deny that Jesus actually rose from the dead. More than two out of three will reject the Holy Spirit as a real entity. An overwhelming four out of five will claim all truth is relative. This workbook course strikes at the heart of the most common distortions of Christianity and corrects them. Equipped with one Leader’s Guide for both Children’s Workbooks for Grades 1-3 and Grades 4-6, this course will enable you to lead your children to discover: Why God wants to be our friend; How sin affects our friendship with God; Why Jesus in our only way to God; Why Jesus had to die for us; and many other biblical truths. Guide your children to know why Christ is who he claimed to be and you will be building their faith on The True Foundation – Jesus Christ. 
This Is Christ Really God? 13-Session Interactive Group Course will enable you to lead your students to this convincing conclusion: the ways of the world do not produce true meaning in life -- only Christ as the true Son of God can transform our dead lives into a dynamic and meaningful life in relationship with him. The kit includes DVD sessions with dramatic vignettes, a DVD Leaders Guide with creative activities for five 60-minute lessons, an 8-session interactive course with leader instructions for eight 60-minute lessons, and a complimentary copy of The Deceivers NovelPlus book. As a foundational building block of Christianity this series offers overwhelming evidence that Christ is the Messiah and challenges each student to commit totally to him.
Written for teenagers, this book exposes and answers 42 myths about Christianity that teenagers often hold. It covers the subjects of God, Jesus, the Resurrection, Religion & Christianity, and Life and Happiness. They get information from their parents, their peers, their teachers and the world. What’s right? What’s wrong? Don’t Check Your Brains at the Door discusses common myths, which many people accept without thinking, and evaluates them in the light of the Bible.
This book explains to parents and pastors how we can teach young people to know the difference between right and wrong. Church leaders and parents are aware that kids are veering away from biblical values at an alarming rate. One extensive study showed that among church youth over half cannot affirm that an objective standard of right and wrong exists. In Right from Wrong, Josh McDowell and Bob Hostetler provide the tools to reverse this alarming decline. This book provides families and the church with a defense of truth that will enable adults to equip their youth with the ability to resist the erosion of their values and determine what is right from wrong. 
This book contains answers to the top 60 questions posed by non-Christians about Christianity. Josh McDowell and Don Stewart have gone to great lengths in this book to explain many of the sincere inquiries skeptics have about Christianity and have focused on questions that relate to the credibility of Christianity. Answers to Tough Questions Skeptics Ask about the Christian Faith will strengthen the faith of the believer and help to answer the inquiries of the nonbeliever.
Every dad wants his children to: Feel loved and secure; Develop a reputation of integrity; Say that their dad keeps his promises; Stand up to unhealthy peer pressure; Avoid drug and alcohol abuse; Save sex until marriage; Want his advice and counsel; Admit when they’re wrong; Come to him when they’re in trouble or hurting; Admire and respect him as their parent. Josh McDowell shares ten qualities he eventually discovered from the ultimate model of fatherhood that can produce those desired results. Through biblical insight and clear illustrations, you’ll learn a revolutionary way of fathering that will instill rock solid values in your children and enable them to make right moral choices in life.
Contains over 60 apologetics covering the Bible and its reliability, Jesus and his Deity, how Chritianity compares with other religions, the uniqueness of Christianity and key questions asked about Christianity. In A Ready Defense you will find amazing evidence on archaeology, miracles, the resurrection of Jesus, creation, demons, and much more! Whether you are a student, a scholar, or someone simply looking for answers, this book will help you know why you believe. 
Can you prevent your children’s faith from being undermined? The foundations of the Christian faith have been undermined in the lives of our churched teenagers. But by grounding your children early in what you believe and why, you will protect them from these distorted beliefs and establish a firm foundation for their spiritual future. Children Demand a Verdict is written with clarity for children ages seven to eleven and rock-solid answers to seventy-seven foundational questions are provided. How do we know Jesus is God? How could God write a book? Is the Bible always right? Are parts of the Bible make-believe? Did Jesus really come back to life? This book will equip you to start now on the all-important task of deepening your children’s convictions. 
This Christ Up Close & Personal 13-Session Interactive Group Course is designed to equip adults to lead their families to a startling realization: The Holy Spirit is real and desires to live through their lives and consequently wants them to live Christ-like lives. By guiding your adult group through this course you will be challenging them to do no less than become a walking, healthy model of authentic Christ-like living. The kit includes five sessions on DVD of approximately 30-minutes each, a DVD Leaders Guide, an 8-session interactive course with leader instructions for eight 60-minute lessons, and complimentary copies of The Relational Word book and The Reliability of Scripture supplemental DVD. 
Companion Children’s study to Adult & Youth Study CHRIST UP CLOSE & PERSONAL. This curriculum gets at the heart of why God gave us his Holy Spirit and his Word. Scripture is a true revelation of what God is like so we can know him intimately. Understanding that the Bible is personally from God teaches our children that God is passionate about his relationship with us. When they discover how God protected his Word to be the most historically reliable book ever written, they gain an unshakable confidence that what they read from scripture is personally from God. Lead your children to discover: Why God gave us the Bible. How the Holy Spirit reveals his Holy Word to us. Why God protected his Word down through the ages. Why following Jesus means we sacrifice our selfishness. How the Holy Spirit gives us power to live like Jesus. The Leader’s Guide is designed for both children’s workbooks Grades 1-3 and Grades 4-6. 
Do you want a life that is real and meaningful? Most people do. The culture in our society today offers its own way to find that meaning, and the church offers another. Sarah Milford and Ryan Ortiz are caught in the middle. They have discovered that what the world promises them is not that fulfilling, but neither is their experience in the church. That’s about to change. Along with the others in their youth group, Sarah and Ryan are about to embrace a truth about God that will forever change their lives until Ratsbane, a hideous demon from hell, marshals his forces to deceive them into believing a lie – a lit that will keep that truth from them forever.
In The Great Treasure Quest, Josh McDowell and Kevin Johnson create a compelling reason why your child will want to read and absorb the true words of the Bible. This book is written to children ages 7 to 11. The authors map out a quest that will lead your child to the inescapable conclusion that God alone defines truth and that real happiness comes from knowing the person of God found in the pages of Scripture. 
Many Christians long for a deeper understanding of the Bible but lack an effective method of study. In Guide to Understanding Your Bible, Josh McDowell leads you through three simple steps you can apply to all Scripture to elicit the deeper understanding you’ve always wanted. Whether you are a Bible teacher, a small group leader, a searcher, or a Christian who wants to dig deeper, this book will help you become a more discerning student of Scripture. 
In the work of a lifetime, Josh McDowell and his collaborator Bob Hostetler have developed this easy-to-use handbook to help parents, teachers, pastors and youth workers guide today’s young people through the mind fields on the path to adulthood. Drawn from over 6,000 pages of research, this book will equip you to help youth cope with the major issues they face, from simple challenges of growing up to the major traumas of extreme crisis. Each issue is organized to lead you through the helping process in five easy steps for effective analysis and results: 1. Identify the problem, 2. Discover its causes, 3. Determine its effects, 4. View it from a biblical perspective, and 5. Prescribe the right response.
Covering 50 cults and religions, this book is compiled from four major best-selling works by authors Josh McDowell and Don Stewart, Handbook of Today’s Religions offers comprehensive, concise information that exposes the various cults and “isms” so prevalent in the world today. This is a major work, over 500 pages in printed format.
How do you know if it’s true love? Everyone wants to love and be loved, but sometimes it’s hard to tell if what you’re feeling toward someone is really true love. Would it surprise you to know that God cares about your love life even more than you do? Do you believe that He wants you to discover how to discern the true nature of love? Do you define true love the same way that God does? This thirty-day Devotional Journal sectional helps you discover the secret to finding true love. 
“Is what I believe really true?” “Does it really matter?” We all see the stability of certainty in our lives. Having confidence that what we believe is true reinforces that certainty. Many people are finding their confidence undermined by the popular notion that all truth claims are equally valid. Today eighty-eight percent of the U.S. population no longer believes in a moral absolute. The concept of universal truth has given way to the postmodern idea that real truth is either unknowable or nonexistent. In Search of Certainty helps you understand the need to know truth and guide you in your search for it. It is a relationship with the absolute Person of Truth that can and will give certainty, meaning, and purpose to your life. 
Sale item - When a crime is committed at the church, Joe Caruso becomes a likely suspect and his world is turned upside down. Determined more than ever to uncover the secret of his past, Joe discovers far more than he bargained for -- fueling a deep division between two families in the church. In Mistaken Identity, Josh McDowell and Ed Stewart not only offer a captivating tale of action, intrigue, and romance, they show the enormous power of relationships in opening even the most resistant heart to the truth of God's redeeming love.
The majority of our young people no longer embrace true Christianity. What can you do about it? Churched young people do not believe that Christ is the Son of God, they do not believe that the Holy Spirit is a real entity, and they think that ‘doing good’ earns them a place in heaven. Their attitudes and behavior are virtually no different than those of non-Christians. The Last Christian Generation documents the urgency of the crisis and also provides a fresh revelation of the heart of God through seven lifelong responses of a true follower of Christ – a definitive “Christianity 101.”
In The Disconnected Generation, Josh provides a biblical blueprint for entering your children’s world to make that connection at an emotional level so deep that no cultural influence can destroy it. He will help you discover the six relational connection points vital to your young person’s development. And you will learn that such connections will give young people their needed sense of authenticity, importance, security, significance, lovability, and responsibility.
Written for teenagers, this book answers 230 questions that teens have asked about parents, self image, peer pressure, friends, dating, love, sex and abuse.
Relational conflicts in our lives are unavoidable. So, the issue isn’t as much how to avoid conflicts, but how to resolve the conflicts when they happen. Do you feel that your parents never listen to you? Do you feel that they are critical all the time? Do you feel like an outsider in your own home? Do you have friends that you don’t talk to anymore because of conflict? In this devotional book find biblical insights and instructions on resolving relational conflicts in life and help that will guide you in your journey toward maintaining healthy and close relationships with God and others.
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