Bob Beltz

Bookshelves are filled with legions of offerings on home improvement, cooking, stress management, and even brewing beer. But how often do you see a DIY guide to prayer? In Prayer: A Strategy Based on the Teaching of Jesus, Dr. Bob Beltz gives readers exactly that. Drawing on over forty years of experience in ministry, he provides a step-by-step guide to incorporating the Lord's Prayer into your daily prayer life. Beltz takes this powerful prayer of Jesus and transforms it from a rote recitation to an in-depth guide to following the savior's teachings and building your faith. Beltz treats the Lord's Prayer as an outline for living the ideal Christian life. He breaks it down into its seven main components and dedicates chapters to bringing those segments alive. At the end of each chapter, he gives the reader assignments-concrete ideas on how to make the words of the prayer a vital part of your life. He is an advocate for keeping a prayer notebook and provides the reader with tools to create their own. Using a concrete and workable strategy, Dr. Beltz has brought the true teachings of the Lord's Prayer closer to the hearts of believers everywhere.

It's 1968, and sixteen-year-old Bobby Stuart is just trying to get by. His father is MIA in Vietnam, his mother can barely support the two of them with the money she makes waitressing, and his trailer park life makes Bobby the target of wealthy bullies who rule the school. Life gets even more interesting when an emissary from the estate of Lord Charles Stuart of London shows up at the door. The man is there to investigate whether the American Stuarts are descendants of a long-exiled branch of the Stuart line-and possible heirs to the British throne. In England, Bobby encounters people, places, and ideas that he'd only ever dreamed of. The Queen herself invites him to a private Beatles concert at Buckingham Palace, even as the Stuart family starts a campaign to name Bobby as the rightful heir to the throne. Not everyone is pleased to see a young American heading toward the crown, however. Soon, Lisa Stuart, a distant cousin, and Prince Phillip begin a campaign to discredit and humiliate Bobby. But both Bobby and the Queen have some tricks up their sleeves-and sometimes dreams really do come true.

During his uncle's funeral, young Robert encounters a strange Raven-like creature who leads him to the attic of his family's ancestral home. There, an old mirror serves as a portal between this world and another dimension. Robert follows Mr. Raven through the portal to the other world, where he reveals that he is actually Adam, the first man. Adam tells Robert a terrible struggle between good and evil has consumed his world-and at the heart of this battle sits his first wife, Lilith. Robert quickly becomes enmeshed in this new reality, meeting a wounded Lilith and nursing her back to health before she turns on him, rejecting all that he and his fellow humans stand for. He meets Eve, Adam's second wife and the most beautiful woman he's ever beheld, and their daughter, Mara, who opposes Lilith and her evil intentions. A bold retelling for contemporary audiences of the classic story that inspired the likes of C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien, Lilith Redeemed invites readers along on a fantastic journey where superhuman and mythological creatures fight not only for their own survival, but for the fate of humankind.

Just in time for the release of Amazing Grace, the movie about the life of William Wilberforce. This edition of his classic book from 1797, Real Christianity, is paraphrased in modern language and made more accessible to contemporary readers. This is the book that helped abolish the slave trade in the United Kingdom and called Christians to live a more authentic life of faith more than two hundred years ago. The timeless truths it contains will speak to readers in fresh ways today. Christians who eschew cultural Christianity in favor of a real faith in Christ, will find the principles here thought-provoking and applicable. The social justice orientation will appeal to readers of Jim Wallis, Os Guinness, Charles Colson, Shane Claiborne, John Perkins, Bono, and Nancy Pearcey. Readers will also find the book is a good litmus test of the authenticity of their own faith.