God's love is vast, boundless, extravagant! How shall we measure it? How shall we respond?

In baptism we are all plunged into the self-emptying life of Jesus, and we are called to live our lives in this way of love. Ruth Burrows draws together insights from Scripture and theology, as well as her experience as a Carmelite for seventy years.

Have you ever been loved with “skimpy love”? Or has your love for someone else seemed to shrivel? Enter the world of God’s extravagant love: It is beyond measure. Careful study of God’s Word, along with delving into ancient customs and symbols from Biblical times, helps us understand His passionate love for all He has created. Sometimes, extravagance is found in the simple things of daily life. We usually think of “extravagance” as spending excessively on material goods. So to use that term for an itinerant teacher who had only one change of clothes and depended on others for food and a place to lay His head seems a stretch. Yet Jesus was the most extravagant person who ever lived. To understand that, we have to revise our notion of “extravagance,” focusing on intangible qualities like thoughtfulness, caring, and humility. In this remarkably imaginative book, Carole Engle Avriett guides you through the agriculture, diet, and commerce of Jesus’s culture to shed new light on God’s nature. Reading it, you will gain a deeper understanding of God’s love—a love of astonishing extravagance.

You are deeply loved by God. You are very dear to Him. He absolutely adores you! You are His most precious creation. You are His beautiful child. You are His beloved.

This is an extravagant love story of a woman who loved too much all the wrong people, places, and things. To be hungry for love was all she could think of. Who would love her unconditionally? Who would understand the depth of her heart? Who would deliver her from herself? She has never experienced such a divine love as that with Jesus Christ. She needed a father so desperately that she looked for love in men who were twice her age. She couldnaEUR(tm)t fill that empty spot until she met the one who made her heart the lover of her soul, the Father that she needed and so much more. She has never been the same after she met Jesus Christ. As you read, you will discover the depth of the love of the Father God, our Papa, our Abba.

"When church historians reflect on the worship revolution that happened around the turn of the 21st century, Darlene Zschech will be credited for playing a major role," Bill Hybels says. While challenging the Christian in the congregation to be an extravagant worshiper, Zschech also presents valuable insights and help for the worship leader. These are the words of a woman of God who lives what she writes.

A liturgical resource book that covers the months of February, March and April. It includes prayers, responses, stories, songs, poems, liturgies, reflections, scripts and monologues for the major Christian festivals and fast days of Lent and Holy Week, as well as for Candlemas, Fair Trade Fortnight and Earth Day. The material is written by Iona Community members, associates, friends and others.

Following Rabbi Jesus is a surprising exposure of who the Jesus we find in the Gospels really is, what he teaches those who dare to follow him, and how he models what it means to live God’s radical-kingdom way. The reader of the book will discover in this exploration a very different Jesus from the celebrity or hero of much popular church culture, the tame, ineffective Jesus of compromised Christianity, and the inaccessible, conceptual Christ of much academic theology. The reader who takes the chance of honestly engaging the Jesus we meet in the Gospel stories may find an engaging and liberating contrast to the life he is now living. He may even want to make a turn or two, and start over.

All marriages face challenges – seasons of distress and frustration, when thanks to any number of circumstances, you don't feel as close as you once were. Bob Lepine helps you work through the trials that emerge in every marriage, helping you make the adjustments necessary to build a marriage God intends for you to have.