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Right Thinking in a World Gone Wrong: A Biblical Response to Today’s Most Controversial Issues

“Our response to moral questions is not determined by politics, economics, personal preference, popular opinion, or human reasoning. It is, instead, grounded in what God has told us is true about ourselves and our world….God’s Word offers sanity, clarity, and hope.”

–John MacArthur

Trusted Voices Offer Biblical Responses
to Today’s Hot Issues

One of the greatest challenges facing Christians today is the powerful influence of secular thinking. From all directions we’re fed a constant barrage of persuasive—yet unbiblical—worldviews. This makes it difficult to know where to stand on today’s most talked-about issues.

The leadership team at Grace Community Church, along with their pastor, John MacArthur, provide much-needed discernment and clarity in the midst of rampant confusion. Using the Bible as the foundation, you’ll learn how to develop a Christian perspective on key issues—including…

political activism
environmentalism
the cult of celebrity
entertainment and escapism
homosexual marriage
abortion, birth control, and surrogacy
euthanasia and suicide
disasters and epidemics
immigration
God and the problem of evil

Also included is a topical reference guide of Bible verses that address key concerns—a guide that will arm you with right thinking and biblical answers to challenging questions.

Twelve Unlikely Heroes: How God Commissioned Unexpected People in the Bible and What He Wants to Do with You

What kind of people does God use to accomplish His work?

Far from the children’s tales depicted in picture books and nursery rhymes, the men and women highlighted in the Bible were unnervingly real. They faltered. They struggled. And at times, they fell short. Yet God worked through them in surprising and incredible ways to accomplish His purposes. Scripture does not hide their weaknesses, caricature their strengths, or spin their stories as a display of human nobility. Instead, it describes these heroes of the faith with unflinching honesty and delivers an unexpected ending: “God is not ashamed to be called their God” (Hebrews 11:16).

In Twelve Unlikely Heroes, pastor and best-selling author John MacArthur uses his deep knowledge of the Bible and history to take us back to see these three-dimensional men and women in their own times and cultures. In doing so, it becomes clear how their dramatic stories apply to us today. People who might at first seem foreign quickly become familiar and unforgettable—particularly as they reveal the true Hero behind every witness, the power counterbalancing every weakness, “the Author and Finisher of our faith” (Hebrews 12:1).

At the Throne of Grace: A Book of Prayers

Now available in paperback–a best-selling collection of powerful Scripture readings and prayers from Bible teacher John MacArthur.

For more than 40 years, John has steadfastly committed himself to the careful and faithful teaching of God’s Word at Grace Community Church in Southern California. A special outgrowth of this ministry–one that has particularly blessed the congregation at the church–is the heartfelt and God-centered prayers that precede his sermons.

In this book, prayers and Scripture readings from across John’s years of teaching have been brought together to stir Christians toward more edifying communion with God. This book will guide readers, in the most intimate way possible, before God’s throne of grace…so that they expand the horizons of their prayers as they pour out their praises, confessions, and thanksgiving to the Lord.

These prayers are highly personal and filled with content that will encourage believers toward a richer and more meaningful prayer life.

The Only Way To Happiness: The Beatitudes

Jesus’ first recorded sermon in the Bible is a blueprint for being happy here on earth. And though His definition contains no prescriptions for acquiring cars, homes, or savings, it does require transformation and obedience. MacArthur examines Jesus’ timeless definition of happiness, and explains that our reward for following Jesus’ plan is citizenship in the kingdom of God- and an abiding joy that can never be taken away. Study guide and review included for individual or group study.

Ashamed of the Gospel: When the Church Becomes Like the World

In the late 1800s, Charles Spurgeon warned that the church was drifting away from the purity of the gospel, candy-coating God’s Word rather than boldly proclaiming the truths of Scripture. As a result, Christianity’s influence in nineteenth-century England was severely weakened. One hundred years later, John MacArthur, troubled by the seeker-sensitive movement and an emphasis on pragmatism within the church, sounded the same alarm with the first edition of Ashamed of the Gospel.

In this newly revised and expanded edition, MacArthur gives an overview of developments in the seeker-sensitive movement since his book was first published in 1993. New material traces the line of pragmatic philosophy from the seeker-sensitive movement through the Emergent phenomenon, explaining why the latter is a philosophical heir of the former-and an even greater danger; chronicles the failure of pragmatic approaches to church growth; and emphasizes the importance of evangelicals solidly committed to biblical doctrine rising to positions of leadership.

Charismatic Chaos

The charismatic movement of the past quarter-century has made an impact on the church unparalleled in history. But one legacy of the movement is confusion and mushy thinking.

In Charismatic Chaos, John F. MacArthur calls for biblical evaluation and analyzes the doctrinal differences between charismatics and non-charismatics in the light of Scripture. “My principal concern,” writes John MacArthur, “is to call the church to a firm commitment to the purity and authority of the Scriptures, and thereby to strengthen the unity of the true church.”

To tough questions that seem to divide, Charismatic Chaos provides tougher answers that strive to unite. This book tackles such questions as –

Is experience a valid test of truth?
Does God still give revelation?
Prophets, fanatics, or heretics?
Does God still heal?
What should we think of the Signs and Wonders movement?
Does the Bible promise health and wealth?

Successful Christian Parenting

“The market is flooded with wrongheaded approaches to
child-rearing. We are faced with a glut of so-called Christian
parenting helps, but truly biblical resources are rare indeed.”
John MacArthur

More than ever, Christians need to know what the Bible teaches about parenting, and put it into practice.

Embark today on an exciting parenting adventure with Dr. John MacArthur. Bring your Bible, and sit at the feet of one of the greatest Christian teachers of our time. Successful Christian Parenting is not like the popular child parenting programmes that promise some amazing-but-unlikely results.

This book is unlike the pragmatic or formulaic approaches to parenting and family life. It’s not a new “method“ of parenting. Neither is this a book on child psychology. Rather, it presents the time-proven principles of biblical parenting clearly and carefully to help parents make sense of their duties before God and to bring up their children in the ways of the Lord.

Whose Money Is It Anyway? A Biblical Guide to Using God’s Wealth

Reading books on money and giving typically makes us feel worse than when we began.

“I don’t want you to feel worse; I want you to feel better. And the path to feeling better is understanding what the Bible really says about giving and spending. This book will help you do that.”-John MacArthur

John MacArthur has written this no-nonsense book to affirm Christ’s teaching that “it is more blessed to give than to receive.” In this practical, easy-to-read book Christians can find out:

How to give, where to give, and how much to give
Scriptural guidelines for acquiring money and investing it
The right and wrong ways to go about giving
The connection between generous giving and prosperity
Why get-rich-quick schemes like gambling are wrong

“When you give as God has commanded, you will find it liberating, rewarding, joyous, and profoundly enriching”-John MacArthur

Find out in this book how the blessings that go with giving can be yours.

Our Sufficiency in Christ

Christ’s divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness. —2 Peter 1:3

Pure Christianity needs no embellishment whatsoever. We find complete sufficiency in Christ and His provision for our needs.

But too many Christians have bought in to the notion that all the spiritual resources we gain at the moment of salvation are not adequate to meet the real needs in today’s complex world. So they look for something more—an emotionally exciting and self-edifying experience not found in God’s Word. This failure to understand the sufficiency of Christ has opened the door to all kinds of worldy influences, causing many modern believers to mix biblical truths with seemingly helpful man-made methods such as mysticism and psychology. As a result, they wallow in a watered-down, pseudo-Christanity that has been drained of its vitality, effectiveness, and security.

In this book John MacArthur exposes the main ways Christians have displaced their spiritual resources and explains how to avoid making the same error. It will make you newly aware of how completely God provides—and give you a renewed understanding of what it means to be “complete in Christ.”

The Battle for the Beginning

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The battle for a true view of the beginning is not optional. Our faith and the future of our world hang on the truth about creation. Dr. MacArthur insists that when naturalistic and atheistic presuppositions are being aggressively peddled as if they were established scientific fact, Bible-believing Christians “ought to expose such lies for what they are and oppose them vigorously.”Do you know what you believe about creation? Could you defend your views to those who deny the Genesis account? In this book find answers to the tough questions. Learn what the Bible says about how our universe began.

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The battle lines have been drawn. Is the enemy winning?

“Thanks to the theory of evolution,” writes best-selling author John MacArthur, “naturalism is now the dominant religion of modern society. Less than a century and a half ago, Charles Darwin popularized the credo for this secular religion. Naturalism has now replaced Christianity as the main religion of the Western world, and evolution has become its principal dogma.”

Many Christians who claim to believe that the Bible is God’s revealed truth seem willing to allow modern scientific theories to replace the Genesis account of creation. Such compromises present a conspicuous danger. Bible teacher and pastor, John MacArthur, believes that in Genesis 1-3 we find the foundation of every doctrine that is essential to the Christian faith?the vital underpinnings for everything we believe.

The Battle for the Beginning draws a clear line on today’s theological landscape. “Everything in Scripture that teaches about sin and redemption assumes the literal truth of the first three chapters of Genesis. If we wobble to any degree on the truth of this passage,” John MacArthur insists, “we undermind the very foundations of our faith.”

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