"Read by the author.
Twelve lies are holding you back from the life God already promised.
You love God. You read the Bible. You try to do the right things. So why does your faith still feel dry, frustrating, or stuck? You're not alone and it's not because you're doing Christianity wrong. It's because you've been believing lies about what a 'good Christian life' is supposed to look like.
In The Life You Were Reborn to Live, bestselling author and pastor Gary Thomas exposes twelve subtle but powerful deceptions that quietly drain joy and block intimacy with God and shows you how to replace them with freeing truth straight from Scripture.
The 12 Lies That Keep You Stuck:
- Restlessness--believing you'll find peace only when life changes.
- The Need to Control--thinking you can fix what only God can.
- Family First--idolizing loved ones instead of trusting God with them.
- Isolation--choosing independence over the healing power of community.
- Self-Centered Salvation--making faith about you instead of Christ.
- The Need for Comfort--equating blessing with ease.
- The Demand for a Sin-Free Life--trying to earn what grace already gave.
- Apathy Toward the Church--rejecting the very place God designed for growth.
- A Materialistic Worldview--seeing only the visible and missing the supernatural.
- The Allure of Earthly Splendor--chasing applause instead of purpose.
- A Sense of Entitlement--confusing what it means to be rescued.
- Complacent Ignorance--dismissing the small, steady work of wisdom in your everyday life.
This isn't another checklist for spiritual growth. It's an invitation to unlearn. To dismantle the false beliefs that keep you from the abundant, joy-filled life God has already placed within reach.
If you've ever thought, 'I'm doing everything I'm supposed to, but I don't feel close to God,' this book is for you. Because the new life Jesus promised isn't waiting 'someday.' It's waiting on the other side of the lies you didn't know you believed. Step into the life you were reborn to live. Starting today.
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"Your Marriage Can Lead to a Closer Walk with God
Your marriage is much more than a union between you and your spouse. It is a spiritual discipline ideally suited to help you know God more fully and intimately. Sacred Marriage shifts the focus from marital enrichment to spiritual enrichment in ways that can help you love your mate more. Whether it is delightful or difficult, your marriage can become a doorway to a closer walk with God. Everything about your marriage-from the history you and your spouse create, to the love you share, to the forgiveness you both offer and seek-is filled with the capacity to help you grow in Christ's character.
This edition of Sacred Marriage includes all-new videos from Gary. Each session has been updated to include modern research and illustrations, key biblical principles about marriage, and wisdom from Gary's more than twenty years of teaching since its original release. You will also find a wealth of discussion questions in this study guide that will spark meaningful conversation in your group, between you and you spouse, and that you can ponder on your own.
The Audio Bible Studies series provides a unique audio learning experience. Unlike a traditional audiobook's direct narration of a book's text, this audio Bible study includes high-quality, live audio sessions from the author that cover important Bible-based topics. These sessions will reflect the ambiance of the unique recording locations, immersing the listener into the teaching. While not required for the audio experience, these studies are designed to partner with the coordinating study guide, sold separately."
"Votre mari est loin d’être parfait. Votre couple est peut-être en danger. Pourtant, ni les critiques, ni les silences, ni les ultimatums ne semblent le transformer en quelqu’un de meilleur.
Après le succès de son livre pour les couples Vous avez dit oui à quoi?, Gary Thomas va un pas plus loin. Il donne des conseils pratiques aux épouses qui souhaitent devenir une source d’inspiration et d’encouragement aux côtés de leur mari.
Des conseils profondément bibliques, que chaque épouse peut appliquer avant même de terminer la lecture de ce livre.
Dans un style rafraîchissant, ce livre vous aidera à:
- Mieux comprendre comment votre mari réfléchit, ce qu’il ressent, ce qui le motive.
- Être pleinement actrice dans le développement de son caractère et de sa maturité spirituelle.
- Gérer certaines situations difficiles comme sa colère, son absence du foyer, son manque d’intérêt pour la foi, une relation extra-conjugale etc.
- Renouveler votre joie et retrouver du sens au sein de votre couple.
Épouses, votre mari a besoin de vous. Acceptez-vous le défi?"
"Read by the author.
How to keep your marriage together when the trials of life threaten to rip it apart.
It's not a question of if your marriage will face trials. It's a question of when. Illness or injury. Job loss or financial burdens. Addiction. Anxiety. Infidelity. Loss of faith.
Whether you've been married for five months or fifty years, it's within you and your spouse's power to ensure your marriage is prepared for those seasons and situations-a place of refuge and safety for both of you.
In Making Your Marriage a Fortress, Gary Thomas, bestselling author of Sacred Marriage, guides you and your spouse in how to fortify your marriage ahead of time, so that it can withstand any storm or difficult season. You'll:
- Discover helpful and practical principles to strengthen your marriage.
- Learn to detect the warning signs of trouble and how to act on them together.
- Understand how the present state of your marriage-good or bad-is magnified during a crisis.
- Gain spiritual insight about God's view of marriage and how to live it out in all circumstances.
Every marriage will face setbacks and seasons of disappointment, but this book will help you keep your marriage strong. . .for better or worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and health, till death do you part.
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"In this six-session audio Bible study, Sacred Marriage, writer and speaker Gary Thomas invites you to see how God can use marriage as a discipline and a motivation to reflect more of the character of Jesus.
Your marriage is much more than a union between you and your spouse. It is a spiritual discipline ideally suited to help you know God more fully and intimately. Sacred Marriage shifts the focus from marital enrichment to spiritual enrichment in ways that can help you love your mate more. Whether it is delightful or difficult, your marriage can become a doorway to a closer walk with God.
Everything about your marriage-from the history you and your spouse create, to the love you share, to the forgiveness you both offer and seek by turn-is filled with the capacity to help you grow in Christ's character.
Sessions include:
- God's Purpose for Marriage: More Than We Imagine (24:30)
- The Refining Power of Marriage (12:30)
- The God-Centered Spouse (17:30)
- Sacred History (21:00)
- Sexual Saints (23:00)
- Marriage: The Love Laboratory (20:30)
Coordinating study guide available separately.
The Audio Bible Studies series provides a unique audio learning experience. Unlike a traditional audiobook's direct narration of a book's text, this audio Bible study includes high-quality, live audio sessions from the author that cover important Bible-based topics. These sessions will reflect the ambiance of the unique recording locations, immersing the listener into the teaching. While not required for the audio experience, these studies are designed to partner with the coordinating study guide, sold separately."
"In this audio Bible study, Gary Thomas uses a unique lens to look at parenting, moving beyond raising great children to becoming more holy as a person.
What if one of God's primary intentions for you as a parent isn't about successfully raising perfect children, but about you becoming more holy? In Sacred Parenting Gary Thomas illustrates how God can transform lessons in raising children into opportunities to grow in the image of Christ.
It will help you rediscover parenting from a different perspective: as a method of spiritual formation expressly designed by God to shape your soul in ways you could not imagine! This study will help you dig deeper into learning how God can transform dirty diapers, toddler tantrums, and a teenager's silence into occasions for becoming more like Christ.
Sessions include:
- Parenting: God's Hammer on Our Souls (23:00)
- It's All About Him: God-Centered Parenting (16:30)
- The Hardest Hurt of All (20:30)
- Embracing Our Insignificance (23:30)
- The Gold Behind the Guilt (18:00)
- The Sweet Side of Sacrifice (22:30)
Coordinating study guide available separately.
The Audio Bible Studies series provides a unique audio learning experience. Unlike a traditional audiobook's direct narration of a book's text, this audio Bible study includes high-quality, live audio sessions from the author that cover important Bible-based topics. These sessions will reflect the ambiance of the unique recording locations, immersing the listener into the teaching. While not required for the audio experience, these studies are designed to partner with the coordinating study guide, sold separately."
"Millions of married couples have pledged to 'love and to cherish, until death do us part.' Most of us understand and get the love part... but what does it mean to cherish your spouse? Why do we say it once at the wedding and then rarely ever mention it again?
In this six-session audio Bible study, bestselling author Gary Thomas draws on personal stories and teachings from the Bible to show how cherishing can have a powerful effect on marriage. Learning to truly cherish each other turns marriage from an obligation into a delight. It lifts marriage above a commitment to a precious priority. Cherish is the melody that makes a marriage sing.
If you find yourself going through the motions in your marriage, Thomas will walk you and your spouse through real ways to reverse the pattern:
- Erase contempt and honor your spouse
- Stop comparing and focus on the unique traits in your spouse
- Let go of hurts and forgive your spouse
- Go beyond serving and showcase your spouse
- Don't stop trying. The more you cherish your spouse, the more you will cherish your spouse.
Many couples survive by gritting their teeth and holding on. Or they find themselves just 'going through the motions' in their relationship. But cherishing your spouse can reverse this pattern. Cherishing can breathe light, hope, and new life into a marriage--even one marred by neglect and disrespect.
Sessions include:
- To Love and to Cherish (20:00)
- Your Honor (25:00)
- Taking Your Marriage to the Next Level (23:00)
- Cherishing Your Unique Spouse (21:00)
- This Is How Your Spouse Stumbles (22:00)
- Keep on Cherishing (24:00)
Coordinating study guide available separately.
The Audio Bible Studies series provides a unique audio learning experience. Unlike a traditional audiobook's direct narration of a book's text, this audio Bible study includes high-quality, live audio sessions from the author that cover important Bible-based topics. These sessions will reflect the ambiance of the unique recording locations, immersing the listener into the teaching. While not required for the audio experience, these studies are designed to partner with the coordinating study guide, sold separately."
"Since the early Egyptians human beings have formalized the business of learning, setting up a designated environment of some form to pass knowledge and learning on to groups of students. In this second edition of his Very Short Introduction, Gary Thomas explores how and why education has evolved as it has, examining the ways in which it has responded over the centuries to various influences in politics, philosophy, and the social sciences. Focusing on education today, he considers especially the controversies over progressive versus formal teaching, and also examines education worldwide, assessing the accelerating trend on both sides of the Atlantic of the move to charter, academy, and 'free' schools.
The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically accelerated moves to online learning in schools and universities, and in this new edition Thomas looks again at curriculums and what shape they should take in a rapidly changing world. He asks why action on race, gender and social inequality has borne so little fruit thus far, questioning the oft-made claim of education to be a force for social mobility, and offering an analysis on how education may develop over the coming century."
"Read by the authors.
A unique, comprehensive guide to sexual intimacy for Christian couples in every season of marriage.
A great sex life is something you make, not something you find. If you feel confused or frustrated about your sex life--or simply wonder, Is there more to it than this?--Married Sex is exactly what you need to make your marriage stronger, in and out of the bedroom.
Including the stories of real-life couples, research results from hundreds of comprehensive surveys, and professional perspective from a bestselling spiritual writer and a licensed counselor, Married Sex will:
- Help you understand why married sex is one of God's best ideas
- Teach you the inner workings of your body and your spouse's body in order to achieve optimal pleasure
- Guide you through the most common sexual problems couples have and what to do about them
- Help you see how your past experiences and expectations influence your present sex life
- Give you practical suggestions and techniques to enhance your sexual experience
- Encourage you to take ownership in the process of making love, seeing a great sex life as a beautiful opportunity to honor both God and your spouse
Psychology, theology, research, story, and let's-get-started ideas combine to make Married Sex a resource for you and your spouse like no other book you've read before. Discover practical, biblically informed answers to your questions about intimacy as you find more satisfaction in your marriage than ever."
"In the revised edition of his hit book The Sacred Search, author Gary Thomas helps single people of all ages make wise marital choices, in large part by rethinking what basis those choices should be made on.
Readers are encouraged to think beyond finding their "soul mate," an idea that has its roots in the philosophy of Plato, and instead adopt a more biblical search for a "sole mate"- someone who will walk with them on their spiritual journey.
Thomas asks, What if we focused on why to get married more than on who to marry? What if being "in love" isn't a good enough reason to get married? And most of all, what if God designed marriage to make us holy more than to make us happy?"
"Discover new ways of connecting with God by understanding how he uniquely created you to worship him. The Sacred Pathways video study will help you learn:
- How you naturally express yourself in your relationship with God
- How to develop new ways of drawing near to him
- Key biblical figures who share your spiritual temperament
- How to understand others who connect with the Creator differently
As believers in Christ, many of us today fall into the trap of thinking we have to approach God in a certain way. But our Creator made us all unique, and he designed us to connect with him in our own ways. For some, this might look like quiet contemplation. Others express praise through caregiving or theological discussions. It's important to discover the particular pathway that will best help you to experience God's presence.
Bestselling author and speaker Gary Thomas reveals nine distinct spiritual temperaments to give you insight into how you naturally worship and how your personal walk with God might look different from those around you.
Unlike the Enneagram and other personality assessment tools, Sacred Pathways gives you tools to investigate how you naturally relate to God. You will discover the strengths and impulses in your devotional approach so that you can eliminate the barriers that keep you locked into scripted methods of worship and praise.
There is one thing that each of us as Christians can do that nobody else can--give our personal love and affection to God.
Sessions include:
- The Journey of the Soul - Introduction to the Pathways
- Pathways of Wonder - the Naturalist, Sensate, and Traditionalist
- Pathways of Contemplation - the Intellectual, Ascetic, and Contemplative
- Pathways of Action - the Caregiver, Activist, and Enthusiast
- Tending the Garden of the Soul - How the Pathways Apply to Your Life
The Audio Bible Study series provides a unique learning experience. Instead of sitting down to watch a video teaching for Bible study, listen to the same quality Bible study content on the go! Whether you listen on your commute, while walking outside, or over a lunch break, you can access high-quality audio Bible studies wherever you are. Get the most out of the teaching by diving into the accompanying study guide (sold separately) to walk through reflection questions and individual Bible study to go deeper."
"A good marriage isn't something found; it's something made. In this revised and updated edition of the bestselling book A Lifelong Love, author Gary Thomas shares that when couples pursue spiritual purpose and worship it builds lasting intimacy and friendship between them.
In A Lifelong Love, Thomas takes couples on three essential journeys leading to a strong marriage:
- The journey toward each other
- The journey toward God
- The journey toward love
Whether readers are feeling discouraged about their marriage or simply want to infuse their relationship with greater spiritual and relational passion, A Lifelong Love offers the guidance they need to embrace the eternal intentions that God has for them."
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