How can you learn to think for yourself and make your faith your own--not the faith of your parents, youth leaders, or pastor?
Part of leaving childhood behind is sorting through the things your've accumulated over the past eighteen years of your life and deciding what to keep and what to throw out. The same thing is true for making choices about your relationship with God.

Take up and read.
If you are serious about following God, you must read his story. Yet for many people, this is easier said than done. Opening up the Bible for yourself can be a confusing and frightening proposition. That's where this book comes in. It is a reader's guide to the Bible.

What you believe matters...
It may well be the only thing that matters. Ideas are the single most powerful force in the world, for they determine the shape of your life. This is especially true of your ideas about God, also known as your theology.

I have a feeling we aren't in Kansas anymore.
If the postmodern landscape makes you feel like a stranger in a strange land, Oz is your compass. In it you will find the insight and encouragement needed to understand and engage a new generation with the timeless truth of the gospel.

Should we accept only good things from God...
And never anything bad? Job first asked his wife this question, but all of us must come to grips with it as well. We live in a world filled with suffering and pain. Bad things happen to all people. Out of the Whirlwind doesn't ask why God won't prevent tragedy. Instead it focuses on a much more troubling question, how can I accept difficult days as readily as I embrace good times.

The Lord is my shepherd...
Everyone knows the 23rd psalm. We can almost recite it in our sleep. Unfortunately, the words have grown so familiar their meaning bounces off of us. Song of the Shepherd goes beyond our preconceived ideas about Psalm 23, allowing us to hear it again for the first time. Step inside the psalm's poetry and be challenged to live a different kind of life, a life of absolute dependence upon God.

Desperate for something real?
All that makes life worth living flows from God and His promises. Yet He doesn't give some pie-in-the-sky-wait-'til-I-die religious mumbo jumbo. The promises God makes to each one of us intersect our points of greatest need. They bring joy and hope and the patience to persevere no matter what life may throw at us.

The giants of the faith come alive...
Each chapter of Names of Heroes of the Faith explores the life of the heroes found in Hebrews 11.

Are you ready for the adventure of a lifetime?
When you follow Christ by faith, what can you expect from God? Where will He take you? What will He do in your life? What kind of complications can you expect from the hand of God? Uncommon Adventures explores all of these and more.