You are NOT who you think you are. In fact, according to bestselling author Craig Groeschel in Altar Ego, you need to take your idea of your own identity, lay it down on the altar, and sacrifice it. Give it to God. Offer it up.

Why? Because you are who God says you are. And until you’ve sacrificed your broken concept of your identity, you won’t become who you are meant to be.

When we place our false labels and self-deception on the altar of God’s truth, we discover who we really are as his sons and daughters. Instead of an outward-driven, approval-based ego, we learn to live with an “altar” ego, God’s vision of who we are becoming.

Discover how to trade in your broken ego and unleash your altar ego to become a living sacrifice. Once we know our true identity and are growing in our Christ-like character, then we can behave accordingly, with bold behavior, bold prayers, bold words, and bold obedience.

Altar Ego reveals who God says you are, and then calls you to live up to it.

Discover your true identity in Christ.

Many of us live for approval of others. The problem is that living for what people think of you is the quickest way to forget what God thinks of you.

In this audio study guide (guide sold separately), pastor and author of Winning the War in Your Mind Craig Groeschel shows individuals and small groups how to abandon self-worth based on accomplishments and possessions, turning instead to God to find out who we are.

You’ll learn to expose false labels and selfish motives, sacrificing them on the altar of God’s truth. As you discover your true identity in Christ, your altar ego will drive your actions, empowering you to live according to God’s higher values with a deep confidence in His calling. Rather than living a timid, halfhearted, shallow cultural Christianity, you’ll boldly live in the confidence of the God who believes in you.

Are you willing to lay it all on the altar?

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.

You Can’t Really Live Without It “Where there is no vision, the people perish” (Proverbs 29:18, kjv) Tired of living half a life-or even a waking nightmare? Struggling to find meaning in a job you don’t like? Facing graduation or mid-life changes in a faltering economy? Wishing you could rekindle a dream you gave up long ago? It’s time to get your vision checked! In this practical, energizing guide, pastor and author Craig Groeschel shows how to live life fully by finding, naming, and achieving your unique, God-given goal. The secret: knowing your chazown, a Hebrew word for “vision,” “dream,” or “revelation.” You’ll see how to identify your chazown by taking a fresh look at your core values, spiritual gifts, and experiences. You’ll understand the big picture-and the vital details. In this book-now newly revised and updated-you’ll find . . . · A brand new introduction · Step-by-step instructions to uncover your chazown · Personal stories that show the principles at work · “You’re the Author” activities to help you apply what you’re learning · “Key Thoughts” that capture and make it easy to remember crucial concepts · A lively, thought-provoking study guide for individuals or groups “Is something missing from your life? Are you aware that God has more for you? Seek Him. He will give you a chazown. And not just any, but one that is tailored specifically for you.”-Craig GroeschelHard to Pronounce, Easy to Discover Chazown (kha-ZONE) is the Hebrew word for the dream, revelation, or vision God was thinking about when he made you. You’re one of a kind, placed on earth with a plan that’s yours alone to carry out. God isn’t hiding it. He wants you to know and embrace it! Fulfilling your chazown is one of the most enjoyable, rewarding things you’ll ever do-because the blueprint is customized by your architect, the One who knows you best. That doesn’t mean it’s always easy though, which is why author Craig Groeschel provides plenty of battle-tested ways to stay on course. Why waste another day aiming for the wrong target-or none at all? Take your first steps toward pursuing God’s chazown for you!

Best-selling author Craig Groeschel offers 365 practical devotions to help you develop a daily connection with Jesus and experience his life-shaping power.

You need to have God’s word to stand strong in these times and become who God says you are. The good news is you have full access to it through Jesus. Daily Power will help you develop a consistent, daily pursuit of Jesus that releases his power in your life.

These 365 brief devotions by pastor and New York Times best-selling author Craig Groeschel deliver what no instant energy drink can: strength and insight for the here-and-now of your life, your marriage, your workplace, family matters, temptations, hopes and dreams, possibilities, and decisions.

In Daily Power, Groeschel shares wisdom from personal experiences with each devotion including:

• a Scripture quote,
• a short reading,
• and a simple prayer to connect you with God.

We grow by practicing daily. Daily Power¬†is here to guide and inspire you on your journey and help you write your own life story the way you’d like it to read.

You’ll get honest talk, simply told stories your heart will own, and truth wrapped in a grin.

Be inspired to pray boldly, pray powerfully, pray with passion, and trade ineffective prayers and lukewarm faith for raw, daring prayers that will transform your daily life.

Do you ever wonder if God answers your prayers? Do you wish you could see the evidence that prayer changes lives? Do you long for more than playing it safe in your faith? Join New York Times bestselling author Craig Groeschel as he helps you discover the power of authentically communicating with God, breaking out of the restrictive spiritual safety bubble, and expanding your ideas about what’s possible with God.

The Bible tells us that prayer has the power to move God’s heart, but some prayers move him more than others. He wants more for us than a tepid faith and half-hearted routines at the dinner table. God called you to a life of courage, not comfort.

In¬†Dangerous Prayers, Groeschel will show you how to pray the prayers that search your soul, break your habits, and send you out to pursue the calling God has for you. But be warned: If you’re fine with settling for what’s easy, or if you’re okay with staying on the sidelines, this book isn’t for you. You’ll be challenged. You’ll be tested. You’ll be moved to take a long, hard look at your heart. But you’ll be inspired, too.

Dangerous Prayers will give you the encouragement and tools you need to:

• Transform the patterns around your daily prayer life
• Truly embrace and believe in the power of intentional prayer
• Start to pray daring, faith-filled, God-honoring, life-changing, world-transforming prayers

You’ll discover the secret to overcoming fears of loss, rejection, failure, and the unknown, and you’ll welcome the blessings God has for you on the other side. But best of all, you’ll gain the courage it takes to pray dangerous prayers.

A prayer guide and discussion questions are available in the audiobook companion PDF download.

Master the decisions that will make your life everything God wants it to be.

Every day we make choices. And those choices accumulate and eventually become our life story. What would your life look like if you became an expert at making those choices?

In this inspiring guidebook,¬†New York Times¬†bestselling author Craig Groeschel shows how the choices that are in your power, if aligned with biblical principles, will lead to a life you’ve never imagined.

Divine Direction¬†will help you seek wisdom through seven principles. You’ll consider:

• One thing to¬†stop¬†that’s hindering you
• How to¬†start¬†a new habit to re-direct your path
• Where you should¬†stay¬†committed
• And when you should¬†go¬†even if it’s easier to stay

The book also includes criteria that will help you feel confident in the right choice, and encourages you with principles for trusting God with your decisions. 

What story do you want to tell about yourself? God is dedicated to the wonderful plan he’s laid out for you. The achievable and powerful steps in¬†Divine Direction¬†take you there one step at a time, big or small.

Spanish edition also available.

Comienza a vivir la vida que siempre has esperado y soñado, la vida que Dios creó para que la experimentes, trabajando para hacer cambios profundos y duraderos en tu vida.

Pocas cosas en la vida son más frustrantes que saber que necesitas cambiar, quieres cambiar, intentas cambiar, pero no cambias. Como resultado, nos sentimos avergonzados y llenos de arrepentimiento, incluso nos sentimos avergonzados mientras internalizamos una sensación de fracaso. Craig Groeschel entiende. Él sabe lo que es estar atrapado en el ciclo desalentador de no poder cambiar, porque esta fue su historia, hasta que comenzó a descubrir principios prácticos para experimentar un cambio duradero que ha enseñado a innumerables personas durante más de veinticinco años.

Ahora tú también puedes aprenderlos. Con El poder de cambiar, podrás:

• Conocer las verdaderas razones por las que hacemos lo que hacemos
• Descubrir el poder de crear pequeños hábitos que conducen a un gran cambio
• Ver cómo la consistencia en cosas pequeñas puede conducir a un mayor impacto
• Comprender cómo el poder de Dios, no tu fuerza de voluntad, conduce a la verdadera transformación
• Encontrar la recompensa al elegir lo que más quieres sobre lo que quieres ahora

Si estás listo para comenzar a vivir la vida que siempre has esperado y soñado, este libro es para ti.

Los ejercicios y el apéndice se incluyen en la descarga del PDF que acompaña al audiolibro.

The Power to Change

Start living the life you’ve been hoping for and dreaming about, the life God created you to experience, by working to make deep, lasting changes in your life.

Few things in life are more frustrating than knowing you need to change, wanting to change, trying to change, but not changing. As a result, we become embarrassed and full of regret, even feeling ashamed while internalizing a sense of failure.Craig Groeschel understands. He knows what it’s like to be caught in the dispiriting cycle of failing to change, because this was his story—until he began to discover practical principles for experiencing lasting change that he has taught to countless others for over twenty-five years.

Now you can learn them too.With The Power to Change, you will:

• Learn the real reasons we do what we do
• Discover the power of creating small habits that lead to big change
• See how consistency in small things can lead to a greater impact
• Understand how God’s power, not your willpower, leads to true transformation
• Find the pay-off in choosing what you want most over what you want now

If you’re ready to start living the life you’ve been hoping for and dreaming about, this book is for you.

“Quiero creer, quiero tener esperanza, pero…” son palabras que Craig Groeschel, pastor y autor superventas, oye a menudo, y que hasta él mismo ha pronunciado. Queremos conocer a Dios, sentir su presencia, y confiar en que Él escucha nuestras oraciones;  sin embargo, cuando experimentamos gran dolor podemos preguntarnos si de verdad Él se interesa por nosotros. Aunque tengamos tanto esperanza como dolor, a veces el sufrimiento es quien grita más alto. ¿Puede Dios ser bueno cuando la vida no lo es?

En Esperanza en la oscuridad Groeschel analiza la experiencia de aquel padre que trajo a su hijo endemoniado ante Jesús, y declaró: “¡Creo! ¡Ayuda mi incredulidad!”. En la súplica sincera del hombre, Jesús percibió la tensión del corazón humano cubierto de las cicatrices de la batalla. No solo sanó al muchacho, sino también al padre, al expulsar de él la desesperanza que se había apoderado de él. Hoy, Él puede hacer lo mismo por nosotros.

Al compartir Groeschel su propio dolor por los retos de salud a los que se hija se enfrenta en la actualidad, reconoce las preguntas que podemos formular en nuestro más profundo dolor: “¿Dónde estaba Dios cuando yo sufría malos tratos?”. “¿Por qué mi hijo, o mi hija, nació con una discapacidad?”. “¿Por qué regresó el cáncer?”. “¿Por qué todos mis amigos están casados, y yo sigo solo?”. Nos invita a luchar con este tipo de preguntas, cuando le pedimos a Dios que honre nuestra fe, y sane nuestra incredulidad.

En medio de su profundo dolor, anhelas oír palabras auténticas de comprensión y esperanza. Ansías saber que incluso en medio de la abrumadora realidad, todavía puedes creer que Dios es bueno. Vuelve a descubrir la fe en el carácter, en el poder y en la presencia de Dios. Hasta en las preguntas. Incluso ahora mismo.

 

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Your playbook to becoming who God created you to be: a man who knows how to fight for what’s right.

Pastor, bestselling author, husband, and father Craig Groeschel helps you uncover who you really are–a powerful man with the heart of a warrior. With God’s help, you’ll find strength to fight the battles you know you must win: the ones that determine the state of your heart, the quality of your marriage, and the spiritual health of those you love most.

Groeschel examines the life of Samson–a strong man with glaring weaknesses. Like many men, Samson taunted his enemy and rationalized his sins. The good news is God’s grace is greater than your worst sin. By looking at Samson’s life, you will . . .

• Learn to defeat the demons that make strong men weak.
• Tap into a strength you never knew was possible.
• And become who God made you to be–a man who knows how to fight for what’s right.

Don’t just fight like a man. Fight like a man of God. For God’s sake . . . FIGHT!

Spanish edition also available, as well as a video study and study guide.

In this five-session Audio Bible Study, pastor and bestselling author Craig Groeschel explores the life of Samson, helping you uncover who you really are–a man created with a warrior’s heart in the image of God–and how to stand up and fight for what’s right.

Find the strength to fight the battles you know you need to fight–the ones that determine the state of your heart, the quality of your marriage, and the spiritual health of your family. The battles that make you dependent on God as the source of your strength. The battles that make you come alive.

Craig looks at the life of Samson, showing how much we have in common with this guy. Things didn’t work out so well for him in the end. But by looking at his life, you’ll learn how to defeat the demons that make strong men weak. You’ll become who God made you to be–a man who knows how to fight for what’s right.

Learn how to fight with faith, with prayer, and with the Word of God. Then, when your enemy begins to attack, fight for the righteous cause that God gave you. Draw a line in the sand. Make your enemy pay. Make sure he gets the message. Don’t cross a warrior. Don’t mess with this man of God. Come out fighting.

And don’t show up for this fight unarmed. Use the weapons God gave you, and you’ll win. Can you feel it? It’s inside you. It’s time to fight like a man.

Sessions include:

1. Fight Like a Man (20:30)
2. Strong Men with Weak Wills (19:30)
3. Spirit Led, Not Emo-Driven (18:30)
4. Small Steps, Big Destruction (20:00)
5. Failing Forward (20:00)

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.

A must-read for pre-married as well as long-married couples, Craig and Amy Groeschel explore the time-tested wisdom able to guide you and your spouse into the marriage you’ve always wanted.

Everyone dreams of a fairytale marriage–the perfect spouse, the perfect home, the perfect family. But reality tells us that these expectations don’t hold up very long. Many studies indicate that close to fifty percent of marriages don’t make it. With those odds, is it even possible to have a good marriage–let alone a great one? New York Times bestselling author and pastor Craig Groeschel insists you can . . . but not if you approach it like everyone else does.

Perfect for single adults, engaged couples, and married couples alike, Craig and his wife, Amy, show you how to conquer the odds and find the joy, passion, and strength of a marriage built by God.

Craig and Amy open their hearts, share personal experiences, and walk you through five powerful commitments you can make to fail-proof your marriage:

• Seek God
• Fight fair
• Have fun
• Stay pure
• Never give up

If you earnestly choose to do all five of these things, you will discover a richer, deeper, more authentic marriage. Starting right now–from this day forward.

Spanish edition also available, as well as a video study and study guide.

Is it possible to have a great marriage? Yes, but it is not likely if you treat marriage like everybody else does!

In this five-session audio Bible study, New York Times bestselling author and pastor Craig Groeschel gives you five commitments to make in order to fail-proof your marriage. You know the stats, and they are horrifying. 50% of marriages don’t make it. What other area of your life are you satisfied with 50% odds against you?

The choices you make each and every day determine not only your relationship with God but also the quality of your marriage. The decisions you make today will determine the marriage you will have tomorrow. In this five-session study, you will discover five commitments that will absolutely fail-proof your marriage. If you make these commitments, you’ll discover a richer, deeper, more authentic relationship and a more rewarding, more passionate love life than you could have ever imagined.

Don’t be a statistic. Don’t be average. Let’s get you that marriage that you always wanted. Starting right now–from this day forward.

Sessions include:

1. Seek God (19:00)
2. Fight Fair (18:00)
3. Have Fun (16:00)
4. Stay Pure (18:00)
5. Never Give Up (19:00)

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.

Can God be good when life is not? Rediscover faith in the character, power, and presence of God. Even in the questions. Even in the hurt.

“I want to believe, I want to have hope, but . . .” Pastor and bestselling author Craig Groeschel hears these words often and has asked them himself. We want to know God, feel his presence, and trust that he hears our prayers, but in the midst of great pain, we may wonder if he really cares about us. Even when we have both hope and hurt, sometimes it’s the hurt that shouts the loudest.

In¬†Hope in the Dark,¬†Groeschel explores the story of the father who brought his demon-possessed son to Jesus, saying, “I believe! Help my unbelief!” In the man’s sincere plea, Jesus heard the tension in the man’s battle-scarred heart. He healed not only the boy but the father too, driving out the hopelessness that had overtaken him. He can do the same for us today.

As Groeschel shares his pain surrounding the health challenges of his daughter, he acknowledges the questions we may ask in our own deepest pain:

• “Where was God when I was being abused?”
• “Why was my child born with a disability?”
• “Why did the cancer come back?”
• “Why are all my friends married and I’m alone?”

He invites us to wrestle with such questions as we ask God to honor our faith and heal our unbelief. Because in the middle of your profound pain, you long for authentic words of understanding and hope. You long to know that even in overwhelming reality, you can still believe that God is good.

Hope in the Dark is also available in Spanish, Esperanza en la Oscuridad.

Read by the author.

*Lead Like It Matters is a completely revised and updated version of the book previously published as It: How Churches and Leaders Can Get It and Keep It.*

Discover the secret to igniting a life-giving, soul-transforming, people-inspiring movement in your organization, church, or ministry.

New York Times bestselling author Craig Groeschel is the founding and senior pastor of Life.Church, an innovative multisite church known around the world and an organization that Glassdoor has named a #1 U.S. Best Place to Work. But it didn’t happen by accident. In 1996, a handful of congregants worshipped together in a two-car garage. Today, the church welcomes tens of thousands of attendees in multiple states across the country and globally at Life.Church Online.

Lead Like It Matters presents Groeschel’s transformative insights on how to effectively build a thriving, enduring ministry and organization. Using his skills as a top leader, he combines straight-talk and wry honesty with biblical and leadership principles to equip you with the tools to:

• Recognize when your organization or ministry has the indefinable but tangible “it” that leads to success
• Identify and implement seven leadership principles for a church that lasts
• Ignite a fire in your team to leave behind “what we’ve always done” for the meaningful ministry you know is possible
• Discover the three areas every leader must master for success

Lead Like It Matters reveals the secret for building ministry momentum and then keeping it going.

Discussion questions and accompanying visuals are included in the audiobook companion PDF download.

In Liking Jesus, a timely and life-changing book, New York Times bestselling author and pastor of Life.Church Craig Groeschel helps put Christ first again in today’s maxed out, selfie-centered world.

The more you compare, the less satisfied you are. The more we interact online, the more we crave intimacy. The more filtered our lives become, the harder it is to be real.

It’s time to refresh and rediscover what it means to be “like Jesus” and find true authenticity, a healthy self-image, and compassion for others in an age when we relate to each other so differently than ever before. Groeschel taps into some of the most leading-edge studies on the effects of social media on our emotions and friendships. He offers real-life examples of how we struggle with screens and likes, how these things mask our struggles with who we really are, and how we can reclaim a Christ-centered life.

Packed with helpful topics like the “10 Commandments of Using Social Media to Strengthen Your Faith” and “Creating Safeguards for Your Digital Devices,” readers from ages sixteen to sixty will find Liking Jesus to be just the guide to bring balance and real-world engagement to everyday life. 

We all love the benefits of technology. But even with the upsides, many of us suspect there are negative consequences beyond our control. The more we interact online, the more we crave face-to-face intimacy. The more we compare ourselves with others, the less satisfied we are. The more filtered our lives become, the more challenging it is to be authentic.

In this audio bible study, pastor and bestselling author Craig Groeschel shows how we can stay engaged with social media while still keeping our eyes focused on Jesus. In five sessions, he reveals how we can rediscover our understanding of the biblical principles life with Christ brings–contentment, intimacy, authenticity, compassion, and rest–and put God first in our social media saturated world.

It’s time to refresh and rediscover what it means to be “like Jesus” and find true authenticity, a healthy self-image, and compassion for others in an age when we relate to each other so differently than ever before. It is time to no longer be defined by who follows you but by the One you follow.

Sessions include:

1. Recovering Contentment (10:00)
2. Restoring Intimacy (10:00)
3. Revealing Authenticity (10:00)
4. Resurrecting Compassion (10:00)
5. Replenishing Rest (10:00)

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.

Soul Detox reveals how to overcome the three forces that work against us daily: toxic influences, toxic emotions, and toxic behaviors.

Every day we are surrounded by secondhand spiritual toxins–influences, emotions, and behaviors–that threaten to stunt our spiritual growth.

When we recognize the toxins that assault us, and discover ways to live in this world without absorbing these toxins into our souls, we can experience the ultimate spiritual intervention.

With a fresh look at the Word of God, vulnerable honesty, and his trademark humor, bestselling author Craig Groeschel unpacks ways to strengthen our spiritual health and our positive influence on others. He will help you to:

• Tell yourself the truth
• Overcome false beliefs
• Neutralize your anger
• Stop comparing yourself to others
• Unlock the chokehold of fear
• Toss out legalism
• And more

More than an insightful look at the negative aspects of our day-to-day culture, this grace-filled guide will challenge you out of complacency and into a life of clean, pure, and focused living based on the freeing standard of God’s holiness.

Also available: Spanish edition, video curriculum, and study guide.

In this audio Bible study, pastor and best-selling author Craig Groeschel sheds light on relationships, thoughts, and behaviors that quietly compromise our well-being. Using concise teaching and honest humor, Groeschel provides a source of inspiration and encouragements for a faith-filled lifestyle that will keep you free of spiritual toxins.

More than an educated, insightful look at the negative aspects of our day-to-day culture, this grace-based experience will challenge you out of complacency into a life of clean, pure, and focused living based on the standard of God’s holiness.

Sessions include:

1. Lethal Language: Experiencing the Power of Life-Giving Words (11:30)
2. Scare Pollution: Unlocking the Chokehold of Fear (11:30)
3. Radioactive Relationships: Loving Unhealthy People without Getting Sick (12:00)
4. Septic Thoughts: Overcoming Our False Beliefs (13:00)
5. Germ Warfare: Cleansing Our Lives of Cultural Toxins (12:00)

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.

Are you putting your whole faith in God but still living as if everything is up to you?

A decade into his successful ministry, Pastor Craig Groeschel realized a painful self-discovery: although he believed in God, he was leading his church as if God didn’t exist.

To Christians and non-Christians alike, to the churched and the unchurched, the journey leading up to Groeschel’s admission and the journey that follows–from his family and his upbringing to the lackluster and even diametrically opposed expressions of faith he encountered–will look and sound like the story of your own life.

Now the founding and senior pastor of the multi-campus, pace-setting Life.Church, Groeschel’s personal journey will help you break down your own barriers between belief and an authentic God-honoring life. He’ll guide you to believe in God and believe in His power to help you:

• Let go of the shame of your past

• Embrace His profound love for you

• Believe in the power of prayer

• Give up control when life doesn’t seem fair

• Trust Him with your anxious thoughts

• and more!

This book is an invitation for anyone courageous enough to admit their hypocrisy, get honest with God, shed the self-sufficiency, and live a life that truly brings glory to Christ.

Be more than just “Christian” in name.

In this audio Bible study, pastor and author Craig Groeschel leads you and your group on a personal journey toward an authentic, God-honoring life. This honest, hard-hitting, and eye-opening look into the ways people believe in God but live as if he doesn’t exist is a classic of church small groups and discipleship training.

You believe in God, attend church, and you generally treat people with kindness. But, have you surrendered to God completely, living every day depending upon the Holy Spirit?

In this small group Bible study, Groeschel encourages you and your group to develop your faith with the gospel, to be honest before God, and to break free of hypocrisy to live a more authentic, God-honoring life.

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.

Read by the author.

Feeling stuck no matter how hard you try to make positive changes in your life? You can start living the life you want through the practical, biblical, and highly doable strategies in The Power to Change.

Few things in life are more frustrating than knowing you need to change, wanting to change, and trying to change, but not changing. Craig Groeschel knows what it’s like to be caught in that demoralizing cycle. That was his own story–until he discovered practical principles for experiencing lasting change. Since then, Craig has helped countless others find true change in their relationships, habits, and thoughts.

In The Power to Change, Craig helps you understand:

• How God’s power, not your willpower, leads to true transformation
• The real reasons you do what you do
• Why falling isn’t failure
• The power of creating small habits that lead to big change
• How to choose what you want most over what you want now

A powerful blend of biblical wisdom and fascinating psychology, The Power to Change includes helpful exercises, real-life stories, and life-changing spiritual insights. Whether you are trying to lose weight, breathe new life into your marriage, read the Bible more, get out of debt, or give up an addiction, Craig’s step-by-step, time-tested strategies will equip you to start living the life God wants for you.

Exercises and appendix are included in the audiobook companion PDF download.

“When people describe my lifestyle or family as weird, I find comfort,” writes author Craig Groeschel.¬†He then shares a Christ-centered philosophy, on everything from money to scheduling to purity, to help you break out of the normal rut and live according to the rhythms of God‚Äôs grace and truth of his word.

Normal people are stressed, overwhelmed, and exhausted. Many of their relationships are, at best, strained and, in most cases, just surviving. Even though we live in one of the most prosperous places on earth, normal is still living paycheck to paycheck and never getting ahead. In our oversexed world, lust, premarital sex, guilt, and shame are far more common than purity, virginity, and a healthy married sex life. And when it comes to God, the majority believe in him, but the teachings of scripture rarely make it into their everyday lives. Simply put, normal isn’t working.

Groeschel’s WEIRD will help you break free from the norm to lead a radically abnormal (and endlessly more fulfilling) life.

In this audio Bible study, pastor and bestselling author Craig Groeschel shatters ‘normal’ and turns ‘weird’ upside down.

Normal people are stressed, overwhelmed, and exhausted. Many of their relationships are, at best, strained and, in most cases, just surviving. Even though we live in one of the most prosperous places on earth, normal is still living paycheck to paycheck and never getting ahead. Lust and frequent “casual” sex are far more common than purity and a healthy married sex life. And when it comes to God, the many believe, but few practice the teachings of Scripture in their everyday lives.

Simply put, normal isn’t working. In this study, Groeschel’s WEIRD views will help you break free from the norm to lead a radically abnormal (and endlessly more fulfilling) life.

Sessions include:

1. The God Kind of Weird (16:30)
2. It’s Time to Be Weird (17:30)
3. Weird That Money Can’t Buy (17:30)
4. Pleasing God is Weird (16:30)
5. Weird Makes You Truly Sexy (17:00)
6. The Weirdest Blessing Possible (17:30)

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.

Craig Groeschel (www.lifechurch.tv) and his church have hosted an international multichurch campaign called One Prayer, a month-long concerted focus on unifying the many different, diverse churches participating by praying together and serving their local communities.

In 2009, One Prayer campaign attracted over two thousand churches and over one million church members. Many of these churches are high-profile evangelical churches with pastors who are also successful authors and speakers. The campaign continues to attract interest from more and more churches and ministries. The 2010 campaign, scheduled for June, is expected to grow by 50 percent. This compilation book features chapters by seventeen passionate church leaders, including Andy Stanley, Francis Chan, Jentezen Franklin, Perry Noble, Steven Furtick, and others.

Are your thoughts out of control–just like your life? Do you long to break free from the spiral of destructive thinking? Let God’s truth become your battle plan to win the war in your mind!

We’ve all tried to think our way out of bad habits and unhealthy thought patterns, only to find ourselves stuck with an out-of-control mind and off-track daily life. Pastor and New York Times bestselling author Craig Groeschel understands deeply this daily battle against self-doubt and negative thinking, and in this powerful new book he reveals the strategies he’s discovered to change your mind and your life for the long-term.

Drawing upon Scripture and the latest findings of brain science, Groeschel lays out practical strategies that will free you from the grip of harmful, destructive thinking and enable you to live the life of joy and peace that God intends you to live. Winning the War in Your Mind will help you:

• Learn how your brain works and see how to rewire it
• Identify the lies your enemy wants you to believe
• Recognize and short-circuit your mental triggers for destructive thinking
• See how prayer and praise will transform your mind
• Develop practices that allow God’s thoughts to become your thoughts

God has something better for your life than your old ways of thinking. It’s time to change your mind so God can change your life.

Exercises and appendix are available in the audiobook companion PDF download.

Do your thoughts and your life feel out of your control? Have you found yourself in a spiral of unhealthy thinking? Let God’s truth become your battle plan to win the war in your mind!

As teens, it can feel difficult to find a way out of our bad habits and unhealthy thought patterns, too often feeling like our thoughts are running out of control and finding ourselves off-track from where we want to be. Pastor and New York Times bestselling author Craig Groeschel deeply understands this daily battle against self-doubt and negative thinking, and in this book adapted from his bestselling Winning the War in Your Mind, Groeschel explains how you too can challenge your thinking and change the course of your life for the better, revealing the strategies he’s found that help.

Drawing upon Scripture and the latest findings of brain science, Groeschel lays out practical strategies that will free you from the grip of harmful, destructive thinking and enable you to live the life of joy and peace that God intends you to live. With all-new stories, science that explores the unique realities of how the teenage brain is wired, and short sections that appeal to teenage readers, Winning the War in Your Mind for Teens will help you:

• Learn how your brain works and see how to rewire it
• Identify the lies the enemy wants you to believe
• Recognize and short-circuit your mental triggers for negative thinking
• See how prayer and praise will transform your mind
• Develop practices that allow God’s thoughts to become your thoughts

God has something better for your life. It’s time to change your mind so God can change your life.

Exercises and the appendix are included in the audiobook companion PDF download.