On April 16, 2007, the campus of Virginia Tech experienced a collective nightmare when thirty-three students were killed in the worst massacre in modern U.S. history. Following that horrendous event, Virginia Tech campus pastor Matt Rogers found himself asking and being asked, 'Where is God in all of this?' The cliche-ridden, pat answers rang hollow. In this book, Matt approaches the pain of the world with personal perspective---dealing with his hurting community as well as standing over the hospital bed of his own father---and goes beyond answers, beyond theodicy, beyond the mere intellectual. When Answers Aren't Enough drives deeper, to the heart of our longing, in search of a God we can experience as good when life isn't.

When Answers Aren't Enough: Experiencing God as Good When Life Isn't

Religion & Spirituality

Rogers, Matt

Christian Books & Bibles

Zondervan

Resource Revolution: How to Capture the Biggest Business Opportunity in a Century

What do shale gas, Elon Musk’s Tesla, and the global apparel chain Zara share in common? In Resource Revolution, management experts Stefan Heck and Matt Rogers describe how each in its own way exemplifies a resource revolution—a use of natural resources so effective it defies conventional wisdom and enables breakthrough performance where others see only limits and shortcomings. 
Resource Revolution shows how to take what is being seen as a worldwide crisis and turn it into the biggest business opportunity of the past one hundred years. The rapid urbanization of a new 2.5-billion-person middle class in Asia will create an unprecedented demand for oil, steel, land, food, water, cement, and other commodities over the next two decades. Heck and Rogers explore the ways in which innovators, including startups and global leaders from Cree to GE, have answered the challenge with practical steps to guide managers everywhere.

Business & Money

Heck, Stefan

Economics

New Harvest

It was the perfect irony. To lose God at a missions conference. What's worse, Matt Rogers will tell you, is that it all felt like fate. Years later, even after Matt's depression subsided, the feeling of being forgotten had not left him. So he knew he had to write it down. Recounting his own experience with depression, Matt Rogers explores the question of how, in a world of suffering, we can call God good. This challenging question can manifest itself as a conspiracy of doubt, so that our emotions and our intellect come under attack. Without appealing to easy answers, Rogers offers understanding and a ray of hope for those who suffer from depression, encouraging them never to give up.

Losing God: Clinging to Faith Through Doubt and Depression

Polished sermons and prepared Bible studies can inadvertently cause the average Christian to feel inadequate and ill-equipped to study the Scriptures themselves. The result is an ever-increasing level of Biblical illiteracy in most churches and an over-dependence on preachers and sermons. Seven Arrows is written to aid all of God's people in the task of reading, understanding, and applying God's Word. Using seven simple arrows Rogers and Mathis provide a clear, orderly, and memorable guide for studying any passage of Scripture. New Christians, maturing believers, disciple-makers, and pastors will find in this book a practical tool to produce Biblically saturated lives and churches.

Seven Arrows: Aiming Bible Readers in the Right Direction

Mathis PhD, Donny

Equip to Grow Press

Sometimes one church is better than two. The missionary landscape of the North American culture necessitates churches, young and old alike, rethink how they can, and should, align to strategically engage in God’s mission in their cities. Using the real life example of two churches in Greenville, South Carolina, Mergers provides a description of the rationale, biblical basis, and process by which two churches can unite to more effectively declare and demonstrate the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Mergers: Combining Churches to Multiply Disciples

Aspire is a 15-week study, written in two parts, designed to be used to disciple believers in the local church. Each week's study combines rich theological content and clear practical application in a journal-based format. Ideal for one-on-one discipleship relationships, Aspire guides believers toward life-long transformation.

Aspire: Part One: Transformed by the Gospel

Seed Publishing Group, LLC

Aspire: Part Two: Transformed by the Gospel

As a teenager, I was familiar with the stories of the Bible, or so I thought. I heard the Bible read and preached many times, though I’d not spent any time reading it myself. Following my conversion, though, I had a seemingly insatiable hunger to understand God’s word. I picked up the Bible and did what you do with all books—I started at the beginning and tried to read straight through. I was driven, but even then I didn’t make it out of the book of Numbers. The Bible was overwhelming, intimidating, and confusing. But, I did not stop. I skipped forward to the New Testament and began reading Matthew’s Gospel. As I read, I noticed all these little notes throughout my Bible. Before each sentence, and sometimes in the middle of sentences, there were little letters and numbers that pointed me down to the bottom of the page. There, I found all kinds of references to other passages of Scripture. In Matthew 4 I read about Jesus’ temptation by the devil in the wilderness. In this passage, Matthew placed several of Jesus’ statements in quotations marks, and, upon further reading I observed that Jesus was quoting the book of Deuteronomy. For the first time I remember thinking, “This whole book is connected.” And I was right. As I continued to read, I learned that the Bible was one big, united story. The different authors, writing to unique audiences at specific times in history, were telling the unified story of God’s work to save fallen humanity. Even more than that—the Scriptures found in the Old Testament actually helped to understand God’s character, man’s sin, and the salvation made possible by Jesus Christ. I was hooked. Since that time, the Bible has been an ever-increasing treasure for me. Every time I read God’s word I see his brilliance on display. Therefore, I’m grieved when people assume that the Bible is too difficult for them to understand or when they neglect God’s word and leave it to collect dust on the coffee table. I’m committed to work to help people read and understand God’s word for themselves and, for that reason, I decided to write 30 Days to Deuteronomy. I love the book of Deuteronomy because it provides one the most vivid pictures of the grace of God found in the Bible. The themes of the book illuminate the work of Jesus like none other. In it, you will see your sin and God’s love in fresh and new ways. I’m also excited about this 30 Days series. Books like 30 Days to Acts, 30 Days to James, and others are meant to provide readers with a succinct and clear, daily devotions through the books of the Bible. Our hope is that they will aid you in your reading and encourage you to persevere in your time in God’s word. Finally, I’m thankful for the work of Seed Publishing Group, a publisher committed to bringing great resources to both individual Christians and the local church (seed-publishing-group.com). As part of that commitment, they are partners with The Pillar Network for church planting (thepillarnetwork.com). One dollar from each sale of 30 Days in Deuteronomy goes directly to church plants throughout North America. May God use this book to capture your heart with the beauty of his word and may you treasure it all the days of your life. —Matt Rogers

30 Days to Deuteronomy: A Devotional Commentary

Worship & Devotion

There’s a long way between a seminary classroom and a pastor’s desk. Whether you’ve been to seminary, read a few books, or just have a burning passion to serve God’s church, it does not take long to realize that there is more to the task of pastoral ministry than most assume. A task like Bible reading seems simple at the outset, yet it often proves a daunting challenge to equip the members of our churches with a passion and a plan to read their Bibles well. This volume of Pastor’s Notes seeks to guide a pastor with the tools to train their church to feast on God’s word for themselves. All pastors long for their people to read God’s word but many lack a plan for how to bring this about. The wedding of theology and practice is vital for the health of God’s church. My prayer is that these Pastor’s Notes make a helpful contribution to guide current and future pastors to steward the glorious gift we’ve been entrusted—the bride of Christ—the local church.

Training Others to Read God's Word (Pastor's Notes)

Pillar Network,The

Polished sermons and prepared Bible studies can inadvertently cause average Christians to feel inadequate and ill-equipped to study the Scriptures themselves. It often seems like trained church leaders have a secret skill that can leave the rest of us wondering "How do they do that?" The result is an ever-increasing level of biblical illiteracy in most churches and an over-dependence on preachers and sermons. Seven Arrows is written to aid all of God’s people in the task of reading, understanding, and applying God’s Word. Using seven simple arrows Rogers and Mathis provide a clear, orderly, and memorable guide for studying any passage of Scripture. New Christians, maturing believers, disciple-makers, and pastors will find in this book a practical tool to produce biblically-saturated lives and churches.

Mathis, Donny

Rainer Publishing

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When Answers Aren't Enough: Experiencing God as Good When Life Isn't

Resource Revolution: How to Capture the Biggest Business Opportunity in a Century

Losing God: Clinging to Faith Through Doubt and Depression

Seven Arrows: Aiming Bible Readers in the Right Direction

Mergers: Combining Churches to Multiply Disciples

Aspire: Part One: Transformed by the Gospel

Aspire: Part Two: Transformed by the Gospel

30 Days to Deuteronomy: A Devotional Commentary

Training Others to Read God's Word (Pastor's Notes)

Seven Arrows: Aiming Bible Readers in the Right Direction