Energion Publications uses three words for our mission: Educate, Energize, and Empower. What do we mean by these words? Are they just buzzwords? The third keyword in our Energion Publications mission is Empower! (See the previous posts on Educate! and Energize!) Empower represents the most difficult thing to accomplish as a publisher. We can publish books […]
Doing Apologetics by Elgin J. Hushbeck, Jr. Retail: $5.99 The essential point is I do not judge what I do by how many debates I win or souls I save, because the first doesn’t matter and I can’t do the latter in any event. My goal in my walk with God is to be […]
Energion Publications uses three words for our mission: Educate, Energize, and Empower. What do we mean by these words? Are they just buzzwords? The second keyword in our Energion Publications mission is Energize! (See the previous post on Educate!) All too frequently Christian doctrines or practices are taught with the assumption that the student will […]
Energion author Pat Badstibner, who produced the book Walking in God’s Grace with the World Prayr Ohana, has written an excellent post about weakness, Growing in Weakness — Why We Fail to Appropriate, which we’re featuring on our retail site blog, Energion Direct.
… or perhaps you shouldn’t. I’ve known many pastors who didn’t want to preach stewardship sermons, or “money sermons” as they’re often called. The congregation doesn’t want to hear about money. They’d rather be encouraged in various ways. I’ve also known many pastors who claimed they were totally unafraid of the money sermon. They claimed […]
‘Tis God who gives the skill, But not without [human] hands: [God] could not make Antonio Stradivari’s violins Without Antonio. -George Eliot (woman poet/writer) It is the strange paradox that our work is something we do; yet it is only a manifestation of God’s work in us, expressed in the Latin koan: orare est laborare […]
To some the Holy Spirit is dead and should receive little attention. To others He is a list of spectacular powers by which we can validate our life in ministry. John Weston introduces the Holy Spirit to us as Teacher, Guide, Comforter, and Advocate in his new book, Life in the Spirit, which will be […]
As the shopping for gifts concludes and you wander the stores in dazed fatigue, consider a lasting pick-me-up! Go to EnergionDirect.com and take ten minutes to peruse the eight books we have Featured. You will find eight Featured books, including two of our succinct Topical Line Drives books (only 44 pages!) priced at only $5.99, Dr. Alden […]
First time author, Donna Marie Ennis, brings contemplation to the forefront of an active, strong prayer life in her book, The Ground of God: Contemplative Prayer for the Contemporary Spirit. How many of us struggle to pull down the frantic pace of our lives and bend our priorities from this world under the better priorities […]
Pathways to Prayer By Dr. David Moffett-Moore [Part of the Topical Line Drives series, Retail price: $4.99] We are born praying. It is as natural to pray as it is to breathe and as necessary. In prayer, we give as much as we know of ourselves to as much as we know of God. – […]
