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What is the meaning of life? Why were human beings created in the first place? These are sometimes viewed as being pretty lofty subjects and because of that, they are often either theorized into intellectual obscurity or simply ignored as being unanswerable conundrums that really don’t matter. What if you could find a simple answer? What if, in the pursuit of happiness and fulfillment, humans have consistently been looking in the wrong places for the right things? What if, upon actually finding out why we were created in the first place, we can actually identify a satisfying measure of ...

If you speak to ten disparate people in the west, you’ll probably get ten different opinions about what dreams are and how important they are. Down through history, vivid dreams and visions and those seers who experience them have been held in high esteem. In older cultures, even now, dreams are believed to be far more important in determining all kinds of decisions, from personal and family plans all the way to the running of nations. This book examines what dreams actually are and why they might be more important than the lowly place of neglect that they normally hold in our modern ...

Are you creative? Many people would either be too insecure to say yes or quite sure that they weren’t creative at all. Would you like to be more creative? People often wish they were more creative, but this topic is often viewed as being almost mystical and consistent creativity seems out of reach for many people. In this book, Russell discusses how living in the enlightenment of creativity isn’t mysterious or difficult and is actually quite normal. By leaning on the wisdom of scripture and traveling back to Adam and Eve and our original design as human beings, Russell demonstrates how ...

Of all the vital things that Christians, or Disciples of Jesus Christ, need to understand, it is blatantly obvious that Spiritual Authority needs to be fundamentally important. Understanding the hierarchy of authority and where in that particular pecking order we all stand really needs to be a fundamental part of our belief system, but oftentimes it is a neglected subject. It is also an abused subject with many believers being regularly taken advantage of. If we do not really understand what we have and what we’re allowed to do, it’s no surprise to discover that many Christians end up ...

Finding a healthy balance between body, soul and spirit is not something most Western cultures usually focus on. Many people tend to run their lives with intellect and strict control using very little intuition but others simply allow their emotions and feelings to make their decisions without any careful consideration. Both extremes are unhealthy. Our competitive and fast paced lifestyles have slowly whittled away at many of the core values that bound families and villages together for thousands of years until the typical modern lifestyle is dominated by crippling stress and filled with ...

This is a collection of select stories about our life of travel, relationship and faith. I’ve tried to describe the effort it has taken us to purposefully invest in our gifts and talents and follow the open doors, no matter what the cost. In our four decades together we have moved sixteen times and covered 17,000 miles, lived in four states and two countries and taken more than twenty trips to fourteen different countries in Europe, Scandinavia and Mexico, ranging from two weeks up to six months in length. All of these adventures involved at least some measure of risk but most of them ...

How did Jesus' disciples really feel about Mary Magdalene? Were the disciples comfortable with a woman being “on the road” with them? What are the consequences of not forgiving someone? What is heaven like and what would a heavenly choir actually sound like? Does God laugh? Does Jesus have a sense of humor or tell jokes? What does Godly leadership look like? What does love look like? I have always been an insatiably curious person. Since my early teen years I have been asking and pondering a variety of questions and, more often than not, God will give me very interesting answers. Often ...

Mentoring and discipling people used to be a very common element in the human experience and still is in some older cultures, but often in our modern and fast paced Western rhythms, we seem to have lost this important practice. In spite of so many great thinkers, authors and Christian apologists speaking so openly in favor of this and also, so many strong scriptural statements directing us to engage with people this way, we still tend to avoid discipling like the plague. I would even hazard to say that many people barely understand what discipling someone might actually look like and I have...

What you see when you look in the mirror is most likely not what God sees when he looks at you. Most Christians will heartily agree with this statement but most people do not make any concerted efforts to correct their false perspectives. It says in Zephaniah that God “rejoices over you with singing” but people will regularly confess that “I am my own worst critic”. Life will often offer us skewed, distorted or even completely false information about ourselves. Sometimes we are able to just let go of these opinions, but often we will actually believe and own them and they become ...

Rejoice always. Pray without ceasing. A peace that passes understanding. In all of his letters, the Apostle Paul regularly uses terms like these as he instructs us to live a lifestyle that sometimes seems impossible and he clearly does it with the allegation that these things are simply attainable. Unfortunately, following Jesus often seems to be incredibly complicated. In Vessels of Worship, Russell explains how we are created as vessels to carry spiritual substances like Love, Joy, Peace, Worship, Praise and Faith. Once you understand the correct meaning of these words, you will discover ...

Who was Jesus Christ? How is it possible that a simple carpenter who lived 2000 years ago could have made such a huge impact on history and the human race in only thirty three years, with very little assistance from people and tremendous resistance from the Roman government and the organized church? Quite literally, Jesus made a profound impact on billions of people, even though his public ministry only lasted three years. In this sense, he is undoubtedly the most influential person in all of history. In this book, Russell carefully examines the person, the personality, the motivations, the...

Wouldn’t it be great to be able to live your daily life in peace, experiencing no real stress at all, in spite of your surroundings? Paul somehow wrote a number of his letters from the ghastly environment of a Roman prison cell, so it is pretty clear that he was somehow able to maintain an atmosphere of peace, in spite of being in such a challenging environment. I’m sure you’ve been in homes that were completely comfortable right away and in other homes that were the opposite, sometimes for no obvious reasons. I’m also positive that you have had the experience of feeling quite ...

Can you organize your own home church or home fellowship meeting? How should you even begin if you’ve never done anything like this before? Why should you purposefully fellowship with friends in a small group and how is this sort of fellowship completely different from a normal corporate church meeting? With decades of experience in establishing, leading and participating in everything from simple fellowship gatherings to organized prayer meetings, weekly worship sessions and focus groups for specialized training, Russell explores these how and why questions from the perspective of his ...

Most people understand the logic behind the saying; ‘you reap what you sow’. Most people also understand that this is actually a spiritual law and not just a Christian principle. Most people will freely acknowledge the common sense behind this principle, but what many people don’t understand is how easy it is to ignore. They don’t see the cyclical nature of this law and how easily it is to become trapped in negative and even destructive cycles in life and how difficult it can sometimes be to break these patterns. Consequently, much of the human race seems to live lifestyles that are...

Do you automatically believe everything you hear? Everything you’re told? Everything you’ve learned? Most people will emphatically say no to those questions, but there is a place where people often almost blindly accept everything they’re taught. Often, people tend to be passive in their religious beliefs, spending very little time considering their relationship with God, their understanding of scripture and their place in the Body of Christ. I think it goes without saying that this is one area of life where we should be very diligent, but many people spend more time analyzing things ...