Christian Living Ministries Books

Appropriating The Power Of Prayer And Faith

Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Appropriating The Power Of Prayer And Faith is a Christian devotional work by Ron Christian that maintains prayer is not merely a religious habit, but a vital means of communion with God, spiritual power, obedience, intercession, and growing faith. The book presents prayer as both deeply personal and actively practical, calling believers to speak with God consistently, trust His will, wait patiently, pray for others, and expect God to work according to His wisdom. Ron Christian emphasizes that prayer should shape the home, the church, daily decisions, service to others, and the believer’s understanding of God’s presence and care. The work also contends that faith grows through humility, obedience, persistence, thanksgiving, praise, and dependence on the Holy Spirit rather than self-reliance. Through devotional reflections, biblical passages, prayers, affirmations, and discussion questions, the book invites Christians to move beyond merely talking about prayer and to live as people who trust God, listen for His guidance, intercede with compassion, and receive His power for faithful Christian living.

Encountering the Living God

Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Encountering the Living God is Book One in the Growing a Godly Life devotional series, compiled by Ron Christian, and focuses on the Christian doctrine and experience of salvation. Ron Christian presents salvation as beginning with a spiritual awakening in which the Holy Spirit confronts a person with the reality of sin, personal need, and God’s gracious offer of forgiveness through Jesus Christ. The booklet maintains that genuine conversion involves more than self-improvement, religious formality, or regret; it calls for repentance, faith, surrender, and a transformed life centered on Christ. Through devotional readings, Scripture passages, prayers, affirmations, illustrations, and discussion questions, the work proposes that God lovingly restores broken lives, gives new beginnings, and leads believers into a continuing life of spiritual growth. Its central message is that every person must personally encounter the living God, receive the gift of salvation, and then live out that new life with gratitude, obedience, and trust.

Handling Life's Temptations

Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Handling Life’s Temptations is a Christian devotional work by Ron Christian focused on recognizing, resisting, and overcoming temptation through faith, Scripture, prayer, humility, and dependence on Christ. The book maintains that temptation is not itself sin, but that believers must identify its source, understand the nature of sin, and use the spiritual weapons God provides. Ron Christian presents temptation as a recurring battle involving outward actions, inward attitudes, and the hidden motives of the heart. The devotional readings address common spiritual struggles such as fear, worry, destructive anger, resentment, doubt, despair, lust, jealousy, judgmentalism, envy, negativity, pride, false guilt, and an overly sensitive conscience. Throughout the book, Ron Christian contends that victory comes not through self-reliance or willpower alone, but through surrender to Christ, trust in God’s promises, obedience to the Word of God, and the transforming work of the Holy Spirit. Its central message is that Christians can grow stronger through life’s tests when they meet temptation with humility, spiritual vigilance, forgiveness, confidence in God, and a Christ-centered mind.

Maintaining the Life of Faith

Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Maintaining the Life of Faith is a Christian devotional work by Ron Christian that focuses on perseverance, spiritual alertness, and continued faithfulness after conversion. The book maintains that the Christian life is not a one-time profession of belief but an ongoing walk of trust, obedience, repentance, and dependence on God’s sustaining grace. Ron Christian warns against spiritual drifting, neglecting the means of grace, disobedience, distraction, and relying on past spiritual experiences instead of daily fellowship with Christ. He contends that believers must remain watchful, keep their first love, stay open to the guidance of the Holy Spirit, and continue pressing forward even through weakness, suffering, temptation, and uncertainty. The book also addresses the relationship between assurance, free will, perseverance, and the danger of careless living, while affirming that God’s power is available to those who keep trusting Him. Its central message is that faith must be maintained through abiding in Christ, obeying God’s Word, yielding to the Holy Spirit, and persevering with hope until the end.

Managing Life's Various Stewardships

Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Managing Life’s Various Stewardships is a Christian devotional work by Ron Christian that presents stewardship as a whole-life response to God’s ownership of every gift, resource, opportunity, talent, and possession. The book maintains that the Christian life is not centered on keeping, accumulating, or controlling earthly treasures, but on giving oneself freely to God and using time, abilities, work, money, and influence for His purposes. Ron Christian contends that generosity is not merely a financial habit, but a spiritual posture rooted in trust, obedience, gratitude, and love for Christ. Through reflections on biblical passages, devotional stories, questions, prayers, and affirmations, the book calls believers to examine their motives for giving, work faithfully, resist greed and self-indulgence, care for the hungry and needy, and recognize that even small resources can become great when placed in God’s hands. Its central message is that everything entrusted to a believer belongs first to God, and true joy comes through faithful stewardship, generous giving, humble service, and a life consecrated to the Lord.

Overcoming Obstacles to Christian Growth

Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Overcoming Obstacles to Christian Growth is a devotional booklet in the Growing a Godly Life series that focuses on attitudes, habits, and emotional patterns that hinder spiritual maturity. Ron Christian maintains that while Christ receives and transforms sinners by grace, believers must still confront lingering obstacles such as prejudice, resentment, bitterness, unforgiveness, discouragement, worry, misplaced confidence, spiritual inadequacy, and dependence on feelings rather than faith. The booklet proposes that Christian growth requires both honest self-examination and active dependence on God’s grace, Word, Spirit, and forgiveness. Through biblical reflections, personal illustrations, prayers, affirmations, and discussion questions, Ron Christian calls readers to replace harmful attitudes with humility, love, reconciliation, courage, contentment, and steady faith. Its central message is that obstacles to Christian growth are not overcome by self-effort alone, but through repentance, renewed thinking, obedience, forgiveness, and daily trust in Christ’s transforming power.

Practicing the Means of Grace

Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Practicing the Means of Grace is Book 2 in the Growing a Godly Life devotional series by Ron Christian. The booklet maintains that becoming a Christian may happen through sincere faith and prayer, but growing into a mature believer requires continued participation in the “means of grace” God provides. Ron Christian presents the local church, corporate fellowship, biblical teaching, Scripture, prayer, communion, baptism, worship, hymns, and personal spiritual disciplines as vital channels through which believers are strengthened and shaped. The work contends that Christians are not meant to live isolated spiritual lives, but to grow in the family of God through regular worship, fellowship, reverence, shared devotion, and service. It also emphasizes the Bible as God’s blueprint for life and calls believers to hunger for Scripture, obey it carefully, and allow it to saturate the heart and mind. Through devotional reflections, prayers, affirmations, and discussion questions, the booklet proposes a practical path for deepening communion with God and maturing in the Christian faith.

Practicing The Presence Of God

Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Practicing The Presence Of God is a Christian devotional work in the Growing A Godly Life series that focuses on living in continual awareness of God’s nearness, majesty, love, and personal care. Ron Christian maintains that Scripture presents God as both high and holy, yet also deeply personal and intimately involved in the lives of His people. The book contends that believers are called not merely to perform Christian duties, but to commune with the Lord moment by moment, allowing worship, prayer, praise, service, and daily decisions to flow from a living relationship with Him. Ron Christian emphasizes that the sacred and the ordinary are not separate for the Christian; God’s presence may be recognized in nature, work, relationships, household tasks, suffering, guidance, worship, and unexpected acts of care. The devotional readings invite readers to sit at Jesus’ feet, hear God’s voice, trust His shepherding protection, receive courage and peace, and let service become the overflow of love for God. Its central message is that a godly life is sustained by practicing the presence of God in every circumstance and learning to see all of life as an opportunity for divine communion.

Pursuing a Holy Lifestyle

Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Pursuing a Holy Lifestyle is Book 3 in the Growing a Godly Life devotional series by Ron Christian. The booklet maintains that God’s saving work addresses both outward sinful actions and the inward problem of self-centeredness, pride, and rebellion. Ron Christian presents holiness as the work of the Holy Spirit, beginning with conversion and continuing through full surrender, inward cleansing, and daily growth in Christlike character. The work contends that sanctification is not merely separation from sin, but a positive life of love, obedience, humility, prayer, moral integrity, and dependence on the Spirit’s power. Through devotional reflections, Scripture passages, prayers, affirmations, and discussion questions, the booklet calls believers to let Christ rule the heart, surrender the “self,” control the tongue, resist hypocrisy and compromise, and pursue purity in thought, attitude, speech, and conduct. Its central message is that a holy lifestyle is not achieved by human effort alone, but by continual surrender to Christ and the transforming presence of the Holy Spirit.

Reaching Out In Holy Love

Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Reaching Out In Holy Love is a Christian devotional work by Ron Christian that maintains that genuine Christian faith must be expressed through visible love, humble service, compassionate communication, and practical care for others. The book asserts that good works do not replace faith, but they are the natural fruit of repentance, obedience, and love for Christ. Ron Christian emphasizes that believers are called to participate in the Great Commission not only through preaching or formal ministry, but also through listening, encouraging, nurturing friendships, welcoming new believers, caring for neighbors, including singles and overlooked people, and building bridges across personal, cultural, and religious differences. The work proposes that Christlike service requires humility rather than competition, willingness rather than impressive ability, and a readiness to serve even when the work is unnoticed. Through devotional reflections, biblical examples, prayers, affirmations, and discussion questions, the book calls Christians to become people of holy love whose words, actions, relationships, and everyday service help reveal the compassion of Christ to a hurting world.

Refocusing On Life's Priorities

Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Refocusing On Life’s Priorities is a Christian devotional work by Ron Christian that calls believers to place eternal values above material possessions, worldly success, personal comfort, and the pursuit of status. The book maintains that materialism can quietly starve the soul by causing people to value temporal things more than spiritual things, and it contends that a Christian’s priorities should be shaped by Christ, generosity, gratitude, contentment, simplicity, and service. Ron Christian warns against allowing money, possessions, ambition, and cultural definitions of success to become controlling forces, while also proposing a life marked by thankfulness, wise stewardship, family faithfulness, and concern for people above things. The work also addresses related themes such as remembering one’s legacy, passing values to future generations, winning spiritual battles, resisting a corrupt culture, practicing contentment, avoiding self-indulgence, and choosing the good, the better, and the best. Its central message is that Christian maturity requires a continual refocusing of the heart away from temporary treasures and toward God’s kingdom, lasting values, and faithful obedience in everyday life.

Rescuing The Lost Ones

Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Rescuing The Lost Ones is a Christian devotional work by Ron Christian that focuses on the believer’s calling to witness, evangelize, and participate in Christ’s Great Commission. The book maintains that sharing the Gospel is not merely a task for pastors or church leaders, but a responsibility given to every follower of Christ. Ron Christian emphasizes preparation for witnessing through repentance, prayer, humility, Scripture, and dependence on the Holy Spirit. He contends that effective witness must combine clear biblical truth with compassion, love, boldness, tolerance, and sensitivity toward people who are lost, hurting, or resistant to faith. The work also proposes that Christians must regain a clear vision for souls, seeing every person as loved by God and full of potential for transformation in Christ. Through devotional reflections, Bible passages, questions, prayers, and affirmations, the book calls believers to overcome fear, guilty silence, spiritual dullness, and self-focus so they can lovingly rescue the perishing, care for the dying, and point others to the saving grace of Jesus Christ.

Surviving Life's Hard Trials

Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Surviving Life’s Hard Trials is a Christian devotional work by Ron Christian that addresses adversity, suffering, grief, defeat, loss, and recovery through the lens of faith in God’s goodness and sustaining grace. The book maintains that painful experiences are not always God’s direct will, but that God can work redemptively through tragedy, weakness, grief, and disappointment to deepen trust, mature character, and bring spiritual victory. Ron Christian encourages believers to face hardship honestly rather than deny it, to bring sorrow, anger, guilt, and loneliness before God, and to seek healing through prayer, Scripture, hope, and the presence of Christ. The devotional also proposes that losses can become occasions for renewed life, restored purpose, and greater dependence on God, using themes such as trusting God amid adversities, processing grief for healing, beginning again after defeat, and transforming losses into gains. Its central message is that Christians can endure hard trials not by pretending pain is small, but by trusting that God is able to comfort, restore, strengthen, and bring lasting good out of even life’s deepest wounds.

Battle Against Humanism!

Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Battle Against Humanism! is a Christian devotional and apologetic work by Ron Christian that contrasts a Christ-centered worldview with what the author describes as humanism: a self-centered, prideful, materialistic, and God-denying philosophy. The book asserts that science and human reason are valuable gifts from God, but become spiritually dangerous when elevated into objects of worship or treated as the only path to truth. Christian emphasizes that both Scripture and nature reveal God, and he presents the ordered universe as evidence of divine design. Throughout the book, he calls believers to humility, prayer, obedience, compassion, and dependence on the Holy Spirit rather than self-sufficiency. The work also addresses related themes such as relativism, materialism, abortion, public moral standards, the teaching of the Bible, spiritual gifts, Christian service, heaven, suffering, praise, tears, laughter, and God’s love. Its central message is that the Christian life is not built on human pride or independence, but on repentance, faith in Christ, humble service, and loving witness to others.

Does God Love All or Only Some Persons?

Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

This PDF is a Christian theological booklet by Ron Christian comparing the author’s understanding of the New Testament God with Calvinistic teaching. The work contends that God’s love and saving will extend to all people, not only to a predetermined elect group. It presents Calvinism as a system that, in the author’s view, produces fear, insecurity, and a distorted picture of God by emphasizing predestination, limited atonement, irresistible grace, and unconditional eternal security. In contrast, the booklet defends an Arminian-leaning view that Christ died for all, that God grants grace enabling people to respond, and that human beings have meaningful free will. The author also stresses that salvation involves an ongoing obedient relationship with Christ rather than an automatic guarantee regardless of later choices. Throughout the booklet, Christian joy, assurance, repentance, faithfulness, the work of the Holy Spirit, human suffering, and the justice and compassion of God are used to support the central claim that the God revealed in Jesus Christ is loving, merciful, just, and sincerely desires every person to be saved.

Let My Laughter Resound!

Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Let My Laughter Resound! is a Christian devotional work by Ron Christian about the spiritual value of joy, wholesome laughter, humility, and self-forgetfulness in the life of a believer. The book teaches that true laughter flows from the ‘joy of the Lord’ and from a healthy relationship with God, oneself, and others. Christian proposes that believers should take God seriously while learning not to take themselves too seriously, allowing them to laugh at their own weaknesses, oddities, and embarrassing moments without defensiveness or pride. The book reflects on Jesus as both sorrowful and joyful, suggesting that Christ’s victory over sin, death, and Satan gives believers deep reason for ‘holy laughter.’ Through personal stories, humorous memories, marriage reflections, and devotional teaching, the book encourages readers to embrace humility, transparency, joy, and loving relationships as gifts from God.

Let My Praise Be Heard!

Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Let My Praise Be Heard! is a devotional Christian work focused on gratitude, praise, thanksgiving, and trust in God through both joyful and painful circumstances. Ron Christian contends that believers are called to give thanks in all things, not necessarily for all things, because God is loving, wise, powerful, and able to transform even hardship into spiritual growth. The book contrasts gratitude with ingratitude, pride, bitterness, and self-sufficiency, presenting thankfulness as a mark of humility and holiness. Through personal stories about family members, friends, suffering, rescue, healing, ministry, creation, and soul-winning opportunities, the author shows how praise can become a way of life. The book emphasizes that gratitude is not merely a human achievement but a gift and practice empowered by the Holy Spirit, helping believers maintain faith, balance, joy, and hope as they look toward eternal life in heaven.

Let My Tears Flow

Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Let My Tears Flow is a Christian devotional book about sorrow, grief, repentance, suffering, and the comfort God gives in the middle of life’s painful experiences. Ron Christian reflects on personal and family stories, including the care of his elderly mother, the losses experienced by loved ones, depression, loneliness, death, illness, accidents, and other deep sorrows. The book emphasizes that tears are not a sign of weak faith; rather, they can be part of honest Christian living when brought before God in trust. Christian presents Jesus as the compassionate Savior who understands human heartbreak, weeps with those who suffer, calls sinners to repentance, and offers grace, forgiveness, healing, and eternal hope. Throughout the book, suffering is treated as real and painful, but not meaningless, because God is portrayed as the great Comforter and Compensator who can bring good, growth, and final restoration even from life’s darkest experiences.

Who Cares For The Unborn Baby?

Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Who Cares For The Unborn Baby? is a Christian pro-life devotional work focused on the sanctity of human life, especially the life of the unborn child. Ron Christian contends that human life has sacred value because people are created in the image of God, loved by their Creator, and redeemed through Jesus Christ. The book presents a biblical foundation for human dignity through creation, the incarnation of Christ, Jesus’ compassion for the vulnerable, His atoning death, stewardship of the body, the law of love, the Golden Rule, human accountability before God, and the bodily resurrection. It strongly condemns abortion as a grave moral wrong while also emphasizing that God’s grace, forgiveness, repentance, and reconciliation are available to sinners through the blood of Jesus. The book also broadens the sanctity-of-life theme beyond abortion to include care for the weak, the needy, the suffering, and all people whose lives bear eternal worth before God.