Faith on 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.

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.