"What must I do to be saved?" "How do I live like I believe?" "How can I keep growing in my faith?" Christians young and old who are determined to take their faith commitment seriously will appreciate this all-in-one guidebook by master teacher and preacher Charles Stanley. In clear and simple terms, Stanley covers all the fundamental keys to knowing God, living the Christian life, and growing in spiritual maturity. Living Close to God leads readers step by step through experiencing God's unconditional love, learning to pray, accepting and offering forgiveness, discovering God's will, responding to anxiety and difficult circumstances, waging spiritual warfare, living a truly Spirit-filled life, and much more. All of these simple principles are fully trustworthy - Stanley draws them directly from Scripture. Compassionate, realistic, and entirely practical, here is the essential companion to day-to-day living that every earnest Christian needs.
Charles Frazier Stanley was born September 25, 1932, in the small town of Dry Fork, Virginia. The only child of Charley and Rebecca Stanley, Charles came into the world during a time when the entire nation felt the grip of the Great Depression. To make matters worse, just nine months later, his father Charley died at the young age of 29.
However, Charles refused to let the Great Depression or the difficulties of his life define him. Instead, like his father and grandfather before him, he clung to God’s Word and took up the mantle to preach the gospel to whoever would listen.
Dr. Stanley’s motivation is best represented by the truth found in Acts 20:24, “Life is worth nothing unless I use it for doing the work assigned me by the Lord Jesus—the work of telling others the Good News about God's mighty kindness and love.” This is because, as he says, “It is the Word of God and the work of God that changes people’s lives.”
Dr. Stanley’s teachings can be heard weekly at First Baptist Church Atlanta, daily on “In Touch with Dr. Charles Stanley” radio and television broadcasts on more than 2,800 stations around the world, on the Internet at intouch.org, through the In Touch Messenger, and in the monthly, award-winning In Touch magazine.
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