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RESOURCES

The City Gates Church Resources page contains helpful links, articles, and videos to encourage and equip you in your walk with the Lord.

Our desire is that this tool will provide support, insight, and guidance to draw you closer to Christ.

Featured Resources

A Praying Life: Connecting with God in a Distracting World

Prayer is hard. Often, unless circumstances demand it―such as an illness or saying grace before a meal―most of us simply do not pray. This kind of prayerlessness can leave us with a distressed spirit and practical unbelief characterized by fear, anxiety, joylessness, and spiritual depression.

Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life

Drawn from a rich heritage, Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life will guide you through a carefully selected array of disciplines. By illustrating why the disciplines are important, showing how each one will help you grow in godliness, and offering practical suggestions for cultivating them, Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life will provide you with a refreshing opportunity to become more like Christ and grow in character and maturity.

Tech-Wise Family

Do you ever think about your relationship to technology? Have you allowed it to take over your routine and can’t imagine life without it? Regardless of your personal experience, technology is changing us. Andy Crouch, author of The Tech-Wise Family, discusses insights from his book and the consequences technology may have for us as individuals and families.

Andy Crouch is a partner for theology and culture at Praxis, an organization that works as a creative engine for redemptive entrepreneurship. His writing explores faith, culture, and the image of God in the domains of technology, power, leadership, and the arts. 

Resources for My Life

Have questions about prayer? How to steward your finances or time? View resources pertaining to matters of personal growth and Christian living.

Good and Angry sets readers on a path toward a faithful and fruitful expression of anger, in which we return good for evil and redeem wrongs. 

Edward T. Welch investigates the roots of fear in the human soul and the ramifications of living in the grips of anxiety, worry, and dread. Welch encourages readers to discover for themselves that the Bible is full of beautiful words of comfort for fearful people (and that every single person is afraid of something). 

Dark Clouds, Deep Mercy seeks to restore the lost art of lament in order to help readers discover the power of honest wrestling with the questions that come with grief and suffering.

A Grace Disguised plumbs the depths of our sorrows, asks questions many people are afraid to ask, and provides hope in its answers.

Drawn from a rich heritage, Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life will guide you through a carefully selected array of disciplines.

You’ll find 365 thought-provoking meditations in this updated-language edition of “the golden book of Oswald Chambers.” My Utmost for His Highest will encourage and move you to think more deeply about your relationship with the Lord.

Resources for the Home

Resources pertaining to matters around relationships in the home, i.e., marriage, parenting, etc.

In The Meaning of Marriage, Timothy Keller uses the scriptures as his guide to show readers what God's call to marriage is, and why this is such a powerful call. 

Shepherding a Child's Heart is written for parents with children of any age, this insightful book provides perspectives and procedures for shepherding your child's heart into the paths of life.

Making conscientious choices about technology in our families is more than just using Internet filters and determining screen time limits for our children. It's about developing wisdom, character, and courage...

Outlining fourteen foundational principles centered on the gospel, Paul Tripp shows that we need more than the latest parenting strategy...Rather, we need the rescuing grace of God...that has the power to shape how we view everything we do as parents.

Dan Strange encourages Christians to engage with everything they watch, read and play in a positive and discerning way. He also teaches Christians how to think and speak about culture in a way that plugs into a bigger and better reality—the story of King Jesus, and his cosmic plan for the world.

In Discovering the Mind of Women husbands learn to understand their wives as Christ would. From this point they learn to respond to their wives in a consistent Christlike manner. 

Grow Spiritually

Looking to grow deeper in your Bible study? This list of resources consists of trusted study Bibles, commentaries, books, and podcast for spiritual growth.

Resources for the Church

Resources that can help you dig deeper into Church history, doctrines and theology and bring insight into various topics surrounding worship, discipleship, and community.

Church History in Plain Language makes church history clear, memorable, and accessible to every reader. 

Rediscover what it means to lift up your voice in praise. In Sing!, modern hymn writers Keith and Kristyn Getty explore why we sing and what that means for individual worshipers and churches. 

Duane Elmer provides a compass for navigating through different cultures. He shows us how to avoid pitfalls and cultural faux pas, as well as how to make the most of opportunities to build cross-cultural relationships. 

Written for those seeking a clear understanding of the mandate for biblical eldership, this full-length, expository book defines it accurately, practically, and according to Scripture. 

When Helping Hurts shows how some alleviation efforts...have actually (and unintentionally) done more harm than good. But it looks ahead. It encourages us to see the dignity in everyone, to empower the materially poor, and to know that we are all uniquely needy—and that God in the gospel is reconciling all things to himself.

The Christian church has a long tradition of systematic theology, that is, studying theology and doctrine organized around fairly standard categories such as the Word of God, redemption, and Jesus Christ. 

Resources for the World

Resources pertaining to challenging topics and issues we face as Christians in this world. Topics surround art, politics, race, technology, and world religions.

In Adorning the Dark, Andrew Peterson describes six principles for the writing life: serving the work, serving the audience, selectivity, discernment, discipline, and community. 

Family expert Jim Burns provides a handy guide for parenting teens. For teens to become responsible adults, parents need to help them grow through developmental changes to attain a healthy self-identity, establish good relationships, make wise decisions, and grow in their relationship with God.

In this subtle yet accessible book, Haidt gives you the key to understanding the miracle of human cooperation, as well as the curse of our eternal divisions and conflicts. If you’re ready to trade in anger for understanding, read The Righteous Mind.

In One Race One Blood, Ken Ham and Charles Ware challenge the Church to move beyond the division of Darwinian "race" relations to the unity of grace relations. Loving relationships united by the Cross and governed by the Bible will lead to reconciliation

Can we prove the existence of God, or are we left to grapple in the dark and take blind leaps of faith about what we believe? Everyone asks these questions, and maybe you think you have the answers. But can you defend your beliefs when peers and professors are challenging your worldview? Dr. Stephen Meyer helps you examine the evidence and provides the tools needed to defend your faith and make it your own.

Using literature, philosophy, real-life conversations, and potent reasoning, Keller explains how the belief in a Christian God is, in fact, a sound and rational one.

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