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Preacher, teacher, story-teller, moralist. Spiritual surgeon, sage, writer, comic. All things considered, it seems the only label that fits author Buckingham is Jamie!

God loves you. And if you will let him, he will not only direct your path, but he will give you power to live. That’s what this book is all about: power for living. Let God give you power, not only to live, but to live abundantly.

Do you sometimes feel that you are wandering in a wilderness of grief, confusion, and faltering faith? If so, you are not alone. Like the lost children of Israel, many have searched for a way through a personal wilderness. But just as those same Israelites followed God's leading to the Promised Land, you too can find the promised new life in the Spirit. Jamie Buckingham made such a journey - not only figuratively but literally. During a time of intense personal struggle, he traveled to the Sinai. There he found restoration and, in the solitude of a wilderness night, he learned ancient Bible truths that would alter his life forever.

Here is the dramatic chronicle of the men and women who comprise the Jungle Aviation and Radio Service (JAARS), the flying arm of the famous Wycliffe Bible Translators. Viewed from a distance, they live a life of color and adventure, but however dramatic and colorful the job of these pilots may seem, it is basically a rigorous, lonely, and thankless task.

This book is for Christians and everybody else who takes himself too seriously! Buckingham, renowned storyteller and master satirist, goes behind the scenes to name names and talk about hilarious incidents in his life, and the life of others close to him. No one escapes his pointed pen. The big shots, the unknowns, his wife, his kids, his mother, friend, and foe - all are targets of his humor. He even pokes fun at himself - his weight, his balding head, and his often fumbling methods to represent God.

How do you respond when you receive criticism from your spouse or your employer? Does criticism emotionally devastate you? Jamie Buckingham takes the risk of exposing his own struggles and inadequacies to help you deal with criticism. Learn how to receive criticism without fear by replacing your defense mechanisms with honesty, love, forgiveness, and a sense of humor. So, are you coping with criticism or are you just reacting to it?

Jamie Buckingham's remarkable book Miracle Power takes us on an exciting adventure through the history and culture that surrounded some of Jesus' most notable miracles. If you believe in your head but doubt in your heart that God still works miracles, you will find a great way to take a closer that this look at the miracles of Jesus—then and now.

God is not calling to our intellects. He is calling to our hearts. He is calling to that deep inner place where we are, to where we will become his people. And when we become his people, then he becomes Lord of all. When that happens, then no matter what he does, it is within the realm of his love and his kindness and his mercy and his grace. We have a God who is so great that he will work through us to bring his miracles and to bring his healing. Because it's God who is in control, and we trust only in him.

"God has placed inside each one of us a spiritual dream. It's what God has breathed into us - a little bit of himself. And it's that part that is calling us unto him." So states Jamie Buckingham in this remarkable recounting of his own personal journey with the Holy Spirit, never before in print. From his strict moral upbringing, through his salvation experience, through his "dark pit" days as a disgraced Southern Baptist pastor, through his highly successful writing career, Jamie shares how God broke down his resistance to the baptism in the Holy Spirit.

This is the first in a series of volumes that include edited transcripts of individual sermons by Jamie Buckingham, delivered between the dates 1970-1992. A master storyteller, Jamie Buckingham delighted millions around the world both in person and in print. He was recognized as one of the key Christian authors and apostolic leaders from the early 1970s until his death in 1992. As a distinguished Bible teacher with graduate degrees in English Literature and Theology, Jamie was respected among liturgical, evangelical, and Pentecostal Christians. He was considered a close friend and confidant...

What does it mean to make Jesus the Lord of your life? When you choose the way in which you walk—when you choose to follow Jesus Christ and make Him your Lord—you voluntarily surrender the right to choose or the power to vary the consequences. Paul said, “When you choose whom you will obey, you make yourself a slave.” That’s the key to the lordship of Jesus: that commitment, that surrender, that relinquishment, where you take your will and put it into the hand of God, and you ask Him to rule you with His will instead of yours. Once you have done that, everything that happens to ...

What happens when you are discouraged? Do you understand why the things that happen to you affect you the way they do? Is there a way to overcome your hurt feelings, despair, and disappointments in life? Discouragement affects us all. No one is immune to it. But according to Jamie Buckingham, more often than not, our feelings of discouragement have less to do with something that has happened to us or something that was said to us, and more to do with our lack of purpose in life. Do you know what your purpose in life is? Is your purpose to be served? Or is your purpose in life to be of ...

In this book taken from a sermon by Jamie Buckingham, Jamie states there are no prophets or prognosticators for the future. There are only weathervanes for the present. Nobody knows where the wind is blowing. Jesus said you cannot tell where it is going. Nobody knows. The best we can do is to hoist a weathervane and say, “This is the way it’s blowing today.” There are no prophets for the future. There are only weathervanes for the present. Others, on the other hand, have cranked up wind machines and are doing it their own way. I know a lot of people in ministry today who have built ...

Christians are under attack from a deadly but invisible enemy. God has given us orders to be armed for battle in spiritual warfare. As we are witnessing in the world today, Satan has mounted a massive attack against Christians and the church. As a result there is a great resurgence of interest in spiritual warfare. Christians of all persuasions must realize they do not have to be pushed around by the devil. Jesus Christ has given us authority, not only to cast out demons, but to bash in the gates of hell.

Have you ever watched an eagle soar? Picture one now, gliding motionless on the thermal winds, far above the gusts that whip the surface of the earth. His movement is most graceful when he yields to the flow of the currents and lets them carry him. That's the way it is with Christians, says Jamie Buckingham, when we relinquish our lives to the movement of God's spirit.

It is God's purpose and plan for us all to grow old and to go through physical changes. But it is not God's purpose for us to grow old and stop serving Him. Everything changes because our God is a God of change. There is nothing stationary about God. He is always moving and progressing forward and, as Christians, we are part of something God is doing, regardless of our age or physical condition. So regardless of how old you are or how you feel physically, God still has something for you to do for His kingdom.

People, like trees, bear fruit in their proper season. In this booklet, taken from a favorite sermon by Pastor Jamie Buckingham, we read that the blessed tree is not the kind that needs to be watered, or nourished, all the time. This tree does not need constant feeding in order to bring forth fruit in its season. The blessed tree may be planted by a dry river bed, but it has roots that go deep into the ground, where reservoirs of stored water are found. In the same way, the blessed man is not meant to produce fruit all the time. But he will produce fruit in its proper season, when his ...

This is the fifth in a series of volumes that include edited transcripts of individual sermons by Jamie Buckingham, delivered between the dates 1970-1992. A master storyteller, Jamie Buckingham delighted millions around the world both in person and in print. He was recognized as one of the key Christian authors and apostolic leaders from the early 1970s until his death in 1992. As a distinguished Bible teacher with graduate degrees in English Literature and Theology, Jamie was respected among liturgical, evangelical, and Pentecostal Christians. He was considered a close friend and confidant...

There is a curtain on the invisible world. Yet, there are times when God raises the curtain and we are permitted to see beyond the veil into the spiritual world. What is beyond is marvelous. Angels are all around us, and they are standing ready to fight our spiritual battles for us. All we need to do to activate them is to pray. When we pray, God mobilizes the angelic forces, and suddenly the battle is no longer ours. The battle is the Lord’s. In this little book, Jamie Buckingham tells of the importance of prayer in his life. He then relates the story of the prophet Elisha and how, when ...

In this important book based on a classroom teaching series, Jamie Buckingham draws from his rich theological background, years of personal study and experience, and decades as the pastor of a large congregation to answer six foundational questions that we often take for granted: • Who is God? • Who is Jesus? • Who is the Holy Spirit? • What is the baptism in the Holy Spirit? • What is communion? • What is the church? With great wisdom, humor, and insight, Jamie provides clear and in-depth answers as he explores what the Bible has to say about each of these core subjects. For ...