New Releases by Rob Bell

Een boek over hemel en hel en de lotsbestemming van ieder mens op aarde. Rob Bell is bekend om zijn creatieve en onconventionele kijk op thema''s als redding, hemel en hel. In dit boek stelt hij dat je visie op ''hemel en hel'' alles te maken heeft met je beeld van God. Hij gelooft wel dat er iets bestaat als een hel, maar hij geeft een radicale draai aan de klassieke visie dat de hel een plek van eeuwige straf is. Volgens hem is dit een ''misleidend en giftig'' geloof...

New York Times bestselling author Rob Bell is known for bringing out into the open and exploring the deeper questions of Christian life and faith—how we relate to God, how to love others, how to channel difficulty into creativity, how to understand eternity, and how to live as Jesus taught. He invites us to examine closely the beliefs we claim to hold most dear but often do not take the time to reflect upon. Time calls Bell the most exciting voice in the church today and, now with the Rob Bell Reader, readers can sample selections from Love Wins, Velvet Elvis, Jesus Wants to Save Christians, Sex God, and Drops Like Stars.

This enhanced edition of LOVE WINS includes extras such as the complete LOVE WINS COMPANION as well as the book trailer video that started it all and ten brand-new videos featuring Rob Bell discussing each of the chapters. In LOVE WINS, bestselling author of VELVET ELVIS and the 2 million-plus selling Nooma videos, Rob Bell, reveals a secret deep in the heart of millions of Christians-they don′t believe what they have been taught are the essential truths of their faith. Bell brings out to the open and faces squarely the questions on everyone′s mind: Does it really make sense that God is a loving, kind, compassionate God who wants to know people in a personal way, but if they reject this relationship with Jesus, they will be sent to hell where God will eternally punish them forever? Bell goes to the heart of these issues and argues that the church′s traditional understanding of heaven and hell is actually not taught by the Bible. Bell is emphatically not offering a new view of heaven and hell-instead, he closely examines every verse in the Bible on heaven and hell and shows what they really teach. And he discovers that Jesus′s most fundamental teaching about heaven and hell is, "Love wins."

Bestselling author Rob Bell offers a provocative book which gets to the heart of questions about life and death. His perspective, encapsulated by his famous slogan ‘love wins’, will surprise and challenge both Christians and atheists, and will inspire people of all faiths and none.

Millions of Christians have struggled with how to reconcile God''s love and God''s judgment: Has God created billions of people over thousands of years only to select a few to go to heaven and everyone else to suffer forever in hell? Is this acceptable to God? How is this "good news"? Troubling questions—so troubling that many have lost their faith because of them. Others only whisper the questions to themselves, fearing or being taught that they might lose their faith and their church if they ask them out loud. But what if these questions trouble us for good reason? What if the story of heaven and hell we have been taught is not, in fact, what the Bible teaches? What if what Jesus meant by heaven, hell, and salvation are very different from how we have come to understand them? What if it is God who wants us to face these questions? Author, pastor, and innovative teacher Rob Bell presents a deeply biblical vision for rediscovering a richer, grander, truer, and more spiritually satisfying way of understanding heaven, hell, God, Jesus, salvation, and repentance. The result is the discovery that the "good news" is much, much better than we ever imagined. Love wins.

Looking Back - An Autobiography is the personal manifestation of one man''s life detailing the good times and bad, and his evolution into manhood. Looking Back gives you a rare glimpse of the past events that have occurred in the life of the author.

Sex. God. You know the two subjects are connected; you just don''t have the words for how they are connected. And they cannot be separated. Where the one is, you will always find the other. When you actually live and feel and engage, you discover that the physical things around us are like windows into more. And when you talk about sexuality, you quickly end up in the spiritual---because ''this'' is always about ''that.'' Something deeper. Something behind it all. You can''t talk about sexuality without talking about how we were made. About how we relate to each other. About how we were made to relate to each other. And that will inevitably lead you to who made us. At some point you have to talk about God. To make sense of the one, we have to explore the other. That is what this book is about.

"Dr. Bell''s book does a terrific job at breaking down the tools you need and to practice to become a mentally tough competitor." -John Dal Corobbo- 2009 Indiana PGA Teacher of the Year " Mental Toughness Training for Golf is an excellent resource for coaches and players of all levels. Dr. Bell has done an excellent job compiling diverse and practical philosophies with a proven track record of success. Mental toughness and effective training is the final frontier of coaching our sport." -O.D. Vincent- 1999 National Coach of the Year " Dr. Rob has developed a road map for success. He has helped me numerous times and is very insightful about what it takes for every player to reach their full potential." -Mark Guhne- Three Time Southern Conference Coach of the Year "The practice ideas and tournament mental processes that Dr. Rob Bell reveals in this book are incredibly valuable to a player, coach, or parent. A "must read," for anyone looking to develop mental toughness." -Randy Wylie- Golf Digest "Best Teachers in State" Mental Toughness Training for Golf illustrates how to maximize our preparation. In this cutting edge book, you''ll learn how great coaches and players create pressure in practice, how to build a human taproot, why suffering is needed, and the don''ts of mental toughness.

Sex. God. You know the two subjects are connected; you just don''t have the words for how they are connected. And they cannot be separated. Where the one is, you will always find the other. When you actually live and feel and engage, you discover that the physical things around us are like windows into more. And when you talk about sexuality, you quickly end up in the spiritual---because ''this'' is always about ''that.'' Something deeper. Something behind it all. You can''t talk about sexuality without talking about how we were made. About how we relate to each other. About how we were made to relate to each other. And that will inevitably lead you to who made us. At some point you have to talk about God. To make sense of the one, we have to explore the other. That is what this book is about.

NOOMA Group 01, Book 001-004 is designed to accompany the NOOMA Group 01 DVD and is intended to facilitate discussions based on the themes and questions raised in NOOMA Films 001-004. NOOMA Book 001-004 helps viewers delve more deeply and meaningfully into the issues raised in NOOMA Films 001-004 Û 001 Rain, 002 Flame, 003 Trees, and 004 Sunday. Viewers will explore and discuss issues such as where God is in the midst of our pain, the deeper meanings of the word ÔloveÖ, whether or not our lives have any real significance, and the possibility that we get so blinded by religion that we miss out on what God truly wants. Watch the films with friends, open the book, and together begin to search, question, and join the discussion.

SPANISH EDITION. There is a church not too far from us that recently added a $25 million addition to their building. Our local newspaper ran a front-page story not too long ago about a study revealing that one in five people in our city lives in poverty. This is a book about those two numbers.

This book is an exploration of the complex relationship between suffering andcreativity, driven by the belief that there is art in the agony.

A church in Grand Rapids, Michigan, recently added a $25-million addition to its building; meanwhile one in five people in Grand Rapids lives in poverty. This book about those two numbers tells what happens when Christians support and participate in the very things Jesus advocated.

This book teaches the service and communication skills necessary to provide REMARKABLE CUSTOMER SERVICE that earns the loyalty that builds long-term business SUCCESS.

We love our jobs, we love our kids, we love a good burrito. When love is defined so broadly, it loses its significance. We may confuse friendship, commitment, or lust with love, but God intended us to experience something far deeper.

How much energy do we spend on wishing things were how they used to be, thinking that our best days may be behind us? Maybe if we''re too hung up on the past we fail to live our lives to the fullest, right here, right now.

What will really make us happy? We chase after what we think we''re missing -- a new car, a different job, a thinner body -- but these things never really satisfy. Can we learn to trust that God has something even better in mind? Can we learn to wait when answers don''t come right away?

We all get angry about things from time to time -- some of us more often than others. But what is really the root of our anger? Maybe if we learn where our anger comes from, we can channel it towards something constructive -- something that''s bigger than ourselves.

Do we honestly think that standing, sitting and singing in church for an hour a week makes God happy? God hates it when we call ourselves Christians but ignore all the things he really cares about. He doesn''t want our hollow religious routines or meaningless rituals. He wants our hearts.

We''re constantly bombarded with images of the latest styles of everything, and it''s easy for us to feel like what we have won''t do. But to most people in the world what we have would be more than enough. Maybe what we have is enough, and God has blessed us so that we can bless and give to others.

Losing someone we love can be the most difficult thing to go through in life. All the explanations and comforting words in the world don''t really help and everything can seem hopeless. But what might help us is to know, that in facing this kind of loss, Jesus wept.

Most of us have done things in our lives that we''re ashamed of. Some are small things, and some are devastating things. But no matter what we''ve done or how other people respond, it doesn''t change how God feels about us. Nothing can ever change his unconditional love for us.

Why is silence so hard to deal with? We''re constantly surrounded with the noise of movies, music, technology, cell phones, and a never-ending barrage of advertisements. If we think that God''s not talking to us, perhaps it''s just that we can''t hear him.

Things don''t always work out the way we want them to. So where is God when bad things happen? How can God just stand by and watch us suffer? Maybe it''s when we''re in storms of life that God gets an opportunity to remind us of how much he really loves us.

Many people often debate the central claims of the Christian faith. But maybe a better understanding of the history of the early Christian movement would give new perspective to these discussions.

NOOMA is a new format for spiritual direction. It''s short films touching on issues that we care about, that we want to talk about, and it comes in a way that fits our world. It''s a format that''s there for us when we need it, as we need it, how we need it. Audio: English. Subtitles: English, French, German, Korean, Mandarin, Portuguese, Spanish.

God didn''t intend for us to carry around the luggage of betrayal, pain and woundedness. The freedom we long for comes through forgiveness, not revenge. Maybe forgiving isn''t something you do for someone else, but what you do for yourself because it''s the only way to be free.

We have to test everything. I thank God for anybody anywhere who is pointing people to the mysteries of God. But those people would all tell you to think long and hard about what they are saying and doing and creating. Test it. Probe it. Do that to this book. Don''t swallow it uncritically. Think about it. Wrestle with it. Just because I''m a Christian and I''m trying to articulate a Christian worldview doesn''t mean I''ve got it nailed. I''m contributing to the discussion. God has spoken, and the rest is commentary, right?