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No Lasting Home NEW!

As Hitler’s armies turn mainland Europe into a mass graveyard, a little group of 300 pacifist refugees – half of them babies and young children – looks for a new home...

Discipleship

Sometimes sensitive, sometimes provocative, but always encouraging, Arnold guides readers toward leading Christ-like lives amid the stress and strain of modern life.

God's Revolution

Eberhard Arnold doesn’t approach discipleship as a benign route to religious fulfilment, but as revolution – a transformation that begins within and spreads outward every aspect of life.

Sex, God & Marriage

A refreshing new look at sex, love, and marriage that sees past the usual issues and gets to the root: our relationship with God, and the defining power of that bond over all other relationships.

Salt and Light

Seventeen challenging talks and essays on the Sermon on the Mount, by a writer who believes their demands are viable and inescapable – and must be lived out today...

Why Forgive?

No matter the weight of our bitterness or despair, forgiving is the surest way to out. But that’s easier said than done. Why Forgive? brings together survivors of crime, betrayal, bigotry, and abuse.

Action in Waiting

A fresh look at the spiritual life as “active expectation” of God’s kingdom breaking into this world. This kingdom is no longer relegated to some afterlife, but takes effect today.

Against the Wind

A journalist’s biography of Eberhard Arnold, a man who, in his search for Christ, ended up turning the Christianity of his day on its head. Markus Baum looks at the forces that shaped Arnold’s life

The Awakening

The Awakening provides a rare glimpse into the eternal fight between the forces of good and evil in the daily lives of ordinary men and women.

Be Not Afraid

In this hope-filled book, stories of real men and women offer hard-won insights on dealing with uncertainty, loss, grief, and the fear of death...

Christoph Blumhardt and his Message

Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt (1842-1919) was an original. He belonged neither to church nor secular circles — an embarrassment to Christians and non-Christians alike...

Concerning the Sword

Concerning the Sword is the fourth article of the Article Book, a major doctrinal tract of the Hutterites of the sixteenth century. Its author was probably Peter Walpot.

Cries from the Heart

Where has the real God gone? These are stories about real people with real problems finding strength to face life’s challenges. Their experiences range from extreme to quite ordinary and universal...

Drained

These stories — of ordinary people, who overcame their greatest obstacles — are for those who refuse to “run on empty.” This book provides realistic stepping stones toward a fulfilled life...

The Early Christians

What did Christianity look like in the beginning? Find out for yourself with this collection of firsthand accounts of the early church. Includes excerpts from Origen, Tertullian, Polycarp, and many others...

Eberhard Arnold – Writings Selected

One of the best introductions to Arnold. This e-book might be described as the Portable Arnold – a collection of the strongest and best of his prolific output...

Endangered

Written for parents (and teachers and caregivers) weary of trying to do the “right” thing, Endangered will empower you to act on the wisdom you already possess.

Escape Routes

Arnold explores the roots of loneliness, alienation, and despair and the keys needed to leave them behind. No self-help mumbo jumbo here – just potent medicine for anyone willing to down it...

Freedom from Sinful Thoughts

Sage advice on finding freedom and wholeness in a world full of distractions and temptations.

The Gospel in Dostoyevsky

These excerpts from Dostoyevsky’s greatest novels explore the social implications of the Gospels, with passages that reveal the common thread of his questioning faith...

The Hidden Christ

After centuries of misguided crusades, how can we rediscover mission as Jesus understood it? Must peoples embrace Christianity to know Christ and his liberation?

Homage to a Broken Man

Those who knew Arnold later in life wondered why people were drawn to him. In his presence, complete strangers poured out their darkest secrets...

The Individual and World Need

Timeless yet as timely as ever, this short book explores the relationship of the individual to world suffering and points to a solution.

Inner Words

Daily meditations selected by Emmy Arnold from the writings of her husband, Eberhard Arnold, as well as those of Augustine, Blumhardt, Bonhoeffer, Eckhart, Luther, Thomas a Kempis and others...

Innerland

Arnold’s classic guide into the heart of the gospel invites readers to turn from a society distracted by violence and greed to that “inner land of the invisible, where our spirit can find the roots of its strength...

Jesus and the Nonviolent Revolution

In this book, by André Trocmé, you’ll encounter a Jesus you may have never met before — a Jesus who not only calls for spiritual transformation, but for practical changes...

Jesus Is the Victor

If you ever doubt that Jesus has power to change the world, or despair of seeing his victory come to fruition in your own personal life, you should read this book...

A Joyful Pilgrimage

If life was a battle for Emmy Arnold, it was also a celebration. Her secret? She lived an undivided life, a life where the practical and the spiritual, the personal and the political, were one...

Lift Thine Eyes

Prayers of comfort, courage, and hope for every day of the year, overflowing with a peace that comes from an unshakable conviction that God’s kingdom is indeed on the way...

A Little Child Shall Lead Them

Down-to-earth insights every parent can apply. Topics include parenthood, discipline, special needs, sports, sex education, media consumption, homeschooling and more...

Love Letters

Everyone’s looking for true love but few people seem willing to work at making it last. Read the love letters of two people passionately in love – with each other and with God.

Love is Like Fire

Peter Riedemann’s first confession of faith, written as a 23-year-old from a dungeon in Austria, is an important historical document — a reminder of the spirit which fired the early Anabaptists...

My Search

Barely escaping with his life in Nazi Germany, he finally made it to the land of Israel. But the inhumanity of war pursued him, along with the question: why cannot men and women live together in peace?

No One Can Stem the Tide

A collection of poetry that explores the varied emotions of life – of love, longing, and loss; memory, sacrifice, and desire; struggle and frustration, joy and resolve...

Now Is Eternity

A collection of seventy short but striking meditations to battle weariness and despair from both Johann C. and Christoph F. Blumhardt...

Poems and Rhymed Prayers

Eberhard Arnold published most of his essays during his lifetime, but almost none of his poems, which open a window on his inmost, Christ-centred thoughts...

The Prayer God Answers

Eberhard Arnold describes the kind of prayer that pleases God, and challenges us to rediscover the prayer that has the power to transform our lives and our world...

Provocations

The most accessible introduction to Soren Kierkegaard, Provocations contains a little of everything, including his wryly humorous attacks on conventional Christianity...

Rachoff

Meet an upstart who disarms his wealthy parents by taking in a homeless man, receives accolades for teaching illiterates to read and write...but is run out of town for telling them about Jesus...

The Secret Flower

Written with a measured beauty that recalls Tolstoy and Tolkien, Clement’s poems and short stories carry an uplifting sense of expectancy – of something new on the way...

Seeking Peace

Arnold plumbs a wealth of spiritual traditions and draws on the wisdom of some exceptional (and some very ordinary) people who have found peace in surprising places...

A Testimony to Church Community

A concise, readable introduction to the life and writings of a man who, in his search for Christ, spent his life turning conventional Christianity on its head...

A Third Testament

In this illuminating collection of portraits, Muggeridge explores the spiritual wanderings seven maverick thinkers: Augustine, Pascal, Blake, Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Bonhoeffer...

Thoughts on Children

It is sometimes said that each child is a thought in the mind of God. But even if we believe this, and approach the children entrusted to us with reverence, we may often feel helpless...

Thy Kingdom Come

Excerpts from sermons and discussions by Johann Blumhardt and his son, Christoph Friedrich...

The Violence of Love

A powerful book of eloquent, simple meditations, bearing witness to the hard life of Oscar Romero, a man who was martyred for his faith...

Walk in the Light

An unrivaled introduction to the literary and spiritual giant Leo Tolstoy, these 24 short stories have stood the test of time for over a century...

War: A Call to Inner Life

The fabric of society is being torn apart by hatred and greed, and everyone’s nervous about something. That’s why we’re offering you this free e-book...

When the Time Was Fulfilled

These Christmas meditations are meant solely to prepare us to meet Christ anew. They are written by three seekers who struggled hard and long to find the contemporary Christ...

Why We Live in Community

Eberhard Arnold adds his voice to the vital discussion of what real intentional community is all about: love, joy, unity and faith...

Wisdom of the Sadhu

A collection of anecdotes, sayings, parables, and meditations from Sadhu Sundar Singh, one of the most fascinating spiritual guides of the 20th century...