Most Popular Books by Rob Bell

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. Jesus Wants to save Christians is a book about faith and fear, wealth and war, poverty, power, safety, terror, Bibles, bombs, and homeland insecurity. It''s about empty empires and the truth that everybody''s a priest. It''s about oppression, occupation, and what happens when Christians support, animate and participate in the very things Jesus came to set people free from. It''s about what it means to be a part of the church of Jesus in a world where some people fly planes into buildings while others pick up groceries in Hummers.

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.

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.

How God is described today strikes many as mean, primitive, backward, illogical, tribal, and at odds with the frontiers of science. At the same time, many intuitively feel a sense of reverence and awe in the world. Can we find a new way to talk about God? Pastor and New York Times bestselling author Rob Bell does here for God what he did for heaven and hell in Love Wins: he shows how traditional ideas have grown stale and dysfunctional and reveals a new path for how to return vitality and vibrancy to how we understand God. Bell reveals how we got stuck, why culture resists certain ways of talking about God, and how we can reconnect with the God who is with us, for us, and ahead of us, pulling us forward into a better future—and ready to help us live life to the fullest.

In Velvet Elvis, Rob Bell frees us to consider God beyond the picture someone else painted for us in order to find an authentic understanding of the Christian faith. God doesn''t have boundaries, and faith doesn''t have to be limited to what someone else has told us. God is alive. Faith is alive. Velvet Elvis helps us find our faith. And even if it doesn''t, it encourages us to keep looking. Faith doesn''t end with this book. But it just might begin...

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.

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

Each of us was created for something great—we just need to figure out what it is and find the courage to do it! Whether it’s writing the next great American novel, starting a business, or joining a band, Rob Bell wants to help us make those dreams reality. Our path is ours and ours alone to pursue, and in doing so, we discover great joy in living out of our passion. Here, Rob shows us how to follow our dreams through engaging stories, lessons from biblical figures, honest personal experience, and practical advice like silence your critics, move from idea to action, take the first step, find joy in the work, persevere through hard times, and surrender the outcome. Like The War of Art, this book will inspire readers to leave boring behind and chase after the lives they were created to live.

The New York Times bestselling author Rob Bell, using his inspired and inquisitive approach, focuses on the most widely read book of all time. He provides surprising insights and answers about how the Bible actually works as a source of faith and guidance, showing a brand-new way of reading this sacred text.

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.

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.

"An exciting vision of the future" --Michael Eric Dyson Everything Is Spiritual is an unexpected and compelling invitation to see your life in a whole new way. We have the great moments of our lives, the highs, those times when we soar, when it all makes sense, when it feels like it all has purpose and meaning. And then there are all those other moments—the lows and aches and failures and struggles and experiences that leave us wondering what the point of it all is. Are our lives ultimately bits and pieces and fragments—you try to find a little peace and hope and then it’s over? Or is there more going on here? In our increasingly polarized and disoriented world, Everything Is Spiritual gives us a radical new take on how it all fits together, how it works, how it’s all connected. Part memoir, part extended riff on the quantum nature of reality, part history of the universe, Rob Bell takes us back through the twists and turns and struggles of his story in order to help us see the larger story so that we can reconnect with our story.

If God were throwing a party, would everyone be invited? Or does God invite some and not others? And if so, how does God decide? Is it what you say? Is it what you do? Is it what you''re going to do? Is it who your friends are? Or what your friends do? Or what religion you happened to be born into? Or where you live, or what you look like, or what you believe? What if the idea of heaven and hell that we have been taught is not, in fact, what the Bible teaches? What if Jesus meant something very different by the concepts of heaven, hell, and salvation from how we''ve come to understand them? And what if the answer to life''s meaning is much better than we ever imagined? In his teen edition of the bestselling book love wins, Rob Bell tackles all these questions in a way that addresses the real challenges of growing up in today''s world. This is not just a book of questions and this is not just a book of answers. This is a book of exploration. This is a book of discovery. This is a book about why love wins.

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."

As he revolutionized traditional teaching on hell in the phenomenal New York Times bestseller Love Wins, Rob Bell now transforms how we understand and practice marriage in The Zimzum of Love, co-written with his wife, Kristen. Despite the divorce statistics, people are still committing to each other, instinctively believing and hoping that theirs is a sacred union that will last forever. Yet when these couples encounter problems, they often lack the resources that keep them connected to this greater mystery surrounding marriage. Rob and Kristen Bell introduce a startling new way of looking at marriage, The Zimzum of Love. Zimzum is a Hebrew term where God, in order to have a relationship with the world, contracts, creating space for the creation to exist. In marriage, zimzum is the dynamic energy field between two partners, in which each person contracts to allow the other to flourish. Mastering this field, this give and take of energy, is the secret to what makes marriage flourish. Rob and Kristen Bell are brutally honest about their own struggles, their ups and downs, as together they pass along what matters most for couples. In this wise book, they explore the secret of what makes a happy union—probing the mystery at the heart of the extraordinary emotional connection that binds two people. With his down-to-earth charm, a dose of whimsy, and memorable stories, Rob, writing with his wife Kristen, changes how we consider marriage, providing insight that can help all of us create satisfying and sacred unions of our own.

This two-book edition combines Rob Bell’s bestselling Love Wins with the Love Wins Companion, helping you get the most out of this pioneering book.

"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.

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.

This ebook ‘boxed set’ combines all seven of Rob Bell’s influential books in one edition – including his sensational new title: What We Talk About When We Talk About God.

Os eventos que acontecem conosco podem revelar muito se pararmos para ouvir... Desde jovem, Bell tinha a sensação de que havia algo maior acontecendo aqui. Que o planeta não é um lugar frio ou morto, mas que está vivo e de maneira misteriosa. Este livro é sobre dar vazão a esse sentido: ouvir, seguir e confiar nele. Algumas vezes, essa busca pode ser devastadora; outras, emocionante, mas ambas fazem parte da compreensão sobre nós mesmos e crescimento individual. Perceber todas as forças gigantescas que estão acontecendo ao nosso redor que afeta a nossa vida diária, como o movimento dos planetas, as rotações da terra, os ciclos da vida, é o convite que o autor nos faz. Descobrir as relações entre os eventos pessoais, os sentimentos, e suas conexões com o mundo. Entender essa ligação vai mudar sua forma de enxergar a vida, a fé e o universo. Rob Bell faz um convite para você descobrir as relações entre os eventos pessoais, os sentimentos, e suas conexões com o mundo. Todas as coisas estão conectadas! E tudo – absolutamente tudo – é espiritual. E quando você finalmente escutar, o barulho do mundo não te interrompe mais. Rob Bell é capaz de pegar os antigos ensinamentos religiosos e a ciência moderna e combiná-los em uma sabedoria que faz bastante sentido. Suas reflexões mexem com meu intelecto, confortam meu coração e me fazem acreditar que em todo o caos assustador do universo ainda há um lugar sagrado. Seu trabalho é um presente para o mundo. Elizabeth Gilbert – autora do best-seller Comer, rezar, amar

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.

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.

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.

Why is this woman named Viva applying for a job at this company? She doesn''t even know what they do here! And Todd and Connie from Human Resources-why do they keep asking her questions when her answers are so terrible they both know she''s never going to get the job? In the second of Rob Bell''s plays to be published in book form, We''ll Get Back to You begins with questions that lead to more questions that lead to larger questions about this disruptive presence at the heart of it all who gradually begins to reveal what happens when people own every square inch of their lives.

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.

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.

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