Words Matter: What is the Gospel?
by Mark H. Ballard with Dr. Timothy K. Christian

Words matter. How we use them and define them determines how we understand the world and how others understand us. In Words Matter: What Is the Gospel? Drs. Mark H. Ballard and Timothy K. Christian explore how our personal definition of the word “Gospel” fundamentally affects our view of the world, our lives, and our standing with God.


Priorities: Reaching the Life God Intended
by Mark H. Ballard with Dr. Timothy K. Christian

Priorities: Reaching the Life God Intended grew out of Dr. Mark Ballard’s long-term study and experience. He said, “I’m passionate about helping you discover your God-given priorities. I believe priorities will do for you what they did for me.”

For Ballard, priorities changed an expected high school dropout into class valedictorian. Priorities helped him earn a college degree, two graduate degrees, and become a college founder and president. Along the way, priorities helped him plant and pastor multiple churches.

What can priorities do for you?

Everyone has a limited amount of time, talents, and treasures. How are you using yours? Priorities will guide you to use rather than lose your time. Priorities will help you invest your talents and treasures wisely and effectively.

Priorities was written to help you discover and accomplish your God-given priorities. You will learn a simple process drawn from Ballard’s practical expositions of Haggai. Haggai prophesied to ancient people with contemporary priority problems.

Ballard added insights from personal experience. Each chapter concludes with positive exhortations.

You will be equipped to:

  • distinguish actual priorities from aspirational priorities;
  • make decisions based on personal priorities;
  • discover your life mission;
  • experience the joy and freedom of living out your God-given priorities;
  • reach the life God intended.


Open Doors: The Pathway to God-Sized Assignments
by Mark H. Ballard with Dr. Timothy K. Christian

Open Doors is an exciting account of God’s supernatural activity. The stories you will read are not embellished for impact. They are true. Using faithful biblical exposition and inspiring personal illustrations, Mark Ballard invites you to join God in what He alone can do. God opens doors—mega doors. He works mightily in, and for, those who see His doors and walk through by faith. Read Open Doors. Read for inspiration; it is vibrant and biblical. Read for encouragement. You will find faith-building material. Read for preparation. Your mega door may be just around the corner.


Normal’s Journey by Mark H. Ballard

Normal’s Journey traces the steps of a man who wakes up one day to realize there is something missing in his life. This realization pushes him into an intense search for a way to fill the void he has discovered. As the search continues his entire life is impacted. Eventually Normal identifies his problem, finds the solution and begins to enjoy life like never before. Part 2 of the book draws principles from the story and leads the reader to make practical application in his/her own journey.

Normal’s Journey is a fascinating and compelling description of one man’s search for satisfaction and fulfillment. Through his search, he discovered that the dissatisfaction that overwhelmed his life found its root cause in his lack of intimacy with our Lord Jesus Christ. This is a story that describes us all at one point or another and will be a strong guide for the reader to enter into the fullness of an intimate relationship with Jesus Christ. We are all on a journey seeking satisfaction and contentment. These pages will be an incredible encouragement to every believer and a sound guide for making the journey successfully.

Jimmy Draper
President Emeritus
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Understanding Baptism by Mark Ballard (Download PDF)

Understanding Baptism was originally presented in a Sunday Morning Worship Service at Christian Fellowship Baptist Church in Londonderry, NH. The sermon was presented by Pastor Mark H. Ballard just prior to the observance of this holy ordinance. Pastor Ballard later wrote this booklet based upon his previous sermon.


Understanding Fasting by Mark Ballard (Download PDF)

In the Fall of 2002 Pastor Ballard sensed the Lord leading him to call Christian Fellowship Baptist Church to 40 days of intense focus on the Lord. As he continued to seek the Lord as to the nature of the 40 Days several elements developed into a cohesive unit which he called “40 Days of Focus.” Early in the development process Pastor Ballard sensed that the spiritual exercise of fasting needed to play a major role in the time of focus. Realizing that fasting is a little practiced and much misunderstood spiritual exercise; it was decided to turn the material into a booklet form that could be distributed.


Understanding Grace Giving by Mark Ballard (Download PDF)

Over a two-year period of time Pastor Mark Ballard led Christian Fellowship Baptist Church on a Journey Through the Bible. Each week the Sunday Morning, Sunday Night and Wednesday Night services were dedicated to a single book of Scripture. As the Church came to 2 Corinthians Pastor Mark sensed the Lord leading him to spend three weeks on this book. During that three-week period of time he preached 3 sermons on the subject of Grace Giving. These three sermons served as background preparation for the development of this booklet.

In this short booklet Pastor Mark explains his own journey in dealing with the subject of giving. He describes his own struggle with knowing how to deal with the Biblical concepts in a time when many television preachers were abusing the subject. He then shares how the Lord moved in his heart to settle the issue once and for all. Pastor Mark then leads the reader through an examination of three critical texts of Scripture that teach the meaning of “Grace Giving.”


Understanding Temptation by Mark Ballard (Download PDF)

During the month of July 2006 Pastor Mark Ballard led the congregation of Christian Fellowship Baptist Church through a four-week study on temptation. The contents of this booklet are based upon the material presented during that study. Our prayer is that the Lord will use this material in your life to enable you to better deal with temptation.