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Power Of A Positive Friend
$19.99Friendship. It’s one of the most powerful forces around. It adds peace to frazzled days, provides companionship for lonely tasks, and makes any joyous event twice as fun.
Written by best-selling author Karol Ladd and her best friend, Terry Ann Kelly, this fourth book in the popular Power Of A Positive series shares practical principles on how to be a friend and nurture friendships. Exploring topics such as “Building on Your Common Interests,” “Attitudes and Actions That Divide Relationships,” “Being Real with Your Friends,” And “The Forgiveness Factor,” this book will help you enrich current friendships and develop new and lasting ones.
The easy-to-read format and you-can-do-it principles will change the way you view your friendships forever.
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Breaking Through Towards Spiritual Maturity
$28.73What is really going on? Have you ever wondered what is going on in your life? What are these things called life and purpose really all about, and what do they have to do with you? Gain a better understanding of God’s intricate and intimate processing for those that He calls His own! This book was written at a time when it seemed to me everything and everyone around me were unraveling. But this unraveling is what has served to drive me into God’s position and purpose for my life. Once you begin to receive and understand the Father’s gentle hand in growing us up, you too can begin walking in your divine purpose!
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Breaking Through Towards Spiritual Maturity
$18.73What is really going on? Have you ever wondered what is going on in your life? What are these things called life and purpose really all about, and what do they have to do with you? Gain a better understanding of God’s intricate and intimate processing for those that He calls His own! This book was written at a time when it seemed to me everything and everyone around me were unraveling. But this unraveling is what has served to drive me into God’s position and purpose for my life. Once you begin to receive and understand the Father’s gentle hand in growing us up, you too can begin walking in your divine purpose!
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Rise Up O India
$20.6111 Chapters
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Rise Up, O India! is destined to be a classic with prophetic insights from the Word of God contained in each of eleven chapters, ending with participative study notes for easy use within your Bible study groups.You will not want to miss the specific prophecies speaking to the future of the nation of India! Rise Up, O India! contains biblical guidance addressing the next few decades in India’s future when she rises up on the wings of eagles and surveys her vast domain as a world economic, military, and spiritual superpower! All readers will benefit from the author’s tremendous encouragement and at the same time will be challenged to draw closer to our Lord Jesus Christ. Many have used the book as an evangelistic outreach tool. For anyone in the Body of Christ who loves the land of India, Rise Up, O India! is a must read!Add to cartin stock within 3-5 days of online purchase
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Agents Of Change
$15.61This book offers you proven specific tools to help you get out of feeling stuck. Your life can be different! These tools have helped therapy clients and can help you think and act in new ways. The author shows you how to find out what is behind troubling emotions and reactions. You can also find ideas to aid you in understanding yourself and the people in your life. The divorce rate among Christians is passing that of non-Christians. We need some serious, no-nonsense help. How can we stop reacting? How can I change the messages running around in my head? What does she mean when she says that? How come he doesn’t listen? I love him. He doesn’t seem to get the message. Why don’t people want to get close to me? Sometimes I feel like a child. Why? I just can’t say no! People don’t respect me. How can I get what I want and need? I can’t change my spouse! Kurt Neubauer provides you with down-to-earth advice that you can easily understand and learn to use in your everyday life.
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Ring Of Truth
$23.73Tolkien wrote that his fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings “is about God, and his sole right to divine honour. The Eldar and the Numenoreans believed in The One, the true God, and held worship of any other person an abomination.” Consequently, Tolkien’s novel contains Christian truth and wisdom that have much to say about our beliefs, our world, our spirituality, and ourselves. Divine providence, ethical absolutes, beauty, temptation, mercy, joy, courage, and self-sacrifice are but a few of the twentyfour prominent themes from Middle-earth that resonate with the ring of truth. Other themes of truth and wisdom in The Ring of Truth: Prophecy Resurrection Spiritual Healing The Reality of Evil Faithfulness Hope Humility and Pride Righteous Anger Everyday Wisdom Loyalty and Friendship
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Hear Him : The 125 Commands Of Jesus
$34.98Why do Christians believe different things concerning the way of salvation? Why don’t all Christians believe the same things about what Jesus taught? Did Jesus teach that a plurality of interpretations was acceptable to him? Did Jesus allow his apostles to draw their own disparate conclusions? Is there one teaching concerning which all Christians must agree and conform? In Hear Him! The One Hundred Twenty-Five Commands of Jesus, Peter Wittstock addresses these and similar questions in this timely and indispensable resource. “A well-read, well-researched, and necessary restatement of Bonhoeffer’s The Cost of Discipleship, flaying the pervasive pseudo-doctrine of ‘cheap grace.'” -James E. Person, Jr., author of Russell Kirk: A Critical Biography of a Conservative Mind Hear Him! The One Hundred Twenty-Five Commands of Jesus is an exposure of the apostasy plaguing Christian churches at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Facing powerfully deceptive forces of heresy from within, and moral seduction from the world outside, the churches are losing-at the crucial hour-their ability to hear their Savior’s voice. Hear Him! amplifies the Lord’s imperatives, providing a precise listing and individual paraphrases of Jesus’ statements of command. Peter Wittstock provides biblical and historical analysis concerning the popular, albeit heretical, teaching of “unconditional eternal security,” and he reestablishes the trusted, apostolic doctrine for Christians and their pastors-a new look at Jesus as “Lord-commander.”
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Praying Like A Woman
$15.99Brings together poetry, prayers and liturgical material. Her poems and prayers bear witness to a faith of considerable depth and raw honesty…And then comes joy-exuberant as the spring, and as unexpected as resurrection.
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Repossessing The Land
$22.48The body of Christ has strayed drastically from the orthodox and apostolic path of both personal development and advancement of the kingdom of God on Earth. This is a wakeup call to examine, by the Word, where modern Christianity is being misled. It is also a primer on returning to our first love and the basics of fulfilling both our individual destiny and God’s Great Commission. It also attempts to highlight the scriptural flaws of current evangelical trends and to point the way toward a more realistic Christian experience-one based on the simplicity of the Gospel, grounded in historical reality.
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Numbers
$18.73“What did you get out of your Quiet Time today?” was the question Jack Wyrtzen asked Lou that motivated him to start spending personal time in the Word of God each day. Lou began using the Word of Life Quiet Time Diary. From writing a sentence or two on a passage each day, Lou’s hunger grew for the Word, resulting in this commentary that comes to you. THIS DEVOTIONAL COMMENTARY WILL HELP YOU: Understand your Bible in a new and exciting way each day. Focus on at least one outstanding thought from the passage you are reading. Compare a real life illustration with what the writer is saying. Make a practical application to the verses you are reading each day. Get each member of your family involved with you in family devotions. Memorize a key verse from your passage each week. Cover the entire Bible in six years as you obtain more books in this series.
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Acts : History Of Missions (Student/Study Guide)
$21.86“What did you get out of your Quiet Time today?” was the question Jack Wyrtzen asked Lou that motivated him to start spending personal time in the Word of God each day. Lou began using the Word of Life Quiet Time Diary. From writing a sentence or two on a passage each day, Lou’s hunger grew for the Word, resulting in this commentary that comes to you. THIS DEVOTIONAL COMMENTARY WILL HELP YOU: Understand your Bible in a new and exciting way each day. Focus on at least one outstanding thought from the passage you are reading. Compare a real life illustration with what the writer is saying. Make a practical application to the verses you are reading each day. Get each member of your family involved with you in family devotions. Memorize a key verse from your passage each week. Cover the entire Bible in six years as you obtain more books in this series.
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Discerning Your Season
$13.73Have you ever “missed” your season? Does your life have any real meaning? Discover the answers to these questions as well as a prophetic revelation about the seasons of the earth as they relate to your life. Learn the purpose for the sowing of God as He plants us into the world! Grow, mature, and embrace your destiny as it is revealed season by season! Receive the wisdom of God to throw off religious strongholds as you come to understand that every season is yours. Celebrate the transitions of life as you become productive and successful, knowing with certainty that this is your season!
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Christian Counsel Manual
$29.98It has been estimated by many that 80 percent of believers have little or no knowledge of what is in their Bibles. Could this be because we “don’t see the trees because of the forest”? Can it be that we lose the beauty of each Scripture verse (tree) because of the totality of the Bible (forest)? This Manual strives to bring out the beauty of each “tree” (God’s Word) so it becomes alive in the spirit of answer-seeking believers. It is hoped that this work has served God’s purpose. Since many believers do not know many of the 7,500 promises that God has provided for us in His Word, how can they stand fast in faith on them? This Manual seeks to open up more scriptural answers to believers who are seeking peace, contentment, and victory in their walk with the Lord. Luke 17:5: “Increase our faith.”
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Restoring And Rebuilding A House Divided
$33.11Abraham Lincoln once wrote, “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” Even so, it seems that a prison cell can be built out of rubble, as described by author Vel Hobbs in A House Divided. For years, Ms. Hobbs was imprisoned by memories of childhood abuse, resentment, damaging relationships, and a growing lack of trust in other people. And yet, miraculously, the author was able to escape and to begin “a remarkable lifechanging journey” to true freedom. Traveling from emotional and physical illness to spiritual health on a journey of self-discovery, Ms. Hobbs also embraced the friendship of Jesus Christ and the protecting love of God. This is the true story of a wonderfully spiritual journey, which built and continues to nurture a dwelling place for the Holy Spirit. GOD LOVES US, and there is life after abuse.
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Nineveh Or Bust
$27.48Resistantly Following God’s Calling God never calls us to something that takes little effort, is low risk, or will not have insignificant impact! So following God takes hard work and great faith but always leads to eternity advancement! Nineveh or Bust examines the life of the prophet Jonah and what happened once he received God’s call to minister to the heathen Assyrians in Nineveh. As we will see, Jonah did not respond positively; in fact, he resisted God’s calling-just as we do! This book examines Jonah’s autobiography, including his rebellion, his experience in the belly of the large fish, his ministry in Nineveh, and his reaction after 120,000 repented and turned to God. The author provides convincing evidence to arguments that have caused some to doubt the veracity of Jonah’s encounters at sea! Finally, you will see God’s grace and compassion on a godless people as an entire city repented. In contrast, you will see how unloving and merciless Jonah was as he complained about the Assyrians’ redemption. You will be surprised by God’s response to his enlisted servant!
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Daily Marriage Builders For Couples
$23.98“All of us can talk but very few of us communicate.”
Transform your marriage into the rich and joyful relationship you always reamed it could be-in just 10 minutes a day!
With clarity, wit, and insight, Fred and Florence Littauer share from their thirty years of experience working with couples and offer practical advice on how to add zest and meaning to your relationship. In Daily Marriage Builders for couples, you and your spouse will find 120 appealing, quick-to-read chapters that help you:
1. Communicate without conflict:
*Learn how to make time for each other despite your busy lifestyle
*Understand your personality differences
*Know God’s plan for your life
*Stay faithful to each other
*Break down barriers to communications2. Discover new ways to laugh together:
*Turn talking into meaningful conversation
*Increase your understanding of each other’s feelings, attitudes and motivators
*Strengthen the spiritual foundation of your marriage and nurture the bond between you
*Overcome common marriage problems
*Share cherished memories-and create new onesAdd to cartin stock within 3-5 days of online purchase
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Doing Things Right
$14.98Gary Bauer does not want to talk about politics-he wants to talk about you. This once presidential hopeful rediscovered the glory of America in the most unlikely of places. From coffee shops to factory assembly lines, the personal encounters and individual stories of real-life Americans will remind you of past blessings and future possibilities.
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Thespian Theology Cycle C
$17.43Stimulate audiences to see the scriptural message in a new and refreshing light with these inspiring sketches based on Cycle C lectionary readings for the Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany seasons. Originally developed for presentation by a high school-age youth group, the enjoyable scenes in this latest installment of John TenBrook’s popular Thespian Theology series are an excellent tool for sharing the Gospel with unchurched people and getting them excited about Jesus Christ. Each simple, easy-to-perform skit comes with brief “Thespian Theological Thoughts” that explore the connection between the drama and the scripture text. These versatile pieces can be used in place of the Sunday sermon or for youth programs and other fellowship settings — they’re sure to amuse and enlighten audiences of all ages.
Some of the intriguing titles include:
* Watch For The Signs! … Yo, What Signs? (Advent 1)
* Whose Gift Is It, Anyway? (Epiphany 2)
* So, You Wanta To Be A Prophet, Huh? (Epiphany 4)
* The Church Of The Twinkling Of An Eye (Epiphany 8)Add to cartin stock within 3-5 days of online purchase
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New Testament Theology
$29.99Recent years have witnessed the publication of a vast amount of material on New Testament theology. Many theologians, unable to agree on the nature, function, method, and scope of this discipline, have offered their own interpretations of the subject. Unfortunately, this increasing variety of approaches has resulted in a tension and confusion among scholars and students.
Gerhard Hasel addresses the situation with an in-depth discussion of the basic issues of the debate. He begins with a comprehensive survey of the emergence and development of New Testament theology over the last two centuries. From this overview he discerns various issues which have led to the present state of crisis in this area of study. Professor Hasel examines the issues related to methodology, to the unity of the New Testament, and to the relationship between the New and the Old Testaments. He concludes with some basic proposals for doing theology with an historical and theological method which seeks to be faithful to the biblical material.
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How To Keep Your Kids On Your Team
$19.99“It’s not what you think that will impact your child; it’s what you communicate.” What are you telling your kids? Are you telling them that their crises are trivial and their ideas are foolish? Probably not in so many words, but you may be communicating just that with your lack of interest in the day-to-day activities of your child. To keep your children on your team, Charles Stanley asserts, you must assure them from the start that you are on theirs. Focusing on the parental role as one of stewardship rather than ownership, Stanley instructs parents on how to ingrain a sense of personal accountability to God into the minds of children at an early age. By doing so, parents can raise confident, self-controlled kids who will hold fast to the values they instill.
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Saxon Math 54 Complete Home School Kit
$345.56Kit Includes:
Student Textbook
Tests And Worksheets Booklet
Solutions ManualAdditional Info
Math 5/4 helps students extend their understanding of critical skills and concepts such as number sense, numeration, numerical operations, measurement and geometry, patterns, relationships, math functions, and data manipulation through charts. With a Lesson, Investigation, or Test per weekday, a Middle Grade level can be completed in about seven months.Add to cartin stock within 3-5 days of online purchase
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Jesus Hero Of Thy Soul
$20.95(When placing your order, please mention that this is a Lightining Source book.)
All of us yearn for a hero…someone to spark a flame in our souls, someone to inspire us to live beyond ourselves, someone to help us live up to the potential our Creator has placed within us.
Jesus is the hero in your soul. His awe-inspiring love enables you to reach beyond your limitations and become the person God created you to be. Your heart will soar as you read Jim McGuiggan’s stirring devotional and inspirational stories about everyday men and women who have been touched by the Savior’s hand and who live to reflect his nature.
Allow the Rescuer to touch your life–you’ll be forever changed by the impressions left by the Savior’s touch.
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Becoming One : Emotionally Spiritually Sexually
$15.99(When placing your order, please mention that this is a Lightining Source book.)
Joe Beam’s amazingly successful formula for bringing intimacy back into marriage has been chronicled on Good Morning America. He has brought healing and renewal to thousands of marriages through countless seminars conducted around the world. Now he reveals his compelling knowledge and groundbreaking insight in Becoming One. Whether you believe your marriage is in critical condition or simply in need of some vital attention, this book opens the door to astonishing results. You will learn how to bring an intimacy, involvement, and sexual intensity back into your marriage that perhaps you haven’t experienced in some time. God doesn’t want you to simply exist in your marriage; he wants you to flourish and thrive to his glory. Open this book, and you will open the way to the intimacy you’ve always wanted.
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Gentle Words In A Raging Storm
$21.18Gary Weaver says that “prayer is part poetry, part free-association, and part love letter to God. When spoken, it is the most intimate, sacred speech we utter. When written down, it becomes a diary of the heart.” And that’s a perfect description of this compelling collection of more than 160 prayers. Some are songs of celebration and joy that “dance before the Lord,” while others are desperate pleas for clarity, direction, and meaning amidst loss, divorce, suffering, injustice, fear, and anger. But all of them bring the gentle words of thoughtful introspection and a sustained conversation with the Almighty to the raging storm of daily life with its overwhelming cacophony of motion, noise, and imagery.
These prayers can be used in almost any setting from the sanctuary to the stadium, as well as in study groups, prayer circles, nursing homes, or for private meditation. If you’re looking for a prayer resource that speaks clearly about the Christian faith while addressing serious human questions, concerns, doubts, and distress, Gentle Words In A Raging Stormis a first-rate compilation you’ll find yourself returning to again and again.
Themes include:
* Personal prayers
* Pastoral prayers
* Prayers about the seasons of life
* Prayers about suffering, dying, and grief
* Prayers for the journey of faith
* Prayers for special occasionsAdd to cartin stock within 3-5 days of online purchase
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Doing Business By The Good Book
$37.00In Doing Business By the Good Book, David Steward, founder and CEO of World Wide Technology, a privately held, billion-dollar company, takes selected scripture and applies it to business life with clarity and promise. Following a Bible passage for each week of the year, readers will increase their bottom line, as well as the capacity of their souls – a great return on investment!
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Exegetical Dictionary Of The New Testament 1
$77.99The English translation of the three-volume Exegetisches Worterbuch zum Neuen Testament, this monumental work by an ecumenical group of scholars is first of all a complete English dictionary of New Testament Greek. Going beyond that, however EDNT also serves as a guide to the usage of every New Testament word in its various contexts, and it makes a significant contribution to New Testament exegesis and theology. EDNT’s thorough, lengthy discussions of more significant words and its grouping of words related by root and meaning (with alphabetical cross-references) distinguish it from simpler Greek-English lexicons. Advancing the discussion of the Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament, EDNT summarizes more recent treatments of numerous questions in New Testament study and takes into consideration newer viewpoints of linguistics.
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Worship Resources For Special Sundays
$16.18Here’s a practical collection of thoughtful material to help you celebrate several special occasions during the fall and winter months: Rally Day, Reformation Sunday, All Saints’ Day, Thanksgiving, Advent, and Youth Sunday. Included are:
* The Saga Of Bobby Wildgoose, a service and sermon specifically tailored for the fall kick-off of Sunday school and commissioning of new Sunday school teachers. The message relates the inspirational story of the beginnings of the Sunday school movement, illustrating the difference that one person can make in the lives of young people.
* Facing The 21st Century With A 16th Century Faith, a message and service for Reformation Sunday that examines what motivated Martin Luther in his disagreements with the established church and suggests that Luther’s ideas about the authority of the Bible, the priesthood of all believers, and justification by faith alone remain the durable bedrock of our Christian faith today.
* Running With The Cloud, a stirring All Saints’ Day sermon and service reminding us that we who are living are only a small segment of the church universal, and noting that we can draw great strength from the lives of the “saints” who have gone before us.
* A Solid Place To Stand, a Thanksgiving message and service that explores how the Bible’s promise of God’s presence with us gives us a firm foundation to base our lives on.
* The Measure Of A Man, A Heart Prepared, Night Watch, and Tidings, a set of four first-person monologue sermons for Advent that tell the old, old story with a twist. We see the birth of the Christ child unfold through the eyes of Joseph, the innkeeper’s wife, a shepherd, and an angel. Key Advent themes such as watching, preparation, and righteous action are raised as each character struggles to make sense of extraordinary events.
* A Youth Sunday worship service with a charming children’s story honoring the presence and participation of the church’s young people. The service celebrates their fresh vision and courage in risking, praying, and creating the future.
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Heroes Of The Faith Speak
$16.18Learn the fascinating stories of seven historical and biblical personages in this wide-ranging collection of first-person monologue sermons from the pen of popular CSS author Stephen Crotts. Perfect for presentation from the pulpit, these delightfully creative pieces are excellent for varying routine preaching fare or covering pastoral vacations. And the concise biographical portraits also make informative programming for men’s, women’s, or youth groups, as well as inspiring devotional reading.
Characters profiled include:
* William Bradford
* Christopher Columbus
* Martin Luther
* Saint Patrick
* Saint Nicholas
* Paul
* The Tenth Leper (from the parable in Luke 17:11-19)Add to cartin stock within 3-5 days of online purchase
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Sermons On The Second Readings Series 1 Cycle C
$52.43Wherever you are in your walk with Christ, this anthology offers practical, scripture-based wisdom as well as delightfully serendipitous surprises on every page. Three outstanding preachers from diverse denominations provide a complete set of sermons for each Sunday and major celebration throughout the Christian year based on the Second Reading from Cycle C of the Revised Common Lectionary. Weaving together illustrations that enlighten the mind and warm the heart with fresh insight into New Testament epistle texts, these creative messages invite you to experience God’s presence anew. Each biblically grounded sermon draws on a deep understanding of the human condition, reaffirming the hope that is ours through Jesus Christ and challenging you to a more intense faith relationship with the Almighty.
This is an essential resource that’s useful for:
* Fresh homiletical approaches to the lectionary texts
* Preaching illustrations
* A clearer understanding of scripture passages
* Adult study and discussion groups
* Personal devotions and Bible study on each Sunday’s readingsAdd to cartin stock within 3-5 days of online purchase
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Sermons On The Gospel Readings Series 1 Cycle C
$48.68Full of gripping illustrations that bring the scriptures to life, this anthology of sermons for the entire church year offers readers a treasure trove of spiritual guidance. Five distinguished preachers representing a variety of denominations and ministry settings contribute messages based on gospel texts for each Sunday and major celebration in Cycle C of the Revised Common Lectionary. Their thoughtful meditations proclaim the Good News for today’s world and exemplify the transforming power of God’s Word in our lives. Unforgettable in their power and biblical witness, these sermons provide readers with strength, support, and a Christ-centered vision.
This is an essential resource that’s useful for:
* Fresh homiletical approaches to the lectionary texts
* Preaching illustrations
* A clearer understanding of scripture passages
* Adult study and discussion groups
* Personal devotions and Bible study on each Sunday’s readingsAdd to cartin stock within 3-5 days of online purchase
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Sermons On The First Readings Series 1 Cycle C
$53.68Filled with wit, insight, and inspiration, this anthology includes sermons for every Sunday and major celebration throughout the Christian year based on the First Readings from Cycle C of the Revised Common Lectionary. Three outstanding preachers from diverse denominational backgrounds interpret texts from the Old Testament and Acts in fresh ways that proclaim the Good News for the 21st century. Their powerful messages remind us that the Hebrew scriptures are much more than just ancient history and explore what they mean for us today. Proclaiming timeless themes of justice and righteousness, as well as God’s faithful covenant and enduring forgiveness, these imaginative homilies call us to lead better, more God-centered lives.
This is an essential resource that’s useful for:
* Fresh homiletical approaches to the lectionary texts
* Preaching illustrations
* A clearer understanding of scripture passages
* Adult study and discussion groups
* Personal devotions and Bible study on each Sunday’s textsAdd to cartin stock within 3-5 days of online purchase
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Ordinary Words Extraordinary Deeds Cycle C
$16.18The stories of Jesus’ miracles can be challenging to modern sensibilities, conditioned as we are to believe that there must be a logical explanation for water being turned into wine or nets suddenly overflowing with fish. But John Wurster suggests that for contemporary preachers and their listeners, the most important question raised by these remarkable accounts is not “How did they happen?” but rather “What do they mean?”
Ordinary Words, Extraordinary Deeds helps answer that question by exploring the theological significance of the nine miracle stories appearing in Cycle C of the Revised Common Lectionary. Each chapter includes the biblical text along with interpretive reflections that set the passage in its literary context and connect it to major themes of the gospel writer. There’s also a section investigating a variety of preaching possibilities and offering brief thoughts about what these texts tell us about the sacraments, since (like the miracles) the sacraments make grace evident in ways we can touch and feel.
Specifically geared for the busy pastor with limited time, this is an excellent volume packed with valuable idea starters and rich material for sermon development. But it’s also stimulating reading for anyone who wants greater insight into these marvelous stories of God’s power at work.
Chapter titles include:
* The Star (Matthew 2:1-12)
* Wedding At Cana (John 2:1-11)
* Jesus Transfigured (Luke 9:28-36)
* The Lepers (Luke 17:11-19)
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Preaching The Parables Series 3 Cycle C
$28.68Jesus used his parables to teach ordinary persons with mundane concerns about the kingdom of God; and because these simple stories contain universal truth that transcends time and culture, they still strike a powerful chord with us nearly two millennia later. Preaching The Parables provides a gold mine of background material on each of the eighteen parables appearing in Cycle C of the Revised Common Lectionary. Dallas Brauninger brings a fresh, imaginative approach to these familiar texts, probing them to reveal what they tell us about God and inviting further reflection on what they mean for us today.
Preaching The Parables is more than just a sermon preparation resource; it’s also stimulating reading for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of how God speaks to us through the parables. Modeled on the format of Brauninger’s popular Preaching The Miracles series, each chapter in Preaching The Parables includes five sections:
* Text — the entire parable text is reproduced, eliminating the need to flip back and forth to a Bible
* What’s Happening? — a synopsis of points of action within the story, defining its movement, conflict, and change or resolution
* Spadework — significant terms are examined through a survey of Hebrew and New Testament writings
* Parallel Scripture — similarities and differences with parallel stories in the other Gospels are highlighted; where the story is unique, parallel words and concepts are examined
* Chat Room — readers are creatively engaged in a variety of imaginary online exchanges, ranging from interviews with parable characters to browsing ideas to self-driven conversations.
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Lectionary Tales For The Pulpit Series 4 Cycle C
$19.93If you’re looking for imaginative reflections that take you right to the heart of the scriptures, the newest edition of CSS’ popular Lectionary Tales For The Pulpit series is the perfect resource for you. Timothy Merrill offers 65 thought-provoking contemplations on Cycle C lectionary passages that draw out the biblical theme by relating it to aspects of modern life we have all experienced. This book is not only great for preaching illustrations and “sermon starters” — it’s also a wonderful source for inspiring devotional reading.
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Lectionary Worship Aids Series 6 Cycle C
$28.68Preparing to lead a congregation in worship each Sunday is a formidable and pressure-filled responsibility. That’s why busy worship planners will love this all-new edition of a favorite CSS reference. It’s a handy, easy-to-use resource with several prayers and a worship theme relating to the assigned scriptural passages for every Sunday and major observance in Cycle C of the Revised Common Lectionary. For each First Lesson, Second Lesson, and Gospel text there’s a call to worship, an invocation/collect, a prayer of confession, an offertory prayer, and suggested hymns. This complete collection offers a wide selection of practical aids for creating sincerely reverent, meaningful worship.
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Preaching And Reading The Old Testament Lessons Cycle C
$26.18Prominent author and biblical scholar Elizabeth Achtemeier provides an outstanding preaching and study resource with this collection of brief expositions on all of the First Lesson texts contained in Cycle C of the Revised Common and Lutheran Lectionaries. Infused with her customary insight into the Hebrew scriptures, this compendium of Achtemeier’s stimulating contributions to the preaching journal Emphasis furnishes a plethora of fruitful starting points for preparing sermons solidly rooted in the Bible yet connected to modern life. But as the book’s title suggests, this volume isn’t just for preachers and homiletics students — it’s also a powerful commentary for study groups and personal devotional reading. Achtemeier’s unrelenting focus on the promises of God appearing in the Old Testament and fulfilled in the New Testament, combined with her outstanding scholarship, make these faith-filled essays an enriching resource for anyone who wants a clearer understanding of God’s Word contained in the scriptures.
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Pray Like This
$11.18Prayer is a powerful force — in Tennyson’s oft-quoted phrase, “more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.” But the Lord’s Prayer is so familiar that we often take it for granted, reciting it by rote and missing its deeper meaning. Pray Like This… is an informative volume that helps you rediscover the simplicity and strength of the prayer that Jesus taught us. Alex Gondola carefully analyzes each of the prayer’s ten petitions, and explores how it is Christ’s template for communicating with God. Suitable for personal devotions, adult study groups, sermon preparation, or gift-giving, Pray Like This… is a versatile resource that will unclog your spiritual arteries and open new pathways in your own prayer life.
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Seasons Of Faith
$19.99Building on the success of Symbols of Faith, Marcia Stoner has written a follow-up volume, Seasons of Faith. Based on the seasons of the Christian Year, the activities in this new volume may be used for short-term studies for older children, preteens, youth, and even adults. This book includes photocopiable patterns and charts that will enhance ease of use, an Advent worship booklet for church and/or home use, a Lenten study, All Saints’ Eve activities, and multicultural activities for Christmas, Pentecost, and World Communion Sunday. The author includes a brief history of each season.
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Places You Go
$23.99To be effective, pastors must minister in a variety of settings, each of which brings its own unique challenges. Each setting–hospital room, jail, nursing home, pastor’s study–has its own dilemmas and resources. Here Urias Beverly offers concrete steps to minister artfully in a variety of contexts encountered Monday through Saturday.
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Trustworthy Connections : Interpersonal Issues In Spiritual Direction
$21.35Although God is at the center of the process of spiritual direction, the more readily visible participants are human beings. Like all other people, directors and directees are subject to relationship dynamics. Trustworthy Connections identifies some issues and challenges that can arise in spiritual direction relationships and offers resources for further consideration and reflection. The topics and examples are focused on traditional one-to-one, face-to-face spiritual direction, although some are also relevant to group direction and direction by correspondence. Trustworthy Connections is designed for use as a reference and a springboard for discussion for spiritual directors and anyone else who is interested in spiritual direction. Like the process of spiritual direction itself, this book is about asking questions, discussing ideas, and suggesting alternatives rather than giving advice or getting answers.
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How Sweet The Sound
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Rediscover the profound insights of Christian hymnody with this exploration of the messages of twenty-five hymns of the Christian faith.
You will never sing these hymns the same way again. With careful exposition and thoughtful reflection, the author shows how biblical truths are encapsulated in a hymn’s lyrics, stanza by stanza or even in a single line of a single verse.Some of these hymns are: A Mighty Fortress Is Our God; Holy, Holy, Holy; Great Is Thy Faithfulness; O Come, O Come, Emmanuel; Amazing Grace; Fairest Lord Jesus. Softcover, 190 pages.
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Rebuilding Your Broken World
$18.99What happens when your ideals and desires, plans and strategies, all go awry? From what sources might one find the resolve to begin a rebuilding process? “The fact is,” writes Gordon MacDonald in Rebuilding Your Broken World, “the God of the Bible is a God of the rebuilding process. And not enough broken people know that.” No stranger himself to brokenness, Gordon MacDonald draws from personal experience and discusses the likely sources of pain, the humiliation, and the long- and short-range consequences of a broken personal world. And he offers encouraging answers to the questions everyone asks when their worlds fall apart: Is there a way back?
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30 Days Through Psalms And Proverbs
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” Reading the Psalms and Proverbs is no academic exercise. It is a life-changing experience. Rules are hard to keep, and practical advice is hard to follow. Therefore God has called us into a relationship with Himself.LaGard Smith In a chapter for each day”
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