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Santa Biblia : The Bible Through Hispanic Eyes
$20.99Add to cartExploring how a Hispanic perspective illumines biblical text in ways that are valuable for Latino readers and for the church at large, Santa Biblia introduces five paradigms for Latino biblical interpretation – marginality, poverty, mestizaje, exile and alienness, and solidarity – discussing theory and providing concrete examples of texts that gain new meaning when read from a different perspective.
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Triumph Against Trouble
$14.99Add to cart1. Injured Knees
2. Challenge Of The Classes
3. Taking Out Trees
4. Disables Again
5. Trip To Nowhere
6. San Simeon By The Sea
7. Settling In
8. Thanksgiving
9. The Great Illness
10. Cheri Is Stricken
11. The Messiah
12. Dear, Dear Friends
13. The Will To Be Well
14. Thrill Upon Thrill
15. The Tide Turns
16. California Quake
17. Heading Home
18. The Stirring Of Spring
19. Fire Season
20. The Fun Of Finding A New Home
21. The Crash P. 138Additional Info
Problems – they can grow like weeds in a freshly planted garden. Over a period of time veteran author Phillip Keller and his wife, Ursula, experienced problems – both physical and spiritual – that brought them face-to-face with the believer’s ultimate test of faith. Can God be trusted to handle the difficulties of life in His way and in His timing?
Every Christian will face life’s troubles – whether physical, emotional, or spiritual – and everyone can use a source of encouragement and guidance through those tough times that leads to spiritual triumph in Christ. -
Faith Of A Physicist
$29.00Add to cart“I do not find that a trinitarian and incarnational theology needs to be abandoned in favour of a toned-down theology of a Cosmic Mind and an inspired teacher, alleged to be more accessible to the modern mind.”
Many would likely disagree with the idea that a trinitarian and incarnational theology is palatable to the modern mind, for it is thought that science and the modern mind are in conflict with traditional theology. But physicist and theologian John Polkinghorne strongly believes that a trinitarian and incarnational theology is tough, surprising and exciting enough to truly stimulate the modern mind.
The Faith of a Physicist comes out of the invitation given to Polkinghorne to give the Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh, on the topic of “The Knowledge of God”. Polkinghorne chose to build his lectures on phrases from the Nicene Creed. Combining those phrases and his scientific experience, Polkinghorne offers illuminating insights into the nature of humanity, our search for knowledge, the way to speak of God in light of science’s understanding of creation, the believability of the accounts of the life, crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus, the role of the Holy Spirit, and eschatology. Thoroughly versed in science, and equally adept in Scripture, Polkinghorne offers his lucid explanation of why he feels it is reasonable to be both a Christian and a scientist. Fascinating, and well-written, Faith of a Physicist is sure to stimulate your mind, and broaden your knowledge and horizons. Polkinghorne will not compromise his views on the trintarian nature of God or the incarnation, and he proves that modern science does not require this, nor has modern science proved a trinitarian and incarnational theology to be false. An excellent reminder to take all thoughts captive to Christ.
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Secret Strength : For Those Who Search
$13.99Add to cartDo you want to know a secret?
What’s so secret about God? Nothing. And yet everything.
Scripture tells us, “the secret things belong to the Lord our God.” God has secrets. Some to keep, and some to tell. And who doesn’t want to know a secret?
Most of us are filled with an incurable urge to discover secrets, to walk the higher and hidden roads. And it is our God, our wonderfully mysterious God, who has placed that yearning within us. He is the treasure we seek…the precious gem to be mined.
So take the time to spend these one hundred concise, life-changing appointments with him. And discover incredible handholds of refreshment, courage, and endurance you can cling to in Secret Strength.
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Biblical Ethics And Homosexuality
$32.00Add to cartAdvisory: Some of the views put forth in this book challenge the traditionally accepted teachings on the issue of homosexuality and the Christian faith. This book offers a challenge To the church to give heed to the multiplicity of voices that are engaged in biblically responsible and constructive debates about the volatile issues regarding sexual behavior.
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Music As Medicine
$19.99Add to cartDeforia Lane shares the healing power of music. Once a budding opera singer, Lane has dedicated her talent to treating hospital patients with music therapy. The results are astonishing. In the presence of Deforia’s musical gifts, seriously ill people find new joy and hope. Lane is the first music therapist to receive a grant to study music’s therapeutic effects on cancer patients. Thousands of patients have been inspired by her, and her success has spurred hospitals across the nation to launch music therapy programs. “Music and healing are often matters of the human spirit,” says Deforia. “because of the nature of my job, I have witnessed more than a few miracles, miracles worth telling and retelling.” Music as Medicine is a window into Deforia Lane’s world of miracles, where the melody of one person’s life has brought healing and strength to many.
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Homosexuality And Christianity Community
$32.00Add to cartAdvisory: Some of the views put forth in this book challenge the traditionally accepted teachings on the issue of homosexuality and the Christian faith. The faculty of the Princeton Theological Seminary address such vital issues as ordaining homosexuals, blessing homosexual unions, using gender-specific language for God in the liturgy, defining the church’s role in a pluralistic society, and more.
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Sin The Savior And Salvation
$22.99Add to cart23 Chapters
318 PagesAdditional Info
With scholarship that is thorough yet accessible and a tone that is convincing but noncombative, Dr. Lightner explores the current confusion over issues such as: the vanishing concept of personal sin in our secularized society, the influence of New Age ideas on the deity of Jesus Christ, and the controversy over “Lordship salvation” among evangelicals. -
New Complete Server
$12.95Add to cartThis classic guide helps servers to perform with confidence and reverence, allowing the liturgy to unfold in a smooth and prayerful manner. A glossary of words and objects accompanies illustrations of vessels, linens, altar preparation, vestments, posture symbols, and examples of processions. Also contains easy-to-draw symbols that servers can use to make a diagram of their sanctuary’s layout for study and practice.
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Dead Sea Scrolls Translated Second Edition (Reprinted)
$52.99Add to cartOne of the world’s foremost experts on the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Qumran community that produced them provides an authoritative new English translation of the two hundred longest and most important nonbiblical Dead Sea Scrolls found at Qumran, along with an introduction to the history of the discovery and publication of each manuscript and the background necessary for placing each manuscript in its actual historical context.
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God Creation And Comtemporary Physics
$21.00Add to cartWorthing critiques the traditional arguments for God’s existence made by physicists, then evaluates creatio ex nihilo in terms of the big bang theory; providence in terms of entropy, field theory, and Bell’s theorem; and assorted scenarios for the close of creation.
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Strong Willed Child Or Dreamer
$18.99Add to cartContents
239 Pages/17 Chapters
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Your child may be a dreamer if…
*He forgets to follow instructions, no matter how clear and simple you make them.
*She craves praise and positive attention, yet refuses to conform to what’s expected.
*He complains often about feeling misunderstood, picked on, or persecuted.
*She tells more than her share of fibs, lies, or tall tales.If these statements describe your child, you know the frustration of turning to parenting experts for advice only to find that with your child, the systems don’t work, the rules don’t stick, and the strong boundary setting seems to make the situation worse. What’s even more frustrations is seeing that these methods do work-with strong-willed children.
According to child and family counselors, Ron L. Braund and Dana Scott Spears, the problem may be that you don’t have a strong-willed child. Your child’s behavior may actually indicate that he or she is a creative-sensitive child, a dreamer: principle-oriented rather than rule-oriented, highly creative, sensitive to the point of taking offense where none is intended, and frustrated at a world that fails to live up to the ideal.
In this book, the authors explain the differences between the dreamer and the strong-willed child. They also provide advice on parenting your dreamer child from infancy through adolescence, plus a special chapter on the dreamer child with attention deficit disorder.
Whether you are the teacher, coach, clergy, or parent of a dreamer, this book will help you understand how these enigmatic children view the world and teach you how to give them what they need to thrive.
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Lord Teach Us (Student/Study Guide)
$13.99Add to cartThe Lord’s Prayer – the prayer taught by Jesus himself that unites Christians throughout the world – is dissected phrase by phrase in this very readable book by two eminent theologians. From “Our Father” to “Amen,” Willimon and Hauerwas apply this ancient prayer to the whole of the Christian experience so that we come to see our life in Christian community as reflection of these very words.
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Church And Ministry
$20.99Add to cartThis work comes to us from a career of careful research and reflection, is clearly and spritely written, and is, above all, timely. Debates over the nature of pastoral ministry have been endemic through the Lutheran tradition, and perhaps never more so than now. The author wisely enters his discussion not just on the movement from Luther to Walther but also on the Scriptures. Thus, the ordained ministry in Lutheranism is neither populist nor priestly. In addition, Klug leaves his comments on the views of others to the end of the work rather than scattering them throughout the whole.
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Bush Was Blazing But Not Consumed
$19.99Add to cart13 Chapters
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Best-selling author Eric Law shows how to work with the dynamics of diverse cultures to create a truly inclusive community.
In his widely acclaimed The Wolf Shall Dwell with the Lamb, Eric H. F. Law explores the dynamics of multicultural misunderstandings and how different cultures perceive and use power. Here he shows how to work with those dynamics to create a truly inclusive community.Using Exodus 3 as a theological starting point, Law explains in detail how leaders can:
– understand and resolve difference in communication styles
– recognize and avoid the “Golden Calf Syndrome”
– reconcile high-context and low-content elements in the group
– use mutual invitation
– build dialogue through liturgyFollowing Law’s practical guidelines, we can, in the end, build multicultural structures everyone can live and thrive in
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Yahwists Landscape : Nature And Religion In Early Israel
$25.00Add to cartHiebert’s foundational study opens the world of nature as a major aspect of biblical thought. It lays to rest the traditional dichotomy between nature and history that has been so long read into the Bible and Israel’s religion, redeeming the natural world as the realm of human life and God’s care.
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Jewish Life And Thought Among Greeks And Romans
$39.00Add to cartA huge, masterful treasury of source material grouped under 10 headings: Greeks Discover Jews, Beginnings of Hellenization, The Diaspora, Pro-Jewish Views of Government, Pro-Jewish Views of Intellectuals, Conversion, God-Fearers, Palestine, Revolts, and Anti-Semitism.
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Voices Of Christmas
$7.95Add to cartUsing a skillful blend of irony and humor, this work is designed to reveal the realities of Christmas-both the detrimental and the divine. Involving no scenery or props, cast members address visualized listeners as if no interruptions from other characters or changes of subject occur. Lines may be read or recited and the cast may stand or be seated on various levels. No one needs to move about, though use of pantomime is suggested in some cases.
Characters include:
* Patient — a resident of a nursing home
* Homemaker — a food-happy matron
* Shopper — a wealthy, materialistic socialite
* Sportsman — a ski enthusiast
* Merchant — a toy store owner
* Traditionalist — a sentimental Swedish-American grandmother
* Corporation Man — a heavy-drinking partygoer
* Child — a greedy little girl
* Working Wife — a frazzled victim of the Christmas rushWith a presentation time of about 30 minutes, this creative, easy- to-produce play can be used in a variety of situations and settings. It will be one of the most popular programs of the entire year.
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Lectionary Tales For The Pulpit Cycle B
$22.95Add to cartStories to help the preacher touch the hearts of adults … children … to evoke laughter and tears with an ironic twist or a surprise ending …
John Sumwalt’s stories are a treat-the Gospel comes alive in common life and in regular people, and suddenly we are enchanted by grace.
Donald F. Chatfield
Professor of Preaching
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Angels Can Fly Because They Take Themselves Lighter
$21.99Add to cartEveryone reaches emotional overload. Stresses can multiply until they become one big headache for you. Ironically, it’s at those very times that we can soar to the greatest heights and find the happiness that is ours through Jesus Christ.
This is a happy book. It encourages you to take yourself lightly. It will help you to replace boredom, routine, and anxiety with the joy of the Spirit. After all, a Christ-filled life is a joy-filled life. So put a joyful bounce into your Christian walk with these 60-plus devotions.
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Preschool Church
$12.95Add to cart“A necessary resource for church school teachers of 3 to 5 year olds.”
The Preschool Church provides teachers with practical lesson ideas for preschoolers, recognizing that 3-5 year olds are curious about God and want to learn. Lesson seeds include discussion topics, suggestions for telling Bible stories, songs, activities, supply lists, and craft ideas that are easy for little hands, inexpensive to make, and result in a finished product kids can be proud of. The book also contains suggestions for including preschoolers in the larger church community and involving adults in the church school activities.
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Vacation Bible School teachers
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Confessing The Faith
$23.99Add to cartThe Concordia Scholarship Today series explores current issues from a theological point of view and asks how the household of faith meet the surrounding culture’s challenge to self-understanding. The hope is that we may be able to comprehend more fully with all the saints what is the extent of the love of God toward all His creatures (Eph. 3:17-18)
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Luther And His Times
$34.99Add to cartDr. E.G. Schwiebert was inspired by his professor to research the unexplored influences that vitaly affected Luther’s life, teaching and the development of the Reformation. This book is the fruit of his work. After studying primary and secondary sources both in America and in Germany, Schwiebert presents a new perspective on the Great Reformer.
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Nurturing Silence In A Noisy Heart
$12.99Add to cartPreface
1. Silence For Survival And Hope
2. Discovering Your Privacy In Order To Nurture Silence
3. Down-to-Earth Centering In Silence
4. Silencing The Strange Noises Within Your Heart
5. Silences You Cannot Safely Ignore
6. The Serenity Response To Silence’s Call
Questions For Reflection And Discussion
Notes
For Further Reading
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This highly readable and engaging guide to finding and cultivating inner peace offers practical tips for the general reader whose life is filled with busyness and stress. Nurturing Silence in a Noisy Heart includes a “practice of silence” test and questions for reflection and discussion, which make the book ideal for small group study or as the focus of a retreat or conference. -
Inward Pilgrimage : An Introduction To Christian Spiritual Classics (Revised)
$14.99Add to cartNow back in print! Get your reading lists ready, for Christensen invites you to discovery. Learn about the setting and high points of the Confessions, The Desert Fathers, The Little Flowers of St. Francis, The Imitation of Christ, Pilgrim’s Progress, The Way of a Pilgrim, and many other classics.
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Jesus The Crucified People
$24.00Add to cartA deeply moving and challenging book, Jesus, the Crucified People breaks a theological stranglehold on the figure of Jesus and glimpses in a new, no-Western way both Jesus and Christianity. Against the rich cultural background of Asia, Song’s volume explores the mystery of the Word that from the beginning of time now comes poignantly to us in the stories and testimonies of women, men, and children. Song eloquently fashions a “people hermeneutic” to sketch an account of Jesus’ life, ministry, death, and resurrection for our world today.
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Mystery Of Romans
$39.00Add to cart1996 National Jewish Book Award for Jewish-Christian Relations! Arguing that Romans 9–11 is the climax of Paul’s letter, Nanos sees the recipients as steeped in Judaism, while early Gentile converts clearly misunderstand God’s plan for Israel. Paul as a true Hebrew of Hebrews!
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Religious Liberty In Western Thought A Print On Demand Title
$31.99Add to cartThis is a print on demand book and is therefore non-returnable.
In this volume, several leading scholars harvest the best of Western thinking on religious liberty. An opening chapter shows how religious liberty emerged slowly in the West through centuries of cruel experience and growing enlightenment. Separate chapters thereafter take up the unique role of such titans as Marsilius, Luther, Calvin, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Burke, Tocqueville, and the American framers in the Western drama of religious liberty. From widely divergent experiences, these titans discovered the cardinal principles of religious liberty – religious pluralism and toleration, religious equality and non- discrimination, liberty of conscience and association, freedom of expression and exercise. From widely discordant convictions, they distilled the most enduring models of church and state and of religion and law in the West – from the organic models of earlier centuries to the dualistic models of more recent times.
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Jesus Christ In The Preaching Of Calvin And Schleiermacher
$40.00Add to cartWhile the effects of historical criticism on theology in the modern period have been well documented, their implications for modern preaching have been largely ignored. Dawn DeVries examines the content of and reasoning behind the preaching on the Synoptic Gospels by John Calvin and Friedrich Schleiermacher in order to ascertain their responses to the historical Jesus. By doing so, DeVries demonstrates that the shifting of emphasis in modern preaching from the miraculous aspects of the Gospel narratives to the “internal” miracles of faith has historical, intellectual, and spiritual grounding in the work of these classical theologians.
The Columbia Series in Reformed Theology represents a joint commitment by Columbia Theological Seminary and Westminster John Knox Press to provide theological resources from the Reformed tradition for the church today. This series examines theological and ethical issues that confront church and society in our own particular time and place.
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Christ In Christian Tradition 2 Part 4
$80.00Add to cartEmbark on a “Christological expedition up the Nile.” Exploring the years between A.D. 450 and 604, this study examines the social and theological influences that shaped the Alexandrian patriarchate and Coptic church, the evangelization of the Sudan, and the synthesis of Judaism and Christianity in Ethiopia.
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Which Way To Jesus Cycle B
$13.95Add to cartThese 15 sermons are written for the season of Lent, beginning with Ash Wednesday and ending with the Ascension of the Lord. Most of them are based on scriptural texts from the Gospel of John.
Harry Huxhold preaches sermons that are punctuated with fascinating illustrations. He holds a congregation’s attention to the end.
Within this collection of sermons for Cycle B are such titles as:
Beware Of Your Piety
Clean House
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Lyrics For The Centuries Cycle B
$12.95Add to cartSome musicians come along and the music speaks to a particular decade. The lyrics of David span the centuries… His lyrics endure and forever surface in our liturgy. (from Chapter seven)
The ten sermons in this book are based on texts primarily from 1 and 2 Samuel. Titles include:
*Saul, The Tormented King
*When Saints Go Marching Forth
*R.S.V.P.
*The Strange Tactics Of GodThe sermons of Art Kolsti are among the most consistently thoughtful and stimulating ones that I have heard, but they also contain ideas and subtitles that can slip past die listener on first hearing. They will amply repay the thoughtful and intelligent reader.
Dr. James Munkres, Mathematics Dept.
Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyArthur Kolsti’s sermons are all marked by their spiritual substance, apt historical and contemporary illustrations, concise wording, and grounding in careful expositions of Christian scripture and teaching. Kolsti is exquisitely skillful in the use of words and the Word.
Arthur J. Dyck
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What Really Happened To Jesus
$30.00Add to cartWere the resurrection appearances real physical events – or nothing more than grief-induced hallucinations? What does it mean to say, Jesus rose from the dead? Dissatisfied with what he regarded as evasive answers given by theologians and scholars about the nature of the resurrection of Jesus, Gerd Ludemann here subjects the New Testament traditions to a thorough investigation. In particular, Ludemann is concerned with the story of the empty tomb and the subsequent appearance stories first related by Peter. Ludemann’s startling and somewhat radical conclusions have created a stir in Europe. This book, written for nonspecialists, presents Ludemann’s provocative conclusions. Readers will find a positive, albeit a revolutionary, new way of viewing the resurrection.
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Creative Bible Lessons In John
$22.99Add to cart1. Jesus Encounters Nathanial (John 1:43-51) Dealing With Doubt
2. Jesus Encounters The Money Changers (John 2:13-25) Respecting God
3. Jesus Encounters Nicodemus (John 3:1-36) Receiving New Life In Christ
4. Jesus Encounters A Nobleman’s Son And A Crippled Man (John 4:43-5.18) Coping With Crisis
5. Jesus Encounters The Crowd (John 6:46-60) Accepting God’s Incredible Gift
6. Jesus Encounters A Blind Man (John 9:1-41) Accepting God’s Love
7. Jesus Encounters Mary And Martha (John 10:40-11.46) Facing Death
8. Jesus Encounters Mary And Judas (John 11:57-12.11) Making Wise “Investments”
9. Jesus Encounters Peter (John 13:36-38; 15:18-16.4; 18:12-27) Handling Opposition
10. Jesus Encounters His Disciples #1 (John 15:5-17) Producing Fruit In Our Lives
11. Jesus Encounters His Disciples #2 (John 14:15-27; 16:5-16) Recognizing The Holy Spirit
12. Jesus Encounters Mary Magdalene (John 19:23-25; 20:1-3,10-18) Believing The Impossible99 Pages
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Do you want to teach solid Biblical Truth to your kids without their eyes glazing over as soon as you say “open your Bible”? Now you can, with Creative Bible Lessons in John: Encounters with Jesus.Following in the successful path of Youth Specialties’ instant bestseller Creative Bible Lessons on the Life of Christ by Doug Fields, veteran family life and youth workers Janice and Jay Ashcraft have created 12 lively, ready-to-use lessons that actually make it fun to dig into Scripture. The Ashcrafts utilize creative learning techniques to spark your kids’ interest and keep them actively involved in lesson, including:
*Learning Games
*Discussions
*Video and Music
*Skits, Melodrama, and Roleplays
*”Digging Deeper” Investigations
*Interactive Worksheets
*And much more!These lessons are clear, easy-to-use, and complete. You’ll be able to build in-depth, creative Bible teaching into your busy schedule with Creative Bible Lessons in John: Encounters with Jesus.
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More Hot Illustrations For Youth Talks
$22.99Add to cartHot Illustrations for Youth Talks, Wayne Rice’s original collection of stories, parables, and anecdotes, was an instant bestseller. Youth workers clamored for more.
These illustrations cover the spectrum-some will make you laugh, some will make you cry, and all of them will make you think. What they all have in common is that they work with teenagers. They’re just the thing to your youth talks hat extra spark your looking for.
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Hiding From Love
$19.99Add to cart17 Chapters
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When you experience emotional injury, fear, shame, or pride your first impulse is to hide the hurting parts of yourself from God, others, even yourself. Often you’ve learned these hiding patterns during childhood to protect yourself in a threatening environment. The problem is that when you hide your injuries and frailties, you isolate yourself from the very things you need in order to heal and mature. What served as protection for a child becomes a prison to an adult. In Hiding from Love, Dr. John Townsend helps you to explore thoroughly the hiding patterns you’ve developed and guides you toward the healing grace and truth that God has built into safe, connected relationships with himself and others. You’ll discover: The difference between “good” and “bad” hiding, Why you hide the broken parts of your soul from the God who can heal them, How to be free to make mistakes without fear of exposing your failures and imperfections, How to obtain the joy and wholeness God intends you to have through healthy bonding with others. Complete with a discussion guide designed especially for small groups, Hiding from Love will take you on a journey of discovery toward healing, connected relationships, and a new freedom and joy in living. -
Reclaiming The Urban Family
$22.99Add to cart17 Chapters
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Hands-on answers to the crises of urban homes. The problems urban families face–low income, drug abuse, divorce, gang involvement, domestic violence, and more–are devastating. But solutions exist in the local church that can transform troubled homes into places of love, security, hope, and growth. In Reclaiming the Urban Family, Dr. Willie Richardson gives pastors and leaders methods that can make inner-city churches a powerful force for restoring, training, and strengthening families, single-parent homes, and individuals. Using the principles and strategies described, the family training ministry of Dr. Richardson’s own Christian Stronghold Baptist Church in Philadelphia has – Brought about a near-zero divorce rate – Produced strong marriages built on deep lovebonds between couples – Helped numerous low- and moderate-income families become debt-free – Trained men to be competent husbands and fathers–and raised adult male membership in church to as high as 48 percent – Lowered the number of teenage pregnancies – Helped win to Christ those who have seen transformation in their loved ones. Reclaiming the Urban Family covers concerns as diverse as lay biblical counseling, singles and youth ministry, marriage preparation, occupational enrichment, single-parent households, evangelizing families, and more. Complete with a section of resources for African-American family ministries, it shows how local churches can become dynamic agents for building thriving homes and individuals and for evangelizing the unsaved. -
Breaking Strongholds In The African American Family
$19.99Add to cart1. What Is A Stronghold?
2. Types Of Strongholds
3. Strongholds Imprisoning African-American Males
4. Strongholds Surrounding African-American Females
5. Strongholds Immobilizing African-American Youth
6. The Christian’s Arsenal
7. The Battle Plan: Part 1
8. The Battle Plan: Part 2144 Pages
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1. What Is a Stronghold?
2. Types of Strongholds
3. Strongholds Imprisoning African-American Males
4. Strongholds Surrounding African-American Females
5. Strongholds Immobilizing African-American Youth
6. The Christian’s Arsenal
7. The Battle Plan: Part 1
8. The Battle Plan: Part 2144 Pages
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Death Of The Church
$26.99Add to cart“Death of the Church is intended to provoke, although we have been careful to be accurate and responsible in our statement of the issues. We will have failed if you only yawn. You may not like what we say, but you must at least acknowledge the issues, for they are very real. The institutional church in America will look very different twenty-five years from now. Indeed, several denominations may no longer exist. We are sure that there will be hundreds of local congregations that won’t. The forces reshaping our culture are too many and too strong. We see signs of social fragmentation and collapse everywhere. But we also believe deeply in the hope of the Gospel and the security of the church. Both will survive. But how the church universal is expressed in and through the churches in America will look very different. This is the issue we write about.” — From the Introduction
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Psalms Chapters 1-41
$12.99Add to cartThe Scriptures come alive with America’s best-loved Bible teacher Dr. J. Vernon McGee. Whether you are a new believer or a longtime Bible student, Dr. McGee’s THROUGH THE BIBLE COMMENTARY SERIES offers sound biblical scholarship and practical, down-to-earth suggestions for applying the principles of Scripture to everyday life.
The studies in the series have been taken from Dr. McGee’s “Thru the Bible” radio messages.. With his familiar, anecdotal style and lively approach, Dr. McGee makes biblical trust understandable and Bible Study more enjoyable.
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Sowing The Gospel
$39.00Add to cartThis is a scholarly look at the literary currents of Mark’s historical setting. It is intended as literary history, which attempts to make more sense of Mark as a whole than than other approaches have been able to do. By examining the literary conventions of Mark’s day, the Mary Ann Tolbert hopes to make the message of Mark more clear. Tolbert is the George H. Atkinson Professor of Biblical Studies at Pacific School of Religion in Berkely, California.
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Church For The Unchurched
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CHURCH FOR THE UNCHURCHED
A rebirth of the apostolic way.This work shows that there is an apostolic way for a congregation to live out the gospel. This book calls for revolution–the revolution that must take place if the churches in America are to thrive and to fulfill the Great Commission. Church for the Unchurched is about the “abolition” of the laity.
God’s dream for his church from the earliest time has been that we practice the priesthood of all believers, that we be a kingdom of priests (Exodus 19:6). In its first 300 years of history, the church had no clergy. Rather, it was made up of believers who understood they were to be apostles, sent on mission by the living Christ. With the phenomenal growth of that early church, both numerically and in influence, two classes of Christians emerged, leaders and spectators. The spectators were supposed to learn sound doctrine, to pray, sing, listen to sermons, and pay the bills. But when the question is asked, as it often is, “Why doesn’t the church do something about…,” “the church” is synonymous with “the clergy.”
This book studies a number of apostolic congregations from various traditions and assorted geographical locations that are successfully reaching the unchurched. It is full of recipes that any serious congregation could copy and use. Reading this book could result in a Copernican revolution in the church-the empowerment of the laity.
