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Preaching John
$25.00Add to cartThe Gospel of John and 1 John exhibit a peculiar Christian language and thought that need to be understood and employed in the preaching ministry. The preacher’s task involves penetrating the thick and often confusing language of the Gospel and comprehending its frequently paradoxical theology. The preacher can find new and powerful resources for preaching in Johannine language and thought, as well as its use of narrative and discourse. These discoveries facilitate preaching John in ways that are consistent with recent trends in homiletic theory. The method of this book is to combine the practical (how to preach John) with proposals for understanding the Gospel and 1 John. The author offers a variety of sermon ideas and designs throughout each chapter based on numerous passages selected from the Revised Common Lectionary.
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Grace (Student/Study Guide)
$9.99Add to cartHave you ever felt that you wanted to get closer to God but didn’t derserve even to try? This book explores God’s love for us and how it isn’t something we earn, but something that is; how that love leads us into relationship with God and with others; and how our hearts and lives are changed as we use the gifts God has given us to build community, growing toward perfect love.
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3 Months With Matthew (Student/Study Guide)
$14.99Add to cartAvailable in English for the first time, Three Months with Matthew is popular author Juso Gonzalez’s study of the Gospel of Matthew. Eminently readable, the study uses the see-judge-act method to bring readers closer to the text and to inform and challenge the daily life of the Christian. These thirteen studies can be used for Sunday school, evening Bible study, home study meetings, retreats, or personal Bible study. It can easily be used as a daily Bible study, as each lesson is divided into seven parts.
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Fire For The Choir
$14.95Add to cartOne of the eternal challenges facing church choir directors is how to recruit new members, and then, how to keep them interested and retain them. No matter how large or small the congregation, it is the energy and commitment of a music program’s participants that ultimately determines how successful it is.
While there are plenty of books about the musical techniques of choir directing, there are precious few that deal with the organizational nuts-and-bolts and the people skills required for a smoothly functioning music program. Ellis Dillard Thompson, a veteran choir director and music educator, shares his tried and proven methods for getting choir members excited — to keep them serving and loving it! He focuses on the role of a church musician as a spiritual leader, and stresses that the road to true success involves basing a music program on spiritual values that uplift, inspire, and motivate participants. And as a bonus, Thompson includes three original choral responses that you can copy and use.
This is an excellent guide that is designed for anyone who participates in music ministry: choir directors, choir members, organists, pastors, music committee members, and worship committee members.
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Step At A Time
$12.95Add to cartIn his practical and easy-to-follow book Glenn Borreson offers a plan for increasing giving in a congregation through personalized stewardship letters. His example, timeline, and step-by-step procedures will provide an excellent resource for any pastor who wants to help his or her congregation grow in Christian stewardship. Borreson’s suggestions not only help to increase giving, they also do it in a non-threatening way. I recommend his program enthusiastically.
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This Book We Call The Bible
$21.00Add to cartNeither a traditional study of specific books or sections of the Bible, nor a doctrinal study that concentrates on such issues as revelation and authority, This Book We Call the Bible helps lay people focus on the use of Scripture. By dealing with the Bible as a written work and its impact on our hearts, this study provides an increased sense of what the Bible actually is and how we can derive more benefit from reading and studying the Scriptures. Great for individuals and for small- or large-group settings, This Book We Call the Bible includes questions for reflection and discussion with each chapter.
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Balance
$9.99Add to cart20/30 Bible Study for Young Adults targets adult learners in their 20’s and 30’s. Each volume in the series challenges you to examine a powerful biblical image that defines and shapes your life. The 20/30 volumes honor your experience and encourage you to look at your own questions, goals, and beliefs as you study the Scriptures that expand on the biblical images. You juggle multiple demands-school work, family, friends, church, day-to-day “stuff” like paying bills and dealing with junk mail-but do these activities each receive the proper priority at the proper time? Balance: Living With Life’s Demands will help you sort through various claims on your life and put your priorities into a healthy and manageablle perspective.
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Peace Skills (Teacher’s Guide)
$24.95Add to cartPart of the Peace Skills Set, this Leaders’ Guide is designed to prepare people to lead Peace Skills workshops in their communities. It contains several suggested workshop designs to accommodate different workshop goals, lengths, and formats; clear guidelines for teaching with role plays, case studies and sacred texts; and a broad variety of cases, role plays and specific faith texts for group discussion.
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Peace Skills : Manual For Community Mediators (Student/Study Guide)
$28.00Add to cartPart of the Peace Skills Set, this Manual is designed as a take-home resource to support workshop participants as they return to their communities and both apply their mediation skills and share their insights with others. It covers conflict analysis, the role of mediation, the stages of mediation, communication skills, and working with group conflicts and in cross cultural settings.
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Love
$9.99Add to cartExciting contemporary Bible study series designed to meet the needs of adult learners in their 20s and 30s. Each volume in the series examines a powerful biblical image and includes: * Bible background * Articles on group leadership, and teaching options * Case studies throughout the text to use as discussion starters * Seven easy-to-lead sessions with clear teaching helps on each page * Options for service projects Love is the fifth book in the series. Chapters deal with love in its many forms, such as romantic, family, community and church, and God. The book also explores “Sacrificial Love” and “Expressions of Love.”
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7 Ways Of Teaching The Bible To Adults
$18.99Add to cartBarbara Bruce helps teachers and learners understand seven different learning styles, or “intelligences,” and how these learning styles can be used to bring the Word of God alive for adult students. Chapters include suggestions of activities to incorporate a specific intelligence into lessons, questions for the teacher on his or her own preference for the particular intelligence, a lesson focusing on the intelligence and a prayer demonstrating the intelligence. In addition, the book contains suggestions for teacher training, bibliographies, a glossary, and a self-discovery sheet.
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Be Still : Designing And Leading Contemplative Retreats
$23.00Add to cartMany people long for a deeper relationship with God, yearning for silence in a noisy world and a respite from busyness. Written for lay and ordained leaders who wish to bring the gift of space and silence to members who feel called to the contemplative journey, the book introduces the purpose of retreats, provides a theological and biblical understanding of the model, and offers guidance for designing and leading these gatherings. Sample retreats, a design for home retreats, and suggested resources are included.
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You Can Start A Bible Study (Student/Study Guide)
$9.99Add to cartHave you taken a good look at your neighborhood, church, office, or dorm, and wondered whether God wants you there for a specific purpose? Maybe you’ve been involved in Bible studies before. Now it’s your turn to reach out and get a Bible discussion group goint. “But where do I start, and how do I keep it goint?” you ask. Drawing on personal experiences and her own insight, Gladys Hunt shares how you can start and lead an inductive Bible study group. Whether you are a beginner who needs to know the basics or an experienced leader who wants fresh motivation and ideas, you’ll find what you need in this “how-to” book for Bible study leaders.
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Life Worth Living Leaders Guide (Teacher’s Guide)
$7.99Add to cartNew Heart
New Purpose
New Attitude
New Responsibilities
New Friendships
New Confidence
New Ambitions
New Resources
New GenerosityAdditional Info
Manual
A manual designed to assist leaders and helpers in running the A Life Worth Living course. Contains sample discussion questions for each session of the course. (See related A Life Worth Living DVD set, book and manual.) -
New Banner Book (Revised)
$21.95Add to cartThis is a wonderful book with written and illustrated by Betty Wolfe. She writes about the importance of banners including places to use a banner, how to make a banner and how different factors determine the effectiveness of a banner. Everything you need to know about making your own banners whether they be for church or school, is right here in this well-put-together book.
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Biblical Foundations For Small Group Ministry
$45.99Add to cartIf you think small groups are some newfangled gimmick—think again! Icenogle examines both Old and New Testament texts to explain the basis for small groups, emphasizing the early church. He reveals why small groups are a crucial part of any ministry, shows how to apply biblical principles to set up small groups, and includes suggestions for training leaders. This is an invaluable resource for anyone who works with, or plans to work with, small groups.
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Crosses Of Many Cultures
$19.95Add to cartIn Crosses of Many Cultures: Designs for Applique, Joyce Mori provides historical explanations along with easy-to-understand instructions and line drawings for twenty international cross designs for applique. Includes several applique’s techniques, including hand and machine sewing methods, plus no-sewing techniques.
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Sewing Church Linens
$19.95Add to cartThe classic book on sewing linens for the church is back in a revised edition. This complete explains the materials and equipment needed, a variety of hemming options, special instructions on the small linens such as purificators and palls, working with fair linens, white work embroidery, and caring for church linens. New to this edition are directions for rolled hems, chalice veils, more specific directions and an improved worksheet for planning shrinkage, special advice specifically for beginners, an updated “Source and Resource” section, and new patterns.
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Exodus (Student/Study Guide)
$9.99Add to cartExodus is a say out. It is a decisive act that leaves behind and moves on. Exodus and wilderness experiences significantly define the identity and existence of communities and individuals. How important have decisions to leave behind and move on been in your life? This study helps readers appreciate learning how God is in the midst of the movements and changes of life, no matter how minor or how transformational. Seven easy to lead sessions with teaching helps for adult learners in their 20’s and 30’s.
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Discover Your Spiritual Type
$29.00Add to cartFrom Urban T. Holmes’ spiritual typology and her own experience as a spiritual director and pastoral counselor, Ware provides a framework for people to name and understand their spiritual experience-in much the same way Myers-Briggs typology provides a framework for understanding personality type. Readers explore four spiritual types-head, heart, mystic, and Kingdom-and exercises allow individuals and groups to assess their type. Additional help for clergy to use this tool with congregations is included, which will help them gain greater understanding of how members learn about, worship, and celebrate God-and why there may be tension about such issues as the form or content of the worship service
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Attending Parishioners Spiritual Growth
$23.00Add to cartIn this clarion call to tend to spiritual growth, Williamsen provides a much-needed resource for clergy. Discover how to assist parishioners in their prayer and spiritual life. Learn how individual spiritual growth can flow back into the congregation’s growth as a community. Explore new ideas and practical approaches to using Christian education, worship, retreats, devotional guides, and church meetings as tools to achieve spiritual growth. Learn about spirituality gender differences; the importance of your own spiritual life; spiritually grounding lay leaders; encouraging spiritual friendships and study groups. For clergy interested in developing spirituality at the individual level; seminary professors who want to help their students explore this aspect of parish ministry; and judicatory executives who wish to encourage their clergy in this area.
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Faith
$9.99Add to cartYou may have faith, but may also realize that it can mean many things. Is it belief or trust or waiting or moral behavior or something else? Or is it all those things? This resource targets adult learners in their 20’s and 30’s. It challenges you to examine a powerful biblical image that defines and shapes your life, and includes these helpful features: Bible background on the particular image: faith. Articles on group leadership, organizing a study group, using small Break-Out groups, and choosing teaching options. Case studies throughout the text and in the appendix to use as discussion starters or as a bridge to your own experiences. Seven easy-to-lead sessions with clear teaching helps on every page. Options for service projects.
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Small Groups In The Church
$20.00Add to cartThis planning and leader training handbook offers a distinctive broad-based, small-group approach to building community. From the Jewish havurot to Christian koinonia, you will gain a thorough understanding of community, learn how to plan an effective small-group ministry, how to select and train leaders for all kinds of small groups, and how to start small groups that are a part of and not apart from their congregations. Appendices provide an overview of the sociological, psychological, and biblical theological literature on community and a wealth of presentation and leader training resources.
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Catch The Age Wave
$19.99Add to cart1. The Church Of Tomorrow
2. The Senior Surge
3. Developing A Christian View Of Life And Aging
4. Ageism – Is It Real In The Church?
5. New Beginnings For Your Senior Adult Group
6. Target-Group Evangelism
7. Practice Oikos Evangelism
8. Incorporate Newcomers
9. Establish A Small-Group Network
10. Stimulate Spiritual Growth
11. Provide Recreational, Social, And Physical Activities
12. Stimulate Intellectual Development
13. Make It Happen
184 PagesAdditional Info
Senior adult ministry isn’t what it used to be. The comfortable assumptions and recycled programs that were the basis for local church ministry are being challenged. Baby boomers are hitting middle age and retirement. And their own parents are living longer. Authors Win and Charles Arn have updated and supplemented Catch The Age Wave with ideas, examples, and advice to help the local church leader start and maintain a senior adult program. In addition, they have added practical program ideas to use in any local church setting. New challenges for a new day. Catch the Age Wave won’t let you miss the boat. -
Tres Meses En La Escuela De Lo (Student/Study Guide) – (Spanish) (Student/Study
$14.99Add to cartEach of these volumes consists of thirteen detailed Bible studies. These Bible studies can be used for evening Bible study, for home study meetings, for faith communities, for retreats, and for personal Bible study. This book can even be used as a daily Bible study. Written in Spanish, the language is simple with a profound message for readers.
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Favorite Bible Passages 1 Student (Student/Study Guide)
$8.99Add to cart: This Bible study is a 26 lesson study of Bible texts that gives participants in Bible study groups refreshing insights into popular, well-loved Scripture passages. Each lesson offers a biblical basis for facing life’s decisions and encourages a deeper personal faith. Each volume contains 26 lessons that may be studied in any order. Use with school classes of Bible study groups. Written by Brady Whitehead Jr., Howard M. Ham
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Favorite Bible Passages 1 Leader (Teacher’s Guide)
$8.99Add to cartThis book provides enough lessons for a twenty-six-week study, following the biblical order from Genesis through Revelation. However, each lesson stands on its own. It is not necessary to study the lessons in sequence. For each session, teachers are provided with the session’s stated purpose, Bible background, a step-by-step teaching plan, and a closing prayer.
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Favorite Bible Passages 2 Student (Student/Study Guide)
$8.99Add to cartThis Bible study is a 26 lesson study of Bible texts that gives participants in Bible study groups refreshing insights into popular, well-loved Scripture passages. Each lesson offers a biblical basis for facing life’s decisions and encourages a deeper personal faith. Each volume contains 26 lessons that may be studied in any order. Use with school classes of Bible study groups. Written by Brenda Stobbe, Jerry L. Mercer
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Favorite Bible Passages 2 Leader (Teacher’s Guide)
$8.99Add to cartThis Bible study is a 26 lesson study of Bible texts that gives participants in Bible study groups refreshing insights into popular, well-loved Scripture passages. Each lesson offers a biblical basis for facing life’s decisions and encourages a deeper personal faith. Each volume contains 26 lessons that may be studied in any order. Use with school classes of Bible study groups. Written by Brenda Stobbe, Jerry L. Mercer.
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Encountering Jesus (Student/Study Guide)
$12.99Add to cartTo encounter Jesus and to have an exchange with God is the real business of the church, and it counts! Have you forgotten how to encounter Jesus? Have you and your church become more concerned with appearances, success, numbers, and order than with experiencing Jesus? Encountering Jesus offers help for individuals who seek the promise of vision and grace, for clergy and their congregations who struggle to find heart and courage, and for anyone who wants to have a fresh encounter with Jesus that counts.
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Tres Meses En La Escuela De Da (Student/Study Guide) – (Spanish) (Student/Study
$14.99Add to cartEach of these volumes consists of thirteen detailed Bible studies. These Bible studies can be used for evening Bible study, for home study meetings, for faith communities, for retreats, and for personal Bible study. This book can even be used as a daily Bible study. Written in Spanish, the language is simple with a profound message for readers
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Tres Meses En La Escuela Del E (Student/Study Guide) – (Spanish) (Student/Study
$14.99Add to cartEach of the volumes in this series contains 13 major Bible studies, one for each week during a three-month period. In between each week’s study are six short, personal daily studies.
Written in Spanish, the volumes are adaptable for use in various Bible study settings, including Sunday school, week-night studies, retreats, and personal Bible study. -
Connecting To God
$23.00Add to cartAlthough spiritual growth occurs within an individual, Ware explains that it is the calling of the congregation to be a community of support and encouragement. Indeed, it is amidst the support of a group that an individual learns how to live out personal faith. Ware provides a very practical and accessible model of spiritual formation for self-directing groups that can be led by clergy or laity. Includes thorough guidelines, do’s and don’ts, and ground rules for the successful pursuit of spiritual growth in small groups. See also Ware’s helpful book on spiritual type on next page.
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Tres Meses En La Escuela De Ma (Student/Study Guide) – (Spanish) (Student/Study
$14.99Add to cartEach of these volumes consists of thirteen detailed Bible studies. These Bible studies can be used for evening Bible study, for home study meetings, for faith communities, for retreats, and for personal Bible study. This book can even be used as a daily Bible study. Written in Spanish, the language is simple with a profound message for readers.
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Preparing For Christian Ministry (Limited)
$32.00Add to cartStudents preparing for vocational ministry in seminaries and colleges encounter unique challenges and opportunities. Preparing for Christian Ministry assists students by providing seasoned advice from professors on a variety of themes: the call and transition into ministry training, personal and professional developmental issues, the tasks of ministry, and contemporary social and ethical issues.
This text was written by former and current professors at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary who were commissioned to write articles in their area of expertise that would be appropriate for use in the seminary’s first-year “Formation for Christian Ministry” classes.
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Help Im A Sunday School Teacher
$19.99Add to cart1. Fifty Ways To Make Sunday School Come Alive
2. Extra Credit
3. Resources
138 PagesAdditional Info
Yes, Help Is On The Way! – in this fun, funny, yet extremely practical volume. Flannelgraph-tested Sunday school veteran Ray Johnson offers empathy and understanding as he serves up 50 creative thoughts, tips and ideas you can use to make your Sunday school come alive.As an added bonus, Ray has included resources that you can use to improve your effectiveness, including a “Pick Your Topics” survey, a learning styles inventory, an active learning planning sheet, and much more.
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Guia Pare El Estudio En Grupo (Student/Study Guide) – (Spanish) (Student/Study G
$17.99Add to cartThis book offers a study of the Bible divided into units and weekly lessons that facilitate the study individually as well in groups. Each lesson ends with suggestions for our daily lives. In this book you will find an analysis of the creation, the fall, the promise of redemption, Jesus Christ God-man and his ministry
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Real Hope In Chicago
$19.99Add to cartWhen Wayne Gordon and his wife started a Bible study for high school kids in North Lawndale, Chicago, people warned them that a white couple moving into a black neighborhood as a recipe for disaster. That was twenty-five years ago. Today, what began as the Gordons’ seedling Bible study has become the Lawndale Community Church. It has a staff of 150, has renovated more than 100 local apartments, has helped more than 50 young people graduate from college, runs a medical clinic that treated 50,000 patients in 1994, and has become a vital part of rebuilding an inner-city neighborhood into a community of faith and hope. Real Hope in Chicago is Wayne Gordon’s inspiring account of how people, white and black, rich and poor, old and young, worked together to transform a decaying neighborhood into a place where love is lived out in practical and miraculous ways. It offers an exciting model for interracial cooperation, urban-suburban church partnering–and real hope for the inner cities of our nation.
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Designing Effective Womens Ministries
$24.99Add to cart5 Parts
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Do you have a vision for women’s ministry? Here’s how to make it a reality.For nearly 25 years, Elmbrook Church in Waukesha, Wisconsin, has supported a variety of ministries by and for women. Today their program stands as a model. Yet, as the authors of Designing Effective Women’s Ministries will tell you, it did not happen overnight, but through trial and error.
In this book, the authors share what worked for them and what didn’t. They explain how to start where you are, with what you have, and how to do what God wants you to do.
This book includes tips and techniques for establishing groups and programs that meet the needs of today’s women. The book shows how to develop programs that are specifically tailored to your church and your community.
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Peace : Christian Living In A Violent World
$6.99Add to cartDiscover the potential for peacemaking and peace in each day’s events and especially in the ways you touch one another’s lives. These are troubled times and violent times. Experience the power of God’s gift of peace as you probe ways to solve differences and pursue justice with faith and courage in daily life. Six lessons.
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Faith : Confidence And Doubt In Daily Life
$6.99Add to cartWhat does Christian faith have to do with our ordinary day-to-day life? This question is presented in personal ways for you and your small group. Explore faith in life-cycle experiences–moods and situations, joy and discouragement, confidence and doubt.
