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Maximizing Your Marriage Student (Workbook)
$24.93God intends for marriage to be one of the most satisfying relationships you will ever experience. Like our relationship with Christ, your relationship with your spouse should be a source of joy, peace, life, and love. But many marriages miss God’s plan. The facts are that only about half the couples who go to the altar remain married — and many of those who do not divorce find themselves in frustrating relationships full of pain and conflict.
Maximizing Your Marriage is an interactive mentoring course for couples based on solid biblical principles about God’s design for marriage. Ten weekly sessions provide plenty of tools that get couples headed in the right direction to experience and enjoy all God wants for them. And the course concludes with an overnight retreat which offers couples the opportunity to renew their vows.
Maximizing Your Marriage is an adventure that will bring refreshment and encouragement to any marriage. It’s a great investment for a healthy relationship that reflects Jesus Christ.
Sessions include:
* Mutual Submission To Christ
* The Wonder Of God’s Oneness
* A Promise To Be Kept
* Expectations vs. Godly Assignments
* Stop — Talk — and Listen, Listen, Listen
* In Pursuit Of Understanding
* Finding A Firm Financial Foundation
* The Reward Of Raising Children
* Intimacy In Every Way
* Fueling The Flames Of Your Marriage
* The GetawayAdd to cartin stock within 3-5 days of online purchase
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Maximizing Your Marriage Leader (Teacher’s Guide)
$22.43God intends for marriage to be one of the most satisfying relationships you will ever experience. Like our relationship with Christ, your relationship with your spouse should be a source of joy, peace, life, and love. But many marriages miss God’s plan. The facts are that only about half the couples who go to the altar remain married — and many of those who do not divorce find themselves in frustrating relationships full of pain and conflict.
Maximizing Your Marriage is an interactive mentoring course for couples based on solid biblical principles about God’s design for marriage. Ten weekly sessions provide plenty of tools that get couples headed in the right direction to experience and enjoy all God wants for them. And the course concludes with an overnight retreat which offers couples the opportunity to renew their vows.
Maximizing Your Marriage is an adventure that will bring refreshment and encouragement to any marriage. It’s a great investment for a healthy relationship that reflects Jesus Christ.
Sessions include:
* Mutual Submission To Christ
* The Wonder Of God’s Oneness
* A Promise To Be Kept
* Expectations vs. Godly Assignments
* Stop — Talk — and Listen, Listen, Listen
* In Pursuit Of Understanding
* Finding A Firm Financial Foundation
* The Reward Of Raising Children
* Intimacy In Every Way
* Fueling The Flames Of Your Marriage
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Shining Moments : Visions Of The Holy In Ordinary Lives
$24.93The Bible is filled with stories of shining moments — Moses’ face shone as he came down from the mountain with the ten commandments; Jesus’ face changed and his clothes became dazzling white in a transfiguration witnessed by the disciples; Paul was blinded by a light and heard the voice of Christ on the road to Damascus — and many modern Christians have had equally life-changing experiences of the Lord’s power and presence.
In this third volume of the acclaimed Visions series, 60 contributors share their authentic, intensely personal accounts of holy experiences. Rosmarie Trapp of the Sound of Music family tells of a moment of assurance when “the Lord visited me in a bright, golden light” whose “golden glow brought peace to my soul.” Ralph Milton, author of the historical novel Julian’s Cell, describes a visitation by his late sister: “We were singing together as we often did as children … I don’t recall ever having a memory or dream as clear and powerful as that one, and it left me with a sense of joy and peace.” Karen Steinke recounts the warmth she felt at the moment of her baptism: “I looked up to see the form of Jesus with an overpowering light surrounding him …”
Whether they relate transforming moments like visions, healings, or visitations by angels, joyous moments like being in the presence of a loved one who has died, or just the simple sense of God’s presence while singing in church or sitting in a sunny meadow on a warm spring day, the vignettes in Shining Moments are a testament to the indescribable comfort and peace of an encounter with the divine. And because each story also illustrates a scripture passage, Shining Moments is a valuable preaching resource and an excellent catalyst for small group discussion. But even more, this book provides inspiring and heart-warming reading for personal devotion and spiritual growth.
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Sermons On The First Readings Series 1 Cycle A
$46.18Bring the Old Testament to life with this inspiring and thought-provoking collection of sermons for each Sunday and major celebration in the Church year. Based on the First Readings from Cycle A of the Revised Common Lectionary, these powerful messages by five exceptional preachers from diverse denominations explore the meaning of the Hebrew scriptures for today’s Christian living. Abundant insights into vital current issues are woven together with powerful proclamation of timeless themes of justice and righteousness — and these imaginative homilies are full of compelling examples of how a loving God uses us to further his divine plan.
This essential resource is useful for:
* Fresh homiletical approaches to the lectionary texts
* Preaching illustrations
* Understanding scripture passages
* Adult study and discussion groups
* Personal devotions and Bible studyAdd to cartin stock within 3-5 days of online purchase
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Scripture Alone : Exploring The Bibles Accuracy Authority And Authenticity
$18.82From the author of The King James Only Controversy comes a look at the principle behind Luther’s rallying cry: “Sola Scriptura.” Why do we believe God’s Word trumps religious tradition? White, a Reformed Baptist, offers answers and argues that the biblical canon must remain “the sole infallible rule of faith for the church.”
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Calvinism In The Las Vegas Airport
$21.41A friendly, conversational look at how Calvinism can work in the 21st century Richard Mouw opens this conversational look at Calvinism by retelling a scene from the movie Hardcore. While a pious Calvinist elder played by George C. Scott is trying to track down his daughter who has run away from home, he talks to a young unchurched woman in the Las Vegas airport, unsuccessfully explaining the theology of his Dutch Christian Reformed denomination. This incongruous conversation illustrates the stereotype that Calvinism doesn’t work or fit in today’s world. Rather than being an academic and systematic exposition of doctrine, this book wrestles with some of the distorted views people hold of Calvinists, clears up some common misconceptions, and shows how to live gently and respectfully with Christians who disagree, as well as with people who have no clue what TULIP means. The author revisits the Las Vegas airport and discusses how that conversation might have played out differently.
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When Your World Falls Apart
$19.99Drawing on his insightful sermon series, renowned pastor/teacher David Jeremiah shares the comfort and hope of the Psalms and how these truths can guide believers through life’s greatest challenges. He includes inspiring real-life stories of people who have struggled with terminal illness, the loss of a child, or the imprisonment of a spouse. Jeremiah interweaves his own journal entries, revealing his battle with cancer and how the Psalms helped to sustain him during the fight of his life. This book is an invaluable source of help and encouragement for people facing major obstacles in life.
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Future Of Biblical Archaelogy
$39.99Biblical archaeology has long been a discipline in crisis. “Biblical minimalists,” who believe that the Bible contains little of actual historical fact, today are challenging those who accept the historicity of Scripture. In this volume Jewish and evangelical Christian archaeologists, historians, and biblical scholars confront the minimalist critique and offer positive alternatives.
Bringing a needed scientific approach to biblical archaeology, the contributors construct a new paradigm that reads the Bible critically but sympathetically. Their work covers the full range of subjects relevant to understanding the context of the Bible, including proper approaches to scriptural interpretation, recent archaeological evidence, and new studies of Near Eastern texts and inscriptions.
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Weapon Of Mass Destruction (DVD)
$22.99The liberal bias toward the war in Iraq was one thing. Then came a propaganda piece that did more to line the pockets of a radical filmmaker than to tell the truth. That’s when Brad Maaske, a conservative businessman from the agricultural heart of California decided enough was enough. It was time for a documentary that told the truth about the human toll and terror under the personally guided regime of Saddam Hussein.
This movie offers a balanced view of the real Iraq–before, during, and following the military involvement of the United States and its allies. It provides an objective report for Americans to consider prior to going to the polls in November. Jano Rosebiani, co-producer of WMD, is an Iraq film director know most recently for the documentaries Mass Graves of Saddam Hussein and Chemical Ali.Never-before-seen footage of the atrocities perpetrated in Iraq, chemical attacks, and interviews with survivors provide a riveting testimony for the justification of war and military support during reconstruction. Exclusive interviews and expert analysis of the current geopolitical situation are provided, including an in-depth interview by Victor David Hanson, author of eleven books, including The Western Way of War, An Autumn of War, and Between War and Peace.
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Be Blessed Beautiful Truths Stacked Notepad
$6.99This beautifully designed stacked notepad set is a thoughtful Christian gift for women, offering inspiring reminders of God’s love and blessings. The set includes three notepads, each with a meaningful affirmation:
You Are Blessed 4″ x 4″
You Are Loved 4″ x 4-3/4″
You Are Known 4″ x 5-1/2″Each notepad contains 35 pages, perfect for jotting down thoughts, prayers, or daily reflections. The stacked design makes it a unique and practical gift, while the affirmations serve as constant reminders of God’s promises.
Featuring references from 1 Corinthians 8:3, 1 John 4:16, and Numbers 6:24, this gift is a beautiful way to celebrate the truth of our relationship with God. Perfect for personal use or as a gift to uplift and inspire.
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Letters To A Diminished Church
$18.99“The devil should stand alert, for Sayers is one of his foremost adversaries,”—Living Church. An outspoken defender of Christian orthodoxy, Sayers elucidates creedal Christianity with brilliance and wit. Pieces include “The Dogma is the Drama,” “What Do We Believe?” and “Strong Meat.”
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Love And Respect
$29.99Successful couples know that harmony and happiness in marriage are not achieved by love alone. There is the other side of the Ephesians 5:33 equation respect. Yes, a wife needs love. But a husband needs respect. Based on extensive biblical and scientific research, Dr. Emerson Eggerichs reveals the secret to couples meeting each other’s deepest needs: Without love she reacts without respect, and without respect he reacts without love and a destructive, vicious cycle begins.
Love and Respect is a groundbreaking book, to be featured on Focus on the Family, which offers much-needed help to husbands and wives everywhere. It introduces the biblical teaching of unconditional respect, and that it is as powerful as unconditional love. Discover the secret revealed by God that cracks the communication code between male and female and reap the benefits of marriage as God intended.
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Will Of God As A Way Of Life (Revised)
$19.99We’ve all heard that God has a plan for our lives, but what does that mean in practical terms_when we’re faced with important life decisions, like who to marry, what job to take, where to send our children to school, or what church to join? Sometimes, God’s perfect will seems difficult to find, confusing to follow, easy to miss. We may even wonder if we’ve made past choices that have thrown God’s plan for our lives off track. Sittser’s book explores important questions like: How free are we if God has a perfect plan for our lives? Does suffering and trouble mean we are off track? How exactly does God speak? Discussing these and other questions, Jerry Sittser offers a biblically based approach that readers will find truly liberating. No matter what decisions you’ve already made, he points out that it is still possible to live out God’s perfect will for your life_even if you think you’ve married the wrong person, chosen the wrong career, or landed yourself in some kind of serious trouble. This new edition includes study questions designed for individual and group use that will be helpful to anyone faced with decisions large and small.
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Kudzu That Are Yazoo City
$31.23The Kudzu that Ate Yazoo City is a collection of stories that chronicle William “Junior” Jenkins’ growing up during the 1950s and 1960s in Yazoo City, Mississippi. Influenced by a large family, poverty, faith, and the ever-present kudzu vine, Jenkins mingles fact, fiction, and homegrown wisdom to remember those “cotton picking days” in the Mississippi Delta
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Kudzu That Are Yazoo City
$19.98The Kudzu that Ate Yazoo City is a collection of stories that chronicle William “Junior” Jenkins’ growing up during the 1950s and 1960s in Yazoo City, Mississippi. Influenced by a large family, poverty, faith, and the ever-present kudzu vine, Jenkins mingles fact, fiction, and homegrown wisdom to remember those “cotton picking days” in the Mississippi Delta
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Gods Judgement : Regarding Controversial Issues
$21.23Fulfilled prophecy PROVES that the Bible is the inspired Word of God. This book discloses what the Lord’s Supper should really look like. It exposes the “gospel of the sacraments” as a false gospel. It debunks water baptism as a means of salvation. It exposes the “gospel of good works” as a way to Hell, not Heaven. It debunks Evolution in a single page. Alcoholics Anonymous-is this support group in conflict with the Word of God? Can a Christian drink an alcoholic beverage publicly? Absolutely! Does the Church have the right to demand 10% of your income? Why are Pro-Life and Pro-Capital Punishment views very much compatible? Women pastors-is this Biblical? Multi-Culturalism and Diversity: Are they good for America? Are five billion people really under God’s wrath and condemnation? Is having sex before marriage morally acceptable? What about homosexuality? Will Christ come BEFORE or AFTER Antichrist?
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Church Secrets : Reform Restoration Revival For The 21st Century
$20.61Why all the competing Christian Denominations? Where’s the unity in the Body of Christ? Why are there so many opinions on Scripture? Why do the Catholics do that? Why do the Protestants do that? The “Church” Secrets answers these nagging questions and many more by examining “Church” traditions compared to God’s Word. The root of the confusion begins with the word “Church” itself. The prideful secrets of men are exposed to identify the gradual drift Christianity has taken away from God’s Word. This book offers an interactive, in-depth study of God’s Word that is geared toward both the young and old in Christ. Traditions run deep and are powerful. Questioning one’s traditions can expose one’s pride; humility, however, is found in Christ dying on the Cross for us. With that realized, our own pride should mean nothing. If you desire a deeper understanding of God’s plans for His Body, and want to live by His Spirit in truth, this is the book for you.
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Get Out Of The Way Youre Blocking Your Blessings
$16.86Whether you’re a mature Christian or a “babe” in Christ, Get Out of the Way … You’re Blocking Your Blessings!!! is a work that’s vital to your Christian life. It contains practical, easy-to-understand dialogue that will greatly benefit you in the implementation of God’s Word to your daily life. In it, you’ll learn why you were created,why it’s important to learn how to come to God on His terms (not yours), and what to do to receive all of the blessings that God has waiting for you. Get Out of the Way … You’re Blocking Your Blessings!!! will cause you to exercise your faith, solidify your relationship with Jesus, and redefine the limits of what you thought you could achieve through God. It’s a “must read” for all who believe that there’s more to life than what they’re living and who want all that God has waiting for them.
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Private Adoption In Virginia
$16.86Crown Oak Press
Private adoption,more accurately called “parental placement adoption,” is the process where a birth mother decides for herself what family she would like to place her child with. This has become the most common form of adoption in Virginia. Based upon many years of counseling prospective adoptive parents, the author explains step by step how to pursue parental placement adoption in Virginia. Topics include an explanation of the legal process, how to search for a birth mother, how to relate to her once she has been identified, how to deal with birth fathers, and how to prepare an adoptive family profile.Add to cartin stock within 3-5 days of online purchase
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In Pursuit Of His Glory
$21.23In Pursuit of His Glory is a journey into God’s plan to restore His glory to the temple in this end time hour. Is the glory of God the answer to the question of how God will birth end time revival? Has he promised that the end time glory will exceed the former glory experienced in the Old Testament temple? Could national revival be birthed in a single day? Is it possible that man will once again hear the audible voice of God? In this book, we will explore these possibilities as we endeavor to birth within each reader a fresh and renewed hunger for the manifest presence of the Lord. Since he personally experienced the presence of God’s glory, Pastor Hurst has been on a quest to once again enter this most holy place. His quest was heightened in January of 2003 after he experienced a most unusual visitation from the Holy Spirit.
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Help Me God
$29.98“This book is about … Abba Father. It is dangerous to read because it will ruin you for the ordinary. No longer will you or can you be satisfied with the artificial substitute.” Dr. Joseph Umidi “You must read this book. We know that with the help of the Holy Spirit, you will experience discovery, healing, and a greater revelation of the Fatherhood and Father-heart of God.” Pastors Joey & Damaris Perez “Dr. Brown has masterfully combined the transforming power of authenticity with relevant biblical truth to create the atmosphere for you to embark on your own journey of intimacy with the Holy Spirit and wholeness.” Bishop Lewis E. Hines “Dr. Brown takes us on a journey into our own lives by opening up his life to us. His book intrigues us and engages us like a mystery unfolding. The insights presented here were not learned in the library but in the forge of pain.” Pastor James O. Einkenberry “What a powerful message God has given you in this book. It’s a message that so many hurting people are thirsting to hear. A message for those inside the church and those outside.” Bishop Robert S. Davis, Sr. Dr. Earl Brown reveals how to receive healing from wounds of rejection caused by an earthly father. If you are like Earl and millions of others whose purposes in God have been disrupted by lingering bitterness and unmet affection, then come join Earl on a journey toward spiritual and emotional wholeness.
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Help Me God
$19.36“This book is about … Abba Father. It is dangerous to read because it will ruin you for the ordinary. No longer will you or can you be satisfied with the artificial substitute.” Dr. Joseph Umidi “You must read this book. We know that with the help of the Holy Spirit, you will experience discovery, healing, and a greater revelation of the Fatherhood and Father-heart of God.” Pastors Joey & Damaris Perez “Dr. Brown has masterfully combined the transforming power of authenticity with relevant biblical truth to create the atmosphere for you to embark on your own journey of intimacy with the Holy Spirit and wholeness.” Bishop Lewis E. Hines “Dr. Brown takes us on a journey into our own lives by opening up his life to us. His book intrigues us and engages us like a mystery unfolding. The insights presented here were not learned in the library but in the forge of pain.” Pastor James O. Einkenberry “What a powerful message God has given you in this book. It’s a message that so many hurting people are thirsting to hear. A message for those inside the church and those outside.” Bishop Robert S. Davis, Sr. Dr. Earl Brown reveals how to receive healing from wounds of rejection caused by an earthly father. If you are like Earl and millions of others whose purposes in God have been disrupted by lingering bitterness and unmet affection, then come join Earl on a journey toward spiritual and emotional wholeness.
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On My Honor
$14.98On the first day of his Senate confirmation hearings, John Ashcroft raised his right hand and vowed, “I swear to unhold the laws of the United States of America, so help me God.”
People who knew him intimately knew they could count on this.
And so will others as they read On My Honor, a book that reveals Ashcroft’s personal beliefs on racism, abortion, capital punishment, our judicial system, his faith in God, and more.
These beliefs were not designed to answer his critics in the Senate. They are beliefs he has held for years, written when he still expected to serve a second term in the Senate.
Here is an opportunity to judge this extraordinary man from his own words and deeds. As Ashcroft says, “The verdict of history is inconsequential; the verdict of eternity is what counts.”
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No Boys Allowed
$9.99Tween-friendly devotional packaged with the feel of a fast-moving teen magazine “No Boys Allowed” is a 90-day devotional for girls ages eight to twelve. The short daily entries are written in an upbeat, tween-friendly way, incorporating the graphic, fast-moving feel of a teen magazine. In addition to the girl-centered devotions, each entry includes: *More to Explore_a passage of Scripture to read *Did You Know?_additional Bible concepts *Girl Talk_an applicable prayer *Fun-Factoid_interesting information about the theme *Beauty tips, quizzes, and fun poetry to accompany the Scripture and inspiration for the day “No Boys Allowed” Devotions for Girls doesn’t water down the Word of God one bit, it’s just packaged in short, fun, easy-to-relate-to conversational language that will make a girl’s daily devotion time something she can look forward to.
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Evangelism In Retirement Homes
$15.61Plundering hell and populating Heaven with Evangelism in Retirement Homes are truly rewarding. God loves all of His people and wills each one to live above and not beneath. Yet, often the elderly who live with disabilities or who are just too old to live alone in their own homes are forgotten by society. It is so awesome to visit the folks, lead them to their Savior, and pray for their healing, and then to see their very countenances change and joy fill their hearts. To hear them say, “Thank you for coming!” is heartwarming. Doing a “Retirement Home Blitz”will make you hunger and thirst to go to all the facilities in your area to reap the harvest. We pray this book will be a help to your ministry as you reach out to the elderly as never before-for such a time as this.
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Power Of Asset Mapping
$42.85Asset mapping isn’t a new system or theory. It’s a way of thinking, a doorway into an “open-sum” perspective rooted in the Bible and common experience. The Power of Asset Mapping, by long-time community developer Luther K. Snow, shows congregational leaders how to help a group recognize its assets and the abundance of God’s gifts and to act on them in ministry and mission.
Congregations will find the book easy to read and immediately useful. Leaders can begin with the tested Quick and Simple Asset Mapping Experience to strengthen and inspire any group in the congregation in as little as an hour. Futher tips, techniques, stories, and lessons drawn from the experience of diverse congregations will help readers discover how asset mapping works. Finally, Snow provides lessons about why asset mapping strengthens faith and community.
With Snow’s guidance, readers will find new, positive energy to break out of the negative cycles of need, dependency, and inaction that sometimes trap congregations. As they experience asset mapping, they will learn how God empowers us. Snow shows us how to turn over control and open ourselves to the unexpected and amazing gifts of God. Foreword by John McKnight and Jody Kretzmann
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Life As A Vapor
$16.0031 meditations from the founder of Desiring God that will connect you to a fresh understanding of God and renew your faith.
“You do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away” (James 4:14).
Living knowing that your life is a vapor is different than just living. Things here are passing away. You’ve got to hold on to what will stand. Savor what matters. This collection of thirty-one articles is full of that heart-longing after Christ that distinguishes Piper’s preaching ministry. You will feel as though you have stumbled into a garden as you enter these pages. The Scripture cuts, Christ is exalted in God, and we worship Him.
Life Is Short. Eternity Is Long. Live Like It.
You will exist forever. You and God are both in the universe to stay-either as friends on His terms, or enemies on yours-which it will be is proven in this life. And this life is a vapor. Two seconds, and we will be gone.
In these thirty-one meditations, John Piper will connect you to a fresh understanding of God and a renewed relationship with Him. You’ll find your faith stirred to make every day count for Christ when you consider life as a vapor.
Story Behind the Book
Time is precious. We are fragile. Life is short. Eternity is long. Every minute counts. Oh, to be a faithful steward of the breath God has given me. Three texts resound in my ears: “Redeem the time” (Ephesians 5:16 ); “It is required of stewards that one be found trustworthy” (1 Corinthians 4:2); “His grace toward me was not in vain; but I labored even more than all of them, yet not I, but the grace of God with me” (1 Corinthians 15:10 ).
Surely God means for our minutes on earth to count for something significant. Paul said, “In the day of Christ I will have reason to glory because I did not run in vain nor toil in vain” (Philippians 2:16). In the same way, I have good hope from the Lord that my “labor is not in vain in the Lord” (1 Corinthians 15:58 ).
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Wild Gospel : Bringing Truth To Life
$15.99A prophetic challenge to the Western church. The Christian faith is always subversive to the dominant world view. Jesus overturned every assumption which stopped people experiencing the living reality of God – the heart of truth. Sadly, the Western world has reduced “truth” to the merely rational, and then discarded it as inadequate. In Africa, and other parts of the world where God’s truth has never been straitjacketed in this way, the church is characterised by a joy now absent in the West. Western culture has limited what we can believe and receive. Can we: Burst free from this restrictive secular framework? Learn not only to know truth, but to feel it, and live it? Live our faith in such a way that it becomes real to those around us? Alison Morgan shows that Jesus lived free from the culturally imposed norms which restrict our understanding of truth. Examining church history, prophecy past and present, the state of our culture and of the church today, and drawing on personal experience and the experience of others, Alison blends analysis and imagination, history and poetry in this prophetic challenge to Western Christians.
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Time Out : A Quiet Time Devotional For Busy Moms
$21.23What Time Out readers are saying: “Time Out is much needed for all moms! The author is a very real mom who reaches the hearts of other moms with her often humorous outtakes of daily life and yet leads you right to God and his love for us. It made me laugh, it made me cry, and it always made me pray…” Kirsten, ALBUQUERQUE, NM “A must for all moms…it gives that little uplifting that’s needed every day to help keep on track…” D.B., DAVISON, MI “…If you need a devotional book from someone who’s living the ‘busy mom’ thing, this is a great one.” D.D., INTERNET Take a quick Time Out and walk with author Leigh Ann Thomas through the wonderful, zany, crazy, upside-down world of momhood, always looking to the Heavenly Father who loves, guides, supports, and sustains!
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Exploring And Proclaiming The Apostles Creed
$31.99Foreword by Geoffrey Wainwright
Doctrinal preaching has fallen on hard times in recent years. Exploring and Proclaiming the Apostles’ Creed seeks to stimulate renewed interest in – and provide useful models of – Christian proclamation that is truly rooted in the central tenets of the faith. Using the Apostles’ Creed as a template for doctrinal, confessional preaching, this book draws together an ecumenical cast of respected biblical scholars and preachers who explain the creed and demonstrate its preaching possibilities. Each of the book’s fifteen chapters consists of an essay that explores and illuminates one of the creed’s articles of faith, followed by a scintillating sermon that models how that article can be preached as good news today.
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Abrahams Promise : Judaism And Jewish Christian Relations
$33.99Abraham’s Promise presents a selection of important writings by noted Jewish philosopher-theologian Michael Wyschogrod, who is widely admired for his singular contributions to Jewish-Christian relations. Including several pieces never published before, this reader aptly captures the broad scope of Wyschogrod’s work on Judaism and the Jewish-Christian encounter, collecting seminal essays, articles, and reviews that address such topics as the God of Abraham and the God of philosophy, sin and atonement, Judaism and the land, the Six Day War, Paul on Jews and Gentiles, and the theology of Karl Barth. An introductory essay by editor R. Kendall Soulen sets Wyschogrod’s career and writings in context.
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Practicing Congregation : Imagining A New Old Church
$41.42Diana Butler Bass’ groundbreaking project to explore encouraging signs of vitality among mainline Protestant churches is now gaining the momentum of a movement. The author’s cover story in Sojourners magazine offers a compelling overview of what characterizes these healthy, vital, and inspiring congregations. The Practicing Congregation is a central text on the road to envisioning a new way of being a church. From Nomads to Pilgrims, its follow-up companion book, contains reflections on practices by the pastors of some of the vibrant congregations that were studied in the writing of The Practicing Congregation.
ABOUT THE BOOK
The conventional wisdom about mainline Protestantism maintains that it is a dying tradition, irrelevant to a postmodern society, unresponsive to change, and increasingly disconnected from its core faith tenets. In her provocative new book, historian and researcher Diana Butler Bass argues that there are signs that mainline Protestant churches are indeed changing, finding a new vitality intentionally grounded in Christian practices and laying the groundwork for a new type of congregation.
The Practicing Congregation tracks these changes by looking at the overall history of American congregations, noting the cultural trends that have sparked change, and providing evidence of how mainline churches are reappropriating traditional Christian practices. The signs of life that Butler Bass identifies lead the reader beyond the crumbling “liberal vs. conservative” dualities to a more nuanced and fluid understanding of the shape of contemporary ecclesiology and faithfulness. In so doing, she helps readers understand tradition in new ways and creates an alternative path through the culture wars that today arrest the energies of most denominations.
Invigorated by stories from Bass’s own experience, The Practicing Congregation provides a hopeful and exciting vision of “the once and future church” that Alban founder Loren Mead first named over 10 years ago. The imaginative “retraditioning” the author identifies and celebrates will guide pastors and other leaders on this “pilgrimage of creating church,” and convincingly counter the naysayers that long ago gave up on the viability of the mainline church.
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Sheer Christianity : Conjectures On A Catechism
$22.78Calling upon teachers G.K. Chesterton and C.S. Lewis, Sam Portaro wades into the abyss of confronting a life of faithfulness in a world where the Church has created a dictionary unintelligible to anyone not part of itself. Acknowledging it a risky adventure to attempt to put into printed words his faith, Portaro steps boldly onto the pages of Sheer Christianity: Conjectures on a Catechism.
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Spirit And Resistance
$36.66Writing from a Native American perspective, theologian George Tinker probes American Indian culture, its vast religious and cultural legacy, and its ambiguous relationship to the tradition–historic Christianity–that colonized and converted it. After five hundred years of conquest and social destruction, he says, any useful reflection must come to terms with the political state of Indian affairs and the political hopes and visions for recovering the health and well-being of Indian communities. Does Christian theology have a positive role to play? Tinker’s work offers an overview of contemporary native American culture and its perilous state. Critical of recent liberal and New Age co-opting of Native spiritual practices, Tinker also offers a critical corrective to liberation theology. He shows how Native insights into the Sacred Other and sacred space helpfully reconfigure traditional ideas of God, Jesus’ notion of the reign of God, and our relation to the earth. From this basis he offers novel proposals about cultural survival and identity, sustainability, and the endangered health of Native Americans.
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Outward Sign And Inward Grace
$29.99An exploration of Wesleyan theology and the sacraments. The author addresses this issue of balance between structure and freedom in worship and symbolism’s vital role. Infant baptism and the Eucharist’s relation to evangelism is also discussed.
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Improving Your Serve
$19.99In this classic volume, Charles Swindoll uniquely shows the important aspects of authentic servanthood, such as: What it takes to serve unselfishly; why a servant has such a powerful influence; and what challenges and rewards a servant can expect. He offers clear guidelines on developing a servant’s heart and challenges you to realize the rich rewards promised in a life of authentic Christian servanthood. As a Contemporary Classic, this edition includes a CD of the original message by Swindoll that later developed into this inspiring book.
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Boo Who : A Novel
$19.99When horror-novelist-turned-Christian Wolfe “Boo” Boone quits writing, the tourist-haunted Skary, Indiana, becomes a ghost town at a frightening pace. Now with his closet cleared of skeletons, Boo must sell cars to scare up a living—and Skary must fish for funds without a marketing hook. Meanwhile Boone’s fiance, Ainsley Parker, discovers success as a domestic diva. Can “Boone town” boom again . . . without Boo?
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Listening To Love
$16.99One of our greatest desires is to know we are loved by our Creator. Yet the depth of our apprehension is often equally strong: If I listen, we wonder, what will God say? If I open myself up to blessings, what will God require in return? As we trace this line of thinking, the God of all goodness becomes, in our minds, the God of our worst fears. Embrace a love that’s worth the risk. God is far greater than our most expectant dreams. While he does often ask everything of us, he actually wants everything for us. He doesn’t want blind loyalty or bored religious compliance; he longs for nothing less than our entire passionate self – something most us of have yet to glimpse. God’s desire is that people lean in, listen, and wrestle with him so that they can respond to him without fear. Can this God be trusted? Will the journey be easy? Not a chance. But once you learn to listen to love, you’ll find that there’s only one way you can adore this unmanageable, wild, and unruly God: with your whole heart.
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Kings Ransom : A Novel Based On A True Story
$13.99The Faith to Face Tyranny
Faith to Face the Third Reich
Two Stories of Undaunted Courage
Set during the darkest days of World War II, King’s Ransom tells the heroic story of Tsar Boris III, King of Bulgaria, and his extraordinary efforts to save his country’s Jewish population from Hitler’s concentration camps. Aware of the price he might pay for his risks, Boris faced the Third Reich with courage and resolve, firm in his Christian convictions that would not permit him to abandon nearly 50,000 Jews. Boris, along with members of the Orthodox Church, Jewish religious leaders, and others, ultimately ensured that no Bulgarian Jews lost their lives to Hitler’s regime.
Based on a True Story
Historically accurate, Boris’s quest to save Bulgaria’s Jews is interwoven with the love story of Daria, the Jewish attendant to the Bulgarian royal family, and Dobri, a sergeant in the king’s guard. With courageous characters and passionate storytelling, King’s Ransom reveals how individuals acting on faith can change the course of history.
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Santeria : The Beliefs And Rituals Of A Growing Religion In America
$26.99This book by Miguel De La Torre offers a fascinating guide to the history, beliefs, rituals, and culture of Santeria – a religious tradition that, despite persecution, suppression, and its own secretive nature, has close to a million adherents in the United States alone.
Santeria is a religion with Afro-Cuban roots, rising out of the cultural clash between the Yoruba people of West Africa and the Spanish Catholics who brought them to the Americas as slaves. As a faith of the marginalized and persecuted, it gave oppressed men and women strength and the will to survive. With the exile of thousands of Cubans in the wake of Castro’s revolution in 1959, Santeria came to the United States, where it is gradually coming to be recognized as a legitimate faith tradition.
Apart from vague suspicions that Santeria’s rituals include animal sacrifice and notions that it is a “syncretistic” form of Catholicism, most people in America’s cultural and religious mainstream know very little about this rich faith tradition – in fact, many have never heard of it at all. De La Torre, who was reared in Santeria, sets out in this book to provide a basic understanding of its inner workings. He clearly explains the particular worldview, myths, rituals, and practices of Santeria, and he discusses what role the religion typically plays in the life of its practitioners as well as the cultural influence it continues to exert in Latin American communities today.
In offering a balanced, informed survey of Santeria from his unique “insider-outsider” perspective, De La Torre also provides insight into how Christianity and Santeria can enter into dialogue – a dialogue that will challenge Christians to consider what this emerging faith tradition can teach them about their own. Enhanced with illustrations, tables, and a glossary, De La Torre’s Santeria sheds light on a religion all too often shrouded in mystery and misunderstanding.
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Back To The Garden The Man The Purpose
$15.61Back to the Garden, the Man, the Purpose is encouraging, equipping, and empowering men of God to walk in the life-changing power and victory of Jesus Christ. Anointed Teaching Message! Author and teacher Hope D. Blackwell will take you “back to the garden” of Eden to experience a breaking, healing, and powerful release of the Spirit of God in your life. Discover answers to some of life’s most difficult questions. You will be transformed and renewed as you uncover the deeply rooted issues that can hinder you from walking in the full potential of your purpose as a man of God. Powerful Revelation of the Scriptures! Let’s go “back to the garden” where you will be strengthened and encouraged as you go from the shadow of Adam to the type of Christ. Look for Back to the Garden, the Woman, the Purpose and other books in the Back to the Garden purpose series.
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Hidden Lives Of Congregations
$42.85Faced with crisis, lack of direction, or just plain “stuckness,” many congregations and their leaders are content to deal only with surface issues and symptoms-only to discover that the same problems keep recurring, often in different, and more serious, ways. In The Hidden Lives of Congregations, Christian educator and consultant Israel Galindo takes leaders below the surface of congregational life to provide a comprehensive, holistic look at the corporate nature of church relationships and the invisible dynamics at play.
Informed by family systems theory and grounded in a wide-ranging ecclesiological understanding, Galindo unpacks clearly the factors of congregational lifespan, size, spirituality, and identity and shows how these work together to form the congregation’s hidden life. He provides useful tools for diagnosing and understanding how one’s congregation fits into the various categories he names and suggests what leadership skills are necessary to get beyond the impasse of surface issues and help the congregation achieve its mission.
The Hidden Lives of Congregations provides one of the most far-reaching looks into the invisible nature of faith communities written in recent years. For seminaries and divinity schools, it provides a standard text for getting a solid start in congregational practices; for experienced pastors, it provides support for renewing ministry; for lay leaders and committees, it offers insight to deepening mutual ministry. Israel Galindo has written an indispensable manual that leaders will return to repeatedly for new wisdom and guidance on the unseen mechanisms that drive congregational life.
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Becoming Barnabas : The Ministry Of Encouragement
$40.00Western culture has made a cult of success, and the church has accepted the larger culture’s definition, focusing on success as growth in membership and budget, rather growth in faithfulness as disciples of Jesus. When we do not measure up, we become discouraged, disillusioned, and perhaps even envious.
Paul Moots offers a welcome antidote: a vision for the ministry of encouragement. Based on his study of the book of Acts, Moots has identified five incidents from the ministry of Barnabas, an easily overlooked character, that provide a starting point to explore encouragement and how it can work in a congregation. Moots then examines five components of this ministry: partnership, hospitality, courage, reconciliation, and authenticity.
Moots details numerous examples to show how the ministry of encouragement offers a workable, effective pattern for church leadership. “I am convinced,” he writes, “that accepting Barnabas as my model has changed my ministry for the better and that Barnabas’s example can benefit any pastor and congregation who take his lessons seriously.”
Barnabas and his ministry of encouragement offer us a focus for the vital, messy, and exhilarating work required of us as faith communities. Foreword by Robert Reber
“At last! Here is a leadership book that provides practical help for congregations of every size and setting and pastors with a variety of gifts. Drawing from his own experience as a pastor, Moots shares a model of faithful ministry that is within the reach of every pastor, layperson, and congregation.”-Rueben P. Job
“In an age when so many pastors and leaders are discouraged, no work of the Spirit is more needed or more welcome than encouragement. Moots’s book moves beyond diagnosis and actually shows readers how to ‘become Barnabas’ in ministries of partnership, hospitality, courage, and reconciliation.”-Donna Duensing
Paul Moots has served as pastor in a variety of settings in his 22 years of ministry: associate pastor, campus ministry, pastor of an urban congregation, and his current position in the village church of First United Methodist in Mount Sterling, Ohio.
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When Better Isnt Enough
$40.00Many sociologists and a growing number of church scholars have noted that we live in a time of transition-from the modern era to the postmodern. Whenever a shift of this magnitude occurs, it leaves all of life, including the church, in flux. We instinctively strive to stabilize the situation by re-establishing what has worked in the past. Increasingly, however, congregations are finding that the same old things done harder or better don’t seem to make a difference.
Author Jill Hudson argues, “We must identify new criteria for success, and perhaps even for faithfulness, and hold ourselves accountable to them.” Approaching the postmodern era as a tremendous opportunity, Hudson identifies 12 characteristics by which we can measure effective ministry for the early 21st century.
Based on those 12 criteria, Hudson has created evaluation tools, “an early measuring stick” to help congregations evaluate their work in this new era. Not everything of the past is ineffective and best discarded, she says, nor will everything we try in the future be successful. But by faithfully listening for God’s guidance and carefully evaluating progress using Hudson’s tools, looking at the ministry of the whole people of God as well as that of the professional staff, congregations can improve their ministry, help members and staff grow in effectiveness, deepen a sense of partnership, and add new richness to the dialogue about the congregation’s future.
Jill Hudson makes us face the hard reality that the world has changed, but the church hasn’t. This gap can create a problem when assessing the effectiveness of church leadership. Practical and easy to read and understand, this book will prove an effective new tool in assisting pastors to lead today.-Mike Regele
Our kicking and screaming aside, the postmodern church beckons, and Jill Hudson provides guidance and information to equip us for this enormous ministry challenge.-The Rev. Christine Shiber
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My Life And My Death
$21.95“My greatest teacher has been my cancer,” says the author in his story of faith as he faces death. But the author never goes too far in the direction of becoming “touchy-feely” with his illness. In fact, he refers to his cancer as being of the devil, yet he never dwells too long in this application either. There is humor but never too much. There is some “preaching” about people with grudges against God but never too much. Instead he tells us, step by step, how he learned of his cancer, how he learned that his cancer was worse than originally thought, how he came to bond with his doctor, how he came to accept the stages of disintegration of his body. The author’s main work here is to find ways to bring us unbearable tidings about sickness and dying in ways that, with God, are bearable.
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For All The Saints
$16.95“We have been drifting into a muddle and a mess, putting together bits and pieces of traditions, ideas and practices in the hope that they will make sense. They don’t. There may be times when a typical Anglican fudge is a pleasant, chewy sort of thing, but this isn’t one of them. It’s time to think and speak clearly and act decisively.”
With these robust words Tom Wright, Bishop of Durham, throws down a challenge to current liturgy and practice surrounding All Saints’ and All Souls’ Days, and sets out to clarify our thinking about what happens to people after they die. Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory, what it means to pray for the dead, what (and who) are the saints, are all addressed in this invigorating and rigorously argued book.Add to cartin stock within 3-5 days of online purchase
