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Peaceable Psychology
$32.00Add to cartIn the past century psychology has been practiced in the manner of medical science, working from the assumption that therapy can transcend particular ethnic and religious traditions. Seeking to move the conversation forward, this book argues for a theologically, culturally, and politically sensitive psychotherapy whereby the Christian psychologist treats the patient according to the particulars of the patient’s political situation and ethnic and religious tradition while acknowledging the role of his or her own Christian story in therapeutic dialogue. The authors point to the life of Jesus as the foundation on which to build a therapeutic ethic, appropriating the story of his life to bring healing.
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Laughter From Heaven
$17.99Add to cartLaughter from Heaven is a joyful reminder of the wonderful life awaiting us in heaven. With her humorous approach to all life’s circumstances, Barbara wants her readers to catch a light-hearted look at the hereafter. Filled with hope and encouragement, this book is sure to become a favorite of many women who long for a sense of joy in the midst of everyday struggles. In classic Barbara Johnson style, these hilarious pages will show you how to put life’s trials into heavenly perspective. She hopes you will find encouragement through your difficulties, renewal for your spiritual doldrums, and laughter when you think you’ll never laugh again. Similar in nature to her best-selling title Humor Me, this delightful look at heaven reveals it as a place that will be not only without pain, but will actually be fun! Jokes, stories, cartoons and Barbara’s famous one-liners make this another joy-filled book that all her fans will love.
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Humor Me Im Your Mother
$9.99Add to cartIn a collection of stories, quips, and quotes that only Barbara Johnson could conceive, readers will laugh at the zany, unforgettable surprises of being a mother. Mothers-they’ve seen it all-the good, the bad, and the hilarious. And now they’re talking about it. Best-selling author, speaker, and all-around funny lady, Barbara Johnson continues her tradition of serious hilarity with a humorous look at the joys of motherhood. A collection of stories, quotes, and anecdotes that help moms forget the stress and frustration of unmade beds and a fast-food lifestyle, Humor Me, I’m Your Mother is the perfect book that will soon have them giggling, chuckling, and laughing out loud.
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Who Is This Jesus (Reprinted)
$4.99Add to cart1. The Light And The Word
2. The Miracle Worker
3. Living Water And The Bread Of Life
4. A Man Of Controversy
5. The Good Shepherd And The Vine
6. The Way The Truth And The LifeAdditional Info
With this challenging Bible study, you will discover the man and the God behind the name. Designed to help small groups improve their knowledge of the Word of God, this six-week study explores the first fifteen chapters of the Gospel of John. In it, you will find meaning and understanding from the life and words of Jesus as you develop a supportive and encouraging small-group fellowship.Take this incredible journey and meet Jesus, who can fulfill your needs before you ask, give you reason to believe when all else fails, and bring you life everlasting.
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God Is Great God Is Good
$30.99Add to cartIn this magisterial collection, the contemporary complaints against belief in God are addressed with intellectual passion and rigor by some of the most astute theological and philosophical minds of the day. Including an interview by Gary Habermas with noted convert to theism Antony Flew, and a direct critical response to Richard Dawkins’s God Delusion by Alvin Plantinga, God Is Great, God Is Good offers convincing and compelling reassurance that though the world has changed, God has not.
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Just Forgiveness : Responsible Healing Without Excusing Injustice
$30.99Add to cartChristian faith calls for forgiveness and mercy. But how can Christians forgive without excusing wrongdoing? Psychologist and leading forgiveness researcher Everett Worthington gives Christian foundations for understanding just forgiveness and dealing with wrongdoers in this comprehensive guide which offers practical resources for both individuals and communities.
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Crucifixions And Resurrections Of The Image
$35.99Add to cartGeorge Pattison offers theological reflections on a range of works of art and films which have attracted wide discussion such as Anthony Gormley’s ‘Angel of the North’. Pattison takes seriously the modernist movement in art and constitutes an argument for its continuing relevance. The book centres on artists active in the mid- to late twentieth century, whose work reflects both the cultural and social crises of that era – Beuys, Rothko, Kiefer, Natkin and film directors such as Bergman and Tarkovksy. The studies are contextualized in broader reflections on modern art that suggest ‘the death of God’ as a motif that links theology and modern art itself. This enables a Christian theological engagement with works that often appear alien or even hostile to Christian faith. George Pattison takes the secular seriously in its own right, arguing that both secular art and theological reflection are often different but related responses to a common existential situation.
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Your Own Jesus (Student/Study Guide)
$9.99Add to cartWhose Jesus do you believe in? Too many people inherit somebody else’s Jesus. Rather than discovering for themselves who Jesus really is, they depend on their family, friends, or pastor for their spiritual vitality and end up defeated by compromise. In Your Own Jesus, pastor and Casting Crowns’ lead singer Mark Hall explores the meaning of knowing the living Lord.
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Leading Across Cultures
$28.99Add to cartMissiologist James E. Plueddemann presents a roadmap for crosscultural leadership development in the global church. With keen understanding of current research on cultural dynamics, he integrates theology with leadership theory to apply biblical insights to practical issues in world mission.
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Betrayal Of Trust
$6.99Add to cartHana and Tomo rejoin Jou and the rebel forces back in Argon Falls, and Hana learns that the leader of the rebellion is actually her father. Their reunion is cut short as the battle between the rebels and Ardath and Urn’Ado heightens. Will the kingdom of Argon Falls be released from the lies of Urn’Ado, or will the people complete their transformation into animals?
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How To Thrive In Perilous Times
$4.99Add to cartThe Scripture says perilous times will come, but believers are not to be troubled by them. Author and pastor Happy Caldwell reveals how to live in victory regardless of circumstances-by knowing God’s promises of provision and protection and releasing your faith to receive.
Jesus says in Matthew 24 that when troubling times come, you are to be wary of religious deception and to keep your heart from worry. Instead, stay close to God through prayer, fellowship, and the Word-trust Him to take care of you. In the book of Timothy, the Apostle Paul counsels believers to continue in the things they have learned and to know what the Word of God promises them. By strengthening themselves in these four areas believers can prosper even when trouble is all around them:
Believers who know their Lord and learn to follow after the peace in their heart can avoid trouble. By faith, they can rise above the faulty world system of health, finances, and success, and prosper with the favor of God.
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Discovering The Miracle Of The Scarlet Thread In Every Book Of The Bible
$15.99Add to cartYes you can understand the Bible! Discovering the Miracle of the Scarlet Thread in Every Book of the Bible takes the mystery and confusion out of the Bible and makes God s Word come alive with new insights and a fresh excitement that will have you searching for more. Dr. Richard Booker unveils the mysteries and secrets of the Bible by explaining its master theme, and then reveals a simple plan so you can discover God s personal revelation for yourself. The author provides Exciting biblical background, An interesting survey of each book in the Bible, Each book s master theme, Practical principles, forms, and guidelines for your own life-enriching Bible study. The sometimes hard-to-understand teachings of Jesus in their original culture and context come alive and become real through discovering the miracle of the scarlet thread. Then Jesus began to explain everything which had been written in the Scriptures about Him.Jesus started with the books of Moses and then He talked about what the prophets had written about Him (Luke 24:27 PEB). This book about the Bible will change the way you think about His Word His life-changing and eternal Word.
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Gospel Of John In Cultural And Rhetorical Perspective
$45.99Add to cartJohn’s Gospel has been studied and evaluated and interpreted constantly by theologians throughout the ages. Can anything more possibly be said? Jerome Neyrey says it can, indeed, by interpreting it in two fresh ways – by means of ancient rhetoric and by viewing it in its cultural context.
In order to find patterns and concepts that have a bearing on how to read John Neyrey examines the rhetoric of praise and blame described in the ancient encomium, the Greek commonplace on “noble death,” rules for rhetorical conclusions, and Jewish background materials. He then uses materials from cultural anthropology, such as the effects of limited good and envy, secrecy, and brokerage. Even innocent topics such as “time” and “space” have much to say about interpreting the figure of Jesus.
In viewing John through these two lenses, The Gospel of John in Cultural and Rhetorical Perspective brings the book into clear focus as a truly “maverick gospel.”
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Accounting For Life
$17.95Add to cartProverbs 3:5-6 tells us, “Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.” What could be more important and practical than learning the fundamentals of life based on God’s Word? Accounting for Life-A Journey Heavenward illuminates these timeless principles of the Bible so that we can account to God for our actions, words, thoughts, and deeds in all facets of life (spiritual, physical, emotional, and financial), thus maintaining a godly relationship with the Lord as we journey Heavenward. Financial Advisor Tess Paje directs the reader to Biblical guidelines for relationships, ministry, emotional health, character development, prayer, and much more while recounting her own very personal journey to a life of faith and accountability to God.
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Right At The Door
$29.99Add to cartAt no time in history has it become more apparent we are in the final days before Jesus Christ’s return. Weary from fear of terrorism, violence, and an unknown future, we battle against despair. But we have a loving Heavenly Father who does not leave us in the dark and alone. Through the revelations of God’s Word, the author reveals God’s plan for these final days and a timeframe for Jesus’ long-awaited return. In a world besieged by hopelessness, this is a great hope. Jesus is near. He is right at the door.
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Godly Motivation : 40 Days Of Spiritual Growth
$13.49Add to cart“So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.” Romans 10:17 (NASB)
“So shall My word be which goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return to Me empty, Without accomplishing what I desire, And without succeeding in the matter for which I sent it.” Isaiah 55:11 (NASB)
“For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.” Hebrews 4:12 NASB.
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Lordship Through Friendship
$15.99Add to cartLordship through Friendship is a conversational tapestry of life’s struggles. Readers will gain a clearer understanding that prayer life and devotional time is not where we do all the talking and God does all the listening. This book also includes end of chapter questions that encourage the young to mature Christian to use the book as a personal devotion or in a small group setting.
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Before I Formed Thee
$15.99Add to cartThis is a modern day journey about the classic Jesus, still outside the box today. Journey through scripture with me in a way that explores the mind of Christ. Mighty miracles, dreams, and visions are closer than we think. At first I was surprised when the Lord’s mighty hand moved, anymore it would surprise me if I didn’t see it move. 1 Corinthians 2:16 “For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.”
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Happy Husbands Handbook
$15.49Add to cartFleming has built an impressive legacy of successes that has span from moral personal victories built on integrity to financially professional accomplishments built on sound business decisiveness. Powerful, Hilarious, Educational, Informative, Motivational; Christian based; Thought Provoking; Paradigm Changing, and more are a few words that have been used to describe the messages delivered by Sylvester (Sly) Fleming. It has been quoted that it is hard to believe that you could have this much fun while learning life-changing lessons.
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Whispers In The Wind
$17.49Add to cartHopefully this help text will not only prove to be a literary experience, but will also be an enjoyable read. When there is disruption, hopefully the material will be a source of peace. Where there is fear, we trust you will find solace. Where there is dissonance you will find harmony. Where there is displeasure you will find love. Where there is discord and sorrow you will find hope and cheer.
I hear whispers in the wind
Again and again
They tell their secrets
They share their beliefs
They stand very close
I hear their hearts beat
For all of this, I say thank you
Thank you for all that you are
Thank you for all that you share
Thank you for all that you do.
I hear whispers in the wind
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Be Ye Perfect
$14.99Add to cartThere are many teachings in the Body of Christ that have grossly undermined the work of the cross. One such doctrine is that of “Dual Nature”. This is the great lie Satan has used to deceive many leaders and keep saints of God vacillating in and out of sin and emotional trauma. It boasts that “nobody’s perfect”, and that the saints will sin against God as long as they are in these earthen vessels. It has, in fact, created a mindset that expects failure. This and other such doctrines were developed out of the failure of men to walk in the righteousness of God. Though it may be unintentional, these falsehoods portray our Father as an impotent God, unable to perfect His new creation. But this is simply not true. God has sent a sure word into the Body that will perfect us and bring us to the fullness of the stature of Jesus Christ. God did not intend for our walk in Christ to be hard or complicated, relative to perfection. There are many who have grown up in the Lord with me and we are the proof that you can live in this world free from sin and the crippling emotions Satan has used to snare the Sons.
I challenge you to open the cover of this book and discover the other half of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, “be ye perfect, for your Father in heaven us perfect.”
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Right At The Door
$19.99Add to cartAt no time in history has it become more apparent we are in the final days before Jesus Christ’s return. Weary from fear of terrorism, violence, and an unknown future, we battle against despair. But we have a loving Heavenly Father who does not leave us in the dark and alone. Through the revelations of God’s Word, the author reveals God’s plan for these final days and a timeframe for Jesus’ long-awaited return. In a world besieged by hopelessness, this is a great hope. Jesus is near. He is right at the door.
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Joy Filled Journey
$12.49Add to cartA Joy-filled Journey is a strong, powerful collection of Christian poems filled with hope, strength, and love that comes alive due to the awesome power of God. Masterfully written, each poem speaks to the mind, heart, and soul of readers with its uplifting message of love and joy a life with God can bring.
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Simplifying The Christian Life
$17.99Add to cartLife is full of choices! Your life can be full of God’s peace, His joy, His power, and His purpose, if you learn a few, yet extremely significant principles that God has established in His word, and choose to apply them to your life. Jesus came so that we could have life and have it more abundantly. God loves us so much that He willingly sent His only son Jesus, to die in our place, for our sins, on Calvary’s cross, so we could spend eternity with Him, if we choose to love, obey and follow Jesus. God wants us to enjoy our life, free from stress, anxiety, fear, and the worries of this world and in His word He gives us everything we need to know in order to live a happy, content, satisfying, victorious life in Him. He also gives us the battle plan and all the armor we need to fight our enemy, Satan and his army of demons, whose purpose it is, to steal, kill and destroy those of us who love Jesus. Learn what God expects of us, as born again believers and how He wants us to live. Learn how to increase your faith, so that you are operating under God’s faith. Learn about God’s promises to us and how to stand on those promises and claim them, receiving the blessings of those promises for whatever you need in your life. Learn how the enemy uses our attitudes to defeat us and how we have the power and authority through the precious name and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ to overcome the enemy and live in victory, because Jesus already defeated Satan at the cross, the choice is yours!
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Sarah Palin : Rendevous With Liberty
$36.99Add to cartWith masterful precision Mark Nusbaum weaves the ebb and flow of Governor Palin’s 2008 campaign message into a platform of ideas that are destined to shape America’s future. As she has spent her career fighting for and delivering transparency, accountability, limited government, and pro-growth economic policies for the citizens of Alaska, Sarah Palin is now on the edge of leading a movement to take America back from big government liberals.
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Journey : Two Paths To Follow
$15.49Add to cartThe Journey is a collection of inspiring and heartwarming poems. Written with uncanny simplicity, Dr. Mbongo tackles profound and complex themes that have dogged humankind throughout its existence. Readers are compelled into invoking their own experiences on this journey.
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Sarah Palin : Rendevous With Liberty
$24.99Add to cartWith masterful precision Mark Nusbaum weaves the ebb and flow of Governor Palin’s 2008 campaign message into a platform of ideas that are destined to shape America’s future. As she has spent her career fighting for and delivering transparency, accountability, limited government, and pro-growth economic policies for the citizens of Alaska, Sarah Palin is now on the edge of leading a movement to take America back from big government liberals.
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Spiritual Vitamins : The Heart And Soul Of Todays Nurse Humor And Inspirati
$15.99Add to cartThis volume of weekly devotions and humor will lighten not only the mood of the nurse, but all health caregivers. This is like taking your vitamins every morning before heading out the door. Reading the inspired messages of God’s love, hope and promises, as well as the humorous pages that only a caregiver or nurse can relate to will make any bad day turn into a laughable day. When you lie awake at night, wondering what you could have done differently for that difficult patient, take the suggestions on combating stress and insomnia and turn your dark nights into joy in the morning.
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Bronx : Exposing Its True DNA And Breaking The Stigma
$20.99Add to cartI will make your name great, and you will be a blessing.
Genesis 12:2bRev. Pura M. De Jesus-Coniglio is an ordained minister in ministry for over 22 years and a Member of Love Gospel Assembly, Bronx, New York for 30 years. Rev. Pura along with her husband Deacon John of 35 years, are the founders of The New Generation in Christ Int’l. Ministries. She is the Director of the Operation Bronx/NYC Restoration Prayer Network, the “Regional Bronx House of Prayer;” and the Prayer Coordinator of the Bronx Region for PRAY NEW YORK, in which more than 500 churches and leaders representing all the Boroughs of NYC simultaneously prayer walk the “233” zip codes of NYC on the 1st Saturday of every June, since 2004. She has answered the apostolic and prophetic call of mobilizing and training teams in Kingdom Strategies for Transforming Cities & Nations. To accomplish this, she pioneered a School of Prayer with a focus on teaching, conducting seminars and conferences in Prophetic Intercession, How to Pray for Revival and Restoration, Spiritual Mapping, Praying for Community Transformation, Keys for Unlocking Your City, and Spiritual Warfare. Her prophetic message includes preaching on positioning the church for the next wave of revival and great awakening. She has brought this message and strategies throughout the U.S.A., Puerto Rico, Guatemala, Jamaica and Curacau. Her academic background includes a Doctor of Jurisprudence from C.U.N.Y. School of Law (1989) and Masters of Theological Studies/Urban Missions from Logos Graduate School (1985). Rev. Pura raised in Fort Apache the South Bronx, is an attorney for 17 years with her own practice in The Bronx; she is a genuine role model who is also in demand to speak at schools, colleges, and universities.
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Understanding The Spirit World
$14.99Add to cartWho lives inside the believer? Is it Jesus, the Father, the Holy Ghost, or the Holy Spirit? Is He a person and if so how does a person live in each Christian all around the world at the same time.
What happens when saints pray? How does God hear our prayers? How does He answer our prayers? What state of being are the departed saints in when they die? What will be the role of the church after this life is over? These and many other questions are discussed in this book and answered for your understanding from Zachariah chapter four.
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Divorce Death And The Birthing New Life Of A Single Parent
$12.49Add to cartThe marriage was supposed to last forever, but it didn’t! This book is for women (and men) who suddenly find themselves thrust into the role of single parenting. Just as there are labor pains in childbirth, there are labor pains in the process of single parenting. Left to raise four children ages eleven, ten, five, and four years old, Geniene shares some of her labor pains and her labor of love as a single mother. She openly discusses her early thoughts of suicide. She shares what she calls the second-worst pain a parent could experience–her oldest son sentenced to life in prison–and the peace of God that helps her to bear the never-ending pain. She also shares the story of the car accident that almost took her only daughter’s life. She boldly states why she believes that a mother cannot be both a mother and a father to a son. Geniene’s faith in God, love for her children, support from family and friends, and determination gave her the strength to push through the pain, focus on her children, and embrace her new life as a single mother. The divorce papers took her by surprise, but God is never caught off guard.
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Glory Be Im On My Knees
$15.99Add to cartAfter the Lord’s Supper with the disciples, Jesus went to the garden of Gethsemane to pray just before He was arrested and later crucified. By making this his last act even though He knew what was coming, He showed the importance of prayer, particularly during a time of great testing. If He needed to pray, how much more do His followers today need to make prayer a top priority in their lives….
God wants each individual to have a victorious life through prayer and communication with Him. Prayer can come directly from the heart of a believer, and it can be effective. But to have confidence in prayer, based on knowledge of the Word of God, the effectiveness is greatly increased. This book and the scriptures found in it are written/ selected to bring understanding and confidence in prayer. It is also hoped that the believer will lose any feeling of awkwardness in prayer and will learn to let the prayers literally “flow” to God’s Throne with full confidence and assurance that He hears and answers.
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Covenant Partnership
$17.99Add to cartGod has established the Jews as His covenant people, just as Israel is His covenant land. Christians must understand what the Lord expects of believers regarding “His special treasure” during the last days. Do not be caught unaware and unprepared, for the end is rapidly approaching.
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No Turning Back
$9.99Add to cartHerbert Grings was an ordinary man but he accomplished extraordinary things. Read the compelling, true drama of a man who dedicated his life to spreading Gods Word throughout the Belgian Congo of Africa. Youll learn of Grings hardships and fearsfrom loneliness and despair to wild animals and shipwrecksand youll be moved by his unwavering faith in the Lord. You will discover how God blessed His faithful servant, always putting Grings in the right place at the right time. An old minister once told Grings, We have to suffer persecution if we serve the Lord Jesus. Those words ring true, time and again. And yet, despite it all, the missionary remains faithful. There is no turning back! Whether you are struggling with your faith, have fully dedicated yourself to the Lord or are somewhere in between, the story of Herbert Grings is one that you must read!
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James
$7.99Add to cartLectio divina, or divine reading, is the ancient Christian practice of communicating with God through the reading and study of Scripture. The Lectio Divina Bible Studies build on this time-honored tradition, inviting readers to listen to God as they read his word. The approach is built around eight steps, lectio, meditation, oratio, contemplation, silencio, incarnation, epitome, and praeparatio–all designed to help the reader slow down, read Scripture, meditate upon it, and prayerfully respond to God’s Word.
Each Lectio Divina Study is designed around these elements:
Summary–a brief overview of the session
Silence–a time of quieting oneself before reading the Word
Preparation–focusing the mind on the central theme of the text
Reading–carefully reading a passage of Scripture
Meditation–exploring the meaning of the Bible passage
Contemplation–yielding oneself to God’s will
Prayer–expressing praise, thanksgiving, confession, or agreement to God
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Romans : Lectio Divina For Youth
$7.99Add to cartLectio divina, or divine reading, is the ancient Christian practice of communicating with God through the reading and study of Scripture. The Lectio Divina Bible Studies build on this time-honored tradition, inviting readers to listen to God as they read his word. The approach is built around eight steps, lectio, meditation, oratio, contemplation, silencio, incarnation, epitome, and praeparatio–all designed to help the reader slow down, read Scripture, meditate upon it, and prayerfully respond to God’s Word.
Each Lectio Divina Study is designed around these elements:
Summary–a brief overview of the session
Silence–a time of quieting oneself before reading the Word
Preparation–focusing the mind on the central theme of the text
Reading–carefully reading a passage of Scripture
Meditation–exploring the meaning of the Bible passage
Contemplation–yielding oneself to God’s will
Prayer–expressing praise, thanksgiving, confession, or agreement to God
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Life In The Trinity
$30.99Add to cartWhat can the early church contribute to theology today? Donald Fairbairn takes us back to the biblical roots and central convictions of the early church, showing us what we have tended to overlook, especially in our understanding of God as Trinity, the person of Christ and the nature of our salvation as sharing in the Son’s relationship to the Father
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Historical Jesus : Five Views
$35.99Add to cartThe Historical Jesus: Five Views provides a venue for readers to sit in on a virtual seminar on the historical Jesus. Beginning with a scene-setting historical introduction by the editors, prominent figures in the Jesus quest set forth their views and respond to their fellow scholars. For both the classroom and personal study, this is a book that fascinates, probes and engages.
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Meaning Of The Pentateuch
$60.99Add to cartPersuaded of the singular vision of the Pentateuch, Old Testament professor John Sailhamer searches out clues left by the author and the later editor of the Pentateuch that will disclose the meaning of this great work. By paying particular attention to the poetic seams in the text, he rediscovers a message that surprisingly brings us to the threshold of the New Testament gospel.
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Worshiping With The Church Fathers
$27.99Add to cartChristopher Hall invites us to accompany the church fathers as they enter the sanctuary for worship and the chapel for prayer. He also takes us to the wilderness, where we learn from the early monastics as they draw close to God in their solitary discipline. Readers will enjoy a rich and rare schooling in developing their spiritual life in this unique survey of the life of worship from the perspective of the early Church.
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Hidden Worldviews : Eight Cultural Stories That Shape Our Lives
$26.99Add to cartSteve Wilkens and Mark Sanford show how to detect the individualism, consumerism, nationalism, moral relativism, scientific naturalism, New Age thinking, postmodern tribalism and salvation as therapy that fly under our radar. Building on the work of worldview thinkers like James Sire, this book helps those committed to the gospel story recognize those rival cultural stories that compete for our hearts and minds.
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Knowing God Devotional Journal
$25.99Add to cartDiscover the riches of the character of God in this special devotional format of J. I. Packer’s classic that reveals the wonder, glory and joy of knowing God. With six devotions for each week, the daily reading includes Scripture, a suggestion for action or reflection, and space to journal or write out your prayers.
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Teaching The Faith Forming The Faithful
$45.99Add to cartWith the decline of traditional Sunday school and education programs in recent years, many Christians have not learned the fundamental doctrinal content of the faith. In this text Gary Parrett and Steve Kang set forth a thoroughly biblical vision for intentional teaching of the Christian faith that attends to both the content and process of educational and formational ministries.
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Walking Where Jesus Walked
$29.99Add to cartSeeking to tell worship history in the same way it is usually experienced, Walking Where Jesus Walked is a document-rich snapshot of the church in Jerusalem in the late fourth century.
Here the reader journeys with a woman visiting Jerusalem as the highlight of a Holy Land pilgrimage in the last part of the fourth century. As she marvels at the new churches built at so many sites associated with Jesus Christ, she notes how remembrance shaped by Scripture and fitting to the time and place serves as the bedrock for this church’s worship. Ruth helps today’s reader hear the preaching which caused shouts of delight at the tomb of Christ, know the readings which lead the congregation to weep in the shadow of Calvary, and see the new buildings which sought to manifest God’s glory at the places where Jesus had walked, died, and risen from the grave.
By pairing contemporary descriptions, artistic portrayals, and worship texts with various commentaries to guide readers, this first in a series of case studies of particular worshiping communities from around the world and throughout Christian liturgical history aims to allow a worshiper today to think concretely and contextually about some of the continually important issues for Christian worship.
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Religious Ideas For Secular Universities
$23.99Add to cartDuring the last century American students and scholars have found it increasingly difficult to discuss the relation of religion to the mission of self-consciously secular colleges and universities. C. John Sommerville here sorts through a number of issues that bring these matters into sharper focus.
The aim of secular education as it began in the nineteenth century, Sommerville points out, was to open debate to all ideas that could win a hearing, not simply to stifle all those that could be labeled religious. In the aftermath of the failing ideologies of the nineteenth century new ideas, new icons, and new taboos are forming, circulating without critical scrutiny. Today the secular university finds itself in crisis, unable to define the human difference.
Sommerville considers such matters as how we judge religions, how corporatization is the inevitable result of secularization, and how scholars are rediscovering the human difference. He uses narrative theory and new understandings of canon formation to illuminate religious texts and explores Christianity’s appearance on both sides of the “culture war.” The reflections in Religious Ideas for Secular Universities show how a dialogue might be promoted that would do justice both to religious insights and to the neutrality that is the goal of true secularization.
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Beyond The Qumran Community
$29.99Add to cartWith the full publication of the Dead Sea Scrolls, fresh analysis of the evidence presented can be – and indeed, should be – made. Beyond the Qumran Community does just that, reaching a surprising conclusion: the sect described in the Dead Sea Scrolls developed later than has usually been supposed and was never confined to the site of Qumran.
John J. Collins here aims to deconstruct “the Qumran community” and show that the sectarian documents actually come from a text spread throughout the land. He first examines the Community Rule or Yahad. Rather than confirming the general assumption that this rulebook relates to a monastic-style community living at the site of Qumran, Collins finds instead that the Essene accounts themselves emphasize that they had settlements in every city. He also considers the Teacher of Righteousness, a pivotal figure in the Essene movement, discovering that he was probably active in the first century bce rather than in the Maccabean era. After examining the available evidence, Collins concludes that it is, in fact, overwhelmingly likely that the site of Qumran housed merely a single settlement of this widespread movement.
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Introducing The Missional Church (Reprinted)
$22.00Add to cartMany pastors and church leaders have heard the term “missional” but have only a vague idea of what it means, let alone why it might be important to them. But what does it actually mean? What does a missional church look like and how does it function? Two leading voices in the missional movement here provide an accessible introduction, showing readers how the movement developed, why it’s important, and how churches can become more missional.
Introducing the Missional Church demonstrates that ours is a post-Christian culture, making it necessary for church leaders to think like missionaries right here at home. Focusing on a process that allows a church to discern its unique way of being missional, it guides readers on a journey that will lead them to implement a new set of missional practices in their churches. The authors demonstrate that living missionally is about discerning and joining God’s work in the world in order to be a witness to God’s kingdom on earth. -
God And Globalization Volume 4
$42.95Add to cartT And T Clark International Title
This final interpretive volume of the God and Globalization series argues for a view of Christian theology that, in critical dialogue with other world religions and philosophies, is able to engage the new world situation, play a critical role in reforming the “powers” that are becoming more diverse and autonomous, and generate a social ethic for the 21st century.
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Christian Approaches To Other Faiths
$52.99Add to cartChristianity and Other Religions is divided along the same lines as the textbook(9780334041146). In the first section, readings are divided according to the sub-sections, providing at least one reading for each, with those paradigms which have been more influential, receiving most attention. Importantly a number of readings will also be given critical of the approach in question. The second section contains at least two readings per section, both adopting a different way of understanding that faith. This provides a positive and negative attitude to the faith in question, or highlights the work of two influential commentators. While the emphasis is on contemporary works, important historical readings are included. A short introduction to each text means that, like the Core Text, the work can be used as a stand alone text.
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Friendship Cake : A Novel
$16.99Add to cartWhen five women from the Hope Springs Community Church in North Carolina form a committee to create a church cookbook, they embark on a project much more meaningful than they could have ever imagined. As novice pastor Charlotte Stewart, no-nonsense Margaret Peele, maverick Louise Fisher, steadfast Jessie Jenkins, and busybody Beatrice Newgarden meet to share recipes, they begin to open their lives and hearts as well.
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Letters To Marc About Jesus
$11.99Add to cartLetters to Marc About Jesus is a beautiful collection of Henri Nouwen’s very intimate and very enlightening writings to Marc, his nineteen-year-old nephew, who struggles to find his true path in a world of confusion and apathy. Written with Nouwen’s characteristic grace and wisdom, these letters bear witness to his conviction that anyone can find lasting spiritual fulfillment if they simply take the time to maintain a daily awareness of Jesus in every aspect of life. Powerful and profound, Letters to Marc About Jesus is Nouwen at his best–teacher, guide, and mentor–and will provide the direction and inspiration necessary for any believer to change his or her life
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Make Room For Your Miracle
$13.99Add to cartInternational Evangelists Help Readers Resurrect Their Hopeless Dreams
What do you do when your hopes and dreams seem to die? Mahesh and Bonnie Chavda, two respected international leaders, contend that for Christians, this doesn’t need to be a time of discouragement. Instead, as believers learn to welcome the anointing presence of Jesus, any valley can be transformed into a place of miracles.
The Chavdas focus on the Shunammite woman in 2 Kings, who was given, and then lost, and the received back again her young son. First narrating and then exploring this account of death and restoration, the Chavdas encourage readers to face their broken dreams and make room for Jesus’ resurrection power. As believers recognize the possibility of the impossible, refusing to let go of the Presence, God can bring the most hopeless dream to life.
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10 Commandments Of Working In A Hostile Environment
$24.00Add to cartIn this empowering book, based on his bestselling video series, T.D. Jakes shows readers how to use Christian principles in the workplace, using faith as the key to happiness and productivity. Bishop Jakes explains how people can rise above petty conflicts, turn obstacles into opportunities, and let God do His work in their lives every day-even when they’re coping with complaining co-workers or difficult bosses.
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31 Days To Living As A New Believer
$10.99Add to cartWritten by an evangelism expert who has served in the ministry for more than twenty years, this series of one-month, daily devotionals are practical guides for discipleship and evangelism. Encouraging daily reflection and meditation, each book offers simple yet essential truths for Christian living that will help readers revitalize their lives for Christ and share the Good News with others.
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Vision Upon Vision
$35.00Add to cartThis magisterial book examines the changing nature of Christian worship from the earliest years of the New Testament to the liquid modern world. Discounting any notion of an idealized vision of past which each generation seeks to recreate, this groundbreaking book shows that the nature of worship has always involved compromise with public life and has borrowed from the drama of the theatre. He reveals how worship evolved and changed through the great east-west divide, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment and the 19th century reaction to it. aaAs in his previous, highly praised book, George Guiver’s expertise is a forensic detective, tracing in the default practices and customs of ordinary people going about their prayer in church and alone, a vast body of liturgical DNA. He provides us with tools with which to discover the past and examine a range of assumptions and presuppositions about worship today.
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Mission Shaped Evangelism
$26.99Add to cartThis is a landmark book that will renew our understanding of what the gospel – literally ‘the good news about Jesus’ – is for today’s cultures. It begins with a key challenge – do we believe God speaks in the cultural context, or only in the Christian tradition? Part One – Listening to God in the cultural context explores the radically changing culture in which the church exists today, the rise of new spiritualities, the secularisation of society and religion’s increasingly dubious public image. Part Two – Listening to God in the Christian tradition looks at key periods in Christian history as responses to cultural changes, from the ancient pagan world to modernist faith. What can we learn from the lessons of the past? Part Three moves from theory to practice and tells great stories where innovative evangelism is taking place – from supermarkets to festivals to the internet.
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Trans Formations
$44.99Add to cart“Trans/formations is a new addition to “”SCM’s Controversies in Contextual Theology”” series. Like anything coming from Marcella Althaus-Reid and Lisa Isherwood, it is controversial and challenging as well as highly original. The book will: make visible a range of trans lived experience [transgendered and transsexual], offer theological reflection on these experiences, create challenging theology from this experiential base, and provide a resource for churches and theology students not to date available. It includes an excellent range of contributors, including Elizabeth Stuart and Virginia Ramey Mollenkott. This is a valuable addition to reading lists of courses on religion, gender and the body.”
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If God Is Your Co Pilot Swap Seats
$16.99Add to cartJesus gave us the good news that if we make God our number-one priority, then everything else will fall into place, and our life will be full of joy, purpose, mission, meaning, and fulfillment.
In the words of author James W. Moore: There’s a saying that goes, “If God is your co-pilot, swap seats!” Now, what I think that means is something we all need to hear, namely this: Don’t just take God along for the ride. Rather, let God do the driving! Put God in the driver’s seat of your life. Don’t make God your assistant; let God be the chief pilot on your life’s journey.
God is not only a comfort, God is a joy. God is the source of all pleasure. God is light and laughter. God is the Giver of Life…real life, abundant life, full life, meaningful life, joyful life, eternal life. And our chief purpose is to celebrate God, and to serve God, and to enjoy God forever.
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Guide To Bible Study
$9.99Add to cartThis handbook is designed to afford suggestion and assistance to those who desire a fuller and more accurate knowledge of the Bible. It gives a brief summary of facts regarding the making and the purpose of the Bible; its chief divisions; short sketches of the various books, serving as introductions to their study; and various other material of an interesting and helpful sort to the reader and student of the Bible. The book has its purposes and its limitations. The former has been noted. The latter was set by the desire to put all the material into such a brief and convenient form that the little volume could be in reality what its name implies, a handbook, constantly kept at hand for reference and suggestion. Introduction by Herbert L. Willett.
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Fit To Be Tied
$15.99Add to cartIt’s 1916, and Idaho rancher Cleo Arlington knows everything about horses but nothing about men. So when charged with transforming English aristocrat Sherwood Statham from playboy into cowboy, she’s totally disconcerted. So is Statham, who’s never encountered a woman succeeding in a “man’s world.” Their bumpy trot into romance is frustrating, exhilarating, and ultimately heartwarming.
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Thy Kingdom Come
$15.99Add to cartThy Kingdom Come Did you know that we were never supposed to be part of the current economic system? Or, that there is a better economic system which we are supposed to live by? In this exciting and highly acclaimed book you will learn: * The origins of the current money system in the world * The planned failure of the system, why they need you in debt * Barak Obama – What’s his role in the coming economic meltdown? * Who really controls the unconstitutional Federal Reserve System? * The Rothschild’s and the global One World Order * Why was the North American Union really created? * Why the useless fiat paper money system will fail * What the bible has to say about it all * Discover the kingdom of this world and the Kingdom of God * How the money system is a counterfeit anointing * The Wall Street bull and the golden calf? * Learn to operate in a system that was designed for you * Break free from debt and bondage once and for all * When all else fails… how you will prosper! Do you really believe you are free?
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God Kate And I
$19.99Add to cartThese are some of the adventures of a Kansas farm boy, who tried to live life. He met and married a California girl who was the love of his life and she was a woman, a lady and a woman of God, who lived life with him. Through the many adventures, some dangerous and/or life threatening, he felt that God was there and looking out for him, for reasons known only to God. He claims to be nothing special, quite the contrary. His travels took him to far off and exotic places, Panama, Latin America, Mexico, Hawaii, Guam, Philippines, Viet Nam, Taiwan, Germany, Italy, Greece, Ethiopia, Spain, France and California. Horses, motorcycles, war, law enforcement, hunting, people, kids and the love of a good woman are all a part of his story. When his wife was diagnosed with liver cancer and God chose to take her home, in his searching for understanding and peace of mind, he started writing as a form of coping, and turned to God for understanding. God provided the understanding in the form of a 4-year-old child. This 4-year-old girl is the Symbol of God’s Love and being a child is the Symbol of Hope for all of us. Through the many encounters, God and Kate looked out for and took care of him. Hence, the title God, Kate, and I.
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Lineage Of Grace
$19.99Add to cartIn this compilation of the five books in the best-selling Lineage of Grace series by Francine Rivers, we meet the five women whom God chose-Tamar, Rahab, Ruth, Bathsheba, and Mary. Each was faced with extraordinary-even scandalous-challenges. Each took great personal risk to fulfill her calling. Each was destined to play a key role in the lineage of Jesus Christ, the Savior of the World.
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1000 Stickers For Girls
$6.99Add to cart1000 Sticker Books is a new series of action-packed sticker activity books that mix photographic images with beautiful illustrations. 1000 Stickers for Girls includes all things cute and sparkly, with sticker activities looking at beautiful fairies, princesses, mermaids, cute animals, garden flowers and creatures! This book contains over 1,000 stickers and a variety of fun sticker activities.
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Blue Ribbon Country Cookbook
$25.99Add to cartNearly 1,000 crowd-pleasing and award-winning recipes presented in an easy, step-by-step format to ensure success for anyone-even beginners.More than just a comprehensive cookbook, The Blue Ribbon Country Cookbook contains easy-to-follow techniques and detailed explanations that ensure success. Chapters include every type of food, from soups and stews to pies and tarts, and recipes range from traditional favorites to more contemporary dishes such as Fresh Pear Salad with Ginger Dressing and Rosemary Chicken with Red Raspberry Sauce. What makes this book so special is not just the large number of recipes but also the amount of indispensable information that it contains.An Amazon reviewer explains the book best: “After 16 years of marriage, I was still not able to make some of the dishes my husband’s mom did. I never quite got it right. I can now! In her book, Diane taught me the basics of cooking from scratch and now I receive the highest compliment–As Good as Mom’s and Grandma’s.”
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Transforming Christian Theology
$19.00Add to cartIs there a role for Christian theology in the ongoing transformation of church and society? How can the reflective imperative of Christian discipleship support a transformative vision of the world?
This compact volume offers a way for Christians to reflect deeply on how best to conceive Christian identity, commitment, and discipleship in today’s challenged, globalized, pluralistic scene. Growing out of the recent “Rekindling Theological Imagination” initiative and led by esteemed theologian Philip Clayton and his colleagues, this volume seeks to capture and articulate the ferment in grassroots North American Christianity today and to relate it directly to the recent strong resurgence of progressive thought and politics. It argues strongly for a mediating role specifically for Christian theology, conceived first as a life practice of Christian discipleship, and its call has found enormous response from popular audiences in conferences, online, in informal Christian settings, as well as in mainline denominations and the academy.
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Worshiping Body : The Art Of Leading Worship
$28.00Add to cartKimberly Bracken Long, by focusing on what presiders do with their bodies, eyes and ears, lips, hands, feet, and heart describes an attitude and style of worship leadership that is both firmly rooted and blessedly free. A wonderful offering for all worship presiders, seminarians, commissioned lay pastors, new pastors, and experienced pastors, The Worshiping Body is essential reading for anyone interested in how their presence and movement during worship make a difference.
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Beyond The Spirit Of Empire
$44.99Add to cartIn Beyond the Spirit of Empire, the authors analyze the global empire not only in its political and economic dimensions, but also in its symbolic constructions of power and in its general assumptions often taken for granted. How does empire mould human subjectivity, for instance, and how does it affect the understanding of humans within the whole of creation? What are the religious dimensions of empire, its claims to divine attributes like omniscience, omnipresence, omnipotence, eternity, and what about its alleged exclusiveness and pervasiveness that destroys human life and freedom, which turns politics into a banal matter? The authors propose to look beyond empire to the possibility of politics and freedom, to the recovery of the notion of people, to the importance of ongoing concern for the oppressed and excluded, and to a messianic faith that allows us to live in anticipation, though ambiguously, of the promise of new times to come.
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Lead Your Boss
$19.99Add to cartEvery manager on the move wants to have influence at the top in order to get his or her ideas heard and ultimately acted upon. In Lead Your Boss, recognized leadership guru John Baldoni gives managers new-as well as tried-and-true-methods for influencing both their bosses and their peers, and giving senior leaders reasons to follow their lead. Featuring instructive stories based on real-life experiences from leaders at all levels, Lead Your Boss reveals proven strategies for: * Developing spheres of influence * Handling tough issues * Asserting oneself diplomatically * Putting the team first * Persuading up * Establishing trust * Using organizational politics to everyone’s advantage * Inspiring others through-out the organization Lead Your Boss gives readers practical, tactical advice on becoming a key player in any organization, regardless of whether or not they have an office in the Csuite-YET.
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Natalie Wants A Puppy
$6.99Add to cartSomething weird is going on at Natalie’s house, and “Detective Nat” adds up the clues and thinks she’s finally getting a puppy. But when she learns that instead her parents are adopting a baby from another country, Natalie isn’t so sure she’ll like being Not Only Natalie.
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Natalie And The Bestest Friend Race
$6.99Add to cartWhen Natalie accidentally spills Laurie’s secret that she has dyslexia, Nat and her bestest friend have their first real fight. Things escalate as Laurie refuses to pick Nat for her team in the Kindergarten Olympics – until Nat discovers the power of forgiveness.
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Spiritual Maturity : The Road To Wonderland
$19.95Add to cartFor decades, Chafer’s He That is Spiritual guided the Christian in spiritual growth, but it remains out of reach for many modern believers who struggle with the 1918 text or no longer have the general Bible knowledge that the book assumes.
Now, Spiritual Maturity: The Road to Wonderland brings those same critical lessons prefaced by quotes and illustrations from Lewis Carroll’s timeless tales. Interwoven throughout the text is Christine, a fictional character, whose life and questions mirror those of today’s reader.
We need to be sure we are walking in the direction and in the manner God would choose. And on any journey, a map-correctly understood-can be enormously helpful. Thankfully, God has provided us one. Designed for individual or classroom use.
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Challenging Christianity : For Those Who Have The Guts To Be Challenged By
$24.99Add to cartWhy is it that people throughout the world, regardless of religious or social affiliation, think there must be more to life than they are experiencing? This is highlighted by marketers who communicate the urgent need for change and transformation…promising solutions to our most pressing needs. The problem is that our deepest needs are not met by something that costs only $29.95 plus shipping and handling. Instead, we need an incalculably valuable, transformational experience with the God of the universe. Is Jesus Christ really the God of heaven and earth who is able to meet our most significant needs? If not, let’s put Christianity to rest once and for all. However, if Jesus Christ holds the answers for life, then how can you fully experience Him today? In this dynamic new book, author and speaker Jeff Schwarzentraub gets beyond the routines, rhetoric, and rituals of religion and points the way for those who have the courage to follow.
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Sound Of Gods Applause
$15.99Add to cartToo often we lose our way in this world trying desperately to gain the praise of others – and neglecting the one opinion that matters most. But in this uplifting and hope-filled book, Les Hughes reminds us that as long as we look to God for approval, we will always make the right decisions and never lose sight of our Christian purpose. Just as Jesus’ disciples were to please their master rather than satisfy crowds, kings, and other mortals, we must humbly say and do what we know is right in God’s eyes, regardless of what people may think. The Sound of God’s Applause draws rich and inspiring examples from the Bible of Christians who follow the teachings of Christ in the face of fearful opposition. It also recounts stories of contemporary Christians who put God’s opinion ahead of the world’s and celebrates the remarkable fruits of their faith. Most important, The Sound of God’s Applause will give you the inspiration and biblical foundation you need to stop worrying about what others think of you, and find joy in a life spent pleasing God.
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Unleashing The Word Of God
$12.95Add to cartIt happened 1800 years ago. The chaotic arrangement was accepted and later became the only way to arrange Paul’s letters. As a result, we cannot know what the New Testament is saying. We have never seen the church of Century One. We do not know what happened in the first Christian century. We have no model of the first-century from which to work. Counterwise, we have been creating Christian practices made up of the short passages from the New Testament, never seeing the entire panoramic saga. Unleashing the Word of God is a must read. Included with the book is a DVD.
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Natalie And The Downside Up Birthday
$6.99Add to cartNatalie couldn’t be more excited about her birthday parties-a kindergarten version and a home party too – until she discovers she has a “birthday buddy,” the not-so-nice Sasha. When Sasha one-ups Nat at every turn, from bigger cupcakes, to horsey rides, to a more purple birthday cake, Nat will have to see past the party balloons to realize who her real friends are, including Jesus.
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Common Roots : The Original Call To An Ancient Future Faith
$24.99Add to cartRobert Webber’s legacy testifies to the vitality evangelicals experience when insights of the early church inform community life and ministry. His original expression of this theme, presented here with a foreword by David Neff (director of the Robert E. Webber Center for an Ancient-Evangelical Future), promises to stimulate new and ongoing conversations about ancient-future faith.
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Yola : Forgive And Remember Nazi Rule
$17.49Add to cartThe true life story of the author and two of her friends under the brutal Nazi regime keeps the reader in suspense. During the Second World War, an ill-fated love story unfolds. At the end of the war, Yola is the lone survivor and begins a new life in Hollywood. A life-changing experience takes her and her husband and three children back to Germany to share forgiveness and reconciliation through Christ with German young people.
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Challenging Christianity : For Those Who Have The Guts To Be Challenged By
$15.99Add to cartWhy is it that people throughout the world, regardless of religious or social affiliation, think there must be more to life than they are experiencing? This is highlighted by marketers who communicate the urgent need for change and transformation…promising solutions to our most pressing needs. The problem is that our deepest needs are not met by something that costs only $29.95 plus shipping and handling. Instead, we need an incalculably valuable, transformational experience with the God of the universe. Is Jesus Christ really the God of heaven and earth who is able to meet our most significant needs? If not, let’s put Christianity to rest once and for all. However, if Jesus Christ holds the answers for life, then how can you fully experience Him today? In this dynamic new book, author and speaker Jeff Schwarzentraub gets beyond the routines, rhetoric, and rituals of religion and points the way for those who have the courage to follow.
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Levis Will : A Novel (Reprinted)
$19.00Add to cartWill flees his Old Order community at the age of 19, leaving behind a pregnant girlfriend and all things Amish. He begins a new life, joining the army and later marrying and having two sons of his own. But his new life and his new family are tainted by the hidden sins of his past. Hoping to patch things up with his father, Will takes his new family to meet the old one. Levi’s Will is the haunting story of a fallen man seeking to reconcile the best of the old world with the lessons of the new, in the process building a bridge across three generations.
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Democratizing Biblical Studies
$41.00Add to cartIn this book, Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza continues her exploration of a radical democratic ethos in graduate biblical education. She argues that it is necessary to reframe the field of biblical studies and replace the competitive teaching models prevalent in graduate programs with an emancipatory, radical democratic pedagogical model that fosters collaboration, participation, and critical engagement. To achieve constructive engagement with the differences of social location and diversity of perspectives that exist both in the Bible and in our contexts, we must become aware of the pitfalls of one-dimensional thinking that seeks to use the Bible to find definite answers and to exclude different understandings.
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Apostle On The Edge
$60.00Add to cartAuthor and teacher Michael R. Cosby provides a wonderful guide to Paul’s letters, helping students relate them to their own cultural setting and figure out for themselves what they mean. Irreverent, entertaining, engaging, and fun yet grounded in sound theology, Cosby’s textbook, full of pictures, questions, and insights, is certain to be a popular educational tool.
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Abused By The Church
$16.99Add to cartFor far too long people have experienced abuse in the church and have been assigned to a place of secrecy and shame. Hurt and disillusioned, multitudes have left the church. Their tragic stories are related in Abused by the Church so that healing, restoration and reform can take place. This is the hour when those things done in secret must be exposed to the light. Because generalities will neither convince nor convict, specific examples of abuse and injustice are presented. It is the time for genuine change–for justice to rule in the place of tyranny. The hour is at hand for Christ’s wounded ones to be healed and restored to the Church. Those who have wandered off the path of servant leadership will be ushered back behind Christ where they can retrieve their destiny. As they read this work a fresh passion for Him and for His purposes will fill their heart. Those previously disheartened or fallen leaders will be called to assemble and take their place as generals in His end time army. Victims will become victors!
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White Picket Fences
$18.00Add to cartWhen her black sheep brother disappears, Amanda Janvier eagerly takes in her sixteen year-old niece Tally. The girl is practically an orphan: motherless, and living with a father who raises Tally wherever he lands- in a Buick, a pizza joint, a horse farm-and regularly takes off on wild schemes. Amanda envisions that she, her husband Neil, and their two teenagers can offer the girl stability and a shot at a “normal” life, even though their own storybook lives are about to crumble.
Seventeen-year-old Chase Janvier hasn’t seen his cousin in years, and other than a vague curiosity about her strange life, he doesn’t expect her arrival will affect him much-or interfere with his growing, disturbing interest in a long-ago house fire that plagues his dreams unbeknownst to anyone else.
Tally and Chase bond as they interview two Holocaust survivors for a sociology project, and become startlingly aware that the whole family is grappling with hidden secrets, with the echoes of the past, and with the realization that ignoring tragic situations won’t make them go away.
Will Tally’s presence blow apart their carefully-constructed world, knocking down the illusion of the white picket fence and reveal a hidden past that could destroy them all-or can she help them find the truth without losing each other?
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Though Waters Roar (Reprinted)
$22.00Add to cartHarriet Sherwood has always adored her grandmother. But when Harriet decides to follow in her footsteps to fight for social justice, she certainly never expected her efforts to land her in jail. Nor did she expect her childhood enemy and notorious school bully, Tommy O’Reilly, to be the arresting officer.
Languishing in a jail cell, Harriet has plenty of time to sift through the memories of the three generations of women who have preceded her. As each story emerges, the strength of her family–and their deep faith in the God of justice and righteousness–brings Harriet to the discovery of her own goals and motives for pursuing them. -
Imperfect Believers : Ambiguous Characters In The Gospel Of John
$40.00Add to cartThis book is a solid study of characters in the Gospel of John-Nicodemus, the Samaritan woman, the disciples, the Jews, Martha and Mary, Peter and the Beloved Disciple, and Jesus. Hylen argues that John’s characters are not simply one dimensional depictions of belief and unbelief, but are in fact far more complex and ambiguous. This ambiguity has an important literary function: it invites the reader to understand biblical characters within the context of the inherent logic of the Gospel. The Gospel establishes ideals like believing and abiding in Jesus. The reader is left to decide to what extent a character’s actions and speech reflect these aims. Individual character portraits explore what readers may learn from studying John’s complex characters.
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4 Views On Moving Beyond The Bible To Theology
$22.99Add to cartFour Views on Moving Beyond the Bible to Theology guides students and pastors to consider and evaluate the various ways Christians apply biblical texts to contemporary questions. Four different scholars present their preferred interpretive models in point-counterpoint style, and three additional authors follow with their own perspectives on questions of moving from Scripture to theology.
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Great Eight : How To Be Happy Even When You Have Every Reason To Be Miserab
$18.99Add to cartOlympic Gold Medal figure skater Scott Hamilton shares his eight secrets to finding happiness in the face of a life filled with challenges, difficulties, and career-canceling odds. With never-been-told, behind-the-scenes stories from the skating world, personal challenges including testicular cancer and a brain tumor, as well as divine miracles, Olympic Gold Medal figure skater Scott Hamilton shares the secrets to his lifelong journey to find the silver (and gold) lining in the clouds of life. His life principles, fashioned into eight secrets that begin with the rote of learning to skate the figure 8, are the keys. Scott says, “Skating taught me how to be happy. I have always kept these eight as my own private, personal secrets that I practiced daily with repetition, focus, and discipline. Now I want to share them with the world.”
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Gospel According To The Simpsons Leaders Guide For Group Study (Teacher’s Guide)
$18.00Add to cartIntroducing a complete revision of the study guide that accompanies the best-selling book The Gospel According to The Simpsons, complete with new studies on episodes of The Simpsons as well as studies for discussing other popular animated comedies such as Family Guy, King of the Hill, and Futurama.
This new edition features a session plan for a “green retreat” based on The Simpsons feature film and the environmental film An Inconvenient Truth, as well as a listing of DVD availability for each episode with cross-references to the relevant chapters in the book. -
Bonhoeffer For Armchair Theologians
$24.00Add to cartThis latest volume in the ever-popular WJK Armchair series turns its sights on contemporary theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945). Born in Breslau, Germany, Bonhoeffer led quite an intriguing life. This book, with dozens of illustrations by artist Ron Hill, highlights Bonhoeffer’s background and theological education; his time at Union Seminary in New York City; his involvement in the resistance movement against Adolf Hitler; and his participation in the plot to assassinate Hitler. Bonhoeffer was imprisoned by the Nazis, who hanged him in 1945 but, thankfully, his ideas did not die with him. His life and thought continue to have an enduring impact on Christianity today.
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Mapping Messianic Jewish Theology
$29.99Add to cartRichard Harvey, himself a Messianic Jew, maps the diverse theological terrain of this young movement. He makes an original and innovative contribution by clarifying, affirming and constructively critiquing the present state of its theology. The book examines five topics of theological concern:
1. God’s nature, activity and attributes can the one God of Israel and the Christian Trinity be the same?
2. The Messiah Messianic Jewish Christologies
3. Torah in theory the meaning and interpretation of the Torah in the light of Jesus
4. Torah in practice Messianic practice of Sabbath, food laws and Passover
5. Eschatology the diverse models employed within the movement to describe the future of Israel.Within each topic Harvey explores the range of Messianic Jewish views and their roots in both Jewish and Christian theological traditions. The author proposes a typology of eight theological tendencies within Messianic Judaism and identifies issues where further theological development is required.
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Joyce Meyer : A Life Of Redemption And Destiny
$16.99Add to cartJoyce Meyer suffered through many years of extreme sexual and emotional abuse, only to discover a loving God who responded to her prayers, changing her mind, her spirit, and, eventually, the course of her life. You don’t need to suffer any longer from alcoholism, substance abuse, poverty, bad relationships, family dysfunction, sexual harassment, and other life-destroying issues. Through her personal life and experiences, you will find strength and courage so that you, too, can: ” Stop the endless cycle of pain. ” Fulfill God’s destiny for your life. ” Overcome personal weaknesses. ” Experience genuine forgiveness. ” See God use you in miraculous ways. ” Find freedom from depression and abuse. ” Conquer timidity and helpless dependency. Both men and women alike will find that God can-and does-use anyone, no matter how bad his or her past circumstances may be, to accomplish truly astonishing and miraculous things. Break free from the bondage of your past!
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Education For Human Flourishing
$35.99Add to cartFar from offering a thin patina of “niceness” spread over standard educational philosophy, Steven Loomis and Paul Spears set forth a vigorous Christian philosophy of education that seeks to transform the practice of education. Beginning with a robust view of human nature, they build a case for a decidedly Christian view of education that still rightfully takes its place within the marketplace of public education.
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Ignite Your Faith (Reprinted)
$21.00Add to cartChristian teens often want to spend more time with God but don’t know where to start. Or they’ve tried to develop a habit of personal quiet time only to be frustrated when they don’t keep it up–or become bored with it because they’re simply going through the motions.
This devotional from the team at Ignite Your Faith magazine aims to change that with a collection of 365 reflections and activities that turns daily devotions into an adventure. Using a variety of approaches to spiritual growth, Ignite Your Faith handles topics such as faith, friendship, family relationships, school, and church with a relevance and skill that will make this a go-to devotional for teens hungry to meet God in new ways each day
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Passage Into Discipleship
$16.99Add to cartPassage Into Discipleship is designed to help older children and youth more faithfully prepare for the act of baptism by teaching what it means to walk a Christian journey.
This book incorporates four different learning models that stimulate young people in being excited about becoming followers of Jesus. Learning models include classroom instruction, community and communal hands-on experiences, mentors that guide youth throughout the process, and a day-long retreat that concludes the curriculum.
Topics discussed in the book include confession, contrition, covenant, community, and connection, which are each coupled with key scripture texts. Each topic covered connects church theological concepts with daily life application.
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Goodly Fellowship Of The Prophets
$20.00Add to cartJust below the surface of any Christian view of the Bible is the knotty issue of the biblical canon. How and when was it decided which books make up the Bible? What makes a book canonical? In this volume, respected Old Testament scholar Christopher Seitz helps readers understand how the Old Testament fits into the canon’s development. Brief and readable yet substantive, this volume challenges current understandings of the formation of the Christian canon, utilizing the latest research on the biblical prophets. Seitz reveals canonical connections woven into the fabric of the Prophetic Books and argues that the Law and the Prophets cohere and give shape to the subsequent Christian canon.
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Women Out Of Order
$39.00Add to cartWhile there are many similarities among women’s experiences, there are undeniable and important differences as well. Assembling a leading group of theologians, social scientists, and practitioners, this volume pioneers pastoral care of and by women in light of differences in race and ethnic background, class, generations, sexual orientation, and experience with the cultural realities that typically assail women.
