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17 Essential Qualities Of A Team Player
$19.99Add to cartWhere can a person go to learn how to become a better team player? Your choices are definitely limited. John C. Maxwell takes the pain out of knowing what makes a team tick. If you want to have a better team, you have to develop better players. Great team players, like great teams, are formed from the inside out.The qualities Maxwell teaches quickly take you to the heart of teamwork. Anybody can understand them and apply them — whether at home, on the job, at church, or on the ball field. If you learn the 17 essential qualities of a team player, you can become the kind of person every team wants. If everyone on your team does it, there will be no holding you back.
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Liberated Through Submission
$14.99Add to cartP. B. Bunny Wilsons bestselling book, Liberated Through Submission (over 140,000 copies sold), now has a new look and offers more readers a biblical perspective of Gods plan for submission.A strong woman married to a strong man, Bunny Wilson struggled to understand godly submission. As she studied Gods Word, the truth liberated her: Submission doesnt tear down relationships, it builds them up and sets people free.This exploration of an often misunderstood topic helps readers discover* what men and women should know* what submission can give to marriage and the single life* the surprising freedom that comes with submissionEveryone will find a powerful truth in the principle of submission as our Creator intended.
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Take Heart : Healing Prayer For The Whole Of Life
$7.99Add to cartFrom an author who is one of the most highly regarded figures in the Christian healing ministry, comes a selection of prayers and reflections for those facing any kind of difficulty in their lives. Compassionate, realistic and careful to avoid holding out any false promises, it is especially, though not exclusively, focused on the needs of the many people whose lives are restricted by loneliness, age or infirmity. Scripture readings, selections from spiritual writings, reflections and prayers are arranged around themes that arise out of a sense of loneliness or isolation. These include: Contentment; Family; Friends; Fears; Restrictions; The future; and many more, drawn out of a lifetime’s pastoral ministry.
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Tend My Flock
$27.00Add to cart“Tend My Flock is a companion and guide for ordained and lay ministers seeking to live their pastoral ministry well, amid all the complexities and pressures of contemporary society. Much pastoral care is exercised with integrity and sensitivity and yet there are many potential hazards. “”Tend My Flock”” addresses issues which often remain unspoken, inviting dialogue, reflection, honest self-examination and the courage to share struggles and dilemmas with colleagues, friends in ministry and family members. It offers practical, tried and tested guidance in key areas including: confidentiality and trust; power, authority and vulnerability; setting and maintaining boundaries; safeguarding health and well-being; maintaining positive personal relationships; and, transition, loss and bereavement.”
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Anselms Proslogion
$15.00Add to cartThe SCM Briefly series is a series of summarized texts that are commonly used on theology and philosophy A level and Level One undergraduate courses in the UK. As students are less likely today to come to these subjects with language experience, the Briefly series, summarising the meaning of the original texts, is a painless and quick way to get to grips with what the philosophers were writing about. The language throughout is modern and approachable, but the books manage to avoid “dumbing down” by including line by line analysis and short quotes to give students a feel for the original.In addition each book begins with an introduction, which provides a context for the writer and his writings, the chapters contain summaries to ensure the student has a context for that particular piece of writing, and each book also contains a glossary of terms.
St Anselm (1033-1109) was an Italian theologian and philosopher and the Archbishop of Canterbury from 1093-1097. He is best known for his work, Proslogion, in which he defends the Church and sets out his philosophy and argument for the existence of God, now known as the Ontological Argument. OA is now a commonly studied subject at schools and universities, yet this critical, original treatise outlining the OA is often misunderstood by readers. Here in the Briefly text, the author guides the reader through Anselm’s argument concerning existence and whether it is an attribute of God in the same way omnipotence, omniscience and benevolence are believed to be. As such the argument is an a priori argument. It does not rest on proving God’s existence from the empirical realm but on showing that God must exist logically (or that God’s non-existence is illogical).The main idea behind Anselm’s argument is that epistemology (what we know) IS ontology (what there is); or, that if it is possible to conceive of X, then X must surely exist.
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Bridge Called Hope
$18.00Add to cartHope is like the stars-always there, yet shining brightest in the blackest of nights. It is like the dawn, always rising anew. Hope is for everyone, and that includes you. This collection of more than twenty true stories from a ranch of rescued dreams unveils the heart of true strength and the character of genuine courage. Experience for yourself the kind of love and hope that change a person from the inside out. Because sometimes, just believing in someone is enough for them to start believing in themselves. It’s the galvanizing truth that no matter how deep your pain…God’s love exceeds it still.
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Death And Memory In Early Medieval Britain
$137.00Add to cartHow were the dead remembered in early medieval Britain? Originally published in 2006, this innovative study demonstrates how perceptions of the past and the dead, and hence social identities, were constructed through mortuary practices and commemoration between c. 400 1100 AD. Drawing on archaeological evidence from across Britain, including archaeological discoveries, Howard Williams presents a fresh interpretation of the significance of portable artefacts, the body, structures, monuments and landscapes in early medieval mortuary practices. He argues that materials and spaces were used in ritual performances that served as ‘technologies of remembrance’, practices that created shared ‘social’ memories intended to link past, present and future. Through the deployment of material culture, early medieval societies were therefore selectively remembering and forgetting their ancestors and their history. Throwing light on an important aspect of medieval society, this book is essential reading for archaeologists and historians with an interest in the early medieval period.”
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Test Of Faith
$21.99Add to cartAnne’s daughter Faith is the answer to her lifelong prayer to be a mother. But her dream is shattered when the teenager rejects Anne’s love and the love of God. After years pass, and God heals their relationship, Anne falls seriously ill. Faith watches her mother weaken, struggling with role reversals and leaning on God as never before. Through all the intricacies of their relationship, all the joys and trials, they learn that God is with them. He brings them peace in the darkness, joy in the midst of sorrow, and hope in the face of death.A Mother…
Anne knew God would answer her fervent prayers for a baby. That’s why, when her daughter was born, she named her Faith. But as Faith grows into a teenager, mother and daughter rarely see eye-to-eye about anything-including God. When Faith erupts in rebellion, Anne’s world is shattered. Now Anne must leave her precious daughter in God’s hands. A Daughter…
By God’s grace, Faith survived a turbulent youth-a terrible time when she hurt those she loved most. Faith has since grown close to her parents, especially her mom. But then her mother falls seriously ill. As Anne weakens, Faith struggles with the reversal of their roles. Though she finds strength in God, fear is her constant nemesis. Will God answer her prayers as He did her mother’s?
And the God Who Loves Them Both.
A Test of Faith explores the intricacies of the mother-daughter bond and celebrates the rich, enduring love that often flourishes. Follow these two women through a lifetime as they learn to surrender their relationship and dreams to God-and trust that His love and faithfulness are unending.
Story Behind the Book
I hope to give women a sense of celebration in this wonderous connection God has given us with our mothers and daughters, to help them releate to each other in a more healthy and biblical manner. To find joy in our differences and to find ways to praise God together for all He’s given us. This is a story that comes from my own experiences and will address issues I’ve seen Christians struggle with for years. This is an honest, sometimes difficult, and yet ulitmately encouragin and uplifting book.
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Danger Habit : How To Grow Your Love Of Risk Into Life Changing Faith
$17.99Add to cartLive the Life You Were Made For!
Amped for adventure, dulled by responsibilities? Always searching, never settling? Being a believer doesn’t mean you have to leave your daredevil self behind. God has given you a love of risk for a reason. Learn to focus your energy on the one chance that’s really worth taking-faith in a God that is anything but boring. Mike Barrett writes to every fidgety believer who’s itching for more, using modern-day and biblical stories of adventure to prove that living on the edge can be the Lord’s work. Find what it is you’re fighting for, and discover the adventure God made you to live.
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How To Get Your Husband To Talk To You (Reprinted)
$15.99Add to cartA man comes home and says to his wife, “I had a horrible day at work today.” She says, “Tell me about it.” “I just did,” he replies. Men and women communicate differently-and, all too often, not at all! This book is a sort of “linguistics” school that will teach you to speak your husband’s language: male . You’ll discover simple ways to cultivate a sense of humor about your male and female differences, open conversations with him-and keep them going, frame what you’re saying with masculine interest areas, respond proactively to what your husband shares, and develop thicker skin (this alone is worth the price of the book). Change up your language, spice up your marriage! It’ll be your husband’s favorite thing you’ve ever done…well, almost!
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Reading Between The Lines
$19.99Add to cartSought after by every agent and actress in New York, handsome casting director James B. Lockhart Jr. is at the top of his craft.
Red-haired beauty Elizabeth Ash lives in a third-floor apartment and earns her living as a flutist.
Both have loved deeply…but things haven’t turned out as they’d hoped.
Then Elizabeth discovers a story scribbled in purple ink in the margins of some old novels at a nearby church thrift shop. It moves her like nothing else has…and makes her long for something more.
Jim has spent months mired in the past. Now he hopes to start a new chapter in his life…create a new beginning. But is that really possible after all this time? Or is it too late?
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Election
$22.99Add to cartThey seek ultimate power.
Nothing can stand in their way.
Ed Burke has waited a lifetime to become president of the United States.
He’s not about to let his nemesis, Mac Foster, stop him now…especially when he’s sold his soul for the Oval Office.
Claudia Duval has lived a rough life. And finally, things have turned around for her after meeting the wealthy Hudson Kinney. But is all what it seems?
When a prominent citizen is murdered in Jackson, Tennessee, attorney Jake Reed doesn’t want to know the truth. He just wants to get his client off. But as he investigates, he uncovers a sinister scheme. A scheme that would undermine the very democracy of America…and the freedom of the entire world.
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101 Days To Absolute Victory
$14.99Add to cartHave you ever felt you could use more faith?
Many times readers feel this way but don’t know what to do about it. Faith is like a muscle; it must be worked out and applied in order for it to increase. Billy Joe Daugherty, pastor of the 20,000 member church, Victory Christian Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, has compiled 101 powerful and faith inspiring devotions guaranteed to boost readers into a new realm of faith!
Have you ever felt you could use more faith?
Many times we feel this way but don’t know what to do about it. Faith is like a muscle; it must be worked out and applied in order for it to increase. Billy Joe Daugherty, pastor of the 20,000 member church Victory Christian Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, has compiled 101 powerful and faith inspiring devotions guaranteed to boost readers into a new realm of faith!
101 Days of Faith is for every person; regardless of age or spiritual maturity. You will be encouraged and inspired as you learn each day how to draw on God’s power to help you through the challenges of life. Powerful scriptural passages paired with dynamic “declarations of faith” provide a refreshingly practical way to apply what you learn. Perfect as a gift and personal devotion, this is a must-have product for anyone approaching the Christmas and New Year season. -
Cure For The Common Life Workbook (Workbook)
$21.99Add to cartIt’s Sunday afternoon and you’re already dreading the inevitable Monday morning. You spend 50+ hours at a job you hate, only to come home too exhausted to pursue anything other than reality TV. Think you’re alone in your frustration? Wrong! In The Cure for the Common Life Workbook, Max will teach you that you are a unique individual, created in God’s image, with your own gifts, strengths, and passions. In this exciting companion to the trade book, Max will provide the reader with practical tools and assessments for exploring and identifying their own uniqueness. He will then motivate the reader to put their uniqueness into practice and give them perspective to redefine “work.” It’s never too late to uncover your strengths, to discover God’s will for your life, or to redirect your career-and cure the otherwise hopeless prognosis of a common life.
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20 Surprisingly Simple Rules And Tools For A Great Family
$14.99Add to cartCreating a great family doesn’t have to be difficult or require a lot of hard work. It’s really about little changes that produce big results. 20 (Surprisingly Simple) Rules and Tools for a Great Family includes practical, easy-to-apply principles and tools anyone can use to build closer relationships with your kids, improve communication with your mate, and create lasting family memories. You’ll be surprised at how a few simple rules can make a good family better … or keep a struggling family from falling apart. So learn the rules–and get ready for a really great family!
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Extreme Prayer Makeover
$15.99Add to cartHave you ever wondered, “Why should I pray? How should I pray? What happens when I pray?” In this book, Pastor Cameneti answers these questions, sharing the revolutionary insight that God gave him about how to pray effective prayers that get results.
He says, “Prayer is not a fruitless exercise that God asks us to perform to determine whether or not we are faithful-prayer is the vehicle that releases God to accomplish His will in the earth.”
The Bible says we have the keys to the kingdom of heaven, and through fervent, intense prayer we can release the blessings of the heavenly realm into the earth.
God has a perfect will for every person, and in prayer we can partner with God, releasing His power in our own lives and in the lives of others.
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White As Snow
$9.99Add to cartThe year is 1864 in the Colorado Territory. Charlie is all alone on the ranch that sits between the empty prairie and the Rocky Mountains. As the orphaned boy cares for his dying grandpa and tries to figure out how to survive the approaching winter, he keeps remembering the old man’s words: “Failure’s not an option, son.” As the first storm of the season hits, a mysterious mountain man shows up at the isolated ranch and good things start to happen. But to get free of his one gnawing secret, Charlie must learn to trust the giant stranger. On Christmas day he learns that trusting means he’ll never have to be alone again.
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Battle For The Mind
$15.99Add to cartThe mind is the final frontier. While men leap for the opportunity to conquer the challenges presented to us in outer space there are few that have accepted the challenge to conquer our inner space. The Battle for the Mind is the answer to that call. Noel Jones has created a battle strategy that will help the reader to launch his own campaign for conquering the mind and overcoming negativity, guilt, and powerless thinking. Jones presents a blueprint that will eliminate the possibility of stepping on mind fields that destroy creative thinking.
The Battle for the Mind will lead you to discover your future by helping you to creatively explore and express your inward thoughts. Jones offers spiritual solutions that will unlock the door to inner personal change and a renewing of the mind.
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Palm Sunday And Holy Week Services
$13.99Add to cartReady-to-use lectionary-based worship and preaching resources for Palm Sunday and Holy Week. Includes three options for Palm Sunday services including procession suggestions with special emphasis on participation by children. Also includes two suggested services for each lectionary year (A, B, and C), six services for Holy Thursday and three services for Good Friday.
Includes ready-to-use Palm Sunday and Holy Week services for worship with multiple worship options for each lectionary year scripture. Gives suggested liturgies for each services including those related to Taize.
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Suicide : Pastoral Responses
$20.99Add to cartGives pastors strategies to effectively respond to persons at possible risk for suicide and families of suicide victims.
No one can ever be prepared enough to deal with suicide; but one can identify special risks and be aware of short and long-term effects on survivors and family members. In Suicide: Pastoral Responses, Dr. Townsend defines patterns and issues that surround suicide. This book will help ministers identify particular markers and give steps for pastoral intervention and suicide prevention.
The Pastoral Responses series is designed to help pastors and other pastoral caregivers deal with crises or significant difficulties. Called upon to offer advice, guidance, and comfort to parishioners, their families, and the congregation on a myriad of medical, mental health, social, legal, and theological issues, these books offer concrete, practical suggestions for the situations that pastors face in the parish today.
“Dr. Townsend approaches the potentially suicidal individual and the bereaved person with the heart of a pastor and the experience of a counselor. Integrating basic and effective techniques and spiritual approaches, the author provides a sound framework and presents a wide scope of information to help pastors.”
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Markings On The Windowsill
$12.99Add to cartMarkings on the Windowsill is a brief book to help persons who are grieving understand that there is some process to grief, though it may be different for every individual who experiences it, and to help the mourner along on the journey, through pain to hopeful fulfillment. Many years ago, author Ron Greer and his wife lost their two-year-old son Eric in a tragic automobile accident. In this book, the author draws on his experiences as a pastoral counselor and as a father to offer help, hope, and healing to people who are grieving.
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Direct Hit : Aiming Real Leaders At The Mission Field
$22.99Add to cartThe second Abingdon publication by Paul Borden, whose first book, Hit the Bullseye has sold 11,000 copies.
A new pastor sees himself or herself as a leader who anticipates a better for the congregation. However, the congregation tends to perceive the new pastor as someone who ministers who their needs and fulfills a chaplain-type role. The pastor must therefore lead the congregation through systemic change if new life is to be brought into the culture of the congregation.
Three teams must be created: TEAM ONE is the prayer team that prays regularly for change and reproduction. TEAM TWO is the dream team that helps the pastor communicate urgency. TEAM THREE consists of leaders who recruit and train other leaders who are committed to urgent change.
I. Chapter One – Introduction and Overview
II. Chapter Two – Essentials for Leaders
(It is important to note that this book assumes a pastor is new to a congregation which like many congregations, is on a plateau or in decline. This pastor sees himself or herself as a leader who anticipates a better future for this congregation. However, the congregation sees the role of the new pastor as someone who will minister to their needs and fulfill the traditional chaplain role that is typical for most pastors and most congregations. Therefore this pastor is going to need to take three to five years to lead the congregation through systemic change (change the culture of the congregation). The book is how the pastor and key lay leaders develop the communication strategies required to lead such change.III. Chapter Three – Developing a Vision and a Communication Strategy for its Implementation
A. The basic assumptions about the congregation and the pastor’s role are discussed.
B. The pastor must first spend time developing vision.
C. The pastor must then begin to develop a communication strategy that will be employed over the next three to five years to prepare the congregation for changeIV. Chapter Four – Creating and Communicating Urgency
A. Creating and communicating urgency is as crucial as casting vision
B. The pastors’ responsibility is to determine the urgency for which the vision is an answer.
C. The pastor must now develop a communication strategy to create urgency in the congregation over the next three to five years in order to provide motivation for embracing the vision.V. Chapter Five – Developing Key Teams in Preparing for Change
A. While the pastor is working on visi -
Introduction To The New Testament
$42.00Add to cartWritten by prominent professor and skilled interpreter Charles Cousar, An Introduction to the New Testament provides a concise overview of the content and purpose of the books of the New Testament within the context of the church’s early development. This cogent introduction gives serious attention to the history of earliest Christianity but always returns to the texts’ theological meaning and significance, highlighting the relevance of these books for the church today.
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Old Creed And The New
$35.99Add to cartThe Old Creed and the New, is Don Cupitt’s return to the UK market, after a five year absence, with a successor to his earlier works, which can be seen as the next stage in his long project to modernise religious thought. Here he sharply juxtaposes the traditional Apostles’ Creed of Western Christianity and the emergent creed of modern radical theology. Side by side they look amazingly different, and Cupitt carefully explains what is happening and why. The main change is that the old creed situated the believer within a huge narrative cosmology, the central myth of a great religion-based civilization, whereas the new creed merely defines the bare outlines of a modern spirituality. The difference is very great, and it is vital that we understand it clearly.
Whilst in previous works Cupitt has attempted to define the real religion of modern people, and help them learn religious thinking for themselves in a post-ecclesiastical Christianity, in this book he attempts to bridge the gap between the old way of dogma and Church, and the new, plural, post-ecclesiastical kind of religion.
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Skits That Teach
$24.99Add to cartIf you’re looking for fun and creative ways to involve your students in learning, you can stop looking. Skits That Teach provides you and your students everything you need to act out funny and compelling skits with confidence. Search by topic or by group size to find the perfect comedic or dramatic sketch to help illustrate a point or just start a dialogue. The Skit Guys, Eddie James and Tommy Woodard, have tested these skits on teenagers around the country, and they’ve brought some of the best together for this great resource. Plus they give you everything you need for each skit-overview, characters, location, Scripture reference, props, direction pointers, and a complete script.
The Skit Guys avoid the cheesy dialogues and scenes typically found in Christian dramas and instead bring fun characters, witty dialogue, and
entertaining situations to their skits, all categorized for you by:
* Skits for Idiots (it would take an idiot not to be able to do them right!) * Monologues * Duets/Ensembles * Comedy * Drama * Scripture Readings
You will want to have this book around for those energetic, creative students who are always looking for ways to help.
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Pietists : Selected Writings
$12.99Add to cartThis HarperCollins Spiritual Classic collects the significant writings of the Pietists, whose influence continues to shape Christianity today.
“Perfection is nothing other than faith in the Lord Jesus and is not in us or ours but in Christ or of Christ for whose sake we are considered perfect before God and thus his perfection is ours by ascription.”–August Hermann Francke
Although the movement was relatively brief, the longstanding influence of Pietism reaches many aspects of our intellectual, political and religious culture today. Originating in late sixteenth and early seventeenth-century, Pietism spread to influence Lutheran, Reformed and Wesleyan churches throughout Europe and North America, forever changing the face of Christianity. Preaching, which had previously been dense theological discourse, suddenly became directed toward the moral and religious life of the people in the pew. For the first time, congregants desired to grow their spiritual lives and devotional writing was born. The Pietists’ emphasis on conversion through personal religious experience, heartfelt union with Christ, and the importance of Scripture as a guide in spiritual life, are still evident today in churches across the country. This classic collection of writings from the most prominent and important Pietists is essential to understanding our history as a religious people.
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Conversations With Scripture The Parables (Student/Study Guide)
$21.95Add to cartThe Conversations with Scriptureseries looks at either individual Biblical books, or as in the case of this latest volume, Biblical topics. The series accessible and non-condescending.The author is an expert in the field and knows how best to study the Parables, which are filled with ambiguity and much room for interpretation. He has organised each chapter by Parable type – such as seeking and growth and left room for activity ideas, such as role-playing, parable writing or music.This book gives the historical and cultural background and will help readers to explore the beauty, richness and joy that the Parables contain.Each book in the series has strong branding and is designed to stand out on the shelf.
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Living Fully Dying Well Leaders Guide (Teacher’s Guide)
$31.99Add to cartOur best decisions about life’s important events are seldom made in a time of crisis. Living Fully and Dying Well is a resource designed to assist us in making careful, wise and prayerful preparation for meeting life’s most important moments. In this study, participants will learn how to face openly and unafraid the benefits and limitations of aging and end of life decisions.
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Living Fully Dying Well Participants Book (Student/Study Guide)
$12.99Add to cartOur best decisions about life’s important events are seldom made in a time of crisis. Living Fully and Dying Well is a resource designed to assist us in making careful, wise and prayerful preparation for meeting life’s most important moments. In this study, participants will learn how to face openly and unafraid the benefits and limitations of aging and end of life decisions.
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1 Conversation At A Time
$14.99Add to cartJesus was a conversationalist, and that’s how He taught. Through intimate exchanges with His disciples, He opened their eyes to the marvels of the Kingdom. And at the proper time, He commissioned them to go and make disciples of all nations, teaching each one all they had learned.
Christ calls believers to do the same today. He asks them to make disciples as He did-one conversation, one relationship at a time. But sometimes we spend more time keeping track of how many people we’ve told about Christ than we do getting to know them.
Making disciples is more than witnessing to nonbelievers and tallying numbers. Making disciples is really about building authentic relationships with those closest to us and helping them follow Jesus through heart-to-heart talks and committed friendships.
This book challenges you to reexamine your idea of evangelism and discipleship and reconsider what you say in hour daily conversations. Author D. Michael Henderson will show you how to turn your everyday interactions into open doors through which you can tell others about God and His love for them.
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Signs And Wonders Today
$16.00Add to cartThis book for adult small groups reexamines biblical teaching on the work of the Holy Spirit, particularly with respect to such gifts as tongues-speaking, miraculous healing, and spiritua
Author John A. Algera, a CRC pastor, builds a strong case for taking seriously the third wave of renewed interest in the Holy Spirit’s gifts, especially the more charismatic gifts.
Study questions included.
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Beyond The First Visit (Reprinted)
$20.00Add to cartA complete guide to new member assimilation-the best ways to invite, greet, and follow-up on guests to a church.
Does your church put out the “Welcome” mat or the “Do not disturb” sign?
We all like to think that our church is the friendliest one in town. But do visitors see it that way? Church consultant Gary L. McIntosh invites you to take another look at your church through the eyes of a first-time guest to identify the things that might be holding them back from a second visit.This very practical book offers sound advice on assessing and improving the ways in which your church attracts people, welcomes them, does follow-up, and brings them into the church family. More than simply offering mere techniques, it gives suggestions for making a welcoming attitude part of the very fabric of your church.
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Between Philosophy And Religion 1
$126.00Add to cartIntroduction: The Challenge Of Spinoza To Modernity
The Bible And Hermeneutics
The Ontological Argument And Modernity: The Relationship Between Thought And Existence
Conclusion: Hermeneutics And Ontology
Appendix 1: Critical Commentary On Works Relating To Spinoza, The Bible, And Modernity
Appendix 2: Strauss On The Bible, Philosophy, And Modernity
BibliographyIndex
Additional Info
In Between Philosophy and Religion Volumes I and II, Brayton Polka examines Spinoza’s three major works-on religion, politics, and ethics-in order to show that his thought is at once biblical and modern. Indeed, Polka argues that Spinoza is biblical only insofar as he is understood to be one of the great philosophers of modernity and that he is modern only when it is understood that he is unique in making the interpretation of the Bible central to philosophy and philosophy central to the interpretation of the Bible. This book and its companion volume are essential reading for any scholar of Spinoza. -
John Diodatis Doctrine Of Holy Scripture
$16.00Add to cartPrint on demand
This study begins with a discussion of the state of research on Diodati. This is followed by a survey of Diodati’s life and work, focusing on his role within contemporary Protestantism. The history of the doctrine of Scripture is then considered in order to provide the relevant background to Diodati’s beliefs and to the significance of Scripture in the disputes that were part and parcel of the Reformation. The central element of the dissertation consists of a translation from Latin into English of the twenty-five theses concerning the doctrine of Scripture that he presented in 1596, when he graduated from the Academy at Geneva. There follows a detailed analysis of these theses in the light of the Protestant view of Scripture and the controversy with the teaching of the Church of Rome, especially as set out in the formulations of the Council of Trent. This analysis also draws on a work for which Diodati was well known to the English public, namely his Pious Annotations upon the Holy Bible, his greatest legacy after his translation of the Italian Bible. The study concludes with a brief evaluation of the significance of the continuity of the doctrine of Scripture in the history of the church, of the debate over the issue of authority between the Reformers and Rome, and of the way in which Diodati’s attitude to the translation of Scripture was governed by both the need for clarity and the theology of the Bible itself. – AUTHOR’S PREFACE -
Single Moms Raising Sons
$14.99Add to cartWill your son grow into a well-adjusted adult if there’s no man in the house for him to look up to?
Can you provide him with the strength and wisdom that most boys receive from their fathers?
Many women are on their own when it comes to raising children. It’s a tough job-especially for moms raising boys.
Dana S. Chisholm writes from her experience as the single mother of two boys. From financial concerns to teaching a boy to be a macho, she knows what it’s like to try to see life through a boy’s eyes. She understands your struggle and shares ways you can support and help your son-even when his dad lets him down again and again.
If you’re a woman raising a boy on your own, this book will give you the honest insight, advice, and guidance you need to raise your son to be the solid Christian man you want him to be.
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With Cords Of Love
$29.99Add to cartThe arrival of the 21st century has brought with it a wave of religious tolerance and indifference unlike any before. The effects of religious pluralism in our world today make it increasingly difficult for the hope-filled message of Christ to reach the hearts of those who need to hear it.
With Cords of Love presents a thorough introduction to religious pluralism and offers a sound, loving response drawn from the essential doctrinal features of the Wesleyan theological tradition. This examination discusses the historical, philosophical, and cultural factors that have contributed to religious pluralism and explores the major responses currently embraced in some Christian circles. With compelling instruction, it provides the insight needed to approach people from other religions with both respect and compassion in order to complete the work God has already begun in their hearts.
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Foundations Of Pastoral Care
$44.99Add to cartPastoral Ministry Professor Bruce L. Peterson explains that 21th century pastoral care involves more than just those who take the title “Pastor”. Laity and small groups need to have a hand in the care of soul as well, if the church is to be healthy. The roles of shepherding, counseling, and collaboration are clarified. The pastor’s presence in conflict resolution, crisis, through suffering, and death is also dealt with.
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Inside The Red Tent
$16.99Add to cartThe story of Dinah receives little more than a mention in the Bible, as it gives rise to a bloody massacre. Not so with Anita Diamant’s The Red Tent (Picador 1998). Diamant weaves ancient history and culture with narrative fiction to draw a picture of what life might have been like for the women in Jacob’s life. With skill and passion, Sandra Hack Polaski unravels the complexities of the biblical stories of Leah, Rachel, Zil’pah, Bil’hah, and Leah’s daughter Dinah, probing aspects of The Red Tent that give us insight into the text and into the lives of women in the ancient Near East. Inside the Red Tent brings readers into the biblical and historical contexts of the world of Dinah and her four mothers, exploring their stories through the tradition of midrash, sound biblical scholarship, and archeological findings. She gives us a glimpse “inside the red tent” at the families, relationships, encounters, goddesses, and God that defined their lives and that define ours.
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Can A Smart Person Believe In God
$16.99Add to cartAs Christians, we are often urged to turn away from scientific discovery and rely solely on the Bible as the source of our faith. On the other hand, many people in areas such as science, law, and education insist that Christian faith is lowbrow or unintelligent. But is it possible to reconcile science with what you believe about God? As someone who has grappled with the issues of science and faith in the public eye for more than a decade as a television journalist, Dr. Michael Guillen believes it is possible. In fact, by embracing the discoveries of science we can see God, the universe, and humanity in full, multidimensional glory. Fortunately, you don’t have to be a genius to enjoy this book. The bite-sized chapters are full of fascinating scientific tidbits in an easy-to-understand format. Captivating stories of the author’s childhood in the Mexican barrio of East L.A. and his work in television and research are woven throughout. There is even an entertaining SQ (Spiritual Quotient) test for readers to take.
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Maggie : The Sequel To The Dead Dont Dance
$18.99Add to cartMaggie Styles was in a coma for four months after she and her husband Dylan lost their first son, but now she’s awake and they’re trying to put the pieces of their lives back together. They still desperately want to be parents, so they pursue the possibility of adoption as well as continuing to try to get pregnant. As the months go by and the pain drives them further and further apart, Dylan and Maggie must find a reason to hope and a reason to love again.
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Why Politics Needs Religion
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The charge is often repeated that religion should not be mixed with politics. Brendan Sweetman counters that charge, arguing that beliefs of some sort are unavoidable, even by nonreligious persons, in addressing our most contentious public debates. Certain religious beliefs (but not all), he contends, belong in the public square and for good reason. In fact, Sweetman goes so far as to suggest that a secularism that rules out religious belief has little promise of contributing to a civil society where we can allow for reasonable disagreements. Religion is no danger when it takes its proper place in political debate.
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How Much Does God Foreknow
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Does the Bible teach that God’s foreknowledge is exhaustive and infallible?
Does Scripture affirm that God foreknows the free decisions of human beings?
Current debates over the extent of God’s foreknowledge, argues Steven C. Roy, have not given sufficient consideration to the complete biblical revelation. Seeking to correct this imbalance, Roy provides in-depth studies of dozens of key passages in both the Old and the New Testaments.
Cognizant of the current debates between classical notions of divine foreknowledge and more recent “openness” views, Roy interacts incisively with their respective theological positions and draws out implications of biblical teaching for the practical matters of Christian worship, prayer, guidance, suffering and evil, and ultimate hope in the triumph of God.
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On Prayer : Conversation With God
$20.00Add to cartThis book collects for the first time John Calvin’s teachings on prayer, taken from his 1559 classic Institutes of the Christian Religion. Calvin scholar John Hesselink puts Calvin’s views in context with an introductory essay for the book. A summary and questions for discussion precede each segment of Calvin’s text, making this volume ideal for personal and group study.
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Firmly I Believe
$40.00Add to cartThe Oxford Movement sprang into life in the 1830s in reaction to the fear of increasing Parliamentary control of the Church and in response to new freedoms for Roman Catholics in society. It was an opportunity for Anglicans who regarded themselves as loyal to the Catholic tradition, despite the interruption of the Reformation, to promote Catholic theology in the Church of England.
A high doctrine of the Church and the sacraments, insistence that Anglican clergy were priests in the Apostolic Sucession and the revival of religious life – plus remarkable social work in slum areas – all characterise what we now call Anglo-Catholicism, still alive and well and accounting for a third of the C of E today.
Here the writings of the Tractarians, and also less well-known supporters of the Oxford Movement, are introduced with a useful commentary and explanation.
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Acts
$75.99Add to cartThe Acts of the Apostles–or more in keeping with the author’s intent, the Acts of the Ascended Lord–is part two of Luke’s story of “all that Jesus began to do and teach.” In it he recounts the expansion of the church as its witness spread from Jerusalem to all of Judea and Samaria and to the ends of the earth.
While at least forty early church authors commented on Acts, the works of only three survive in their entirety–John Chrysostom’s Homilies on the Acts of the Apostles, Bede the Venerable’s Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles and a long Latin epic poem by Arator. In this volume, substantial selections from the first two of these appear with occasional excerpts from Arator alongside many excerpts from the fragments preserved in J. A. Cramer’s Catena in Acta SS. Apostolorum. Among the latter we find selections from Basil the Great, Gregory of Nazianzus, Gregory of Nyssa, Ephrem the Syrian, Didymus the Blind, Athanasius, Jerome, John Cassian, Augustine, Ambrose, Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, Theodoret of Cyr, Origen, Cyril of Jerusalem, Cyril of Alexandria, Cassiodorus and Hilary of Poitiers, some of which are here translated into English for the first time.
As readers, we find these early authors transmit life to us because their faith brought them into living and experiential contact with the realities spoken of in the Sacred Text.
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Beetle Bunker
$8.99Add to cartIn post-World War II Germany, tensions mount in Berlin, the former capital city now in Soviet-controlled territory but still governed in part by the western allies, creating an isolated enclave in a hostile land. Robert Elmer’s three-book generational series for kids unfolds against the backdrop of Cold War Berlin-gripping adventures in which three young teens, connected by family, faith, and friendship, struggle to hold on to life and each other, their lives brutally separated by the Berlin Wall. Time has passed, and life in a divided Germany seems almost normal. But life isn’t normal. Neighbors spy on each other, books are forbidden, and sometimes people disappear in the middle of the night … to the west. When Sabine discovers a forgotten underground bunker, she uses it as a sanctuary to escape her crowded home. Could it provide a way under the wall to freedom? Or is her family in terrible danger?
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Divine Hours Prayers For Autumn And Wintertime
$25.00Add to cartPhyllis Tickle, among the most respected authorities on religion in America today, is one of many modern Christians who observe the ancient tradition of praying the Divine Hours, also known as the Daily Offices. This final volume in paperback, The Divine Hours: Prayers for Autumn and Wintertime, provides four sets of offices-morning, midday, vespers, and compline-for every day from October through January. Each includes prayers, psalms, and Bible readings for each day of these two festive seasons which include the Feast of All Saints, the Season of Advent, the days of Christmas, and the Epiphany.
Making primary use of the Book of Common Prayer and the writings of the Church Fathers, The Divine Hours is also a companion to the New Jerusalem Bible, from which it draws its Scripture readings. It blends prayer and praise in a way that respects and builds upon the ancient wisdom of Christianity-yet it is extraordinarily fresh and vibrant.
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Traces Of God (Anniversary)
$17.95Add to cartWriting for a wide popular audience, philosopher Diogenes Allen examines the problem of human suffering and helps us to discover “traces of God” in the world, even as we suffer from physical pain and loss, natural disaster, and human evil.
Written for beginners in the spiritual life, Traces of God describes how we can prepare ourselves for the inevitable sufferings of life. Allen explores the human pilgrimage through adversity and takes a close look at Simone Weil’s studies of affliction. -
I Will To You
$14.00Add to cartAlmost everyone has a Last Will and Testament that tells their family and friends what is to become of their property, but few people have thought about the spiritual gifts and memories they’d like to leave their loved ones.
Well-known and beloved author Herbert Brokering here shares the spiritual gifts and intimate memories that he’d like to leave to his family and his readers. As he ponders the grace he has received from the people, places, and events of his life he inspires our own reflection on what we wish to leave to our loved ones. Each chapter includes a Bible passage and key questions for reflection.
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Jesus And Utopia
$23.00Add to cartScholarship on the historical Jesus and, now, on the “Jesus movement” generally divides into separate camps around two sticky questions: was Jesus an apocalyptic prophet and was the movement around him political, that is nationalistic or revolutionary? Mary Ann Beavis moves the study of the historical Jesus in a dramatic new direction as she highlights the context of ancient utopian thought and utopian communities, drawing particularly on the Essene community and Philo’s discussion of the Therapeutae, and argues that only ancient utopian thought accounts for the lack of explicit political echoes in Jesus’ message of the kingdom of God.
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Wisdom Literature
$48.00Add to cartThis textbook is aimed at undergraduates on level two or three courses relating to Old Testament Wisdom literature.
The book begins with a consideration of what the term ‘wisdom literature’ means in Hebrew usage, and also examines which biblical materials might properly be classified as belonging to the category of wisdom literature. The cultural and political context of ancient Israel is examined, together with an analysis of the key problem of whether or not there were any practical levels of literacy in the period in question. The middle section of the book looks in more depth at those books considered to contain ‘wisdom literature’: Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, Wisdom of Solomon and Ecclesiasticus. The genre is characterised by praise of God, often in poetic form and by sayings of wisdom intended to teach about God and about virtue.Questions of authorship, editing, interpretation, the historical context of some of the writings, the book’s major themes and sub-themes and the latest criticisms of each are laid out for discussion and analysis.
The book is written with the undergraduate in mind, and is full of pedagogical features including tables and summaries of data, which allows for a more intensive agenda and for those with knowledge of classical Hebrew to pursue individual themes at greater depth.
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Candy Bombers
$8.99Add to cartIn post-World War II Germany, tensions mount in Berlin, the former capital city now in Soviet-controlled territory but still governed in part by the western allies, creating an isolated enclave in a hostile land. Robert Elmer’s three-book generational series for kids unfolds against the backdrop of Cold War Berlin-gripping adventures in which three young teens, connected by family, faith, and friendship, struggle to hold on to life and each other, their lives brutally separated by the Berlin Wall. It is 1948, and teenage cousins Erich and Katrina are learning that survival in war-devastated Berlin is a challenge, which becomes even harder when the Soviets blockade West Berlin and the city begins to starve. But the Americans have food, and Erich is determined to get at it, even if it means taking a chance like sneaking onto a U.S. cargo plane.
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Getting Through The Tough Stuff
$19.99Add to cartWe live in a time when things are tough for a lot of folks. The boomers are beginning to feel anxiety as they move toward retirement. Many people are facing financial pressure and are up to their ears in debt. We are having to care for both our kids and our parents. The pace of life, and the demands of life, just keep getting more intense. And for many, these tough times bring life crises. This is a book of encouragement, hope and freedom… an invitation to meet Christ at the crossroads of our lives and move beyond the tough times.
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Crunch Point : The 21 Secrets To Succeeding When It Matters Most
$12.99Add to cartIn business and in life, things seldom go exactly as planned. You’ve probably figured out how to navigate around the little bumps, but what about full-blown crises, the kind with the potential to derail a company or send your personal life spinning out of control? Crunch Point presents a series of proven, practical techniques for overcoming any setback that may come your way — on the job, at home, or anywhere in your life. In an accessible, no-time-to-lose format, success expert Brian Tracy gives you the motivation, techniques, and confidence to grab tough and urgent problems by the horns and solve them — quickly, decisively, and completely. Crunch Point reveals Tracy’s 21 proven ways to: * Take control of the situation * Stay calm and rational — even in a crisis * Communicate clearly, constantly, and authoritatively with the key people around you — the skill that can make all the difference between failure and success * Identify and remove all obstacles to resolving the problem * Deal with problems more effectively by handling them systematically instead of randomly or emotionally, as most people do * Develop unshakeable courage and super-high self-confidence * Generate cash flow when the crisis is financial in nature * Never lose focus on your customers, no matter how dire the situation may seem * Cut your losses, when necessary, and save time and money in the long run Each chapter offers a selection of problem-solving strategies, complete with powerful action steps you can take regardless of the nature or size of the problem. It’s inevitable: At some point, the you-know-what is sure to hit the fan. Dealing with a crisis may never be easy or pleasant, but with the universal problem-solving techniques presented in Crunch Point, you’ll have the confidence and skills to rise above whatever comes your way — and you’ll be the one everyone calls “great under pressure.”
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Plague Maker : A Thriller
$17.99Add to cartJuly Fourth: New York City… Hundreds of thousands line the banks of the East and Hudson Rivers awaiting the nation’s largest fireworks display. Soon the sky will explode in cascading showers of silver and gold. Everywhere, faces will turn skyward in wide-eyed wonder. Then the sky will grow dark again–but it will not be empty. The air will be filled with clouds of smoke and specks of debris will rain down everywhere. Some will pick bits of paper from their children’s hair. Some will brush away still-burning sparks or embers. And some will absentmindedly scratch at the tiny, biting specks that dot their necks and arms. Will the beginning of the show mark the beginning of the end? That’s what FBI agent Nathan Donovan must decide. When he is forced to enlist the help of ex-wife Macy Monroe, an expert in the psychology of terrorism, the fireworks really begin–but she may be the only one who can help him stop the Plague Maker in time.
Christy Award Winner 2007
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Engaging The Bible
$24.00Add to cartBringing together some of the leading luminaries in feminist, womanist, and multicultural critical biblical studies in this book, each woman describes her unique perspective and offers her reading of a particular biblical scene. This is an ideal text for courses on feminist and multicultural biblical interpretation and includes discussion questions for each chapter and a list of suggested readings.
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Africana Worship Book Year A
$27.00Add to cartWhat is worship? For the Africana community, worship is the time or place where God “shows up and shows out,” affirming that an active God embodies human lives through companionship and communion. This type of worship allows God to enter into worshipper’s lives with an openness to respond with swaying of the body, tapping feet, weeping eyes, and heartfelt emotion.
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Play With Me
$15.49Add to cartSecond book in series by authors Sally Miller and Cheri Mueller
Inspires mothers to draw closer to God through relationships with their children and each other.
Follow up to the successful Walk With Me (FaithWalk 2005). Two young moms, writers, and fellow Wheaton College grads weave personal stories, recipes, and poetry around the theme of seeing God through the eyes of their children. Play With Me inspires women to celebrate the sacred beauty of God in ordinary life by following their children” simple, playful, forward-tumbling lead.
The authors share honestly about their mothering challenges and joys while rejoicing in the shared gift of life with children.
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Journey On The Kingdom Road
$16.49Add to cartThe kingdom of God is at hand. It is not just a future hope but an achievable reality through the work of Christ and the power of the Holy Spirit. Jesus tells us how that is possible in the greatest sermon ever preached, the Sermon on the Mount. In that sermon we learn kingdom living is not so much a lifestyle but a journey of the heart. Journey on the Kingdom Road describes that journey for which righteousness, peace, joy, and power lurk on every step.
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Post Resurrection : The Truth About The Rapture
$14.99Add to cartEveryone is focusing their attention on the end times. We are all very concerned about the timing of the rapture. Maybe you have read the “Left Behind Series”, or perhaps you have heard your pastor mentioning that we will one day disappear before the great tribulation starts. There have been many teachings on the rapture of the church but very few on the resurrection. If we want to know for sure when the rapture of the church is going to take place, we have to first find out when the resurrection will take place. For we all know, the dead in Christ rise first. This book is designed to pinpoint when the resurrection will happen. By doing so, all doubt will be removed as to when the rapture will take place.
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Is Financial Prosperity For Us Today Or The 1000 Year Reign Of Jesus Christ
$23.99Add to cartThe Holy Spirit has given us an abundance of scriptures concerning true prosperity, this book consists of twelve Bible truths. We have many Bible verses which tells us of God’s perfect will and plan about true prosperity. God says we have a better covenant (New Testament), which was established upon better promises than what Israel had (Old Testament), Hebrews 8:6. This covenant is established on the blood of Jesus and not on the blood of animals. God’s promise to Abraham for the church (Acts 2:1- Revelation 3:22) is spiritual with the promise of His Spirit to live in us. Israel’s promise had an abundance of material and financial wealth (Genesis 1:1- Acts1:1-26) because that is all they could receive before Jesus came. No one had the Holy Spirit living in them at that time. However, many already had an abundance of material and financial things so this is not why Jesus came. Today we are missing God’s timing concerning financial prosperity which will begin in the 1000 Year Reign of Jesus Christ. Don’t believe that we cannot miss God; Israel did concerning Jesus. The proof and the degree of the Holy Spirit speaking to and through us is the accuracy of our writings according to the scriptures. We are to judge everything according to the Bible. Please read and study these twelve truths with serious prayer to see what God is saying to us today about true prosperity. We are not to interpret scriptures by what we personally believe or think. 1st Corinthians 2:13 says “…the Holy Spirit teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. God’s word is spiritual. We should continually search for the truth by going from scripture to scripture so that we can truly understand what God is saying.
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Is Financial Prosperity For Us Today Or The 1000 Year Reign Of Jesus Christ
$15.49Add to cartThe Holy Spirit has given us an abundance of scriptures concerning true prosperity, this book consists of twelve Bible truths. We have many Bible verses which tells us of God’s perfect will and plan about true prosperity. God says we have a better covenant (New Testament), which was established upon better promises than what Israel had (Old Testament), Hebrews 8:6. This covenant is established on the blood of Jesus and not on the blood of animals. God’s promise to Abraham for the church (Acts 2:1- Revelation 3:22) is spiritual with the promise of His Spirit to live in us. Israel’s promise had an abundance of material and financial wealth (Genesis 1:1- Acts1:1-26) because that is all they could receive before Jesus came. No one had the Holy Spirit living in them at that time. However, many already had an abundance of material and financial things so this is not why Jesus came. Today we are missing God’s timing concerning financial prosperity which will begin in the 1000 Year Reign of Jesus Christ. Don’t believe that we cannot miss God; Israel did concerning Jesus. The proof and the degree of the Holy Spirit speaking to and through us is the accuracy of our writings according to the scriptures. We are to judge everything according to the Bible. Please read and study these twelve truths with serious prayer to see what God is saying to us today about true prosperity. We are not to interpret scriptures by what we personally believe or think. 1st Corinthians 2:13 says “…the Holy Spirit teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. God’s word is spiritual. We should continually search for the truth by going from scripture to scripture so that we can truly understand what God is saying.
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Fruitful Life
$17.99Add to cartAs we desire to be more like Jesus, we want to live loving, joyful lives. Yet loving our enemies seems impossible. Even being patient with our family is often difficult. How can we put on the gentle garments of grace when we’re so busy battling our old behavior patterns?
Navigator author Jerry Bridges explains how to practice the “fruit of the Spirit” (Gal. 5:22-23):
* love
* joy
* peace
* patience
* kindness
* goodness
* faithfulness
* gentleness
* self-controlLearn how the Holy Spirit can help in your spiritual formation as you become a serious follower of Christ.
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Celebration Of Life
$20.49Add to cartA CELEBRATION OF LIFE is the story of one POW?s 54-year journey since the Korean War, his 34 months in POW camps, suffered brutal treatment from guards on ?Death Marches? while many died or were killed by the guards. At the camps men faced constant pain inflicted by guards, little or no food or heat, no sanitary conditions, and no medical care. They constantly killed lice in their ragged clothes before the lice killed them, helped carry the dead outside to freeze before the lice left the dead to make homes in their own rags, and ate what little food was provided or whatever they could find. They learned to care for others needing help to walk, encouraged those needing help to stay alive, shared equally food given or found, helped others eat food unfit for starving dogs. They would cook and eat anything green, what moved, and even what looked like it shouldn?t be eaten. If a guy refused to eat, they would talk, walk, or yell to get them to eat. But even then, the guy may die that night.
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Truth With Love
$16.99Add to cartFrancis Schaeffer was a well-known, extremely influential apologist and thinker who made his mark defending orthodox truth in the face of strong opposition. He was foremost in the vocation of apologetic ministry, and he was a brilliant man whom God used mightily during the decades of the 1960’s, 70’s, and 80’s.
In Truth With Love, Bryan Follis explores the theology and thinking that fueled the ministry of Francis Schaeffer, from his Reformed position to his understanding of fundamentalism. Follis examines Schaeffer’s apologetic argument and the role of reason in his discussions and writings. The position Francis Schaeffer took against modernism and its applicability in this day of postmodernism are studied as well.
This book is a beneficial resource for any Francis Schaeffer fan and any minister, teacher, or student who appreciates truth and its defense in the face of different kinds of opposition.
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Evangelical Feminism : A New Path To Liberalism
$25.00Add to cartBy critically examining the writings of egalitarians, Grudem shows that, while egalitarian leaders claim to be subject to Scripture in their thinking, what is increasingly evident in their actual scholarship and practice is an effective rejection of the authority of Scripture.
Egalitarianism is heading toward an Adam who is neither male nor female, a Jesus whose manhood is not important, and a God who is both Father and Mother, and then maybe only Mother. The common denominator in all of this is a persistent undermining of the authority of Scripture in our lives. Grudem’s conclusion is that we must choose either evangelical feminism or biblical truth. We can’t have it both ways!
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Confirming Justice
$14.99Add to cartWashington D.C. Insiders Release New Thriller Involving Supreme Court Nominee
In Confirming Justice, all eyes are focused on Federal judge Dwight Pendergast who is secretly in line for nomination to the Supreme Court and presiding over a bribery case involving a cabinet secretary’s son. When the key prosecution witness disappears, FBI agent Griff Topping risks everything to save the case while Pendergast’s enemies seek to embroil the judge in a web of corruption and deceit. The world watches as events unfold that threaten the powerful position and those who covet it.The suspense novels from Diane Munson, former Federal Prosecutor, and David Munson, former Federal Special Agent, garner critical acclaim for authentic plot lines and realistic characters. The husband and wife team season their writing with many of their high-profile legal experiences.
Featuring a mix of plot twists, intrigue and faith under fire, Confirming Justice is a popular and satisfying read for those wanting a realistic portrayal of what goes on behind the scenes at the center of power.
Fans of Grisham will enjoy the intricate plot and true-to-life battle of federal agents as they strive to bring the guilty to justice. Readers will find encouragement in the heartwarming message of hope in the midst of turmoil.
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Pilgrim Heart : The Way Of Jesus In Everyday Life
$16.99Add to cartOriginally, the faith of Jesus was considered a distinctive way of life rather than a sophisticated theological system. Pilgrim Heart re-imagines discipleship as – first and foremost – a particular way of life guided by a set of simple, but powerful, daily practices known to the earliest disciples and the saints through the ages. These include:
Friendship
Sabbath Rest
Hospitality
Confession
Forgiveness
Listening
Discernment
Singing
Creating
Telling Stories
How would this approach to the religion of Jesus change the way we think and live? Pilgrim Heart is an invitation to consider afresh the way of Jesus in light of practices that have proven to transform lives for two thousand years -
Nurturing Your Childs Soul
$18.99Add to cartMany of us worry about our kids getting pulled under by our culture’s negative currents. We try to shout over the roar of media blitzes, misguided values in the schools, and peer pressure. And we wonder how to raise faithful children. For parents who sometimes feel they haven’t done enough, Jones provides ideas for taking small steps toward communication and intimacy, showing you how to take advantage of teachable moments by fully “focusing on the present.”
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Making A Marriage
$12.99Add to cartWherever you are in your marriage journey-from contemplating marriage to having spent many years with your spouse-you will benefit from the wisdom of Making a Marriage.
Written by Christian educators and licensed counselors, this valuable collection will give you a new perspective on your relationship with your spouse and the vows you made.
You’ll learn new skills to help you improve in areas such as:
*Communication
*Conflict resolution
*Stress management
*Building and maintaining intimacyWhether you’re facing challenges in your marriage or you just want to make your good marriage all God intends it to be, Making a Marriage will help you lay a strong foundation for the lifelong commitment of building a loving and lasting relationship with your spouse.
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Encounter God In The City
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God is at work in the city. And he invites his people to join him. But the city is not merely a mission field for Christians to target. The city is also the environment where Christians are discipled and lives are forged into the image of Jesus.
Urban ministry veteran Randy White shows how God transforms you when you answer God’s call to the city. Urban life peels away your sin and self-deception and challenges your unexamined assumptions about privilege, race, class and power. Experiential discipleship moves you from abstract theory to hands-on learning and on-the-ground action, revolutionizing your perspective and making a difference in local neighborhoods and beyond.
Passionate and practical, White’s vivid narratives of experiencing God in the city show you how your spiritual health is intertwined with the health of the metropolis. Seek the welfare of the city, and both you and the city will be transformed.
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Little Primer On Humble Apologetics
$17.99Add to cartAlways be prepared to make your defense to anyone who demands from you an accounting for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and reverence. (1 Peter 3:15-16) We’ve all felt the tension. An opportunity to speak for Christ comes up, and either we jump in with both barrels blasting or we cower in the corner and say nothing. Is there a better way? Can we learn to speak boldly, yet humbly, about our faith in Christ? Veteran apologist Jim Sire offers salient counsel derived from over fifty years of experience in a vast array of settings. Through a variety of snapshots, both successful and unsuccessful, he helps us understand the nature, value and limits of apologetics, and suggests how to tailor our comments to respect our audience whether large or small, formal or informal. He then outlines five key arguments for the Christian faith and offers responses to five common objections. Finally, for those especially drawn to apologetics, he offers counsel on how to discern a call to apologetic ministry.
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Property Management Tool Kit
$24.99Add to cartMaking money through real estate investments isn’t as simple as buying up property and hoping for the best — you have to know what you’re doing. The fact is, how you manage a property directly affects how profitable it will be. The Property Management Tool Kit goes beyond the basics, giving you all the guidance you need to successfully manage your properties, avoid pitfalls, and make a profit. You’ll find out how to: * Add value to your property, including which improvements to make or avoid * Address legal concerns, tenant issues, and administration and maintenance * handle monetary factors such as cash flow, record-keeping, and rent collection * Expand your portfolio and establish financial goals * Hire a team, partner with vendors, and use advertising In addition, you’ll find helpful management tools: a market survey; rental criteria; and sample documents and forms, including a rental application, a lease, a guest screening card, rules and regulations, renewals, a vacancy report, a maintenance log, and much more. Practical and informative, this is the one book you need to successfully manage your properties.
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Seeing The Word
$32.00Add to cartTaking full account of more recent approaches and historical-critical methods, the author proposes a rethinking of the way students and scholars should approach the New Testament.
A timely prophetic plea for an ‘evangelical catholic reading of the text in our own time’
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Mission Under Scrutiny
$21.00Add to cartWhat is Christian mission in a world post-everything? This volume is a masterful rethinking of the problems and prospect of the Christian vocation to mission in light of the whole checkered legacy – religious, philosophical, colonial, and economic – of modernity.
Kirk draws on his considerable experience of worldwide mission and his expertise in modern Western thought to throw light on all the most burning questions, such as:
*What kinds of mission initiatives are appropriate today?
*Is it legitimate to invite adherents of different religions to follow Jesus?
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Immanent Divine : God Creation And The Human Predicament
$32.00Add to cartWhile traditional Christian thought and spirituality have always affirmed the divine presence in human life, Thatamanil argues we have much to learn from non-dualistic Hindu thought, especially that of the eighth-century thinker Sankara, and from the Christian panentheism of Paul Tillich. Thatamanil compares their diagnoses and prognoses of the human predicament in light of their doctrine of God or Ultimate Reality. What emerges is a new theology of God and human beings, with a richer and more radical conception of divine immanence, a reconceived divine transcendence, and a keener sense of how the dynamic and active Spirit at work in us anchors real hope and deep joy.
Using key insights from Christian and Hindu thought Thatamanil vindicates comparative theology, expands the vocabulary about the ineffable God, and arrives at a new construal of the problems and prospects of the human condition.
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Sharing Food : Christian Practices For Enjoyment
$16.00Add to cartOur everyday personal, familial, and communal practices of eating, says Jung, have the potential for making us more attentive to our life purposes, more attuned to our communal identities, and even more mindful of the presence of God.
Juxtaposing practices with values, Jung explores how food and eating function culturally today. He explores the larger dimensions of personal and group eating, the great resonance that feasting and food and fasting have within the Christian tradition, and how all this figures very practically in Christian lifestyle. His work culminates in a chapter on the Lord’s Supper as a model for eating and the Eucharist as an occasion for sharing with the worldwide family of God.
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Faithful Interpretation : Reading The Bible In A Postmodern World
$21.00Add to cartA K. M. Adam has become one of the leading voices in postmodern criticism. This volume brings together his original essays introducing postmodern interpretation and arguing its urgent importance for the life of the contemporary church. Includes a bibliography and name and Scripture indexes.
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What I Learned When I Was 10
$19.99Add to cartIn this book, popular author J. Ellsworth Kalas reflects back on the tenth year of his life and talks about how that year shaped him and his Christian faith in so many important ways. (That was the year in which he first read the entire Bible cover to cover, for example, and the year in which he first felt a calling to Christian ministry.) Kalas shares many stories about what it was like growing up in Iowa during the days of the Great Depression, and he recounts many people and events that shaped and have continued to shape his life to this day.
Themes explored include the importance of connecting with one’s past, salvation, hearing God’s call, living life with urgency, self-worth, the importance of investing and giving wisely, discovering the richness of the Bible, having confidence in God’s promise, and the importance of looking back over your life to make sense of all the lessons you have learned.
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365 Meditations For Grandmothers By Grandmothers
$18.99Add to cartThis delightful devotional offers a year’s worth of short daily devotional readings written specifically for grandmothers, by grandmothers. Six different women of faith present two months’ worth of devotions each, providing a rich variety of topics and meditations. Designed to be used by grandmothers of all ages, the daily meditations are breif enough to be read in just a few short minutes yet meaningful enough to prompt a longer time of devotion and prayer if desired. Each day’s reading includes a focus Scripture verse from a mix of translations (including NIV and NRS), a brief meditation, and a prayer.
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Canons
$35.99Add to cartIn this lively and entertaining volume, Trevor Beeson describes many of the greatest and most engaging Canons in the history of the Church of England. With a wealth of amusing detail and anecdote, as well as a skilful marshalling of the essential facts, he brings the Canons alive, and considers their significance in the social and ecclesiastical history of their times.
Tracing the course of the dramatic change in the fortunes of the English cathedrals and in turn the lives of the most interesting and significant Canons who were in office, Trevor Beeson provides readers with an interesting and undemanding introduction to two centuries of Church history with these portraits of quite remarkable men.
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Soul Of Christianity
$14.99Add to cart“I have tried to describe a Christianity which is fully compatible with everything we now know, and to indicate why Christians feel privileged to give their lives to it.”
-Huston SmithIn his most personal and passionate book on the spiritual life, renowned author, scholar, and teacher of world religions Huston Smith turns to his own life-long religion, Christianity. With stories and personal anecdotes, Smith not only presents the basic beliefs and essential teachings of Christianity, but argues why religious belief matters in today’s secular world.
Though there is a wide variety of contemporary interpretations of Christianity-some of them conflicting-Smith cuts through these to describe Christianity’s “Great Tradition,” the common faith of the first millennium of believers, which is the trunk of the tree from which Christianity’s many branches, twigs, and leaves have grown. This is not the exclusivist Christianity of strict fundamentalists, nor the liberal, watered-down Christianity practiced by many contemporary churchgoers. In exposing biblical literalism as unworkable as well as enumerating the mistakes of modern secularists, Smith presents the very soul of a real and substantive faith, one still relevant and worth believing in.
Smith rails against the hijacked Christianity of politicians who exploit it for their own needs. He decries the exercise of business that widens the gap between rich and poor, and fears education has lost its sense of direction. For Smith, the media has become a business that sensationalizes news rather than broadening our understanding, and art and music have become commercial and shocking rather than enlightening. Smith reserves his harshest condemnation, however, for secular modernity, which has stemmed from the misreading of science-the mistake of assuming that “absence of evidence” of a scientific nature is “evidence of absence.” These mistakes have all but banished faith in transcendence and the Divine from mainstream culture and pushed it to the margins.
Though the situation is grave, these modern misapprehensions can be corrected, says Smith, by reexamining the great tradition of Christianity’s first millennium and reaping the lessons it holds for us today. This fresh examination of the Christian worldview, its history, and its major branches provides the deepest, most authentic vision of Christianity-one that is both tolerant and substantial, traditional and relevant.
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Gods Politics
$14.95Add to cartSince when did believing in God and having moral values make you pro-war, pro-rich, and pro-Republican? And since when did promoting and pursuing a progressive social agenda with a concern for economic security, health care, and educational opportunity mean you had to put faith in God aside?
While the Right in America has hijacked the language of faith to prop up its political agenda-an agenda not all people of faith support-the Left hasn’t done much better, largely ignoring faith and continually separating moral discourse and personal ethics from public policy. While the Right argues that God’s way is their way, the Left pursues an unrealistic separation of religious values from morally grounded political leadership. The consequence is a false choice between ideological religion and soulless politics.
The effect of this dilemma was made clear in the 2004 presidential election. The Democrats’ miscalculations have left them despairing and searching for a way forward. It has become clear that someone must challenge the Republicans’ claim that they speak for God, or that they hold a monopoly on moral values in the nation’s public life. Wallis argues that America’s separation of church and state does not require banishing moral and religious values from the public square. In fact, the very survival of America’s social fabric depends on such values and vision to shape our politics-a dependence the nation’s founders recognized.
God’s Politics offers a clarion call to make both our religious communities and our government more accountable to key values of the prophetic religious tradition-that is, make them pro-justice, pro-peace, pro-environment, pro-equality, pro-consistent ethic of life (beyond single issue voting), and pro-family (without making scapegoats of single mothers or gays and lesbians). Our biblical faith and religious traditions simply do not allow us as a nation to continue to ignore the poor and marginalized, deny racial justice, tolerate the ravages of war, or turn away from the human rights of those made in the image of God. These are the values of love and justice, reconciliation, and community that Jesus taught and that are at the core of what many of us believe, Christian or not. In the tradition of prophets such as Martin Luther King Jr., Dorothy Day, and Desmond Tutu, Wallis inspires us to hold our political leaders and policies accountable by integrating our deepest moral convictions into our nation’s public life.
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Just Walk Across The Room
$19.99Add to cartWhat if you knew that by simply crossing the room and saying hello to someone, you could change that person’s forever? Just a few steps to make an eternal difference. It has nothing to do with methods and everything to do with taking a genuine interest in another human being. All you need is a heart that’s in tune with the Holy Spirit and a willingness to venture out of your “Circle of Comfort” and into another person’s life.
Just Walk Across the Room brings personal evangelism into the twenty-first century. Building on the solid foundation laid in Becoming a Contagious Christian, Bill Hybels shows how you can participate in the model first set by Jesus, who stepped down from heaven 2,000 years ago to bring hope and redemption to broken people living in a fallen world. Now it’s your turn. Your journey may not be as dramatic, but it can have a life-changing impact for someone standing a few steps away from you-and for you as well, as you learn the power of extending care, compassion, and inclusiveness under the guidance of the Holy Spirit.
The highest value in personal evangelism is cooperating with the Spirit, says Hybels. This means playing only the role you’re meant to play-walking when the Spirit says to walk, talking when he says to talk, and falling silent when he suggests that you’ve said enough. Hybels encourages you to “live in 3D” …
Developing friendships
Discovering stories
Discerning appropriate next steps
… as a means of learning to understand the Holy Spirit’s promptings. With fresh perspectives from his own reflections and experiences collected during his most recent decade of ministry, Bill Hybels shows with convincing and inspiring clarity the power of this personal, richly relational approach to evangelism.
The stakes are high. The implications are eternal. And you may be only a conversation away from having an eternal impact on someone’s life-if you will just walk across the room.
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Monastery Without Walls
$30.00Add to cartMuch of today’s fascination with and attraction to the Rule of St Benedict can be attributed to John Main, a Benedictine monk, who first saw that this rule of life for monastic communities could be relevant for Christian living in the secular world.
He founded a community of lay people who shared his vision and from this small beginning has grown The World Community for Christian Meditation which today is active in numerous countries around the world and has thousands of members and associates. Its work, and its emphasis on meditation, derives directly from the Benedictine focus on prayer and lectio divina or holy reading.
Right up to the end of his life in 1982, John Main wrote a series of remarkable letters of spiritual direction to WCCM’s growing family. Two collections have previously been published and are now out of print and the complete letters are now published in this single volume. Together they constitute a volume of remarkable spiritual wisdom and insight, as fresh and relevant for today as when they were first written.
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Truth Seeking Heart
$40.00Add to cartAustin Farrer was part of the extraordinary mid-20th century group of ‘Oxford Christians’ which also included C S Lewis, J R R Tolkien, Charles Williams and Dorothy Sayers.
Described as ‘the one genius that the Church of England produced’ in the last century and ‘author of incomparably the most interesting theological books ever to come out of Oxford’, his great legacy is that his considerable learning expressed itself as practical spiritual direction.
He believed that after all the argument, analysis and sifting of evidence, the purpose of theology was to show how to live and how to love. He died in 1968 and his many books are now out of print. Here is a thematically arranged anthology of his most influential writings with an extended introduction that assesses his contribution to Anglican life and through today.
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Descartes Meditations On First Philosophy
$15.00Add to cartThe SCM Briefly series is a series of summarized texts that are commonly used on theology and philosophy A level and Level One undergraduate courses in the UK. As students are less likely today to come to these subjects with language experience, the Briefly series, summarising the meaning of the original texts, is a painless and quick way to get to grips with what the philosophers were writing about. The language throughout is modern and approachable, but the books manage to avoid “dumbing down” by including line by line analysis and short quotes to give students a feel for the original. In addition, each book begins with an introduction, providing a context for the writer and his writings, a short summary as well as the detailed summary and each book also contains a glossary of terms.
Descartes’ Meditations on First Philosophy, was published in 1641, designed for the philosopher and for the theologian. It consists of six meditations, Of the Things that we may doubt, Of the Nature of the Human Mind, Of God: that He exists, Of Truth and Error, Of the Essence of Material Things, Of the Existence of Material Things and of the Real Distinction between the Mind and the Body of Man. However many scientists were opposed to Descartes’ ideas, even in his own lifetime. Although famous as a mathematician, his mechanics of how the world exists, were proven not to be possible by Newton. This did not stop his ideas being championed in Europe for over a hundred years. His philosophy is one that students cannot be without and this Briefly provides a thorough and accessible guide to one of his most important works.
