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Ministers Service Book For Pulpit And Parish
$29.99Pastor McNeil shares the forms, orders, prayers, and aids he’s relied on for more than 20 years, so you can depend on them now! Categories include public worship, the administration of sacraments, ministering to the sick, and more. Features practical suggestions for each category, and a lectionary for the Old and New Testaments. 249 pages, pocket-sized softcover from Eerdmans.
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Sexual Character A Print On Demand Title
$21.99Aiming to combat the confusion today regarding sexual issues, theologian Marva Dawn offers a fresh biblical understanding of human sexuality, dealing with such issues as marriage, divorce, teenage dating, and homosexuality.
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56 Lectionary Stories For Preaching Cycle B
$18.68“Emilio Lopez received a surprise phone call from his bishop one day. “Would you be interested in a call to a white congregation in a neighborhood that is becoming Hispanic? I think you’re just the kind of pastor they need in these days of transition.””
— from the Advent 1 story
Here are 56 short stories for use in preaching. Each is a contemporary adaptation of a biblical theme.
“56 Lectionary Stories for Preaching” offers one story for each Sunday in the church year plus stories for Christmas Eve/Day and Ash Wednesday.
The collection is based upon the Revised Common Lectionary, Cycle B. Authors represent clergy storytellers from five denominations from across the United States and Canada.
Most of the stories are based on gospel texts. Some stem from first or second lesson scriptures. The collection offers a well-rounded selection of themes. Stories often offer surprise endings that catch listeners’ attention. Stories in this collection strengthen believers’ faith.Add to cartin stock within 3-5 days of online purchase
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Lectionary Worship Aids Series 3 Cycle B
$21.18“Hear the good news! The victory that defeats the world is our faith, for who is victor over evil, but the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God. Friends, believe the good news!”
— Declaration of God’s Forgiveness for Easter 2
“Lectionary Worship Aids,” Series III, Cycle B, follows in the CSS tradition of providing creative worship resources for congregations.
Series III is based on the Revised Common Lectionary and New Revised Standard Version.
Each Sunday offers:
– Listing of the four lectionary texts for the day
– Call to Worship
– Prayer of Confession
– Declaration of God’s Forgiveness
– Exhortation
– Prayer of the Day
– Prayer of Thanksgiving
– Prayer of Dedication
– Psalm (congregational reading)Add to cartin stock within 3-5 days of online purchase
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Worship And Warfare
$9.40Worship and Warfare is a treasury of truths which can enrich your prayer ministry. This booklet includes names of God, reminders of His character, hymns, quotes, and scripture verses which will stimulate, guide and refresh your prayer times.
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Hard Living People And Mainstream Christians
$23.99If you can’t stand four-letter words, you shouldn’t read this book. This book contains expletive language used by hard living people, so that readers will better understand the hard living culture and discover ways to minister within it. “Through stories of hard-living people and pastors who minister with them, Tex Sample challenges mainline churches to break the yoke of middle-class captivity and join with the Christ who lives among the poor and marginalized. The book is inspirational, analytical, and practical in its treatment of an issue too long ignored by contemporary church leadership.” – Kenneth L. Carder, Resident Bishop, Nashville Area, The United Methodist Church
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John Knox : An Account Of The Development Of His Spirituality
$30.00One of a series of books on key individuals in the Christian life, which introduces them against their contemporary background with a concise biographical chapter, followed by examples of their works. This book looks at the life of John Knox.
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American Hour : A Time Of Reckoning And The Once And Future Role Of Faith
$28.95An internationally known writer and speaker on religion and public life brilliantly ananlyzes the causes of our current moral malaise. Guinness examines how perilously close we have come to losing the shared beliefs, traditions and ideals that have helped shape America and sets forth a compelling view of a new role for religion.
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William Ewart Gladstone A Print On Demand Title
$28.99Perhaps the most eminent Victorians, a master alike of par liamentary debate and public oratory, and regarded as the greatest Christian statesman of his day, William Ewart Glade stone (1809-1898) governed Britain at a time when the country stood at the apex of world affairs. In this book historian David Bebbigton presents a superb, balanced portrait of Gladestone – his character, his convictions, his actions, his legacy.
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Hidden Keys To A Loving Lasting Marriage
$19.9928 Chapters
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Fulfilling Marriages Don’t just happen.In fact, truly joyful marriages are a lot of work! In Hidden Keys of a Loving Lasting Marriage, best-selling author Gary Smalley shares the principles of strong marriages. He points out the common problems between husbands and wives. And he shows how to turn those troubles into teamwork.
Hidden Keys of a Loving, Lasting Marriage explores:
Two reasons why marriages fail
How to meet the needs of your spouse
How a husband’s lack of affection weakens a marriage
Crucial differences between men and women
How to motivate your spouse to listen to youThis book is a combination of Smalley’s earlier published works, If Only He Knew and For Better or For Best. The first half of the book discusses the husband’s part in building a successful relationship. The second half of the book shows how wives can nurture their marriages.
Good marriages don’t just happen. They take both husband and wife working together to understand, appreciate, and honor one another. This books shows couples how to do just that.
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PastorPower
$23.99Power is a persistent topic of conversation in circles both sacred and secular. Yet, how are those who follow a crucified Christ, one “whose strength was made perfect in weakness,” to think about power?
Martha Ellen Stortz presents an important volume for all those who lead or would lead in the ministry of the church. She lays an ecumenical groundwork for understanding ministry and authority, then systematically examines the different dimensions of power inherent in both: power over — or coercive power; power within — or charismatic power; and power with — or coactive power. Through case studies and in-depth discussions, Stortz offers guidance for balancing these three dimensions of power in one’s own ministry, enabling readers to recognize their own gifts or liabilities and shape their leadership styles to reflect the image of Christ.
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Whistling In The Dark
$21.99Awry and thought-provoking jaunt through the spiritual terrain of our everyday language — a lexion of uncommon insight to jar the mind and nourish the soul. “I think of faith as a kind of whistling in the dark, because in much the same way,” writes Buechner, “it helps to give us courage and to hold the shadows at bay.”
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Music Thru The Eyes Of Faith
$31.65“Christian musicians know of the obligation to make music as agents of God’s grace. They make music graciously, whatever its kind or style, as ambassadors of Christ, showing love, humility, servanthood, meekness, victory, and good example . . . Music is freely made, by faith, as an act of worship, in direct response to the overflowing grace of God in Christ Jesus.”
Co-sponsored by the Christian College Coalition, this thought-provoking study of music-as-worship leads both students and experienced musicians to a better understanding of the connections between music making and Christian faith.
“Christian music makers have to risk new ways of praising God. Their faith must convince them that however strange a new offering may be, it cannot out-reach, out-imagine, or overwhelm God. God remains God, ready to swoop down in the most wonderful way, amidst all of the flurry and mystery of newness and repetition, to touch souls and hearts, all because faith has been exercised and Christ’s ways have been imitated. Meanwhile, a thousand tongues will never be enough.”
Best relates musical practice to a larger theology of creation and creativity, and explores new concepts of musical quality and excellence, musical unity, and the incorporation of music from other cultures into today’s music.
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Pack Up Your Gloomies In A Great Big Box Then Sit On The Lid And Laugh
$13.99Pack Up Your Gloomees is filled with bittersweet stories of Barbara’s journey through the minefields life and her wise and encouraging responses to letters from hurting parents. Best of all, each chapter ends with a day brightening, laughter-packed collection of Gloomee Busters. She lovingly lights the way for others by sharing her own struggles with.
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Ripe Life : Sermons On The Fruit Of The Spirit
$21.99These sermons on “the fruit of the Spirit” are developed out of Galatians 5: 22-23. This theme is often selected by pastors who preach because it is an excellent vehicle into understanding the characteristics of personal integrity at home and on the job.
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Let The Oppressed Go Free
$39.00This important collection draws together fascinating recent studies of aspects of the New Testament of special interest to women by Louise Schottroff, a leading European scholar. These essays, translated for the first time, will deepen feminist scholarship in the English-speaking world. There are insightful depictions of the Virgin Mary, “the woman who loved much,” Mary Magdalene, and the women at Jesus’ grave. Schottoff also studies Paul and women in the first Christian communities of the Roman empire. Such fresh interpretations will be valuable to students at all levels as well as to scholars and interested lay readers.
The Gender and the Biblical Tradition series brings to a wide audience important new discoveries concerning women and the Bible, ancient Israel, and early Christianity. The books explore the role of sexuality within the biblical tradition and document the continuing influence of biblical treatments of gender on subsequent life and thought.
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New Genesis : Theology And The Genetic Revolution
$30.00How should living things and our own human nature be changed in the hands of those who can alter them genetically? How do we set limits, and what goals are legitimate pursuits? Neither the science of genetics nor the theory of evolution can answer these questions alone. This book’s contribution to a theological understanding of science and technology helps in showing how Christian theology can provide a solid frameword for considering these issues.
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Divorcing With Dignity
$18.00This practical guide provides an alternative to the standard methods of arbitration and litigation used by divorcing couples–and shows how mediation can be utilized instead. Based on the author’s professional experience in law and as a minister who has mediated for more than five hundred couples, Tim Emerick-Cayton provides illustrations on how to survive the pain and anguish of divorcing while maintaining personal integrity and faith. With case examples of those who have experienced successful mediation, Emerick-Cayton shows how mediation reduces cost, hostility, and confusion. Emerick-Cayton says mediated agreements are complied with almost twice as often as court-rendered judgments.
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Christian Beginnings
$60.00This book starts with a general introduction by Jurgen Becker, and continues with a study of the interaction of Jesus with the world around him by Christoph Burchard. Varieties of early Christianity are illuminated in an examination of the oldest Jewish-Christian community by Carsten Colpe; “The Circle of Stephen and Its Mission,” by Karl Loning; and “Paul and His Churches,” by Jurgen Becker. Starting from the gospels, John K. Riches explores “The Synoptic Evangelists and Their Communities.” “Post-Pauline Christianity and Pagan society” are analyzed by Peter Lampe and Ulrich Luz. “Apocalyptic Currents” are reviewed by Ulrich B. Muller, and finally C. Kingsley Barrett delineates “Johannine Christianity.”
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God With A Human Face
$20.00“The face of God” is a potent metaphor, like none other. To see God’s face is something more than theoretical, mystical, or conceptional–and to see it, we must look at the face of Jesus. In this innovative book, John Purdy focuses on the face of Jesus and explores twelve Gospel stories beginning with Jesus’ birth and moving through his crucifixion and resurrection. Purdy shows us that by looking at Jesus, God’s intentions toward us can be discerned.
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When All Else Fails Read The Instructions (Student/Study Guide)
$16.99In When All Else Fails, Read the Instructions, Mooer takes a close look at three sections of the Bible which dramatically underscore key “instructions” for living: 1. Instructions for Meaningful Living- The Beatitudes, 2. Instructions for Moral Living- The Ten Commandments, 3. The Bottom Line Instruction- The New Commandment of Jesus, “Love One Another.” Drawing upon rich stories and personal experience, Moore illustrates how these Bible passages can help you find meaning and fulfillment in life.
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Culture Of Interpretation A Print On Demand Title
$31.99This is a print on demand book and is therefore non- returnable. A bold, ambitious undertaking, this book offers a broad-ranging account of contemporary American culture, the complex network of symbols, practices, and beliefs at the heart of our society. Writing from a well-considered Christian perspective, Roger Lundin explores the historical background of some of our “postmodern” culture’s central beliefs and examines the crucial ethical and theological implications of those beliefs.The goal of Lundin’s sweeping cultural analysis is to initiate a meaningful dialogue – within the Christian church about the relationship of Christ to contemporary culture, and outside the church about the nature of the self and of truth. The Culture of Interpretation will be of interest to educated general readers, to scholars in various disciplines (philosophy, history, sociology, English, etc.), and to Christian graduate students in theology and the humanities.
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Hebrew Bible The Old Testament And Historical Criticism
$39.00Writing from a Jewish perspective, Jon Levenson reviews many often neglected theoretical questions. He focuses on the relationship between two interpretive communities–the community of scholars who are committed to the historical-critical method of biblical interpretation and the community responsible for the canonization and preservation of the Bible.
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Islam And War
$30.00This book explores questions regarding the justice of war and addresses the lack of comparative perspectives on the ethics of war, particularly with respect to Islam. John Kelsay begins with the war in the Persian Gulf, focusing on the role of Islamic symbols in the rhetoric of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. He provides an overview of the Islamic tradition in regards to war and peace, and then focuses on the notion of religion as a just cause for war.
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Land And The Book
$25.99The Land and the Book provides an overview of the geography and the history of the Bible by the use of brief descriptions of each of the major areas in which the events of the biblical narrative took place (primarily Palestine, Egypt, and Syria) and reviews of the history of ancient Israel, beginning with the patriachs and continuing through the New Testament era and the crusader period to the present.
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To Know As We Are Known
$14.99This primer on authentic education explores how mind and heart can work together in the learning process. Moving beyond the bankruptcy of our current model of education, Parker Palmer finds the soul of education through a lifelong cultivation of the wisdom each of us possesses and can share to benefit others.
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Reading Luke-Acts : Dynamics Of Biblical Narrative
$45.00This excellent book shows how literary criticism illuminates the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles, reclaiming them as biblical narrative. William Kurz explores literary aspects such as implied authors or readers, plot, and assumed information, or gaps. He then highlights the role of the narrator, who is the primary key to the focus and perspective of the narrative. Kurz also discovers an implicit commentary in Luke–Acts. Finally, he traces the implications of reading Luke–Acts as canonical Scripture and the merits of literary methods.
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Written Also For Our Sake
$32.00In this book, James Aageson likens interpretation to a conversation and uses Paul as a model for illustrating this. In Paul’s case, interpretation is a conversation between two people, Paul and scripture. Aageson gives four case studies of Paul conversing with scripture: Paul’s use of Abraham texts, his understanding of Israel, his use of the figure of Adam, and his seeing Christ as a figure by which all traditions are understood in new ways.
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Energizing The Congregation
$25.00ENERGIZING THE CONGREGATION, images that shape your church’s ministry. This study suggests that there are many appropriate ways for congregations to be in mission. The authors conclude that churches are revitalized by claiming the symbols that best articulate self-identity. Thus, churches gain the knowledge to build on their strengths and address their weaknesses. Dudley and Johnson describe five images of churches relationships to their communities over time: the survivor, prophet, pillar, pilgrim and servant styles, which are found in a wide variety of congregations and situations.
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Unmasking The Powers
$53.33“UNMASKING THE POWERS is one of the most powerful and incisive treatments of the evils which afflict our society and our church that I have ever read. With wisdom, scholar- ship, and evangelical zeal, Walter Wink deals with the many ways that the powers of evil infiltrate our lives. This book is a must for anyone who would understand the seductive and destructive aspects of evil which are so much a part of human life. It provides not only methods by which the influence of evil can be unmasked, but also hints of how that influence can be counteracted.” – Morton Kelsey Professor Emeritus University of Notre Dame
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Canon And Mission
$12.00This book’s theme is that the biblical canon, read as a whole or as a “unity of unities,” calls for a mission, and mission emerges from and always has need of the biblical canon for its witness in an to the world. Beeby proposes the Exodus theme as a way of understanding both the canonical unity of the Bible and Christianity’s mission in today’s world – a mission that must include interfaith diaglogue. The canon moves from creation, he writes, and this movement, restoration, and redemption is through a sent (missio) nation, son, and community.
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Laymans Guide To Counseling
$12.48The increasing need for counseling has caused today’s Christian leaders to become more sensitive to raise up lay-counselors to share this burden with them. Jesus’ command is to “set the captives free”. The Layman’s guide to Counseling shows you how.
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Truth Unchanged Unchanging
$17.99What is man? What is wrong with the human race? Unless we answer these questions correctly, we can not hope to solve the problems in our world – problems such as crime, exploitation, greed, proverty, pollution and war. Obviously those who shape social policy today are offering the wrong answers. In this masterful apologetic for the gospel, Dr Lloyd-Jones exposes these flaws in modern thinking, especially in the “scientific approach.” In this volume we see a doctor make a penetrating diagnosis of the human condition and show decisively that the true remedy for our ills is in Jesus Christ – and Him alone.
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Teaching The Bible To Adults And Youth (Revised)
$21.99Teaching the Bible to Adults and Youth shows how to make the “transparent” – with God evident throughout. Dick Murray offers suggestions for teaching, provides different approaches and perspectives from which to teach and conduct activities for learning, and examines such Bible study series as Kerygma, Trinity, Bethel, and Disciple.
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Mark Volume 2 9-16 A Print On Demand Title
$53.99The fullest commentary ever to come out on the Gospel of Mark, this monumental work by Robert H. Gundry, reflecting years of painstaking scholarship, presents a well-argued alternative reading of the Greek text of Mark. Gundry turns from form and redaction criticism, both of which he considers largely inapplicable to Mark, to a very close reading of Mark’s text as it stands – a reading that pays special attention to such literary devices as word order, chiasm, inclusion, asyndeton, and the historical present tense.
Driving the commentary is Gundry’s provocative thesis that the Gospel of Mark constitutes a straightforward apology for the apparently shameful manner of Jesus’ death; as such Mark is essentially an evangelistic tract rather than an obliquely written handbook of Christian discipleship and church life. Besides positing this bold, seldom-defended thesis, Gundry’s commentary contains these features:
*Thoroughness of treatment, including extensive interaction with other interpretations and detailed discussions of authorship, date, etc.;
*A defense of the Papian tradition, including Mark as getting his materials from Peter;
*A rejection of the view that Mark 13 reflects the Jewish war of 66-70 C. E.
*A lengthy excursus on the Secret Gospel of Mark;
*A rejection of currently popular ironic, polemic, and other symbolic interpretations;
*New literary critical arguments supporting the view that Mark did not originally end at 16:8; and
*A massive bibliography.
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Dwelling Place For Wisdom
$35.00World-renowned philosopher of religion Raimon Panikkar sees wisdom as the art and knowledge of life and a source of happiness and joy–a dwelling place where people are blessed. In this book he discusses four major issues: an existential feminist approach to life and knowldge, a catholic and less fragmented anthropology, a recovery of the most ancient meaning of philosophy, and how to preserve one’s own identity without being shallow, indifferent, or exclusive. He provides a distinctive practical resource for individuals wanting to experience wisdom.
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How To Build An Exciting Singles Ministry
$19.99Seventy million single adults make up the largest minority in the United States–almost 40% of the adult population. With these figures in mind, the need for single adult groups should go without saying. But the need for single adult ministry in our churches is often overlooked. Now, however, Don Davidson provides a thorough, practical guide to single adult ministry and how to establish an effective one in your church. Davidson outlines the necessary steps for creating a unique singles group for new college grads, career people, widowed or divorced persons.
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Pluralisms And Horizons
$24.99How should Christians respond to pluralism in public life?
Christians have often clashed with the pluralism that characterizes life in modern America. In this classic essay in political philosophy, Richard J. Mouw and Sander Griffioen show how Christians can engage with pluralism productively. Thoroughly engaging with leading voices in the debate, Mouw and Griffioen wrestle with pluralism and its consequences for Christian public life. Ultimately, the authors endorse cooperation and tolerance, without sliding into moral relativism. Christian readers will find their carefully reasoned argument a compelling solution toward promoting the common good.
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Taking The Word To Heart A Print On Demand Title
$35.99Christians today are besieged by ideas about personhood – what it means to be a whole person, a happy person, a fulfilled person, a healthy person. In fact, Robert C. Roberts says, psychology has invaded the Christian church – and while modern psychologies offer insights and practices that can be helpfully adapted for Christian use, they sometimes contradict and can even displace true Christianity.
Roberts examines several psychologies that tend to function as alternative spiritualities – Rogerian therapy, rational emotive therapy, assertiveness training, contextual family therapy, the psychology of Carl Jung, and the psychology of Hienz Kohut – and offers a critical evaluation of each in light of the Christian view of the self.
But just what is the Christian interpretation of selfhood? It has a great deal to do with community, with our relationships to others and to God, explains Roberts. “Christians are people of God’s Word,” Roberts says, “called daily to take it to heart, and thus be formed, as persons, by the sound of his voice. This book is all about becoming persons who dwell, in a variety of ways, among other persons.”
With this idea of personhood in mind, Roberts explores a variety of relationships important to the Christian personality, then sets forth the parameters of a distinctively Christian psychology.
Based on impressive scholarship yet highly readable, Taking the Word to Heart is a thoughtful study that will be of interest to laypeople as well as pastors, Christian counselors, theologians, and students.
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Using New Testament Greek In Ministry
$21.00One of the most practical guides you’ll find for preaching sermons faithful to the biblical text. Black prepares you to transform exegesis into exposition by explaining how to use the Greek text and linguistic resources to study the New Testament. Moreover, he recommends a basic library of reference books to help you with the process.
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Beginning Of Wisdom Cycle B
$16.18“Fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom,” writes Sue Anne Steffey Morrow. “As we … deepen our understanding of wisdom’s ways, it is my hope that our knowledge of the Hebrew Scriptures will be deepened, and our awe for the one God be magnified.”
The 10 sermons in this book are based on First Lesson texts primarily from 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, and Proverbs. The sermons follow the Revised Common Lectionary.
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Epistles Of Peter
$19.9929 Chapters
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In this classic study, J.H. Jowett deals with passages which are at the same time full of interpretation. The skills of the interpreter and the warmth of the mystic are blended and expressed through the vehicle of a unique literary style in a commentary both scholarly and devotional.
Jowett’s knowledge of the original language, his broad grasp of general Biblical teaching, his wide acquaintance with the fields of English literature and hymnody and his perspective understanding of spiritual reality all combine to create ultimate usefulness for the work. Whether one desire help in interpretation, assistance in sermon preparation, or insights for devotional reading, he will find it all and more in the Practical and Devotional Commentary.Add to cartin stock within 3-5 days of online purchase
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What Shall We Do With This Baby
$9.93Jan Spence created this short Christmas Eve children’s program for her small, rural church. It includes five brief scenes built around a suggested order of worship. Clergy can easily write a meditation to complete the service.
Speaking parts are available for a narrator and two readers. These roles are appropriate for junior or senior high students.
Any number of younger children can easily be added in non-speaking roles as shepherds, angels, and wise men. The program also included speaking roles for Mary, Joseph, and baby Jesus.
The service has appropriate breaks for carols or songs by children’s choirs.
Narrator: What shall we do with this baby? Yes this is the question that has echoed through time. Nothing is more helpless and needy than an infant alone. Without human help, a baby alone cannot thrive or survive. What shall we do with this baby indeed!
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Miracle In The Bethlehem Inn
$9.93Miracle In The Bethlehem Inn is a Christmas play based on a Jewish family who are descendants of King David. They are in Bethlehem to pay their tax. The owner of the inn is Aaron. Earlier he promised a room to his brother, Joshua.
A Gentile merchant and his family arrive at the inn before Joshua. Aaron lets the Gentile family have the room promised to Joshua. Joshua and his family go to the stable to sleep, but give it up for the Holy Family.
Throughout the play Aaron is skeptical. He is only interested in money until the miracle occurs, which he then proclaims “will shatter the world.” At the end of the drama, Aaron sings a song to tell all that “I Have Seen Him.”
This play has a performance time of about 45 minutes. It appeals to an audience of all ages. Speaking parts are for seven women and six men. It can be played with a variety of ages, with non-speaking parts for youth.
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Bumper Sticker Religion
$16.18A few years ago I saw a bumper sticker on a car that said, “Let Our Kids Pray.” I had an immediate reaction…. I went to my car and got a pen and paper and wrote on the paper, “Who’s stopping them?” and put it under the windshield wiper. (from “Let Our Kids Pray”)
Carl B. Rife found sermon themes on bumper stickers. With the help of his congregation, he identified seven familiar themes and crafted sermons from them.
The sermons in this book are sometimes an elaboration, sometimes a correction, sometimes an argument, and sometimes a discussion of the particular sentiment found on the bumper sticker.
This book touches a number of basic Christian themes including:
Creation
Forgiveness
The second coming
God’s Word
Prayer
Grace
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What Grace They Received
$16.18Here are 12 worship resources about modern-day saints. Eleven are designed for “the sermon slot.” Dag Hammarskjold’s chapter is an entire liturgy. Each resource has parts for two or more readers. One is the narrator while another shares excerpts from the writings of the saint. Additional readers may make connections to our lives today.
The 12 saints are:
* Wilhelm Loehe
* St. Benedict
* Cyril and Methodius
* Bartolome de Las Casas
* Thomas Aquinas
* Albert Schweitzer
* Perpetua and Felicity
* Dag Hammarskjold
* Athanasius
* St. Ignatius
* Ludwig Nommensen
* John Christian Frederick HeyerLutherans will find these 12 commemorated in the Lutheran Book of Worship during 1993 and 1994.
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Holy Week Confessions
$16.18Death took me. I found myself in an empty, dark void. I don’t remember anything of it, just emptiness. Then I heard his voice, “Lazarus, come out!” Jesus called me from death to life. Struggling through the darkness, I came out of my tomb. (from Lazarus’ personal confession)
Using the theme “confessions” this resource offers 12 worship options to enhance your congregation’s Holy Week and Easter journey.
The journey begins with a Palm Sunday worship service and the confession of Lazarus. Resources are also offered for Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and various Saturday and Sunday services.
Two communion services for Easter Sunday and an Easter message, “The Sun Has Risen, Behold — The Risen Son!” conclude the series.
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Prodigal Daughter
$9.93The Prodigal Daughter comes from the prodigal son parable in Luke. The drama is appropriate for any reconciliation service. It is especially relevant during Maundy Thursday or any other time in Lent. As a religious service, it dramatizes God’s love and longing for us to return when we stray.
The drama has parts for six characters and two commentators. It uses simple props. Performance time is about 30 minutes. The drama is appropriate for junior high to adults.
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God The Redeemer
$36.00What do we proclaim when we preach the gospel? Paul McGlasson poses this question as the best point of departure for fresh theological work as a new era in theology begins. Influenced by contemporary discussion and indebted to classical tradition, McGlasson contrasts literal and critical interpretations of the Bible. His thought-provoking work presents and analyzes the central biblical and theological concepts of the Christian witness in an original and illuminating way.
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Turning Points
$23.00Most people agree that great movements have leaders and that leaders have moments when commitments are made, when new attitudes are formed, when new directions are chosen, and when distant visions are transformed into realities. This inspirational book examines some of these important times–occasions when notable people, during moments of crisis and insight, found the grace and strength to change our world for the better, forever.
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Matthew : A Bible Commentary For Teaching And Preaching
$55.00Matthew in the Interpretation Commentary Series proceeds unit by unit, rather than verse by verse, to emphasize what each passage of Matthew means to the author of the Gospel and to the modern church. Douglas Hare shows that the purpose of Matthew’s writing is to convince Christians that a genuine faith in Christ must be demonstrated in daily obedience and that faith and ethics are two sides of the same coin. According to Hare, the turning point in Matthew is the narrative of Peter’s confession and the subsequent passion announcement. His commentary stresses the close connection between the Great Commission, with which the Gospel closes, and the moral imperatives of the Sermon on the Mount.
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Basic Christian Ethics
$55.00This series focuses on what it means to think theologically and ethically. It presents a selection of important, otherwise unavailable texts – English – language texts and translations that have fallen out of print, new translations, and collections of significant statements about problems and themes of special importance – in an easily accessible form. With these volumes scholars and teachers will be able to use classic texts more extensively as they train new generations of theolgians, ethicists, and ministers.
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Religious Liberty : Catholic Struggles With Pluralism
$45.00Includes Murray’s most important statements on religious freedom and two essays. One on religious freedom, originally suppressed by the Vatican and published here for the first time. The second is a discussion on human dignity – how it is defined and how it functions as the phiolsophical foundation of religious freedom, newly translated into English. This fascinating collection will help readers look back at past struggles over religious liberty and forward to dilemnas presently facing the church
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Liberation Theology : An Introductory Guide
$30.00In a manner that is vivid and lively, Robert McAfee Brown explains and illuminates liberation theology for North American readers who may have no previous knowledge of this dynamic Christian movement. Growing out of the experience of oppressed people in Latin America, liberation theology lends a transforming power to both the study of the Bible and the Christian duty to work for justice for all God’s people. With heartwarming, terrifying, and humorous stories, Brown shows the strength and significance of one of the outstanding developments in religious faith today and for the future.
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God As Trinity
$40.00Ted Peters brings Trinitarian theology conversation to a new level by examining the works of Karl Barth, Karl Rahner, Eberhard Jungel, Jurgen Moltmann, Robert Jenson, Wolfhart Pannenberg, and Catherine Mowry LaCugna. He highlights talk about the becoming of God by process theologians, sexism in Trinitarian language by feminists, and divine and human community by liberation theologians. Peters addresses the relationship of God’s eternity to the world’s temporality, and claims that thinking of God as Trinity affirms that the word “God” applies to both eternity and temporality.
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Church In The Round
$47.00Ideas of the Christian church are changing, and Letty Russell envisions its future as partnership and sharing for all memebers around a common table of hospitality. Dr. Russell draws on her interracial urban pastorate, her classes in theology, and many ecumencial conversations to help the newly emerging church face the challenges of liberation for all people.
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Isaiah 1-39 : A Bible Commentary For Teaching And Preaching
$50.00This unique commentary allows the interpretation of Isaiah 1-39 to be guided by the final form of the book. It focuses on the theological aspect of the book of Isaiah, giving special attention to the role of literary context. Christopher Seitz explores structural and organizational concerns as clues to the editorial intention of the final form of the material, which he argues is both intelligible and an intended result of the efforts of those who gave shape to the present form of the book.
Interpretation: A Bible Commentary for Teaching and Preaching is a distinctive resource for those who interpret the Bible in the church. Planned and written specifically for teaching and preaching needs, this critically acclaimed biblical commentary is a major contribution to scholarship and ministry.
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Pastoral Care And The Means Of Grace
$33.33In Underwood’s resulting spirituality, the soul of pastoral care is prayer. The substance is Scripture, studied in both liturgical and personal settings. The evangelical principle is reconciliation. Baptism lays the foundation for pastoral care by providing the paradigm for all transformations. Eucharist constitutes the eschatological horizon for pastoral care as ministry in the human encounter of God’s presence. This book stands at the forefront of a broad movement among scholars and clergy in nonliturgical traditions that aim at retrieving explicitly religious resources, the means of grace. The result is a rare, truly ecumenical contribution to pastoral care, which deepens practice by providing a vision and a spirituality.
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Church Confident : Christianity Can Repent But It Must Not Whimper
$21.99Keck shows how the church is suffering from malaise brought on by oversecularization in aspects of church life including worship, theology, ethos, and communication.
This penetrating clarion call to renewal cuts through the conventional ideological labels of “liberal” and “conservative.” Keck argues with passion that mainline churches today must neither pretend to be culturally triumphant nor whimper in fear. Rather, the church has grounds to be confident about its proper nature and mission.
Keck envisions a renewed church that has recovered a sense of what is basic to its nature and purpose–restoring the praise of God to the center of worship.
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Daring To Hope Cycle B
$12.95“Faith, hope and love are the abiding attributes of the Christian life. Most of us proclaim faith and love consistently,” writes John P. Rossing. “But … we may be guilty of neglecting the third great gift God has given us. During the closing Sundays of the church year we have an opportunity to declare our hope boldly.”
The 10 sermons in this book are based on First Lesson texts primarily from Job and Ruth. The sermons follow the Revised Common Lectionary.
We experience the same doubts, the same nagging absences of God that Job did. But we have some advantages. We know that God came into the world to redeem suffering through the suffering of his Son His presence among us in word and sacrament probes that he is neither distant nor uncaring. (from the Proper 23 sermon)
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Spirits Tether Cycle B
$16.18“One of the mysteries of life is how God’s spirit can take hold of us, and change us.” Writes Leonard H. Budd. “Think of this force in your life as the Spirit’s tether. In my mind, a tether is the image of the Counselor that Jesus promised. It is the experience of God’s spirit that has been part of my living: The Holy Spirit’s tether.”
The 14 sermons in this book are based on Gospel texts, primarily from Mark. Sermons follow the Revised Common, Lutheran, and Roman Catholic lectionaries.
Our confrontation with Jesus Christ opens to each of us the blessed opportunity of forgiveness, and in that unburdening, the opportunity for a new start in our relationship to God and to one another. (from the Proper 5 sermon)
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This Is The King
$9.93Pilate: Are you the king of the Jews?
Jesus: Do you say this on your own or did others tell you this about me?
Narrator: Pilate was startled to hear the authority and depth of the man’s voice.
— from “This Is the King! “dramatic reading
“This Is the King!” is a complete resource for congregations wanting a special Palm/Passion Sunday celebration.
Worshipers will find:
– An order of service with a blessing of the palms
– Scriptures for the day
– A children’s sermon
– Hymn selections
– A dramatic reading
– A service of communion
The children’s sermon title is “Churning Up the Waves.” The dramatic reading, “This Is the King!” is offered in place of a sermon. It uses a narrator, Pilate, and Jesus.Add to cartin stock within 3-5 days of online purchase
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Symbols Of Sacrifice Year 3
$9.93The sacrificial life of Christ is a major focus of Lent. Symbols Of Sacrifice provides the congregations with opportunities to create visual worship aids representing Christ’s life during worship.
Each weekly presentation builds a growing reminder of Christ’s sacrifice for the congregation.
This series offers a list of symbols and explanation of the symbols. These are provided for the Sundays of Lent and Easter Sunday.
Symbols are:
Sandals
A globe of the world
Money
A lantern
A grain of wheat
A cloak
A white robeThis is one book in a three-part series of Symbols Of Sacrifices. Other books in this series are Year 1 and Year 2.
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When Life Is Changed Forever
$17.48When Life Is Changed Forever empathetically comforts the agony of empty arms and the raging of the soul in the aftermath of a loved one’s death as few books ever have. Within these helpful pages the author skillfully offers the sure hope that life can be lived fully again…while facing the truth that it can never be the same.
Here is an honest journey into the depths of God’s love for all those who have experienced the complicated and often conflicting emotions brought about by the death of someone near.
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Planning Your Marriage Service
$14.95Help couples make informed decisions and plan for their marriage service with this practical workbook. Includes a tear-out worksheet to help clergy and couples with their planning. Includes possible readings for wedding service.
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Book Of Isaiah Volume 2
$48.99A classic in conservative Old Testament scholarship, this three-volume commentary concentrates primarily on the meaning of the text of Isaiah rather than on specific textual problems. Volume 1 covers chapters 1-18; Volume 2 looks at chapters 19-39; Volume 3 surveys chapters 40-66.
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War In The 20th Century
$57.00This timely anthology of important statements by Christian ethicists and ecclesial groups who draw upon the just-war tradition reviews the rationale for war in the twentieth century. Included are writings from Niebuhrs, the Calhoun Commission, John Ford, Elizabeth Anscombe, Paul Ramsey, Ralph Potter, the U.S. Catholic Bishops, and the U.S. Methodist Bishops. These authors, whose ideas reflect diverse trends in Roman Catholic and Protestant ethics spanning the period from the Manchurian crisis in the early 1930s to the Persian Gulf War in 1991, have sought to sharpen our moral literacy about the ethics of war. They address issues relevanct to modern warfare – obliteration bombing, selective conscientious objection, and nuclear deterrence.
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Elijah In Upper Egypt
$183.33Using methods from literary criticism. social history, and social theory, Eliijah In Upper Egypt makes a fresh contribution to our understanding of early Egyptian Christianity by describing the genesis and meaning of the Coptic Apocalypse of Eliijah. This document, an extended prophecy of the end times that enjoyed wide circulation in late antiquity, reflects a type of Christianity rarely discussed in scholarly literature, one that was rural, semi-literate, ascetically oriented, and fanatically millennialist.
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New Handbook Of The Christian Year
$41.99”A valuable source of services for the Christian seasons. One of the best currently available for all denominations,”—Christianity Today. A Christmas Eve family service, Ash Wednesday liturgy, and John Wesley’s covenant service among others.
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Celebrating The Disciplines
$18.99For those who want to develop a deeper, more joyful inner life through the practice of Christian spiritual disciplines, this one-year journal-workbook helps readers find new ways to reflect on, experience, and integrate the disciplines into their lives.
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Reading Between Texts
$50.00Intertexuality (the reading of one text in terms of another) is a diverse practice. It is a central and prevalent subject in post-structuralist literary theory. This is the first book to address intertexuality as it relates specifically to interpretation of the Hebrew Bible. The contributors bring together lucid theoretical discussions and sophisticated interpretations from a variety of backgrounds, offering biblical scholars and students a helpful and thorough introduction to the issues and possibilities of tertexuality. This volume encourages the bringing together of texts in new and creative ways and lends greater clarity as discussions of intertextuality and biblical studies proceed
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52 Ways To Have Fun Fantastic Sex
$14.99Contents
142 pages/52 chapters
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As married couples, we all desire passion in our relationship, but with the pressures of careers, kids, and day-to-day commitments, who has the time or energy to create it?! Well-known sexual therapists, Dr. Clifford and Joyce Penner do! And they provide you with a host of inventive and exciting ideas to help you rekindle passion in your marriage.Addressing both “cautious types” and “risk takers,” the Penners offer a new, creative idea to try each week so that within 52 weeks you will be experiencing a sex life that blazes with variety and intimacy!
Move beyond your everyday routine-learn to have fun, fantastic sex-and you will discover renewed excitement and passion with one another!
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Slaying The Dragon
$48.00In Slaying the Dragon: Mythmaking in the Biblical Tradition, Bernard Batto argues that biblical authors, like other ancient Near East authors, used mythic traditions in composing their works. Batto joins massive evidence with masterful argument to show that myth actually lies at the heart of the theological enterprise of the biblical authors. Slaying the Dragon is sure to provoke dicussion on the theological relevance of myth in the biblical tradition.
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Time With Our Children
$13.00With simple props-glitter, blocks, candles, and cookies-Dianne Deming brings Scripture and theology into the world and understanding of children. She speaks their language-to them as equals, not at them or down to them-and God’s love for children and her love for them shine through with every word. She recognizes the dignity of children, their worth as unique individuals and to the church, and creates stories that respect how children view the world and their place in it. A TIME WITH OUR CHILDREN is a collection of stories designed for the pastor or teacher to help children share in the faith of the congregation-not as a separate part of the worship service but integrated into the seamless whole of the people of God worshiping together. Deming believes that the most important benefit children receive from their special time in worship is the underlying message that they are valued and loved by God and their church. Her gentle, charming stories do that with grace and aplomb. The stories are keyed to the New Revised Common Lectionary (NRCL) and indexed by topic for non-lectionary use.
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Her Image Of Salvation
$40.00This book examines the image of the savior and the experience of salvation, two concepts that are inextricably entwined. Gail Streete asserts that Christianity set aside female images of salvation by emphasizing the maleness of Jesus. She draws on solid knowledge of the Jewish sources of Christianity and from the Greek-speaking classical world, from which Christianity assimilated so much, to show that the image of God could be seen as both male and female.
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Passion For Justice
$52.00By focusing on the idea of justice in the words of three important American Christian social thinkers, Beckley has achieved several worthy ends. He refines the systematic issues in Christian thinking about justice and elates them some current discussions and proposals of his own. The reader is informed and illumined by this insightful analysis.
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Overview Of Gregorian Chant
$16.99The modern liturgical movement owes a great debt to Solesmes monk Dom
Eugene Cardine (1905-1988), whose tireless research in the ancient
manuscripts uncovered the elusice secrets of Gregorian Rhythm, thus
revealing some of the original pristine beauty of Gregorian chant. In this
volume, Dom Cardine sums up the origin, decline and restoration of the
chant, and challenges researchers to continue his work.Add to cartin stock within 3-5 days of online purchase
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Passion Of Interpretation
$30.00W. Dow Edgerton reviews narratives from the Bible, Talmud, Greek mythology, and modern fiction in order to provide a better understanding of the nature and work of interpretation. He demonstrates that interpretation is a passionate act, using such stories as the binding of Isaac in Genesis 22 and the story of the road to Emmaus in Luke 24. Weaving a vivid and surprising tapestry with thread spun of hermeneutics, poetry, exegesis, reverie, poetics, memory, narrative, ritual, and literary criticism, the author invites the reader to examine the foundations of interpretation. He considers the interpretive situation of the religious leader, bringing new insight into the role and purpose of interpretation in our chaotic times. Disclosed are rich, complex, and compelling possibilities for imagining the work of interpretation and what it means to do that work in a time when so much is needed and so much is possible.
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Children Of Divorce
$18.9915 Chapteres
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The adults who love them want to know, “How can I help?” Based on research and interviews with single parents and children, Children of Divorce provides a sympathetic, insightful answer to their question. It shows:*How to tell your child about divorce
*How children respond to divorce according to their age
*How to help children grow spiritually
*How parents, grandparents, church workers, and teachers can help children of divorceThis realistic yet compassionate book tells the truth about divorce–how it forever changes the lives of those it touches. It speaks candidly about how children respond to divorce and the changes it imposes on their lives. But Children of Divorce also tells the truth about how Christianity in action can make a difference.
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Making Sense Of It All
$26.99No matter how old you are, the big questions keep coming up—questions about life, death, God, religion, the nature of faith, the formation of an adequate worldview, and the meaning of it all. Morris takes a new look at those old issues in this entertaining and instructive book. Relating numerous personal anecdotes, incorporating intriguing material from the films of Woody Allen and the journals of Leo Tolstoy, and using the writings of the 17th-century genius Blaise Pascal as a central guide, he’ll help you philosophize about your life, enjoy the process, and perhaps even make sense of it all.
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Trouble At The Table
$24.99How can we resolve the crsis and revitalize the worship in our church? Too often we evaluate worship as a matter of taste without examinging the presuppositions that inform worship in a given congregation. Exploring and developing techniques for handling resistance to change, the authors help church leaders see that worship is a public event, which must be continually renewed and revitalized.
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Jesus In Global Contexts
$43.00Liberator, ancestor, cosmic Christ, and Black Messiah: These are just some of the ways that Jesus is viewed in the world. This rare book presents with a fresh and energetic tone a global tour of the Christologies emerging in Latin America, Asia, and Africa, and those of North American Feminist and African American theologies.
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Culture Wars : The Struggle To Define America
$41.65A riveting account of how Christian fundamentalists, Orthodox Jews, and conservative Catholics have joined forces in a battle against their progressive counterparts for control of American secular culture.
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Preaching Through The Christian Year A
$30.00Based on the Sunday readings in the Common Lectionary, these exegetical, expositional, theological, and devotional notes on the Gospel, Epistle, Psalm, and Old Testament by four Candler School of Theology professors are solid and practical.
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