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Search To Belong
$19.99Add to cartA practical guide for those struggling to build a community of believers in a culture that wants to experience belonging over believing Who is my neighbor? Who belongs to me? To whom do I belong? These are timeless questions that guide the church to its fundamental calling. Today terms like neighbor, family, and congregation are being redefined. People are searching to belong in new places and experiences. The church needs to adapt its interpretations, definitions, and language to make sense in the changing culture. This book equips congregations and church leaders with tools to: * Discern the key ingredients people look for in community * Understand the use of space as a key element for experiencing belonging and community * Develop the “chemical compound” that produces an environment for community to spontaneously emerge * Discover how language promotes specific spatial belonging and then use this knowledge to build an effective vocabulary for community development * Create an assessment tool for evaluating organizational and personal community health
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Self Supporting Scenery For Childrens Theatre And Grown Ups Too (Revised)
$17.95Add to cart1. Stagecraft I
2. Scene Design
3. Stagecraft II
4. Scene Painting
5. Dramatic Lighting
6. Scenic Progression
7. Architectural Section
8. SummaryAdditional Info
By James Hull Miller. Fifth edition – revised. Free standing scenery creates its own theatre – compact, economical and flexible. It marches right onto any stage platform, into the classroom, the recreation hall and the garden theatre. This book tells how to construct it. Includes 128 pages and over 175 drawings. Covers tools, materials, designs and craft. An excellent reference book. Written by a leading designer in the field. -
Last Bullet
$12.99Add to cart256 Pages
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Clay Bostin’s fortune changes quickly on the Nebraska plains. Left to die in excruciating pain by marauding Indians, he is rescued by a wagon train and nursed back to health by lovely Rachel Flanagan. Soon afterwards, the Cheyenne attack, and Clay is chosen to replace their fallen trail boss. Now it’s his fate to protect the pioneers from the relentless assault of the Cheyenne warriors. What will happen if brutal Black Hawk reached the beautiful girl? -
How To Live Right When Your Life Goes Wrong
$17.00Add to cart224 Pages
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Despite the abundant availability of both self-help books and Bible study materials, many of us find it difficult to apply what we learn, to make that long head-to-heart journey of change. When we are faced with life’s daily trials, our responses often lack the Christian maturity we desire–showing us clearly just how far we have to go. Is it possible to achieve a deeper, more permanent change of heart?Discover the principle that could transform your life through one practical, simple-to-understand and easy-to-remember model. You will:
– gain a new perspective on the troubles God allows in your life.
– come to better understand your response to those trials.
– discover the underlying idols that hamper your efforts to change.
– learn how to discern the truth of God’s Word.
– develop the heart response that will draw you closer to God.
Come on a journey of personal growth and spiritual discovery as your heart is drawn back to a central tenet of the Gospel: Truth isn’t something you learn, but Someone you know. And the Truth will set you free.
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Imitation Of Christ
$5.00Add to cartThis classic, second only to the Bible for religious instruction and inspiration, has brought understanding and comfort to millions for centuries. Written in a candid and conversational style, the topics include liberation from worldly inclinations, preparation and consolations of prayer, and the place of eucharistic communion in a devout life.
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Dare To Be True
$17.99Add to cart224 Pages
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Dare to Be True doesn’t downplay the difficulty of living honestly in today’s world, but it doesn’t throw in the towel, either. In this challenging but encouraging book, Mark Roberts introduces a bold plan to practice complete honesty in every area of our lives in what we say, in how we live, and in who we are. Combining biblical truth with real-life stories and plenty of practical applications, Roberts helps us experience the rewards of truthfulness personal wholeness, healthy relationships, and deeper intimacy with God. Set out today on the adventure of truthful living, if you dare! -
Boo : A Novel
$18.99Add to cartTalk about Working out Your Faith with Fear and Trembling.
The biggest thing to happen to Skary, Indiana, is renowned horror novelist Wolfe Boone-or, “Boo,” as the locals fondly call him. For the past sixteen years, the reclusive writer has been the town’s greatest attraction, having unintentionally turned the once-struggling Skary into a thriving tourist-trap for the dark side: from the Haunted Mansion restaurant, famous for its “bloody fingers” (fries splattered with ketchup) to Spooky’s Bookstore (where employees dress like the walking dead).
But when a newly reformed Wolfe suddenly quits the genre and subsequently starts to pursue Skary’s favorite girl-next-door, Ainsley Parker, the little town made famous by his writings becomes truly horrified. Soon, a scheme is plotted to put the fright back into Skary-and get their most famous resident out of love and back into the thrill business.
Filled with humor, small town charm, and a gentle message of enduring faith, Boo shows how even the most colorful group of busybodies and hypocrites can become a community changed forever by God.
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Finding Alice
$19.99Add to cartBright, inquisitive, and excited about her life ahead, Alice Laxton seems no different than any other college girl. But when a genetic time bomb detonates, strange experiences threaten to break her grip on reality. Carlson weaves a raw yet poignant tale of one woman’s journey through schizophrenia toward hope, recovery, and spiritual healing.
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Tough Questions Leaders Guide (Teacher’s Guide)
$14.99Add to cartReasonable answers to the tough questions about faith_for seeker small groups This revised edition of the Tough Questions series of small group curriculum faces head-on the difficult and challenging questions seekers ask about the Christian faith. This honest, informative series is the result of authors Garry Poole and Judson Poling’s extensive work with seekers at Willow Creek Community Church. Each of the 7 guides deals frankly with common objections to Christianity: * How Does Anyone Know God Exists? * What Difference Does Jesus Make? * How Reliable Is the Bible? * How Could God Allow Suffering and Evil? * Don’t All Religions Lead to God? * Do Science and the Bible Conflict? * Why Become a Christian? In 6 sessions, each guide is designed to get small groups thinking, discussing, and eventually discovering that the Christian faith can stand up to scrutiny. Quotes from non-Christian skeptics in various disciplines, together with responses from credible Christian apologists, fuel the discussions. The Tough Questions Leader’s Guide provides detailed lesson plans for facilitating the discussion and, in the process, giving an overview of the key elements of Christianity. This series is appropriate for small groups, churches, and Sunday school classes. It offers seekers and believers alike the kind of reasonable, factual answers that inspire faith, conviction, and trust in the reality and claims of Christ.
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What Difference Does Jesus Make
$14.99Add to cartReasonable answers to the tough questions about faith_for seeker small groups This revised edition of the Tough Questions series of small group curriculum faces head-on the difficult and challenging questions seekers ask about the Christian faith. This honest, informative series is the result of authors Garry Poole and Judson Poling’s extensive work with seekers at Willow Creek Community Church. Each of the 7 guides deals frankly with common objections to Christianity: * How Does Anyone Know God Exists? * What Difference Does Jesus Make? * How Reliable Is the Bible? * How Could God Allow Suffering and Evil? * Don’t All Religions Lead to God? * Do Science and the Bible Conflict? * Why Become a Christian? In 6 sessions, each guide is designed to get small groups thinking, discussing, and eventually discovering that the Christian faith can stand up to scrutiny. Quotes from non-Christian skeptics in various disciplines, together with responses from credible Christian apologists, fuel the discussions. The Tough Questions Leader’s Guide provides detailed lesson plans for facilitating the discussion and, in the process, giving an overview of the key elements of Christianity. This series is appropriate for small groups, churches, and Sunday school classes. It offers seekers and believers alike the kind of reasonable, factual answers that inspire faith, conviction, and trust in the reality and claims of Christ.
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Dream Giver : Following Your God Given Destiny
$17.99Add to cartBestselling author Bruce Wilkinson shows how to identify and overcome the obstacles that keep millions from living the life they were created for. He begins with a compelling modern-day parable about Ordinary, who dares to leave the Land of Familiar to pursue his Big Dream. With the help of the Dream Giver, Ordinary begins the hardest and most rewarding journey of his life. Wilkinson gives readers practical, biblical keys to fulfilling their own dream, revealing that there’s no limit to what God can accomplish when we choose to pursue the dreams He gives us for His honor.
Are you living your dream- or just living your life?
Welcome to a little story about a very big idea. This compelling modern-day parable tells the story of Ordinary, who dares to leave the Land of Familiar to pursue his Big Dream.
You, too, have been given a Big Dream. One that can change your life. One that the Dream Giver wants you to achieve. Does your Big Dream seem hopelessly out of reach? Are you waiting for something or someone to make your dream happen?
Then you’re ready for The Dream Giver.
Let Bruce Wilkinson show you how to rise above the ordinary, conquer your fears, and overcome the obstacles that keep you from living your Big Dream.
You were made for this. Now it’s time to begin your journey.
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How Reliable Is The Bible
$14.99Add to cartReasonable answers to the tough questions about faith_for seeker small groups This revised edition of the Tough Questions series of small group curriculum faces head-on the difficult and challenging questions seekers ask about the Christian faith. This honest, informative series is the result of authors Garry Poole and Judson Poling’s extensive work with seekers at Willow Creek Community Church. Each of the 7 guides deals frankly with common objections to Christianity: * How Does Anyone Know God Exists? * What Difference Does Jesus Make? * How Reliable Is the Bible? * How Could God Allow Suffering and Evil? * Don’t All Religions Lead to God? * Do Science and the Bible Conflict? * Why Become a Christian? In 6 sessions, each guide is designed to get small groups thinking, discussing, and eventually discovering that the Christian faith can stand up to scrutiny. Quotes from non-Christian skeptics in various disciplines, together with responses from credible Christian apologists, fuel the discussions. The Tough Questions Leader’s Guide provides detailed lesson plans for facilitating the discussion and, in the process, giving an overview of the key elements of Christianity. This series is appropriate for small groups, churches, and Sunday school classes. It offers seekers and believers alike the kind of reasonable, factual answers that inspire faith, conviction, and trust in the reality and claims of Christ.
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James
$18.99Add to cartThis inductive Bible study focuses on a message for the first-century Christian church that has relevance for the church today. It carefully examines the disciple James’ concerns for believers to keep on being doers of the word, and not merely hearers who deceive themselves. This in-depth eleven-week study takes a close look at the themes of the epistle of James, including teaching concerning trials, wisdom, prayer, humility, and the use of the tongue. The study provides a number of options for working on the lessons and offers a reflection in Scripture to provide a time of worship as a conclusion to the daily study. When a group is meeting weekly to discuss the lessons, each student will benefit from the review discussion suggested in the accompanying leader’s guide.
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Epistle To The Romans (Student/Study Guide)
$23.99Add to cartThis inductive Bible study focuses on a message for the early Christian church in the city of Rome, carefully examining the apostle Paul’s concerns for believers. This in-depth twenty-three week study takes a close look at the theology presented by Paul and investigates the practical guidelines for those who are in a relationship with Christ. The study provides a number of options for working on the lessons. It also offers a time of reflection in Scripture every day to provide a call to worship for the student. The study of the Epistle to the Romans addresses the role of Christians as members of the body of Christ. When a group is meeting weekly to discuss the lessons, each student will benefit from the review discussion suggested by the accompanying leader’s guide.
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Advancing Toward Eternity
$15.99Add to cartIn Advancing Toward Eternity, the author conducts an exciting prophetic journey from Genesis to Revelation. As a conductor on a train might direct passengers’ attention to important places, she points out major mileposts along the journey of prophecy. God’s special covenants, the Law, and other significant events are noted. The reader travels past judges, kings, kingdoms, and prophets. Attention is directed to places of victory and places of defeat. The New Covenant is explained based on Old Testament prophecy, the words of Jesus, and teachings of the apostles. Then from the present into the future, signs of coming events such as the rapture of the church, the tribulation on earth, and the Second Coming are clarified. As the climactic conclusion comes into view, we see the triumphant exultation of Christ, Satan’s doom, a new Jerusalem, a new heaven and earth, and the believer’s eternity with God.
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Victory In The Workplace
$16.99Add to cartVictory in the Workplace will empower you with the ability to reign victoriously in your workplace. You will obtain the strength, encouragement, motivation, and inspiration to succeed in the working world. This is a must read for everyone in the working world. No other book will provide the keys to overcoming the serious and sensitive issues that we face in the workplace. Victory in the Workplace offers a fresh perspective for conquering critical issues in the working world. This book provides inspiration on 100 topics that workers confront every day. You will learn how to: Discover and pursue your purpose in life Succeed in the face of challenges and opportunities Display the fruits of the Spirit and honor your faith Maintain a positive attitude and excel in performance Handle difficult and demanding people and personalities Equip yourself with the Lord’s armor to overcome spiritual warfare Victory in the Workplace will inspire and motivate you to overcome the working world as Christ has overcome the world.
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Ode To Jesus
$12.49Add to cartOde to Jesus is a collection of rhyming poems of many different subjects, mostly in simple everyday language, that draws attention to the work of the Lord Jesus Christ in the believer and invites unbelievers to accept his offer of salvation. Much of the material is an expression of my own experiences in my everyday walk through life, including struggles, trials, and of course, victories in the Lord Jesus. I strongly believe that these poems were birthed through the Lord’s work in my life, and my prayer is that they will minister to people and touch some lives.
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I Bear A Cross
$33.49Add to cartDo you know your spiritual self? Do you know your mission and purpose in life? Are you or someone dear to you experiencing a lengthy mental or physical illness? Then it’s a must that you journey with Peggy Thomas Templeman, a professional social worker and survivor of clinical depression-a condition with which she has struggled for over forty years. Her highly inspirational autobiography tells of her almost insurmountable challenges, of progressively increasing trust and faith in God, and of the powerful light of hope. Feel the author’s struggles prior to birth and on through college, marriage, motherhood, numerous hospitalizations, and up to the completion of this book. She acknowledges this writing as a “divine assignment.” Marvel with Peggy Templeman in her recent diagnosis of Meniere’s Disease-an inner ear disorder. According to some medical professionals, it is this condition that could have contributed to her lengthy struggles with depression.
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Better Than Six Husbands
$13.49Add to cartAre you despondent? Do you have to look up to see the bottom? Then, you’ve got the answer right in your hands. Naldi A. Ritch shares episodes from her life. She relates how Christ proved to be Better Than Six Husbands. She has lived through many trials, disappointments, and even death. She has had her faith severely tested, and each time, with God’s help, she rose above the situation. Naldi’s book will fill you with hope, peace, assurance, and knowledge that you are special and God really does love you!
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I Bear A Cross
$22.49Add to cartDo you know your spiritual self? Do you know your mission and purpose in life? Are you or someone dear to you experiencing a lengthy mental or physical illness? Then it’s a must that you journey with Peggy Thomas Templeman, a professional social worker and survivor of clinical depression-a condition with which she has struggled for over forty years. Her highly inspirational autobiography tells of her almost insurmountable challenges, of progressively increasing trust and faith in God, and of the powerful light of hope. Feel the author’s struggles prior to birth and on through college, marriage, motherhood, numerous hospitalizations, and up to the completion of this book. She acknowledges this writing as a “divine assignment.” Marvel with Peggy Templeman in her recent diagnosis of Meniere’s Disease-an inner ear disorder. According to some medical professionals, it is this condition that could have contributed to her lengthy struggles with depression.
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I Wish I Had An Uncle Dick
$22.99Add to cartGrowing up in the forties, we became best friends, my brother and I. I watched Dick grow tall in stature and strong in character. He became a loving father. Compassionate and loyal, he was unusually perceptive in his approach to life. Perhaps it was during the years that Dick spent as a truck driver with only the Lord as a traveling companion when he learned to trust him. For when cancer gave an ultimatum, he never faltered in his confidence that his Savior would guide him safely to his final destination. A niece beautifully described his outlook: “Uncle Dick helped me understand life’s inequities,” she said. “I watched him reconcile many hardships with the Lord. Even when death was inevitable, he seemed to say, ‘Okay, Lord, if that’s the way it is, it’s all right.’ He just smiled, and went on.” Dick touched our lives, and left behind an imprint of faith and hope.
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I Wish I Had An Uncle Dick
$14.99Add to cartGrowing up in the forties, we became best friends, my brother and I. I watched Dick grow tall in stature and strong in character. He became a loving father. Compassionate and loyal, he was unusually perceptive in his approach to life. Perhaps it was during the years that Dick spent as a truck driver with only the Lord as a traveling companion when he learned to trust him. For when cancer gave an ultimatum, he never faltered in his confidence that his Savior would guide him safely to his final destination. A niece beautifully described his outlook: “Uncle Dick helped me understand life’s inequities,” she said. “I watched him reconcile many hardships with the Lord. Even when death was inevitable, he seemed to say, ‘Okay, Lord, if that’s the way it is, it’s all right.’ He just smiled, and went on.” Dick touched our lives, and left behind an imprint of faith and hope.
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Finding A Spiritual Home
$19.95Add to cartThe Jewish community has lost some of the most sensitive spiritual souls of this generation. They are Jews who were looking for God and found spiritual homes outside of Judaism. Their journeys traversed the Jewish community, but nothing there beckoned them. The creation of synagogue-communities in which the voices of seekers can be heard and their questions can be asked will challenge many loyalist Jews. It will upset and enrage them. But it would also enrich them.
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In this fresh look at the spiritual possibilities of American Jewish life, Rabbi Sidney Schwarz presents the framework for a new synagogue model-the synagogue community-and its promise to transform our understanding of the synagogue and its potential for modern Judaism.
Schwarz profiles four innovative synagogues-one from each of the major movements of Judaism-that have had extraordinary success with their approach to congregational life and presents practical ways to replicate their success.
Includes a discussion guide for study groups and book clubs as well as a new afterword by the author describing developments in synagogue change projects since the book was first published. -
Anointing : Yesterday Today And Tomorrow
$13.99Add to cartAnointing. While the word has several meanings in the Bible, it always revolves around the idea of the Holy Spirit and His power to change human lives. Each of us has an anointing or a special gift from God. Using it properly is the key to creating what is good, blessing and encouraging others, edifying ourselves, and pleasing the Lord.
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Vicar To Dads Army
$21.99Add to cart“He is one of the best known faces in television comedy, yet the long-suffering vicar of Walmington-On-Sea is in real life a Christian of deep conviction. Perfectly cast as the eccentric vicar, constantly tetchy at the invasion of his church hall by Captain Mainwaring and the elderly platoon, he appeared in “”Dad’s Army”” throughout its nine-year run and also in many other television and stage dramas. Still in constant demand for public appearances, Frank takes an affectionate view behind the scenes of the series and the world of show business and reveals his personal journey through faith.”
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Sins Of The Mother
$18.95Add to cartPopularity and fame have created a glimmering facade in Shanna O’Brian’s world, but when the spotlight fades, the darkness of reality sets in. Even after her mother’s mysterious death, Shanna still lives in the shadow of her control and must bear the consequences of her destructive choices.
When the beloved father figure who fashioned her music career suddenly dies, Shanna begins a desperate attempt to reclaim possession of a life she’s too often surrendered to others. And this means severing ties with Joshua Morgan, her ex-husband and the man who is now in control of her music career. But her search for self-discovery leads her right into the hands of the men who killed her mother. What she doesn’t know threatens not only her hope for happiness but her very life.
Can the mayhem surrounding Shanna be resolved despite her fledgling faith in herself, her God, and the man determined to redeem her trust?
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Science And Faith
$32.00Add to cartMany believers worry that science undermines the Christian faith. Instead of fearing scientific discovery, Jack Collins believes that Christians should delight in the natural world and study it. God’s truth will stand against and challenge and will enrich the very scientific studies that we fear. Collins first defines faith and science, shows their relation, and explains what claims each has concerning truth. Then he applies the biblical teaching on creation to the topics of “conflict” between faith and science, including the age of the earth, evolution, and miracles. He considers what it means to live in a created world. This book is for anyone looking for a Christian engagement with science without technical jargon.
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Jewish Pregnancy Book
$16.95Add to cartA first-of-its-kind guide to nourishing your pregnancy
with wisdom from Jewish tradition.
B’sha-ah Tovah! You’re pregnant! With all the changes happening to your body right now, it would be easy to focus only on the physical aspects of this life-changing event. But pregnancy is also a spiritually meaningful period in life, a time to reflect and comfort the soul.
The Jewish Pregnancy Book is the first resource to nurture the body, mind and soul of the pregnant woman by combining up-to-date medical information with spiritual nourishment from Jewish tradition.
* For the soul-Ancient and modern prayers and rituals for each stage of pregnancy, as well as traditional Jewish wisdom on pregnancy.
* For the body-Pre-natal Aleph-Bet yoga, a unique blend of yoga and spirituality inspired by the letters of the Hebrew alphabet.
* For the mind-Medical information on topics such as fetal development, pre-natal testing, and potential pregnancy problems, as well as discussions from a contemporary Jewish perspective on ethical issues such as selective reduction and home birth.
In clear, easy-to-follow, accessible language, this groundbreaking handbook guides you through the miraculous and challenging process of creation, engaging your whole being in a uniquely Jewish way. -
Elegantly Frugal Costumes
$17.95Add to cart1. Introduction Resources
2. Where Do I Start
3. Period Costumes
4. What Was That Masked Man
5. Underneath It All
6. Helpful Hints And Useful Information
7. The Play’s The Thing
8. Epilogue Behind The ScenesAdditional Info
Do-it-yourself costume maker’s guide by Shirley Dearing. This wonderfully practical book literally shows you how to make costumes for plays, pageants and musicals at the lowest possible expense! Over 150 detailed illustrations work with the easy-to-follow text to walk you through every step of the process. Just about every basic period is covered: Biblical to Medieval, Renaissance, The Fabulous Fifties, 1800s to World War I, the Roaring Twenties and more.Many helpful hints on making or buying realistic period theatrical costumes on a shoestring budget from cast-offs, donations, scraps, and other easily obtained materials. -
Christmas On Stage
$28.95Add to cart1. Elementary Grades
2. Middle Grades
3. Programs For Teens And Adults
4. Readers Theatre For Christmas
5. Adaptions From Classics And Legends
6. Christmas LegendsAdditional Info
A collection of twenty-seven Christmas plays for all ages and all types of worship services compiled and edited by Theodore O. Zapel.The one-act plays included contain both traditional and contemporary settings, drama and humor, and new offerings and old favorites.The plays are easily staged with a minimum of costumes and props, and many of the scripts require no memorization.Christmas music interspersed with the drama adds a special touch to worship services. Since no royalty payments are required for performances, this low-cost anthology is a money-saving program resource for any drama group. -
Mime Book
$20.95Add to cart1. The Body Isolation
2. Coordination
3. The Illusion
4. The Movement Of The Mime
5. The Mime Of The Object
6. The Subject As An Object
7. Creating A World
8. The Mime Of The Subject
9. Pantomime
10. The Mime
11. AppendicesAdditional Info
A comprehensive guide to mime by Claude Kipnis. The great French mime performer, Claude Kipnis, reveals the mechanisms and techniques of mime in an easy-to-understand translation. This book is not a theoretical “art of” book, but a functional “how to” and “why to” instructional guide. Individual exercises are included, together with detailed coverage of body movements, the illusion and how to create a world. We know of no other book that so comprehensively explains how the functions of mime are achieved. Certainly a basic text for any aspiring mime. -
Healing The Masculine Soul
$18.99Add to cartIn his groundbreaking book fifteen years ago, Gordon Dalbey identified the fact that men’s souls have been torn between strength and sensitivity. Today, the situation is even worse. The politically correct crowd cries out for men to be more sensitive, to tame their masculine nature. On the opposing side, the media bombards men with “macho” images of violence and lust. Is it any wonder men are left bewildered about who they should be? In this newly revised and updated edition of Healing the Masculine Soul, Dalbey claims that there’s hope for restoration, hope for healing_because Christ has come to heal us. God is calling men out to a relationship with Himself and calling them out to authentic manhood. “Our task is not to curse our manhood, but to redeem it,” he writes. Gordon Dalbey’s refreshing, comprehensive picture of God’s design for the masculine soul dares men to be as God created them to be_not as society demands. Dalbey tackles the tough issues, including work, sexuality, marriage, and fatherhood. Book includes Study Guide.
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Gift Of Sex (Revised)
$19.99Add to cartClifford and Joyce Penner, clinical therapist and nurse have written a sensitive and forthright guide to understanding sexuality and how it fits into God’s design for marriage. This revised and updated version features a new introduction, new illustrations, a section on addictions and the Internet, and a timely discussion on sexually transmitted diseases and their consequences. With the latest information on sexuality and intimacy, this best-selling book is ideal whether you are newlyweds or have been married for many years.Chapters include: The Physical Dimension The Total Experience Moving Past Sexual Barriers Resolving Difficulties Finding Help
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More With Less Cookbook (Anniversary)
$19.99Add to cartWith over 800,000 copies in print, the More-With-Less Cookbook has become the favorite cookbook of many families. Full of recipes from hundreds of contributors, More-With-Less gives suggestions on how to eat better and consume less of the world’s limited food resources.
More-With-Less Cookbook has not only changed how people eat, but their entire approach to life has reflected this more-with-less philosophy. In fact, more-with-less has become an integral part of our daily language.
This 25th anniversary edition features a new foreword along with the original collection of recipes—spiced with anecdotes, comments, and tips gleaned from 25 years of cooking More-With-Less.
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1 Body One Spirit
$25.99Add to cartIVP Print On Demand Title
This volume offers insights and implications for church leadership, worship styles, conflict resolution and much more.
As society diversifies, local churches find themselves interacting with people from every tribe and tongue. But not every church is equipped to handle the realities of ethnic and racial diversity in their congregational life. Sociologist George Yancey’s pioneering research on multiracial churches offers key principles for church leaders wanting to minister to people from a variety of racial and cultural backgrounds. Insights from real-life congregations provide concrete examples of how churches can welcome people of all heritages, giving them a sense of ownership and partnership in the life of the church. Here is an essential resource for pastors and church leaders committed to cultural, ethnic and racial reconciliation in their congregations. -
Empowered Church Leadership
$25.99Add to cartIVP Print On Demand Title
Have you been guiding your church using secular marketing ideas and leadership strategies? Instead, Dodd issues a clarion call for pastors and laypersons to build their ministries on the New Testament apostolic principles of prayer, followership, partnership, servanthood, and willingness to run against the current. Learn to lead where God wants you to go.
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Lutherans Today : American Lutheran Identity In The Twenty First Century
$27.99Add to cartIn the middle of the twentieth century, American Lutherans were newsworthy enough to find themselves on the cover of “Time” magazine. Their claim to fame? In an era when American churches were beginning to look and act alike, Lutherans’ strong confessional nature and stress on theology as well as their liturgy and ethnicity set them apart. They were “Protestants with a difference” at a time when differences were supposed to be dissolving in the American melting pot.
Subsequent years have posed serious questions to Lutheran identity, as disputes about the true nature of Lutheranism and the meaning of the Lutheran confessions, the structure of ministry, ecumenism, sexuality, and multiculturalism have all left their mark on Lutheran denominations. In “Lutherans Today” several historians, social scientists, journalists, and other leading experts map out the place of Lutheranism in the landscape of contemporary American Christianity and explore the directions in which it is heading in the new millennium.
Presenting new and original research, the book is divided into two sections. The first examines change and movements within American Lutheranism. Distinguished church historian Mark Noll here sets the scene by arguing that the predicament of American Lutheranism has always been the struggle to remain faithful to the enduring witness of the European Reformation while also accommodating itself to the democratic pluralism of the New World. Six other chapters discuss the Missouri Synod, the “Lutheran Left,” the Called to Common Mission agreement, the evangelical catholic movement within Lutheranism, the rise of “megachurches,” and Lutheran charismatics.
The second section considers trends and issues related to Lutheran identity, including politics and the pastorate, the impact of immigration and multiculturalism, the loss of Lutheran identity at Lutheran colleges and universities, and conflicting patterns of commitment among Lutheran youth.
As a whole, “Lutherans Today” will be valuable not only to all Lutherans but also to those interested in the development and current state of religious life in America.
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Magic And Paganism In Early Christianity
$16.00Add to cartKlauck describes the religious world into which Christianity was born, by looking at it from the many experiences of the first Christians as recorded in Acts. You will journey with Peter as he encounters Simon the magician, the people of Lystra want to offer sacrifices to Paul and Barnabas, and a soothsaying slave-girl is the occasion for conflict in Philippi. Your travels continue with Paul to Athens and find a city full of idols but also discovers an altar “to an unknown god” where Paul then delivers the famous Areopagus speech. In Ephesus, where some are burning their books of magic formulae, while others are provoking a riot in the name of Artemis.
Hans-Josef Klauck is Professor of New Testament and Early Christian Literature at the University of Chicago. He has published commentaries and monographs on 1 Corinthians, the Johannine epistles, New Testament theology, noncanonical gospels, and the history of religion in the Graeco-Roman world. -
Developing The Leaders Around You Workbook (Workbook)
$17.99Add to cartDr. John C. Maxwell is committed to more than just being a leader_he’s also committed to nurturing and mentoring thousands of potential leaders around him. This passion is what caused him to found INJOY and EQUIP, and it is the driving force in his ministry. Both practical and inspirational, Developing the Leaders Around You is crammed with strategies that help you effectively transform your goals into reality by building leadership in the people around you. Emphasizing that an organization can’t grow until its members grow, Dr. Maxwell encourages readers to foster a productive team spirit, make difficult decisions, handle confrontation, and to nurture, encourage, and equip people to be leaders.
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Living With Hope
$23.00Add to cartAdvent is a time for deepening encounter with reality, including the ultimate reality made manifest in human form at Christmas and Epiphany. This thought-provoking book illuminates biblical thinking with striking new insights from the author’s twin disciplines of theology and science at the cutting edge of physics.
Though daily readings for Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany Polkinghorne explores such themes as the end of the world, individual destiny, unseen realities, heaven, hell, and suffering; this is not a book that hides behind platitudes or easy solutions, yet the author offers profound insight into his deep reflections on the nature, meaning, and purpose of creation.
Suitable for individual study, as a guide to prayer during Advent and beyond, or as the basis of small group discussion, Living With Hope offers a unique and inspiring pathway into the coming of Christ in history, in our lives, and in what we shall be.
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Esther And Ruth (Student/Study Guide)
$17.00Add to cartIn classic Interpretation Bible Studies style, Patricia Tull leads the reader through a ten-session study of the entire Old Testament books of Esther, with its stories of faithfulness, courage, and survival, and the ethical questions posed by its ending, and Ruth, with its themes of community, loyalty, and friendship.
Interpretation Bible Studies (IBS) offers solid biblical content in a creative study format. Forged in the tradition of the celebrated Interpretation commentary series, IBS makes the same depth of biblical insight available in a dynamic, flexible, and user-friendly resource. Designed for adults and older youth, Interpretation Bible Studies can be used in small groups, in church school classes, in large group presentations, or in personal study.
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2 Corinthians : A Commentary
$68.00Add to cartThis commentary on II Corinthians in the New Testament Library continues the exemplary quality of the series. Frank Matera provides a commentary that is a close study of the backgrounds and language of the text while also providing important theological insights into the message of Paul for his time and for the contemporary church.
The New Testament Library offers authoritative commentary on every book and major aspect of the New Testament, as well as classic volumes of scholarship. The commentaries in this series provide fresh translations based on the best available ancient manuscripts, offer critical portrayals of the historical world in which the books were created, pay careful attention to their literary design, and present a theologically perceptive exposition of the text.
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When Did I Stop Being Barbie And Become Mrs Potato Head
$18.99Add to cartA humorous yet comforting look at the unavoidable process of aging This hilarious collection of real-life “adventures in growing older” is designed to make women laugh while it encourages them with the assurance that they are not alone. Even though they are getting older, they can find great encouragement in remembering God’s unchanging, ageless love. Combining cozy comfort with a sardonic twist, the author opens the reader to God’s poignant touch through laughter and, sometimes, through tears. The book explores growing older, emptying the nest, and changing roles. It offers the reader the encouragement of knowing that she is not alone in living with these changes and gives her a glimpse of God’s perspective. Designed for quick reading, this book is perfect for today’s woman on the go.
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Fallen From Grace
$17.99Add to cartUnderstanding the Theology of Grace, the Dangers of Legalism & the Three Phases of Apostasy Are you a legalist? Has legalism affected your life and ministry? For the first time, the theology of grace, legalism, and apostasy is presented in one hard-hitting, compelling volume. Forget what you think you know. Charles Smoot, a former United Pentecostal Church International (U.P.C.) minister, reveals why legalism is a dangerous religious phenomenon that is dug in and entrenched in many churches and movements today. Find out why legalism is responsible for more darkness in the Body of Christ than anything else. Find out why legalism breeds self-righteousness, spiritual pride, boasting, guilt, despair, fear, intimidation, insecurity, and bondage. Find out how grace leads the believer to righteousness, humility, faith, hope, love, peace, security, and liberty. Fallen from Grace will challenge your theology and cause you to examine your belief system. It will expose legalism and call you back to grace, Calvary, and the blood. Justification, election and calling, perseverance, eternal security, holiness, backsliding, apostasy, reprobation, the unpardonable sin, the sin unto death, suicide,and more are dealt with from the vantage point of Calvary and the finished work of Jesus Christ. Fallen from Grace will bring the word that sets you free from the yoke of bondage.
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God Of Yes
$18.95Add to cartHow do you see God?
Do you see Him as The Great Restrictor, saying no to your every move? Do you see Him as The Almighty Inhibitor, denying life’s every pleasure?
The God of Yes will help you discover a God of infinite hope, of unlimited possibilities, of eternal yes.
Are you ready to look past the static religiosity of our day and peer deeply into the God of Yes to find a life that truly works? The choice is yours. Your journey toward a life of Yes begins as you open the pages of this powerful book.
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Uneasy Conscience Of Modern Fundamentalism
$17.99Add to cartOriginally published in 1947, “The Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism” has since served as the manifesto of evangelical Christians serious about bringing the fundamentals of the Christian faith to bear in contemporary culture. In this classic book Carl F. H. Henry, the father of modern fundamentalism, pioneered a path for active Christian engagement with the world a path as relevant today as when it was first staked out.
Now available again and featuring a new foreword by Richard J. Mouw, “The Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism” offers a bracing world-and-life view that calls for boldness on the part of the evangelical community. Henry argues that a reformation is imperative within the ranks of conservative Christianity, one that will result in an ecumenical passion for souls and in the power to meaningfully address the social and intellectual needs of the world.
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Act And Being
$30.50Add to cartAfter two thousand years of theological discussion there seems to be little clarity about the kind of being that God is. “Act and Being” _ Colin Gunton’s last book before his untimely death in spring 2003 _ explores this topic with brilliance, offering a fresh, meaningful understanding of the defining characteristics of the deity. In discussing the attributes of God, Gunton brings a unique combination of theology and philosophy to bear on this central topic of Christian thought. He first reviews past attempts to unpack the nature of God, showing how most fail as cogent, relevant teaching. He then outlines the facets of a new, intellectually stimulating, profoundly biblical portrait of the divine being. In the course of his book Gunton also discusses the adequacy of theological language, compares the Greek and Hebrew views of divinity, and shows the difference that the Trinity makes to our understanding of the divine attributes.
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Bridging Science And Religion
$18.00Add to cartThis extraordinary volume models a fruitful interaction between the profound discovers of the natural sciences and the venerable and living wisdoms of the world’s religions. This book brings together distinguished contributors in the sciences, comparative philosophy, and religious studies to address the most important current questions in the field. Sponsored by the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences in Berkeley, it is an ideal starting point for novices, yet has much to offer academics, professionals, and students. Part 1 establishes a working methodology for bridge-building between scientific and religious approaches to reality. Part 2 lays down the challenge to current theological and ethical positions from genetics, neuroscience, natural law, and evolutionary biology. Part 3 offers a religious response to modern science from scholars working out of Islamic, Jewish, Hindu, Orthodox, Latin American Catholic, and Chinese contexts. Showcasing attitudes toward science from outside the West and an inclusive and comparative perspective, this book brings a new and timely dimension to this burgeoning field.
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For All The Saints
$45.00Add to cartHow do theology and spirituality relate to one another? How does the Christian heart connect with the Christian mind? This collection of essays from leading evangelical theologians and writers addresses these concerns through providing scholarly and personal reflections. Here you will find discussion of the integration of theology and spirituality, biblical and classical sources for spiritual formation, a critique of how evangelicals have uncritically appropriated the rhetoric of spirituality, and also the use and abuse of spiritual disciplines by evangelicals.
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When You Believe
$21.99Add to cartHigh school counselor Diana Engler thought she’d heard it all. But when Nicki Tatum accuses history teacher Greg Staine of abuse, Diana is stunned. Greg is a favorite of both students and faculty—and Diana’s fiance. Now Diana faces an impossible choice. Will she stand up for the man she loves or support a troubled girl?
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Vocabulary Guide To Biblical Hebrew
$18.99Add to cartA guide for mastering basic Hebrew vocabulary This guide helps seminary and Christian college students learn Hebrew vocabulary. A special feature of the guide is that it groups thevocabulary in three basic consonants. * All words occurring ten times or more in the Hebrew Bible in descending order of frequency * Primary roots and all words derived from roots occurring ten timesor more * Unusual and difficult word list, such as proper names, adjectives, prepositions, pronouns, particles, and verbs
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Taking The Old Testament Challenge
$16.99Add to cartHelp your congregation experience the life-changing relevance of the Old Testament The Old Testament Challenge (OTC) is a turn-key program to help everyone in your church understand and apply the Old Testament. Participants experience the content in multiple contexts: through sermons, group discussions, and personal devotions. This 32-week series is designed for churches to teach, study, and discuss the entire Old Testament over a 9-month period. The goal of OTC is to discover the life-changing truths of the Old Testament and how they can be applied to daily life. Based on Pastor John Ortberg9s OTC series at the New Community services of Willow Creek Community Church, this resource enables churches to raise the level of biblical literacy and understanding among their congregations. Your congregation will fall in love with the Old Testament! The OTC curriculum is made up of 4 kits of 7-9 lessons each. This first kit covers the Pentateuch and includes everything you need to preach 9 sermons (that9s less than $25 per week!): * Teaching Guide containing material from Ortberg9s weekly teachings for pastors and/or teachers * Group Discussion Guide focusing on specific passages from the Old Testament designed for weekly or bi-weekly use and including leader9s notes * DVD and VHS Video presenting an OTC “vision-casting” message from Ortberg, a promotional piece for churches, and 4 creative video elements for each kit to use during the OTC message * CD-ROM providing 7-9 PowerPoint presentations for use with each of the OTC messages. It also contains 40 FAQ sheets answering tough questions from the Old Testament for use on your web site or to be printed in hard copy. * Sets of slides for each teaching session for pastors and teachers. * Sermon Audio CD set containing all 9 messages preached by John Ortberg * Implementation Guide * 40 Weeks With God reading guide
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Finding Joy In All You Are
$8.99Add to cartA Bible study series addressing the unique needs of moms These 8 Bible studies help women discover God’s wisdom on how to be the best mothers, women, and disciples they can be. Each study contains 6 sessions divided into 5 flexible portions: For You Alone, For You and God’s Word, For You and Others, For You and God, and For You and Your Kids. The last section helps moms share each week’s nugget of truth with their children. *Finding Joy in All You Are helps moms discover who they are as a whole person. Everyone wants a piece of mom but this study will help a mom discover more about herself_as a mom, a believer, and a unique creation of God. EDITOR: Jean E Syswerda
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Lectionary Reflections Year C
$14.99Add to cartThis book is one of three volumes that bring together Jane Williams’s widely read and much enjoyed Church Times columns. Here, she offers reflections on the Sunday readings in the Revised Common Lectionary for Year C. Each section gives the lectionary references and provides a thought-provoking starting point for exploring the readings, drawing out points of connection between them. Intelligently written in an engaging and inspiring style, Lectionary Reflections will prove invaluable in preparation for Sunday worship or for regular Bible study throughout the year. It will be of use to individuals and groups for opening up the Bible and applying its rich teaching and stories.
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Prayers That Avail Much 3
$12.99Add to cartThe Power of Prayer is Yours!
This is a time when people everywhere are in need of real answers, real solutions. Now, more than ever, you need to know that your prayers will get results.
Prayer is not a powerless religious ritual. It is effective, accurate and brings results. When you pray according to the Scriptures, you can know
that God watches over His Word to perform it. Prayer is the “living” Word in your mouth. Commit yourself to pray, and pray correctly by approaching God with His unchanging, unfailing Word.This original bestseller, Prayers That Avail Much, Volume l, has sold over 1,000,000 copies. It has experienced tremendous popularity and spread across the nation and around the world simply because it works. It is God’s Word, arranged in our easy-to-use format, giving you the ability to pray effectively for your need. Allow God to work on your behalf as you pray for these topics:
* Walking in wisdom
* Obtaining God’s favor
* Living a Spirit-controlled life
* Salvation for the lost
* Victory over fear
Discover the answers you need as you spend time with the One Who has all the answers. By taking God at His Word, you’ll find that your prayers are Prayers That Avail Much!
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Prayers That Avail Much 2
$12.99Add to cartThe Power of Prayer is Yours!
This is a time when people everywhere are in need of real answers, real solutions. Now, more than ever, you need to know that your prayers will get results.
Prayer is not a powerless religious ritual. It is effective, accurate and brings results. When you pray according to the Scriptures, you can know
that God watches over His Word to perform it. Prayer is the “living” Word in your mouth. Commit yourself to pray, and pray correctly by approaching God with His unchanging, unfailing Word.This original bestseller, Prayers That Avail Much, Volume l, has sold over 1,000,000 copies. It has experienced tremendous popularity and spread across the nation and around the world simply because it works. It is God’s Word, arranged in our easy-to-use format, giving you the ability to pray effectively for your need. Allow God to work on your behalf as you pray for these topics:
* Walking in wisdom
* Obtaining God’s favor
* Living a Spirit-controlled life
* Salvation for the lost
* Victory over fear
Discover the answers you need as you spend time with the One Who has all the answers. By taking God at His Word, you’ll find that your prayers are Prayers That Avail Much!
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Demons The Answer Book
$15.99Add to cartFrom the Scriptures, Lester Sumrall shows that we can wage war on the devil and that we can win through the power given to us by Jesus Christ! In this book, you will learn how to: Obtain overcoming faith Use the weapon of prayer Access the Holy Spirit’s power against Satan Be set free of demonic oppression Be in complete freedom from disease Sumrall’s encouragement for the church today is that the children of God have already won. Christ is on our side, and we have mighty weapons to use in the battle. With this knowledge, you will find that you are more than a conqueror.
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Meditations On The Psalms
$35.95Add to cart“I hope that the ancient texts upon which these reflections are based will come alive for you in a new way,” writes Barbara Crafton in Meditations on the Book of Psalms. The Psalms, written by ordinary people, are filled with all the same emotions and issues that challenge, comfort, and confound us today. Their complaints, joys, celebrations, envy, doubting, fear, and hope are ours as well. In this book of meditations for each day of the year, best-selling author Barbara Crafton combines reflection on these ancient texts with contemporary stories to help us explore the spiritual nature of our lives.
From the desire to start anew in January, to time management and remembering to lighten up in December, Crafton’s meditations are the perfect daily companion for anyone who finds nourishment in biblically based devotional reading.
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Footsteps Of The Fisherman
$16.00Add to cartAll Christians face the challenges of discipleship, and all feel, at one time or another, that they have fallen. Focusing on New Testament stories about the Apostle Peter, pastor Scott Walker asks; How does Peter’s predicament apply to my life? What can I learn through Peter’s experience that will make me a better Christian disciple? In his gentle, thoughtful style, Walker illuminates the theme that it is only through struggle and personal failure that we grow to be stronger followers of Jesus.
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Ancient Judaism And Christian Origins
$32.00Add to cart(PUBFortress)Since the Holocaust, Christians and Jews have re-examined their roots and the reasons for the rift between the church and the synagogue. Nickelsburg has methodically sifted through recent findings to discover what’s of merit concerning script and tradition, Torah and the righteous life, eschatology, and more.
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Gospel Of Matthew (Student/Study Guide)
$31.99Add to cartIt is a common method in introductory biblical studies classes to choose exemplary biblical texts for further in-depth discussion by students in small group settings. Such groups provide a safe context for students to learn by interpreting the biblical texts for themselves. Increasingly, such interaction with one another and with the class instructor is electronic, either on bulletin boards or in chat. This book provides a resource for such group studies.
Two of the primary aims of most Bible teachers, especially those in colleges and seminaries, are very nearly contradictory: 1) the teacher wants the student to gain perspective, to learn the limitations of his or her own understanding of the biblical text by encountering divergent viewpoints and 2) the teacher wants the student to gain confidence in his or her own ability to interpret the biblical text responsibly. This introduction to the book of Matthew assists the instructor with these two primary aims by: 1) Introducing the student to the wide variety of claims that are being made about the meaning of the Gospel of Matthew. 2) Introducing the student to ways of assessing these claims. 3) Leading the student to take responsibility within a group context for the choices he or she will make between these competing claims as an interpreter of the biblical text (church leader, preacher, or teacher).
The book introduces the main themes and issues in the interpretation of the Gospel of Matthew in a student- (and Instructor-) friendly format. This introduction also exemplifies a new direction in biblical interpretation being used at seminaries in the U. S. The method is comparative cultural and religious interpretation, using existing scholarly and popular interpretations as exemplars for study and student discussion.
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High Stakes
$19.99Add to cartEighteen-year-old Angie Marks, tattooed and pierced, shows up in the small town of Baxter without a place to stay. When eccentric millionaire Patrick Bailey hires her to be his housekeeper, and then when Angie risks her own safety to help Mr. Bailey get his twin great-grandsons out of a rattlesnake’s strike zone, she finds herself fully at the center of the town’s curiosity. At Monty’s Diner they say she might be involved with Billy Joe Sawyer, using rattlers to intimidate the key witnesses in his upcoming trial. Is she? Or does Angie Marks have her own agenda
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Power Of A Positive Wife
$18.99Add to cartAs a woman, your influence in the lives of those you love is beyond measure. In no relationship is this more true than your relationship with your husband. But the incredible thing is-the power of your influence has nothing to do with your husband and everything to do with you and who you are in God.
In this positively powerful book, you’ll learn seven practical principles that any woman can bring into her marriage. You’ll learn how to dispel deadly marriage myths, how to fill your home with forgiveness, techniques for positive disagreement, the right way to respond when he’s wrong, secrets to discovering your inner beauty, and much more.
This you-can-do-it book will bring new life and vitality to any marriage and will nourish your own spiritual, physical, mental, and emotional growth. Now you can build a positively wonderful marriage!
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Late Have I Loved Thee
$23.00Add to cartLate Have I Loved Thee is the first collection of Saint Augustine’s varied writings on human and divine love, chosen to reflect his lifelong preoccupation with ordo amoris, the principle of rightly directed love. “My weight is my love,” he writes in The Confessions. He sees our ability to love as disordered by sin, so that we often choose badly what and how to love. Only by recognizing that we are commanded to love God first can any other object of our love be properly ordered, Late Have I Loved Thee draws on the riches found in Augustine’s sermons, letters, treatises, and Scripture commentaries, as well as passages from The Confessions and City of God.
Augustine (354-430 A.D.) was the most prolific writer of Christian antiquity and the most influential theologian in Church history. In his first encyclical, God Is Love, current Pope Benedict XVI acknowledges his indebtedness to him. When we read Augustine today, we encounter the same direct, eloquent passions his original listeners experienced, infused with his deep sense of human weakness and burning desire for union with God.
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Fragile Stone : The Emotional Life Of Simon Peter (Student/Study Guide)
$16.99Add to cartIVP Print on Demand Title
Songwriter and musician Michael Card explores the dynamic, contradictory life of the apostle Peter. The fruit of years of careful study, this book revisits well-known passages and discovers unexpected insights, painting a portrait of Peter that is both familiar and jarring. With a scope spanning the entire New Testament, Card reveals how the impetuous fisherman of the Gospels was transformed into the pivotal leader of the early church. The life of Simon Peter thus serves as a model for Christian discipleship, offering hope that we likewise can be changed as Jesus calls us to follow him. This companion study guide provides nine inductive Bible studies on the life of Peter, with discussion questions for group study or individual reflection.
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Doctrine Twisting : How Core Biblical Truths Are Distorted
$32.99Add to cartIVP Print On Demand Title
In essentials unity. In nonessentials liberty. In all things charity. Almost daily Christians are bombarded by strange new teachings about Jesus. The worldwide proliferation of new religious movements has created confusion in the church.
Are there core beliefs at the heart of the Christian faith?
If so, what are they?
And how should Christians relate to those who do not embrace these beliefs?
In down-to-earth language, Doctrine Twisting addresses and answers these questions. With the firm conviction that God has sufficiently and finally revealed himself in Christ and through the Bible, H. Wayne House and Gordon Carle explore in detail the doctrines of the Trinity, revelation, sin, Christ’s divinity, the atonement, faith and works, the second coming and the afterlife. In each chapter they outline the biblical basis for the historic orthodox position and then analyze and refute deviations from these truths. Doctrine Twisting will help Christians more fully serve God and minister to others through a better understanding of the essential doctrines of the Bible and the doctrinal errors of new religious movements. -
Making Small Groups Work
$26.99Add to cartHere’s a one-stop small-group leader’s guide for gatherings of all sorts—from divorce recovery and marriage enrichment to spiritual formation. Facilitators will learn God’s plan for growth and how to promote it; what makes a group work; the roles of members; and how to find solutions for problems, including boredom, noncompliance, aggression, overneediness, and nonstop talking.
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Rumors Of Another World
$22.99Add to cartWhat on earth are we missing? Philip Yancey believes we are missing the supernatural hidden in everyday life. In Rumors of Another World, Yancey investigates the natural world and discovers the supernatural hiding in plain view. He grapples with why God made the world and what our role truly is, and seeks to answer the question, “How do I live in the natural world while expressing the values of the supernatural?” Philip writes, “I have come to understand faith as the highest form of integrated encounter. Faith puts together, assembles, re-orders, accepting the entire world as God’s handiwork. We live among clues, like rescuers sifting through pieces of stained glass shattered by a bomb, and only with a blueprint or some memory of original design can we begin to connect the shards, to assemble them into a pattern that makes sense of our world. “Nature and supernature are not two separate worlds, but different expressions of the same reality. To encounter the world as a whole, we need a more supernatural awareness of the natural world.” Yancey invites readers to join him on a journey of discovery. He challenges us to tune into “rumors of another world,” and connect the seen with the unseen. He promises that the grace-filled result will be a life of beauty, purpose, freedom, and faith.
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Creative Bible Lessons In Revelation
$22.99Add to cart12 exciting faith-building studies from the book of Revelation about the future Teenagers can’t help but think about the future, especially in these uncertain times. The book of Revelation offers both a tantalizing look at what lies ahead and a powerful message of hope for those who put their trust in God. This curriculum takes youth leaders through the book of Revelation, and provides teaching tools and lessons on John’s vision of the future, Jesus the Redeemer, pure worship, the destruction of the earth, the ultimate showdown, the throne, and God’s mighty hand in the future of all humanity.
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Ruby : Managing Her Inheritance Is Going To Require Far More Than She Barga (Rep
$18.00Add to cartBook 1 of Dakotah Treasures. Author Lauraine Snelling once again takes readers west to the untamed land of Dakota Territory, introducing new characters both unique and appealing. Ruby Torvald and her young sister, Opal, have received an inheritance from their long-lost father who left home years ago to seek his fortune in the Black Hills. When they leave their comfortable situation in Chicago and arrive at the mining town of Medora to claim their inheritance, the sisters discover that rather than the legacy of gold they expected, their father has left them a shocking bequest. Ruby’s bold determination in the face of scandal leads the reader on a journey both heartwarming and inspiring.
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Canopy
$17.99Add to cartDeep in Peru’s steamy rain forests, Alexandra Pace desperately searches for a cure for deadly diseases—especially the strain that’s ravaging her own body and threatens her daughter. When British doctor Michael Kenway tells her of a mythical “healing tribe” deep in the Amazon jungle, she reluctantly trusts him. But can they reach this indigenous group—and will they have the cure?
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Lords Prayer : 8 Studies For Individuals Or Groups (Student/Study Guide)
$12.99Add to cartWhen the disciples asked Jesus to teach them to pray, he gave them what is now known as “the Lord’s Prayer.”
What is the Lord’s Prayer to you? Is it a formal prayer that you repeat only during Sunday morning worship? Has it become so familiar that you hardly think about its meaning? If so, you are missing out on a rich resource for your spiritual life.
In this study guide Douglas Connelly unpacks the Lord’s Prayer section by section with additional texts that help you dig deeper into Jesus’ teaching about how to pray.
This LifeGuide Bible Study features questions for starting group discussions and for meeting God in personal reflection, together with leader’s notes and a “Now or Later” section in each study.
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Best Thing I Ever Did For My Marriage
$15.99Add to cartMarriage has never been easy. But sometimes it takes surprisingly little to yield to infinite rewards. This eye-opening book by marriage experts Nancy Cobb and Connie Grigsby contains humorous and profound true stories of turning points in marriages. From brushing her teeth at a different sink to letting her husband finish his sentences, each woman’s story expresses the staggering impact that simple actions can have on marriages everywhere. More fulfilling relationships, expanded ministry opportunities and a more intimate walk with God await the readers of this book when they see how God’s best for their marriages may be just one small decision away.
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Prayer Changes Teens
$15.99Add to cart208 Pages
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Mom and Dad, you have more power over your teens than you think! Learn to release your kids to God’s control by praying specifically—with your sense of humor intact! McHenry offers lighthearted stories to take the edge off parenting; valuable insights on areas of conflict; biblical perspectives on each subject; tips from experts; and more. -
Tough Topics
$14.99Add to cartThis collection of provocative discussion questions is guaranteed to get teenagers talking, thinking, and debating. It follows in the footsteps of the best-selling Would You Rather?, What If?, and Unfinished Sentences. Each set of questions is followed by thought-provoking ideas, facts, and verses to think about. Adaptable content makes the book an easy-to-use resource for large or small groups_at youth meetings, retreats, small group discussions, mission trips, and more. With its compact size, it’s convenient to carry along wherever you go.
Examples of questions include:
*Which would be better? To have your prayers answered or to be constantly full of joy?
*Which would be worse? To eat what you don’t like or to crave what you can’t have?
*Which would be better? Fresh-baked, soft, chewy cookies or a nice thick, juicy steak?
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Chapter One : A Modern Day Testimony
$16.99Add to cartIn a world full of crime, tragedy, and death, we do not hear enough of the positive events. The world seems to be most interested in who died, who slept with whom, who killed whom, and so on. Tragedy is the top story of every news program and the headline of every newspaper. Where is the good news? We do not hear about what God is doing. We all have stories to tell. Just think if no one had written down the accounts that we now read in the Bible, or if historians had not recorded the events from which we get our history books. No one would know that God exists today, and our past would be lost. This book is an account of the first ten years of my walk with the Lord. My desire is that this book will glorify God, and encourage you in the challenges you face. May it inspire you to write your own story.
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Ushering In Todays Churches
$12.49Add to cartUshering in Today’s Churches was written to assist usher ministries to serve God in an effective and excellent manner. The contents of this book are for any churches that desire to take their usher ministries to the next level. The book will give ushers the knowledge to serve God with a spirit of excellence and elevate God with a well-organized ministry. I offer my assistance as a workshop instructor to any church organization that has the desire to further educate its usher ministry. The workshop will equip the usher ministry with knowledge and techniques that God has blessed me with. To have a workshop at your church, please refer to the workshop information page at the end of this book.
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When God Became Apparent
$16.49Add to cartWhen a parent dies during a child’s growing-up years, the change is monumental. An alternate shaping of life and self begins; an influence is lost; the creation of memories is halted. Living with the loss from that point on means living a new way of life. Life is so significantly shaped by the loss that other forces often pale by comparison. The reader will often be moved to tears by the heartfelt insights of adults who experienced the early death of a parent-a parent that cannot be present at graduations, weddings, births, and everyday conversations-a parent that is not available to give advice or be a grandparent. Woven throughout this very personal book are Dr. Darren Daugherty’s own insights from the early loss of his father and the recognition of God’s grace. Darren’s book will help readers to understand this loss and those who live with it. It also offers hope to anyone connected to the early loss of a parent. Included at the end of each chapter are suggestions for surviving parents who desire to help their children through the loss.
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RainCatcher : Help From Above For Christians In Sales
$21.99Add to cart“…Thus saith the Lord, Make this valley full of ditches.” 2 Kings 3:16 Are you a Christian Entrepreneur? If so, would you spend 45 minutes to learn how to acquire the Creator’s help in your sales career? RainCatcher is a handbook for those of us who want to sell God’s way with God’s help. The book offers many guidelines for cooperating with the Lord in our attitudes, goals, prayer requests, and conduct. Each success principle is supported by Scripture and an illustration to present an easy-to-read reference for the conscientious Christian salesperson. You will learn to: RELY ON GOD’S ABILITIES RATHER THAN YOUR OWN. REFOCUS ON GOD’S PROVISION AND FAVOR. PREPARE FOR GOD’S BLESSINGS. RainCatcher teaches us to till the rich soil of our talents, fertilize our ideas, and welcome the rains of harvest. Do you want to reap bountifully? Then read RainCatcher, and be swept away by the rivers of God’s blessings. RainCatcher is a “catchy,” easy to read and timely primer on salesmanship. It keeps the salesperson focused on God and the customer, which is the right priority. -Archie Dunham CHAIRMAN, ConocoPhillips
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Contextualization : Meanings Methonds And Models
$22.99Add to cartThis classic textbook brings together the meanings, proposals, and tasks involved in contextualization. Hesselgrave and Rommen explore the history of contextualization in the Bible and the Church while examining the proposals of prominent thinkers on this subject. They conclude with their own definition and approach to contextualization.
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Faithful Learning And The Christian Scholarly Vocation
$21.50Add to cartChristian scholars and teachers everywhere are exploring ever more fully the relationship between Christian faith and the various academic disciplines. “Faithful Learning and the Christian Scholarly Vocation” makes a singular contribution to this ongoing endeavor. Leading voices in the Christian academy here provide a solid theological foundation for understanding the aims and practice of faith-and-learning integration, especially within church-related institutions, and also pointedly discuss some major challenges and opportunities facing Christian higher education in the twenty-first century.
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God In The Equation
$18.99Add to cartHe wanted to know where our world comes from and where it was going.
He wanted to understand how the remote stillness of the heavens relates to the erratic, ever-changing events here on earth.
Above all, he wanted to know if the answers to these questions would bring him closer to a higher authority.
So Einstein put God in the Equation
“Everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science,” Albert Einstein once said, “becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the universe — a spirit vastly superior to that of man.” This mysterious component, which Einstein called a “cosmological constant,” would eventually work its way into his world-shattering theory of relativity. In this way, explains acclaimed science writer Corey S. Powell, Einstein was creating a formula for a new kind of “sci/religion,” one in which God was a factor, denoted by the Greek letter Lambda, and one that would pave the way for an entirely new gnostic era in the history of human spirituality.
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Approaches To Auschwitz (Revised)
$58.00Add to cartDistinctively coauthored by a Christian scholar and a Jewish scholar, this monumental, interdisciplinary study explores the various ways in which the Holocaust has been studied and assesses its continuing significance. The authors develop an analysis of the Holocaust’s historical roots, its shattering impact on human civilization, and its decisive importance in determining the fate of the world. This revised edition takes into account developments in Holocaust studies since the first edition was published.
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Life After Grace
$20.00Add to cart1. Life After Grace
2. Close Encounters
3. Practicing The FaithAdditional Info
In Life After Grace, the follow-up to her best-selling Glimpses of Glory, respected Christian writer and biblical scholar Carol Bechtel offers a collection of thirty reflections on living in the midst of God’s grace. Each reflection includes a Scripture passage and questions for reflection, making Life After Grace ideal for private devotion, group or individual study, and sermon preparation. -
Theres No Such Thing As Business Ethics
$23.00Add to cartBestselling author and expert on leadership John C. Maxwell claims there is only ONE rule for business. How does a person judge what is ethical? Sometimes it is clear. You know Enron’s leaders were in the wrong. But is it always easy to see where the line is in your life? What’s the standard? And can it work in all situations? John C. Maxwell thinks it can. When the New York Times best-selling author, successful businessman, and former pastor was asked about his thoughts on business ethics, his response was, “There’s no such thing. There is only ethics.”
Maxwell asserts there’s one ethical standard for all behavior. And you might be surprised by what it’s based on. Did you know that a variation of the Golden Rule exists in every major religion? In There’s No Such Thing as Business Ethics, Maxwell shows how people can live with integrity by using the Golden Rule as their standard-regardless of religion, culture, or circumstances. Along the way, he delves into the desires of the human heart, reveals the five most common causes that get people off track ethically, and teaches how to develop the Midas touch when it comes to integrity -
Judges : Returning To God (Student/Study Guide)
$12.99Add to cartSometimes we turn away from God.
Or we fail to love those around us.
We even follow the gods of the world.
Despite everything, God remains faithful, loving us and waiting for us to return to him. This is the story of Israel told in the book of Judges. As Donald Baker leads you to examine it for yourself, you may discover that it is your story as well.
This revised LifeGuide Bible Study features additional questions for starting group discussions and for meeting God in personal reflection, together with expanded leader’s notes and a “Now or Later” section in each study.
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Synans Of Virginia
$26.99Add to cartThe Synans of Virginia are descended from the ancient and noble Synan clan of County Cork in southern Ireland. With roots in Normandy, they came to Wales after the Norman invasion of 1066 A.D. and then migrated to Ireland in 1172 A.D. Here they owned twelve thousand acres of land, built castles, endowed churches, fought battles with their neighbors, and became a leading and powerful Irish family. This is the story of how a twelve-year-old lad, William Synan, came over to America in 1812, was stranded in Petersburg because of the war with England, and never saw his native land again. For almost two hundred years the Synans of Virginia have lived in America, fought in the nation’s wars, raised huge families, and contributed to the drama and richness of American life.
