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Cross And Christian Ministry
$16.00Add to cartRespected New Testament scholar and cofounder of The Gospel Coaltion unpacks what the death of Christ means for ministry, emphasizing that it is utterly imperative for the focus to be on what is central–the gospel of Jesus Christ–compelling us to share the Good News of Christ’s death and triumph.
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Willing To Believe
$18.00Add to cartR. C. Sproul traces the free will controversy throughout history, unpacking how theologians have explained original sin, human free will, and faith. He carefully explains the nuances separating the views of Protestants and Catholics, Calvinists and Arminians, the Reformed and Dispensationalists.
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Surrounded By Grace (Student/Study Guide)
$14.95Add to cartPastors love to preach about grace. The essence of the Good News, grace is unmerited favor from the all-powerful Creator of the world. There is perhaps no more satisfying message to deliver.
But does the average churchgoer really understand what grace means for them? Is it just another “Christianese” term that fails to resonate?
Bill Thomas’ Surrounded by Grace: A Bible Study for Lent is a tool based on the Gospel of John to help pastors, small groups and congregations answer the question of what grace is in a modern context. From the story of Jesus turning water into wine at the wedding in Cana to his conversation with the Samaritan woman at the well, Thomas uses John’s words to affirm that the Lord’s favor extends to all no matter how insignificant we see ourselves or our problems.
Written to be utilized for individual or group study, or for worship services during the Lenten season, Surrounded by Grace encourages the imagination to ponder that there is no storm so great the Lord cannot overcome it; no pain so deep he will not sustain us through it; no death so final he will fail to resurrect us from it.
Lessons Include:
“Grace for Those Awkward Moments” (John 2:1-11)
“Grace for the Broken Heart” (John 11:17-44)
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New Copernicans : Understanding The Millennial Contribution To The Church
$16.99Add to cartIn The New Copernicans: Understanding the Millennial Contribution to the Church, author John Seel, PhD, provides a road map to this new millennial landscape, and an antidote to being drawn off course.
The millennial generation is steering the church in a new direction and is providing a missional opportunity for the church. The church will either follow their lead, or meander in a direction leading them further away from the ultimate path of making disciples.
Millennials are the carriers of a profound shift in the culture narrative, one that will reshape our understanding of human society in the coming years. Rather than being a problem for the church to lament, this shift represents an occasion to celebrate. Yet it demands being able to understand this direction to a more accurate assessment of human nature and reality.
In The New Copernicans: Understanding the Millennial Contribution to the Church, author John Seel, PhD, provides a road map to this new millennial landscape, and an antidote to being drawn off course. Rather than give the reader a formula for their local church, Recalculating will provide a lens though which to see the world in the light of the millennial frame. It addresses the “why” questions, empowering the reader to assess their own situation and apply the appropriate direction. It will not advocate “cookie cutter” programs, rather provide a refreshed vision with which to interact along side this important generation.
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Stronger Than The Struggle
$18.99Add to cartPopular Bible teacher and Bethel Church pastor Havilah Cunnington reveals the truth about spiritual warfare, helping readers discern the source of their struggles and how to do battle with good old-fashioned theology and practical tools for their everyday lives.
Over the years Bible teacher and Bethel Church pastor Havilah Cunnington has talked to people across the spectrum of Christianity–from those who completely avoid mentioning the devil to those who see him lurking around every corner–and she has seen the dangers of ignoring or misrepresenting Satan’s true power. Whether we talk about it or not, every follower of God is in a war against a very real enemy, one who wants to steal, kill, and destroy. In Stronger than the Struggle, Cunnington shows readers what God’s Word has to say about this issue–and what it doesn’t.
In a down-to-earth, let’s-get-real approach, the author applies good old-fashioned theology to the tough topic of spiritual warfare and helps readers discern whether their struggles are coming from God, themselves, or the enemy. She teaches them the right questions to ask in order to see adversity from a new perspective and helps them to create realistic battle plans to win every day.An inspiring, personal approach to spiritual warfare, Stronger than the Struggle gives readers practical tools to thrive in the face of hardship, enabling them to put the enemy in his place and start living.
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Reclaiming Hope : Lessons Learned In The Obama White House About The Future
$16.99Add to cartLearn how the seeds of the Trump presidency were sown in the Obama White House.
In this unvarnished account of faith inside the world’s most powerful office, Michael Wear provides unprecedented insight into the highs and lows of working as a Christian in government. Reclaiming Hope is an insider’s view of the most controversial episodes of the Obama administration, from the president’s change of position on gay marriage and the transformation of religious freedom into a partisan idea, to the administration’s failure to find common ground on abortion and the bitter controversy over who would give the benediction at the 2012 inauguration.
The book is also a passionate call for faith in the public square, particularly for Christians to see politics as a means of loving one’s neighbor and of pursuing justice for all. Engrossing, illuminating, and at time provocative, Reclaiming Hope changes the way we think about the relationship of politics and faith.
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Cross Of A Different Kind
$22.00Add to cartEternal Insight Press
In this 3-part work, cancer survivor & spiritual theologian, Anthony Maranise, addresses the perspectives, complexities, & experiences unique to all persons “touched” by cancer who are also persons of faith. Suggested spiritual exercises at the conclusion of each part supplement the chapter content throughout. Ideal for academics, clergy, & laity.
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Life Changing Prayer Study Guide (Student/Study Guide)
$12.99Add to cartIn this six-session video-based Bible study (DVD/digital video sold separately), Jim Cymbala, pastor of Brooklyn Tabernacle, unlocks the truths he has learned about prayer that transformed his church from a struggling inner-city congregation to a thriving community of believers who pray with passion, focus, and faith. He reveals how prayer can likewise transform your life and your church when you “approach God’s throne of grace with confidence” (Hebrews 14:1), certain in the knowledge that will meet with you, answer your requests, and extend his mercy to you. It is at the throne of grace that you will also receive power to confront your problems without anxiety, and where the Holy Spirit will gradually shape you into a person who impacts others for Christ. Prayer is the force that binds believers together, and when God’s people unite and call on his name, powerful things happen in our world.
Sessions include:
Session 1: The Throne of Grace
Session 2: Receiving Mercy
Session 3: Perfect Peace from God
Session 4: Praying with Faith
Session 5: God Brings the Answer
Session 6: The Church that Prays TogetherDesigned for use with the Life-Changing Prayer Video Study (sold separately).
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Finding Selah : The Simple Practice Of Peace When You Need It Most
$16.99Add to cartThat something you’ve been looking for in the empty stress of your mad-dash days? It has a name.
The Psalms call it selah-the pause, rest, or interlude between the notes in a song. More than merely an empty space, selah is a chance to stop and resync with the story and song of God. For all the ways life keeps you running, this word and practice offers a way to re-center yourself on the One who holds all things together and makes all things beautiful.
Stretched beyond her capacity in caring for a large family in the middle of Manhattan, Kristen Kill was exhausted, depressed, and desperate for a change. Then something sparked within her when she read the Psalms, and found that often all that stood between the psalmist’s cries for help and celebrations of praise was this simple word, selah.
Join Kristen in Finding Selah for a journey that will transform the way you think about work, rest, and the little spaces in between that make all the difference. This book will show you how to tune your ear to the song God is singing over you, embrace the “selah moments” able to transform your daily rhythms, and most of all, encounter the ultimate Selah in Christ, who stands in the gap between heaven and your most hectic of days. There is hope for the dissonance you feel. Finding Selah will show you not only how to sing a new song, but to live a new way.
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Draw The Circle Study Guide (Student/Study Guide)
$12.99Add to cartHave your prayers become stagnant? Do you long to see God move in fresh ways? Are you ready to move to new places in your walk with God? If so, it’s time to take the 40-day prayer challenge and press into God like never before.In this five-session video study, bestselling author and pastor Mark Batterson reveals how taking up this challenge will not only change the way you pray today but also dramatically impact the rest of your life. While this challenge won’t be easy, and you will certainly experience setbacks along the way, as you pray through you can be assured that God will come through for you in new and exciting ways. Miracles that happen in your life decades from now will trace their origin back to this season of prayer, and breakthroughs that occur will become generational blessings that will live on long after your time on earth is over.
Today is the day for you to not only draw your prayer circle but also form your prayer circle with other believers in Christ. Now is the time to join with the more than half a million people who have already accepted this 40-day challenge to pray like it depends on God and work like it depends on them. As you do, you will witness the miraculous results in your life, your church, your community, and your world that only God can bring.
The Draw the Circle Study Guide includes video discussion questions, personal reflection questions, and daily devotional readings for each of the 40 days in the challenge.
Sessions include:
*Drawing a Circle
*Dream Big
*Pray Hard
*Think Long
*The Ripple EffectDesigned for use with the Draw the Circle Video Study (9780310094685) sold separately.
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I Am : Names, Divine Attributes, And Characteristics Of Jehovah
$19.95Add to cartFor over two hundred years’ people did not call on God by name. It wasn’t until the birth of Adams grandson Eno’s, that men began to call upon the name of the Lord.
God explained to Moses that He had appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Moses was given the task of returning to Egypt and demanding the release of the Israelite slaves.
Moses asked God When I come unto the children of Israel and shall say unto them, the God of your fathers hath sent me unto thee, and they say to me, what is his name? What shall I say unto them. God said to Moses “I AM THAT I AM” and He said, thus you shall say to the sons of Israel, I AM has sent me to you.” God goes on to say to Moses… “Thus, you shall say to the sons of Israel, The LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is My Name forever, and this is My Memorial-Name to all generations.”
I’AMHoly; Creator; The Most-High God; Righteous; Joy; Peace; Lord Mighty in Battle; God of the Battle; Conquer; High Tower and Strong Tower; Defender; Deliver; Thy Strength; Thy Sword; Thy Shield; Your Rock; The Wine; Your Fortress; Your Refuge; Shepherd; Kingsman Redeemer; Jubilee; Horn of thy Salvation; Sanctifier; Love; Mercy; Grace; Hope; Provider; Healer; Omnipresent; Omnipotent; Judge and Jealous.
Now there are covenant names of Jehovah and redemptive names through which God revealed himself to Israel. These different names do not signify 40 different God’s, but HIS Characteristics, or HIS attributes.
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How To Acquire Great Leadership Abilities In The Absence Of Fear
$13.99Add to cartClay Bridges Press
Discontent and fear have become a global stronghold. How are we to be leaders and change makers for God’s Kingdom in the face of this fear? We can learn from Moses’ example in the book of Exodus. In this book, Pastor Regina Brent shows us how God’s Word teaches us how to overcome our fear and live great lives for Him
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Go Outside : The Adventure Of Knowing And Being Known By God
$15.99Add to cartGo Outside” explores the adventure of knowing God and being known by God! You will be invited to take Jesus serious in his offer to find rest for your soul as you gladly assume the yoke of obedience. In this way, “Go Outside” is meant to be a field manual to help you understand that knowing God and being known by God is the greatest gift of all!
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Conversations With God 3
$18.99Add to cartImagine if you could hear God speak. Imagine if you could sit down and speak to God about a wide range of subjects that are helpful to the Christian faith and have him respond to you.
Matthew Robert Payne did exactly that over a period of time. He sat down and asked God to open up about the subjects covered in his previous book, Jesus Speaking Today. What follows is a number of intimate conversations with God.
God shares his heart with Matthew in a way that is raw, honest, and candid. Peek inside the pages to see how God speaks to his friend who is interested in hearing from him. Listen in on these conversations as God gets personal and even emotional about the things that matter to him and that should ultimately matter to everyone.
Matthew hopes that this book will encourage you to learn to hear from God for yourself and inspire you to journal what God says to you each day.
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Dancing King : A Novel
$24.99Add to cartDunrobin Publishing
Michael and Sarah Kent-Hughes arrive in Britain, to live permanently and prepare for the coronation. But forces are at work to frustrate Michael’s every move, with the aim of stopping him from being crowned king. As Michael assembles his staff and begins to find his way, he learns what it means to depend upon people and his faith.
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Fourfold Gospel : A Theological Reading Of The New Testament Portraits Of J
$24.00Add to cartThis groundbreaking approach to the study of the fourfold gospel offers a challenging alternative to prevailing assumptions about the creation of the gospels and their portraits of Jesus. How and why does it matter that we have these four gospels? Why were they placed alongside one another as four parallel yet diverse retellings of the same story?
Francis Watson, widely regarded as one of the foremost New Testament scholars of our time, explains that the four gospels were chosen to give a portrait of Jesus. He explores the significance of the fourfold gospel’s plural form for those who constructed it and for later Christian communities, showing that in its plurality it bears definitive witness to what God has done in Jesus Christ. Watson focuses on reading the gospels as a group rather than in isolation and explains that the fourfold gospel is greater than, and other than, the sum of its individual parts. Interweaving historical, exegetical, and theological perspectives, this book is accessibly written for students and pastors but is also of interest to professors and scholars.
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Beamans Commentary On The Gospel Of John 5th Edition (Revised)
$24.95Add to cartRoy Beaman combined the talents of a linguist, a New Testament scholar, and a biblical archaeologist. His commentary was developed for almost four decades and taught repeatedly in in seminary classrooms. Edited and revised by Michael R. Spradlin, PhD, this work will serve the scholar seeking information and the believer seeking devotional insights.
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How You Can Live An Everyday Supernatural Life
$24.99Add to cartLiving supernaturally…naturally!
How You Can Live an Everyday Supernatural Life is a comprehensive, interactive training manual based on the author’s best-selling books. This manual propels you into the supernatural realm where the printed Word of God lifts off the pages of the Bible and infiltrates every fiber of your being.
A supernatural life is one based solely on an intimate relationship with God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. This lifestyle is attainable and maintainable-if you have the keys. A sampling of the essential keys explored within the manual include:
*How to live supernaturally every day-in every way.
*How to safeguard your divine nature, God’s gift to you.
*How to avoid curses and welcome blessings.
*Attracting angels into your everyday life.
*How to defeat the evil one at the mind game.Suitable for individual use, group study, or as Sunday school discussions, How You Can Live an Everyday Supernatural Life will strengthen your relationship with God, your family, and church community-perhaps even the world.
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Makers Diet Revolution Updated And Revised Edition (Revised)
$16.99Add to cartThe Maker’s Diet Revolution is the long awaited sequel to The Maker’s Diet that Jordan Rubin’s fans are ready for. Jordan will share everything he has learned in the years since he wrote The Maker’s Diet, including:
Health and Diet Tips
Why our nation’s food supply is compromised
The importance of organic foods
Choosing the best water sources
Raising healthy children, healing chronic illnesses and much more!
His Popular Health Myths and Truths -
Unimaginable (Reprinted)
$19.99Add to cartIn a day when Christians are often attacked for their beliefs, this provocative and enlightening book looks at the positive influence of Christianity, both historically and today. Unimaginable guides readers through the halls of history to see how Jesus’ teachings dramatically changed the world and continue to be the most powerful force for good today.
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Legend Of Chip
$19.99Add to cartStanley Campbell
The Legend of Chip follows the epic story of Christopher MacDougall and his family as they struggle with dark forces that threaten to tear their world apart. Join Chip on his amazing journey as he searches for the answers to his problems while clinging to his faith. This is a story of love, hope, faith and redemption.
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Legend Of Chip
$36.99Add to cartLegend Writer Publications
The Legend of Chip follows the epic story of Christopher MacDougall and his family as they struggle with dark forces that threaten to tear their world apart. Join Chip on his amazing journey as he searches for the answers to his problems while clinging to his faith. This is a story of love, hope, faith and redemption.
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I Am A Son
$15.99Add to cartBeloved, now are we the sons of God ( 1Jn. 3:2)
Spiritual sonship is a position of inheritance in Christ that includes male and female.
My dearly beloved son,
You are on a very private, very holy journey. Most do not get what is happening in your heart. That’s ok. Just keep walking, listening, obeying. You are not alone. Many are entering this most incredible way of life. Be careful not to hold to things that no longer fit your new way of living. You are a maturing son. Everything will keep changing. Just when you think you have come to the end of discovery, a brand new beginning comes out of no where. The more you surrender to what you discover, without holding anything back, the more He will show you. His Life continuously rises in the hearts of the yielded, the broken, the faithful, the burning…you. Be at peace my son. Though most do not get it, I AM getting it because I know your heart. It is just like mine.The pages of this book offer a view of our faith that few have seen, fewer have understood and even fewer have experienced. The most incredible awakening a person can have is discovering who he is and what is waiting for the authentic believer in the Son of God.
Hold on-everything is about to change.
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Why Jesus Expanded Content (Expanded)
$5.99Add to cartThis booklet is a concise and easy-to-read study of the very real questions surrounding Jesus that your guests might be thinking about when first attending your church or Alpha: Who is Jesus? Why do we need Him? Why did He have to die? Why is He relevant to my life today? These booklets are an effective evangelistic tool to pass out to guests at your services or at Alpha, sharing the Gospel in a warm and relevant way.
Alpha is based on a pattern found in the New Testament of people bringing their friends, family, and work colleagues to meet Jesus. Alpha is an easy way to say to friends, “Come and see, come and explore your questions, come and hear about Jesus, come and see for yourself.” Everyone is welcome at Alpha, but the program is designed especially for people who would not describe themselves as Christians or church-goers.
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Pretender : A Blackguard In Disguise
$16.00Add to cartReata Publishing
The Pretender: A Blackguard in Disguise is the first volume of 5 in the family epic series The Caselli Family Series. It begins in South Dakota in 1975 where eighteen-year-olds could order 3.2 beers in a bar and loaded guns were kept under the counter. Frankie Valli sang My Eyes Adored You, and American soldiers returning from Vietnam struggled with their new reality. It’s within this tumultuous season of American history that Tillie Caselli meets Noah Hansen, and they are never the same again. Their lives were mysteriously intertwined and had been for many years yet they had no idea. From the moment they met, Tillie and Noah wanted to spend the rest of their lives together, but a deliberate omission will keep them apart and that same omission will be responsible for the escape of a murderer, and a bride’s deception. These compelling stories are interwoven with Biblical truths and light-hearted, real life events from the author’s own past.
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Tales From The Tribe
$14.99Add to cartAuthor Academy Elite
Ready to scale cliffs, flee machetes, and escape tsunamis? Tales from the Tribe is a missions-focused devotional book that will inspire, challenge, and educate you through incredible true stories that come to life from the jungle to your home. Get ready to see, feel, and even taste what it’s like to be a missionary living in a tribal village.
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Redeeming Honor : One Mans Honor Is Another Mans Shame
$14.99Add to cartMeghan Carpenter loves God, her yarn business, and her twin brother Ryan–a former marine who currently lives with her. When she agrees to let his wounded buddy live with them on her small Indiana alpaca farm, she expects an American marine. What she gets is a former Afghan interpreter who’s painfully shy around women. Scarred from the war, both physically and emotionally, Basir Hamidi is grateful for a place to live. But his attraction to Meghan is a problem. With his honor destroyed by events in his homeland, and nothing to offer her but his broken, scarred self, he vows to avoid her and protect her reputation. Yet he is drawn to her with a strength that can only be God’s leading. For a man who has lost everything, letting go of the past is a difficult process. When he must also redeem his honor, his only chance of success is to rely on God.
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Bible Matters : Making Sense Of Scripture
$20.99Add to cartIntroduction
1. The God Who Speaks
2. God Spoke In The Bible
3. God Speaks In The Bible
4. God Speaks Jesus In The Bible
5. The Bible Is Relational
6. The Bible Is Intentional
7. The Bible Is Enough
8. The Bible Is Reliable
9. The Bible Is Accessible
10. Dying To Read The Bible
Conclusion: Why I Love The Bible
O Lord Our Rock
Study Guide
Notes For Leaders
Notes
Further ReadingAdditional Info
The Bible is God’s Word.The Bible teaches us how we should live.
The Bible is something we should read every day.
The Bible is something we should delight to read.
Most of us agree with these statements. At least in theory. But what’s our reality?
Sometimes reading the Bible is a delight. But if we’re honest, many other times reading the Bible feels like hard work. We read out of a sense of obligation. And some of us have given up entirely.
Tim Chester reminds us that every time we read the Bible we hear the voice of God. The One who spoke and brought the universe into existence, whose voice thundered from Mount Sinai, and whose words healed the sick is who speaks to us today. So as we read the Bible we don’t merely learn information about God-we hear his voice and encounter his presence.
Including a study guide for group use, this book helps us approach reading the Bible with an eager anticipation, expecting to hear God’s voice and meet him in his Word. It’s up to us to listen.
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Holy Solitude : Lenten Reflections With Saints Hermits Prophets And Rebels
$17.00Add to cartOur faith is full of heroes who experienced God powerfully in solitude. From Hagar and the Hebrew prophets to Jesus in the wilderness to St. Francis and Catherine of Siena, we see how escape from the toil and temptations of daily life can open our eyes, ears, minds, and hearts to the still, small voice of God. In the vast desert or a tiny room, solitude-frightening for some and a welcome reprieve for others-is far from an antisocial self-indulgence but rather is an opportunity for transformation and empowerment to serve God’s people ever more deeply.
While most of us can’t take weeks-;or even a few days-for private retreat, Holy Solitude offers readers thoughtful inspiration and practical ideas for quiet reflection and deep devotion to experience God more powerfully this Lent. Daily reflections introduce readers to figures in both Scripture and Christian history whose stories of discernment and discipline are a guide for our own spiritual practices as we seek to know God more fully and follow Christ more faithfully.
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Crispina And Her Sisters
$29.00Add to cartDiscovering reliable information about women in early Christianity is a challenging enterprise. Most people have never heard of Bitalia, Veneranda, Crispina, Petronella, Leta, Sofia the Deacon, and many others even though their catacomb and tomb art suggests their authority was influential and valued by early Christian communities. This book explores visual imagery found on burial artifacts of prominent early Christian women. It carefully situates the tomb art within the cultural context of customary Roman commemorations of the dead. Recent scholarship about Roman portrait sarcophagi and the interpretation of early Christian art is also given significant attention. An in-depth review of women”s history in the first four centuries of Christianity provides important context. A fascinating picture emerges of women”s authority in the early church, a picture either not available or sadly distorted in the written history. It is often said “a picture is worth a thousand words.” The portrait tombs of fourth-century Christian women suggest that they viewed themselves and/or their loved ones viewed them as persons of authority with religious influence.
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Character Of The Christian
$7.99Add to cartLearn to be a model of Christian maturity.
D.A. Carson has pointed out that the list of qualifications for elders is “remarkable for being unremarkable.” Why? Because these traits are repeated elsewhere as qualities that ought to characterize all believers.
Are you growing in godliness? How would you even know?
A good place to begin is understanding and imitating the character qualifications the Bible lays out for elders. While elders are meant to exemplify these traits, all Christians are to display them. And, with just one exception, each of them is related to character.
Join me as I explore the Bible to consider how we can better exemplify the highest Christian virtues. As we consider the character of the Christian, we will spur one another on to love, good works, and Christlikeness.
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Set An Example
$7.99Add to cartGod means for your life to be a canvas, the setting for a beautiful work of art. And he also expects this work of art to be seen, admired, and imitated…
I want to speak to you if you are 16 or 18 or in your 20s, if you are in high school or college or just moving into marriage and career. I want to speak to you and want to speak with you.
There are many ways to invest your time at this stage of your life, but the Bible has convinced me that none is better than the pursuit of godliness. In Paul’s letter to young Timothy, you (yes, you!) are called to be an example to your peers and even to older Christians. He calls you to set an example of maturity and godliness in your speech, conduct, love, faith, and purity.
Join me as together we explore these areas and see how they apply to what you think, what you say, what is hidden in your heart, and what is broadcast in your life.
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Thank God For The Cotton
$15.99Add to cartThank God for the Cotton describes a twenty-three-year healing journey. The memoir is about the culmination of the promises of God over the lifetime of someone wanting to do right, thinking she was doing right, but missing the mark. Generational baggage creates unexplainable events for a young child and takes years to unpack.
In Thank God for the Cotton, Dr. Smith describes her path to radical dependence on our Triune God as she lived the loss of visions and dreams. Cotton is seen as both a blessing and a grace providing day-to-day decision opportunities for God’s goodness to be bestowed. Disturbing events are transformed into good as God provides the tools. Meaning and purpose is discovered as the tools are shared with others. Thank God for the Cotton is an example of God’s grace as provided one day at a time. The seeds of faith, hope, and trust lived out in simple lives, in simple ways can grow into an unlimited harvest of healing.
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What Will Soon Take Place
$21.00Add to cartWhat Will Soon Take Place is an imaginative journey through the book of Revelation. It offers a poet’s view of the prophetic, not in the sense of seeking out clues to the “end times,” but a means of taking this strange, fantastic book of scripture and letting it read its way into personal lives. This is not prophecy as foretelling, but forth-telling: telling us the truths of our lives in the light of God’s light. But rather than escape into some safe, heavenly realm, the poems return to our homes and meet us in the form of our neighbors, persecuted believers, and in shopping malls with vivid, edged-up language and the authority to believe and doubt at once.
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Reasoning From Faith
$35.00Add to cartIndiana University Press
Merold Westphal is considered to be one of the preeminent Continental philosophers of religion. His articulation of faith as the task of a lifetime has become a touchstone in contemporary debates concerning faith’s relationship to reason. As Justin Sands explores his philosophy, he illuminates how Westphal’s concept of faith reveals the pastoral, theological intent behind his thinking. Sands sees Westphal’s philosophy as a powerful articulation of Protestant theology, but one that is in ecumenical dialogue with questions concerning apologetics and faith’s relationship to ethics and responsibility, a more Catholic point of view. By bringing out these features in Westphal’s philosophy, Sands intends to find core philosophical methodologies as well as a passable bridge for philosophers to cross over into theological discourses.
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Reasoning From Faith
$85.00Add to cartIndiana University Press
Merold Westphal is considered to be one of the preeminent Continental philosophers of religion. His articulation of faith as the task of a lifetime has become a touchstone in contemporary debates concerning faith’s relationship to reason. As Justin Sands explores his philosophy, he illuminates how Westphal’s concept of faith reveals the pastoral, theological intent behind his thinking. Sands sees Westphal’s philosophy as a powerful articulation of Protestant theology, but one that is in ecumenical dialogue with questions concerning apologetics and faith’s relationship to ethics and responsibility, a more Catholic point of view. By bringing out these features in Westphal’s philosophy, Sands intends to find core philosophical methodologies as well as a passable bridge for philosophers to cross over into theological discourses.
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Praying With The Senses
$30.00Add to cartIndiana University Press
How do people experience spirituality through what they see, hear, touch, and smell? Sonja Luehrmann and an international group of scholars assess how sensory experience shapes prayer and ritual practice among Eastern Orthodox Christians. Prayer, even when performed privately, is considered as a shared experience and act that links individuals and personal beliefs with a broader, institutional, or imagined faith community. It engages with material, visual, and aural culture including icons, relics, candles, pilgrimage, bells, and architectural spaces. Whether touching upon the use of icons in the age of digital and electronic media, the impact of Facebook on prayer in Ethiopia, or the implications of praying using recordings, amplifiers, and loudspeakers, these timely essays present a sophisticated overview of the history of Eastern Orthodox Christianities. Taken as a whole they reveal prayer as a dynamic phenomenon in the devotional and ritual lives of Eastern Orthodox believers across Eastern Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia.
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Praying With The Senses
$80.00Add to cartIndiana University Press
How do people experience spirituality through what they see, hear, touch, and smell? Sonja Luehrmann and an international group of scholars assess how sensory experience shapes prayer and ritual practice among Eastern Orthodox Christians. Prayer, even when performed privately, is considered as a shared experience and act that links individuals and personal beliefs with a broader, institutional, or imagined faith community. It engages with material, visual, and aural culture including icons, relics, candles, pilgrimage, bells, and architectural spaces. Whether touching upon the use of icons in the age of digital and electronic media, the impact of Facebook on prayer in Ethiopia, or the implications of praying using recordings, amplifiers, and loudspeakers, these timely essays present a sophisticated overview of the history of Eastern Orthodox Christianities. Taken as a whole they reveal prayer as a dynamic phenomenon in the devotional and ritual lives of Eastern Orthodox believers across Eastern Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia.
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Proverbs Ecclesiastes Song Of Songs Participant Book (Large Type)
$14.99Add to cartStudy the entire Books of Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Song of Songs in this comprehensive 13-session study beginning with a look at the springs of life in the Proverbs and ending with the Song of Songs’ declaration that love is as strong as death. Some of the major ideas explored in this Book of the Bible are: The cost of getting involved. Joy unlimited. The constancy of friendship. Time to love and to hate. The old and the new. More than 3.5 million copies of the series sold. This revision of the Abingdon classic Genesis To Revelation Serie is a comprehensive, verse-by-verse, book-by-book study of the Bible based on the NIV. These studies help readers strengthen their understanding and appreciation of the Bible by enabling them to engage the Scripture on three levels: What does the Bible say? Questions to consider while reading the passage for each session. What does the passage mean? Unpacks key verses in the selected passage. How does the Scripture relate to my life? Provides three major ides that have meaning for our lives today. The meaning of the selected passages are made clear by considering such aspects as ancient customs, locations of places, and the meanings of words. The simple format makes the study easy to use. Includes maps and glossary with key pronunciation helps. Updates will include: New cover designs. New interior designs. Teacher book per matching student book (rather than multiple volumes in one book). Update to 2011 revision of the New International Version Translation (NIV). Updated references to New Interpreters Dictionary of the Bible. Include biblical chapters on the contents page beside session lesson titles for at-a-glance overview of biblical structure. Include larger divisions within the contents page to reflect macro-structure of each biblical book. Ex: Genesis 1-11; Genesis 12-50; Exodus 1-15; Exodus 16-40; Isaiah 1-39; Isaiah 40-66.
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Imperfect Justice
$17.99Add to cartThe police say the woman was a murderer. Emilie Wesley knows they can’t be talking about her client . . . but she can’t prove it.
To the world it seems obvious: Kaylene Turner snapped and killed her daughter and then was shot by police. However, attorney Emilie Wesley knows a different story. Kaylene was a nurturer at heart looking for a way out of a controlling, abusive marriage. Kaylene’s death shakes Emilie’s world and her belief that she can make a difference for these women. Self-doubt plagues her, and she finds herself struggling to continue her work in the wake of tragedy.
Austen Billings thought he knew his sister-right up until he learned of the manner of her death. He receives a letter from Kaylene begging him to fight for custody of her daughters if anything should happen to her. No attorney in her right mind would take on his case, but Kaylene’s letter claims Emilie Wesley will help him.
Thrown together in the race to save Kinley Turner from a father who isn’t all that he seems, Emily and Austen pursue the constantly evasive truth. But if they can hang on to hope together, maybe they can save Kinley-and find a future for themselves in the process.
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Being Brave : A 40 Day Journey To The Life God Dreams For You
$15.99Add to cart“For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.” (2 Timothy 1:7 ESV) God has made us brave, not fearful beings. In a forty-day devotional format, author and blogger Kelly Johnson invites you to consider a new way of thinking about what it means to be brave and challenges you to seek a greater intimacy with God and the people God has placed in your life. Through Scripture, stories, prayers, and thought-provoking questions, you will recognize the seeds of divinely inspired bravery and learn the strength found in community. Using letters of the word brave as a guide, Being Brave highlights what God’s Word has to say about the characteristics of bravery: Bold, Resilient, Authentic, Vulnerable, and Engaged and Empowered by the Spirit. Banish the fear that holds you back. You are a brave soldier!
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Embracing The Uncertain
$9.99Add to cartJust turning on the news lets us know we are living in uncertain times. Economic instabilities, eruption of violence, and natural catastrophes can alter the lives and landscapes of entire communities. Our individual lives are often just as unsteady: relationships can break, plans can falter, and confidence can fail. Uncertainty can definitely be uncomfortable. Many of us prefer stability and a predictable future to an unknown fate. We are wired to want to control our destiny. The reality is that in our fast-changing, unpredictable world there are few guarantees in life. It’s those who are willing to embrace uncertainty and make the risky decision to follow Jesus despite the many “unknowns” who will reap the greatest rewards. Embracing the Uncertain invites readers this Lent to engage and wrestle with life’s uncertainties, not ignore them. This 40-day devotional journey is the perfect companion piece to the book and includes Scripture, reflections, and prayers for each day to help you renew your heart during Lent.
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Embracing The Uncertain
$12.99Add to cartJust turning on the news lets us know we are living in uncertain times. Economic instabilities, eruption of violence, and natural catastrophes can alter the lives and landscapes of entire communities. Our individual lives are often just as unsteady: relationships can break, plans can falter, and confidence can fail. Uncertainty can definitely be uncomfortable. Many of us prefer stability and a predictable future to an unknown fate. We are wired to want to control our destiny. The reality is that in our fast-changing, unpredictable world there are few guarantees in life. It’s those who are willing to embrace uncertainty and make the risky decision to follow Jesus despite the many “unknowns” who will reap the greatest rewards. Embracing the Uncertain invites readers this Lent to engage and wrestle with life’s uncertainties, not ignore them. The first six chapters focus on six post-Transfiguration, pre-Passion stories in the Gospels. Each of these stories are signposts in the gospel narrative, pointing down at a world filled with uncertainty, but pointing us forward to a cross that can show us how to follow Jesus with courage, hope, and obedience. Includes discussion questions that can be used in small-group Bible study session or for personal growth. A seventh chapter focuses on the resurrection of Jesus, affirming the certainty of our hope in Christ.
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Intercultural Discipleship : Learning From Global Approaches To Spiritual F
$34.00Add to cartThis addition to an acclaimed series brings cutting-edge research to bear on a topic of perennial interest: making disciples. The book looks at disciple-making from multiple cultures to help readers discover contextual approaches that are culturally relevant and biblically faithful. It emphasizes methods that are especially effective with contemporary converts and includes practical examples from around the world. Each chapter includes sidebars, discussion questions, an activity for discipling, and a case study. An appendix contains further suggestions and exercises for instructors. Additional resources for professors and students are available through Baker Academic’s Textbook eSources.
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Healthy Living Handbook
$14.99Add to cartAccessible, practical, and grounded in real life, The Healthy Living Handbook is full of simple everyday ways to live a truly healthy life–body, mind, and spirit. These easy-to-implement lifestyle tips will not only bring the peace, rest, energy, connection, and clarity you’ve been longing for, but help you to live better in every area of life.
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Alpha Team Guide
$10.99Add to cartThis resource is for Alpha small group hosts and helpers. It includes notes for the new training sessions that can be found online or on the Alpha Film Series DVD. It also has suggested questions to help guide the discussion time for each session of Alpha.
Alpha is based on a pattern found in the New Testament of people bringing their friends, family, and work colleagues to meet Jesus. Alpha is an easy way to say to friends, “Come and see, come and explore your questions, come and hear about Jesus, come and see for yourself.” Everyone is welcome at Alpha, but the program is designed especially for people who would not describe themselves as Christians or church-goers.
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Disconnected Man : Breaking Down Walls And Restoring Intimacy With Him
$20.00Add to cartTHE DISCONNECTED MAN tracks the journey of one man’s surprise discovery of his own disconnectedness and his desire to help other men, and the women who love them, before it is too late.
Disconnected men hide out in plain view: in our churches, in our families and in our communities. They are competent, capable men who quietly ‘do their duty’ and attract little attention. They are fairly happy guys, relatively unemotional and capable of carrying heavy loads of responsibility, but are very difficult to get to know beyond superficial friendship. A closer examination inside their marriages reveals a desert strewn with emotionally emaciated spouses. While their competence may build the church, organize a group, or run a company, they haven’t the slightest notion how to connect intimately with those they love. Their wives suffer, usually in silence, while the church and culture press past this couple secretly falling apart.
Jim Turner was that disconnected man going about his life, happily fulfilling his duty within his own self-protective bubble, until God suddenly burst it in a most horrific way. His story starts when that devastation left him clinging precariously to the remaining shreds of his broken marriage. Jim longs to share with other disconnected men what he learned through that ordeal, to help them understand their disobedience and show how they can achieve real connection with those they love.
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How Neighborhoods Make Us Sick
$24.99Add to cartForeword By Dr. Keri Norris
Part 1: How We Get Sick
1. Two Journeys To The Inner City
2. What Is Making Us Sick? An Introduction To Social Determinants Of Health
3. The Trauma Of Poverty
4. Working To Death: Employment And Social Status
5. Kool-Aid In A Baby Bottle: Food Insecurity And Nutrition
6. Barriers To Learning: Education And Child Development
7. When Housing Hurts: Environmental Factors
8. The Challenge Of Getting Well: Health Care Access In The United States
9. The Unmaking: On Moving Out And RebuildingPart 2: How We Get Well
10. A New Approach: What Will Make Our Neighbors Healthy?
11. The Good Sam Story
12. Poverty: Addressing A Distant Disease
13. Hired And Healthy
14. Growing Health From The Ground Up
15. A Healthy Start
16. A Place To Call Home
17. Re-envisioning Health Care
18. Rx For Change: An Approach To Activism
Epilogue: Toward A Better Way
Acknowledgments
Discussion QuestionsAdditional Info
Our neighborhoods are literally making us sick.Buildings with mold trigger asthma and other respiratory conditions. Geographic lack of access to food and health care increases childhood mortality. Community violence traumatizes residents. Poverty, unemployment, inadequate housing, food insecurity, racial injustice, and oppression cause physical changes in the body, resulting in disease and death.
But there is hope. Loving our neighbor includes creating social environments in which people can be healthy. While working in community redevelopment and treating uninsured families, Veronica Squires and Breanna Lathrop discovered that creating healthier neighborhoods requires a commitment to health equity. Jesus’ ministry brought healing through dismantling systems of oppression and overturning social norms that prevented people from living healthy lives. We can do the same in our communities through addressing social determinants that facilitate healing in under-resourced neighborhoods.
Everyone deserves the opportunity for good health. The decisions we make and actions we take can promote the health of our neighbors.
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Albrecht Drer : Artist In The Midst Of Two Storms
$64.00Add to cartThe artist and entrepreneur Albrecht Durer lived in Germany in the early 1500s, when two storms were threatening the Holy Roman Empire. First, Suleiman the Magnificent and his army of Ottoman Turks were expanding from Constantinople to Vienna, the doorstep of Europe. Second, Martin Luther, a German monk and professor, wrote his Ninety-Five Theses identifying corruption within the Roman Catholic Church. This challenged the authority of both Emperor Charles V and Pope Leo X, who responded by accusing Luther of heresy. Albrecht Durer influenced art and media throughout Europe as strongly as Martin Luther influenced people’s views of life, death, and their relationship with God. Durer’s art and writing reveal how this creative and thoughtful man responded to the changes offered by Luther. Why was Durer so attracted to Luther’s writings? Why would he risk being accused of being a heretic? Both of these men inspired changes in art, religion, and politics that still underlie the foundation of today’s social structures and Western culture.
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Unpopular Culture
$13.99Add to cartMoney is the key to happiness. Work hard, play hard. Look out for number one. Popular culture is full of phrases like these, telling us the best way to live, the right things to buy, the right body shape to have, the right people to hang out with. These messages are everywhere we look, 24 hours a day. But what if there was another way to live? What if we chose to live differently: to stand against injustice, to live life for more than just ourselves, to dare to be unpopular? Guvna B is rebelling against the status quo, and he’s calling you to join him. It’s time to flip the script, to demonstrate another way to live, to find freedom in going against the grain. It’s time for unpopular culture to take the stage.
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Adam Eve And The Riders Of The Apocalypse
$45.00Add to cartAdam, Eve, & the Riders of the Apocalypse brings together 122 poems about the people from the stories in the Bible. It arises from the meditations and fascinations of gifted writers, who ask themselves about the significance of these stories for our lives today. This anthology is a companion for your own reflections–a place for imagination and inquiry–and a collection of poems for you to share with the people who ponder the beauty, and mystery, and significance of Scripture along with you.
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God Who Plays
$43.00Add to cartMany people would be surprised to hear that a playful attitude towards God and the world lies at the heart of Christian faith. Traditionally Christians have focused on the serious responsibilities of service, sacrifice, and commitment. But the prophets say that the future kingdom is full of people laughing and playing, which has implications for Christians who are called to live out the future kingdom in the present. Play is not trivial or secondary to work and service–only a playful way of living does justice to the seriousness of life! Play is the essential and ultimate form of relationship with God, which is why Jesus told people to learn from children. Indeed, a playful attitude is an important part of all significant relationships. This book explores grace, faith, love, worship, redemption, and the kingdom from the perspective of a playful attitude. It describes how to create a “”play ethic”” to match the “”work ethic”” and discusses play as a virtue, Aquinas’s warning against the sin of not playing enough, and Bonhoeffer’s claim that in a world of pain it is only the Christian who can truly play. “”In The God Who Plays, Brian Edgar presents a wonderful gift to God’s overly serious people . . . The chapter headings are inviting, the writing clear and even playful. Brian clearly had fun writing this book. And the imaginative invitations to play with God, concluding each chapter, are irresistible. Enjoy.
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God We Proclaim
$35.00Add to cartThroughout history, Christians have found the summary of their faith in the three ancient creeds. The God We Proclaim explores that faith as it is found in the shortest of them: the Apostles’ Creed. The contributors are among Britain’s foremost Christian communicators and teachers. Written with an infectious enthusiasm for theology, The God We Proclaim is ideal for anyone seeking to understand the Christian faith, either individually, or in a church or student study group. It is based on a set of sermons delivered in the chapel of Jesus College, Cambridge, which surveyed the foundations of Christianity. Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957) wrote in her essay “”The Dogma is the Drama”” that people assume that if churches are empty it is because preachers “”insist too much upon doctrine,”” or “”dull dogma”” as they disapprovingly call it. Sayers knew that the opposite is true. “”It is the neglect of dogma that makes for dullness. The Christian faith is the most exciting drama that ever staggered the imagination of man–and the dogma is the drama.””
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Ekklesia : Rediscovering God’s Instrument For Global Transformation (Reprinted)
$16.99Add to cartIn this vital, eye-opening book, bestselling author Ed Silvoso equips believers to transform the world around them. Amid the social, political, and moral chaos in our world today, he shows how we can become the church, the ekklesia, that Jesus called us to be: the revolutionary, transformational, life-giving force that people and nations so desperately need.
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Cul De Sac Kids Collection Two
$16.99Add to cartA lighthearted chapter book series for young readers written by bestselling author Beverly Lewis! Each book centers on the often-humorous escapades of these endearing neighborhood friends as they solve mysteries and learn the value of friendship and faith. This collection includes books seven through twelve in the series.
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Cul De Sac Kids Collection One
$16.99Add to cartA lighthearted chapter book series for young readers written by bestselling author Beverly Lewis! Each book centers on the often-humorous escapades of these endearing neighborhood friends as they solve mysteries and learn the value of friendship and faith. This collection includes books one through six in the series.
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1-2 Kings : Gods Imperfect Servants (Student/Study Guide)
$12.99Add to cartGetting The Most Out Of 1 & 2 Kings
1. Solomon: Praying With God’s Values (1 Kings 3)
2. Solomon: Faithless In Love (1 Kings 11)
3. Jeroboam/Rehoboam: Internal Conflict (1 Kings 12)
4. Ahab: Deaf To God (1 Kings 22:1-40)
5. Ahaz: Faithless In Trouble (2 Kings 16)
6. Hoshea: Idolatry’s Reward (2 Kings 17)
7. Hezekiah: King In Crisis (2 Kings 18:1-20:21)
8. Manasseh: One Giant Step Backward (2 Kings 20:1-21:18)
9. Josiah: Following God’s Law (2 Kings 22:1-23:30)
10. Zedekiah: End Of The Line (2 Kings 24:1-25:21)
Leader’s NotesAdditional Info
Some chose to follow God. Others followed only fame and fortune. They lived through times of difficulty and times of triumph, through political and emotional turmoil, through popularity and through political and emotional turmoil, through popularity and through discontent. This ten-session LifeGuide Bible study focuses on the character of the Kings of the Old Testament and what we can learn from them.For over three decades LifeGuide Bible Studies have provided solid biblical content and raised thought-provoking questions-making for a one-of-a-kind Bible study experience for individuals and groups. This series has more than 120 titles on Old and New Testament books, character studies, and topical studies.
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American Church In Crisis
$24.99Add to cartGroundbreaking research based on a national database of over 200,000 churches shows that the overall United States population is growing faster than the church.
The director of the American Church Research Project, Dave Olson, has worked to analyze church attendance, showing that it is virtually unchanged from fifteen years ago while our population has grown by fifty-two million people. What does this mean for you, your church, and the future of Christianity in North America? The American Church in Crisis offers unprecedented access to data that helps you understand the state of the church today. “We live in a world that is post-Christian, postmodern, and multiethnic, whether we realize it or not,” says the author. This book not only gives a realistic picture that confirms hunches and explodes myths, but it provides insight into how the church must change to reach a new and changed world with the hope of the gospel. Readers will find a richly textured mosaic with optimistic and challenging stories. Charts, diagrams, and worksheets provide church leaders and motivated church members with a stimulating read that will provoke much discussion. Questions for discussion accompany the chapters.
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Clouds Ye So Much Dread
$16.00Add to cartThe Clouds Ye So Much Dread is a beautiful blend of memoir, theology, meditation, and storytelling. Each of these chapters — from dreading the birth of her first child, to living in unfamiliar and dangerous places, to facing the news that her son had been diagnosed with cancer — describes the stories through which Hannah K. Grieser has come to see that hard or uncertain circumstances, rather than being cause for doubt and dread, can instead become the unasked-for means that our loving Father uses to turn us toward Him and to show us His faithfulness. Told in Hannah’s graceful yet punchy prose, the reflections in this powerful book will challenge readers to revisit their own hard times and see how God can take the storms that we most fear and turn them into downpours of blessings.
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Rediscover The Bible
$29.95Add to cartKitsap Publishing
The Bible is arguably the most influential book ever written, and it remains the best-selling book in America every year. Yet increasingly, in our secular age, the Bible remains on our bookshelves, unread. In Rediscover the Bible–Or Discover It for the First Time, Pastor Michael Pickard offers a fresh narration of the Bible’s story, and its continuing relevance, for the curious, the confused, and the committed reader.
In this 366-day devotional commentary, Pickard takes the reader on a lively guided journey through the whole Bible, Genesis to Revelation. Each daily reading provides a helpful summary of the text, insights into the cultural context, contemporary application and a brief prayer.
By investing about 15 minutes a day, for one year, the reader will see the Big Story of the Bible come into focus. You’ll discover how the Bible’s story of Creation, Fall, Redemption and New Creation helps us make sense of life and draw closer to God, our Creator.
This book can be used for daily devotional reading, for group discussion, as a teaching resource and for personal research.
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Clarifying The Bible
$17.99Add to cartClarifying the Bible” is a two-hour video presentation and workbook giving viewers the basic framework and storyline of the Bible. The material is presented in a passionate, compelling fashion, delivering on its promise to help people see the Bible with more clarity than ever before.
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Living Hope : Examining History’s Most Important Event And What It Means Fo
$14.99Add to cartNo one has had a greater effect on the world than Jesus of Nazareth. But how does a simple carpenter from first-century Palestine end up shaping the course of history more than anyone who has ever lived? By accomplishing what no other person has ever done: by rising from the dead.
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Will Willimons Lectionary Sermon Resource Year B Part 2
$26.99Add to cartWill Willimon is widely acclaimed as one of the top ten preachers in the world. For each Sunday of the Christian year, Will provides just what you need to begin the journey toward a sermon. This guide will stoke, fund, and fuel your imagination while leaving plenty of room to insert your own illustrations, make connections within your congregational context, and speak the Word in your distinctive voice. Guidance from Will Willimon is like sitting down with a trusted clergy friend and asking, “What will you preach next Sunday?” Year B, Part 2 is part of a six-volume set which includes years A, B, and C (2 volumes per year) in the Revised Common Lectionary. The sermon resources include: 1. Readings 2. Theme title 3. Introduction to the Readings 4. Encountering the Text 5. Proclaiming the Text 6. Relating the Text
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Pit Of Ambition
$16.00Add to cartReata Publishing
Giuseppe had been stubborn…and the thing with Alex went too far. He buried the secret of Noah’s identity deep within his heart, and demanded that Rosa do the same. In the pursuit of professional and political success, Alex runs headlong into a pit of pride and ambition…and Giuseppe begins to hate the husband he chose for his daughter. He’s tempted to tell Angel the secret that is crushing his heart – but Noah will find out first!
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Holding The Fort
$18.00Add to cartLouisa Bell never wanted to be a dance-hall singer, but dire circumstances force her hand. With a little help from her brother in the cavalry, she’s able to make ends meet, but lately he’s run afoul of his commanding officer, so she undertakes a visit to straighten him out.
Major Daniel Adams has his hands full at Fort Reno. He can barely control his rowdy troops, much less his two adolescent daughters. If Daniel doesn’t find someone respectable to guide his children, his mother-in-law insists she’ll take them.When Louisa arrives with some reading materials, she’s mistaken for the governess who never appeared. Major Adams is skeptical. She bears little resemblance to his idea of a governess–they’re not supposed to be so blamed pretty–but he’s left without recourse. His mother-in-law must be satisfied, which leaves him turning a blind eye to his unconventional governess’s methods. Louisa’s never faced so important a performance. Can she keep her act together long enough?
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Ladies Of Ivy Cottage (Reprinted)
$20.00Add to cartReturn to Ivy Hill in The Ladies of Ivy Cottage as friendships deepen, romances blossom, and mysteries unfold.
Living with the two Miss Groves in Ivy Cottage, impoverished gentlewoman Rachel Ashford is determined to earn her own livelihood . . . somehow. When the village women encourage her to open a subscription library with the many books she has inherited or acquired through donations, Rachel discovers two mysteries hidden among them. A man who once broke her heart helps her search for clues, but will both find more than they bargained for?
Rachel’s friend and hostess, Mercy Grove, has given up thoughts of suitors and fills her days managing her girls’ school. So when several men take an interest in Ivy Cottage, she assumes pretty Miss Ashford is the cause. Exactly what–or who–has captured each man’s attention? The truth may surprise them all.Meanwhile, life has improved at the coaching inn and Jane Bell is ready to put grief behind her. Now if only the man she misses would return–but where is he?
As the women of Ivy Hill search for answers about the past and hope for the future, might they find love along the way?
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Journey To Jerusalem (Student/Study Guide)
$18.00Add to cartIn this imaginative retelling, John Pritchard explores the Gospel of Luke by looking through the eyes of the disciple John. The Journey to Jerusalem follows Luke’s account from Luke 9:51, as Jesus “set his face to go to Jerusalem.” Perfect for individual or group study, The Journey to Jerusalem provides weekday readings for Lent, from Ash Wednesday to Good Friday, along with a poem for each Saturday. Questions for reflection and discussion are also included.
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Alpha Guide : Is There More To Life Than This
$11.99Add to cartThis discussion guide is designed to be used with the Alpha DVDs hosted by Nicky Gumbel. The guide is divided up by session with an easy-to-read outline so that guests can follow along during each talk. With simple bullet-point organization and plenty of room for notes, the guide functions as an invaluable resource to the guest during Alpha, and as a reference tool for individual reflection long after Alpha.
Alpha is based on a pattern found in the New Testament of people bringing their friends, family, and work colleagues to meet Jesus. Alpha is an easy way to say to friends, “Come and see, come and explore your questions, come and hear about Jesus, come and see for yourself.” Everyone is welcome at Alpha, but the program is designed especially for people who would not describe themselves as Christians or church-goers.
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Beekeepers Son
$16.99Add to cartSometimes it takes a barren landscape to see the beauty of God’s creation.
Phineas King knows better than to expect anything but shock and pity wherever he shows his face. Horribly scarred from the tragic accident that claimed his mother’s life, he chooses to keep his distance from everyone, focusing his time and energy on the bees his family raises. If no one sees him, no one can judge him. So why does he start finding excuses to seek out Deborah Lantz, the beautiful new arrival in town?
Deborah can’t get out of Bee County, Texas, soon enough. Once her mother and younger siblings are settled, she is on the first bus out of this dusty town. She is only waiting on the letter from Aaron, asking her to return to lush Tennessee to be his fraa. But that letter never comes. As she spends time getting to know Phineas-hoping to uncover the man beneath the scars-she begins to realize that she no longer minds that Aaron hasn’t sent for her.
As both Deborah and Phineas try to come to terms with lives that haven’t turned out the way they imagined, they discover that perhaps Gott’s plans for them are more extraordinary than they could have dreamed. But they need to let go of their own past sorrows and disappointments to find the joy and beauty that lies just ahead for them both.
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Living On Purpose
$17.99Add to cartYour life was meant to be an adventure!
For many, searching for their life’s purpose is a frustrating and fruitless pursuit. But don’t despair! You were created to live a significant life!
With wisdom and care, author, counselor, and therapist, Dr. Barry Ham leads you to the key that unlocks a life of meaning: knowing and fulfilling the will of God.
If you have ever doubted your life’s worth, floundered in search of direction, or been burdened by a feeling of insignificance, the insights within these pages will lead you to the confidence that comes with finding your purpose in God’s faithful hands.
In this book, discover…
Validation: it is both normal and healthy to ponder the meaning of life.
Encouragement: the purpose of your life is clear and knowable.
Fulfillment: the blessings of following God’s will are within your reach.
Transformation: discovering your purpose positively impacts every sphere of life discovering your purpose positively impacts every sphere of life.
Adventure: embark on the thrilling journey that God created your life to be.Conquer discouragement and confusion. Begin the adventure of following God’s will today!
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2 Seeds : Deepest Truths To Rule The World
$16.99Add to cartGOOD GUYS AND BAD GUYS REVEALED! RETHINK AND REPENT, FOR THE TRUE KINGDOM OF GOD HAS COME!! THE CURRENT GLOBAL WARMING IS A GLOBAL WARNING INDEED!!!
THE TWO SEEDS book takes the Multifaceted Law of Double Reference (the major tool to decode all Scriptures) into another facet with the revelation of the GOOD GUYS and BAD GUYS. Understanding this Law that guides the Law of Faith is what promotes us from Babes Christians to Mature Christians (Heb. 5:13-14, Matt. 13:52). Know for sure that a Babe (a Christian who lives in the flesh) cannot please the Lord (Rom. 8:5-8, 1Cor. 3:1-4) nor reign in life (Gal. 4:1-2). Only the Mature Christian can please the Lord (Heb. 11:6) because he is a possessor of the true Faith. Most things in life have two sides, for example, Head and Tail, Right and Left, Male and Female, Light and Darkness, White and Black, New and Old, Good and Bad, Up and Down, Joy and Sorrow, Positive and Negative, 1st Leg or Coming and 2nd Leg or Coming, Beginning and End etc to make up the TWO WITNESSES of things (see Duet. 19:15, Matt. 18:16, 2Cor. 13:1, Luke 10:1, Eccles. 4:9). One prophet may speak of the Tail or Left or New while the other or even the same prophet speaks differently on the Head or Right or Old e.g. earth is forever (Ps. 104:5, Is. 60:21) and earth is NOT forever (Matt. 24:35, Ps. 102:25-26, Is. 51:6, 2Pet. 3:10) yet no prophet is wrong. Hence, no one should DISAGREE or speak against any Bible prophet just because what you want to hear is different from what you need to hear from the prophet of God. All prophets are like brothers pointing to one Father or like road-signs pointing to one Destination – which is JESUS. Humanity must not be divided on prophets (see 1Cor. 3:4-6) as in many religions with the many denominations. Humanity must be UNITED (Eph. 1:10) on JESUS – the Unification of all things for Global – Peace. Looking unto Jesus (Heb. 12:2) – the Pointed and not unto any prophet or any man – the Pointer. See 2Pet. 1:20.
What a man knows is under his control but what he doesn’t know is above him and will control him. The same heat that softens and refines the Gold (BELIEVER) is the same heat that hardens and destroys the Clay (UNBELIEVER). Strive to enter into the true kingdom of God because most people are only interested in their own kingdoms (Luke 13:24-30, Phil. 2:20-21). Refuse to be limited by their limitations. Get out of the prophesied Second Babylonian Captivity in (Rev. 18:2)! Get out of mind captivity!! Be u
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True Jesus : The Highest Revelation Of God
$16.99Add to cartTRUE KINGDOM OF GOD HAS COME!! THE CURRENT GLOBAL WARMING IS A GLOBAL WARNING INDEED!!!
“21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord (or Jesus, Jesus – that is to judge all men – John 5:22) shall ENTER into the Kingdom of heaven, but he that doeth the will of my father which is in heaven. 22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? 23 and then will I profess into them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity. 24 Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: 25 and the rain descended, and the FLOODS came, and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock…” (Matt. 7:21-27). Life is a school and the greatest common sense EXAMINATION question that every living soul MUST answer is “Who is Jesus?” in connection with the true God and the true Holy Spirit (Prov. 30:4, John 5:39, Matt. 12:32). The correct answer earns promotion to the promised Everlasting Life (Titus 1:2) while the wrong answer attracts demotion to Everlasting Death. Everlasting Life simply means KNOWING the true Jesus and the true God (John 17:3) before doing His work. If our Lord Jesus should say on that day that He doesn’t know Pastor X and Follower F as in Matt. 7:23, it simply means that both Pastor X and Follower F never knew Him too, even though they claimed they knew Him. What a wasted life and a false confidence to be ashamed of on that day! Worse still is the fact that, then, there will be no more opportunity to repent (see Luke 13:24-30). Now is our LAST OPPORTUNITY to repent (see Luke 13:6-9) and to know who the true Jesus really is so as to ESCAPE the Greatest Judgment on earth and ENTER into the Everlasting Life of Everlasting Righteousness, Everlasting Peace with Unspeakable Everlasting Joy (see Matt. 25:23, Rom. 14:17-18).
What a man knows is under his control but what he doesn’t know is above him and will control him. The same heat that softens and refines the Gold (BELIEVER) is the same heat that hardens and destroys the Clay (UNBELIEVER). Strive to enter into the true kingdom of God because most people are only interested in their own kingdoms (Luke 13:24-30, Phil. 2:20-21). Refuse to be limited by their limitations. Get out of the prophesied Second Babylonian Captivity in (Rev. 18:2)! Get out of mind captivity!! Be unlimited for true freedom!!!
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Whats Next Jesus
$14.95Add to cartDocumeant Publishing
What’s Next Jesus? Taste and See is the second book in Triune God Bible Study Guide series about the Trilogy. As in the first book, The Nature of God, Through Jesus Christ, you will be drawn nearer to The Father as you dwell on His words and read about His Son’s miracles. I invite you to open the cover and be reminded as you Taste and See.
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Light And Glory Shine
$9.99Add to cartWithin the pages of this book, the author shares her testimony of God’s great grace and love. By listening to His voice to obey Him, she discovers His healing power and compassion that washes away the horrific emotional pain of her childhood and brings her into the kingdom destiny God has given her. By connecting with professionally trained deprogrammers and emotional healing experts she is set free to enjoy the beautiful abundant life granted by Jesus Christ. The biblical truth she embraces during her great adventure with the true Shepherd brings restoration to her soul. The shocking truth unfolds as the light of Christ shines light into the secrets buried beyond the amnesia program. Power in the blood of Christ is the key to freedom no matter how dark or deep the emotional pain. Life in Christ does bring joy and praise. He will heal anyone if given an open door to your heart
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Firm Foundation : Genesis 1-3
$15.99Add to cartA properly formed foundation is the most important part of a building. Foundations are not always readily seen, yet, the structure either will stand or fall when adversity comes its way. In the same sense, faith is built upon a spiritual foundation, the word of God.
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Wake Up Call
$9.99Add to cartAre you sick and tired of being sick and tired?
Does sickness and dis-ease run in your family? Have you had moments in your life of slipping in and out of a higher consciousness or God consciousness?
If you think about it, at times of a higher conscioiusness, you are more at peace. You are healthier, happier, and more content. The struggles of life seem to vanish and true living begins. In A Wake Up Call, Gary S. Hall instructs on how to take the healing power of the Spirit to whatever dis-ease, dis-harmony, or discord you may have in your life. Read how to make initial contact with our Creator, how to manitain this contact through losing doubt, controlling the ego, living in the now as oppose to the past, and how to manifest abundance in your life and the lives of others. Reclaim dominion and leave the past in its proper place and where it already is – behind you.
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Dark Valleys : When You Love Jesus But Hate Life
$17.99Add to cartWhen you find you love Jesus but hate life, rest assured you’re in good company. Many people before you have found themselves in the same position. This book won’t offer a quick fix or a shallow, over-simplified, five-step solution, but an honest, hard look at depression, sadness, scriptural truth, and the promise that God’s your shepherd.
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Everyday Genesis : Inviting God To Recreate You
$21.99Add to cartDo you desire to change or completely start over? Starting over is not as difficult as we think. The Genesis account of Creation reveals a divine sequence, showing us the secrets to new life. When we invite the Creator to make us new, we release any blame and regret we carry and embrace His foundation for re-creation, a new life. There we find exactly Who was presiding over the genesis of the earth. He can re-create us with a similar process: first bringing us revelation, then giving us benefits such as purpose and guidance, and finally teaching us to build a legacy. Through the divine sequence of Creation, we can learn simple spiritual disciplines for abiding in Christ and staying in step with the Spirit. If we want to begin again, we start at the Beginning.
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Beamans Commentary On The Gospel Of John 5th Edition (Revised)
$33.95Add to cartRoy Beaman combined the talents of a linguist, a New Testament scholar, and a biblical archaeologist. His commentary was developed for almost four decades and taught repeatedly in in seminary classrooms. Edited and revised by Michael R. Spradlin, PhD, this work will serve the scholar seeking information and the believer seeking devotional insights.
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Jerusalem Rising : Jerusalem Rising
$14.99Add to cartWhen Adah bat Shallum finds the governor of Judah weeping over the crumbling wall of Jerusalem, she learns the reason for Nehemiah’s unexpected visit–God has called him to rebuild the wall around the City of David. Nehemiah challenges the people of God to labor on the wall and in return, the names of their fathers will be written in the annals for future generations to cherish. But Adah has one sister and no brothers. Will her father, who rules a half-district of Jerusalem, be forgotten forever? Adah bravely vows to rebuild her city’s wall, though she soon discovers that Jerusalem not only has enemies outside the city, but also within. Can Adah, her sister, and the men they love, honor God’s call? Or will their mission be crushed by the same stones they hope to construct?
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Jonah
$30.00Add to cartPastors and leaders of the classical church–such as Augustine, Calvin, Luther, and Wesley–interpreted the Bible theologically, believing Scripture as a whole witnessed to the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Modern interpreters of the Bible questioned this premise. But in recent decades, a critical mass of theologians and biblical scholars has begun to reassert the priority of a theological reading of Scripture.
The Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible enlists leading theologians to read and interpret Scripture for the twenty-first century, just as the church fathers, the Reformers, and other orthodox Christians did for their times and places.
In the sixth volume in the series, Phillip Cary presents a theological exegesis of Jonah.
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Exoneree
$51.00Add to cartWhat if America’s judicial system, designed to protect the innocent, convicts the wrong man and sends him to prison? Uriah Courtney was incarcerated over eight years–for a crime he did not commit. But God set him free–spiritually and physically–to a new life inside his heart and outside razor wire. Exoneree relates how badly the judicial system can go wrong, but how intensely a dedicated few seek justice. It depicts God’s protection amid the horrors of incarceration. Although it shows dark depravity, it shines with divine transformation. A sensitive man who loved the outdoors and his family, Uriah viewed life imprisonment as a death sentence. Yet God worked through this trauma to bring him new life. Uriah’s transparent narrative transcends most jailhouse conversion accounts, as he confesses how becoming a Christian helped him cope in some ways but didn’t solve every problem. Even after his release and exoneration through God’s providence and the efforts of the California Innocence Project, Uriah faced unexpected challenges. In his warm and personable voice, Uriah describes how focusing on Christ helps him to continue overcoming the bitterness and anger often associated with trauma. And that’s a story everyone needs to read.
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Thinking With The Church
$48.00Add to cartOver the centuries, Baptists have labored to follow Christ in faithful devotion and service. More recently, they have occasionally partnered with fellow Christians from other traditions in these efforts while learning from each other along the way. In Thinking With the Church, Derek Hatch argues that Baptists need to follow the same pattern when it comes to their theological reflection, engaging the wisdom of all Christian pilgrims across time. This will require a new theological method–ressourcement–that embraces Baptists’ place within the Great Tradition of the Christian faith. Such work will not abandon long-held Baptist convictions but offers resources for renewing Baptists’ theological vision as they participate in the fullness of the mystical body of Christ.
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Meta
$47.00Add to cartMeta chronicles the journey of Andrew Murtagh and Adam Lee in their uncommon exchange turned friendship. Why is there something rather than nothing? Does God exist? What of goodness, free will, and consciousness – what is the ultimate nature of reality and how does that extend into the public square? In this treatise, two young corporate professionals aim to change the way the discussion is being had from the vantage points of Christianity and atheism. Is theism or atheism more compelling? If theism, why Christianity? Did Jesus even exist? After theism/atheism, then what? What is the good life? Is morality objective? What does abortion, education, and healthcare look like in the just city? Embarking on a quest for truth on the big questions, their worldviews clash in a philosophical tour de force. In their discord, a blossoming friendship; in their agreement, vows to change the world…
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Job Participant Book (Large Type)
$14.99Add to cartStudy the entire Book of Job in this comprehensive 13-session study beginning with a look at a man named Job and ending with when God asks questions. Some of the major ideas explored in this Book of the Bible are: Saying the right thing at the wrong time. Personal vindication and the desire for immortality. Why do the wicked live? Playing the last card. God delivers the afflicted. More than 3.5 million copies of the series sold. This revision of the Abingdon classic Genesis To Revelation Series is a comprehensive, verse-by-verse, book-by-book study of the Bible based on the NIV. These studies help readers strengthen their understanding and appreciation of the Bible by enabling them to engage the Scripture on three levels: What does the Bible say? Questions to consider while reading the passage for each session. What does the passage mean? Unpacks key verses in the selected passage. How does the Scripture relate to my life? Provides three major ides that have meaning for our lives today. The meaning of the selected passages are made clear by considering such aspects as ancient customs, locations of places, and the meanings of words. The simple format makes the study easy to use. Includes maps and glossary with key pronunciation helps. Updates will include: New cover designs. New interior designs. Teacher book per matching student book (rather than multiple volumes in one book). Update to 2011 revision of the New International Version Translation (NIV). Updated references to New Interpreters Dictionary of the Bible. Include biblical chapters on the contents page beside session lesson titles for at-a-glance overview of biblical structure. Include larger divisions within the contents page to reflect macro-structure of each biblical book. Ex: Genesis 1-11; Genesis 12-50; Exodus 1-15; Exodus 16-40; Isaiah 1-39; Isaiah 40-66.
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Embracing The Uncertain (Large Type)
$13.99Add to cartJust turning on the news lets us know we are living in uncertain times. Economic instabilities, eruption of violence, and natural catastrophes can alter the lives and landscapes of entire communities. Our individual lives are often just as unsteady: relationships can break, plans can falter, and confidence can fail. Uncertainty can definitely be uncomfortable. Many of us prefer stability and a predictable future to an unknown fate. We are wired to want to control our destiny. The reality is that in our fast-changing, unpredictable world there are few guarantees in life. It’s those who are willing to embrace uncertainty and make the risky decision to follow Jesus despite the many “unknowns” who will reap the greatest rewards. Embracing the Uncertain invites readers this Lent to engage and wrestle with life’s uncertainties, not ignore them. The first six chapters focus on six post-Transfiguration, pre-Passion stories in the Gospels. Each of these stories are signposts in the gospel narrative, pointing down at a world filled with uncertainty, but pointing us forward to a cross that can show us how to follow Jesus with courage, hope, and obedience. Includes discussion questions that can be used in small-group Bible study session or for personal growth. A seventh chapter focuses on the resurrection of Jesus, affirming the certainty of our hope in Christ.
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Teaching The World
$24.99Add to cartMore and more seminaries, Bible colleges, and Christian universities are opting to train future ministers and missionaries online-and yet, the factors that have driven this choice have typically been pragmatic and financial. What the movement toward online ministry training has lacked is a theological foundation. As a result, practices of online ministry training have been shaped in most institutions by a hodgepodge of institutional pressures and secular learning theories.
This book asks and answers the question, “How might online ministry training look different if biblical and theological foundations were placed first?” Teaching the World Foundations for Online Theological Education brings together educators from a wide range of backgrounds and from some of the largest providers of online theological education in the world. Together, they present a revolutionary new approach to online theological education, highly practical and yet thoroughly shaped by Scripture and theology.
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Naynuk The Special Gecko
$14.50Add to cartRavishing Gecko Publishing
Naynuk is a very special Gecko; he is a staff photographer for “Crosspointe Times” newspaper. An everyday humanitarian, he loves to help people and his coworkers. He finds a great advocate on his spiritual side. Follow this unique superhero and friends on his exciting journey, where he will face a familiar vengeful adversary.
