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  Creative Ideas For The Family Eucharist

  $40.00

  Find everything you need to lead a Family Eucharist in this comprehensive and versatile all-age resource. Building on the new Eucharistic Prayers for use in services with children, it balances formality and informality to help you create engaging worship for all. Easily adaptable for large and small all-age congregations, it offers ready-to-use worship ideas and service outlines for themed occasions throughout the year. Imaginatively-planned and well-structured Family Eucharists are a key part of growing churches, and this resource will give you both the structure and the confidence to lead all-age worship well.

  It includes:
  -advice on recruiting and training leaders
  -ways of getting children involved
  -a guide to creating a basic structure
  -suggestions for using music and props creatively
  -themed services for different seasons
  -imaginative service outlines for a variety of occasions, including a baptism in the context of a Eucharist
  -downloadable scripts and illustrations for use throughout the year

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  Prayer And Prayer Activities

  $40.00

  ROOTS is a joint initiative by all the mainstream churches in the UK and Ireland. For ten years it has provided lectionary-based resources for worship and learning for the whole church. Over 10,000 local churches use its regular magazine and online programmes.

  This versatile and adaptable participative prayer resource for all-age worship is taken from the extensive material the ROOTS authors have created. Based on the lectionary readings for each Sunday of Years A, B & C it includes:

  * gathering prayers* seasonal prayers of thanksgiving* a creative response to the day’s readings* responsive prayers of intercession* a children’s prayer activity* an all-age prayer activity* responsive prayers for sending out

  All the texts can be downloaded or projected from the accompanying CD Rom.

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  Youth Emmaus : Includes Free CD-ROM

  $40.00

  Youth Emmaus is a course designed to help those aged 11 to 16 explore the basics of the Christian faith. This is no easy task – but Youth Emmaus offers a winning combination of meaty leaders’ notes, cool handouts for group members, great cartoons and graphics and a free CD-ROM stacked with other useful resources. The material is fully road-tested and ideal for youth groups and as a confirmation course for young people.

  Youth Emmaus tackles:

  What Christians Believe (5 Units)
  How Christians Grow (5 Units)
  Living the Christian Life (3 Units)

  Youth Emmaus also contains a FREE CD-ROM that includes:

  Handouts and supplementary handouts for all sessions as PDF files
  Emmaus Poster
  Downloadable services to use with young people and a section on using Youth Emmaus in an all-age context
  Powerpoint presentation on Youth Emmaus
  Useful links to Emmaus website
  All icons from handouts available in colour in a downloadable format

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  Creative Retreat Ideas

  $39.99

  Time apart to listen to God is an essential component of the Christian life. This wide ranging practical resource offers complete programme ideas – from short spiritual breaks for those who can only manage a couple of hours from their work or family responsibilities, to a range of ideas for whole day and full weekend retreats. aaExperienced retreat conductor Sue Pickering explores the elements that are commonly used in retreats:silence, journalling, using craft materials, reflection, lectio divina, imaginative prayer, music and movement, and more. aaOut of these building blocks, unlimited retreat programmes can be created. Part two offers themed retreat programme outlines complete with handouts which are downloadable from the accompanying CD Rom. These include Quiet Breakfasts, A Prayer Walk, A Garden Retreat and much more.

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  Creative Ideas For Quiet Days

  $36.99

  Going a day retreat or quiet day is a regular activity for many local churches. During the preparatory seasons of Advent and Lent, they are especially popular. While many retreat houses and religious communities offer a program for such days, many groups prefer a do-it yourself approach. aaThis resource contains twelve complete day-long programs that are focused around different themes and are appropriate for use at varying times of the Christian year. It is suitable for all ages and assorted pastoral contexts. It also gives step-by-step instructions on creating your own program from scratch. aaEach session includes: opening worship, short talk 1, reflection exercise, short talk 2, second reflection exercise, prayers and blessings. Additionally there are leaders’ notes on all practical aspects of planning and conducting such a day, from booking the venue to handout templates. This new edition comes with download able worship and reflection materials to enrich your program.

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  Palestine In The Time Of Jesus (Revised)

  $50.00

  Vii
  Contents
  Maps, Figures, Illustrations, And Sidebars Xi
  Abbreviations Xiii
  Preface To The First Edition Xvii
  Preface To The Second Edition Xxi
  1. Catching The Drift 1
  Introduction To The Social System Of Roman Palestine
  Growing Awareness Of The Biblical Social World / 3
  Developing More Adequate Scenarios / 6
  Addressing Critiques / 14
  Applying The Perspectives / 17
  Suggested Reading / 17
  2. All In The Family 19
  Kinship In Agrarian Roman Palestine
  Introduction / 20
  Gender / 24
  Genealogy And Descent / 26
  Marriage / 30
  Endowment At Marriage / 35
  Divorce / 40
  Inheritance / 43
  Jesus’ Family In The Gospels / 47
  Summary / 54
  Applying The Perspectives / 54
  Suggested Reading / 55
  3. Pyramids Of Power 57
  Politics And Patronage In Agrarian Roman Palestine
  Introduction /58
  Elite Interests: Patronage / 65
  Peasant Interests: Rebellion And Social Banditry / 80
  Crucifixion: Elite Force In Action / 85
  Summary / 89
  Applying The Perspectives / 89
  Suggested Reading / 90
  viii Contents
  4. The Denarius Stops Here 93
  Political Economy In Roman Palestine
  Introduction / 94
  Political Economy In Agrarian Roman Palestine / 95
  Jesus And The Palestinian Political Economy / 117
  Summary / 119
  Applying The Perspectives / 120
  Suggested Reading / 120
  5. Was Bigger Better? 123
  Political Religion In Roman Palestine
  Introduction / 124
  The Jerusalem Temple And Its Expansion Under Herod The Great / 127
  The Personnel And Sacrifices Of The Jerusalem Temple / 130
  The Social Impact And Implications Of Herod’s Temple / 137
  Political Religion, God’s Reign, And The Jesus Movement / 144
  Summary / 145
  Applying The Perspectives / 145
  Suggested Reading / 146
  6. In The Rearview Mirror 149
  Conclusion
  Glossaries
  1. Ancient Groups, Institutions, Objects, And Events 155
  2. Ancient Documents, Collections, And Authors 173
  3. Social-Scientific And Cross-Cultural Terms 179
  Bibliographies
  1. Ancient Documents 189
  2. Social-Science Theory And Terminology 191
  3. References Consulted Or Cited 193
  Indexes
  1. Index Of Ancient Sources 215
  2. Index Of Subjects 224
  3. Index Of Authors 229

  Additional Info
  Hanson and Oakman’s award-winning and enormously illuminating volume quickly has become a widely used and cited introduction to the social context of the early Jesus movement. This second edition updates all the discussions in light of more recent scholarship, improves clarity and readability of diagrams and maps, provides additional diagrams and images to enhance the book for student use, and includes new classroom resources, for professors and students, on a Companion Web site.

  Along with an overview of the ancient Mediterranean worldview, Palestine in the Time of Jesus explores major domains and institutions of Roman Palestine: kinship, politics, economy, and religion.

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  Effectiveness By The Numbers

  $24.99

  Chapter One: The Fear Of Numbers
  Chapter Two: If You Could Count Only One Thing
  Chapter Three: How Many And How Often
  Chapter Four: How Many Stick?
  Chapter Five: How Many Serve?
  Chapter Six: Who’s New?
  Chapter Seven: Growing By Staying Small
  Chapter Eight: What’s More Important Than Dollars?
  Chapter Nine: What Product Are You Producing Anyway?

  Additional Info
  Accurately counting the right things can profoundly impact ministry effectiveness. Knowing “the story in the stats” can inform decisions and lead to the things that produce the results most pleasing to God. Gathering and studying the right numbers can help a church wisely invest its resources of time, effort, people, money, and facilities. Effectiveness by the Numbers will help ensure that your church is measuring the right things for the right reasons. Counting what counts enables a church to fulfill its mission–making mature followers of Jesus Christ.

  Jesus and his disciples counted. They knew how many he fed with the five loaves and fishes. When a crowd gathered they often knew and recorded the number of men, women and children present for the event. The early church counted. They knew that on the day of Pentecost about 3,000 were added to their number. The book of Acts reports that “many believed,” “people were added,” and “many of the Corinthians who heard him believed and were baptized.” If Jesus counted and the early church kept track of numbers, it is not unreasonable to expect churches today to use metrics to increase their effectiveness in doing God’s work on earth.

  This title contains a CD-ROM containing Excel templates for calculating some of the measures discussed in the book.

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  Big Book Of Job Descriptions For Ministry

  $29.99

  Match the right people to the right ministries—right now! Here are 200 professionally prepared, simple, ready-to-use position descriptions for every church job you can imagine—from senior pastor to cookie baker. Customize your documents with the included CD-ROM. Windows 3.1 or higher, Macintosh System 6 or higher. Requires a word processing system with RTF file-reading capability.

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  Handbook For Multi Sensory Worship 2

  $36.99

  Widely known for their innovative use of multimedia elements in worship, Kim Miller and worship team of Ginghamsburg Church provide more practical guidance for planning and conducting contemporary worship celebrations. Through the skillful blending of contemporary media such as music, film, and drama with the timeless truths and stories of the Bible, these celebrations help postmodern persons – particularly those who have little or no experience with the Christian faith – experience God’s love and become faithful followers. Included in this second volume are thirty new and complete worship celebrations, each organized around a central metaphor and theme designed to articulate the needs of and connect with the life experiences of the congregation.

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