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  Keeping Place : Reflections On The Meaning Of Home (DVD)

  $20.00

  To be human is to long for home. Home is our most fundamental human longing. And for many of us homesickness is a nagging place of grief. This five-session DVD study featuring author Jen Pollock Michel connects that desire and disappointment with the story of the Bible, helping us to see that there is a homemaking God with wide arms of welcome-and a church commissioned with this same work. Keeping Place offers hope to the wanderer, help to the stranded, and a new vision of what it means to live today with our longings for eternal home. The companion book includes a five-session discussion guide that incorporates the DVD sessions.

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  Keeping Place : Reflections On The Meaning Of Home (Student/Study Guide)

  $16.00

  Foreword By Scott Sauls
  Preface

  Part I: The Welcome Of Home
  1. Nostalgia: The Longing For Home
  2. Angel In The House: A Brief History
  3. Taken In: The First Maker Of Home
  4. Border Crossings: On (Not) Staying Put
  5. Perished Things: And Imperishable Home

  Part II: The Work Of Home
  6. A Suffering Servant: The Labor Of Love
  7. House Of God: The Church As Home
  8. Love And Marriage: The Routine Work Of I Do
  9. Saying Grace: Feasting Together
  10. Cathedral In Time: A Place Called Rest
  11. City Of God: Finally Home

  Acknowledgments
  Study Guide
  Notes

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  To be human is to long for home. Home is our most fundamental human longing. And for many of us homesickness is a nagging place of grief. This book connects that desire and disappointment with the story of the Bible, helping us to see that there is a homemaking God with wide arms of welcome-and a church commissioned with this same work. “Many of us seem to be recovering the sacred, if ordinary, beauty of place,” writes author Jen Pollock Michel. “Perhaps we’re reading along with Wendell Berry, falling in love with Berry’s small-town barber and Jayber Crow’s small-town life. . . . Or maybe we’re simply reading our Bibles better, discovering that while we might wish to flatten Scripture to serve our didactic purposes, it rises up in flesh and sinew, muscle and bone: God’s holy story is written in the lives of people and their places.” Including a five-session discussion guide and paired with a companion DVD, Keeping Place offers hope to the wanderer, help to the stranded, and a new vision of what it means to live today with our longings for eternal home.

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  Teach Us To Want

  $18.00

  The story of each person is a story of want–desires unmet, hopes dashed, passions pursued and ambitions fulfilled. And yet why we want–and how we can want well– often eludes us. Our individual stories are set against a greater story: a good God creates us and all that is seen and unseen not out of need but according to his good pleasure. That good God enters our reality, standing in the midst of all our hopes and fears, all our sacred longings and secret sins, and redeems us down to our soul for his good pleasure. That same good God calls us into a new reality in which we seek first his kingdom and righteousness, and we discover our disordered desires burned away while our truest longings are happily fulfilled. “Lord, teach us to pray,” we overhear his followers ask. And if we listen closely, we hear our own voices alongside theirs: Lord, teach us to want. Jen Pollock Michel guides us on a journey of understanding who we are when we want, and reintroduces us to a God who would give us the desires of our hearts.

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