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40 Days Of Community Devotional
$10.99Add to cart40 Days of Community Devotional is a dynamic individual or small-group devotional journal that will help you learn how to fulfill God’s five purposes for your life. It includes the biblical support behind each purpose, the ways it applies to you and your circle of influence, and how you can use this knowledge to benefit God’s kingdom. According to Warren, from the beginning, God planned for Christians to fulfill his purposes in community with each other in our church families, small groups, and in the world as a whole. Why did God plan it this way? Because we’re better together! This 40 Days of Community Devotional will deepen your understanding of how God uses community for your own good and growth, as well as help you cultivate deeper relationships with those around you. Learn to fulfill God’s purposes … discover how we are better together. This devotional journal is designed for use with the 40 Days of Community DVD and 40 Days of Community Study Guide.
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40 Days Of Community Study Guide (Student/Study Guide)
$9.99Add to cart40 Days of Community Study Guide—part of the Living with Purpose series by Rick Warren—is a dynamic individual or small group study guide that will help you learn how to fulfill God’s five purposes for your life. It includes the biblical support behind each purpose, the ways it applies to you and your circle of influence, and how you can use this knowledge to benefit God’s kingdom. From the beginning, God planned for Christians to fulfill his purposes in community with each other in our church families, small groups, and in the world as a whole. Why did God plan it this way? Because we’re better together! 40 Daysandnbsp;of Community Study Guide will deepen your understanding of how God uses community for your own good and growth, as well as help you cultivate deeper relationships with those around you. Learn to fulfill God’s purposes … discover how we are better together. This study guide is designed for use with theandnbsp;40 Days of Community DVD and 40 Days of Community Devotional Journal.
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Beyond The Broken Heart
$5.99Add to cartGrief is not a crisis of faith; it is a crisis of the heart. This affordable and pocket-sized book is the perfect gift for anyone who has experienced a recent loss or is grieving. Using excerpts from Beyond the Broken Heart, an eight-week support and grief ministry program, readers will find comfort and both spiritual and practical guidance during their grief journey.
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Creative Bible Lessons On The Trinity
$16.99Add to cartThe Trinity can be one of the most difficult ideas in the Bible to understand. How can our God be made up of three different people? Andrew Hedges answers this question in Creative Bible Lessons on the Trinity, an in-depth guide perfect for small groups and student discussions.
Divided into three sections, one for each aspect of the Trinity, this book presents students with a clear understanding of the role each part plays. Biblical evidence is supplemented with discussion questions so your small group can talk about how they see the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit work in their own lives.
Creative Bible Lessons on the Trinity also includes a guide to identifying and working with different learning styles, so you can connect effectively with each of the students in your small group. With this knowledge, you’ll be able to effectively teach your students to incorporate what they learn about the Trinity into their day-to-day lives.
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Parenting Teenagers Course Leaders Guide (Teacher’s Guide)
$7.99Add to cartThe Parenting Teenagers Course consists of five sessions (or ten shorter ones), designed to equip those parenting or caring for 11 to 18-year-olds with the tools to build healthy relationship with their teenagers while guiding them into adulthood. Drawing on their own experience of bringing up four children and having talked to thousands of parents over the years on their parenting courses, Nicky and Sila Lee bring fresh insights and time-tested values to the task of parenting. The DVDs include film clips of parenting experts and of parents and teenagers sharing their own experiences of parenting or being parented, and they include breaks for practical exercises and discussions. This Leaders” Guide offers a concise yet thorough overview of the Parenting Teenagers” Course, session by session. It includes timetables for each session, suggested reading, details on how to set up and run the course, and practical tips for making your Parenting Teenagers” Course successful. The course is designed to be flexible and provides full instructions on how to use the material over five longer sessions or ten shorter sessions, depending on what suits your group. This Guide is also included in the DVD Set (SKU 100905).
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Parenting Children Course Leaders Guide
$7.99Add to cartThe Parenting Children Course consists of five sessions (or ten shorter ones), designed to equip those parenting or caring for 0 to 10-year-olds, as well as parents-to-be, with long-term strategies to build a healthy family life. Drawing on their own experience of bringing up four children and having talked to thousands of parents over the years on their parenting courses, Nicky and Sila Lee bring fresh insights and time-tested values to the task of parenting. The DVDs include film clips of parenting experts and of parents and children sharing their own experiences of parenting or being parented, and they include breaks for practical exercises and discussions. This Leaders” Guide offers a concise yet thorough overview of the Parenting Children Course, session by session. It includes timetables for each session, suggested reading, details on how to set up and run the course, and practical tips for making your Parenting Children Course successful. The course is designed to be flexible and provides full instructions on how to use the material over five longer sessions or ten shorter sessions, depending on what suits your group. This Guide is also included in the DVD Set (SKU 100902).
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Missional House Churches
$26.99Add to cartMissional House Churches examines the impact and effect that house churches are having in the United States in evangelizing, discipling, and church planting in local communities. Based on the author’s first-hand research and interviews with over thirty missional house churches as well as his own experiences, this insightful work offers an inside look at, and analysis of the workings of the missional house church.
Topics addressed include the recent growth in the popularity of house churches in the United States, what defines church, various characteristics of the house churches, methods of evangelism and leadership development which lead to growth, use of financial resources for missions and benevolence, future of house churches in North America and the relationship of church planting movements and house churches. The appendices describe the research methodology and surveys used in the study as well as characteristics of church planting movements.
This book will be of interest to church leaders, mission-minded thinkers, and students who wish to explore, understand, and participate in this phenomenon of the missional house church movement.
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Nuts And Bolts Of Church Planting (Reprinted)
$22.00Add to cartMost books on church planting offer a model for churches to replicate–usually one that is tied to a particular style, generation, or demographic. But what churches really need is a process that is flexible, not bound to a particular time or current fad. In The Nuts and Bolts of Church Planting, trusted author and church-planting expert Aubrey Malphurs shares the basic steps any church planter will need, regardless of his or her generation now or in the future. These steps include:
establishing values, mission, vision, and strategy
reaching the community
making disciples
recruiting a team
determining location and facilities
raising money for the ministryWith instant practical takeaway based on proven techniques, this book will be invaluable to any church planter.
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Obey
$10.99Add to cartAdventures of the Tiger Club Book One: Obey ABOUT THE BOOK: The story follows the life of a young tiger (“Bumba”) that experience challenges as a new believer in Jesus Christ. Charlene A. Harvey is a native Washingtonian. After being in Christ for many years, Charlene discovered that she has a passion for writing short stories. Charlene is married and a mother of two children.
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Head To Soul Makeover Leaders Guide (Teacher’s Guide)
$19.99Add to cartTeen girls often struggle with stubbornness, insecurity, anxiety, stress, irritability, and envy – which can be crippling at this critical stage in their lives when they’re forming their adult identities. Through the lens of culturally relevant television reality shows and magazine-type self-quizzes, this 10-week small group study will guide teen girls through an upbeat curriculum to transform their lives from head to soul. By exploring eight Christ-like character qualities, the study helps girls put discipleship into practice with a weekly “Makeover Challenge,” and then wraps it all up with a “Big Reveal” party. The leader’s guide includes guidelines for facilitating a group, the complete text of the participant’s guide, helpful hints for the group exercises and discussion questions, and handout pages to copy.
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Real Life Discipleship Training Manual (Teacher’s Guide)
$19.99Add to cartWhat’s the most effective way to make disciples? By following this step-by-step game plan! Designed to equip small groups to multiply followers of Christ, this 12-week course helps you assess spiritual maturity, understand what it means to be an intentional leader, learn how Jesus used relationships purposefully, discover how the training process works, and more.
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Rhythms Of Grace 1
$38.95Add to cartRhythms of Grace is a unique and innovative program resource designed to meet the spiritual needs of children and families living with autismspectrum disorders. Participant families gather monthly with program leaders and volunteers for sessions that are a hybrid of worship and faith formation. Rhythms of Grace helps children and their families feel at the center of a worship/formation experience that is specific to their needs and circumstances, rather than merely at the margins of a more conventionally “inclusive” program of worship or faith formation.
The Rhythms of Grace curriculum consists of a 3-year syllabus of distinct scripture-based session plans, as well as the background material needed to establish a successful program. Each year of the program includes 12 monthly sessions (Sept. to Aug.) and 6 feast sessions. Volume 1 contains a single year’s worth of session plans (18 sessions total), plus background material.
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Heroes Of The Bible For Preschool Children
$14.99Add to cartAll-in-One Bible Fun is the perfect children’s program for teachers on a budget or looking for a simpler approach. Each book is a collection of 13 Bible lessons for children containing a plan with opening, story, activity, and craft. The material is undated so teachers can use throughout the year.
Heroes of the Bible lessons include:
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Fruit Of The Spirit For Preschool Children
$14.99Add to cartComplete and easy lessons that make Bible learning fun!
All-in-One Bible Fun is the ideal children’s program for teachers working within a budget or looking for a simpler approach.
Each book contains 13 easy-to-teach Bible lessons that require little preparation time.
An inexpensive alternative for Sunday school and other Bible-teaching opportunities.Each lesson includes an opening, story, activity, and craft.
Ideal for use throughout the year.
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Fruit Of The Spirit For Elementary Children
$14.99Add to cartAll-in-One Bible Fun is the perfect children’s program for teachers on a budget or looking for a simpler approach. Each book is a collection of 13 Bible lessons for children containing a plan with opening, story, activity, and craft. The material is undated so teachers can use throughout the year.
Fruit of the Spirit includes lessons on:
Love
Joy
Peace
Patience
Kindness
Generosity
Faithfulness
Gentleness
Self-Control
Honesty
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Favorite Bible Stories For Preschool Children
$14.99Add to cartComplete and easy lessons that make Bible learning fun!
All-in-One Bible Fun is the ideal children’s program for teachers working within a budget or looking for a simpler approach.
Each book contains 13 easy-to-teach Bible lessons that require little preparation time.
An inexpensive alternative for Sunday school and other Bible-teaching opportunities.Each lesson includes an opening, story, activity, and craft.
Ideal for use throughout the year.
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Heroes Of The Bible For Elementary Children
$14.99Add to cartAll-in-One Bible Fun is the perfect children’s program for teachers on a budget or looking for a simpler approach. Each book is a collection of 13 Bible lessons for children containing a plan with opening, story, activity, and craft. The material is undated so teachers can use throughout the year.
Heroes of the Bible lessons include:
Daniel
Jonah
Esther
Paul, and more -
Favorite Bible Stories For Elementary Children
$14.99Add to cartAll-in-One Bible Fun is the perfect children’s program for teachers on a budget or looking for a simpler approach. Each book is a collection of 13 Bible lessons for children containing a plan with opening, story, activity, and craft. The material is undated so teachers can use throughout the year.
Favorite Stories of the Bible lessons include:
Jacob’s Ladder
Joesph
Ruth
David and Jonathan
The Two Houses
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Awakening The Creative Spirit
$28.95Add to cartThe new resource is designed to help spiritual directors and others use expressive arts in the context of spiritual direction. It is the latest book in the unique SDI series, designed for professional spiritual directors, but also useful for clergy, therapists, and Christian formation specialists.
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NEW Outreach : Doing Good The Better Way
$28.95Add to cartThis is not a book about why people give; it is a guide for how to create outreach partnerships to provide better aid and assistance, more efficiently and responsibly. Written in clear, concise language and complemented by practical worksheets, it explores the entire step-by-step process of outreach, from motivations and documentation of available resources, to desired outcomes and proven methods to achieve goals.
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Stories Of Jesus For Preschool Children
$14.99Add to cartAll-in-One Bible Fun is the perfect children’s program for teachers on a budget or looking for a simpler approach. Each book is a collection of 13 Bible lessons for children containing a plan with opening, story, activity, and craft. The material is undated so teachers can use throughout the year.
Stories of Jesus features lessons exploring the life and ministry of Jesus.
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Stories Of Jesus For Elementary Children
$14.99Add to cartAll-in-One Bible Fun is the perfect children’s program for teachers on a budget or looking for a simpler approach. Each book is a collection of 13 Bible lessons for children containing a plan with opening, story, activity, and craft. The material is undated so teachers can use throughout the year.
Stories of Jesus features lessons exploring the life and ministry of Jesus.
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Passage Into Discipleship
$16.99Add to cartPassage Into Discipleship is designed to help older children and youth more faithfully prepare for the act of baptism by teaching what it means to walk a Christian journey.
This book incorporates four different learning models that stimulate young people in being excited about becoming followers of Jesus. Learning models include classroom instruction, community and communal hands-on experiences, mentors that guide youth throughout the process, and a day-long retreat that concludes the curriculum.
Topics discussed in the book include confession, contrition, covenant, community, and connection, which are each coupled with key scripture texts. Each topic covered connects church theological concepts with daily life application.
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Complete New Testament Resource For Youth Workers Volume1
$29.99Add to cartMore than 200 sessions that include Message outlines, Study questions, games, video clips, and daily devotions for students. For youth workers who are pressed for time or just want some help with their teaching calendar or small group prep, this resource will get weekly use.
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Living With Confidence In A Chaotic World Participants Guide (Student/Study Guid
$14.99Add to cartPractical instruction for living a confident life in a world filled with chaos and crisis.In the New York Times best-seller What in the World Is Going On?Dr. David Jeremiah summarized ten prophetic clues that are coming truein our own generation. In light of these chaotic events, how can wecontinue to live a life of commitment and confidence? Looking through the lens of the same verses that speak of Christ’s return Dr. Jeremiahnow points us to the habits we must establish that will form a pattern for living with certain hope in our uncertain times. They include howto stay:
Centered in Christ
Committed to the Word
Compassionate toward others
Connected to the church
Consistent in your walk
Calm in your heart
Certain of His coming
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Fabulosa Reinvencion De La Esc – (Spanish)
$17.99Add to cartThe Fabulous Reinvention of Sunday School lives up to its name, with transformational concepts and resources for classes of every size and setting. Create excellence for kids through four key values. Unleash creative techniques that foster powerful teaching moments. Consult a veritable handbook of twenty creative methods guaranteed to bring Bible stories to life.
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Deal With It
$19.99Add to cartEven though anger is a regular part of every teen girl’s world, there are godly and appropriate ways students can respond to situations that make them angry. Deal With It is a curriculum that will help girls deal with their anger. Through activities that include reading and responding to stories about Maria, a fictional teen, students will learn to recognize their anger and find healthy ways to express their emotions.
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Easter Experience Participants Guide (Student/Study Guide)
$9.99Add to cartPaint yourself into the story and transform Easter into a truly life-changing experience. Once you experience the story of Easter, absolutely everything in your life changes. The Easter Experience is a unique, DVD-driven study which brings the passion and resurrection of Jesus to life through dramatic storytelling and challenging teaching. This companion to The Easter Experience small group DVD follows the six 20-minute episodes, providing additional information, discovery questions, and tips for helping your small group grow spiritually and bond with each other as well as with the eternal message of Easter. Also available are the Easter Experience Church Program and the Easter Experience Ministry Devotional.
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Intentional Ministry In A Not So Mega Church
$13.99Add to cartChange is rapidly occurring in almost every area of our society. However, the one notable exception to this is often found in the church, especially in smaller churches. Instead of responding to the changes around them, these churches have adopted a maintenance mentality, which is primarily interested in survival and risk-free ministries that are inwardly focused and fail to meet the needs of those outside their church community. If our churches are going to have an impact on today’s culture, we have to move from a maintenance mindset to a missional one.
Intentional Ministry in a Not-So-Mega Church is designed to help leaders of smaller churches guide their people in making their primary focus ministering to and meeting the needs of those outside their church. Drawing from more than twenty years of experience as a small-church pastor, Dennis Bickers explores the qualities of transformational leadership and explains what it takes for leaders to create a climate in their churches that promotes and facilitates necessary change. From willingness and vision to risk-taking and commitment, Bickers challenges leaders to become the agents of change their churches need as they seek to answer and act on the question: Who are we here for?
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From Anger To Intimacy Study Guide (Student/Study Guide)
$15.00Add to cartDid you know that spiritual, emotional, physical, and relational exhaustion lead to anger? And unresolved anger leads to sin. All couples deal with anger and how they respond (stuff it, spew it, or study it), can make all the difference in their relationship and in their lives. In From Anger to Intimacy, Gary Smalley and Ted Cunningham explore this often maligned and God-given emotion that, unless dealt with, can strip us of everything we love.Now couples can learn the skills to:-resolve conflict, hurt, and pain in a healthy way-master their internal buttons so as to overcome feelings of anger, frustration, and rage-use five specific tactics to deal with anger and rage when they rear their ugly heads-walk in the freedom God intends by learning the three essentials of forgiveness and five keys to nurturing a forgiving spirit-craft the perfect apology-remove the roadblocks to forgiveness once and for all-break sexual addiction and heal after an affair-and find answers to big questions about anger and forgiveness in their marriage
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Good Sex 2.0 Leaders Guide
$18.99Add to cartWhether you’re a youth worker, associate pastor, CE director, or volunteer, this book is an upfront, truthful, process-centered resource that invites students to consider and understand their sexuality in light of the God who loves them and who made them sexual beings.
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40 Dias Con Proposito Guia De (Student/Study Guide) – (Spanish) (Student/Study G
$12.99Add to carthe Purpose Driven Life DVD Study Guide is a six-week, video-based small group study of The Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren-the book Publishers Weekly declared the “bestselling nonfiction hardback in history.”
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Trekking Toward Wholeness
$35.99Add to cartIVP Print On Demand Title
Stephen Greggo presents a resource for trained leaders of ministry care groups in a variety of church-related contexts. Its purpose is to assist group leaders in facilitating the development of healing, transforming relationships in the group setting.
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Simple Small Groups (Reprinted)
$13.99Add to cartOver the past two decades, small groups have gone from spontaneous gatherings among friends to a major and elaborate phenomenon in the church. Many evangelical churches have some form of small groups ministry in place. But there’s just one problem, says Bill Search–what started as a simple get-together has become a complicated process, especially for small group leaders. They are often not sure what is expected of them or what to expect from their groups as a result of their efforts. In Simple Small Groups, Search lays out the three C’s of small groups–connecting, changing, and cultivating. This paradigm helps to simplify leading small groups in a way that is helpful, rewarding, and life changing. Unlike many other books geared toward small group leaders, Simple Small Groups does not require a church-wide adoption of an intricately designed system of assimilation, making it useful to any small group leader looking for guidance.
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Fireproof Your Marriage Participants Guide (Student/Study Guide)
$8.95Add to cartFireproof Your Marriage will challenge you to love better, love first and love for a lifetime. This six-week study is founded on Biblical principles for strong, God-centered, lifelong marriages. The Fireproof Your Marriage study integrates movie clips from FIREPROOF, along with key Scriptures, thought-provoking questions and devotionals, including concepts from The Love Dare book. For use with the Fireproof Your Marriage Leader’s Kit or Couple’s Kit. Great for small groups or sunday school class. Fireproof Your Marriage includes these six sessions:
He Said/She Said: appreciating the God-designed differences between men and women. He First Loved Us: God’s love for you and how it enables you to love others.
Love for a Lifetime: marriage as a lifelong covenant.
Breaking Free: freeing yourself from temptations that can destroy a marriage.
Forgiveness: offering and receiving forgiveness.
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Folk Like Me
$37.95Add to cartLives of the Saints for kids are either too grisly for little kids or too saccharine for older ones. This collection appeals to both groups with a combination of gentle humor and frankness – battle-tested at the author’s weekly chapel services at the school where she teaches. It’s organized into two full school years, with each saint’s story falling on or near his or her special day, so that each story can be a springboard to a creative seasonal teaching unit or small festival. Saints represent a wide variety of ethic and geographic backgrounds, and a CD included will provide ancillary material including pictures and maps.
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When The Game Is Over It All Goes Back In The Box (Student/Study Guide)
$10.99Add to cartUsing popular games as a metaphor for our temporal lives, this six-session DVD curriculum neatly sorts out what’s fleeting and what’s permanent in God’s kingdom. Being Master of the Board is not the point; being rich toward God is. Winning the game of life on Earth is a temporary victory; loving God and other people with all our hearts is an eternal one.
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Dog Training Fly Fishing And Sharing Christ In The 21st Century
$18.99Add to cartTed Haggard presents a successful and tested model for a small group ministry here that can be implemented by a church of any size. By enabling members to embrace and capitalize on their own unique abilities, the diverse groups create an environment where people meet mentors that can disciple and guide them. This need-and interest based approach redefines the model for powerful church growth.
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10 Minute Talks
$24.99Add to cartYouth ministry regularly calls for moments where the “short talk” is the perfect solution. No three points and a poem, no long fancy outlines, just a ten minute talk that tells one point loud and clear through a powerful story. When you’ve only got ten minutes to make your point, give em’ something that they’ll remember.
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Courageous Leadership Workbook (Workbook)
$17.99Add to cartCourageous Leadership Workbook will help both you and your leadership team become the exceptional leaders that God has called you to be. Now more than ever, the world is looking for great leaders. Biblical leadership goes beyond mere ability and personality. Consider your church staff, small group members, or colleagues: Are they leading as effectively as they could? Are they maximizing their own potential? Are they effectively cultivating the talents and gifts within those they influence? The Courageous Leadership Workbook serves as a “how to” guide for every leader.
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Peacemaker : Student Edition (Reprinted)
$17.99Add to cartTragic confrontations at schools throughout the past two decades are striking evidence that teens need help and training in peaceful conflict resolution. God knows each conflict a teen goes through–with their families, friends, and teachers–and he is in control. In this student edition of The Peacemaker, Ken Sande and Kevin Johnson show teens, youth leaders, parents, and pastors, how they can apply biblical principles to conflict situations, allowing for forgiveness and reconciliation instead of hatred or violence. With an approachable style that treats teens with respect, this much-needed resource can be used individually or as part of a small group or youth group study.
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Sharing Gods Love In Childrens Church
$21.99Add to cartA book filled with active, hands-on programs designed for ages three to seven. Each program features a simple Christian message; a Bible verse; a story; a prayer; time to sharing; time for singing; a snack; and a game, craft, or additional activity. The programs are structured to last from thirty-five to forty minutes. An additional activity is included in each program for those who want to extend children’s church to a full hour. Supplies and set-up are kept to a minimum and the book’s easy-to-use format makes it just right for today’s busy teacher.
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Bread For The Journey
$9.95Add to cartWorship involves the senses. The light filtering in from the stained-glass windows, the colors of the vestments, and even the words we read in our Bibles and prayer books fascinate us visually in worship. The sounds of musical instruments and voices raised in song grip us audibly. The feel of the wood on the pews and the altar or the leather on our Bibles can engage our sense of touch. All of these sensations come together to form our worship experience.
In Bread for the Journey, Rolf Svanoe has sought to attract our other senses, enhancing our encounter with God. This Lenten worship series offers sermons for Ash Wednesday, each week in Lent, and services for Holy Week and Easter. This book also includes recipes for breads that can be baked and distributed during the services, each scent and taste offering an additional insight into the Lenten worship experience. Whether it is the sweetness of Welcome Bread or the bitterness of Betrayer’s Bread, each bread takes us on a journey through the season of Lent, culminating in the death and resurrection of Jesus.
Pastors and other ministers will be able to use this resource to draw their congregations into a deeper and more fulfilling Lenten worship. Bread for the Journey is a resource that will feed a congregation, both spiritually and physically.
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Baccalaureate : Guidelines For Inspirational Worship Services To Honor Grad
$8.95Add to cartPreface
Introduction
Time Line For Baccalaureate Preparations
Student Participation
Sample Informational Letter To Local Pastors
Sample Letter Of Invitation To Faculty And Administrators
Sample Informational Letter To Seniors
Sample Formal Invitation
Sample Press Release For Local Newspapers
Sample Public Service Announcements For Radio And Television
Order Of Worship With Explanations
About The Bulletins
Sample Bulletin
Music For Baccalaureate
Bouquet Of Thanks
Scripture Challenge
About The Meditations
Sample Meditation: Dispelling The Darkness
Sample Meditation: The Clean Slate
Sample Meditation: Light For Our World
Sample Meditation: Becoming A Follower
Gifts For The Seniors
Reception Guidelines
Funding For Baccalaureate
ReferencesAdditional Info
Graduation is a time of new beginnings. The old chapter has come to an end, and the time has come to turn the page. The Baccalaureate service offers loved ones a time to pray a blessing over graduates of high school and university and to send them on their way. It reminds them to seek guidance from the Lord as they start down a new path.This resource contains everything needed to get a Baccalaureate service up and running. It includes:
A time line for preparation (part of the FREE excerpt — click to download)
Sample letters and press releases to churches, schools, and local media
An order of worship (with music suggestions)
Sample bulletin
4 sample sermons
Reception guidelines
much more
Download FREE excerpt (includes FREE “Time Line For Baccalaureate Preparations”)The components of this resource book will ensure that your service is a success. Baccalaureate: Guidelines for Inspirational Worship Services to Honor Graduates is essential to reviving the Baccalaureate service tradition in your community. With this volume you’ll be covering your new graduates in prayer and blessings as they spread their wings and take flight.
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Creative Bible Lessons In Job
$24.99Add to cartHow do we live for a fair God in an unfair world? Giving answers to students and families seems challenging at best and impossible at worst. Biblical pat answers serve only to set people up for more disappointment or unrealistic expectations. Get ready to explore the book of Job for real answers that will matter and make sense to your students.
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Boundaries Participants Guide (Revised)
$12.99Add to cartDesigned for use with the nine-session Boundaries small group DVD, this participant’s guide provides insights, exercises, and all the practical resources for maximizing both group participation and personal growth. Learn the secrets and cultivate the habit of setting and maintaining healthy boundaries that provide the framework for rich, productive relationships.
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New Start For Single Moms Participants Guide (Student/Study Guide)
$9.99Add to cartUnfortunately, the divorce rate is on the rise-especially within the church! As a result, there are many single moms who daily face their own burdens of guilt and fear, all the while trying to care for their children and provide a stable home. These moms need special help, guidance, discipleship, and companionship.
There is help! This life-transforming program is a twelve-week journey for single moms-focusing on healing the past, help for the present, and hope for a confident future. New Start 4 Single Moms is a program that pairs a mentor and a single mom together to explore potential, meet daily challenges, build peaceful homes, and accomplish dreams. Diane Strack wants single moms to understand that they are not alone and that they can be successful in raising their children and overcoming past obstacles.
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Easter Services Sermons And Prayers
$14.99Add to cartProvides help in planning for Easter, which includes inviting the public, understanding those who will attend, including children in the services, and suggestions for using visuals.
Creative liturgies, sermon helps, and prayers for Easter Vigil, Easter Sunday, and the 50 days of Easter -
Prayer Participants Guide
$14.99Add to cartIn this six-session ZondervanGroupware video curriculum, award-winning author Philip Yancey probes the very heartbeat-the most fundamental, challenging, perplexing, and deeply rewarding aspect-of our relationship with God: prayer. What is prayer? How does
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Its So Christmas See
$29.95Add to cartThis anthology provides a wide range of dramatic and worship material for seasonal celebrations. There are numerous Thanksgiving resources, including a children’s Sunday school learning event, a children’s message, a brief responsive reading, a one-act drama, and a sermon. For Christmas there are six plays of various lengths for a variety of ages and cast sizes, as well as a “hanging of the greens” worship program and an engaging story that can either be read to young children or performed as a play.
* Come! See What God Has Done is designed to heighten children’s awareness of God’s many blessings. Six learning centers — each featuring posters, projects, a guided experience, follow-up activities, and a closing prayer — focus on such topics as families, nature, our religious heritage, and our bodies. Intended for kindergarten through sixth grade, this is an ideal activity for your church school and can be held during a single session.
* What Are You Thankful For? is a one-act drama portraying two families as they gather for Thanksgiving dinner. It utilizes a cast of fourteen characters with a wide range of ages, and guides audiences from self-centered complaints to a positive attitude of thankfulness.
* Thanksgiving for Our Day, a brief responsive reading, and Recalling Our Blessings, an interactive children’s lesson, are perfect for use in ecumenical Thanksgiving worship services.
* Is It Still Wonderful?, a sermon for Thanksgiving Day, reviews some common Thanksgiving clichi 1/2s and concludes that to demonstrate true thankfulness we need to become less jaded and rediscover a sense of awe and wonder.
* Welcome the Spirit of Christmas enables the entire congregation to participate in adorning the sanctuary with holiday decorations for the Advent and Christmas seasons. This “hanging of the greens” worship program includes complete instructions plus many additional ideas, making it easy to adapt the material to individual circumstances.
* The Christmas Stranger and The Christmas Stranger Returns are two full-length dramas depicting events in the lives of a typical American town’s leading citizens. Each play features a multi-generational cast of around 20 characters and has a running time of approximately 60 minutes. In The Christmas Stranger, an amiable handyman brings joy and laughter to the home of a prominent businessman who is consumed by his work and hates Christmas. With the stranger’s aid, the businessman’s family tries to break t
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Experiential Youth Ministry Handbook Volume 2
$22.99Add to cartMore than just a handbook of games, Experiential Youth Ministry Handbook Volume 2 goes to the heart of learning. Giving you the tools and ideas to create experiences and events that will help shape and form your students, this book will equip you and your
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Confronting The Enemies Within (Student/Study Guide)
$14.99Add to cartBased on the culmination of a lifetime of experience in ministry, Billy Graham guides the reader through a study guide series that explores the joys, triumphs, and conflicts that you will encounter along the journey of your spiritual life.
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Living As A Christian (Student/Study Guide)
$14.99Add to cartBased on the culmination of a lifetime of experience in ministry, Billy Graham guides the reader through a study guide series that explores the joys, triumphs, and conflicts that you will encounter along the journey of your spiritual life.
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Embracing The Good News (Student/Study Guide)
$14.99Add to cartBased on the culmination of a lifetime of experience in ministry, Billy Graham guides the reader through a study guide series that explores the joys, triumphs, and conflicts that you will encounter along the journey of your spiritual life.
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Getting Students To Show Up
$19.99Add to cartThe heart was there, the vision was set, the motives were genuine . . . but no one showed up. The book will help youth workers program to an audience that they’re not used to reaching. Programming an outreach event is much more than booking a band and a speaker. Unfortunately, most people don’t know that-and the students they wanted to reach aren’t making it there . . . they don’t show up.
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Building A Christ Centered Home (Student/Study Guide)
$14.99Add to cartBased on the culmination of a lifetime of experience in ministry, Billy Graham guides the reader through a study guide series that explores the joys, triumphs, and conflicts that you will encounter along the journey of your spiritual life.
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101 More Great Games For Kids
$21.99Add to cartIdeal for lesson planning and children’s ministry programming, this book features upbeat, easy-to-use activities and is divided into four sections: activities for ages 3-5 years; grades K-3 (ages 5-9); grades 4-6 (ages 9-12), and groups of mixed-age children. Includes Scripture and topical idexes.
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Epic Study Guide (Student/Study Guide)
$2.99Add to cartIn Epic, a retelling of the gospel in four acts, John Eldredge invites us to revisit the drama of life, viewing God not only as the author but also as the lead actor, exploring His motives and His heart. Eldredge examines the power of story, the universal longing for a “plot” that makes sense deep inside us, our desire for a meaningful role to play, our love of books and movies, and how all of this points us to the gospel itself.
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Advent Services
$14.99Add to cart1. 1st Sunday Of Advent – Emmanuel
2. 2nd Sunday Of Advent – Son Of Man
3. 3rd Sunday Of Advent – Example
4. 4th Sunday Of Advent – Lord
5. Christmas Eve – Son Of God
6. Christmas Day – Word Of GodAdditional Info
Includes biblically based sermons, suggested Scriptures, hymns, and prayers as well as litanies for lighting the Advent wreath. These services offer a compelling message of hope during this important church season, when people often visit a church for the first time. Each service focuses on a different aspect of the theme “The Ways We Know Jesus” -
Marketing Your Church To The Community
$11.99Add to cartMarketing Your Church To The Community is an invaluable guide for getting a church’s message to the community – directly and effectively. The guide’s direct approach, using catchy icons and an easy-to-follow layout, moves the reader quickly and easily from defining and articulating the church’s message to selecting the best options for reaching the congregation’s target group from a myriad of options available.
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Serving From The Heart For Youth (Workbook)
$12.99Add to cartIs adapted from Church of the Resurrection’s Serving From The Heart spiritual-gifts program for adults. The adult program has helped more than 40,000 people find their gifts, purpose, and passion to serve God through the church. When believers find their gifts and God-given passion and give them to the service of the church, ministries thrive.
Young people who go through this study will learn about spiritual gifts and what they mean for the church, discover their gifts, and find ways to offer their gifts to further God’s work through the church.
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Stewardship Services
$14.99Add to cartThemes Include:
Make A Difference Be The Body Of Christ
Counting The Cost Means Quality Not Quantity
Why God Doesn’t Want Your Money
Hold Nothing Back
Who Do You Really Want To Be
Putting Your Money Where Your Mouth Is
But It’s Not What I Signed Up For
Give Me More Than Possessions
Getting What We Pay For Or Not
Joy Fully Serving
Be Empowered And GiftedAdditional Info
Biblically based materials for 24 services, each of which includes suggested liturgies, prayers, Scripture passages, and sermon briefs. Helps pastors preach with sensitivity to address the spiritual needs of the congregation. -
Funeral Services
$14.99Add to cartCircumstances Include:
Miscarriage
Infant Death Due To Mistreatment
Child Death By Drowning
Youth Murder
Youth Suicide
Youth Death From Hazing
Adult Who Dies In Prison
Adult Death Due To Work Accident
Older Adult Who Dies In Nursing Home
Older Adult Who Dies AloneAdditional Info
The pain of loss comes to all ages and life situations. Funeral Services helps pastors prepare for especially difficult funerals. Services are included for infants, children, youth, younger adults, adults, and elderly persons in a wide variety of tragic circumstances.
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When Gods People Pray Participants Guide (Student/Study Guide)
$14.99Add to cartThis participant’s guide accompanies a six-session small group DVD curriculum, in which award-winning author Jim Cymbala shows what the Holy Spirit can do when believers get serious about prayer and the Gospel. Cymbala tells how God moves in life-chan
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Nativity Dramas : Four Nontraditional Christmas Plays For All Ages
$12.95Add to cartEveryone knows the nativity story — the inn, the stable, and all the rest. If your traditional Christmas pageant has become a bit stale and you want to give it new life, this collection of engaging plays is sure to fit your needs. Keith Hewitt gives the usual narrative a modern treatment by adapting characters and settings from four popular television series (Blue’s Clues, CSI, Cops, and Trading Spaces) and transferring them to the events in Bethlehem. By twisting the lens a little to change the focus, these sketches tell how common people are affected by incredible events. Audiences will love these entertaining programs, and they’ll have fun watching the characters as they learn a valuable lesson.
All four plays are specifically designed to be produced in churches, and can be easily staged by congregations of almost any size. There are roles suitable for a range of ages from kindergarten through adult, allowing you to involve the whole congregation in the production. “Ewe’s Clues” is intended primarily for younger children (although adults and older children will also enjoy it) and has a running time of approximately 30 minutes. “Cops: Bethlehem,” “CSI: Bethlehem,” and “Trading Spaces: Bethlehem” each have a running time of approximately 45 minutes, and are designed for older audiences (though children will get something out of them as well).
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Gimme Five : 500 More Ways To Get Your Students Talking
$10.99Add to cartGimme Five is the tool to have when you want to get your group talking on a ministry night, retreat, road trip, in their small groups, or at your home. These provocative and charming lists will get kids talking, laughing, debating, and thinking anytime, anywhere. A great tool for volunteer youth workers who need something to get conversation going!
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Hands On Bible Explorations
$14.95Add to cart“Hands-On Bible Explorations” is a terrific collection of 52 activities and crafts for kids–one for each week of the year. The book includes favorite stories and parables from the Old and New Testaments, chapters on important Christian Values, and fun projects that make the lessons of the Bible entertaining and easy to understand. You’ll learn about the Ten Commandments, the Christmas story, the boy with loaves and fish, the greatest gift, the importance of friendship, and many more parts of the Bible as you do the fun activities.
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Creative Bible Lessons In Genesis
$24.99Add to cartIn the book of Genesis–the first communique from the Creator to creation–God demonstrates an unchanging commitment to us, engaging with us personally. This book takes that rock-solid truth from there, providing material to challenge your students’ faith as they discover what it means to be made in God’s image and understand their original connection to God–and each other.
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New Kind Of Youth Ministry
$19.99Add to cartThis book guides you on the way to discovering, developing and practicing a new youth ministry design. As your youth ministry’s principal architect, you have the opportunity to realize a rhythm of disciple-making that more effectively engages youth with God, through Jesus, as they journey toward a life of continual spiritual finding and evolution. This resource will provide you with a ministry design that more influentially encourages students to live, lead, and love in the way of Jesus.
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Thank God Its Friday
$18.99Add to cartChrist’s seven last words from the cross have long been a source of reflection, challenge, and soul-searching. These simple phrases contain the full range of human emotions and divine self-revelation – grief, compassion, despair, forgiveness, physical need, the promise of redemption. Written with the clarity, depth, and insight that are Willimon’s trademark, this book offers readers a chance to encounter, in compelling new ways, the words that contain the core of the gospel.
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Palm Sunday And Holy Week Services
$13.99Add to cartReady-to-use lectionary-based worship and preaching resources for Palm Sunday and Holy Week. Includes three options for Palm Sunday services including procession suggestions with special emphasis on participation by children. Also includes two suggested services for each lectionary year (A, B, and C), six services for Holy Thursday and three services for Good Friday.
Includes ready-to-use Palm Sunday and Holy Week services for worship with multiple worship options for each lectionary year scripture. Gives suggested liturgies for each services including those related to Taize.
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Direct Hit : Aiming Real Leaders At The Mission Field
$22.99Add to cartThe second Abingdon publication by Paul Borden, whose first book, Hit the Bullseye has sold 11,000 copies.
A new pastor sees himself or herself as a leader who anticipates a better for the congregation. However, the congregation tends to perceive the new pastor as someone who ministers who their needs and fulfills a chaplain-type role. The pastor must therefore lead the congregation through systemic change if new life is to be brought into the culture of the congregation.
Three teams must be created: TEAM ONE is the prayer team that prays regularly for change and reproduction. TEAM TWO is the dream team that helps the pastor communicate urgency. TEAM THREE consists of leaders who recruit and train other leaders who are committed to urgent change.
I. Chapter One – Introduction and Overview
II. Chapter Two – Essentials for Leaders
(It is important to note that this book assumes a pastor is new to a congregation which like many congregations, is on a plateau or in decline. This pastor sees himself or herself as a leader who anticipates a better future for this congregation. However, the congregation sees the role of the new pastor as someone who will minister to their needs and fulfill the traditional chaplain role that is typical for most pastors and most congregations. Therefore this pastor is going to need to take three to five years to lead the congregation through systemic change (change the culture of the congregation). The book is how the pastor and key lay leaders develop the communication strategies required to lead such change.III. Chapter Three – Developing a Vision and a Communication Strategy for its Implementation
A. The basic assumptions about the congregation and the pastor’s role are discussed.
B. The pastor must first spend time developing vision.
C. The pastor must then begin to develop a communication strategy that will be employed over the next three to five years to prepare the congregation for changeIV. Chapter Four – Creating and Communicating Urgency
A. Creating and communicating urgency is as crucial as casting vision
B. The pastors’ responsibility is to determine the urgency for which the vision is an answer.
C. The pastor must now develop a communication strategy to create urgency in the congregation over the next three to five years in order to provide motivation for embracing the vision.V. Chapter Five – Developing Key Teams in Preparing for Change
A. While the pastor is working on visi -
Baptism Services Sermons And Prayers
$14.99Add to cartThis is a resource for pastors and worship leaders who take Christian baptism seriously and who recognize their own role in creatively shaping these traditional practices. Provides worship resources for a variety of pastoral and congregational settings, several teaching sermons on baptism, and a section of prayers of thanksgiving over the water of baptism.
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Pastoral Prayers For The Hospital Visit
$14.99Add to cartOffering prayer is one of the most important parts of a pastor’s hospital ministry. These prayers connect persons with the power of God, remind persons who they are as children of God, and sometimes put into words deep experiences of suffering, grief, and pain. These prayers are offered especially for difficult times when you may not be sure how to pray or what to pray for. Also related Bible verses are printed in full.
The Just in Time! Series offers brief, practical resources of immediate help for pastors at an affordable price.
Included are prayers related to illness or surgery
Persons facing surgery, post surgery that was successful, post surgery that was not successful, anticipating bad news, diagnosed with a serious progressive illness, recovering from heart surgery, suffering from a stroke, dealing with cancer, coping with breast cancer, undergoing chemotherapy, suffering from addiction, unable to be diagnosed with the source of illness, needing a transplant and waiting for an organ, in chronic pain
Prayers related to children and youth:
Celebrating the birth of a child, mourning a miscarriage, grieving the loss of a baby near birth, mother choosing adoption for her newborn, adoptive parents receiving their child, pre-mature infant, baby who is hospitalized, child who is hospitalized, youth hospitalized for drug treatment afraid to face parents, youth who most likely will not recover
Prayers related to dying and death:
For someone longing to die, prognosis that is not positive, does not have long to live, when death is imminent, prayer over a stillborn infant, for family members who were unable to say goodbye to loved, one before death, for surviving family who lost loved ones in the same accident, for family whose loss was due to suicide
Prayers related to accident or violence:
Injured due to street violence, injured due to natural disaster, rape victim, victim of domestic violence, injury due to war
Prayers related to:
New immigrant who has fallen ill, recent refugee, college student, suffering depression, patient who also has Alzheimer’s, enduring painful rehabilitation, facing a long recovery, farmer anxious about crops and/or animals, hospitalized while incarcerated, someone unconscious, developmentally disabled patient, attempted suicide (prayer with family present), psychotic patient, worrying over child deployed in the military, worried about paying for the hospital bill, wanting to go home but canno
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Jesus Christ For Youth Leader (Teacher’s Guide)
$10.99Add to cart26 Sessions On Christ’s Life And Teachings
Life-application Exercises
Easy-to-teach Lesson PlansAdditional Info
More than 100,000 youth have deepened their relationship with Jesus Christ through this far-reaching classic, now updated. Youth leaders and workers can give teens an opportunity to meet Jesus face to face. -
Jesus Christ For Youth Student (Student/Study Guide)
$8.99Add to cartMore than 100,000 youth have deepened their relationship with Jesus Christ through this far-reaching classic, now updated. Youth leaders and workers can give teens an opportunity to meet Jesus face to face.
The student edition gives youth a comprehensive picture of the life, teachings, death, and resurrection of Jesus. Its workbook format engages youth, helping them encounter Jesus as a living presence and guide for their lives and faith. -
Life Scripts For The Church Volume 3 Holiday
$24.99Add to cartThis is the third in a series of volumes, each containing 24 skits of brilliant, insightful, often comedic material ideal for performance during church services, specifically geared to the major holidays. Does not require huge casts or highly experienc
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Life Scripts For The Church Volume 2
$24.99Add to cartThis is the second in a series of volumes, each containing 24 skits of brilliant, insightful, often comedic material ideal for performance during church services. Does not require huge casts or highly experienced players — most skits use 2-6 performers,
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Life Scripts For The Church Volume 1
$24.99Add to cartThis is the first in a series of volumes, each containing 24 skits of brilliant, insightful, often comedic material ideal for performance during church services. Does not require huge casts or highly experienced players — most skits use 2-6 performers, m
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Teenage Guys : Exploring Issues Adolescent Guys Face And Strategies To Help
$22.99Add to cartYouth workers need to fully understand the inner workings and development of adolescents in order to really meet their needs. In Teenage Guys, Dr. Steve Gerali presents the stages of development that adolescent guys go through, providing stories from his own experiences in ministry and counseling as well as practical research findings to equip youth workers (both male and female) to more effectively minister to teenage guys. With advice from counselors and veteran youth workers, you’ll find helpful suggestions on how to minister to teenage guys and their families. Each chapter includes discussion questions to help you and other youth workers process the issues your own students face and learn how you can help them and mentor them through this tumultuous time. In addition to concepts like mentoring and rites of passage, Dr. Gerali also walks readers through the seven areas of development young guys go through. You’ll understand more about: Cognitive development – Identity formation – Social development – Emotional development – Physiological development – Sexological maturation – Faith formation
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Teenage Girls : Exploring Issues Adolescent Girls Face And Strategies To He
$22.99Add to cartGirls are more than just sugar and spice. We’ve all figured that out. What we haven’t figured out completely is how they’re wired, why they do the things they do, how the world around them affects their choices and opinions, and what that means for youth ministry-until now. In Teenage Girls, you’ll find advice from counselors and veteran youth workers, along with helpful suggestions on how to minister to teenage girls. Each chapter includes discussion questions to help you and other youth workers process the issues your own students face and learn how you can help them and mentor them through this tumultuous time. In addition to the traditional issues people commonly associate with girls, such as eating disorders, self-image issues, and depression, author Ginny Olson will guide you through some of the new issues on the rise in girls’ lives. You’ll understand more about issues related to: Family – Addiction – Emotional well-being – Mental health – Physical welfare – Sexuality – Spirituality – Relationships
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Practicing The Faith (Student/Study Guide)
$12.99Add to cartSessions include:
What is the church supposed to be?
Why should I go to church?
What is Christian commitment?
What are the sacraments?
What can I do to get closer to God?
What happens when I pray?
How does God answer prayer?
Why should I pray?
How can I develop a personal prayer life?
Is suffering God’s will?
Does God care when I suffer?
