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Its A Matter Of Faith And Life 1
$23.95This book, one of a three-part series, is a narrative reflection on Dr. Martin Luther’s Small Catechism. Its uses are many:
A companion guide for catechism classes.
A manual for new adult member classes.
A preaching resource.
Inspirational reading for those who want to know more about the faith-life of a Christian.The book began as a video series broadcast on the Michigan City, Indiana, cable system. The series was also used in the catechetical instruction of Immanuel Lutheran Church, Michigan City, where Dr. Albertin is a pastor.
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Handbell Helper : Guide For Beginning Directors And Choirs
$15.99A how-to book for the church musician desiring further training,”Handbell Helper” offers basic, practical help to church music direcors. -Offers basic information which assumes no prior handbell knowledge -Provides examples for concepts presented -Written in an easy to read and easy to understand style and format -Helps eliminate some of the intimidation of beginning a bell choir -Gives new directors a higher level of confidence in working with a handbell group -Gives music directors something to give to potential handbell choir leaders MARTHA LYNN THOMPSON is Director of Music at St. James United Methodist Church in Little Rock, Arkansas. She is one of the preeminent authorities on handbells
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Creative Bible Lessons In Romans
$16.99Think of it as a lean, mean Bible doctrine course–without the lecture. But with lots of options, videos, music, and drama. And small group work. And reproducible, interactive worksheets with eye-catching designs and soul-searching content. (Like, what else do you expect from St. Paul when he sits down to write the meatiest book of doctrine in the Bible?) in the 12 clear, complete sessions of Creative Bible Lessons in Romans. Author Chap Clark guides kids (and you) through the Big Ideas in this first-century letter to Christians trying their darndest to live godly lives in an ungodly culture. (Sound familiar?) From the not-so-savory picture the apostle paints of humankind in the opening chapters. . .through his celebration of grace and acceptance in midbook. . .to his tightly reasoned argument that love should fuel a Christian’s decisions and relationships–here are topics made to order for teenagers living at the turn of the 21st century. Teach your way through Romans with these read-to-go sessions. Or scavenge whatever you want of the creative scripts, handouts, and other options to customize lessons of your own. Any way you use it, Creative Bible Lessons in Romans is your no-doze ticket to solid Bible doctrine.
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Liturgical Witness Of The New Testament
$31.18“Liturgy,” which literally means “the work of the people,” sums up all the ways people have responded to God, including hymns, prayers, laments, invocations and confessions of faith.
14 Worship Services The Liturgical Witness Of The New Testament contemporizes and brings to life these various forms of worship as the author draws unique canticles, prayers, hymns and responsive petitions from the books of the New Testament. Each New Testament book is allowed to speak with its own voice. For example, the service based on Luke gives voice to the Gospel by the use of four canticles (psalms), and Luke’s own version of the Words of Institution and his truncated version of the Lord’s Prayer are included.
Also included are a helpful index listing the worship services according to their use in the lectionary and ten sermons for use with these liturgies.
Contents include:
Through The Desert Clear A Highway! — The Liturgical Witness Of Luke
One Lord, One Body — The Liturgical Witness Of The Corinthian Letters
Lordship And Unity — The Liturgical Witness Of Colossians
God Is Love — The Liturgical Witness Of First John
Worthy The Lamb — The Liturgical Witness Of RevelatioAdd to cartin stock within 3-5 days of online purchase
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Kneel Before The Babe
$16.18Four complete Christmas services:
Christmas Play With Drama And Service Of Lights
Christmas Service Based On Traditions And Carols From Around The World
Christmas Service In Monologues And Carols
Christmas Service Of Scriptures, Traditions, And CarolsThese inspiring services are easy for any size church to prepare and present. Each one offers a unique and different approach.
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Praise The Lord
$18.68This book will become the most used resource in the pastor’s library when looking for help in preparing a worship service that has a fresh approach.
Liturgies and occasional services for …
Advent, Christmas Eve, Epiphany, Ash Wednesday
Baptism, Confirmation, Appointment of a pastor
Celebration of music ministryWorship services for …
Morning, Noontime, Evening
Healing
Death and resurrection
Funeral, memorialCelebrations and observances …
Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Service of Christian unity
Thanksgiving Day
Renewal of wedding vows
Blessing of a home
Church anniversary, Men’s Day, Church leadersMany pages of thoughtful, inspiring prayers for every gathering and occasion …
Opening a church meeting
For successful surgery
For success in school
For a new job, new carIntercessory prayers …
For comfort in time of grief
For relief from depression
For healing a broken relationship
For safe travelPrayers for times of fellowship and celebration …
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Creative Bible Lessons In John
$22.991. Jesus Encounters Nathanial (John 1:43-51) Dealing With Doubt
2. Jesus Encounters The Money Changers (John 2:13-25) Respecting God
3. Jesus Encounters Nicodemus (John 3:1-36) Receiving New Life In Christ
4. Jesus Encounters A Nobleman’s Son And A Crippled Man (John 4:43-5.18) Coping With Crisis
5. Jesus Encounters The Crowd (John 6:46-60) Accepting God’s Incredible Gift
6. Jesus Encounters A Blind Man (John 9:1-41) Accepting God’s Love
7. Jesus Encounters Mary And Martha (John 10:40-11.46) Facing Death
8. Jesus Encounters Mary And Judas (John 11:57-12.11) Making Wise “Investments”
9. Jesus Encounters Peter (John 13:36-38; 15:18-16.4; 18:12-27) Handling Opposition
10. Jesus Encounters His Disciples #1 (John 15:5-17) Producing Fruit In Our Lives
11. Jesus Encounters His Disciples #2 (John 14:15-27; 16:5-16) Recognizing The Holy Spirit
12. Jesus Encounters Mary Magdalene (John 19:23-25; 20:1-3,10-18) Believing The Impossible99 Pages
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Do you want to teach solid Biblical Truth to your kids without their eyes glazing over as soon as you say “open your Bible”? Now you can, with Creative Bible Lessons in John: Encounters with Jesus.Following in the successful path of Youth Specialties’ instant bestseller Creative Bible Lessons on the Life of Christ by Doug Fields, veteran family life and youth workers Janice and Jay Ashcraft have created 12 lively, ready-to-use lessons that actually make it fun to dig into Scripture. The Ashcrafts utilize creative learning techniques to spark your kids’ interest and keep them actively involved in lesson, including:
*Learning Games
*Discussions
*Video and Music
*Skits, Melodrama, and Roleplays
*”Digging Deeper” Investigations
*Interactive Worksheets
*And much more!These lessons are clear, easy-to-use, and complete. You’ll be able to build in-depth, creative Bible teaching into your busy schedule with Creative Bible Lessons in John: Encounters with Jesus.
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Visions Of Lent Year 3
$16.18A new and unusual service for Lent…!
At the beginning of Lent each family in the congregation is invited to lend a plant from home (silk or live), following a Jewish Shavuot custom. The following Sundays in Lent build on this focal point as an object is added each week. Two readers participate in a dialogue explaining the symbol for that day. A child brings the symbol forward and holds it during the dialogue. In this way several families are able to participate.
Visions of Lent Year 3 also includes:
* Sample bulletin insert prior to Lent
* Example of plant reminder that can be used in bulletin
* Sample Torah for bulletin inserts
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Last Covenant
$9.93These two dramatic choral readings will place a permanent imprint on the conscience of all who speak and hear them. They won’t be heard as much as they will be felt. The pain and the anguish, the emptiness and hatred of that Friday long ago will fill the senses with such powerful rage that anyone in attendance will be transformed from passive bystanders to active participants in the quest for life as the glorious news of the risen Christ is known on Sunday.
Both choral readings involve five voices, which may be chosen from the congregation or can be performed as a choir litany. The combination of these voices will convey the strong emotions and images of the drama of Jesus’ death and resurrection. Both can be substituted for the sermon. No costumes or props are required.
With an order of worship, Easter Day’s reading includes congregational singing of nine hymns with the choral reading. The Last Covenant is a wonderfully effective way to involve the entire congregation in “”The Greatest Story Ever Told.””
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How Does Your Choir Grow
$14.99HOW DOES YOUR CHOIR GROW? by David F. Donathan Once a church musician has the basics under control, attention often turns toward the next step. “How Does Your Choir Grow?” covers all the bases with special attention to recruiting and maintaining choir members–a key task of every choir director. Shows how to recruit, organize, maintain, publicize choir, and have fun, fellowship, and spiritual growth.
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Leading Adult Learners
$20.99A handbook for adult Sunday school classes, this book includes reproducible handouts as well as guidelines and training helps.
Leading Adult Learners offers practical help in determining what topics to study and the best teaching styles for particular age groups. It includes information about publicity and teacher and leader training, and also numerous survey questionnaires to help determine class format and study preferences. Guidelines/responsibilities for class officers are also provided.
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Peace : Christian Living In A Violent World
$11.65Discover the potential for peacemaking and peace in each day’s events and especially in the ways you touch one another’s lives. These are troubled times and violent times. Experience the power of God’s gift of peace as you probe ways to solve differences and pursue justice with faith and courage in daily life. Six lessons.
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Faith : Confidence And Doubt In Daily Life
$11.65What does Christian faith have to do with our ordinary day-to-day life? This question is presented in personal ways for you and your small group. Explore faith in life-cycle experiences–moods and situations, joy and discouragement, confidence and doubt.
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Visions Of Lent Year 2
$9.93Visions of Lent Year 2 — Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles) offers congregations a weekly presentation to be included in the regular Lenten worship service. This follow-up to Volume 1 (which concentrated on the Feast of Passover) focuses on the Palm Sunday story and six elements within that story that were significant parts of the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles or Booths. The festival is rooted in Leviticus 23:33f, where God commanded Moses to declare the festival to the people of Israel as a reminder of the temporary shelters they lived in when He delivered them out of Egypt.
Preparation for this worship series is very simple. Lent I begins with a plain, “symbolic” booth which is placed somewhere within the sanctuary. For the next five weeks objects are gradually added inside the booth.
Objects include:
Lent 2 — citron (or other citrus fruit) in an attractive yet simple container
Lent 3 — musical instruments (flute, cymbal, lyre, harps, trumpets, etc.)
Lent 4 — donkey figure or picture
Lent 5 — a large crown
Lent 6 (Palm Sunday) — palm branchesEach presentation involves four participants including: minister, a youth and two other readers. Parts are brief and need not be memorized.
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Who Me Do A Program 1
$22.43The title of this book is a cry often heard by leaders of organizations. This resource is a response to that cry. Designed to be a 12-month guide, there are programs for Valentine’s Day, St. Patrick’s Day, Halloween, the Christmas season, Lent and more.
The programs are designed for easy implementation at women’s meetings, youth gatherings and congregational events. Leader’s helps are provided to indicate what props, songs and readers are needed. This collection of 15 programs is reflective, at times humorous, and includes skits, meditations and other suggestions to fit particular seasons.Programs for various months include:
* February — A Heart Filled With Love
* March — From Slavery To Sainthood
* May — A Humorous Look At Some Hopeful Women
* July — God’s Picnic Basket
* August — The Armor Of God
* October — In Pursuit Of The Right Spirit
* November — The Exodus Murmurs
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I Come Away Stronger A Print On Demand Title
$39.99Millions of Americans are joining small groups. Among the religious, prayer fellowships, accountability groups, house churches, Bible-study groups, and covenant groups are being touted as the wave of the future. But are small groups delivering what they promise? Are members really finding the support, encouragement, and deepening spirituality they seek? Or are the answers ambiguous?
I Come Away Stronger, the complement to Robert Wuthnow’s Sharing the Journey, presents fourteen case studies of small groups – from a women’s Bible study, to a peace fellowship, to a group for senior citizens. What small groups are like nationally and how their members understand spirituality can be gauged from the results of a national survey presented in the appendix.
This survey is given life and flesh in the extended portraits of each of the groups. These portraits are powerful and highly personal because they tell the stories, both collective and personal, of each group, revealing agreement and dissension, closeness and alienation, growth and stagnation. The result is an intimate inside look at the dynamics of small groups.
In a concluding chapter, Wuthnow places the small group movement in the changing context of American religion and society, showing why is has emerged and where it is headed, raising crucial questions that religious leaders and group members need to ponder as the movement continues to grow.
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Listening Hearts : Retreat Designs And Meditation Exercises
$17.95SKU (ISBN): 9780819216212ISBN10: 0819216216Suzanne Farnham | R. Taylor McLeanBinding: Trade PaperPublished: August 1994Listening HeartsPublisher: Morehouse Publishing Print On Demand Product
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Choral Therapy : Techniques And Exercises For The Church Choir
$14.99“From the Publisher:” Many choir directors are not formally trained in all disciplines needed to direct a music program. “Choral Therapy” addresses an area that intimidates many directors: vocal training and how to increase the ability of the choir.
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Visions Of Lent Year 1
$9.93“Worship in Lent provides an opportunity for a congregation to reflect significantly on our faith. Unlike Advent and Christmas, Lent is free from the excitement busyness and commercialism that distract us as worshipers. We need to hear Gods voice afresh. The Passover tradition is a wonderful vehicle for that kind of listening,” writes Betty Lynn Schwab.
Visions Of Lent, Year 1 (three-book series) is a resource for congregational worship on each of the six Sundays in Lent. Special to Year 1 is a Maundy Thursday communion service.
The series provides congregations with a weekly presentation, which may be placed in the worship service. Each presentation offers a symbol. Symbols for Year 1 are Passover-related.
Symbols are:
The bitter herbs
The scorched shank bone
The green herbs
The fruits and nuts
The unleavened bread
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Old Wine In New Skins 1
$21.18“Worship must be directly connected to our daily lives,” writes George A. Nye. “It must address our fears, our hopes, even our indifferences.”
Old Wine In New Skins provides pastors many resources to make the connection. These include 66 calls to worship, 13 preparations for pastoral prayers and 52 reflections.
Calls to worship categories include:
With praise and celebration
Using traditional hymns and praise hymns
Relating to a story
With a commitment theme
Involving personal preparation
By seasonA preparation for pastoral prayer section helps pastors broaden a congregation’s understanding of how to approach God in prayer. Thirteen “preparations” are provided, including one for Advent-Christmas.
Fifty-two short reflections cover eight major themes for countless pastoral uses. These are easily adopted for mini-devotions, sermon illustrations, and newsletter meditations.
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Restore Me
$16.18Restore Me includes a large collection of Lent and Easter season worship resources created to draw congregations into closer relationship with God.
Specific chapters for both Lent and Easter include:
Calls to worship
Common prayers
Prayers of dedication
Benedictions
Prayers of confession and pardon
Gospel dialogues“These resources grew out of my continued interest in the whole use of scripture in weekly worship,” Craig M. Sweet writes. “The dialogue use of scripture adds an extra dimension to the ‘dramaturgical’ experience of worship.”
In the gospel dialogue section are scripture readings based upon various lectionary texts. Dialogues are offered for Ash Wednesday, the Sundays of Lent, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter.
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Promise Kept At Christmas
$9.93We approach the worship of God this evening with a hushed awareness of Christ’s presence in our midst. God again breaks through the calm and darkness to reveal himself to us in the stillness of our hearts. (From the order of worship)
Light and darkness is a powerful biblical metaphor to talk about God’s compelling activity in the world. This Christmas Eve resource focuses on this metaphor.
A Promise Kept At Christmas offers congregations a complete order of service with suggested carols, lighting of Advent candles and scripture readings from the Old and New Testaments using a narrator and lay readers.
Scriptures are from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible.
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Upbeat Downbeat
$14.99Music direction is a multifacted craft. And no skill is more important than the actual physical skills involved in acting as conductor during the rehearsal and performance. Sandra Willetts explains what is involved, including basic conducting patterns and techniques.
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Teaching The Bible To Adults And Youth (Revised)
$20.99Teaching the Bible to Adults and Youth shows how to make the “transparent” – with God evident throughout. Dick Murray offers suggestions for teaching, provides different approaches and perspectives from which to teach and conduct activities for learning, and examines such Bible study series as Kerygma, Trinity, Bethel, and Disciple.
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What Shall We Do With This Baby
$9.93Jan Spence created this short Christmas Eve children’s program for her small, rural church. It includes five brief scenes built around a suggested order of worship. Clergy can easily write a meditation to complete the service.
Speaking parts are available for a narrator and two readers. These roles are appropriate for junior or senior high students.
Any number of younger children can easily be added in non-speaking roles as shepherds, angels, and wise men. The program also included speaking roles for Mary, Joseph, and baby Jesus.
The service has appropriate breaks for carols or songs by children’s choirs.
Narrator: What shall we do with this baby? Yes this is the question that has echoed through time. Nothing is more helpless and needy than an infant alone. Without human help, a baby alone cannot thrive or survive. What shall we do with this baby indeed!
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What Grace They Received
$16.18Here are 12 worship resources about modern-day saints. Eleven are designed for “the sermon slot.” Dag Hammarskjold’s chapter is an entire liturgy. Each resource has parts for two or more readers. One is the narrator while another shares excerpts from the writings of the saint. Additional readers may make connections to our lives today.
The 12 saints are:
* Wilhelm Loehe
* St. Benedict
* Cyril and Methodius
* Bartolome de Las Casas
* Thomas Aquinas
* Albert Schweitzer
* Perpetua and Felicity
* Dag Hammarskjold
* Athanasius
* St. Ignatius
* Ludwig Nommensen
* John Christian Frederick HeyerLutherans will find these 12 commemorated in the Lutheran Book of Worship during 1993 and 1994.
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Holy Week Confessions
$16.18Death took me. I found myself in an empty, dark void. I don’t remember anything of it, just emptiness. Then I heard his voice, “Lazarus, come out!” Jesus called me from death to life. Struggling through the darkness, I came out of my tomb. (from Lazarus’ personal confession)
Using the theme “confessions” this resource offers 12 worship options to enhance your congregation’s Holy Week and Easter journey.
The journey begins with a Palm Sunday worship service and the confession of Lazarus. Resources are also offered for Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and various Saturday and Sunday services.
Two communion services for Easter Sunday and an Easter message, “The Sun Has Risen, Behold — The Risen Son!” conclude the series.
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Symbols Of Sacrifice Year 3
$9.93The sacrificial life of Christ is a major focus of Lent. Symbols Of Sacrifice provides the congregations with opportunities to create visual worship aids representing Christ’s life during worship.
Each weekly presentation builds a growing reminder of Christ’s sacrifice for the congregation.
This series offers a list of symbols and explanation of the symbols. These are provided for the Sundays of Lent and Easter Sunday.
Symbols are:
Sandals
A globe of the world
Money
A lantern
A grain of wheat
A cloak
A white robeThis is one book in a three-part series of Symbols Of Sacrifices. Other books in this series are Year 1 and Year 2.
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Peace Be To Your House
$9.93Setting up a new home is an important experience in the life of all families and individuals. This brief service of celebration enables the extended family of God to share in the joy of this event.
Peace Be To Your Home includes an order of service, suggested hymns, scriptures, and prayers.
A certificate in the back of this book is an attractive memento of the service. It records the date and participants of the blessing service.
“As for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.”
Old Testament reading“Everyone then who hears these words of mine and acts on them will be like the wise man who built his house on rock.”
New Testament reading“Now may the blessing of God Almighty, The Father, Son and Holy Spirit descend and remain upon this house.”
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Symbols Of Sacrifice Year 2
$9.93The sacrificial life of Christ is a major focus of Lent. Symbols Of Sacrifice provides congregations with opportunities to create visual worship aids representing Christ’s life during worship.
Each weekly presentation builds a growing reminder of Christ’s sacrifice for the congregation.
This series offers a list of symbols and explanation of the symbols. These are provided for the Sundays of Lent and Easter Sunday.
Symbols are:
Ashes
Whip
Sponge and stick
Dice
Lance
Linen cloth
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Your King Comes
$9.93Your King Comes! Is a complete Palm Sunday service. It includes a dramatic celebration of the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem led by the children and youth of the church school.
This resource captured the spirit of Palm Sunday with songs, words, and gestures. It will involve as many as 47 persons of all ages from your congregation. Minimum rehearsal is needed.
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Service Of Shadows
$9.93“A Service Of Shadows” offers congregations a complete tenebrae service with a suggested order of service and an alternative ending with holy communion.
This impressive service includes 15 candles and parts for up to 15 readers. As the Passion narrative is read, these candles will be extinguished one at a time as directed in the service.
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How To Train Volunteer Teachers
$20.99Explores the purposes of teaching in the church, and offers specific advice on how to recruit, train, and support volunteer teachers. 20 workshops to enhance and empower educational programs in any church.
These twenty stimulating, thirty-minute workshops show how to train volunteer teachers in a way that will dramatically increase the effectiveness of your Christian education program. After exploring the purposes of teaching children, youth, and adults in the church, Delia Halverson offers specific advice on how to recruit, train, and support volunteer teachers. Sunday school superintendents and education chairpersons will find this information invaluable as they recruit teachers, affirm them in their ministries, and plan training events.
Workshops offered in the book include: planning a session; keys to motivating students of all age groups; developing Bible skills in all age groups; storytelling in the classroom; creativity for you and your student; worship in the classroom; teaching prayer in the classroom; caring for students; teaching with questions and discussion; music in the classroom; and developing a learning center. Each workshop outline shows you which materials you will need for the workshop. One or more handouts for use in the training event are included. The book also features a bibliography of additional materials to enhance the workshops.
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Symbols Of Sacrifice Year 1
$9.93The sacrificial life of Christ is a major focus of Lent. Symbols Of Sacrifice provides congregations with opportunities to create visual worship aids representing Christ’s life during worship.
Each weekly presentation builds a growing reminder of Christ’s sacrifice for the congregation.
This series offers a list of symbols and explanation of the symbols. These are provided for the Sundays of Lent and Easter Sunday.
Symbols are:
Ashes
Whip
Sponge and stick
Dice
Lance
Linen cloth
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Lights Of Love
$9.93Faith, Hope, Love, Joy, and The Light Of The World are themes in this candle lighting service for the four Sundays of Advent and Christmas Eve. Each service includes a scripture, message and prayer with optional listing of hymns and calls to worship.
Lights Of Love provides a banner instruction section, a Christmas Eve candle lighting suggested order of service, and a brief explanation of the meaning of Advent.
In addition to public worship, the services can easily be used in a family worship or Sunday school setting.
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Experiencing The Bible With Children
$22.99Using music, movement, games, and art, this resource provides a teacher-training resource that features individual and group study options, flexible training schedules, tips for leading a successful training event, a guide for choosing age-appropriate Bible material, and instructions for tailoring stories to children ages 4-12
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With Love From Jerusalem
$9.93Ever wonder how the word of Jesus’ death was communicated to his many followers? This ecumenical Good Friday worship service is based on the authors’ speculation that such an important event must have first been proclaimed and passed from eyewitnesses to others through letters to friends.
This complete worship service was the outgrowth of a small ecumenical group working and studying together in their rural Nebraska town. Combining insights from their diverse backgrounds, the authors created a fresh, dynamic service for their congregations — and yours.
This service requires no special props or costumes and can be conducted by the pastor alone or with the help of several laypeople.
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Get Em Talking
$22.99Does your youth group suffer from the “silent complex”? Need help to get them talking about what’s really important? Would you like to be a more effective discussion leader? Then look no further! Get ‘Em Talking gives you 104 field-tested ideas that will get your kids talking about topics like . . . Rock Music – Dating – Serving God – Death – Friendship – Peer Pressure – Anger – Drugs and Alcohol – Gossip – Family – Parents – The Church – Values – Faith – Cheating – Jesus . . . and many more! Get ‘Em Talking is the perfect resource for anyone who leads discussions. You’ll glean the insights of two of the nation’s most experienced youth professionals on what makes discussion groups tick, how to get a good discussion started, what to do when problems hit, and much more. Learn How to Effectively Use Discussion Techniques Like: – No-risk Discussions – Rug Discussions – “If” Surveys – Yarn-Sharing Experiences – Relay Discussions – Tape Talk – Groupers – Continuum Discussions — Get ‘Em Talking will quickly become an indispensable part of your youth ministry resource library. Whenever you need a great discussion-starting idea, just reach for Get ‘Em Talking!
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Alive For Everymore
$9.93Alive For Evermore is a collection of seven worship services compiled by CSS. It recognizes the need of pastors to have in one volume, orders of service for important celebrations of the church during Lent and Easter.
You will find in this compact volume complete services for:
Ash Wednesday
Palm Sunday
Maundy Thursday
Good Friday (two services)
Easter Sunrise
Easter MorningEach suggested service includes an order of worship, liturgy, scripture, and hymn possibilities. Copy privileges are available with each service. The seven services include congregation involvement in various forms. The Sunday sunrise service invites participation from a family in the congregation.
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Como Estudiar La Biblia – (Spanish)
$13.99James Braga has written this book using the techniques of the study of the Scripture and has exposed the concepts in a clear and simple style. He presents a variety of methods of biblical study from a wide and careful view, so that the reader doesn’t need a previous knowledge of the Bible. This makes this book an ideal book for a group or individual study.
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Fashion Me A People
$36.00“Curriculum” as described in Maria Harris’s book is an exciting process embracing the entire course of the church’s life. It concerns the creative and educational powers used to “fashion a people.” Encompassing the total teaching mission of the church, it includes community, service, worship, proclamation, and instruction of all the members from birth to death. Contains “Reflection and Practice” exercises at the end of each chapter.
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More Than Conquerors
$16.18Here is a fresh library of resources to help the busy pastor or worship planner prepare for the season of Lent and for Easter Day. Included are orders of worship, model homilies, scripture and hymn suggestions, and historical and theological reflections for:
Ash Wednesday
The Lenten Season
Palm Sunday
Maundy Thursday
Good Friday
Easter Vigil
Easter DayComplete sermons are provided for Ash Wednesday, Lent, Palm Sunday, Good Friday, and Easter Day. Copying privileges are included, so that the original purchaser may duplicate any resource in this book which would prove useful in worship planning in the local setting.
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Portraits Of Darkness
$9.93On this most solemn of all Christian holy days the worship area is in semi-darkness. On the alter or table burn eight candles. As the service progresses readers share scripture from the Passion story according to Saint Mark, impart brief meditations on each Scripture portion, and then extinguish still another of the eight candles. At last only a single candle burns as the congregation departs in silence.
Themes in this impressive service include:
Temptation
One Ran Away
False Witness
Tears
A Crowd Stirred Up
Struck … Mocked … Crucified
Darkness Over the Land
Lingering LightClergy may lead the service, or as many as eight lay readers may be included (sixteen if the scripture and the meditations are divided).
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Parents Of The Passion
$16.18We have heard from the disciples of our Lord. Each has told us his story time and time again. But what of those who knew Our Lord and his disciples because they had given them their life and nurtured them in Godly homes?
William Grimbol takes us into the homes of seven families in Palestine. With an eye to stressing values of a godly home and upbringing, the author helps us to imagine how the parents of Thomas, Simon the Zealot, Nathanael, Peter, Judas, James the Less, and Jesus must have felt, seeing their adult children give themselves to a cause which they did not understand — nor, in some cases, appreciate.
These seven monologs are appropriate for use at Sunday or mid-week worship during the season of Lent. Each is matched with an accompanying order of worship, which the purchaser of this publication may duplicate in quantity for use in the local congregation.
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Lets Make A Jesse Tree
$12.99Easy step-by-step instructions for making a Jesse Tree Advent calendar, plus 25 Bible readings for family use. Children learn the Christmas story from the Bible as they add each new symbol to their Jesse Tree Advent calendar
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Games For All Occasions (Revised)
$19.99Indoor Games
Musical Games
Icebreakers
Indoor Stunts
Quiz Games
Written Games
Picnic Games
Games For Lawn Parties
Outdoor Stunts
Water-front Games
The Latest Games
128 PagesAdditional Info
Planning a party? Indoors or outdoors? No problem – if you avail yourself of the 297 indoor and outdoor games clearly and simply described in Games for All Occasions by Ken Anderson and Morry Carlson. There are:icebreakers…quiz games…written games…picnic games…musical games…waterfront games, games for lawn parties…the latest games…action games…stunts…thought games…for children – adults – group leaders – party hosts – teachers – parents – the young in heart – for all who want to entertain or be entertained. No matter what the occasion, there is bound to be an appropriate game in this handy, indexed collection assembled for your fun and recreation!
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Ashes And Tears
$16.18Ash Wednesday and Holy Week are special days indeed on the Christian calendar. Pastors and worship leaders need to approach these days with special care so that their significance is not lost on the gathered congregation. How does one mark familiar days such as Ash Wednesday, Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, and Good Friday in such a way that a deadening sameness does not overtake the planning and the execution of the worship services for these days?
James M. Bloom provides in this helpful resource eleven separate services or worship ideas. Liturgies and meditations are included. In most cases more than one worship alternative is provided.
Use this volume to enrich your observance of the special season of Lent. Share its ideas with others on your worship planning team. Help the members of your parish to experience a blessed Lent.
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Passion Paths : Worthip Services For Ash Wednesday And Holy Week
$16.18Here are five creative worship services for five special days on the Christian worship calendar. Each service involves the congregation in responsive readings, participation in contemporary prayers, and appropriate hymnody, psalmody, and scripture. Each service is accompanied with a highly creative sermon dialog to be shared by 3, 4, 5, or 7 readers.
The service and dialogs lead worshipers down familiar and appropriate paths to confrontation with the Living Christ and the God of Grace, whom we meet in the Lenten season in a special way.
The Path of Maturity — Ash Wednesday
The Path of Quality — Palm Sunday
The Path of Integrity — Maundy Thursday
The Path of Dignity — Good Friday
The Path of Creativity — Easter DayAdd to cartin stock within 3-5 days of online purchase
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Sing Praises To His Name
$16.18This useful resource provides the busy pastor or worship planner a rich variety of worship sentences and prayers for use in the Sunday service. The writer, a United Methodist pastor, has tested these materials in his own Colorado parish. The material reflects the seasons of the church and calendar year and the rhythms of the spirit and our daily walk.
Included in this volume are:
– Seventy calls to worship
– Eighty-six prayers of confession
– Nineteen prayers of celebration
– Seventy-six general prayers
Louis Pratt is pastor of Walsh (Colorado) United Methodist Church. He is also the author of the CSS title “Worship the Lord! Prayers for the Sunday Service.”Add to cartin stock within 3-5 days of online purchase
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Stories For Telling
$23.31Well-known storyteller William White here retells sixty fascinating stories and folktales, ideal for use in Christian preaching and teaching, at home, and at camps and retreats. The stories help communicate the gospel message by presenting issues of love and compassion, sin and grace, wisdom and foolishness, friendship and fidelity.
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At Noon On Friday
$11.18At Noon On Friday is a volume of reflections on the seven last words of Jesus as he hung on the cross. In his usual masterly fashion, Dr. Richard C. Hoefler holds up before his listeners the cross of Christ and calls for a devotional response not merely an intellectual one. The goal of these sermons is to prompt something important, different and decisive to happen to both speaker and listener. They were written in such a way as to create an experience of participating in the three hours our Lord suffered. In the author’s words: “The seven words of Christ are like seven panels of one single stained glass window, reflecting forth the light of the total act of our Lord’s crucifixion.”
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New Covenants Power
$7.95The New Covenant’s Power presents worship services and other resources for Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter Sunrise. Maundy Thursday – “Christ’s Power for New Community” – focuses on the Lord’s Supper and the command to love one another; Good Friday “Christ’s Power for New Covenant Compassion” – emphasizes the actual events of the crucifixion; Easter Sunrise – “Christ’s Power for New Celebration” – rejoices in Christ’s triumph over sin and death. Each of these powerful themes is carried out through the use of symbols, hymns, scripture, and communal prayers. This little volume will give liturgy planners and ministers all the tools they need for Holy Week worship services that are unified in structure, in theme, and in sensitivity to the events being commemorated and celebrated.
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Grupos Familiares Y El Crecimi – (Spanish)
$9.99The lesson of this very interesting project will provide you with all the materials you need to accomplish what the Holy Spirit has already accomplished in Seoul and many other parts of the world including through the author, David Yonggi Cho.
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Speaking In Stories
$23.31This book is full of practical ideas on how to begin, what to avoid, how to use stories in classrooms, camps, churches. White’s many examples of stories-from the Bible, folktales, modern parables, for Christmas-serve as a valuable resource as you weave your tales
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Escuela Domincal Dinamica – (Spanish)
$8.99Written by one of the nation’s foremost Christian education writers, this book addresses the biblical philosophy behind the Sunday School ministry. It also develops the practical aspects that are imperative to any successful program.
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Our Christian Worship
$16.18Our Christian Worship: Resources For Palm Sunday Through Easter, contains original and selected, contemporary resources for worship for Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter.
Our Christian Worship features opening sentences, invocations, introits, collects, Scripture suggestions, hymn suggestions, prayers, welcome to visitors, offertory sentence, and prayers.
Our Christian Worship offers everything at your fingertips with such programs as: Maundy Thursday — A Communion service and Tenebrae; Good Friday — Passion story based upon the Seven Last Words; and Easter — A Communion service.
Our Christian Worship also includes a brief treasury of additional prayers for use during Holy Week.
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Man In Demand (Teacher’s Guide)
$19.98Harvest House Print On Demand Title
Gives word-for-word class instruction, together with directions for special demonstrations, activities, object lessons, and skits. “Man in Demand” leads students from practical instruction in everyday concerns to spiritual instruction based on the needs of their age group.
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Curso Para Novios Diario Perso – (Spanish)
$12.99Este Diario Personal esta diseado para ser usado con la serie de videos del Curso Para Novios/Prematrimonial. Este curso fue desarrollado por Nicky y Sila Lee, quienes lideran los ministerios de familia en la Iglesia HTB en Londres. El Curso Para Novios/Prematrimonial esta diseado para ayudar a las parejas comprometidas o que estan explorando el matrimonio a construir los cimientos para una relacion duradera. Aunque el curso se basa en principios cristianos, esta diseado para parejas con o sin antecedentes religiosos.
Este Diario Personal para invitados esta diseado para ser utilizado junto con la serie de videos del Curso Para Novios/Prematrimonial. La serie de cinco sesiones esta diseada para ayudar a las parejas que estan comprometidas o estan pensando prepararse para un futuro.
Las sesiones cubren:
*La Comunicacion
*El Conflicto
*El Compromiso
*La Conexion
*Iniciando la AventuraEsta guia para lideres esta incluida con la serie de videos del Curso Para Novios/Prematrimonial (9780310122470), la cual se vende por separado.
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