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Easter Sermons for Busy Pastors Easter is the most important time of celebration in Christianity. Our churches welcome more people during the Easter season than at any other time of the year. Sermon Outlines for Busy Pastors: Easter Sermons helps you be better prepared for presenting the Good...

Ann Spangler believes it’s possible to transform the crazy, wonderful, stressful season we call Christmas into one of greater peace and deeper joy by recovering the gift of Advent.For hundreds of years, Christians have prepared for Christmas by carefully observing the four-week season leading up...

Lectio divina is an ancient spiritual practice that can help us to hear God speaking to us through the words of Scripture. In recent times, Pope Benedict XVI and a Synod of Bishops have recommended that laypeople pray with the Scriptures using this method. In this book, respected biblical scholar Stephen...

Far from being merely a “vacation from fasting,” the Pascha season is a time that, properly understood, can greatly enrich our faith. During the Pascha season, we celebrate and rejoice in our Lord’s Resurrection and we prepare for the great feast of the Holy Spirit descending upon us.

Lent is a time to refocus our hearts and revive our love of the Lord and one another. The Lenten Companion, for the Forty Days of Lent (from Ash Wednesday to Easter Sunday), is designed in a convenient, easy-to-use format: - Inspiring reflections from some of the most gifted Catholic writers for each...

Just turning on the news lets us know we are living in uncertain times. Economic instabilities, eruptions of violence, and natural catastrophes can alter the lives and landscapes of entire communities. Our individual lives are often just as unsteady: relationships can break, plans can falter, and...

This book takes a look at the origins of Halloween and how the Catholic Church tried to make it more Christian-like. I have loved Halloween for most of my life. Now, as a Christian, I take a hard look at it's origins and what that means to me as a Christian. Can we celebrate it? Can we participate in any way? This booklet answers those questions.

Have Yourself a Historical and Inspirational Christmas! Let the Christ of Christmas prepare your heart for the celebration of His birth through a devotional journey beginning December 1st and climaxing Christmas day.  Each of the twenty-five devotions includes a Scripture reading, carol,...

This book takes the bible and asks the questions that the church does not want you to ask. This book has taken some of the major events in the bible, and analyzes them for authenticity. This book will not only invalidate many of the claims the bible makes, it will also show how the bible often contradicts...

The Easter Moment tells the moving story of Spong's friendship with a young physician dying of cancer and how that relationship shed new light on the years of study the author has devoted to the great mystery of what actually happened on that long-ago Easter when the whole history of the human race...

The world's all-time bestseller meets a twenty-first century musical icon. In this seven-week course, suitable for group use or personal reflection, Steve Mann skilfully interweaves the Gospel narrative with the story of Les Miserables. Daily devotional readings are built around seven key spiritual themes...

O Cross of Christ is an original, new prayer composed by Pope Francis himself and recited by him on the occasion of Good Friday 2016. It guides all who pray it to recognize Jesus’ cross in some of the most distressing circumstances of today’s world — modern-day martyrs, victims of war, unfaithful...

Through her own and others' personal experiences, best-selling author Mary Baxter shows how many lives have been forever transformed by the powerful blood of Jesus. Some of the life-changing results that you, too, can experience include: Overcoming the power of sin Walking in divine health and...

Lent, a holy time of introspection and penance in preparation for the passion, death, Resurrection, and Ascension of Jesus Christ, can be further enriched with Sacred Space for Lent 2018, a daily prayer experience from Sacred Space, the internationally known online prayer guide. *Sacred Space...