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Bringing Narnia Home
Lessons from the Other Side of the Wardrobe
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
The wisdom of C. S. Lewis comes in a form that is deeply moving as well as great fun and high adventure. Noted Lewis scholar and popular speaker Devin Brown reveals the lessons woven throughout this endearing text. Bringing Narnia Home presents Lewis’s timeless message for the Narnian in each...
Beyond the Yellow Ribbon
Ministering to Returning Combat Veterans
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Help bring combat veterans all the way back home.
Over a half million combat veterans have returned from Iraq and Afghanistan. With thousands of military personnel still deployed, few communities escape the direct impact of solders returning from war. Yet their needs and the needs of their...
Seven Promises for Every Woman
From Embraced by God Women's Bible Study
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Award-winning gospel singer, songwriter, and teacher Babbie Mason expands her message of God's unconditional love from her spring 2012 devotional book to a small group study for women. The seven promises in this small inexpensive book invite women to acknowledge God's love for each of us, our limitless...
A Will to Lead and the Grace to Follow
Letters on Leadership from a Peculiar Prophet
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Throughout his time as bishop, Will Willimon has once a week sat down at his computer and tapped out short messages to the churches under his care. Sometimes his intention has been to comfort and console; sometimes it’s been to motivate and inspire. Sometimes he’s written deeply theological meditations...
Earn. Save. Give. Youth Study Book
Wesley's Simple Rules for Money
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
John Wesley believed money was important as a way of expressing and living out Christian faith. To Wesley, the task was simple: earn all you can, save all you can, give all you can. In this essential little book, pastor and author James A. Harnish presents Wesley’s concepts and beliefs in plain,...
Born to Be a Blessing
A Parent's Guide to Raising Christian Children
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Every child is born to be a blessing. Many parents experience overwhelming love when their children are born, and strive to raise their children to experience a relationship with God through Jesus Christ.
This guide for parents enables them study, learn, and grow together to find answers...
50 Ways to Pray
Practices from Many Traditions and Times
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
For individual or group use
“It is my hope that this book will provide at least fifty ways you may take steps in a lifelong walk with God. It is written for you, the seeker and sojourner, as well as you, the church leader, youth minister, retreat facilitator, or worship planner. It is for...
The Dave Test
A Raw Look at Real Faith in Hard Times
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
What is the Dave Test? Basic, important, raw questions you can ask yourself when someone you love is suffering, in crisis, unhinged, maybe dying. Before you even think about opening your mouth and blowing chunks of platitudes, or running, or “minimizing the painful,” do the real work of living,...
The Ten Commandments
A Preaching Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Many resources have been written to offer assistance in exploring and understanding the lectionary texts for the purpose of preaching. However, few have sought to provide this kind of preaching commentary on texts that do not follow the lectionary's grouping. For those whose preaching does not customarily...
by James L. Evans
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Journey inside the pages of Scripture to meet a personal God who enters individual lives and begins a creative work from the inside out. Shaped with the individual in mind, Immersion encourages simultaneous engagement both with the Word of God and with the God of the Word to become a new creation...
by Bill Easum
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Before he was one of the best-known church consultants in the country, Bill Easum served a lengthy pastorate in San Antonio, Texas. When he arrived at the church it was in serious decline, with the possibility of having to close its doors beginning to loom over it. By the time he left it was the...
by Justo L. González
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
Theological education has always been vital to the Church’s life and mission; yet today it is in crisis, lacking focus, direction, but also resources and even students. In the early Church, there is no doubt that to lead worship one had to be able to read and interpret the Bible. In order to lead,...
More Letters for Every Occasion
A Pastor's Sourcebook
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Sending a personal note, email, or letter means that you took time to care. It can be a grace-filled symbol of your ministry outreach and an effective way to offer pastoral concern.
The book offers more than 90 carefully written, thoughtful sample letters and emails that can be easily adapted...
by James L. Killen, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2005
An introduction to pastoral care for pastors of small membership churches.
“If you spend your whole life serving small membership churches and doing it well, yours will have been a life well spent.” Small membership churches have a real advantage when it comes to incorporating people into a...