Abingdon Press imprint: 1502 books
Love and Intimacy
Five Ways to Get Together and Stay Together
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
This is straight talk and teaching. Bishop Joseph W. Walker III draws on scripture to describe five ways for men and women to give and receive the kind of love that leads to what we all want--a fulfilling committed relationship. These steps include how to be ready for a holy hookup, meeting the...
From Pew to Pulpit
A Beginner's Guide to Preaching
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
A down-to-earth, practical introduction to the ins and outs of preaching for lay preachers, bivocational pastors, and others newly arrived in the pulpit.
Recent years have seen a considerable increase in the amount of financial resources required to support a full-time pastor in the local congregation....
Listen
Praying in a Noisy World
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
We live in a world of noise. Everywhere we go, we hear sounds that compete for our minds and hearts. Listening to God requires a deliberate choice to shut out the chaos around us and focus our thoughts.
Listen, by Rueben P. Job, is a 40-day experience created to offer help to those new to prayer,...
by Lewis A. Parks
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Step into the pulpit in a small membership church, and you’ll sometimes find your fair share of challenges, but you’ll almost always find more than your share of blessings as well. Those blessings, and the chance for authentic, life-transforming preaching, are what preaching in the small membership...
Embracing the Uncertain [Large Print]
A Lenten Study for Unsteady Times
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
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...
What Are You Waiting For?
Sermons on the Parables of Jesus
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Part of the Protestant Pulpit Exchange, this book contains popular preaching material on 10 of Jesus' parables as found in the Gospel of Matthew. Trotter says that the single most important assumption for contemporary preaching on the parables is that parables are metaphors--a means to see something...
Upside Down Daily Readings
A Different Way to Live
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
The Sermon on the Mount calls us to a radically different way of life; one that is contrary to the world around us. Upside Down is a church-wide devotional/study book with an accompanying toolkit with all your need to create and customize a four-week, topical sermon series that fits your congregation....
by Lee A. Schott
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
There is more to the story of Job than the first and last chapters, for it is the chapters in between that mirror man's own life struggles. Immersion: Job enables readers to enter the story and experience the trials of life through the eyes of Job. Easy-to-follow, step-by-step suggestions for leading...
by Dottie Escobedo-Frank
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
The disciples were fairly ordinary people. They had regular families, made their livelihoods in regular ways, and had typical and varied political leanings. But they met Jesus and started to live extraordinary lives. Because of their closeness to Jesus, we tend to think that the disciples lived lives...
Treasures in the Darkness
Letting Go of Pain, Holding on to Faith
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
The strongest believer’s faith can be shaken when faced with tragedy or even disappointment. Bishop Larry Brandon faced this himself when his oldest son, Brandon, was killed. Here he shares his own struggle, pain, and eventual victory in Christ. While it appeared to the world that he was doing well,...
Heavenly Minded Mom
A 90 Day Journey to Embrace What Matters Most
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
The lives of moms are all too often consumed with wearisome, empty striving. We work to keep up appearances, meet worldly standards, and find satisfaction in the offerings of this life such as success, admiration, and ease. However, God has set eternity in a mother’s heart, and deep inside, we long...
The Power of Stories
A Guide for Leading Multi-Racial and Multi-Cultural Congregations
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Most congregational leaders find it difficult to resist the dominant cultural expectation that different cultural and ethnic groups should stick to themselves–especially when it comes to church. But some congregational leaders have learned the secrets of breaking out of these expectations to bring...
Makin' Room in the Inn
Christmas Hospitality Through an African American Experience
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Makin' Room in the Inn is a four-lesson Advent study that celebrates Christmas traditions and practice through the perspective of an African American family.
Session titles, scriptures
Makin' Room (Luke 2:4-7) cultivating and living out hospitality in a diverse world
Makin' Do (Luke...
by Rendle, Gilbert
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
The lifeblood of the United Methodist is passion rather than organizational neatness, entrepreneurial freedom rather than denominational restraint, and agility rather than staid institutional dependence. But if United Methodists want to change and be the church we say we want to be, what must we risk...