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The Gift of Compassion
A Guide to Helping Those Who Grieve
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Unfortunately, grief and loss are inevitable parts of living. No one escapes. Even so, it's difficult to know how to console those who have reached a broken place in their lives. What is the best way to show compassion when words cannot be enough?
In The Gift of Compassion, author Becca Stevens...
Our Father
Where Are the Fathers?
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Ernest Lyght and Johnathan Keaton are fathers and United Methodist Bishops who have come together to share their firsthand experience of the responsibilities, trials, and joys of fatherhood. With God the Father as their example, Bishops Lyght and Keaton take a look at their own fathers, themselves...
by James W. Moore
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Jesus gave us the good news that if we make God our number-one priority, then everything else will fall into place, and our life will be full of joy, purpose, mission, meaning, and fulfillment.
In the words of author James W. Moore: There's a saying that goes, “If God is your co-pilot,...
Execute Your Vision
The Practical Art of Ministry Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Dreams and visions are amazing gifts from God. They are at the heart of God’s plan for our lives. Anyone can have an idea, but not everyone will experience that vision come to fruition. This book explores how to turn visions into reality in a fast-moving world that is changing at an exponential...
Calling and Character
Virtues of the Ordained Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
In Calling & Character, Willimon lays out a clear and compelling picture of the pastoral life, one that will inform both those embarking on ordained ministry and those who have been in it for many years. He lays out specific habits such as study, collegiality, and humor as the day-by-day means of following the difficult and dangerous, yet deeply rewarding, calling of a pastor.
by J. Ellsworth Kalas
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Growing older is a process. Growing old is a conclusion. If you’re growing older you see some hope because you have perspective and you keep learning. If you’ve grown old, you may cynically think that times have never been as bad as they are now, and that they can only get worse.”
This...
Fear of the Other
No Fear in Love
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
In this no non-sense book, reliable spiritual guide, Will Willimon, invites readers to consider the gospel command to love (and not merely tolerate) those considered to be “Other” or outside mainstream Christian culture. Rooted in the faith of Israel and the Christian story and vision, Willimon...
Treasures of the Transformed Life 40 Day Reading Book
Satisfying Your Soul's Thirst for More
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Help the members of your congregation begin 40 days of transformation by using this book to unify them in study. The daily readings are centered on the themes of Prayer, Presence, Gifts, & Service. Each reading helps the reader focus on discerning God's plan for them individually and how they can help live out God's plan for the church.
A Different Kind of Christmas
Devotions for the Season
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Every year, we say we’re going to cut back, simplify, and have a family Christmas that focuses on the real reason for the season—Jesus. But every year, advertisements beckon, the children plead, and it seems easier just to indulge our wants and whims. Overspending, overeating, materialism, and...
by James W. Moore
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
This six-session short-term study series from Jim Moore is organized around the general theme of Discipleship. This study serves as a sixth volume following Jesus’ Parables of Grace, Jesus' Parables of Life , Jesus' Parables of the Lost and Found, Jesus' Parables About Making Choices, and Jesus'...
Down to Earth [Large Print]
The Hopes & Fears of All the Years Are Met in Thee Tonight
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Nothing in all the vast, created universe could prepare us for God coming down as a helpless infant, or for Jesus the son of God intentionally positioning himself as a mere servant, identifying with the lowest of lows. It's enough to confound the mind, to make the heart contrite. This Advent, God's great surprise changes everything.
I Do ... Every Day
Words of Wisdom for Newlyweds and Not So Newlyweds
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Cynthia and Roger Hopson are on a mission to help newlyweds and not so newlyweds revitalize marriage as the treasure God intended. In each of the thirty-one reflections in I Do...Every Day, the Hopsons offer straight talk, ask questions that may cause a little blushing (don't worry, nothing X-rated),...
Real Followers
A Radical Quest to Expose the Pretender Inside Each of Us
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Many Christians, disillusioned with lives of spiritual mediocrity that have been dampened by today’s rampant materialism and cafeteria spirituality, are asking the same question: “Where is the substance that can move our church beyond ho-hum Christianity?” Today’s public fascination with angels,...
Sent Devotions for the Season
Delivering the Gift of Hope at Christmas
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them . . . —John 17:18
God sent Christ at Christmas. In turn, Christ sends us into the world to be his hands and feet, head and heart. Dynamic pastor Jorge Acevedo leads us on a 5-week Advent journey to discover how, where, and why we are sent....