Resource Publications imprint: 228 books
Bible Study for Busy Pastors and Ministers, Volume 2
Ready Made Lessons to Turn Members Into Disciples and an Audience Into an Army
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2019
Pastors and ministers have one of the most challenging jobs on earth. Of all their tasks, one responsibility they cannot neglect is teaching the word of God. Unfortunately, church leaders seldom have enough time to prepare Bible studies for their congregations. This book is a quick resource to help...
by Steve J. Havemann, Joe D. Batten
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, one in nine Americans works in sales, meaning that each day more than fifteen million people earn their keep by persuading someone else to make a purchase. The Excellent Persuader has the unique ability to reach sales professionals, sales managers,...
Mystery Without Rhyme or Reason
Poetic Reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2015
This collection of poetic reflections is a rich resource for a faithful imagination. Michael Coffey's poems explore the deep questions and joyful affirmations of Christian faith. Never settling for easy answers or straight-forward interpretations, Coffey's writing invites the reader into new spiritual...
Renounce, Resist, Rejoice
Being Church in the Age of Trump
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
The election of Donald Trump as the forty-fifth president of the United States was a watershed moment in American history. In this book, Michael Coffey reflects on major social and religious issues leading up to and following the election. Coffey addresses the political issues of the day, not from...
Prophetic Poetry
Holy Agitation for Peace, Justice, and Passion
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
This poetry becomes an agent of transformation in offering a new direction for our lives. It provokes a little holy agitation by tossing poems like pebbles into placid pools of water to cause some waves. Such poetry gives us prophetic alerts to pay attention to things that matter, like peace not war,...
Fostering Children’s Faith
A Privilege and a Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Fostering faith in children is a shared privilege and responsibility of parents, godparents, and the church community. We promise our children at baptism that we will support them in their faith formation--in the formation of their relationship with God. We need to take this promise seriously. This...
Since John Got Sick
A Quest for Survival and Faith
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
John was always healthy. Then at age twenty-six a rare autoimmune disease struck out of nowhere. "Idiopathic," doctors said of the phenomenon that tried to take his life violently several times and to destroy his spirit more quietly over the next several years. Since John Got Sick: A Quest...
by James Leo Garrett
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
James Leo Garrett, Jr. has been called "the last of the gentlemen theologians" and "the dean of Southern Baptist theologians." In The Collected Writings of James Leo Garrett, Jr., 1950-2015, the reader will find a truly dazzling collection of works that clearly evince the meticulous...
Rover
A Boy’s Best Friend
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Walk again in your childhood with a favorite animal friend as Pastor Blackstone remembers his boyhood and best friend: a dog named Rover and their adventures together. This series of remembrances and reminisces of a canine companion after over a half a century of time was invoked by an adulthood best...
Patriot Dreams
Through Ten Generations
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2019
Jacob Klund, curious about what's in his deceased grandma's attic, snoops around. He finds a trunk full of old papers. Jacob's father, a history teacher, identifies this as a great treasure because of the dates on the papers, diaries, letters, and documents. The family decides to read through them...
by David Craig
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Though we are all sorry sinners, not worthy to sing God's praises, we must. The trick is to not let concerns for "Christian stealth" transform us into poets who end up serving a second master. "Platform" has its draw, but we can't let a wide concern for Catholic culture become...
Less is More
A Collection of Ten-Minute Plays
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2016
Less is More is a collection of eight ten-minute plays. These tiny dramas speak to the necessity to say what is essential in a small number of words. As Shakespeare said, "Brevity is the soul of wit." The first play, "The Dissolution Mask," is by the well-known playwright Nancy...
No Word for the Sea
A Professor and His Wife Face Alzheimer’s
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
No Word for the Sea is built on several layers of questioning: What is language? What is memory? Where does the mind go when the circuits shut down? The novel covers seven years in the lives of Solome and Stephen Savard in St. Paul, Minnesota. Stephen is provost at Cobson College, and Solome has raised...
Mary Queen of Bees
Mary [Molly] Wesley Whitelamb [1696–1734] Sister of John Wesley, founder of the Methodist Church, Epworth, England
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
Crippled in childhood, Mary Wesley, sister of John Wesley, founder of the Methodist Church, speaks of the Wesley household in first-person narrative built on the facts of her life. Mary lived in a strict Christian family, one of 19 children, 10 of whom survived. Her mother, Susanna Wesley, imposed...