Resource Publications imprint: 228 books
Lutheran DNA
Testing the Augsburg Confession in the Parish
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Lutheran DNA takes the Reformation's Augsburg Confession of 1530 and asks whether parish issues today continue to find expression through the lens of this historic writing. The Augsburg Confession is named in Lutheran churches as a clear expression of Christian belief and practice. How is it so today?...
In the Same Place
Poems of Place
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Space and time are not just terms and functions of the bigger/larger objects in our lives, but intricately woven into the cells that make up our spleen and the neurotransmitters that carry our sense of truth and integrity (or some other thing that carries that--which we have not yet figured out how...
Bathed in Abrasion
Poems of Midlife and Erosion
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
If compromise and disappointment have a home, it is midlife. Here, suffering is like breathing. Longing is like dreaming. Standing midstream in the abrasive forces of life, author N. Thomas Johnson-Medland has learned to wade through the erosion and entropy of failure and incompleteness. And yet,...
by David Craig
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
The work of a wonderful secular poet, Billy Collins, provides a great model for Christian writers. His Coleridge "conversation poems" allow for real play and comedy, all in the service of profundity. These are veins that have not been suitably mined by poets who have access to the larger...
Jesus
poems
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
Jesus is God, and we as necessarily devotional Christian poets must not shy away from that fact. These poems try to celebrate that reality, who He is, without sacrificing literary quality. They are distinctly American (baseball, jazz, and free verse) in form, Beat in the line of Mary Fabilli, Thomas...
by David Craig
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
Trouble in the Diocese is a petulant, funny book of poetry. Its contrary protagonist/antagonist, the Apprentice, embraces life in both the large and the absurdly small. At the same time, he emphatically rejects the easy rigidity of doily-headed orthodox Catholics as well as the impulse in the Catholic...
by David Craig
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
In the last twenty years, Orthodox Catholics have come to expect their art to be necessarily about beauty. They expect it always and everywhere to lift one up, to be tinged with, to linger in the dimly-lit rooms of old-moneyed Europe, to be passed around among the best families, among like-minded...
Love Letter to a Conflicted Church
Promise in Our Anger and Disagreements
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The book is organized into three divisions, and as the title implies, there is a brief letter in the form of a New Testament epistle to the contemporary church, a portion of which begins each chapter. The first division reexamines the gifts and redemptive possibilities of anger and conflict. The barriers...
Dead to Sin, Alive to God
Discover the Power of Reckoning to Set You Free in Christ
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
If you have been born again through faith in Jesus Christ, now reckon yourself dead to sin and alive to God in Christ! Learn to think about your "new self" in Christ as God does. With a pastor's heart, Stuart C. Smith explains why the key to New Covenant sanctification is the important concept...
In Need of Your Prayers and Patience
The Life and Ministry of Hiram F. Reynolds and the Founding of the Church of the Nazarene
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
The Church of the Nazarene embraces American attachments to democratic rule, individual initiative, efficiency, and a strong sense of responsibility as "a city on a hill." It is also present in more than 150 world areas. These attributes are reflected in the astounding story of one of the founders...
Village Green
Sermons from Asbury First United Methodist Church
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2011
The three cycles of sermons included here provide a spiritual geography, an announcement of the gospel set in New York State. The sermons were given life in the vibrant life of Asbury First United Methodist Church, Rochester, New York, over several years beginning in 2000. The collection is meant...
Dynamic Living in Desperate Times
A Study in the Book of Jeremiah
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2018
Who is showing us the way? In ancient Palestine, when Jesus Christ asked people who they thought he was, one of their top guesses was the Old Testament prophet, Jeremiah. "Who do people say that I am?" "Some say Jeremiah or one of the prophets." There was something about Jesus...
Taking the Adventure
Faith and Our Kinship with Animals
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
What is the relationship between faith, especially Christian faith, and a lifestyle that respects animals as our neighbors and kin? Why should faith entail a commitment to vegetarianism? Are animals meant to be heirs of the kingdom of God as well as human beings? Taking the Adventure offers answers...
Sympathy for Jonah
Reflections on Humiliation, Terror and the Politics of Enemy-Love
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2016
The story of Jonah is sacred to all three Abrahamic faiths and remains a recognizable legend even in the most secularized corners of the West. And yet the maritime prophet's story has been trivialized as a quaint children's tale, his character has been blasted by unsympathetic commentators, and even...