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The Road to Amazing
Basics of Christian Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
After you invite Christ into your life, then what? The Road to Amazing, part of The Basics Series, answers questions about the essentials of Christian practice. Used as a standalone study, the book provides a suggested course of action that will help you understand who God is and who you are as a...
Paul
Apostle and Fellow Traveler
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
Covering the entire Pauline corpus the reader finds a man who was adept at persuasive arguments and providing theological answers to real and, often, thorny congregational issues. Readers have a keen understanding of Paul’s place in the early church, the relationship between church and synagogue,...
Under Wraps Youth Study Book
The Gift We Never Expected
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Under Wraps is an all-church Advent experience that explores the character of God described in the Old Testament and then revealed through Jesus Christ. Through small group resources for all ages, teaching video, worship ideas and visuals, sermon lead-in videos, and preaching guides, all areas of...
by F. Belton Joyner, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Jesus: God's Unlikely Revelation
Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany Services includes biblically-based sermons, suggested scriptures, children's time, hymn and prayers, as well as litanies for lighting the Advent wreath. Also included are suggestions for seasonal funerals. These services offer...
Twice Blessed
Two Amish Christmas Stories
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
About Her Sister’s Shadow
Katie and Rosie Stoltzfus work part-time in an Amish store and part-time in Two Peas in a Pod, their own business raising vegetables and fruits and canning them for sale. Although they are identical twins, their personalities are very different: while Katie has always been...
by National Council of Ch of Christ in USA
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
The Yearbook of American & Canadian Churches has been published continuously since 1916 and contains information about denominations, churches, clergy, seminaries, and other religious organizations in the United States and Canada. The Yearbook of American & Canadian Churches is the single...
The 19
Questions to Kindle a Wesleyan Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Wesley’s historic questions have been asked of those considered for full connection (ordination) since as early as 1784, the first Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, presided over by Francis Asbury and Thomas Coke. The questions also have a broader Wesleyan context. Many of these questions...
Five Marks of a Methodist: Leader Guide
Also includes Participant Character Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
This small-group study is based on Steve Harper's book Five Marks of a Methodist. Six sessions provide extended reflection for adults on the five identifiers that Wesley sets forth in "The Character of a Methodist," which he published in 1742.
Character: The Marks of a Methodist
A Methodist...
Living Grace
An Outline of United Methodist Theology
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2002
Living Grace is the most comprehensive expression of systematic theology for United Methodism to appear in the 1990's. Its authors, Bishop Walter Klaiber and Dr. Manfred Marquardt, are leading theologians of continental European United Methodism. Their work meets the long-felt need to provide partners...
Youth Pastor
The Theology and Practice of Youth Ministry
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
A youth pastor—whether paid or unpaid, full-time or part-time, right out of college or right out of retirement—has a big job to do. Actually, anyone who accepts God's call to help young people grow as disciples of Christ has several big jobs to do. The youth minister must be a teacher who can...
by Leander E. Keck, Nellie M. Moser
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Study Manual content illuminates some aspect of the Jesus in the Gospels each week and connects Scripture to daily life and Jesus' call to discipleship.
The overarching aim is to deepen discipleship through better understanding of the biblical texts and their message. The study helps group...
Faith Beyond Borders
Doing Justice in a Dangerous World
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
For more than thirty years, Don Mosley has traveled the globe, working for the cause of justice on behalf of two organizations he helped to found: Habitat for Humanity and Jubilee Partners, a community of believers who have welcomed 3,000 refugees from danger zones around the world. In this book,...
Voice, Word, and Spirit
A Pentecostal Old Testament Survey
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
Pentecostalism is a movement that, in a little over a century, has encircled the globe and, either directly or indirectly, has impacted and influenced every quarter of Christendom. At its heart the movement bears witness to a contemporary experience of divine-human encounter in line with the prophetic...
Bible Sisters
A Year of Devotions with the Women of the Bible
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
These Bible passages, reflections, and prayers will lead women through the Bible, from Eve to the women at the empty tomb and in the early church.
Bible Sisters: A Year of Devotions with the Women of the Bible is perfect for daily personal devotions or for small group discussions that explore...