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Youth Ministry
A Multifaceted Approach
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
This book explores youth ministry and the role of the youth minister by looking at a range of various metaphors for the youth worker, such as 'flawed hero', 'visionary architect', 'party planner' and 'guardian of souls'. Each chapter takes one of these metaphors as a central theme, offers biblical...
Worship Together
Creating All-Age Services That Work
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
This book explores the way in which liturgy can be used effectively in all-age communication. It will explore what we mean by worship and what we mean by 'all-age', particularly looking at the all-age experience in the secular world and the skills that make good multi-generational communication happen...
Power to Change - Keswick Year Book 2016
Becoming Like God's Son
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2017
Christlikeness is something God planned from the beginning and will one day finally complete. But now we are in the process of change, becoming more like Jesus Christ. Really? How can we overcome the pull of sin? How can we live godly lives in a world like this? Is it possible to change?
These...
by Paul Nash
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2012
Contemporary mission and ministry, as well as best practice in secular government, emphasize partnership and working together. Yet this can be easier said than done. At its best, working together brings energy and synergy and enables you to achieve something you could never do alone. At its worst,...
Christ in the Wilderness
Reflecting on the paintings by Stanley Spencer
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
The remarkable English painter Stanley Spencer produced a series of works entitled Christ in the Wilderness (1939-54), portraying the forty days Jesus spent in the wilderness. These beautiful and compelling images give us a startling insight into Jesus' vocation and his own understanding of his ministry....
by Rosemary Lain-Priestley
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
There are big questions that most of us come up against at some stage or other, maybe looking something like this: Does my life have a point? Do things really have to change? Am I happy enough? Where on earth is home? Will I ever be 'in' with the 'in crowd'? Is there never time to breathe? And we...
One Day at a Time
Meditations for carers
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2010
This book of brief Bible readings, meditations, prayers and self-help suggestions has been written especially for those who have very little time for themselves. Both realistic and upbeat, it will strengthen carers to face squarely the many challenges and struggles of their role -- one day at a time.
Still Caring
Christian meditation and prayer
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
The second part of the book turns intriguingly to a number of less obvious topics. The author considers what it means to be a serious reader and how literature can enable us to discover more about ourselves; he probes the spiritual dimension of music and its power to speak to deep human longings;...
by Bob Whorton
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2011
Arising from the work of a pastoral team in a hospice, this book is an invitation to reflect on what happens in our innermost being when we listen to another person in need. The lived experience of a hospice chaplain, dialogues with different parts of the self and an imaginative approach to the Bible...
Festivals Together
Creating All-Age Worship Through The Year
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
This book will recap the basic principles of structuring and delivering all-age worship well covered in the first book. It will also include ideas about using festivals to build relationships with the community. It will also explore the idea of involving children and young people on occasions which have traditionally been less 'child-friendly', e.g. Good Friday.
Out of the Silence
Memories, Poems, Reflections
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
At the height of the Lebanese civil war in the 1980s over 100 foreign civilians were taken hostage by Islamic Jihad. As the Archbishop of Canterbury’s special envoy, Terry Waite conducted several successful missions to negotiate the release of numerous hostages. But in January 1987, while on one...
Enabling Church
A Bible-Based Resource Towards The Full Inclusion Of Disabled People
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
If we are all made in the image of God, 'fearfully and wonderfully made' as the psalmist puts it, what does that mean if we can't see, or can't walk; if we can't hear, or can't speak? How can we be said to share in God's unconditional love if we are humiliated by epileptic seizures? If we can't remember...
Learning to Breathe
My Journey With Mental Illness
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2018
It begins slowly, so slowly that I hardly notice at first. My chest tightens and my heart begins to beat a fraction faster. I try to draw breath, but instead I choke on oxygen I can’t inhale. As I realise that I can’t breathe, the panic wraps itself around my mind.
I can’t make myself draw a...
God's Rich Pattern
Meditations for when our faith is shaken
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
God's Rich Pattern is a series of meditations written for those who are struggling on their spiritual journey, to help them recognise and come to terms with this struggle. The author, who has lived an extraordinary life despite having cerebral palsy and defective sight, believes that though we don't...