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Winning Your Ugly Struggle with Beauty
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
Most women know that God loves them, but might he love them more if they finally lost that last ten pounds, or got their hair to lay right, or finally found a pair of jeans that looked good and let them breathe? Well, maybe God doesn’t care about jeans, but women do, and all the talk about inner...
Wellspring
365 Meditations to Refresh Your Soul
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
A wellspring is a source of abundant and continual supply. That is how it is with God’s Word. In these pages you will find the refreshment God promises us in Proverbs 18:4: “The words from a person’s mouth are deep waters, a bubbling stream, a fountain of wisdom.” Throughout the scripture,...
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God Is With Us [Large Print]
An Advent Study Based on the Revised Common Lectionary
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Make this year's Advent even more special than usual. Prepare your heart and life for the celebration of God's presence in this season of waiting with God Is With Us, a study of the lectionary Bible readings for Advent and Christmas. By following the lectionary, your study of the Bible and your prayers...
The Pentateuch
Interpreting Biblical Texts Series
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
In this volume, Terence E. Fretheim seeks to introduce the Pentateuch to modern readers, stressing its continuing capacity to speak a word of--or about--God. The two chapters of Part One provide an orientation to the critical study of the Pentateuch and present a proposal for reading the Pentateuch...
Pastor: Revised Edition
The Theology and Practice of Ordained Ministry
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
Ordained ministry, says Will Willimon, is a gift of God to the church—but that doesn't mean that it is easy. Always a difficult vocation, changes in society and the church in recent years have made the ordained life all the more complex and challenging. Is the pastor primarily a preacher, a professional...
by William H. Willimon
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1982
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1982
Demonstrates how worship and pastoral care can be blended to sustain and enrich each other.
Using insights gained from pastoral care and pastoral psychology, William H. Willimon explores what happens to people when they become involved in Christian worship. True pastoral care, he shows, cannot...
Teaching the Way of Jesus
Educating Christians for Faithful Living
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Christian religious education provides the content, processes, and settings to empower the church’s mission in the world—a mission that includes health care, peace with justice, and disciple-making ministries. Today, the field Christian Education is clear about its tasks of helping form and nurture...
by Brad Braxton
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Helpful and insightful strategies for preaching from the writings of Paul.
Few biblical figures are more compelling to preachers than the apostle Paul. The story of his dramatic conversion on the road to Damascus is a favorite example of the way that God turns lives around. His writings contain...
by James Forbes
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Describes what it means to be anointed with the Spirit so that one can preach "to raise the dead."
In The Holy Spirit and Preaching, James A. Forbes, Jr.--widely hailed as one of the nation's foremost preachers--offers four dynamic lectures originally delivered as the Lyman Beecher...
What to Expect in Seminary
Theological Education as Spiritual Formation
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
In What to Expect in Seminary, Virginia Samuel Cetuk looks at the various facets of theological education -- the call to ministry, classroom learning, community life, field education, financial realities, time-management challenges -- through the lens of spiritual formation. In each chapter she challenges...
by Carlyle Fielding Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Journey inside the pages of Scripture to meet a personal God who enters individual lives and begins a creative work from the inside out. Shaped with the individual in mind, Immersion encourages simultaneous engagement both with the Word of God and with the God of the Word to become a new creation...
A Disciple's Heart Companion Reader
Growing in Love and Grace
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
Discipleship in the Methodist tradition affirms that there is always more work for God to do in the human heart. A Disciple's Heart attempts to reclaim and, in a sense, reinterpret for today John Wesley’s understanding of this transformation of the heart, which he called “Christian perfection,”...
A Crazy, Holy Grace Participant Guide
The Healing Power of Pain and Memory
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
When pain is real, why is God silent? This brand new collection is the best of acclaimed author Frederick Buechner's essays on pain, loss, and the healing power of memories that explores God's tender grace and how to be stewards of the pain in our lives.
Here now are the best of Buechner's...
A Crazy, Holy Grace Leader Guide
The Healing Power of Pain and Memory
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
When pain is real, why is God silent? This brand new collection is the best of acclaimed author Frederick Buechner's essays on pain, loss, and the healing power of memories that explores God's tender grace and how to be stewards of the pain in our lives.
Here now are the best of Buechner's...