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by Josh Tinley
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Christian communities, with a few exceptions, consider the canon of Scripture closed. There’s no process for adding or removing books from our Bibles. Even so, we end up creating our own canons, whether intentionally or unintentionally. There are certain texts that come up frequently in worship...
by Gennifer Benjamin Brooks
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
What accounts for the spiritual power and vitality of black preaching? What are the distinctive contributions of black preaching to the life of The United Methodist Church? How must black preaching evolve if it is to rise to the new challenges facing the UMC?
Fifteen distinguished preachers...
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The Lord Is Our Salvation [Large Print]
A Lenten Study Based on the Revised Common Lectionary
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
The Lord Is Our Salvation invites us to explore God’s saving and redeeming love through a study of the scripture readings for Lent and Easter. Author Katie Z. Dawson invites us to a deeper understanding of the salvation Christ offers by exploring the various ways God restores us and our world to...
Numbers - Women's Bible Study Leader Guide
Learning Contentment in a Culture of More
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Something in us aches for more—more hope, more joy, more freedom. All around us people are dancing to the steps of bigger, better, and faster, and we can easily join in without even realizing it. Before long complaining and comparing accompany our desire for more, yet we’re not any closer to filling...
by Joseph M. Webb
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
In this important book, Webb makes two central claims. First, that effective preaching without a manuscript is not a matter of talent as much as it is a matter of preparation. Preachers can learn the practices and disciplines that make it possible to deliver articulate, thoughtfully crafted sermons,...
Disciple II Into the Word Into the World: Teacher Helps
Into the Word Into the World
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
DISCIPLE II: Into the Word Into the World is the second study in the four-phase Disciple program and is prepared for those who are graduates of Disciple I: Becoming Disciples Through Bible Study. This study proclaims the transforming power of Scripture while teaching Bible study skills that take participants...
Season of Ash and Fire
Prayers and Liturgies for Lent and Easter
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Season of Ash and Fire will help pastors and worship planners prepare for Lent and Easter. The author provides corporate prayers for each Sunday and Holy Day in the Easter Cycle, including: Ash Wednesday, 1st through 5th Sundays in Lent, Passion/Palm Sunday, Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter...
A Peculiar Prophet
William H. Willimon and the Art of Preaching
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
There is no more trusted mentor of preachers in North American Christianity today than William H. Willimon. The author of over sixty books, a frequent preacher and teacher in pastors' schools and events, Willimon has earned a following as one of the people to whom preachers turn more often than any...
Black Church Studies
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Religious Studies
Over the last thirty years African American voices and perspectives have become essential to the study of the various theological disciplines. Writing out of their particular position in the North American context, African American thinkers have contributed significantly to...
by Mary Scifres, David L. Bone
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
Worship Planner 2019-2020 is lectionary-based and places at your fingertips:
Weekly pages in spiral-bound format that help you plan the entire worship year, from September through August.
Eight or more suggested hymns for each service keyed to United Methodist worship resources: The United Methodist...
Ripe Life
Sermons on the Fruit of the Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
These sermons on "the fruit of the Spirit" are developed out of Galatians 5: 22-23. This theme is often selected by pastors who preach because it is an excellent vehicle into understanding the characteristics of personal integrity at home and on the job.
The Balancing Act
A Daily Rediscovery Of Grace
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Our lives are filled to capacity with routines, habits, conversations, surprises, and disappointments. With all that's going on in life, it's easy to miss those quiet moments of grace which come more often than we realize. But they are there.
In The Balancing Act, a collection of thirty...
Just Say Yes! Participant Guide
Unleashing People for Ministry
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
In Just Say Yes! Robert Schnase shows church leaders how to unleash people for fruitful ministry. He teaches leaders to spot their own nay-saying, and gives specific instructions for reversing the culture of ‘No’ that has become so prevalent in many churches. Step by step, Schnase shows readers—pastors,...
Forty Days of Fruitful Living
Practicing a Life of Grace
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Based on Five Practices of Fruitful Living, Forty Days of Fruitful Living guides the individual or small group through daily readings designed to inspire and encourage. Perfect for use during Lent or throughout the year, Forty Days of Fruitful Living will help cultivate the essential practices of...