Abingdon Press: 1502 books
The Joy Stealers
Overcoming Obstacles to Hope and Happiness
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
What's stealing your joy? Are you dealing with marriage problems, painful relationships, disobedient children, health concerns, financial struggles, or just the daily stresses and strains of life? Regardless of our circumstances, it's true that in Christ we have everything we need for joy—the forgiveness...
Christian Leadership
Speaking for God to the people, speaking to God for the people
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
The bedrock grounding of church leaders is in God. This grounding comes through deliberate and explicit attention to God through prayer and self-reflection. Leadership as vocation, Christian leadership, begins with self-leadership, clarifying one's own heart, one's whole being, and one's mind in order...
Embraced By God
Celebrating Who & Whose You Are
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Many women not only struggle to understand who they are, they struggle to believe Whose they are. As daughters of the King we are not just precious but deeply loved.
Babbie Mason shares her personal journey to understanding how very much God loved her, not as a singer or teacher but as His...
This I Know For Sure
Taking God at His Word
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
Do you have a longing to know God more intimately? Do you desire a rock-solid faith to believe God for the challenges you are facing, regardless of how you may feel? This powerful new book by award-winning Gospel singer-songwriter and Bible teacher Babbie Mason challenges you to examine your personal...
Just Choose Happiness
A Guide to Joyous Living
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Nell W. Mohney, adapted from the Introduction:
"In seminars I have conducted over a thirty-year period, I have discovered that the quality most wanted by Americans is happiness. Many of those seminar participants drove to the seminars in luxury cars, and they looked well fed and well dressed....
Holy Contradictions
What's Next for the People Called United Methodists
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
How might United Methodists bear witness to graceful and mutually respectful ways of living in the Wesleyan tradition amid enduring disagreements about same-gender relationships and related church practices?
The contributors engage the question by asking themselves:
• How do I approach...
Pray in This Way
Sermons on the Lord's Prayer (Protestant Pulpit Exchange Series)
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Pray in This Way: Line by line imaginative, literary and social-commentary sermons on the Our Father. Each chapter contains framed call-outs in lieu of subheads and as a means to providing customers with key ideas that lead to the construction of their own sermons.
by David Dorn
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
As Christians, we process grief, show love, understand compassion, and accept forgiveness. But when it comes to anger, we often reject it as not being useful or holy. There simply is no place for anger in the worldview of many Christians. We’re told to just “let it go,” “get over it,” or...
Thrive
Live Like You Matter
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
“Those who trust in their riches will fall, but the righteous will thrive like a green leaf.”—Proverbs 11:28
This little-known Proverb holds a profound statement for living a life that matters. When the accumulation of possessions becomes our driving force, we will not thrive. Yet when...
God's People at Prayer
A Year of Prayers and Responses for Worship
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Spiritually rich, easy to use prayers and responses for the community at worship
Responsive Prayer for Epiphany
Leader: Today, O God, we remember the wise men who came to see the Christ Child at his birth.
People: We remember their gifts and wonder what we ourselves can give.
Leader:...
by Becky Fish
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
This popular series of convenient pocket-size books offers 58 prayers in each volume. An excellent resource to use for brief devotions that fit in with today's busy lifestyle. Includes Scripture passages with each prayer. For personal or group use. *A Moment with God for Caregivers--Touching prayers for anyone in the business of caring.
Thankful
Practicing the Grace of Gratitude: 52 Weekly Devotions
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Choosing to live a life filled with joy, grace, happiness and gratitude is sometimes hard, but always good. This interactive devotional begins each week with an inspiring, scripture based message and then provides scripture readings and thoughts for each day of that week. Over the course of the year,...
Sharing the Easter Faith with Children
Helping Children Observe Lent and Celebrate Easter
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Sharing the Easter Faith with Children is theologically sound, biblically focused, educationally on target, and developmentally appropriate.
Carolyn Brown writes clearly and helpfully, with conviction and passion for what to share and how to share one's faith with children. It should be...
The Bible and Homosexual Practice
Texts and Hermeneutics
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Gagnon offers the most thorough analysis to date of the biblical texts relating to homosexuality. He demonstrates why attempts to classify the Bible’s rejection of same-sex intercourse as irrelevant for our contemporary context fail to do justice to the biblical texts and to current scientific data....