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10 Temptations of Church
Why Churches Decline and What To Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Church after church faces eventual death while helplessly lamenting its fate. What perversity is at work that causes those who sincerely love the church to become obstacles to growth? Like the apostle Paul, churches don’t always do the things they want, but instead they do the very thing they...
Unsatisfied
Finding Contentment in a Discontented World
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2019
In Unsatisfied: Finding Contentment in a Discontented World, Ann C. Sullivan sorts through the reasons for our frustrations – Drama, Judgement, Fear, and Comparison – and leads readers on a path to genuine contentment through Hope, Purpose, and Fulfillment. Unsatisfied dares readers to believe...
Telling the Old Testament Story
God's Mission and God's People
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
While honoring the historical context and literary diversity of the Old Testament, Telling the Old Testament Story is a thematic reading that construes the OT as a complex but coherent narrative. Unlike standard, introductory textbooks that only cover basic background and interpretive issues for...
Yet I Loved Jacob
Reclaiming the Biblical Concept of Election
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
God's favor towards some serves God's plan for the larger world.
The fact that the Jewish people are especially chosen by God is an idea affirmed by both early Christians and rabbis. However, the idea that God would favor one person or group over another is highly problematic in today's democratic...
Youth Ministry
What's Gone Wrong and How to Get It Right
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
The Youth Ministry “movement” has become a monument. Youth leaders are doing so much work, and it all seems worthy. It’s big, important stuff. But leaders across the nation quietly suspect that the more we do, the less effective we seem to be in reaching young people. All those retreats and...
Christian Believer Leader Guide
Knowing God with Heart and Mind
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
The leader guide provides two kinds of information: (1) suggestions for weekly group sessions; (2) information to enhance leadership skills, to support group building and maintenance, and to make effective use of the CHRISTIAN BELIEVER components.
A one-page session plan for each of the thirty...
by J. Clinton McCann, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Imagine a life of true happiness, a life of complete honesty with God. Through this study of the Scriptures, you learn how to live a life of gratitude while producing actions that honor God. Easy-to-follow, step-by-step suggestions for leading a group are provided as well as questions to facilitate...
by Covenant Bible Study
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Covenant Bible Study guides small groups through a comprehensive, in-depth study of the whole Bible over twenty-four sessions broken into three eight-session modules. Unlike the learning participants may have experienced in other groups, this study emphasizes the biblical concept of covenant as a...
by O.C. Edwards, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
A History of Preaching brings together narrative history and primary sources to provide the most comprehensive guide available to the story of the church's ministry of proclamation. Bringing together an impressive array of familiar and lesser-known figures, Edwards paints a detailed, compelling picture...
Spirit Speech
Lament and Celebration in Preaching
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
That the Holy Spirit is present in preaching is something we take for granted. How the Spirit is present is a question we seldom ask. Luke Powery suggests that we fail to ask that question to the detriment of our preaching. Drawing on the tradition of African American preaching, he locates the Spirit’s...
Abundant Living
364 Daily Devotions
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
The business of life is to live and to live well. But in this day and age we know almost everything about life except how to live it. We can dissect life and explain its parts and then fail to put it together again in such a way that it becomes a coordinated, harmonious whole. Through the vibrant...
Victorious Living
364 Daily Devotions
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
E. Stanley Jones wrote Victorious Living in 1936 to respond to inquirers who had come to him morally and spiritually defeated. They were inwardly beaten, thus outwardly ineffective. The book responds with individual and social emphases, and goes step by step, as if on a ladder, to work through the...
Eucharist
Christ's Feast with the Church
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
This book is envisioned as a follow up to Stookey's successful Baptism: Christ's Act in the Church, published in 1982. It will provide historical--theological perspective in a style that is "popular," rather than academically heavy; and, it will be ecumenical in scope, but with a concentration...
Anonymous - Women's Bible Study Leader Guide
Discovering the Somebody You Are to God
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
At one time or another, every woman has felt overlooked, unimportant, and bruised by the world. But there’s good news. While the opinion of others may drag us down, the God who created us has an entirely different opinion of who we are. That’s because we are His creations, and everything He created...