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A Many Colored Kingdom
Multicultural Dynamics for Spiritual Formation
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
How do ethnic and cultural diversity affect spiritual formation? The authors of A Many Colored Kingdom explore Christian formation and teaching in the church, with a particular focus on intercultural and interethnic relationships.
Well-qualified to speak on issues of diversity, the authors describe...
by Mary Healy, Peter Williamson, Scott W. Hahn
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
In this addition to the successful Catholic Commentary on Sacred Scripture (CCSS) series, Scott Hahn, a bestselling author and a leading Catholic interpreter of Scripture, examines Romans from within the living tradition of the Church for pastoral ministers, lay readers, and students alike. The CCSS...
Joining Children on the Spiritual Journey
Nurturing a Life of Faith
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1998
Understanding how a child's faith forms is crucial to knowing how adults can most significantly enhance the child's spiritual development. This book provides parents, teachers, and Christian education leaders with valuable insights into spiritual formation during childhood.
With a biblical...
Listening to Children on the Spiritual Journey
Guidance for Those Who Teach and Nurture
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
How do children experience and understand God? How can adults help children grow their life of faith? Throughout more than a decade of field research, children's spirituality experts Catherine Stonehouse and Scottie May listened to children talk about their relationships with God, observed children...
Introducing Christian Education
Foundations for the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2001
Building on the success of his 1992 collection Foundations of Ministry (over 17,000 sold), Michael Anthony offers Introducing Christian Education to fill the need in the C.E. curriculum for an introductory foundations textbook--one that provides an overview and understanding of the broad range of...
Helping Our Children Grow in Faith
How the Church Can Nurture the Spiritual Development of Kids
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
Children have serious faith questions that require serious answers, answers that adults often find themselves under-prepared to give. But the Christian community has a responsibility to help its children develop a three-dimensional faith--a faith that affects their heads, their hearts, and their spirits.
Helping...
Quiet Reflections for Morning and Evening
A Devotional
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Begin and end your day in a quiet moment with God--and experience his presence in every other moment as well. This devotional volume contains 120 devotions for morning and 120 devotions for evening. Each devotion includes a verse of Scripture using the God's Word® Translation, a short devotional,...
Beloved Mess
God's Perfect Love for Your Imperfect Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
God's Empowering Love for Us in the Midst of Our Mess
Life is messy. And Christians are not exempt. Unfortunately, this is not the message we tend to hear. We're told to be moral, look good, and set a positive example. After all, as some people may tell us, we're the only Jesus some people...
Christless Christianity
The Alternative Gospel of the American Church
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
Is it possible that we have left Christ out of Christianity? Is the faith and practice of American Christians today more American than Christian? These are the provocative questions Michael Horton addresses in this thoughtful, insightful book. He argues that while we invoke the name of Christ, too...
Worship Architect, The
A Blueprint for Designing Culturally Relevant and Biblically Faithful Services
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
There are many books available on the topic of worship today, but few provide a comprehensive, practical method for worship design. Constance M. Cherry, a worship professor and practitioner, provides worship leaders with credible blueprint plans for successfully designing worship services that foster...
Preaching as Worship
An Integrative Approach to Formation in Your Church
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Much current literature on church worship rarely mentions preaching, and vice versa. Worship is often seen as restricted to music and liturgy while preaching is assumed to operate on different principles for different purposes. But veteran preacher Michael Quicke argues that preaching should be viewed...
Seven Deadly Spirits
The Message of Revelation's Letters for Today's Church
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
T. Scott Daniels, pastor of a Los Angeles megachurch, contends that corporate bodies like churches form an individual spiritual personality of sorts. Cultural influences can impact the collective spirit or attitude of a congregation, either hindering it from becoming all God intends it to be or setting...
Better Way, A
Rediscovering the Drama of God-Centered Worship
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2003
Now in paper!
"There is a distinct weariness with market-driven, showbiz worship. The pendulum has swung to the longing for transcendence, substance, challenge, and biblically driven worship. Michael Horton shows us the way." --Robert Webber, president, Institute for Worship Studies;...
Narrative Reading, Narrative Preaching
Reuniting New Testament Interpretation and Proclamation
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2003
There is often an unfortunate division between the technical work of biblical scholars and the practical work of preachers who construct sermons each week. These two fields of study, which ought to be mutually informed and supportive, are more often practically divided by divergent methods, interests,...