The Church : 95 books
by Bill Blaikie
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2011
Bill Blaikie has a unique insider's perspective on political life in Canada. As a United Church minister reflecting on three decades in the House of Commons, he tells the too-often-overlooked story of Canada's Christian left and, in particular, of the New Democratic Party's roots in the social gospel...
by David Guiliano
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2011
This collection of David Giuliano’s previously published articles and more recent writing is both a personal reflection on his own journey toward the heart of God and the journey being made by many mainline churches. The personal journey is one made through a valley of shadows carved out by cancer....
Loonie
Crazy Talk about Faith and Finances
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
The relentless pull to buy more stuff, our love/hate relationship with money, and the disconnect between how we spend our time and money and what makes life meaningful—LOONIE covers these topics and more using humour and a chatty style
A Good Ending
A Compassionate Guide to Funerals, Pastoral Care, and Life Celebrations
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Wow, that was a good funeral. Comments like this are not an accident but the result of care and planning, contends David Sparks in A Good Ending. This practical book gives advice and ideas for every step along the way, from supporting the dying person, to planning a funeral, life celebration, or memorial,...
by Betty Lynn Schwab
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2011
Today, creation is in distress, human beings hurt one another with increasing violence, and church communities use numbers—head counts and dollars—to measure faithfulness. Yet the health of soul, community, and creation are so intricately interwoven that we cannot have one healthy without the...
With Us Always
Daily Devotions Framed by the Movies
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
This book of devotions demonstrates how our faith journey can be explored and energized through vehicles of popular culture like movies. Using lectionary readings, the weekly themes remind us that God is with us in every situation. Designed for Lent, it can also be used at any time in the year. Includes a study guide and movie guide.
Advent Awakenings
Daily Devotions for the Season of Advent, Year A
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
A series of daily devotionals for the season of Advent, Year A. This collection encourages reflection on the true meaning of the Christmas season--reminding us to exchange material gifts for spiritual ones, and to examine why and how we anticipate and celebrate the birth of the Christ child.
Parables, Prayers, & Promises
Daily Devotions on Jesus
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
PREFACE: A few years ago somebody asked me how I could be so sure of my love for Jesus, a historical figure whom I can never meet. I had a really hard time answering this question in a way that did not sound fanciful and cliché. My love grew and deepened out of a relationship, and that relationship...
Worship in the City
Prayers and Songs for Urban Settings
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Chosen to reflect the urban context, Worship in the City’s rich collection of prayers and songs shows that in its diversity and creativity, the city can offer an environment that is good for the soul.
by Betty Lynn Schwab
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Voices from a surprising range of ages and backgrounds (Canadian Forces chaplains, youth, ministers, UCW members) are united in a common theme in I Am Listening—this year’s Lenten devotional. Although the contributors’ reflections are based on scripture passages that span the Bible and life...
Advent Awakenings
Daily Devotions for the Season of Advent, Year B
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
This book is a gift to help us step off the frenetic treadmill that the Advent season too often becomes. Its help comes by enabling us to listen deeply each day to the Advent scripture readings and John the Baptist's repeated Advent call to "prepare the way" for the holy babe who is coming.
Advent Awakenings
Daily Devotions for the Season of Advent, Year C
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
This book is a gift to help us step off the frenetic treadmill that the Advent season too often becomes. Its help comes by enabling us to listen deeply each day to the Advent scripture readings from the Daily Common Lectionary, Year C, and John the Baptist's repeated Advent call to "prepare the way" for the holy babe who is coming.
Diving Deeply
Daily Devotions for Lent
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2013
Diving Deeply is a Lenten reflections resource for 2013. The daily devotions, for both individual and small group study, are written by spiritual directors and chaplains and are drawn from their work on university campuses, at airports, correctional facilities, and hospitals, and from their visitations...
by Alexis Skyrie
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017
These are all from books or sources that are more Biblical based. They range from posts initially posted on Facebook from July 2016 to July 2017 on Alexis Skyrie’s facebook page, otherwise known as Church of the Bleeding Heart. In most cases they are organized by source. I have called them Bible...