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Runaway O - Sheep and Bear open Cat's box of Os and one rolls away. / Happy Birthday, Dog! - It's Dog's birthday and all his friends are planning a surprise party.

Sh-Sh-Shark! - Shark is misunderstood. Everyone is afraid of him and won't even give him a chance to prove he's friendly. / Dog Wants to Play Ball - Dog wants to play ball, but he's having trouble communicating with his friends because they won't stop and listen to him.

Rocket to the Moon - Frog rescues the Little Piggies from the moon. / The Birds - Sheep discovers a large egg.

There's an Ant in Every Giant - Ant grows tired of being the smallest WordFriend in Word World. /Chef Sheep - When Pig gets a bowl stuck on his face, Sheep must take over his cooking show.

A Kooky Spooky Halloween - The WordFriends get their share of scares the night before Halloween, when Pig sleepwalks and everyone thinks he's a ghost! / Sheep's Halloween Costume - Sheep likes nothing more than to dress up, so she always goes out of her way to make herself a special costume.

The BUG Band is supposed to sing on Ant's radio show, but they have no words to their song! With Frog's help, they learn to sing a song that rhymes just fine and just in time. Pl-Pl-Plane: When Frog has to crash-land his plane in the jungle, he goes on a wild adventure. Get Your Coat: Duck builds all sorts of words that end in oat to coax his good friend Frog to come out and play in the rain with him. Waterlogged: When Frog's log sinks, he moves in...

In Future Faith: Ten Challenges Reshaping the Practice of Christianity, author Wesley Granberg-Michaelson provides a lucid view of how the top ten winds of change blowing through global Christian faith are reshaping the practice of Christianity today. He is uniquely qualified to identify and interpret connection points between global Christian trends and the American church. Drawing on the stories, examples, and personalities of pastors and congregations...

Safwat Marzouk offers a biblical vision for what it means to be an intercultural church, one that fosters just diversity, integrates different cultural articulations of faith and worship, and embodies an alternative to the politics of assimilation and segregation. A church that fosters intercultural identity learns how to embrace and celebrate difference, which in turn enriches its worship and ministry. While the church in North America might see...

What does it mean to be church today? As changes in demographics, participation, and leadership continue to roil faith communities in the Western world, questions about the historic roots of church communities have become all the more important. Scholarly investigations of the historical texture of early Christian communities continue to advance our understanding, but are often too technical for non-experts for whom the questions may be more, keenly...