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We live in a vast social wordscape made up almost entirely of chit-chat, or we're being talked at rather than with. Often, we feel targeted by others' words rather than invited into a mutual conversation. It can be hard to find a relationship that involves solid words on which to rest our tattered souls. In your hands, you hold a book with pages dusted by the Word, Jesus Christ. It assumes that since Jesus is still alive and still hears and speaks,...
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Paul wrote to Timothy instructing him to not be despised for his youth. But isn't that at least a little like what the church does to its youth today? Perhaps the church does not despise its youth, but isn't it at least a little dismissive of them? Instead of being integrated into the body of the church, youth are being entertained and occupied. What happens when they become young adults?
The church has not prepared the next generation of Christians...
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The M46 Crash Course Participant's Guide is for fathers ready to start a world-changing revolution in their home as they journey through the free M46 Online Video Crash Course with other dads who want to break the cycle of generational woundedness and fight for the hearts of their children.
Malachi 4:6 in the Old Testament promises that the hearts of fathers and children will be turned toward each other. M46 draws on these powerful words to equip...
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The West African Methodist Collegiate School 1911-2021 presents an intricate analysis of challenging missionary work in Sierra Leone and West Africa. In meticulous detail, the book revisits an era that spans the slave trade and the manumission of slaves, and examines the ways that missionaries helped to educate former slaves and free men for a viable form of existence. The checkered history of the school chronicles the adversities, courage, and determination...
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A 40-day journey to calm your restless, anxious thoughts and listen for the voice of Jesus.
In the stress, noise, and activity of modern life, there is a way of finding inner peace and contentment. In the Presence of Jesus will help you learn to quiet your mind and focus your attention on the grace and love that is only available in God's presence. Deeply faithful to Scripture and infused with the truth of Christ's unwavering love on every page,...
3326) Parables From Nature
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Collected here are twenty nine stories, originally published as four separate volumes. Parables From Nature are inspired from Nature, but written in a fun and entertaining way for Children to be able to read, understand, and enjoy!
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In Romans 7:15, St. Paul expressed frustration with something all of us can relate to, saying, "I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do." Despite our best efforts to live our lives as we ought to, we repeatedly fall into the trap of "not understanding what we do," and constantly perpetuating the same missteps we have previously vowed never to take again. What is the reason for our deeply ingrained fallibility?...
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God's mission is on every page of Scripture.
In Theology of Mission: A Concise Biblical Theology, J. D. Payne traces the theme of mission throughout Scripture. The Bible is a story of God's mission. God takes initiative to dwell with humanity. He desires to be known. To this end, he sends and is sent. Through Christ, God redeems sinful humans and recreates the cosmos. And he has invited his people to join in this mission.
Payne shows that God's...
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"The Christian life is a lot like climbing a mountain. When we trust Christ for salvation we begin on the gentle slopes, but it's not long before we are faced with a choice. Are we going to leisurely make our way to heaven, gliding along and living how we please? Or will we choose the steep and difficult path, the path of self-denial, of living wholeheartedly for God?" (from the Introduction) This 366-day devotional for teens and young adults explores...
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John Henry Newman's pulpit at St Mary's, Oxford, was a powerhouse of religious innovation and reinvigoration in English religion through the 1830s and 1840s. This towering neo-gothic structure gave platform to preachers who conveyed a new imagination for the life of faith, and whose vision of belief provoked personal and societal awakenings. Today, we are in need once again of reimagining the challenges of our world, and the meaning of Christian faith,...
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People go to church every Sunday hoping to hear a life-giving word from the Lord but often find that they have to make do with either the dry crust of cognitive sermons or the empty calories of emotional exhortations. This book provides preachers with the tools to feed their flock with hearty sustenance. Using real-life sermon examples from across Asia that reflect issues facing Asian Christians, Maggie Low builds a picture of a sermon as a body,...
3332) What You Sow Is a Bare Seed: A Countercultural Christian Community during Five Decades of Change
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What You Sow Is a Bare Seed is a group biography that tells the stories of ordinary but extraordinary people who were engaged in movements for renewal in the church and justice in broader society. People such as Dora Koundakjian Johnson, an Armenian-Lebanese linguistics scholar and activist, and Doug Huron, an attorney who won a landmark US Supreme Court civil rights case. They were among those who came together as the ecumenical Community of Christ...
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Drawing on research and case studies, three pastoral care experts argue that one of the primary contexts in which the faith formation of teenage boys takes place is in their relationships with other adolescent males. Written by the authors of Losers, Loners, and Rebels: The Spiritual Struggles of Boys, this book is an important resource for anyone interested in helping adolescent males navigate years often marked by isolation and loneliness to develop...
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Many think that the phrase "body of Christ" is just a picture or a metaphor, but in fact it is a reality. Believers are the body of Christ on earth. The ministry of Jesus has continued through His people since the Day of Pentecost in 30 A.D. Frank Viola pinpoints this truth that is revolutionary, but became buried underneath human traditions.
What had taken place [on the Day of Pentecost]? The body of Christ was born on the earth. But what does that...
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Lead Deeper is a resource that greatly increases the effectiveness of youth leaders in order to help young women they work with to move beyond their hindrances and into freedom.
Lead Deeper helps youth leaders identify issues and assist them in getting to the heart of the lies and struggles of the young women they lead. Having been a youth leader herself, Rondi Pogue knows how busy life can be, so she has made Lead Deeper a fast read and included...
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Why does the church not preach the Holy Spirit? He was present during the creation moment, he is the author of Scripture, and he is the Helper Jesus left behind. Though Scripture warns not to grieve or quench the Spirit, he is most often ignored, misunderstood, and even feared. The creeds of the church say the Spirit is to be "worshipped and glorified," and yet he is hardly mentioned from the pulpit.
When the Holy Spirit comes to live in believers,...
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Everything you need to grasp God's big picture in Scripture so you can dive deeper into each book of the Bible.
Every single word in the Bible is powerful and purposeful. But too often we can be guilty of thinking that the details of God's plan for us must be buried in obscurity somewhere in the vastness of the Bible-as if we're missing God because we missed that tiny iota subscript in the original Greek. What if it is the opposite? What if our...
3338) The Post Covid Church
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The Church in America was already experiencing an unprecedented decline before the COVID -19 pandemic. The effects of the pandemic upon church attendances have been far-reaching, and long lasting.
Recent research has revealed that one in five churches in America will perinatally close because of COVID-19's effect on already declining churches. How can the church, across denominational lines in North America get in the middle of this digressing trend,...
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Has the modern Church forsaken the Holy Word of God for a "feel good" doctrine that fills seats but puts souls in peril? Today, many of Christianity's most uncomfortable topics are either ignored or misinterpreted. Don't Die in the Pew offer's a head-on, Scripture-based examination of many of the most controversial and confusing subjects within the modern Church. The author implores the Christian reader not to rely solely on man to interpret the Bible...
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Written primarily for new Christians, this discipleship-oriented book is designed to help people lay a biblical foundation in six weeks. In Psalms 11:3, David wrote, "If the foundations are destroyed, what will the righteous do?" A solid, biblical foundation is key to long-term spiritual success. With this goal in mind, this book is uniquely formatted to encourage the reader to interact with the Bible, spend time with God daily, meet with a mentor...