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Path Through The Sea A Print On Demand Title
$23.99Add to cartIn this frank, instructive, and heartening personal story, Lillian Grissen tells about the severe depression that she herself experienced. Her pain – mental, emotional, and physical pain – was excruciating, and at first she felt hopelessly trapped in it. But with the help of a gifted Christian psychiatrist, Grissen began to stop blaming herself and to confront the core of her problem – her relationship as a child with her mother. Over a period of five long years – also with her husband’s support, her pastor’s compassionate counsel, the right combination of therapy and medication, and God’s gracious strength – Grissen gradually climbed out of the pit of her depression.
One noteworthy feature of this courageous narrative is that is describes honestly (but without bitterness) a very flawed mother- daughter relationship in a Christian family, showing how bad seeds that parents plant in their children can have devastating results years later. Grissen’s story also clearly demonstrates that psychiatry and spiritual counseling are not incompatible but are both needed for the healing of Christians suffering from depression. Her Path through the Sea will engage and encourage many who suffer from depression as well as those who care about them.
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Divorcing With Dignity
$18.00Add to cartThis practical guide provides an alternative to the standard methods of arbitration and litigation used by divorcing couples–and shows how mediation can be utilized instead. Based on the author’s professional experience in law and as a minister who has mediated for more than five hundred couples, Tim Emerick-Cayton provides illustrations on how to survive the pain and anguish of divorcing while maintaining personal integrity and faith. With case examples of those who have experienced successful mediation, Emerick-Cayton shows how mediation reduces cost, hostility, and confusion. Emerick-Cayton says mediated agreements are complied with almost twice as often as court-rendered judgments.
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When All Else Fails Read The Instructions (Student/Study Guide)
$16.99Add to cartIn When All Else Fails, Read the Instructions, Mooer takes a close look at three sections of the Bible which dramatically underscore key “instructions” for living: 1. Instructions for Meaningful Living- The Beatitudes, 2. Instructions for Moral Living- The Ten Commandments, 3. The Bottom Line Instruction- The New Commandment of Jesus, “Love One Another.” Drawing upon rich stories and personal experience, Moore illustrates how these Bible passages can help you find meaning and fulfillment in life.
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To Know As We Are Known
$14.99Add to cartThis primer on authentic education explores how mind and heart can work together in the learning process. Moving beyond the bankruptcy of our current model of education, Parker Palmer finds the soul of education through a lifelong cultivation of the wisdom each of us possesses and can share to benefit others.
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Letters Along The Way
$19.99Add to cart284 Pages
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For anyone who likes to read other people’s mail, here is an intriquing batch of letters for a “senior saint to a junior saint.” The new believer will find invaluable help in taking those early steps of faith. Others will find a wealth of information on topics such as apologetics, science and faith, inerrancy, heart versus head faith, prayer, the changing face of evangelicalism, and trends emerging in American culture all from a unique personal perspective. -
Belief In The Word
$20.00Add to cartThe author provides us with the first thorough literary commentary on John 1-4 that uses a reader response method. He leads us through the Gospel’s narrative and enables us to appreciate it from the inside without disregarding the original historical setting of the writing.
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Truth Unchanged Unchanging
$17.99Add to cartWhat is man? What is wrong with the human race? Unless we answer these questions correctly, we can not hope to solve the problems in our world – problems such as crime, exploitation, greed, proverty, pollution and war. Obviously those who shape social policy today are offering the wrong answers. In this masterful apologetic for the gospel, Dr Lloyd-Jones exposes these flaws in modern thinking, especially in the “scientific approach.” In this volume we see a doctor make a penetrating diagnosis of the human condition and show decisively that the true remedy for our ills is in Jesus Christ – and Him alone.
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Love Your Enemies
$22.00Add to cartLisa Sowle Cahill examines the issues surrounding the meaning of being a disciple of Jesus as it relates to pacifism and just war. She brings together strands from church history, biblical scholarship, and theology to show how Jesus’ words led to both pacifism and just war theory. Landing on the side of pacifism, Cahill argues for the ideal of the kingdom of God brought near at the Sermon on the Mount. Lisa Sowle Cahill is Professor of Christian Ethics at Boston College.
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Depleted Self : Sin In A Narcissistic Age
$29.00Add to cartDon Capps challenges the church, its theologians, and its pastors to address seriously-and without moralism – the malaise that afflicts us, the mood of “wrongness” and incompleteness of self, of victimization, hunger, alienation, bitterness, the melancholic form that sin takes so prevailing in our day. This book is an effective example of the postive mirroring, more empathy, or acceptance, that Capps recommends as the means of empowering the depleted self.
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Church Confident
$21.99Add to cartKeck shows how the church is suffering from malaise brought on by oversecularization in aspects of church life including worship, theology, ethos, and communication.
This penetrating clarion call to renewal cuts through the conventional ideological labels of “liberal” and “conservative.” Keck argues with passion that mainline churches today must neither pretend to be culturally triumphant nor whimper in fear. Rather, the church has grounds to be confident about its proper nature and mission.
Keck envisions a renewed church that has recovered a sense of what is basic to its nature and purpose–restoring the praise of God to the center of worship.
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Passion Of Interpretation
$30.00Add to cartW. Dow Edgerton reviews narratives from the Bible, Talmud, Greek mythology, and modern fiction in order to provide a better understanding of the nature and work of interpretation. He demonstrates that interpretation is a passionate act, using such stories as the binding of Isaac in Genesis 22 and the story of the road to Emmaus in Luke 24. Weaving a vivid and surprising tapestry with thread spun of hermeneutics, poetry, exegesis, reverie, poetics, memory, narrative, ritual, and literary criticism, the author invites the reader to examine the foundations of interpretation. He considers the interpretive situation of the religious leader, bringing new insight into the role and purpose of interpretation in our chaotic times. Disclosed are rich, complex, and compelling possibilities for imagining the work of interpretation and what it means to do that work in a time when so much is needed and so much is possible.
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Bible And The Moral Life
$35.00Add to cartThe Bible helps to shape our understanding of Christian responsibility. However, different church bodies and individuals who claim scripture as an authority on ethics often reach different conclusions about moral life. In this book, C. Freeman Sleeper describes how the Bible can be used as a guide to moral life. He shows how various church bodies use the Bible to speak to specific contemporary ethical issues and deals directly with the question of the authority of the Bible by taking up the teaching of four basic styles of moral reflection–law, prophecy, apocalypse, and wisdom. Sleeper reviews the way that church bodies developed and used social policy and draws a distinction between the way churches speak to their own constituency and the way they speak to the world. He considers in detail the ethics of nuclear war and abortion. Practical exercises are also provided throughout the book.
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Sky Edge : Mountaintop Meditations
$17.99Add to cart1. The Birth Of This Book
2. Four Bears And …
3. The Beauty Of Bunch Grass
4. Mountain Climbing
5. Eagles In The Wind
6. Snow-fed Streams
7. The Olalla Bush
8. Trees Above Timber Line
9. Fire On The Mountains
10. Stillness
11. The Season’s First Heavy Snow
12. Puma
13. Healing Of The Hills
14. Wonder Springs Anew
15. The Shaping Of Stone
16. The Splendor In The Clouds
17. Hidden Springs
18. Quiet Waters
19. Return Of The Birds
20. The Wonder Of Spring P. 199Additional Info
Out of the depths of his own heart and the stirrings os his soul, Phillip Keller shares with his readers spiritual insights gained as he has walked with God.In the author’s own words, “This book is an earnest endeavor to share with the reader some of the stirring eternal truths which God, by His Spirit, has made so vivid and vital to me. He has always spoken to people of His choosing in the solitude of mountains. So it is appropriate that He should do so again…
“It is in the quiet interludes on some remote ridges against the egde of the sky that God’s eternal Spirit can speak with stunning clarity. There, away from the crush and commotion of our culture, He can commune with us in great depths. In the stillness and solitude of the hills and valleys it is possible to know our Father and understand His eternal intentions for us.”
These insightful interludes come to the reader fresh from Keller’s heart and mind, illustrated with beautiful line drawings to convey to the reader in visual form the places he will visit with this fascinating author.
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Persuade Us To Rejoice
$23.00Add to cartStudying such literary figures as W.H. Auden, Samuel Beckett, Frederick Buechner, Albert Camus, Ursula K. LeGuin, C.S. Lewis, Alan Paton, Ignazio Silone, Alice Walker, Elie Wiesel, and Charles Williams, Brown illustrates “the liberating power of fiction” by enabling the reader to enter their worlds. Brown asserts that although there is no faith that offers ironclad guarantees against future struggles, the wisdom of these authors can help us toward praising and rejoicing
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Ready Defense : The Best Of Josh McDowell
$29.99Add to cart5 Sections
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1991 GOLD MEDALLION WINNERBe prepared “in season and out” with this handy reference book of faith. Timely and biblically based, Josh McDowell’s work offers defenses in 60 of the most-challenged areas of faith. All in one easy-to-reference volume, this book will strengthen your commitment and help you stand firm against challenges to the truth.
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Jesus Weeps : Global Encounters On Our Doorstep
$22.99Add to cartHow can the church respond to the divisions within society that leave many persons marginalized? This book refocuses our notions of what mission is and suggests how local churches can immerse themselves in other cultural contexts.
North American Christians have become concerned with justice and human rights struggles of the third-world poor, but such “globalization” has not made connections with the poor of the first-world society who are overwhelmingly rooted in the inner cities of the nation. Recinos examines the meaning of globalization as reflected in Biblical and specific social histories.
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Does Your Tongue Need Healing
$9.99Add to cartSince death and life are in the power of the tongue, it is imperative to know how it may be healed. Sooner or later every Christian knows it is imperative to control the tongue but finds he can not. Derek Prince gives the reader clear biblical steps to discipline the tongue.
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31 Secrets To Career Success
$12.00Add to cartARE YOU READY FOR THE GREATEST SEASONS OF SUCCESS IN YOUR CAREER? Your dreams have been put off for too long! God has determined that your greatest potential for increase lies in the soil of your career. Now it is time to move up the ladder of success in business,life and ministry. In this powerful teaching, Dr. Murdock shares the facts, keys and rewards of achieving your career success!
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Wisdom For Crisis Times
$12.00Add to cartPacked With Answers To The Struggles You Are Facing Now, And Any Struggle You Could Ever Face. Learn these Wisdom Seeds for your crisis…
Crisis Always Occurs At The Curve Of Change
4 Steps To Take For A Successful Life
6 Essential Facts That Must Be Faced When Recovering From Divorce
How To Predict 6 Seasons Of Attack On Your Life
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Kingdom Of God Is A Party
$16.99Add to cartThe Christianity of the early days was infectious, energetic and full of joy. In Kingdom of God is a Party, sociologist Tony Campolo, shows why Christians should be the ones who are starting parties wherever they are. Whether with words, actions or mere presence, Christians can turn life into a party that attracts the needy, lonely, sick and oppressed into the loving arms of Heavenly Father.
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Find And Use Your Inner Power
$17.99Add to cartThis rich resource is for everyone seeking more happiness and success in life. Now with a new introduction, this treasure of Emmet Fox’s wise and inspirational gems offers enduring spiritual truth and practical advice for mining the gold to be found in our daily lives. Included here, also, are real-life examples of those who have followed Fox’s signposts to happier living.
Fox’s friendly, commonsense suggestions have shown millions how to get the most out of our life and provide new spiritual strength to those who use his techniques for personal meditation.
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Double Diamond Principle
$12.00Add to cart‘The Double Diamond Principle’, will unlock the mysteries of the most extraordinary man that has ever lived: Jesus of Nazareth. Your life and business will never be the same. These 58 Master Secrets for Total Success, as exemplified in the life of Jesus, will help you achieve your goals and dreams.
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Peculiar Speech A Print On Demand Title
$18.99Add to cartWillimon writes with passion about the dynamics and implications of preaching to a congregation, to those who, having been called, are either baptized or yet to be baptized. The preacher, says Willimon, needs to address the people in a congregation with “peculiar speech”, letting the biblical text call them to live a transformed life in keeping with their baptism.
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Following The Master
$24.99Add to cartWhat is it that makes a person a true disciple of Jesus Christ? Following the Master clarifies the objective of Jesus in making disciples by focusing on the historical context of Jesus’ ministry and then finds the perspectives of the different biblical authors. The pragmatic type of book on discipleship that has abounded over the past fifteen years has tended to cause much confusion in the church. Although most authors have sought to be objective in their treatment, the imagined needs of the church often take precedence over objectivity. The author’s experience as a pastor, professor, and scholar has prepared him to provide the objective treatment that is needed. He avoids the theological and pragmatic agendas that have characterized most books on discipleship and instead relies on biblical and historical data to reveal the intentions of Jesus.
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Cultural Church : Winds Of Change And The Call For A New Hermeneutic
$15.99Add to cart14 Chapters
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In what direction are we being blown by the winds of change now wafting through the church?Is the church influencing culture, or is culture influencing the church?
What lies behind current calls for a “new hermeneutic”?
Is there a better way to understand Scripture?With calls for sweeping change in the way we understand Scripture, this just may be the most important book of the decade. It is must reading for every church leader and Christian concerned with the future of the church at the brink of a new century!
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Tis A Gift To Be Simple
$11.99Add to cartOften we find ourselves busier than we want to be and buying more than we really need. This book offers help for all of us who would like to make our lives less complicated but aren’t sure how to begin. We are invited to a look at our own lives and begin with the things that seem within our reach, knowing that the rewards will be great.
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Earthkeeping In The 90s A Print On Demand Title
$39.99Add to cartEver since its original publication over a decade ago, Earthkeeping has presented a thought-provoking, biblically based call for responsible stewardship. In view of the continuing environmental crisis worldside and in light of the increased ecological awareness in recent years, the book’s message regarding “earthkeeping” is now more pertinent than ever.
This greatly revised and augmented edition of Earthkeeping updates the original edition while retaining the same breadth of perspective, reflecting the combined insights of Christian scholars in biology, physics, economics, literature, and philosophy. The book begins by laying out, with scientific precision, the state of the planet. Several chapters then carefully examine various historical and contemporary views of creation. Next the authors survey biblical and theological teaching relative to humanity’s use of creation. The book concludes by offering helpful, practical guidelines for an earthkeeping ethic.
Besides providing an updated “state of the planet” analysis, this revised edition of Earthkeeping deals with recent cultural and religious developments, incorporating new material, for example, on the “Deep Ecology” and “new age” movements, the Gaia hypothesis, and ecofeminism. This edition also takes into account the recent wealth of Christian thinking about the earth, including the recovery of important but neglected voices from the Christian tradition, such as Hildegard of Bingen and Celtic spirituality. At the end of the book, an expanded and updated annotated bibliography, organized according to subject area, and new indexes (of names and subjects and of Scripture references) enhance the value of Earthkeeping as a significant resource fostering better human stewardship of God’s creation.
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As One With Authority
$36.00Add to cartThis book is an effort to recover a valid meaning of authority in an age that for a variety of reasons has rejected old hierarchical notions of authority. It proposes a way of reconceiving nd exercising authority for ministry that takes seriously the ministry that the whole people of God share.
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Imitating Paul : A Discourse Of Power
$35.00Add to cartWhat does it mean to imitate another person? What relationships are possible and necessary, or unthinkable, because of exhortation advising people to imitate Paul? What are the effects of giving special status to likeness? Questions such as these are posed in this thought-provoking book that addresses the notion of mimesis (imitation) and how it functions in Paul’s letters as a strategy of power.
The Literary Currents in Biblical Interpretation series explores current trends within the discipline of biblical interpretation by dealing with the literary qualities of the Bible: the play of its language, the coherence of its final form, and the relationships between text and readers. Biblical interpreters are being challenged to take responsibility for the theological, social, and ethical implications of their readings. This series encourages original readings that breach the confines of traditional biblical criticism.
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Unplug The Christmas Machine
$17.99Add to cart1. “A Christmas Carol” Revisited
2. Women: The Christmas Magicians
3. Men: The Christmas Stagehands
4. The Four Things Children Really Want For Christmas
5. The Homecoming
6. Inside The Christmas Machine
7. The Gift Of Joy
8. A Simple Christmas
9. Christmas RevivalAppendix: Resources For A Simple Christmas
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Nine years and thriteen printings later, Unplug The Christmas Machine is still the undisputed guide to creating a joyful, stress-free holiday season. Revised and filled with new material, this book will enjoy even greater popularity in the years to come. -
Yearning To Know Gods Will (Workbook)
$17.99Add to cartA desire to know the will of God is, as it should be, the top priority of any serious Christian. But how are you to find out what God’s will is? Who hasn’t agonized, questioned, and then doubted and questioned again? But here is Danny Morris to the rescue with an eight-week workbook on knowing God’s will. Each weeks’ exercise begins with an account of a personal experience of the author from which he brings forth biblical, theological, and historical principles to help you in your search. As you respond, God’s will is certain to become clearer. During the first five weeks, you will learn about the nature of spiritual discernment, discernment for the individual, spiritual intuition, ways in which God communicates with believers, and discernment as a spiritual gift. In the second part, the author shifts his focus to corporate discernment; that is, discernment within and for the church, the body of Christ. At issue here is consensus: how consensus is possible, why it is difficult, and how it works in church boards and committees. Danny Morris insists that consensus is not only biblical but practical, despite skepticism on the part of those whose experience would lead them to believe that disagreement is a way of life in church. Some maintain that consensus would never work in their congregation. But the author points the way to diminish and eventually eliminate such conflict. The third part of the workbook details a workable plan for church retreat, a time away from phones and schedules, where your group will learn how to make decisions by consensus, by group discernment of the will of God for the congregation. What better way to help move forward the work of God?
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Soul Under Siege
$28.00Add to cartWhat happens when a pastor becomes seriously depressed? Some continue working, since ”the show must go on.” Gaddy didn’t. In his intensely personal book, he tells how he ”stopped the show,” entered a modern psychiatric hospital, and discovered there a more honest and vulnerable community than he’d ever known in the church. Along the way, Gaddy looks realistically at aspects of pastoral ministry that promote depression and other destructive behaviors.
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Creative Ministry
$17.00Add to cartAccording to Henri Nouwen, the bestselling spiritual writer, every Christian is a minister-trying to live his life in the light of the Gospel. Creative Ministry is a thoughtful examination of the various complex tasks that are part of that way of life.Separate chapters treat each of the five areas that Nouwen considers the primary responsibilities of the minister: teaching, preaching, counseling, organizing, and celebrating. He shows how these main functions are inextricably tied to the minister’s spiritual life and why they must be directed toward a creative dialogue with other Christians if they are to be rewarding. It is also essential, he maintains, that the minister leave himself open, take risks, and “lay down his life for his friends” in order to give new life.”There is today a great hunger for a new spirituality,” observes Nouwen, a hunger that requires new and creative forms of ministry. Citing numerous examples from his rich experience, the author offers practical advice for infusing daily pastoral work with meaning. The result is an insightful presentation and a resonant spiritual guide for every man and woman who wants to be of service.
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Rediscovering Our Spiritual Gifts
$11.99Add to cartRediscovering Our Spiritual Gifts is a practical look at how the gifts of the Holy Spirit can renew the lives of individuals and revitalize the church’s ministry.
Dr. Charles Bryant gives in -depth description and solid biblical foundation for thirty-two spiritual gifts found in scripture. More importantly, he provides ways for each reader to discover his or her spiritual gift. The Grace-Gifts Inventory is a helpful aid for this discovery; it is probably the most expansive spiritual gift exercise in existence.
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Christian Basics A Print On Demand Title
$21.99Add to cartA critically acclaimed resource perfect for your membership classes—and a lively refresher for long-time believers. The Fackres begin their introduction to Christianity by answering the question “Who is God?” From there they explain—in clear language—the creation, the fall, the covenant, Jesus, the church, salvation, and consummation. Includes a study guide, challenging questions, and more.
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Pagan And Christian In An Age Of Anxiety
$49.99Add to cartDrawing on the abundant material available for the study of religious experience in late antiquity, Professor Dodds examines the personal religious attitudes and experiences common to pagans and Christians in the period between Marcus Aurelius and Constantine. World-hatred and asceticism, dreams and states of possession, and pagan and Christian mysticism are all discussed. Finally, Dodds considers both pagan views of Christianity and Christian views of paganism as they emerge in the literature of the time. Although primarily written for social and religious historians, this study will also appeal to all those interested in the ancient world and its thought.
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Armed And Dangerous
$6.99Add to cartArm your teenagers with Bible truths and they’ll become quite dangerous—they’ll possess the knowledge that changes attitudes, hearts, and lives! Let the transformation begin with this handy-sized book that arranges key Scripture verses by topic, so teens can consult God’s Word regarding self-control, temptation, dating, loneliness, and many more relevant issues.
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Making Moral Decisions
$17.00Add to cartThe question “what am I to do?” needs the balance and completion of “what are we to do?” With clarity and insight Jersild addresses the particular need of our time; a greater awareness of our interdependence as a world community. Using critical incidents or cases to illustrate ethical points, Jersild examines such contemporary issues as euthanasia, employment and one’s sense of vocation, homosecuality, and more.
