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Christmas Gifts That Wont Break Childrens Leader Guide (Teacher’s Guide)
$17.99Add to cartGo on an Advent journey with beloved teacher and storyteller James W. Moore, exploring the spirit of Christmas. As you light the candles of your Advent wreath, reflect on the unbreakable gifts that God has given us: hope, love, joy, and peace. And remember God’s greatest gift, who comes to us as a baby and leads us through all the days of our lives. The Children’s Leader Guide contains session plans for younger and older children, including games, activities, craft ideas, and reproducible handouts.
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Christmas Gifts That Wont Break Leader Guide (Teacher’s Guide)
$12.99Add to cartGo on an Advent journey with beloved teacher and storyteller James W. Moore, exploring the spirit of Christmas. As you light the candles of your Advent wreath, reflect on the unbreakable gifts that God has given us: hope, love, joy, and peace. And remember God’s greatest gift, who comes to us as a baby and leads us through all the days of our lives. The Leader Guide contains everything needed to guide a group through the five-week study including session plans and discussion questions, prayers, and suggestions for group use.
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Finding Bethlehem In The Midst Of Bedlam (Large Type)
$16.99Add to cartChristmas or confusion, Bethlehem or bedlam . . . Which will you choose this year? The truth is, we don’t have to choose, because Christmas always happens right in the midst of our chaos. God breaks into our noisy disorder and is made known in Jesus Christ. Christmas and confusion-weren’t they intimately related at the first Christmas when Jesus was born? Sometimes we forget that. That’s what this study is about-how Christ breaks into our chaos and confusion and brings Christmas-how Bethlehem always happens in the midst of bedlam. The re-introduction of this all-church Advent study, which features a new Leader Guide and DVD, has five sessions-one for each Sunday of Advent and one for Christmas. Each chapter includes questions for reflection and discussion, a brief prayer, a focus for the week, and six daily Bible readings for personal devotional time during the week.
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Power Of Story
$16.99Add to cartIn this book, popular author James W. Moore talks about the power of a story, such as those told by Jesus in the Bible. The author recalls, “I would be sitting there in the sanctuary of our church, doing what young boys do in church, drawing pictures on the back of the bulletin, working puzzles, looking constantly at Granny’s watch, wishing the seconds hand would move faster, daydreaming about sports, kicking my feet in the air impatiently, counting the organ pipes . . . And then, the preacher would start telling a story, and I was hooked. He had my full attention. I couldn’t wait to hear the story!” Jesus knew the importance of telling stories to convey a message or a Biblical truth and used this technique often when speaking or ministering to others throughout the Bible in the form of parables. Stories are a natural way to give detail and perspective while teaching an important point.
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Give Up Something Bad For Lent (Student/Study Guide)
$15.99Add to cartInvites readers to focus on, with God’s help, eliminating habits or attitudes that may be destructive in their lives, such as envy, self-pity, procrastination, gossip, resentment, or negative thinking.
Seven sessions, one for each Sunday in Lent and Easter Sunday
Each session features a Scripture reference, a personal reading, questions for personal reflection or group study, and closing prayer -
Daddy Is That Story True Or Were You Just Preaching
$16.99Add to cartPopular author James W. Moore recalls how several years ago, while delivering the sermon at his church one Sunday morning, he had told a moving story about a boy and his dog. The author’s then-five-year-old son, Jeff, was fascinated by the story, but feeling a bit uncertain about some of the details of it, during the family’s car ride home from church, Jeff asked his father, “Daddy, is that story true, or were you just preaching?”
Highly amused by Jeff’s question, Jim Moore went on to explain to his young son that there are two kinds of stories: TRUE stories, stories that happened factually in history; and TRUTH stories, stories like Jesus’ parables, which are shared to underscore a dramatic truth in life.
The several short chapters and stories in this book are designed to highlight such life-truths, with chapter titles such as “Go out Singing,” “Roadblocks,” “Should I Forgive?” “One Step at a Time,” “Who’s in Control Here?” “What Can One Person Do?” “Tell Me, Please, How to Be Happy,” “Why not You?” “Keep on Keeping On,” “Jesus: The Message and the Messenger,” “The Importance of Uniqueness,” and others.
This book contains a discussion guide.
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6 Amazing Bible Stories To Strangely Warm Our Hearts (Student/Study Guide)
$17.99Add to cartIntroduction: What The Bible Teaches Us
1. Amazing Love – Love Power
2. Amazing Grace – Grace Is Absolutely Amazing
3. Amazing Birth – Born From Above
4. Amazing Compassion – The Only Thing More Costly Than Caring Is Not Caring
5. Amazing Conversion – Turning Inkblots Into Angels
6. Amazing Resurrection – When Easter Calls Your NameAdditional Info
Here is popular author Jim Moore at his best, telling heartwarming stories as he teaches readers about the BibleA six-session study that examines New Testament Scriptures integral to shaping the United Methodist identity
Each session uses core terms and life application topics to help readers grow as faithful followers of Jesus as they practice their faith daily
Includes study questions for private devotion or small-group study
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Lord Give Me Patience
$15.99Add to cartWe are an impatient people who want everything done in a hurry. But God refuses to be rushed.
In the words of author James W. Moore:
We love instant results. We want everything done in a hurry these days. We don’t want to wait for anything. We are so different from the earlier generations who ordered things from the Sears catalog and waited with great anticipation for weeks or even months for the items to arrive. We want to pay a little down now (even if we can’t really afford it) and get it today.
We are impatient people looking for immediate action and instant gratification, so much so that God’s patient ways sometimes confuse, perplex, and bother us. We are impatient, but God is deliberate, steady, and long-suffering. We look for the speedy way, the shortcut, the instant answer, the immediate solution. But God takes the long way ’round. God refuses to be rushed.
The way to become a spiritually mature Christian is to spend so much time with Christ that we begin to think and act like him, to spend so much time with him that we take on what the apostle Paul called “the mind of Christ.” It just takes time and effort and commitment. There are no easy, instant solutions. What we need to remember is that the things that matter most take time, effort, commitment, discipline, lots of practice, lots of hard work . . . and lots of patience.
Working chapter titles include, “Lord, Give Me Patience, and Give it to Me Right Now”; “Lord, Give Me Perseverance”; ” Lord, Give Me Faith”; “Lord, Give Me Forgiveness”; “Lord, Give Me Love”; “Lord, Give Me Childlikeness”; “Lord, Give Me Life”; “Lord, Give Me Grace”; and others.
This book includes twelve chapters and a discussion guide.
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How God Takes Our Little And Makes It Much (Student/Study Guide)
$12.99Add to cartContents Include:
1: God Takes A Reluctant Shepherd And Makes A Bold Leader: The Story Of Moses
2: God Takes A Harem Girl And Makes A Heroine: The Story Of Esther
3: God Finds The Lost And Celebrates With Joy: The Lost Sheep, Lost Coin, And Lost Son
4: God Takes A Fisherman And Makes A Disciple For All People: The Story Of Peter
5: God Takes Our Little And Makes It Much: The Story Of The Church
6: God Takes Mere Sinners And Makes Us More Than ConquerorsAdditional Info
Here is Jim Moore at his best, telling the heart-warming stories as he teaches us about the Bible. In this 6-session, video-based study, Dr. Moore uses key Scriptures that distinctively shape us as United Methodists. There are two sessions from the Old Testament and four sessions from the New Testament. Each session also lifts up and uses core terms and life application topics taken from the Wesley Study Bible to help you grow as a faithful follower of Jesus as you practice your faith in everyday life.This study can be used with a DVD (sold separately), in which Dr. Moore introduces the Scripture and tells why it is important for you.A leader’s guide and DVD are also available.
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If God Is Your Co Pilot Swap Seats
$16.99Add to cartJesus gave us the good news that if we make God our number-one priority, then everything else will fall into place, and our life will be full of joy, purpose, mission, meaning, and fulfillment.
In the words of author James W. Moore: There’s a saying that goes, “If God is your co-pilot, swap seats!” Now, what I think that means is something we all need to hear, namely this: Don’t just take God along for the ride. Rather, let God do the driving! Put God in the driver’s seat of your life. Don’t make God your assistant; let God be the chief pilot on your life’s journey.
God is not only a comfort, God is a joy. God is the source of all pleasure. God is light and laughter. God is the Giver of Life…real life, abundant life, full life, meaningful life, joyful life, eternal life. And our chief purpose is to celebrate God, and to serve God, and to enjoy God forever.
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Jesus Parables About Priorities
$13.99Add to cartParables slip up on us. They flip our values. They turn our world upside down. They surprise us. This is the great thing about the parables of Jesus: They are always relevant and always personal. They speak eloquently to you and me, here and now. In this book, we will examine some of Jesus’ thought-provoking parables, parables about priorities, to see if we can find ourselves and God’s truth for us in these magnificent “truth-stories.” They are, after all, truth-stories from the mind of Jesus that can change our lives as they proclaim God’s truth for you and me.
Each of the six chapters features a key passage of Scripture and is centered on a theme from one of Jesus’ parables, including
The Priority of Love
The Priority of Grace
The Priority of Being Prepared
The Priority of Courage
The Priority of Forgiveness
The Priority of Strong Foundations -
Moments That Take Your Breath Away
$16.99Add to cartAs the saying goes, “It’s not the number of breaths we take, it is the number of moments that take our breath away.” Every now and then, and more often than we realize, God breaks into the routine and gives us one of those awesome moments, so powerful, so amazing, so beautiful that time seems to stand still.
How long has it been since you had one of those moments? I have had many moments like that. Some were quite dramatic, some were quite memorable, and some were just too beautiful for words. Do you remember the first time you saw the ocean, or a majestic mountain range, or a breathtaking sunset with colors so amazing that you find yourself thinking, Only God could do that!
As we explore in this book some of the many different kinds of moments that take your breath away, it is my hope and prayer that we will all become more aware of and receptive to the myriad breathtaking moments that God has in store for us.
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Prayer In America
$27.00Add to cartA stirring chronicle of the spiritual life of a nation, Prayer in America shows how the faith of Americans-from the founding fathers to corporate tycoons, from composers to social reformers, from generals to slaves-was an essential ingredient in the formation of American culture, character, commerce, and creed.
Prayer in America brings together the country’s hymns, patriotic anthems, arts, and literature as a framework for telling the story of the innermost thoughts of the people who have shaped the United States we know today. Beginning with Native Americans, Prayer in America traces the prayer lives of Quakers and Shakers, Sikhs and Muslims, Catholics and Jews, from their earliest days in the United States through the aftermath of 9/11, and the 2004 presidential election. It probes the approach to prayer by such diverse individuals as Benjamin Franklin, Elvis Presley, Frank Lloyd Wright, J. C. Penney, P. T. Barnum, Jackie Robinson, and Christopher Columbus. It includes every president of the United States as well as America’s clergy, immigrants, industrialists, miners, sports heroes, and scientists.
Prayer in America shows that without prayer, the political, cultural, social, and even economic and military history of the United States would be vastly different from what it is today. It engages in a thoughtful, timely examination of the modern debate over public prayer and how the current approach to prayer bears deep roots in the philosophies of the country’s founding fathers, a subject which remains distinct from the debate over church and state.
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Standing On The Promises Or Sitting On The Premises (Student/Study Guide)
$17.99Add to cartJames W. Moore asks readers a series of challenging questions: Are you standing on the promises, or just sitting on the premises? Do you claim and embrace and celebrate the great promises of God that are underscored again and again in the Bible? Or do you sit lifelessly and listlessly on the remote edges of the church, responding halfheartedly to its message?
In this reissue of one of his best-selling titles, Moore reminds readers of the awesome promises of God that are found in the Bible. On page after page of the Scriptures, God gives generous and gracious promises that believers can claim and rely on. Moore shows that when people fail to lean on God and trust in those promises, they may open themselves to many frustrating, embarrassing, even painful experiences. However, when they truly “stand on the promises,” they can discover the richness and fullness that God intended for their lives.
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Jesus Parables About Making Choices (Student/Study Guide)
$13.99Add to cartUsing his signature style of humorous stories and thought-provoking anecdotes, well-known author James W. Moore leads readers to engage Scripture to gain encouragement and direction for better daily living. This six-session short-term study centers on the general theme of making choices and marks Moore’s fourth title exploring the parables of Jesus. Includes a study guide.
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Rich In The Things That Count The Most
$16.99Add to cartWhile we may or may not be wealthy when it comes to material things, every one of us can be rich in the things that have nothing to do with money. True happiness, fulfillment, and wealth come from knowing that God is with us, and being grateful for all of the blessings God has given us. James Moore invites readers to think about the riches in their lives, “that will last and endure, that won’t rust or corrode or become boring or go out of style.”
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Some Things Are Too Good Not To Be True
$16.99Add to cartJames W. Moore says that God wants good things for his children, but that, tragically, our society has become strangely suspicious of the “good.” We are quick to say, “It’s too good to be true.”
In this uplifting book, the author reminds us that some things are too good not to be true! These things are the most authentic qualities of life; qualities exemplified in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus. Using Scripture and illustrations from life’s experiences, James W. Moore shows us how to follow Jesus’ example and make these qualities our own.
This is a re-issue of a Jim Moore general interest book. It includes twelve chapters, a chapter-length epilogue, and a study guide by John Schroeder.
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Jesus Parables Of Life (Student/Study Guide)
$12.99Add to cartThis six-session short-term study from Jim Moore is organized around the general theme of parables of life. Each chapter will focus on a particular parable, and will feature Dr. Moore telling readers what Jesus was saying through the parable, both to listeners of his day and to us today in our own lives. The chapters will focus on such stories as “The Laborers in the Vineyard,” “The Pharisee and the Tax Collector,” “The Weeds Among the Wheat,” “The Ten Pounds,” “Dives and Lazarus,” and “The Unmerciful Servant.” The book also includes a study guide.
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Jesus Parables Of Grace (Student/Study Guide)
$13.99Add to cartSix session short-term study of Jesus’ parables:
The Sower, the Seeds, and the Soils “Broadcasting the Seed”
The Prodigal Son “Anxious to Love, Quick to Forgive, Eager to Reconcile”
The Elder Brother “The Awful Pain of Feeling Rejected”
The Unjust Judge “What Can We Count On From God?”
The Good Samaritan “Eyes Too Busy To See”
The Least of These “Do Everything As If You Were Doing It for Our Lord” -
Some Folks Feel The Rain Others Just Get Wet (Student/Study Guide)
$16.99Add to cartThis is another way of saying that some people smell the roses, while others just complain about the thorns. In his warm, controversial style, popular author James W. Moore explores the reasons why some people are able to see our time on Earth as a gracious gift from God rather than as an agonizig endurance test; and, simply put, why some people have the ability to celebrate life with an abundance of gratitude.
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Top 10 List For Christians (Student/Study Guide)
$16.99Add to cartThis book offers a “contemporary” Top Ten list of important things for Christians to remember as we make our way through life’s journey. Acknowledging that we all need guideposts to help us along the way, Moore offers ten witty and wise reminders of the real priorities in life – God’s priorities for faithful living. These uplifting reminders – along with a number of warm, inspirational stories and anecdotes – will encourage you to live each day with faith, hope, love, joy, trust, and commitment, so that you may live purposefully and in celebration, trusting in God’s faithfulness.
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When Grief Breaks Your Heart
$7.99Add to cart1. Healing Where It Hurts
2. When Someone You Love Dies
3. Bouncing Back From A Broken Heart
4. Why Do Good People Suffer?
5. Amazing GraceAdditional Info
Grief is a natural part of life, yet no one is ever completely prepared to deal with it. The experiences of heartache, pain, disappointment, and loss can leave even the strongest of us devastated and searching for an anchor, for shelter from these storms of life.WHEN GRIEF BREAKS YOUR HEART explores how our faith can help us through these difficult times. Stories from the lives of everyday people illustrate how we can find the comfort and healing that come only from God. James W. Moore shows that it is God’s loving grace that holds us up and sustains us. With God, we can find peace and strength in our time of grief and begin to heal.
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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.
