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Readers who embark on a study of 1, 2, 3 John and Jude will encounter writers with a passion for learning and living the truth. If there is one verse in the Bible that captures the theme of these...

Here, finally assembled together in one collection, are Bert Montgomery's LGBTQ-related musings, columns, and sermons. Bert uses humor, stories, and the Holy Scriptures to challenge the heresy of...

In the last twenty years, Americans have witnessed dramatic changes in the wider culture, and yet local churches have hardly changed. We pretend that people want the same things from church in the...

In "Bugles in the Afternoon," Edwards writes, "My long experience in the church has convinced me that most ministers-both professional and lay-spend time under the juniper tree. Those ministers who...

Turning around an old, established church is not an easy task. Waters have to be stirred, people have to be shaken out of their comfort zones, and often there are enormous costs to bear.Change does...

Just a few months after graduating from college, Morgan Bolt was diagnosed with desmoplastic small round cell tumors (DSRCT), a rare pediatric cancer. Over the next four years, together with his...

The most exasperating, important, difficult, thankless, yet fulfilling assignment in life is parenting. Coaching Kids is a guide to creating and maintaining harmonious communication with children...

Covenant and Commandment at first seeks to establish that the heart of Hebrew faith and thought is a vision of God as one who makes covenants - with Israel, with all humankind, and, indeed, with the...

In poetry, the author reflects on spiritual themes that he has used to help his congregation build their faith in God, cause them to rise as one to seek justice, or show them what it meant to walk...

Author: Samuel E. BalentinePublisher: Smyth & Helwys Publishing, IncorporatedPublication Date: Dec 10, 2020Number of Pages: 152 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1641732644ISBN-13:...

When Kate Anderson began her pastoral care work in a long-term care facility for individuals with developmental and intellectual disabilities, she found that the standard pastoral assessment tools...

Who Do Deacons Need to Be? What Do Deacons Need to Know? What Do Deacons Need to Do? These three questions form the basis for Exemplars: Deacons as Servant and Spiritual Leaders. They are designed to...

Author: Paul A. LewisPublisher: Smyth & Helwys Publishing, IncorporatedPublication Date: May 11, 2020Number of Pages: 192 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1641732377ISBN-13:...

In this book, the author describes a model of theological interpretation of the Bible that brings together different approaches to reading it in a way that is appropriate to the nature of the text as...

Preaching the Word seriesAuthor: Anne ScalfaroPublisher: Smyth & Helwys Publishing, IncorporatedPublication Date: March 04, 2021Number of Pages: 178 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 3:14) If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is,...

When the dead come to mind, they are like holy ghosts, as real as hope or faith, as tangible as trust and love. This book is a collection of questions, memories, and loves that continue to live with...

The life and work of James Dunn is honored in this volume, which represents a warm, from-the-heart remembrance from the pen of thirteen people who know him well.Author: J. Brent WalkerPublisher:...

Que hace a un bautista un bautista? Cual es la forma y el sentir de un cristiano bautista? Shurden nos ayuda a investigar estas preguntas analizando estas cuatro libertades basicas, elogiadas por los...

This project began as the COVID-19 pandemic descended upon in March 2020. Gregory Funderburk began to write weekly essays to encourage his congregation. In thinking about the uncertainty of the...

Loving God in the Darkness is the story of a life deeply affected by tragedy-grief, debilitating illness, and divorce. Layne Wallace describes his journey, chronicling his longing for God's presence...

Markers along the Way: The Signs of Jesus in the Gospel of JohnAuthor: William Powell TuckPublisher: Smyth & Helwys Publishing, IncorporatedPublication Date: Jul 29, 2020Number of Pages: 124...

What impact did Jesus mother have on his earthly life? Mothers Around the Manger examines the lives of Tamara, Rahab, Ruth, Bathsheba, Elizabeth, Mary and Anna, Jesus "great grandmothers," his female...

For all of history, humankind has both loved and feared nighttime. Night Owl Prayers offers a vocabulary for your nighttime prayer life that embraces the night's mystery and promise while immersing...

Grace is the theme as the author wades through the stories of the old men of the Bible, becoming acquainted with such great patriarchs from Adam to the Apostle Paul. They failed in many ways. Yet...

The words that describe our deepest longings for God, our highest praise for God, and our most distant wanderings from God are often the starting points of our prayers. Prayers & Litanies for the...

Author: Michael Lee RuffinPublisher: Smyth & Helwys Publishing, IncorporatedPublication Date: Dec 10, 2020Number of Pages: 264 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1641732504ISBN-13:...

How does the minister stay focused on the holy when the daily demands of the church seem relentless? How do we come to a preaching event with a sense that God is working in us and through us? In...

Right and Wrong addresses the chief problems Christians have responding to the myriad economic, political, and public health challenges we all face. The author uses a relatively simple approach...

Can a study of science lead us to a fuller understanding of God? In Seeing the Son on the Way to the Moon, W. Merlin Merritt recounts his experiences during the early NASA space program. He describes...