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Imagine the excitement of coordinating every aspect of a church's life during the Advent season. Older children, youth and adults study coordinated Sunday School lessons. The Sunday morning worship...

On the brink of a new century and surrounded by vast cultural changes, faculty members of Central Baptist Theological Seminary offer their unique perspectives to help the church transition into the...

In his latest book, Choosing Gratitude: Learning to Love the Life You Have, renowned author James A. Autry reminds us that gratitude is a choice, a spiritual-not social-process. Made evident as...

ChristHeart is a book of meditations based on thirty-four (34) events or teachings from the life of Jesus Christ. The reader is invited to enter more fully into the life of the human Jesus and to...

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...

It's easy to make a case for right actions. Jesus never got hung up on doctrinal orthodoxy, after all. It's instinctive-or it ought to be-that "they'll know we are Christians by our love."But do...

For sixteen years, Russell Dilday was president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, one of the largest and most well-respected seminaries in the world. In 1994 his presidency ended in the...

The Cotton Patch Gospel recasts the stories of Jesus and the letters of Paul and Peter into the language of the mid-20th century South. Born out of the Civil Rights struggle, these now classic...

The Cotton Patch Gospel, by Koinonia Farm founder Clarence Jordan, recasts the stories of Jesus and the letters of Paul and Peter into the language and culture of the mid-20th century South. Born out...

The Cotton Patch Gospel recasts the stories of Jesus and the letters of Paul and Peter into the language of the mid-20th century South. Born out of the Civil Rights struggle, these now classic...

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...

The Old and New Testaments are rife with language of journeys, of walking with God. We admire the Biblical heroes who did so-Adam and Eve before the fall, the Emmaus road disciples, Enoch, Peter. But...

Tired from too much marching and not enough dancing . . . Judson Edwards sought a faith that went beyond severity, beyond the "witnessing buttons" and skipped proms of his youth. In Dancing to Zion,...

Resistance takes many forms. Sometimes it is violent. Sometimes it proceeds non-violently. Oppression and the imposition of a new culture are often executed by means of harsh and stringent measures...

Resistance takes many forms. Sometimes it is violent. Sometimes it proceeds non-violently. Oppression and the imposition of a new culture are often executed by means of harsh and stringent measures...

This book shares with the reader the value of establishing a divorce recovery ministry while also offering practical insights on establishing your own unique church-affiliated program. Whether you...

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...

Drama Ministry: A Guidebook is a one-stop manual for starting, directing, and managing a drama ministry. Lay leaders who have no formal drama training will glean from the authors 25+ years of drama...

Paul's Letter to the Colossians gives us a starting point for navigating the shallow waters of our time. Both believers and unbelievers are drowning in the trivialities of our day. Our vision is...

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...

Glen Stassen has approached his life and work "as if Jesus mattered," and this new collection of essays in his honor demonstrates that the contributors share that commitment, each in her or his own...

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...

The "Ten Commandments" stand at the center of the book of Exodus in chapter 20 and provide the key to what the book is about. The Ten Commandments refer to the story in Exodus 1-19 that tells who God...

Many Christians do not know how to utilize the wisdom of the Psalms. Drawing upon more than thirty years of pastoral ministry, the author offers a fresh approach to integrating the Psalms into the...

The book of Ezekiel reflects a degree of literary coherence unmatched in the canon of biblical prophets. Organized around three major visions of God, Ezekiel tells the story of God's final attempt as...

Ezra-Nehemiah describes events that occurred between 539 and 432 BCE, but the book itself was written between that latter date and about 200 BCE. Though it describes early events and perhaps...

Faded Flowers navigates the intersection between suicide and the response of the churchPreparing for the Lenten season in 2009, pastor Jason Coker carefully crafted a sermon series on the Christian...

What have you noticed today?A life of faith is not something we float through on a cloud unaware; it is the mindful process of letting God change us, letting him develop our spiritual sensitivity...

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