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Christian Prayer For Dummies

by Richard Wagner

Advice and examples help you find your own prayer style

Discover how prayer works and why you need it now more than ever

Do you want to pray, but you're not sure how? This friendly guide explains the different...

Powerful Prayers for Your Children

by David Kopp & Heather Kopp

From Spelling Tests to Future Mates–

Learn to Pray for Every Aspect of Your Kids’ Lives.

AS A PARENT, you want your prayers to have an impact on the lives of your children. But how can you ensure that will...

Setting Words on Fire

by Paul Scott Wilson

In the second half of the twentieth century, a profound shift took place in how we think about preaching. We moved away from a vertical focus on the preacher who hands down the authoritative teaching, to more...

Abingdon Preaching Annual 2012

by David Mosser

Pastors and other preachers have long turned to The Abingdon Preaching Annual for help with one of the central tasks of their ministry: sermon preparation.

The 2012 edition of the Annual continues and, in response...

The Choir Member's Companion

by Ginger G. Wyrick

The Choir Member's Companion is designed for use by individual choir members in a local church adult choir. The book is intended for purchase by the choir director to be given to choir members as gifts or as...

The New Pastor's Guide to Leading Worship

by Barbara Day Miller

Worship

A down-to-earth guide to planning and implementing meaningful worship experiences for pastors, written especially for those new to the job.

This practical book is for new pastors as they move into the...

Black Preaching

by Henry H. Mitchell

Henry H. Mitchell has completely revised and integrated his popular books The Recovery of Preaching and Black Preaching for seminarians and pastors--both Black and White--who are seeking to add power and vision...

95 Questions to Shape the Future of Your Church

by Thomas G. Bandy

95 Questions to Shape the Future of Your Church is a comprehensive commentary on systemic change for the church. It combines the spirit of Luther's 95 Theses with depth of insight akin to Luther's reformation...

Symbols of Faith

by Marcia Stoner

Help persons of all ages understand the symbols of the faith! This resource includes over 60 Christian symbols with acitivities designed to teach the background of each symbol. Reproducible patterns included...

The Storyteller's Companion to the Bible Volume 8: Daniel and Revelation

by Rick Lowery

The stories in Daniel and Revelation are among the most vivid in the Bible, but they are also among the most misunderstood. In The Storyteller's Companion to the Bible Volume 8, commentator Rick Lowery andstorytellers...

365 Meditations for Women by Women

by Cynthia Gadsden

This book offers a year's worth of daily devotional readings from twelve different women of faith. This book is for women of all ages. Each day's reading includes a focus Scripture verse from a mix of translations,...

Wonder of Easter

by Peg Augustine

The Wonder of Easter uses a child’s “wonder” questions to think about what it must have felt to be a part of the biblical story, and uses a prayer to make a connection to how we honor Jesus today. It includes...

Parables from the Back Side Vol. 1

by J. Ellsworth Kalas

Offers a new understanding of twelve of Jesus' parables by viewing them through the eyes of a minor or unsympathetic character. Chapter titles: When the Good Samaritan Is Bad News; God Called a Party, but Nobody...

Be My Guest

by Thomas C. Hilton

Be My Guest: Sermons on the Lord's Supper

Be Filled

by Arthur McClanahan

Respected pastor, writer, and TV host Arthur Lee McClanahan explores the well-known teachings of the Beatitudes in Be Filled: Sermons on the Beatitudes.

How I Pray

by Jim Castelli

Religion writer Jim Castelli set out to answer these profound questions by talking with twenty-six spiritual leaders and practitioners representing the wide spectrum of faith in America today. How I Pray gathers...

Take the Next Step: Leading Lasting Change in the Church

by Lovett Weems

Learn how to work for genuine and effective change in your church without trying to throw out everything that has gone before.

Pastors and other congregational leaders are eager to institute meaningful and effective...

After Christendom?: How the Church Is to Behave If Freedom, Justice, and a Christian Nation Are Bad Ideas

by Stanley Hauerwas

Liberal/conservative and modern/postmodern concepts define contemporary theological debate. Yet what if these categories are grounded in a set of assumptions about what it means to be the church in the world,...

Soundings: A Thematic Guide for Daily Scripture Prayer

by Chris Aridas

Soundings is a guide to reading Scripture as prayer and meditation. Organized around 52 themes, it offers 365 scriptural passages, together with spiritual commentary to facilitate personal reflection. The book...

Pray Simply-Simply Pray: You Can Do It

by Marie A Miller

"Prayer should represent who we are. It should model the beauty and uniqueness of our lives." Many of us have never been taught how to pray. We have learned primarily by observing others and by doing so, assumed...