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  • Messy Christmas: Three Complete Sessions and a Treasure Trove of Ideas for Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany, By Lucy Moore and Jane Leadbetter
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    Messy Christmas

    Three Complete Sessions and a Treasure Trove of Ideas for Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany

    Messy Church Series

    by Lucy Moore and Jane Leadbetter

    Christmas can be complicated. Parties, gifts, and family tensions dominate the season. So maybe it's time we explore what Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany are really about. The Messy Church series provides resources to help your church bring together people of all ages and stages of faith, allowing them to experience a creative and fun-filled Christian community. Messy Christmas offers ...

    Number of Studies: 3

  • The Mission of the Body of Christ, By Russ Ramsey
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    The Mission of the Body of Christ

    Retelling the Story Series

    by Russ Ramsey

    "God had not just sent his Messiah into the world. He had sent him to them. They were known. In all their guilt—intended and unintended—they were known and invited to find refuge in the grace of God, accomplished through the life, death, and resurrection of his Son. And the church continued to grow." Jesus sent his followers into the world. Russ Ramsey's dynamic narrative traces the journey ...

    Number of Studies: 31

  • Disaster Ministry Handbook, By Jamie D. Aten and David M. Boan
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    Disaster Ministry Handbook

    by Jamie D. Aten and David M. Boan

    FEMA Community Preparedness Award

    When disasters happen, people turn to local churches as centers for response and assistance. When floods or tornadoes devastate an area, or when shootings and violence shock a community, knowing what to do can be the difference between calm and chaos, courage and fear, life and death. But few churches plan in advance for what they should do—until ...

  • Zion Learns to See: Opening Our Eyes to Homelessness, By Terence Lester and Zion Lester
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    Zion Learns to See

    Opening Our Eyes to Homelessness

    by Terence Lester and Zion Lester
    Illustrated by Subi Bosa

    Every person matters to God. And that means every person should matter to us.

    Zion has no idea what she's getting into when she decides to join her dad at his work on Saturday. But she quickly discovers that a day at the community center brings new and wonderful people into her life. Join Zion as she learns about people experiencing homelessness, and see ...

  • The Zombie Gospel: The Walking Dead and What It Means to Be Human, By Danielle Strickland
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    The Zombie Gospel

    The Walking Dead and What It Means to Be Human

    by Danielle Strickland

    What can zombies teach us about the gospel? The hit show The Walking Dead is set in a post-apocalyptic world inhabited by mindless zombies. The characters have one goal: survive at all costs. At first glance there doesn't seem to be much the show can teach us about God or ourselves. Or is there? Author and speaker Danielle Strickland didn't expect to be drawn to a show about zombies, ...

  • A Shared Mercy: Karl Barth on Forgiveness and the Church, By Jon Coutts
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    A Shared Mercy

    Karl Barth on Forgiveness and the Church

    New Explorations in Theology

    by Jon Coutts
    Foreword by John Webster

    Christians regularly ask God to "forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors," but tend to focus on the first half and ignore the second.

    Something is missing if Christians think of mission only in terms of proclamation or social justice and discipleship only in terms of personal growth and renewal—leaving the relational implications of the gospel almost to chance. It ...

  • Live in the Light: Radiating the Hope of the Letters of John—A Six-Week Bible Study Experience, By Tara Beth Leach
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    Live in the Light

    Radiating the Hope of the Letters of John—A 6-Week Bible Study

    IVP Bible Study Experience

    by Tara Beth Leach

    We are in a season of church meltdown.

    The apostle John—the beloved disciple and the author of the Gospel by the same name—wrote letters to churches caught in a turbulent season of leadership failures, divisions over interpretation and practice, church splits, and even a powerful leader stirring up dissent. Sound familiar? It seems as though the church is melting under an ...

  • Community Is Messy: The Perils and Promise of Small Group Ministry, By Heather Zempel Community Is Messy: The Perils and Promise of Small Group Ministry, By Heather Zempel
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    Community Is Messy

    The Perils and Promise of Small Group Ministry

    by Heather Zempel

    Heather Zempel oversees the community life at a multisite church in Washington, D.C., a challenging population with one of the highest relocation rates in the United States. And yet under her leadership, National Community Church has become a model for creative, dynamic, deep small group ministry. Drawing from her background as an environmental engineer (including such bizarre experiences as monitoring ...