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  • Children's Ministry in the Way of Jesus, By David M. Csinos and Ivy Beckwith
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    Children's Ministry in the Way of Jesus

    by David M. Csinos and Ivy Beckwith
    Foreword by John H. Westerhoff III

    Attract kids to church, the logic often goes, and you get parents in the pews. All that's left, then, is to get the kids out of the way. Here children's ministers David Csinos and Ivy Beckwith draw on research in human development and spiritual formation to show how children become disciples and churches become centers of lifelong discipleship. For too long, the local church has focused primarily ...

  • A Community Called Taize: A Story of Prayer, Worship and Reconciliation, By Jason Brian Santos
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    A Community Called Taize

    A Story of Prayer, Worship and Reconciliation

    by Jason Brian Santos
    Foreword by Desmond Tutu

    Taizé--the word is strangely familiar to many throughout the contemporary church. Familiar, perhaps, because the chanted prayers of Taizé are well practiced in churches throughout the world. Strangely, however, because so little is known about Taizé--from its historic beginnings to how the word itself is pronounced. The worship of the Taizé community, as it turns out, is best understood ...

  • Living Your Legacy: An Action-Packed Guide for the Later Years, By Sandy Larsen and Dale Larsen
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    Living Your Legacy

    An Action-Packed Guide for the Later Years

    by Sandy Larsen and Dale Larsen

    No matter what stage of life we find ourselves in, we may wonder if what we've done with our time on earth bears any significance. But this question becomes especially important when our expectations for lifelong achievement and ability in later years come face to face with a reality that may not meet those lifelong hopes. It's common to ask, "Who am I now? How should I invest these years? Must ...

  • The Beatitudes: Developing Spiritual Character, By John Stott
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    The Beatitudes

    Developing Spiritual Character

    John Stott Bible Studies

    by John Stott
    With Dale Larsen and Sandy Larsen

    Study Scripture with John Stott

    The beatitudes reveal to us eight qualities that bring God's blessing: meekness and mercy, poorness in spirit and purity of heart, mourning and hunger, peacemaking and persecution. Jesus highlighted these to offer both encouragement and instruction on living distinctly as his followers in a world with values much different from God's. As we ...

    Number of Studies: 8

  • Skills for Effective Counseling: A Faith-Based Integration, By Elisabeth A. Nesbit Sbanotto and Heather Davediuk Gingrich and Fred C. Gingrich
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    Skills for Effective Counseling

    A Faith-Based Integration

    Christian Association for Psychological Studies Books

    by Elisabeth A. Nesbit Sbanotto, Heather Davediuk Gingrich, and Fred C. Gingrich

    Anyone in a helping profession—including professional counselors, spiritual directors, pastoral counselors, chaplains and others—needs to develop effective communication skills. But learning these skills is like learning a new language: it takes time and practice to communicate effectively, and lack of practice can lead to the loss of one's ability to use this new language. Suitable for both beginning ...

  • The Message of Numbers: Journey to the Promised Land, By Raymond Brown
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    The Message of Numbers

    Journey to the Promised Land

    The Bible Speaks Today Series

    by Raymond Brown

    What does it mean to be pilgrims in a confusing world? What vision of the good life drives us? In this Bible Speaks Today volume, Raymond Brown explores how the book of Numbers offers a picture of a better life. He shows how its message is eminently suited to our world today, a world without firm spiritual and moral foundations. Numbers pictures life as an accompanied journey, ...

  • Changing Faith: Questions, Doubts and Choices About an Unchanging God, By Michael Hidalgo Changing Faith: Questions, Doubts and Choices About an Unchanging God, By Michael Hidalgo
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    Changing Faith

    Questions, Doubts and Choices About an Unchanging God

    by Michael Hidalgo
    Foreword by Hugh Halter

    A friend of mine told me recently, "There are so many things I am not comfortable with claiming as 100% true, but I cannot say they are 100% false either." It hasn't always been this way for him. Most of his life he believed he had all the answers to any and all of life's difficult questions. He continued, "I do not know what is ahead, but I do know I cannot and will not go back to the faith ...

  • Is Reality Secular?: Testing the Assumptions of Four Global Worldviews, By Mary Poplin
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    Is Reality Secular?

    Testing the Assumptions of Four Global Worldviews

    Veritas Books

    by Mary Poplin
    Foreword by Dallas Willard

    What is the nature of reality? At the root of our society's deepest political and cultural divisions are the conflicting principles of four global worldviews. While each of us holds to some version of one of these worldviews, we are often unconscious of their differences as well as their underlying assumptions. Mary Poplin argues that the ultimate test of a worldview, philosophy or ideology is ...