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This excerpt from Wesley Hill's Easter emphasizes celebrating the Easter season with joy and abundance. It explores historical traditions while suggesting creative new ways to honor Easter, from feasting and music to community gatherings. The passage encourages embodying the season’s spirit of celebration through worship, art, and more.
PaperbackFaith and Reason
Three Views
Spectrum Multiview Book Series
Edited by Steve Wilkens
Life confronts us with an endless stream of questions. Some are trivial. But some draw us into the deepest dimensions of human inquiry, a place where our decisions have profound implications for life and faith. Is there a God, andif so, how can I know anything about who or what God is? Is the quest for truth an elusive dream? How should I live and what should I value? What happens ...
PaperbackResting Place
A Personal Guide to Spiritual Retreats
by Jane A. Rubietta
A personal retreat.We've never needed it more. We run from one place to the next--from meetings and appointments to our kid's soccer practice, from class to work to choir rehearsal, from the grocery store to small group--and then drop into bed later than we hoped, exhausted and dreading the morning. We want to slow down but don't know how and don't really believe that we can. And often, the idea ...
HardbackLead Like It Matters to God
Values-Driven Leadership in a Success-Driven World
by Richard E Stearns
Outcomes Conference Book of the Year
Christian Book Award FinalistRichard Stearns is a leader who has been tested as a CEO in both secular companies and also as the head of one of the world’s largest Christian ministries. After stints as CEO of Parker Brothers and then Lenox, Stearns accepted the invitation to leave his corporate career to become ...
PaperbackThe Singer Trilogy
The Mythic Retelling of the Story of the New Testament
by Calvin Miller
"... I found in a university bookstore a trilogy of books that impacted my life so deeply that—twenty-five years later—I find myself still quoting lines and discussing concepts of truth from them. Literature like The Singer Trilogy will live—like Milton's Paradise Lost and James Weldon Johnson's God's Trombones. The Singer must never be allowed to be out of print. Every generation needs to read ...
PaperbackThe Lord's Supper
Five Views
Spectrum Multiview Book Series
Contributions by Jeffrey Gros, John R. Stephenson, Leanne Van Dyk, Roger E. Olson, and Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen
Edited by Gordon T. SmithLord's Supper. Eucharist. Communion. Sacrament. Ordinance.
While it's the meal that should unite us as followers of Christ, it sometimes appears we can't even agree on what to call it, let alone how we might share a common theological view of its significance. Even if we cannot reach full agreement, how can we better understand one another and this central observance of the ...
PaperbackThe Transformation of a Man's Heart
Reflections on the Masculine Journey
Edited by Stephen W. Smith
Life is many things, but it is definitely not a flow chart. We prove it every day. We deeply long for change, but formulas and seminars don't get it done. The good news is, God is at work across the life span, encouraging us and empowering us to overcome the hurdles of our past, the challenges of our present and the fears of our future.The Transformation of a Man's Heart is a book of stories: ...
PaperbackSustainable Youth Ministry
Why Most Youth Ministry Doesn't Last and What Your Church Can Do About It
by Mark DeVries
You're looking for a youth pastor. Again.What goes wrong? Why do youth ministries crumble? And what is the cost to students, parents, volunteers and church staff?Is a sustainable youth ministry possible, even after a youth pastor leaves?Youth ministry expert Mark DeVries knows the answer is yes, because he helps build sustainable youth ministries through his coaching service called Youth Ministry ...
PaperbackJohn 1-12
Part 1: The Living Word of God
LifeGuide Bible Studies
by Douglas Connelly
Discover True Life in the Gospel of John
We all long for a full, rich, satisfying life. But how do we fill up the empty places in our souls? How can we quench our thirst for something deeper, more lasting, more meaningful?
In this thirteen-session LifeGuide® Bible Study on chapters 1-12 of the Gospel of John, Douglas Connelly urges you to take a fresh look ...
Number of Studies: 13
PaperbackAn Introduction to the Theology of Religions
Biblical, Historical & Contemporary Perspectives
by Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen
Early in the nineteenth century Ernst Troeltsch, the great German liberal thinker, published the influential essay "The Place of Christianity Among the World Religions." The question of the relation of Christianity to other religions is every bit as relevant as and perhaps even more urgent today than it was then. Beginning with a consideration of the biblical perspective, Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen surveys ...
