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It’s never been easier to teach your students where and when the Exodus happened! At a glance, travel with Moses and the children of Israel from Eg...

This volume contains seven sermons on Hosea 14, unfolding God’s sovereign love to unworthy sinners, and “Meditations on the Holy Sacrament of the L...

The Introduction to this edition discusses the nature of Wesley's Journal, places it in the context of autobiography as a genre, examines its const...

This updated classic contains 364 daily devotionals revolving around "And the Word became flesh" (John 1:14) and its meaning for a transformed life...

In this volume, Richard J. Clifford seeks to make the biblical wisdom literature intelligible to modern readers. It is easy to quote the occasional...

The essays in this volume all share a common assumption: in order to know where you're going, you have to understand where you've been. If the spir...

"By the Way- You Start Tomorrow Night". The recruiting of a less-than-fully-trained person is usually done at the last minute, since the search for...

Leaders have long realized that hierarchical models of ministry and organizations have little place in the church. For congregations dedicated to t...

Preaching is not as simple as it may appear. The preacher today is confronted with a dizzying array of homiletic methods and approaches, each holdi...

One of the most crucial changes in North American life, Lyle E. Schaller explains, has been the shift from small to large institutions. Sixty years...

Aliveness and Deadness are processes that cannot be captured, only symbolized within the precincts of psychology and religion. Opening under the sh...

In  The Undivided Soul: Helping Congregations Connect Body and Spirit , Cheryl Kirk-Duggan offers a worship, study, and sermon planning resource co...

How does an infinite God relate to finite human beings?  How does the death of Jesus Christ bring about human salvation?  How are Christians able t...

A rich articulation of John Wesley's theology that is appreciative of the old and mindful of the new, faithful to the past and attentive to the pre...

Great teams live and serve in light of the Divine Team—the Trinity, and to be truly effective they need: a deeply challenging goal, a creatively em...

Although other books discuss how to involve multi-media elements in worship, The Spectacle of Worship in a Wired World is the first to explore how ...

Thomas Edward Frank points out that the dominant paradigm of many contemporary books about church administration reflects an underlying “theology o...

Taking its title from one of John Wesley's most important sermons, The Scripture Way of Salvation explores the soteriological content of Wesley's e...

The sacraments were a major factor in the Reformation of the sixteenth century. Ever since, they have been an important part of Protestant church l...

Collaboration is one of the best ways to make a difference when leading a congregation. Now John S. McClure shows how collaborative preaching is th...

An indispensable introduction to Roman society, culture, law, politics, religion, and daily life as they relate to the study of the New Testament. ...

Methodism started out as a missional alternative to establishment Christianity, but is now like the establishment Christianity it once critiqued. I...

Most church members would tell you that theirs is a friendly congregation, eager to welcome visitors and new members into their midst. Yet far too ...

Biblical texts create worlds of meaning, and invite readers to enter them. When readers enter such textual worlds, which are often strange and comp...

A helpful theological rethinking of the ministry of the church in and with the world in light of various forces that create despair. Where is God p...

Paul Wilson’s The Practice of Preaching has introduced a generation of students not only to the “how” of preaching, but also to the“why.” In this t...

This book describes and examines the Wesleyan attitude toward and programs with the poor from the time of John Wesley to the present. The chapters ...

To be effective, pastors must minister in a variety of settings. Each setting--whether hospital room, jail, nursing home, funeral home, or even in ...

In this volume, Terence E. Fretheim seeks to introduce the Pentateuch to modern readers, stressing its continuing capacity to speak a word of--or a...

The Pastor's Start-Up Manual  provides a blueprint for seminary students moving into their first pastorate with answers to questions such as: What'...

The standard resource on the structure and programs of The United Methodist Church An indispensable guide for all United Methodists-especially past...

"Can you give me the book that will tell me how to DO Christian education?"  The Nuts & Bolts of Christian Education  is designed to answer the...

Commissioned by the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry for use in United Methodist doctrine/polity/history courses. Runyon sets Wesley...

The common experience of large congregations getting larger and small congregations getting smaller has given rise to the belief that growing congr...