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Many resources have been written to offer assistance in exploring and understanding the lectionary texts for the purpose of preaching. However, few...

Teaching the Lord's Prayer examines the Lord's Prayer and how it relates to questions such as: What does it mean to worship God? What is sin? How d...

Ten winning strategies and multiple approaches for effective Bible study. A contributory book for lay leaders, pastors, or individuals wanting to b...

This volume provides over 300 inventive, hands-on activities that involve children in service to one another, their churches and local communities,...

The story of the first Christmas is told simply in this colorful, chunky board book. As kids read, they fit a puzzle piece into each page. When the...

Teaching Children Bible Basics is a book of 34 Old and New Testament lessons that helps children ages 8–10 learn how to use the Bible. The lessons ...

A comprehensive guide that helps worship design teams discover their own unique gifts and mission and develop strategies for their congregations Pa...

Clarifies how to distinguish between healthy therapeutic relationships and ones which have become abusive. Carrie Doehring propose an approach to ...

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 co...

When it first appeared in 1986, James McClendon's  Ethics  laid claim to two compelling theological ideas. First, that a highly distinctive theolog...

‘The Never Ending Journey’ is a moving account of Antoinette’s daily struggle to cope with brain injury after a routine operation and her fight to ...

Story Journey offers a series of biblical stories to be learned and explored in a variety of ways. Each story is printed in episodes to facilitate...

In Stewards of Life, Sondra Ely Wheeler presents a compact, basic introduction to the language and principles of contemporary bioethics. Perhaps mo...

In  Starting Small Groups: Building Communities That Matter , Jeffrey Arnold discusses small groups and details step-by-step the method for designi...

Women in the United Methodist tradition have long expressed their commitment to Christ and to their sisters and brothers. Here is a collection of e...

This volume offers a comprehensive intellectual and experiential introduction to Christian spirituality. It embraces spiritual traditions from the ...

Helps small membership church pastors see the spiritual development of their church in ways that tie directly to their own spiritual formation, res...

Leaders aren't born. They're made, one step at a time. “Kaizen” is a Japanese word that translates roughly, “to change or correct for the better.” ...

Spiritual Entrepreneurs  tells the story of an innovative pastor and leadership team who intentionally led their church to take spiritual risks. By...

Soul Tending expands on the ideas Kenda Creasy Dean and Ron Foster put forth in The Godbearing Life: The Art of Soul Tending for Youth Ministry (pu...

Carolyn Brown has done it again! As with all of her books, Brown writes clearly and helpfully, with conviction and passion for what to share and ho...

During the last two decades, American law has undergone some startling developments that will affect all church leaders and religious organizations...

Serving From the Heart for Youth is adapted from Church of the Resurrection's Serving From the Heart spiritual gifts program for adults. The adult ...

A working pastor is always looking for fresh preaching perspectives. This hands-on resource from the author of a long-standing column in the journa...

We read the Bible and interpret Scripture in order to live in grace-filled relation to God's divine purpose. We read the Bible and interpret Script...

Seeing the Text  integrates language study with theories and methods of interpretation. The purpose of the book is to help students increase their ...

Season of Light and Hope  includes original, scripture-based prayers, liturgies, and other worship aids to enrich worship  from the First Sunday of...

How can we heal the rift between our daily lives and the sacred? How can we live a life capable of hearing "the still small voice" of God while exp...

Grounded in social research,  Rural Ministry  evaluates the diminishing establishment of the church in rural America, which is linked to the fifty-...

The Basic Bible Commentary series is a 29-volume commentary written to enhance Bible study for all students of the Bible. Based on the NRSV and NIV...

The church's mission, argues Reggie McNeal, engages every aspect of life. The front lines of the collision between the kingdom of light and the kin...

Exploring the question 'Where is God when we suffer?" through biblical, theological and personal narratives. Why suffering? Why pain? Why? Are th...