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Many people in our churches and communities struggle to pay their bills, put food on their table and find a way to pay down their debt. Some have very little financial resources at their disposal while others face severe financial circumstances. Regardless of their financial hardship, there is a new way to help these individuals and families get a fresh start with their finances and it can all begin with You!
The Genesis Financial Coach's Manual is...
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The coronavirus pandemic of 2020 affected the entire planet and invaded every area of our lives. Many in the religious community did not expect for the pandemic to affect how we worship corporately. This book is an evaluation of how The Church was affected, taking a look in the spiritual mirror before us to determine how we must adapt in order to move forward.
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Ruth Duck provides a much-needed how-to book for creating unique and creative worship resources, including prayers, hymns, and sermons. She presents methods and models for creating these new resources while remaining scripturally relevant and mindful of inclusive-language concerns. This is an invaluable guide for those involved in writing or evaluating worship services.
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What is addiction, and how do we know if we are addicted? Speaking sociologically, we are addicted because we live in addictive societies that turn us into consumers and materialists. Speaking biologically, we are addicted because that is how we are hardwired. Speaking spiritually, we are addicted because we seek spiritual satisfaction through things other than God. Humans can be addicted to most any object, ideology, and belief, but they cannot be...
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Modern life has led to an increase in traumatic deaths, such as accidents, murders, suicide, and other types of unanticipated, violent death. Family members and friends grieving a traumatic death face enormous shock, numbness, and despair, as well as the need to find hope and God's mercy and grace in the midst of chaos, difficult questions, and confusion. The Christian church and faith community often do not provide appropriate pastoral care to help...
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Today this Scripture passage is fulfilled in your hearing, Jesus says at the beginning of his public ministry. The work of the divine is made present to those listeners in God's Word Made Flesh. Still today, this sort of encounter with Christ must be paramount in all activities of the church: liturgy, evangelization, catechesis, and conversion. By bringing music into dialogue with preaching and living the Word in our daily lives, we learn how we can...
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"Heureuse spiritualité bénédictine" est le recueil des enseignements donnés en l'Abbaye de Saint-Martin de Ligugé par des pères bénédictins de l'Abbaye en vue d'approfondir la Règle de saint Benoît en particulier les chapitres concernant l'Obéissance, l'Humilité et le Silence...
Ce recueil comprend quatre parties : Penser l'être ; Le Monde de Dieu ; Le Monde de l'Homme possible qui réunit les synthèses de livres lus pendant cette...
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Comedians tend to view the world somewhat askew or askance, and that view-a kind of hermeneutical lens for discerning the comedic in daily life-serves to frame, reframe, and even de-frame reality. Preachers do the same, viewing the world askance through a theological lens of discerning God in daily life. That theological view allows one to preach hope in the face of despair, seeing the world in terms of God's justice and declaring the promise of life...
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The church is called to be a "city on a hill," to be "rich in good deeds," and especially so to the poor. How has the church fared in this task historically, and how might we heed this calling better in today's societies? The contributors in this book believe that the Scriptures and our early Christian forerunners can help us understand more clearly how to engage with economics, poverty, and wealth to the end that the church better serves the poor....
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The Gospel author stories of Matthew, Mark, and Luke are tall tales spun very early in church history to support a takeover of the Church of Jesus Christ. These three authors are widely accepted as the truth even though there is no evidence to confirm them. Read and study the evidence of the fraud presented here and find out the truth for yourself. The real authors bring confidence to the story of Jesus.
871) Finding Hope in a Dark Place: Facing Loneliness, Depression, and Anxiety with the Power of Grace
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"When you're in a dark place, it is also a sacred place because God is there with you."
In this refreshingly candid book, author, life coach, and conference speaker Clarence Shuler shares his own story of depression and how, by God's grace, he learned how to effectively manage it. Shuler's story will help you receive grace in your own struggles.
Joining Clarence is Monique Gadson (affectionately known as "Dr. Mo"), a licensed counselor who helped...
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The preparation of new priests for ministry currently faces closer scrutiny than at any time since the Reformation, and the importance of effective priestly formation has perhaps never been clearer in the entire history of the Church. In Models of Priestly Formation, some of the world's leading experts on the topic consider priestly formation since Vatican II, explore current best practices internationally, and imagine what the future of such formation...
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Many preachers ignore preaching from the Old Testament because they feel it is outdated in light of the New Testament and difficult to expound. On the other hand, some preachers will preach from the Old Testament frequently but fail to handle it correctly, turning it into moralistic rules or symbolic lessons for our spiritual life. In How to Preach and Teach the Old Testament for All Its Worth, Christopher J. H. Wright proclaims that preachers must...
874) The Three-Dimensional Leader: A Biblical, Spiritual, and Practical Guide to Christian Leadership
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A comprehensive manual for Christian leadership
Christian leaders need biblical character, spiritual power, and practical skills. Yet, often one of these aspects is overemphasized and the others are neglected. The Three-Dimensional Leader: A Biblical, Spiritual, and Practical Guide to Christian Leadership recognizes that these traits need to be unified in Christian leaders. Jesus exemplified these most effectively, so we must look to him for our...
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What do you do when it's hard to hope?
Adoption offers a powerful testimony of grace in a world of unwanted pregnancies and on-demand abortion. But no one said adoption is easy. As an adoptive parent and pastor, who has counseled many adoptive parents, Brian Borgman knows there is another side to adoption that we are often reluctant to talk about.
Parenting is always a challenge, but parenting an adopted child can have some special challenges. Adoptive...
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We once believed that as a majority culture in North America everyone knew all there was to know about a church and its surroundings. This certainly is no longer true in a post-Christian North American culture. Most people in our towns and cities, in the neighborhoods and surrounding countryside of our church properties are completely mystified about who we are, what we do, and who is welcome-or not.
Hoffman's inviting prose, which includes many practical...
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What is a knowledgeable, faithfully biblical response to transgenderism?
In Affirming God's Image, J. Alan Branch takes a fair, respectful, and factual tone in addressing this complex issue through a biblical lens. You'll learn:
Scientific research around the transgender experience
An Overview of the history of transgenderism
Important terminology surrounding gender issues
Why people pursue gender reassignment surgery, and what happens after
How...
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El exitoso autor e influyente pastor Chris Hodges ofrece a los cristianos una guía práctica sobre qué hacer para profundizar su fe.
El peregrinaje hacia una fe más profunda y la madurez espiritual es una búsqueda de por vida, con muchas paradas y caídas en el camino. Inevitablemente, llega un momento en que los cristianos, tanto los nuevos creyentes como los veteranos en la fe, se preguntan: «¿Qué hago ahora? ¿Cómo permanezco motivado para...
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Prison ministry needs to be reevaluated. It just is not working. The typical approach to prison ministry is to lead an inmate to Christ to save his or her wretched soul from the pits of hell. However, what about the hell that a particular inmate will face upon release? Michael Bowe introduces a more holistic approach that engages in the social gospel and restorative justice to address many of the concerns people face when leaving prison. He utilizes...
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Sanctification is not just a stuffy term reserved for seminary professors. It is the practical past, present, and future process God uses to grow us into glorious perfection. In other words, it is how God makes us like Christ. We need God's help! Sanctification is God's solution. Pastor Tom Swartzwelder explains step by step how God works in us from the moment of salvation to bring about our perfection. With extensive scriptural support and illustrating...
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