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What prompted the Samaritan man to pause? Why did Jesus prefer Mary's actions over Martha's? And the seventy-two anonymous recruits in Luke 10, who were they?

In our personal lives and as a church, a life geared toward service is the best way to live. So what does it look like to live a serve-oriented life? How would the church shift its influence if it loved through action? A life of service can be different. When we are tired, and our schedules are haggard and crazy.

It's hard to put others before ourselves.

And yet, at the end of the day we question the big things like purpose...

"Hidden in a compartment of my grandmother's bottom dresser drawer was an old scrapbook. Pressed inside were photographs of a beautiful young woman and hundreds of newspaper clippings about vaudeville shows and the movie industry. This is how I learned about my great aunt, Ruby Adams. As a child, I combed through the items that chronicled her life as a vaudeville headliner--her success and her tragedy."

So begins this novel set in the Golden Age of Hollywood, Prohibition and vaudeville in San Francisco in 1925. Waiting in the Wings tells the story of Ruby Adams, a vaudeville actress...

The Great Plains region has cast an indelible image on the panorama of American culture. The vast expanses of land encompassed in Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota and surrounding areas have been home to an often overlooked cultural diversity. The Sun Dance of the Kiowan tribe, the folk ballads of Woody Guthrie, the fiction of Willa Cather and Louise Erdrich, the Great Plains school of architecture, bierocks (a.k.a. savory pie sandwiches), Buffalo soldier fashion, Territory Jazz and Native American hip-hop-all these elements and countless other have contributed...

Rees Bryant shares over sixty years of ministry and missions experience in "From the Pulpit and the Pen," a collection of papers on Bible study and Christianity as well as a personal narrative and challenge.

Bryant's warmth and approachability make this guide to Christian life as comforting and accessible as it is encouraging and uplifting. Jesus and his incarnation, his teachings, death on the cross, burial, resurrection, ascension into heaven, and promise to return have strengthened and empowered Christians for centuries-through life's inevitable struggles, fears, and doubts....