Unbinding Your Heart: 40 Days of Prayer & Faith Sharing is a brilliant book -- witty, engaging, and grounded in a four-year Lilly Endowment study. Unbinding Your Heart is a six-week individual and small-group study for your entire congregation. It is the culmination of the Unbinding the Gospel Series, by author, researcher, pastor and attorney Martha Grace Reese.] Church leaders should first study Unbinding the Gospel (the church leaders' study) that was selected by The Christian Century as a featured "Take and Read" book in its 2007 Book Issue. Then use Unbinding Your Heart as a study and...

Pastors are busy. This collection of fully integrated resources will help your church work and pray through the Unbinding the Gospel Series. Included are step-by-step planning tools as well as worship resources to allow you--the pastor--to spend time on prayer, teaching, and working directly with others in your church. The planning tools include calendars, checklists for church staff, weekly scripture tie-ins, sample church newsletter campaigns, diagrams, simple to elaborate E-vent planning suggestions, web site ideas, specific lesson plans, and much much more. Worship resources include...