Transforming Bible Study
ISBN: 9781606086650 / Angielski / Miękka / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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108,41 zł |
Viral Churches: Helping Church Planters Become Movement Makers
ISBN: 9780470550458 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A groundbreaking guide for multiplying the impact of church plants Based on a study that was commissioned by the Leadership Network, this book reveals the best practices in church planting and uncovers the common threads among them. A much-needed resource, this book will inform, guide, and even catalyze today's many church planting leaders. The authors clearly show leaders how to plant churches that create a multiplication movement and offer inspiration for them to do so. The book addresses their questions about what to do next in their church planting strategies, in light of... A groundbreaking guide for multiplying the impact of church plants Based on a study that was commissioned by the Leadership Network, this bo... |
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103,69 zł |
Sexual Offending and Restoration
ISBN: 9781606086971 / Angielski / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mark Yantzi provides new methods for dealing with the pervasive problem of sexual abuse. He shows caring ways to confront and support those who have offended. He also calls for understanding and compassion toward those victimized by sexual wrongdoing. Yantzi's unique approach is illustrated through case examples and candid dialogue by a group of victims and those who have offended. Readers hear authentic voices and share in the process toward healing. The book honors the words of victims, offenders, their families, and communities.
Mark Yantzi provides new methods for dealing with the pervasive problem of sexual abuse. He shows caring ways to confront and support those who have o...
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143,10 zł |
Donkeys and Kings: And Other Tails of the Bible
ISBN: 9781606089408 / Angielski / Miękka / 66 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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65,05 zł |
Can This Church Live?
ISBN: 9781608991822 / Angielski / Miękka / 126 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. ""Churches should be the backbone of our neighborhoods . . . Many American churches are faced with the decisions of their lives. Will we live? Or will we die? . . . the question of 'Will we live or will we die' is a question of will, as in having the will to live; and it is also a question of who is included in the 'we.'"" --from Chapter One ""The State of Mainline Churches"" Can This Church Live? is the true story of a church that had an opportunity to thrive in the midst of a community that greatly changed its demographics. Matthews directs readers through this painful process he...
""Churches should be the backbone of our neighborhoods . . . Many American churches are faced with the decisions of their lives. Will we live? Or will...
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86,73 zł |
Pilgrim Prayers for Single Fathers
ISBN: 9781608991914 / Angielski / Miękka / 110 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gracious God, Thank you for helping us single fathers learn the lesson that acquiring new skills--in particular--is a required and ongoing part of being a single parent. All the manuals we read will never get us to the nitty-gritty advice about many practical realities. Little girls need their hair combed until they learn to do it for themselves. We are grateful, O God, when we can let go of the illusion that all parenting skills are innate. Amen. --sample prayer excerpt Pilgrim Prayers for Single Fathers is a collection of conversations with God based on heart-felt, real-life situations....
Gracious God, Thank you for helping us single fathers learn the lesson that acquiring new skills--in particular--is a required and ongoing part of bei...
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78,06 zł |
Pilgrim Prayers for People Living with Cancer
ISBN: 9781608991921 / Angielski / Miękka / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. ""This book provides short inspirational stories that remind us that faith and love can endure a variety of life's trials. It offers real stories of courage, faith, and prayer which help to heal the soul."" --Melissa Mueller, Income Development Coordinator, East Region, American Cancer Society, Midwest Division, Inc. ""Without hope, patients and families cannot begin to navigate the perilous journey of cancer treatment. Northey's easy-read book provides a faith-based source of inspiration which will undoubtedly be helpful to many."" --Sandy Lardinois, Patient Services Manager, The Wisconsin...
""This book provides short inspirational stories that remind us that faith and love can endure a variety of life's trials. It offers real stories of c...
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78,06 zł |
Hope Deferred
ISBN: 9781608992140 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. ""This theological engagement is a valuable addition to the literature on reproductive losses."" --Warren Carter, Saint Paul School of Theology, Kansas City ""The women who share their stories here inscribe new ways of doing theology that are at once both faith-filled and personal, and yet wonderfully catholic."" --Mary Hess, Luther Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota ""This compact volume fills a void with its theological attention to the experience of reproductive loss. Its hard-won insights are wrought in and from the authors' personal stories of loss, wide-ranging scholarship, and pastoral...
""This theological engagement is a valuable addition to the literature on reproductive losses."" --Warren Carter, Saint Paul School of Theology, Kansa...
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95,40 zł |
Becoming a Multicultural Church
ISBN: 9781608992294 / Angielski / Miękka / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. ""Whenever I speak on the subject of multiculturalism and the church, someone inevitably laments, 'But our church is not located in a racially diverse neighborhood ' I respond by asking, 'Should the Christian church wait for our neighborhoods to become racially diverse or should it be a forerunner in teaching people how to relate to each other so that they can live side by side?' If persons from diverse cultures can learn how to interact with each other and realize the benefits from doing so, then they will transfer this learning to other settings. The Christian church should be leading this...
""Whenever I speak on the subject of multiculturalism and the church, someone inevitably laments, 'But our church is not located in a racially diverse...
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117,09 zł |
Feasting on the Word: Year A, Volume 1: Preaching the Revised Common Lectionary
ISBN: 9780664231040 / Angielski / Twarda / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With the twelve-volume series Feasting on the Word, Westminster John Knox Press offers one of the most extensive and well-respected resources for preaching on the market today. When complete, the twelve volumes will cover all of the Sundays in the three-year lectionary cycle, along with moveable occasions.
The page layout is truly unique. For each lectionary text, preachers will find brief essaysA--one each on the exegetical, theological, pastoral, and homiletical challenges of the text. Each volume will also contain an index of biblical passages so that nonlectionary preachers may make use... With the twelve-volume series Feasting on the Word, Westminster John Knox Press offers one of the most extensive and well-respected resources for prea...
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238,51 zł |
Holy Women, Wholly Women
ISBN: 9781608994113 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Holy Women, Wholly Women, Elaine J. Lawless continues her work with women in American religion, and explores the life experiences of women in parish ministry in several Protestant churches--including the United Methodist, Christian Church-Disciples of Christ, American Baptist, Episcopal, and Unitarian churches. Applying an approach, which she calls ""reciprocal ethnography,"" Lawless collects and interprets the stories of ten women ministers and examines their public and private lives, their ministries, their images of God, and their negotiations of sexuality and the religious life....
In Holy Women, Wholly Women, Elaine J. Lawless continues her work with women in American religion, and explores the life experiences of women in paris...
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173,46 zł |
Funny Things Can Happen on Your Way through the Bible, Volume 1
ISBN: 9781608993932 / Angielski / Miękka / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Description: Proceeding from Voltaire's conclusion that ""God is a comedian playing to an audience that's afraid to laugh,"" this book seeks to uncover some of the many instances in which biblical texts offer readers grace and insight through the divine gifts of humor, wit, and laughter. Readers are invited to take a strikingly unusual, if not unique, approach to the texts, imagining not only the voice inflections but also the body language of their narrators to capture the humorous nuances and ripples of laughter that likely attended the first telling of many biblical stories. Endorsements:...
Description: Proceeding from Voltaire's conclusion that ""God is a comedian playing to an audience that's afraid to laugh,"" this book seeks to uncove...
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186,47 zł |
Integrating Faith and Psychology: Twelve Psychologists Tell Their Stories
ISBN: 9780830838851 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Twelve notable psychologists relate their journeys as Christians who entered the field of psychology. They provide personal reflections on their spiritual, personal and professional journeys of interrelating their faith and profession. These stories inform, inspire and encourage us, especially those who are in the caregiving professions.
Twelve notable psychologists relate their journeys as Christians who entered the field of psychology. They provide personal reflections on their spiri...
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125,72 zł |
The Nuts and Bolts of Church Planting: A Guide for Starting Any Kind of Church
ISBN: 9780801072628 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Most books on church planting offer a model for churches to replicate--usually one that is tied to a particular style, generation, or demographic. But what churches really need is a process that is flexible, not bound to a particular time or current fad. In The Nuts and Bolts of Church Planting, trusted author and church-planting expert Aubrey Malphurs shares the basic steps any church planter will need, regardless of his or her generation now or in the future. These steps include establishing values, mission, vision, and strategy
reaching the community making... Most books on church planting offer a model for churches to replicate--usually one that is tied to a particular style, generation, or demographic. But...
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81,85 zł |
Partners in Care
ISBN: 9781608996285 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Description: The needs for and the benefits of holistic health care--care that extends to the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects of individuals--have been well known for 2,500 years or so. But still, to quote the late Rodney Dangerfield, some caregivers ""don't get no respect."" Fred Reklau is out to change that with this book, offered as an exploration of the synergies possible among those who care for persons. In the 1980s he wrote the theses that formed the core of this book. Since then they have helped many, in groups and singly, to see their work in a new light....
Description: The needs for and the benefits of holistic health care--care that extends to the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects of in...
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99,74 zł |
Lay Ecclesial Ministry: Pathways Toward the Future
ISBN: 9781442201842 / Angielski / Twarda / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The role of lay ecclesial ministers--professionally prepared laity who serve in leadership roles--is becoming critically more important in the life of the Catholic church. In Lay Ecclesial Ministry, theologians and pastoral leaders from diverse disciplines provide a deeper understanding, envision future direction, and offer inspiration for these new ministers and the community of the church. Building on the themes of the first official document addressing lay ecclesial ministry, Co-workers in the Vineyard of the Lord, approved by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in 2005, this book...
The role of lay ecclesial ministers--professionally prepared laity who serve in leadership roles--is becoming critically more important in the life of...
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480,48 zł |
Echoing the Story: Living the Art of Listening
ISBN: 9781608998180 / Angielski / Miękka / 138 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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91,07 zł |
Church of Englandism Catech Exa Cwjb: M C
ISBN: 9780199590254 / Angielski / Twarda / 656 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Church-of-Englandism and its Catechism Examined, printed in 1817 and published in 1818, was part of Bentham's sustained attack on English political, legal, and ecclesiastical establishments. Bentham argues that the purpose of the Church's system of education, in particular the schools sponsored by the Church-dominated National Society for the Education of the Poor, was to instil habits of insincerity into the population at large, and thereby protect the abuses which were profitable both to the clergy and the ruling classes in general. Bentham recommends the 'euthanasia' of the Church, and...
Church-of-Englandism and its Catechism Examined, printed in 1817 and published in 1818, was part of Bentham's sustained attack on English political, l...
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583,70 zł |
They Smell Like Sheep, Volume 2: Leading with the Heart of a Shepherd
ISBN: 9781451636314 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life." -- Proverbs 4:23
"They Smell like Sheep, Volume 2: Leading with the Heart of a Shepherd" is about more than gimmicks and techniques of leadership. It speaks to the character and heart of the leader. After all, heart makes the difference in an effective Sunday-school teacher, youth minister, elder, small-group leader, parent, grandparent, or Christian school teacher. Spiritual sheep, stray sheep, and searching sheep aren't nearly as concerned about the knowledge and skill of the shepherd as they are about his heart.... "Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life." -- Proverbs 4:23
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78,02 zł |
How Effective Sermons Advance
ISBN: 9781608999705 / Angielski / Miękka / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Description: Sermon structure has been deemed an important component of preaching throughout the history of preaching by preaching instructors and practitioners alike. Many have made a case for the bearing that sermon structure has for the effective preaching of Scripture. However, sermon structure when incorporated in a sermon often is not as serviceable as it could and should be This book provides instruction for how sermon structure can serve to principlize Scripture by using statements of theological principle in the sermon outline. Therefore, the timelessness and the timeliness of...
Description: Sermon structure has been deemed an important component of preaching throughout the history of preaching by preaching instructors and pra...
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169,12 zł |