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Focusing on six of the prayers of Jesus leading up to the central events of our faith, encounter the Saviour in a new way and reach new depths of intimacy with God in prayer.Through six sessions, experience more of God's presence as you pray and reflect on Jesus' journey to the cross.

The Lenten tree contains eighty-two Lenten devotions for children and adults that will enable individuals and families to travel on a meaningful journey through Lent, the season before Easter.

Each devotion reveals who Jesus Christ is and what He has done. In addition to these devotions, this book contains illustrations, which may be used to create a special "Lenten tree." Each of the forty-one days has prayers, a memory verse, questions for children, and hymns or songs to coincide with the symbol for the day. Lenten activities are suggested for families to do together during Lent.

This powerful book of passages from Martin Luther's Easter sermons portrays the reformer's lasting thoughts on faith, human imperfection, salvation through grace, and the wonder of God. The sermons explore events from Holy Week through the Resurrection. They combine marvelous insights with inspiring calls to action that are so characteristic of the great reformer: "The resurrection consists not in words, but in life and power."

The Christian spiritual journey is a pilgrimage to wholeness, a search for home that is in God. In this classic work on contemporary spiritual living, Alan Jones explores the various parts of the pilgrimage home. Using literature, art, and biblical texts as illustrations, he explores our search for light and love, repentance, and forgiveness in the context of the Passion and Easter stories.

An excellent book for group study during Lent and Easter, this new edition includes study questions at the end of each chapter. Passio for Pilgrimage is also provocative reading for individuals at any...

Fun activities that teach children and their families about the holy season of Lent. Includes family Lenten devotionals. Suitable for any Christian denomination that follows the liturgical calendar.

These fun-filled activities for home, pew, or church school, help children ages 4-7 learn about the seasons of Lent and Easter. This book includes mazes, crossword puzzles, connect the dots, and more. 41 pages of activities and a 4-page parent guide designed to promote parenting in the pews.

No other series provides such unique and varied material as the Program Builder series. In this 22nd edition, plays, songs, recitations, and exercises are included to help build any Easter program. Features include a playlet for children ages 9-11 and a multi-media production for teens and adults titled ’The Story of the Cross.’ Permission to make photocopies of program builders is granted when three copies of the same book have been purchased.

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Lillenas’ 20th book in the Easter Program Builder series includes several types of scripts that make it unique. ’Were You There?’ is a choral reading for children agest 9-11. Also included is a presentation for teens titled, ’Lives That Touched Jesus.’ It features short monologues from characters such as disciples John and Judas as well as Pilate, Simon of Cyrene, Mary Magdalene and Mary Mother of Jesus. The book ends with several songs for the season. Permission to make photocopies of program builders is granted when three copies of the same...

Jesus' resurrection is a time for setting earthquakes shaking in the soul. The seven excellent Easter messages in this book will help to make that happen in your congregation. Leonard Budd and Roger Talbott have combined well-crafted stories, most of them imaginative fiction pieces, with solid exposition of texts from Old and New Testaments. These messages will provide preaching resources for the entire Easter season.
Two additional resources expand the usefulness of this volume:
- Prayers and readings for each Sunday follow each message.
- There are study/discussion questions...

This is an account, at once rigorously theological and warmly devotional, of the death and resurrection of Christ, and their significance for the Christian life. Von Balthasar offers sharp insights into some current controversies--for example, the 'bodiliness' of the Resurrection--and spiritual inspiration for the year round. This scholarly reflection of the climax of the Christian year is an established classic of contemporary Catholic theology.

"Restore Me" includes a large collection of Lent and Easter season worship resources created to draw congregations into closer relationship with God.
Specific chapters for both Lent and Easter include:
- Calls to worship
- Common prayers
- Prayers of dedication
- Benedictions
- Prayers of confession and pardon
- Gospel dialogues
"These resources grew out of my continued interest in the whole use of scripture in weekly worship," Craig M. Sweet writes. "The dialogue use of scripture adds an extra dimension to the 'dramaturgical' experience of worship."
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Building on the interest generated by Sullivan's previous art and spirituality title, Windows into the Soul, this book focuses on the journey from darkness to light inherent in Lent. By using an easily accessible liturgical format, the book provides a pathway for those who walk from Ash Wednesday to the empty tomb of Easter.

Organized around holy days and Sundays in Lent, chapters begin with a prayer or poetic excerpt, followed by scripture for the day or week. A narrative then expands on the themes introduced by the prayer and scripture. Exercises following the narratives are...

Reflects on the meaning of the passion and death of Jesus.

Three Simple Rules for Christian Living
by Jeanne Torrence Finley and Rueben P. Job

This small-group study by Jeanne Torrence Finley is based on Rueben P. Job's book Three Simple Rules: A Wesleyan Way of Living. Six sessions provide extended reflection for adults on three principles of Christian life: do no harm, do good, and stay in love with God. Each rule has a session to help you understand the rule and a session to help you explore ways to practice the rule.

Your church can do a church-wide study of the three simple rules by using the youth...

This six-week study introduces youth to John Wesley's General Rules, challenging them to find ways to apply the rules to their daily lives.

The leader guide includes Scripture and excerpts from Wesley's writings and Rueben P. Job's original book Three Simple Rules. The guide provides commentary and gives youth ministers and study leaders detailed plans for each of the six sessions, discussion questions, activities, and worship ideas.

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