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by Ruth Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
One time News of the World journalist tries to explain her new belief in Christianity to her friends at the same time as working out those beliefs for herself.
It's a weird and puzzling world we enter when we become Christians. Ruth Roberts, a journalist and media worker who at one time was...
Transformed by God’s Word
Discovering the Power of Lectio and Visio Divina
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
Bestselling author and biblical scholar Stephen J. Binz presents the first book to combine the ancient Western practice of lectio divina (sacred reading) with the lesser-known Eastern Orthodox tradition of visio divina (sacred seeing). Binz offers a life-changing way to pray through twenty gospel...
Breakthrough Fast
Accessing the Power of God
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2018
If today’s believers only knew the spiritual power for breakthrough that comes through fasting, they would practice it more! A breakthrough is a sudden spiritual burst that pushes us beyond our limitations and into deliverance and freedom.
Many Christians are struggling with a need for guidance,...
Welcome to the Feast
The Story of the Eucharist in Scripture
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
Welcome to the Feast is an invitation to explore the theme of celebrating God’s unfolding covenant relationship with humanity in the context of a meal. Starting with Abraham’s hospitality in providing a feast for three divine visitors, the menu in Welcome to the Feast begins with ample servings...
by Jim Johnston
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
In this enlightening little book, Jim Johnston provides an overview of worship in the Bible, starting with the individual in Genesis, to the collective under the Old Covenant, the collective under the New Covenant and culminating in future worship in the Millennium and the eternal state.
by Andy Langford
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Unlike weddings, funerals rarely take place after extensive planning. Often the deceased is not someone the pastor has known well, and preparations for the service of death and resurrection take place in the midst of pastoral care of the grieving, writing the funeral sermon, and the pastor’s regular...
Inseparable Love
A Commentary on The Order of Celebrating Matrimony in the Catholic Church
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
This book provides a paragraph-by-paragraph commentary on the Catholic Church's Order of Celebrating Matrimony. Readers will learn about the history and theology of the elements of the rite and of the pertinent texts in the Roman Missal. Paul Turner provides translations of reports of the study group...
Forbid Them Not Year A
Involving Children in Sunday Worship
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
This resource shows how to create meaningful worship experiences for everyone who comes to your church--children, youth, and adults.
A three-volume series based on the Revised Common Lectionary, Forbid Them Not offers specific suggestions for prayers, hymns, litanies, sermon illustrations,...
Book of Blessings
and how to write your own
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2001
A collection of blessings for the people, celebrations, sadnesses, artefacts, special occasions and journeys of our lives.
Candles & Conifers
Resources for All Saints' and Advent
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2005
A collection of worship and reflection resources for groups and individuals covering the weeks from All Saints' Day to Christmas Eve, including saints' days, Remembrance Day, World AIDS Day and Advent.
Fire and Bread
Resources from Easter Day to Trinity Sunday
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2007
Prayers, responses, liturgies, songs, poems, reflections, meditations, sermons and stories, covering the weeks from Easter Day to Trinity Sunday, including Ascension Day, Pentecost, Saints' days, Rogation days, environmental days and many more.
Hay & Stardust
Resources for Christmas to Candlemas
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2005
A collection of worship and meditation resources for the season of Christmastide - including Christmas Day, Holy Innocents' Day, Winter and New Year, Epiphany, Homelessness Sunday and Candlemas.
The Heart of Our Music: Practical Considerations
Reflections on Music and Liturgy by Members of the Liturgical Composers Forum
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
In The Heart of Our Music, master practitioners of the art of liturgical music come together to offer enriching insights, a stirring vision, and practical new ideas that will change the way you think about liturgy and liturgical ministry. These reflections are written with the needs of parish liturgists...
The Message in the Music
Studying Contemporary Praise and Worship
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
The definitive guide to the meaning of today’s most popular praise and worship songs.
Few things influence Christians’ understanding of the faith more than the songs they sing in worship. The explosion of praise and worship music in the last fifteen years has profoundly affected our experience...