Church Publishing: 819 books
My Life and My Death
A Priest Confronts His Cancer
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
"My greatest teacher has been my cancer," says the author in his story of faith as he faces death. But the author never goes too far in the direction of becoming "touchy-feely" with his illness. In fact, he refers to his cancer as being of the devil, yet he never dwells too long...
Passion for Pilgrimage
Notes for the Journey Home
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2000
“To love is to give yourself away. You can dare throw yourself into the pilgrimage, because God has fallen in love with you so much that he has sent his son into the world to bring you home. That is the basic message of Christianity.” - Alan Jones The Christian spiritual journey is a pilgrimage...
The Worship Mall
Contemporary Responses to Contemporary Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Religion today is in competition with the leisure and entertainment industries. Gen Y, the postmodern generation, is open to spirituality; but most of today’s young adults have not been born into faith communities where they feel any lasting allegiance. Studies suggest that for the young, belief...
by Kenneth Leech
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2005
Witnessing to the cross of Christ stands at the very heart of Christian spirituality, and without it our faith makes no sense. In this tenth anniversary edition of Kenneth Leech's classic Lenten book, We Preach Christ Crucified, he draws from his own prayer, study of the Bible, and encounters with...
Without Shame or Fear
From Adam to Christ
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Shame severs our relationship from God. It is so powerful that it often results in denial, apathy, and even a self-defensive wrath toward neighbor. At the same time, shame may drive us to discover the true source of our dignity beyond our isolated and broken self. The arc of the biblical narrative...
What Can One Person Do?
Faith to Heal a Broken World
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2005
Contributors: Ann Barham, Chloe Bryer, Ian T. Douglas What Can One Person Do? confronts a poverty-stricken world, and with clarity of purpose offers practical steps to create lasting change. Global poverty can be reduced through a series of achievable objectives: the eight Millennium Development goals...
Take the Dimness of My Soul Away
Healing After a Loved One's Suicide
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2004
In 1994 William Ritter's adult son committed suicide, sending Ritter and his family on a journey no family wants to take. Part of Ritter's own process of healing the loss of his son was to preach about it occasionally from the pulpit. This book is a collection of the sermons he preached, the first...
Alive and Loose in the Ordinary
Stories of the Incarnation
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
With a light touch and warm voice, and just a hint of a Southern accent, Martha Sterne tells the stories of her encounters with Christ – in the supermarket and the beauty parlor, in the garden, the kitchen, and sometimes even church.
Seeing for Ourselves
Biblical Women Who Met Jesus
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2002
Katerina Whitley’s first book of biblical monologues, Speaking for Ourselves, was received with enthusiastic praise. Now she is back with another provocative collection of stories. In Seeing for Ourselves: Biblical Women Who Met Jesus, Whitley gives powerful voice to the New Testament women who...
Apostolic Women, Apostolic Authority
Transfiguring Leadership in Today’s Church
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Apostolic Women, Apostolic Authority addresses the state of women’s leadership in the Anglican Communion and highlights the distinctive contribution women make when they take on senior posts. This collaborative work incorporates stories, theological reflection, and biblical scholarship, welcoming...
30 Days toward Healing Your Grief
A Workbook for Healing
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Based on Walking the Mourners Path, an eight-week support program designed to accompany people in their grief, 30 Days toward Healing Your Grief differs from other support resources by using a proven methodology that does not leave people in their pain but gently leads them forward from “that my...
by Avery Brooke
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2004
For Christians, the ministry of healing prayer goes back to our deepest roots, to Jesus of Nazareth, who cared for those suffering in body and in spirit. As his followers, we are challenged—and empowered—to do the same. Members of mainline Christian denominations, however, may be skeptical about...
Love Came Down
Anglican Readings for Advent and Christmas
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
“Easter Day is the center and crown of the Christian year, but no season of that year provides us with richer material for meditation than Advent and the twelve days of Christmas.” So writes Christopher Webber in this thoughtful and inspiring collection of meditations from the most gifted Anglican...
by John R. Claypool
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2003
Hope is to the human spirit what breath is to the physical body—the very fuel that animates our being. So says best-selling author John Claypool. But with hopefulness comes the possibility of disappointment. How can we hope and yet be realistic about what we hope for? What is a hope that doesn’t...