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Be My Guest
Sermons on the Lord's Supper
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
"Words, words, words," said Eliza Doolittle in "My Fair Lady", "I'm so sick of words. Words can be tiresome." Jesus' actions spoke louder than words on the cross and in the Lord's Supper. There are about four thousand dialects in the world, and the words used to communicate...
Christmas from the Back Side
A Different Look at the Story of Jesus Birth
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
CHRISTMAS
FROM A DIFFERENT ANGLE
Take a look at Christmas from alternative angles.
Using an approach similar to his other “BackSide” books, Kalas crafts new insights into the scriptures of the Christmas story by looking at them from the “back side” –
...taking...
Irresistible Invitation 40 Day Reading Book
Responding to the Extravagant Heart of God
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Maxie Dunnam reminds us that accepting the invitation begins with a few quiet moments each day spent on deepening our relationship with God. Accept the invitation today!
Broken and Blessed - Preview Book
How God Used One Imperfect Family to Change the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
This mini book with reflections from the Bible study Broken and Blessed traces the Genesis family tree to show us how God can transform and use imperfect families to bring blessing in a hurting a broken world.
Other components for the Bible study, available separately, include a Participant...
by Adam Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
In his best-selling book, 24 Hours that Changed the World, pastor and popular author Adam Hamilton helped readers relive the one day in history that changed everything. Hamilton invites readers and viewers to experience and understand the significance of Jesus’ final hours.
Based on this...
Taking God at His Word Preview Book
Five Landmarks of Faith from This I Know for Sure
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
Award-winning Gospel singer-songwriter and Bible teacher Babbie Mason challenges you to examine your personal relationship with God, make up your mind to believe God’s Word—regardless of your feelings or circumstances—and take hold of some non-negotiable principles of the faith. Drawn from her...
American Methodism
A Compact History
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
In this engaging and artful overview, Russell Richey, Kenneth Rowe, and Jean Miller Schmidt, some of Methodism’s most respected teachers, give readers a vivid picture of soulful terrain of the Methodist experience in America. The authors highlight key themes and events that continue to shape the...
by Don Adams
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
There can be no doubt about what Jesus thought was “the main thing,” the Great Commandments to love God with our heart, soul, and mind and to love neighbor as yourself.
What were the non-negotiables for the founder of the Methodist movement, John Wesley? Wesley’s first priority was to...
Going on to Salvation, Revised Edition
A Study of Wesleyan Beliefs
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
The church today desperately needs to recover the depth, richness, and wonder of the biblical and Wesleyan doctrine of salvation. In this book, author Maxie Dunnam offers his perspective on how to make this recovery possible. Drawing deeply on biblical and Wesleyan sources, Dunnam leads his readers...
by Kenneth C. Kinghorn
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
In this four-session study guide to the film "Wesley: A Heart Transformed Can Change the World" written by expert Dr. Kenneth C. Kinghorn, see how John Wesley changed the world and became the spiritual leader for millions.
With a screenplay adapted directly from the journals of John...
The Council of Bishops in Historical Perspective
Celebrating 75 Years of the Life and Leadership of the Council of Bishops
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
Behind the scenes with the Council of Bishops
Two authors who have served as a United Methodist bishop (William B. Oden) and as General Secretary of the General Commission on Archives and History (Robert J. Williams) collaborate on a history of the Council. They set the context for the development...
Earthy Mysticism
Spirituality for Unspiritual People
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
This book, says the author, is “a testimony of narratives where [a] strange God appears. Such appearances supply the mystical states that have come to shape my life. I am not helped much by conventional approaches to spirituality. I find it almost impossible to do ‘devotions.’ Daily Bible study...
Punching Holes in the Dark
Living in the Light of the World
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
We do not, and cannot, by definition, know much about the kingdom to come. But the “One Who Came Among Us” not only came to reassure us of the gift of the kingdom that is yet unseen but to proclaim the presence of the kingdom is already among us—even when we cannot see it and we cannot hear...
Saint Benedict on the Freeway
A Rule of Life for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
How can we heal the rift between our daily lives and the sacred? How can we live a life capable of hearing "the still small voice" of God while experiencing the speed and sensory overload of modern life? This book is Ware's answer to these questions. She acknowledges that others have addressed...