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Books on living the Christian life. This category has a broad overlap with the ministry, devotional, and theology categories, but emphasis is on how one lives as a Christian outside the professional ministry and not as an academic theologian.
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“Oh it’s a jolly holiday with you ….” Holidays, steeped in family traditions, are not always jolly when you are also experiencing a loss of a loved one through death or divorce, a job loss or any number of loss scenarios. Accepting what is does not negate the difficulties in finding a “new normal” for…
“Oh it’s a jolly holiday with you ….” Holidays, steeped in family traditions, are not always jolly when you are also experiencing a loss of a loved one through death or divorce, a job loss or any number of loss scenarios. Accepting what is does not negate the difficulties in finding a “new normal” for…
Habitation of Honey can be one of the means God uses to prepare the way of the Lord. As John the Baptist in the wilderness ate wild HONEY, he was growing strong in spirit for the day he would recognize the Messiah. He immersed himself in the Word of God, “honey” for his soul, so…
Are you separated from someone you love: mother, father, sister, brother, wife, husband, child, friend, pet? Separated from a career you love? Separated from a home you love? Separated from the life you thought would continue on the road you were traveling? If you are, then you are dealing with grief. Grief is the sorrow and…
The Christian believer routinely experiences periods in their life referred to as a dark night of the soul. In such times a person feels as if God has left him or her alone and God has distanced himself from the individual in this period of liminality. It is considered to be a time of trial…
Silence is often as therapeutic as conversation. Sometimes more, when there really isn’t anything to say. Healthcare with people experiencing a life-threatening or terminal illness brings daily life into a new, sharp focus. Dr. Lee takes us along on her House Calls with Jesus where she learned the art of companionable, healing visits. Her willingness…
Are you looking for a study guide to help you, your small group, or your whole church understand and practice spiritual disciplines? If so, this is the book for you. It is based on Dr. Jon L. Dybdahl’s book Hunger: Satisfying the Longing of Your Soul. Each chapter contains goals, a story from scripture providing…
Human hunger for God is intense and universal. Even if suppressed or denied, it cries out silently from the depths. Such hunger is not a wish to know about God, but rather a quest to encounter Him. People want to touch, experience, and feel the divine – not just discover facets about God. — Dr….
I co-authored this book and can say that it is about as basic a guide to prayer as you’ll get. It is designed for the person who is thinking, “I want to pray, but how do I start?”
This book is intended for both the parent newly acquainted with a child’s gay sexuality, and those parents who are still struggling to make sense out of it. It’s meant to be a reassuring book from a pastor who has been involved with these parents and issues over a lifetime. Why reassuring? Because, as you…
We carry our purses everywhere. We don’t leave home without them. They are as diverse and unique as we are. A purse can truly reflect who we are. Is it smooth, black leather or bold pink flowers? Does it hang from our arm or is slung over our back or strapped around our waist? What…
Geoffrey Lentz and Henry Neufeld, a pastor and a teacher team up in Learning and Living Scripture to present the Participatory Bible Study Method, an approach to Bible study that is rooted in the conviction that God can and will speak to us in scripture. They bring together their different experiences and perspectives to present…
