'Calm' is a guidebook written for United Methodist churches and church leaders to help them proactively make decisions and deal with conflict. Working throu...
We're all searching. Sometimes the search is easy: simply type a question and the answer pops up. But sometimes our questions are complicated, and the answers are difficult to see and harder to ...
Making Disciples is a 13-session mentor-based confirmation program that pairs confirmands with adult mentors and guides them through a variety of learning experiences that will strengthen the st...
In Light of the World: A Beginner's Guide to Advent, author, professor, and biblical scholar Amy-Jill Levine explores the biblical texts surrounding the story of the birth of Jesus....
The go-to worship planning resource for all who plan weekly worship. The Abingdon Worship Annual 2023 is a practical, lectionary-based resource for leaders who are responsible for pla...
Clearly defines duties, procedures, equipment and key words. Includes line drawings of vestments and a nondenominational certificate.Clearly defines duties, procedures, equipment and key ...
Preachers and students of preaching need help communicating hope! They want their sermons to communicate the promises of scripture, so that people can envision a new world in which their lives w...
Read the Bible for the first time - again. In Bible Stories for Grown-Ups: Reading Scripture with New Eyes pastor Josh Scott looks at familiar Bible stories and reveals new details an...
Read the Bible for the first time - again. In Bible Stories for Grown-Ups: Reading Scripture with New Eyes pastor Josh Scott looks at familiar Bible stories and reveals new details an...
Learn to awaken to God's Spirit today and every day by studying the Book of Acts with Melissa Spoelstra. Whether it's because of distractions, busyness, or a case of the blahs, we can exper...
How may we describe United Methodists? Where do we come from? What do we believe? How do United Methodists act? What are our distinctive characteristics? Wh...
We all experience setbacks. Loss, failure, and even tragedy are part of life. But when these start to define us, it's time to regroup. Roger Ross teaches th...
Not Forsaken: Growing up Black, Male and Christian in the Hood encapsulates principles author Chris McNair gleaned from successfully working with at-risk African American boys in the inner c...
For more than 200 years, Methodists have shared God's love with the world and relieve human suffering by offering healing, hope, and holiness everywhere. Serving Faithfully Amid the Tensions tel...
The Bible is the best-selling, most widely read, and most quoted book in history. It is also misunderstood, misquoted, and fiercely debated. If, as Christians believe, the Bible is the Word of God,...
Traditioned innovation is a habit of being and living that cultivates a certain kind of moral imagination shaped by storytelling and expressed in creative, transformational action. Moral imagina...
While some people might become pastors to offer counsel, I expect that many pastors see counseling as a daunting, disorienting, and even dreaded part of the job. It can even be scorned by some who ...
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