Author: Wallace, Robert Publisher: Abingdon Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This resource is designed especially for people who are asked, on short notice, to lead a brief devotional or worship service. It's also an excellent way for worship leaders, teachers, and program lea...
Author: Libatique, Kelly Publisher: Eloquent Books Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Synopsis: Is it a "sin" to drink wine or alcohol? What does the Bible really say on the subject? Did Jesus drink wine, make water into wine, or was "wine" in biblical description and verse a non-alcoh...
Author: Scifres, Mary A. Publisher: Abingdon Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "The Abingdon Worship Annual offers fresh worship planning resources for pastors and worship leaders. The Abingdon Worship Annual addresses the need worship planners have for ideas for the written and...
Author: Justo L Gonzalez Publisher: Abingdon Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: This book helps beginning theological students grasp the basics of Christian theology. Consciously avoiding the perspective of one school of thought or confessional tradition, the authors provide the ...
Description: Contemporary worship continues to gain strength as the form of worship of choice for many churches across the country. The Art of Worship is a complete resource to which a musician or pastor can turn ...
Author: Carter, Kenneth H., Jr. Publisher: Abingdon Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Alternative and creative liturgies and sermon helps for the service of baptism. Few services are more important in the life of the congregation than the service of baptism. In this volume pastor and ...
Author: Walker, Robert M Publisher: Abingdon Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Blessings of the Cross invites you to explore God’s hope and presence presented in the scripture readings for Lent and Easter. Key Bible readings call us to praise God as we contemplate God’s rede...
Author: William H. Willimon Publisher: Abingdon Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: In Calling & Character, Willimon lays out a clear and compelling picture of the pastoral life, one that will inform both those embarking on ordained ministry and those who have been in it for many yea...
Author: Zimmerman, Martha Publisher: Bethany House Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: This popular guide explains how families and churches can celebrate seven Hebrew festivals to enhance their understanding of the message of the Bible.,"This unique book brings deeper meaning to seven ...
Author: Beckwith, Sarah Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Through her fascinating series of readings of texts such as The Book of Margery Kempe , Beckwith develops a materialist analysis of religious texts showing the vital cultural work they do.
Author: Various Publisher: Abingdon Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: The study manual guides daily reading in Scripture and in the book of readings, encourages daily prayer, provides space for taking notes for use in weekly group discussion, includes explanation of and...
Author: Adam Hamilton Publisher: Abingdon Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: This book is excellent for individual reading or can be used as the small group study book for the Christianity's Family Tree DVD based study. Adam Hamilton is, in my opinion, a national treasure. ...
Author: Wallace, Robin Knowles, Publisher: Abingdon Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book gives four alternative ways to offer Communion for Sunday morning worship and liturgies for special Communion services.Communion is an essential part of the life of the worshipping community...
Author: Navarro, Kevin J. Publisher: Baker Books Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: In this concise and clearly written handbook, worship leaders from every denomination and musical style will find a wealth of information on how to develop their leadership skills and improve the effe...
Author: Navarro, Kevin J. Publisher: Baker Books Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Just as diners visit a fine restaurant anticipating the ambiance and meal to come, so first-time guests and members alike come to church to experience the presence of God. In this follow-up book to Th...
Author: Ward, Graham Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The book sets out to address and answer three questions from the point of view of Christian theology. The first is, from where does theology speak? The second is, what are the mechanisms whereby cultu...
Description: Contains reproducible pages of puzzles, dot-to-dots, word searches, and crosswords. These activities help teach Bible verses, Bible skills, and Bible messages. For use as arrival activities for Sunday...
Author: Wilson, Len Publisher: Abingdon Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "Assists church leaders in moving past a dated multimedia or audio-visual mentality when producing media for worship. The digital culture values story and experience, which means that producers of eW...
Author: Zschech, Darlene Publisher: Bethany House Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: "When church historians reflect on the worship revolution that happened around the turn of the 21st century, Darlene Zschech will be credited for playing a major role," Bill Hybels says. While challen...
Author: White, William R. Publisher: Abingdon Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Written by a creative preacher, an innovative sermon series on the seven deadly sins that demonstrates a variety of sermon styles. "White has woven biblical stories, folktales, and personal experience...
Author: Joiner, F. Belton Publisher: Abingdon Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany Services includes biblically-based sermons, suggested scriptures, children's time, hymn and prayers, as well as litanies for lighting the Advent wreath. Also included ...
Description: In a brief introductory chapter, the author addresses the question of why we need to confess our sins, and offers three reflections in response: Sin as Pride, Sin as Violation of Boundaries, Sin and t...
Author: Mosser, David Publisher: Abingdon Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Handy, helpful prayers to use in public worship during Advent and Christmas. The collection includes invocations, opening prayers, prayers of confession, and pastoral prayers for the Sundays of Sunday...
Author: O'Regan, James Publisher: James O'Regan Format: Adobe PDF
Description: What Liturgical Performance accomplishes is a workable approach to liturgy-as-event without a text-based analysis. It presumes that both theatre and liturgy are performing arts among the great variety...
Author: Wirzba, Norman Publisher: Brazos Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Sabbath is one day a week when we should rest from our otherwise harried lives, right? In Living the Sabbath, Norman Wirzba leads us to a much more holistic and rewarding understanding of Sabbath-keep...
Author: Paul L. Escamilla Publisher: Abingdon Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: These 25 brief, thoughtful meditations by Paul Escamilla are organized in five topics: The Good Book, The Good Life, the Good Work, The Good Society, and The Good Earth. Whether read privately or with...
Author: Joyner, F. Belton, Publisher: Abingdon Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Part of a pastor's role in the community is to pray publicly. The pastor is often the official "pray-er" at all kinds of community events--the high school football game, the opening of the new grocery...
Author: Sample, Tex Publisher: Abingdon Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A guide to how the church can faithfully understand and employ new technologies to communicate the gospel to the generations formed by electronic culture.When it comes to communicating the gospel thro...
Author: Hostetter, B. David Publisher: Abingdon Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "Pastors and worship leaders know that one encounters God through the reading of Scripture in worship. They sometimes have difficulty, however, in integrating the day's readings from the lectionary wi...
Author: Hostetter, B. David Publisher: Abingdon Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "Pastors and worship leaders know that one encounters God through the reading of Scripture in worship. They sometimes have difficulty, however, in integrating the day's readings from the lectionary wi...
Author: Wiersbe, Warren W. Publisher: Baker Books Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Respected Bible teacher Warren Wiersbe defines the essence of worship and discusses the key issues surrounding this often controversial topic within the church.
Author: Douglas, Doe Publisher: Douglas Doe Format: Adobe PDF
Description: For the average church goer or person, worship generally refers to the activities that takes places within the confines of a church building, usually on a Sunday morning. For the average pentecostal o...
Author: Luke Timothy Johnson Publisher: Abingdon Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Luke Timothy Johnson begins his study of the practical issue of how decisions are made in the church by admitting to a bias: that there ought to be a connection between what the church claims to be, a...
Author: Schmit, Clayton J. Publisher: Baker Academic Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Historic changes are occurring in the convergence of worship styles throughout the Christian church. Christians across the theological spectrum are seeking to learn from their own tradition's roots an...
Author: Miller, Dianna Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: These meditations have helped many teenagers grow in their faith and love for God. It teaches them the importance of spending time in prayer and living a meaningful Christian life. I used them on a we...
Author: Kalas, J. Ellsworth Publisher: Abingdon Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: In this follow-up to his book The Thirteen Apostles, popular author J. Ellsworth Kalas focuses on several women of great faith who were crucial, in ways both obvious and understated, to the story of t...
Author: Wallace, Robin Knowles Publisher: Abingdon Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: In this concise introduction, Dr. Knowles Wallace gives practical worship and preaching suggestions for each season of the Christian year as it relates to the Revised Common Lectionary. She describes ...
Author: Pfaff, Richard W. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This is the first comprehensive historical treatment of the Latin liturgy in medieval England. Richard Pfaff constructs a history of the worship carried out in churches - cathedral, monastic, or paris...
Description: Synopsis: The Prayer of Silence provides a strikingly new, easy to learn, and effective method of meditation and prayer. ----- A Near Death Experience in 1966 opened an area of spiritual awareness wh...
Author: Weber, Robert Publisher: Abingdon Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Rob Weber stresses the importance for a church leader in our current multi-sensory and multi-cultural society to lead through engaging people in the multisensory world of images. This kind of leaders...
Author: Cherry, Constance M. Publisher: Baker Academic Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: There are many books available on the topic of worship today, but few provide a comprehensive, practical method for worship design. Constance M. Cherry, a worship professor and practitioner, provides ...
Author: Webber, Robert E. Publisher: Baker Books Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: With the many models of worship available, choosing a style to worship God can be a bit overwhelming. Is it better to go with traditional or contemporary models? Christians may find themselves asking ...
Author: Scifres, Mary J. Publisher: Abingdon Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Special Services Just in Time! offers preachers and worship leaders a ready resource for holidays throughout the calendar year. These services are suitable for a variety of worship styles from traditi...
