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  • How to Understand Your Bible, By T. Norton Sterrett and Richard L. Schultz
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    How to Understand Your Bible

    by T Norton Sterrett and Richard L. Schultz

    Have you ever felt like you can't make sense out of the Bible but wished you could? Then this book is for you.

    Starting from scratch, Norton Sterrett presents the general rules for reading the Bible's ordinary language andmoves on to specific principles that apply to special types of language such as parables, figures of speech, Hebrew poetry and symbols.

    Richard Schultz ...

  • The Sisters' Guide to In-Depth Bible Study, By Victoria L. Johnson
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    The Sisters' Guide to In-Depth Bible Study

    by Victoria L. Johnson

    Do you want to study the Bible on your own but find yourself overwhelmed by complicated, cumbersome study methods?Are you a group leader looking for exciting resources to bring new life to your teaching?Is your time in the Word dry and lifeless, or do you find Scripture hard to understand?Victoria Johnson--a busy speaker, teacher, author and mother--has discovered an easy-to-follow method that has ...

  • The God Conversation: Using Stories and Illustrations to Explain Your Faith, By J. P. Moreland and Tim Muehlhoff
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    The God Conversation

    Using Stories and Illustrations to Explain Your Faith

    by J. P. Moreland and Tim Muehlhoff
    Foreword by Lee Strobel

    Think of It This Way . . .Our beliefs are challenged from many directions. Every day it seems more difficult to explain to our friends, families and neighbors what we believe and why. When our ideas and arguments fail to persuade them, what then?Is there another approach we can take?In The God Conversation veteran apologists and communicators J. P. Moreland and Tim Muehlhoff say that often ...

  • Small Group Starter Kit, By Jeffrey Arnold
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    Small Group Starter Kit

    LifeGuide Bible Studies

    by Jeffrey Arnold

    Do you want to build significant relationships, grow in your knowledge and understanding of Scripture, and learn how to reach out to others? Do you wonder how to begin? In this easy-to-use LifeGuide® Bible Study guide Jeff Arnold provides you with everything you need for the first meetings of a small group. Getting acquainted, setting expectations, studying Scripture--it's all here in ...

    Number of Studies: 6

  • A Peculiar People: The Church as Culture in a Post-Christian Society, By Rodney R. Clapp
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    A Peculiar People

    The Church as Culture in a Post-Christian Society

    by Rodney R. Clapp

    • Voted one of Christianity Today's 1997 Books of the Year

    Christians feel increasingly useless, argues Rodney Clapp, not because we have nothing to offer a post-Christian society, but because we are trying to serve as "sponsoring chaplains" to a civilization that no longer sees Christianity as necessary to its existence. In our individualistic, technologically oriented, ...

  • Disability and the Church: A Vision for Diversity and Inclusion, By Lamar Hardwick
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    Disability and the Church

    A Vision for Diversity and Inclusion

    by Lamar Hardwick
    Foreword by Bill Gaventa

    IVP Readers' Choice Award

    Lamar Hardwick was thirty-six years old when he found out he was on the autism spectrum. While this revelation helped him understand and process his own experience, it also prompteda difficult re-evaluation of who he was as a person. And as a pastor, it started him on a new path of considering the way disabled people are treated in ...

  • Everywhere You Look: Discovering the Church Right Where You Are, By Tim Soerens
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    Everywhere You Look

    Discovering the Church Right Where You Are

    by Tim Soerens
    Foreword by Walter Brueggemann

    What's the point of the church anyway?

    The emerging generation is opting out of the church in large numbers. They're embarrassed at how the church is portrayed in the media and dismayed at what appears to be their options for participation. Is church really necessary anymore in our day? Is it even possible?

    Tim Soerens sees this unsettled state of affairs as an extraordinary ...

  • Messy Easter: Three Complete Sessions and a Treasure Trove of Ideas for Lent, Holy Week, and Easter, By Jane Leadbetter
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    Messy Easter

    Three Complete Sessions and a Treasure Trove of Ideas for Lent, Holy Week, and Easter

    Messy Church Series

    by Jane Leadbetter

    Chocolate bunnies, marshmallow chicks, colored eggs, and baskets are a lot of fun, but is that really what this season is all about?The new resource Messy Easter offers your church a tool to bring together people of all ages and stages of faith for a unique come-as-you-are experience of

    • creativity—allowing space for all to play and create
    • celebration—worshiping ...

    Number of Studies: 3

  • Preaching in an Age of Distraction, By J. Ellsworth Kalas
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    Preaching in an Age of Distraction

    by J. Ellsworth Kalas

    Preaching's Top Books on Preaching

    Let your eyes look straight ahead; fix your gaze directly before you.Give careful thought to the paths for your feet and be steadfast in all your ways.— Proverbs 4:25-26

    Preaching is difficult enough under the best of circumstances. But what are we to do when it seems that all of us—hearers and preachers alike—are constantly ...

  • Ministering in Honor-Shame Cultures: Biblical Foundations and Practical Essentials, By Jayson Georges and Mark D. Baker
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    Ministering in Honor-Shame Cultures

    Biblical Foundations and Practical Essentials

    by Jason Borges and Mark D. Baker

    Many a Westerner has had a cross-cultural experience of honor and shame. First there are those stuttering moments in the new social landscape. Then after missed cues and social bruises comes the revelation that this culture—indeed much of the world—runs on an honor-shame operating system. When Western individualism and its introspective conscience fails to engage cultural gears, how can we shift ...