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  • Parenting in the Pew: Guiding Your Children into the Joy of Worship, By Robbie F. Castleman
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    Parenting in the Pew

    Guiding Your Children into the Joy of Worship

    by Robbie F. Castleman
    Read by Heidi Rew

    Over 100,000 Copies Sold!

    "Daddy, I'd like you to meet my children."

    That's Robbie Castleman's attitude about taking her children to church. She believes that Sunday morning isn't a success if she has only managed to keep the kids quiet. And she knows there's more to church for kids than trying out their new coloring books. Children are at church for the same reason ...

  • The Spiritually Vibrant Home: The Power of Messy Prayers, Loud Tables, and Open Doors, By Don Everts
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    The Spiritually Vibrant Home

    The Power of Messy Prayers, Loud Tables, and Open Doors

    Lutheran Hour Ministries Resources

    by Don Everts

    We all long for homes where we can thrive and flourish. What does it take to have a spiritually vibrant household?Don Everts invites us to contemplate what the Bible says about households and consider what a new research project has revealed by pulling back the curtains on everyday households of faith. Original research from the Barna Group and Lutheran Hour Ministries shows that ...

  • Improvising Church: Scripture as the Source of Harmony, Rhythm, and Soul, By Mark Glanville
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    Improvising Church

    Scripture as the Source of Harmony, Rhythm, and Soul

    by Mark R Glanville

    Word Guild Award Winner—Academic

    Englewood Review of Books Best Theology Book of the Year

    Plenty of books diagnose our post-Christian malaise. Here's a dynamic solution.

    The post-Christian cultural turn is creating the conditions for a crisis of confidence in the church and in pastoral ministry. While such changes can be disruptive ...

  • The Mission of the Body of Christ, By Russ Ramsey
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    The Mission of the Body of Christ

    Retelling the Story Series

    by Russ Ramsey

    "God had not just sent his Messiah into the world. He had sent him to them. They were known. In all their guilt—intended and unintended—they were known and invited to find refuge in the grace of God, accomplished through the life, death, and resurrection of his Son. And the church continued to grow."

    Jesus sent his followers into the world. Russ Ramsey's dynamic narrative traces the ...

    Number of Studies: 31

  • Disaster Ministry Handbook, By Jamie D. Aten and David M. Boan
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    Disaster Ministry Handbook

    by Jamie D. Aten and David M. Boan

    FEMA Community Preparedness Award

    When disasters happen, people turn to local churches as centers for response and assistance. When floods or tornadoes devastate an area, or when shootings and violence shock a community, knowing what to do can be the difference between calm and chaos, courage and fear, life and death. But few churches plan in advance for what they should do—until ...

  • Beyond Ethnic Loneliness: The Pain of Marginalization and the Path to Belonging, By Prasanta Verma
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    Beyond Ethnic Loneliness

    The Pain of Marginalization and the Path to Belonging

    by Prasanta Verma

    Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award Finalist

    "So what are you? Go back where you belong!"

    Majority white American culture has historically marginalized people of color, who at times feel invisible and alienated and at other times are traumatized by oppression and public discrimination. This reality leads to a particular kind of aloneness: ...

  • 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 ...

  • A Shared Mercy: Karl Barth on Forgiveness and the Church, By Jon Coutts
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    A Shared Mercy

    Karl Barth on Forgiveness and the Church

    New Explorations in Theology

    by Jon Coutts
    Foreword by John Webster

    Christians regularly ask God to "forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors," but tend to focus on the first half and ignore the second.

    Something is missing if Christians think of mission only in terms of proclamation or social justice and discipleship only in terms of personal growth and renewal—leaving the relational implications of the gospel almost to chance. It ...

  • Parenting in the Pew: Guiding Your Children into the Joy of Worship, By Robbie F. Castleman
    Paperback

    Parenting in the Pew

    Guiding Your Children into the Joy of Worship

    by Robbie F. Castleman

    Over 100,000 Copies Sold!

    "Daddy, I'd like you to meet my children."

    That's Robbie Castleman's attitude about taking her children to church. She believes that Sunday morning isn't a success if she has only managed to keep the kids quiet. And she knows there's more to church for kids than trying out their new coloring books. Children are at church for the same reason ...