Personal religious testimony and popular inspirational works

Last Call is a book of poems that explores the journey and search for our elusive God.

Each year, society cycles back around to the all-important date of December 25.

Every disciple imagines Jesus; reading the Gospels we form images of him and of his surroundings.

Elders Lead a Healthy Family explores the biblical paradigm for shared leadership: elders as the spiritual "e;big brothers"e; and shepherds to the family of God.

With this collection of meditative, personal, memoir, and lyrical essays and narrative poetry, Connie T.

The ancient rhythm of night becoming day becoming night again has always set the tempo of our everyday lives.

The ethics of the Bible can be summarized in one word: love.

The fastest growing age group in the United States and Canada is seniors.

Following the death of her best friend since high school, a religion professor re-examines her own personal beliefs about god.

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Preparing for ministry involves more than the acquisition of certain skills.

The messages in this book contain words of encouragement for anyone who is struggling with a physical affliction or a wide variety of other life altering challenges.

Pastor Blackstone is once again on a spiritual journey to the subcontinent of India.

Can faith be an idol?

Scientists have constructed a vast and wonderful objective universe by building on the "e;quantitative"e; features of their experience.

Mistakes, disappointments, suffering, and heartbreak can prevent us from growing physically, emotionally, even spiritually, or they can propel us to a new way of life.

In The Only Mind Worth Having, Fiona Gardner takes Thomas Merton's belief that the child mind is "e;the only mind worth having"e; and explores it in the context of Jesus' challenging, paradoxical, and enigmatic command to become like small children.

During the 1950s, a seven-year-old boy from a church-going family in a Texas suburb has a night-time vision of Jesus.

Imagine being able to connect everything you do in life with God's dream of shalom.

Learn to paint, learn to see--it will change your life.

Pastor Payne Donovan was weary to the bone.

"e;If only we were a Christian country again!

The poems in Things Not Seen are by turns playful, witty, and serious.

The need to train Christian missionaries was an afterthought of the Protestant missionary movement in the early nineteenth century.

Ministry is challenging, complex, and costly.

In the last twenty years, Orthodox Catholics have come to expect their art to be necessarily about beauty.

What the scientific community dismisses as a mental disorder, Christians have often labeled "e;demon possession.

Psalms for the Poor talk back to the blunt and beautiful phrases of the King James Bible.

You are writing a new chapter in the story of your life.

Suicide, depression, eating disorders, and other mental health illnesses have dramatically increased among adolescents in recent decades.

All ministry leaders concern themselves with the intersection of Jesus-centered ministry and contemporary culture.

The call towards transformation lies at the heart of the Christian message.

We are the author of our own lives.

"e;The world is our parish and all her creatures our congregation.

Border crossing is a significant experience in the global era when many people cross borders, whether in cultural, geopolitical, relational, or existential terms.

The 2010 earthquake in Haiti buried Renee Splichal Larson in concrete rubble, killing her husband and leaving her a widow at age 27.

Throughout her academic career, Christine D.

Throughout the history of the church, many excellent books have been written addressing the theological significance of Christian identity.

This book is intended to encourage the use of comparative theology in contemporary Buddhist-Christian dialogue as a new approach that would truly respect each religious tradition's uniqueness and make dialogue beneficial for all participants interested in a real theological exchange.

Christian womanhood.

This book seeks to press the wisdom of Proverbs into active duty in the trenches of everyday life and put the principles of character formation in working clothes.

Between these covers, in the form of poems and prayers, is condensed the insight and spirituality of a life lived fully in South Africa, a country first in struggle and then in transition.

How do you introduce people to Jesus Christ who have had no contact with the Bible or its message?

Are you are a busy Christian trying to navigate the demands and values of a culture moving at hyper speed?

We sometimes say that Muslims and Christians are part of Abraham's family, but while you can choose your friends, you cannot choose your family.

This collection of poetic reflections is a rich resource for a faithful imagination.

How do we create places and spaces for deepening our spiritual lives?

"e;All of us ought to be ready to laugh at ourselves,"e; wrote theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, "e;because all of us are a little funny in our foibles, conceits, and pretensions.

A spirit runs through the interdisciplinary essays of this book--a spirit that lives within them and hovers above them, at once intelligent and profoundly simple.