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Have you opened all the gifts God has for you? When it comes to studying spiritual gifts of the Holy Spirit, service gifts might seem less fascinating than power gifts like healing or miracles. But look again. Think how the humble graces of service work hand-in-hand with the full range of supernatural power gifts. Did you know the gift of encouragement could stir the voice of prophecy? Administrative gifts can be empowered by distinguishing of spirits. Hospitality opens the door to healing. Words of wisdom enrich ministry. Intercessory prayer ministry can be divinely super-charged with ...

In this practical and inspiring book, Willow Creek Executive vice president and teaching pastor Nancy Beach speaks to women with God-given gifts of leading and teaching. Sharing from her thirty-year journey in a local church, Nancy offers guidance on such issues as: character development, earning respect, finding your voice, managing work and personal life, and forming an intentional support network.

In this sequel to his best seller, The Myth of a Christian Nation, Dr. Gregory Boyd issues a clear call to manifest God’s beauty and revolt against evil—with Jesus’ life as our example. Passionate theology and practical insight combine to create a guidebook for simple, radical, Christlike living.

Prince Siegfried comes of age and celebrates his 21st birthday in the palace gardens. The next day he is to finally choose his future bride at the court ball. Near the castle, on the shores of Swan Lake, the beautiful swan girl Odette emerges from the water in the moonlight. She is actually a princess transformed by the magician Rothbart. Siegfried is overwhelmed by her beauty and immediately swears his eternal love and loyalty. The curse of the evil wizard Rothbart is now supposed to be broken, but he has his own plans for Odette.

A confession and manifesto from a senior leader in the emerging church movement, A Generous Orthodoxy calls for a radical, Christ-centered orthodoxy of faith and practice in a missional, generous spirit. Brian McLaren argues for a post-liberal, post-conservative, post-protestant convergence, which will stimulate lively interest and global conversation among thoughtful Christians from all traditions.

What's your favorite Christmas movie? Easter movie? Pentecost movie? Casual viewers and movie buffs alike have favorite movies to watch at certain times of the year. But for film critic Abby Olcese, movies with spiritual themes aren't just limited to the holiday season. They're part of a deep human need to connect our favorite stories to the natural rhythms of our lives, and to let them shape and give meaning to our experience of the seasons all year long.

ALSO AVAILABLE IN LARGE PRINT Get ready to immerse yourself in centuries of history! Discover Venice's past and its tremendous legacy of beauty, churches, museums, and stunning mansions. Get to know the lagoon city everybody loves with this comprehensive guidebook for cultured travelers. Learn the story behind such world-famous landmarks as St. Mark's Square St. Mark's Basilica The Bell Tower The Clock Tower The Grand Canal, with its beautiful bridges The historic mansions And many more. Please note that this is a historical guide. It does not include lists of hotels and restaurants, nor ...

The church was once the place where great art was commissioned, performed, and displayed but Protestant churches grew out of the Reformation. The Protestants wanted simple services with little embellishment and that was the tradition the Puritans brought to America. That tradition influenced church liturgy well into the twentieth century but the times are changing. While reason may have been the driving force in the formation of early American churches, many people of this age desire a spirituality that is embodied. They want to express themselves emotionally as well as intellectually. They...

Church Growth: The State of the Art is a comprehensive, up-to-date overview of the latest trends in church growth. Featuring twenty-two articles written by fifteen pastors and church leaders, this book offers valuable information about how you can expand your church’s outreach and spiritual growth. From computers to evangelism, lay ministries, organic growth, church planting, consultation, social networks, the power of faith, and the work of the Holy Spirit, Church Growth: The State of the Art aims at one goal: quality ministry that gets results.

The story of five best-selling novels beloved by evangelicals, the book industry they built, and the collective imagination they shaped. Who are evangelicals? And what is evangelicalism? Those attempting to answer these questions usually speak in terms of political and theological stances. But those stances emerge from an evangelical world with its own institutions - institutions that shape imagination as much as they shape ideology.

Gentleness is a beautiful quality. It is essential to all true character. Nobody admires ungentleness in man or woman. When a man is harsh, cold, unfeeling, unkind, and rude and rough in his manner, no one speaks of his fine spirit. When a woman is loud-voiced, dictorial, petulant, given to speaking bitter words and doing unkindly things, no person is ever heard saying of her, “What a lovely disposition she has!” She may have many excellent qualities, and may do much good, but her ungentleness mars the beauty of her character. No man is truly great who is not gentle. Courage and ...

Hansel and Gretel are sent into the forest by their mother to collect berries as a punishment. The siblings get lost in the twilight and discover the gingerbread house of an old ugly witch. She enchants the children and wants to bake them into gingerbread. Hansel and Gretel use their wits to save themselves and push the wicked old woman into her own oven. The children are finally found by their worried parents, who are looking for them in the forest. In the end the family is happily united.

The official book for the Church Lady Art series by Janie McGee. A colorful book of artwork and prayers to inspire and uplift. This series reflect black women and men lifting up Jesus in everyday genre. Prayers to encourage your day as you enjoy the sreis Church Lady.

Ronald Blythe (1922-2023), author of the inimitable Akenfield, was a prolific and poetic chronicler of rural and spiritual life, nature and literature. He spent a joyful century close to his Suffolk roots, time travelling in his imagination and publishing forty books and thousands of essays. His wide creative network included John and Christine Nash, Cedric Morris, Benjamin Britten, E. M. Forster, Patricia Highsmith and Richard Mabey.

When Father Bredder gets involved with murder—Heaven only knows what will happen next... In the 11th and final book in the Father Bredder series, Pierce Pearson, a condescending art collector and playwright is robbed by King Diamond, who has a long police record, who’s searching for “A Corner of Paradise.” But things go horribly wrong when Diamond ends up dead, and Pearson wounded. All clues lead to Father Bredder’s good friend Lt. Minardi’s estranged daughter and new husband (whom Minardi does not like). Because he’s too close to the suspects, Minardi is taken off the case, ...

Some people might measure the success of a church by how many members it has or how big the offering is. The real success of a church is measured by the poetry, the paintings, the sculptures, the engravings, and most importantly the relationships, the love for God, and the devotion to God that the Chapel has inspired. Ransom Canyon Memorial Church does just that. A church that God built through the prayers and faith of many volunteers, skilled craftsmen, artists, poets, sculptors, engravers, workers, and painters. Ransom Canyon Memorial Church inspires people to love God and to love each ...

ALSO AVAILABLE IN LARGE PRINT Get ready to immerse yourself in centuries of history! Discover Florence's past and its tremendous legacy of beauty, churches, museums, and incomparable masterpieces by the greatest artists of all time. Get to know the cradle of the Renaissance with this comprehensive guidebook for cultured travelers. Learn the story behind such world-famous landmarks as The Florence Cathedral Brunelleschi's Dome Giotto's Campanile The Baptistery of St. John Ponte Vecchio And many more. Please note that this is a historical guide. It does not include lists of hotels and ...

Stephen Robert Cass has been playing and mixing songs in church and for bands for over 50 years. He has 14 album projects and hundreds of studio hours as a musician and producer and wants to help produce your next song demo or worship team mix. Find your new mix philosophy with the five key methods. Take charge behind the mixing console, physical or digital. These five keys, plus two bonus strategies with immediate results for a professional mix, will inform and prepare you, instilling the confidence you need to manage a multitrack recording or a live band.

On Easter Eve 1955, young Connecticut priest Father Hugh Osgood gets a disturbing visit to his confessional and soon finds himself plunging against his will into a world of high-end art thievery and murder - and a mystery that only he can solve. Enlisting the help of a couple of old hometown friends (including Anibel Moss, the still-hard-to-resist love of his life), he sets out to piece together the deadly puzzle. But just as he begins, the strangest thing happens - one by one, the stolen paintings - first a Manet, then a Monet, then a Degas - start coming back, an unheard-of twist that ...

Churches are many things to us—they are places of worship, vibrant community hubs and oases of calm reflection. To know a church is to hold a key to the past that unlocks an understanding of our shared history. Andrew Ziminski has spent decades as a stonemason and church conservator, acting as an informal guide to curious visitors. Church Going is his handbook to the medieval churches of the British Isles, in which he reveals their fascinating histories, features and furnishings, from flying buttresses to rood screens, lichgates to chancels.