Religion Education

Bring the bible home for deeper devotional use and understanding. Bible Smarts provides for each book an overview of its authorship and historical setting, plus its stories and themes.

In Your Part in the Great Plan, the famous New Age seer, Michael X. Barton, has put together a course of instruction that was given to him by the illustrious Venusian thinker, Valiant Thor (otherwise known as the "Stranger at the Pentagon").

In The Serpent Fire, Raymond A. Bernard, PhD, explains the ins and outs of kundalini, with an eye towards its many rejuvenating benefits for modern men and women.

Whether it's heaven or hell, you create your life. If you are always struggling with your finances, relationships, health, and career, life is hell. Once you learn how to let everything flow and materialize with ease, life can be heaven. By and large, most people find life to be a struggle. The reason for this is that they were never taught that life can be easy, and they were never taught how to bring about the ease, comfort, safety, and peace that makes life a rich, rewarding, and joyous experience.

Learning how to teach scripture with power Bible studies is often the best way to introduce someone to knowledge of the Lord. This book shares nearly 40 years of experience in leading Bible studies to you. It shows you how to proceed so that the Holy Spirit can actually lead your Bible study. This is the only way you can actually be used to transform people's lives. We have no power in ourselves except for the power of God which lives in us. You need to learn to tap that power - allowing it to flow through you to touch people and transform their lives.

A suburban Boston school unwittingly started a firestorm of controversy over a sixth-grade field trip. The class was visiting a mosque to learn about world religions when a handful of boys, unnoticed by their teachers, joined the line of worshippers and acted out the motions of the Muslim call to prayer. A video of the prayer went viral with the title "Wellesley, Massachusetts Public School Students Learn to Pray to Allah". Charges flew that the school exposed the children to Muslims who intended to convert American schoolchildren.

Spirituality in Patient Care has earned a reputation as the authoritative introduction to the subject for health professionals interested in identifying and addressing the spiritual needs of patients. The body of research on religion, spirituality, and health continues to grow at a dramatic rate, creating an urgent need for a new edition of this landmark work. In this, the third edition, Harold G. Koenig, M.D., updates every chapter by incorporating the newest research and introducing sensible ways of translating that research into caring for patients.

In today’s fast-paced digital world, I know how it feels like to be sad, lost, or sometimes even depressed. Anxieties of how you’re never good enough creeps in. I want you to know that it’s all normal and that out of the ashes, you shall rise and become stronger than ever. I’ve created Self Help Bible bundle to help people like you and me who have been struggling with these same issues for years.

Life is a gift, brimming with seemingly endless possibilities. Often, our days are filled with joy and purpose. But life can change in an instant, plunging us into a sea of chaos and fear as our faith is tested. Perhaps we are going through a prolonged season of suffering that feels like it will never end—and we spiral into the depths of despair. No matter our season of life, we're meant to live in a way that glorifies God. We're meant to find joy, hope, and peace in the midst of suffering.

Sonja Stewart and Jerome Berryman have taken the needs of children into account and devised an exciting method for introducing three- to seven-year-olds to the wonder of worship. Their approach, which integrates religious education and worship, has been presented at numerous workshops and training sessions. Based on the authors' experiences, the methods described here will be invaluable to teachers helping children understand and appreciate worship.

In this ten-session Bible study, Faith Under Fire: Exploring Christianity’s Toughest Questions, Lee Strobel hosts interviews and debates between knowledgeable and passionate experts discussing what they believe and why they believe it. This dynamic study answers tough questions about the existence of God, Christianity and Islam, the reliability of the Bible, faith and science, and many others issues. Each session highlights leading Christian and non-Christian voices engaging in forceful but fair debate.

How can a loving God allow evil? Aren't all religions basically the same? Hasn't evolution disproved Genesis? Isn't it judgmental to tell other people their beliefs are wrong? Maybe you've heard questions like these from friends, neighbors, or coworkers...maybe you've wondered them yourself. And you probably know how quickly conversations about such topics can spiral into heated arguments. That's why it's so important to provide reasoned answers to the tough questions the world is asking - so you can speak more knowledgeably, lovingly, and persuasively about what you believe.

Why shouldn't growing older be rewarding? Johann Christoph Arnold, whose books have helped over a million people through life's challenges, shows us the spiritual riches that age has to offer. Now in his 70s, Arnold finds himself personally facing the challenges of aging with grace. Rich in Years covers the significant topics facing the aging, the elderly, and their family and caregivers: accepting changes, combatting loneliness, and continuing on with purpose and hope.

It’s a good question to ask since there are plenty of misconceptions regarding what caused the Crusades, let alone what actually took place during their duration. In this audiobook, we seek to clear up many of these questions and provide you with a concise and accurate history of the Crusades. Much of the history of the Crusades has been obscured through the years through opinionated conjecture. We attempt to set the record straight in as unbiased a portrayal as possible.

Jared Dees, creator of the popular website The Religion Teacher, shows how applying the steps of lectio divina to teaching can reorient religious education toward encountering the person of Christ rather than merely sharing information about him. In Christ in the Classroom, Catholic author and speaker Jared Dees applies the five steps of lectio divina - reading/learning, meditation, prayer, contemplation, and action - to the ministry of catechesis.

Shabana Mir's powerful ethnographic study of women on Washington, D.C., college campuses reveals that being a young female Muslim in post-9/11 America means experiencing double scrutiny—scrutiny from the Muslim community as well as from the dominant non-Muslim community. i>Muslim American Women on Campus illuminates the processes by which a group of ethnically diverse American college women, all identifying as Muslim and all raised in the United States, construct their identities during one of the most formative times in their lives.

An audiobook about our travels in a motor home across America and life. An inspirational audiobook about this great country, its people, our faith, selling everything we own, and following His plan, picking up the pieces after a death of a child, even going to heaven and living to tell about it...a story for everyone! At the end, a segment to answer questions as to the costs of RVing full-time, a how-to-do-it, and other important information before hitting the road.

The heart has its own field of consciousness, and it is vast. As a 30-year student of consciousness, Dr. Alison J. Kay wrote Reasonable Dragons for you to see and feel the magical capacities that are becoming re-awakened now, as we move out of the Age of Reason and into the Age of Humanity’s Spiritual Awakening - for a synergistic blend of ancient wisdom and the new sciences. In this audiobook, you will: Get activated to take intuitively inspired action, shift from chaos to assisting the birth of higher consciousness, and much more.

Embark on an enlightening expedition into the essence of divine majesty with The Glory Unveiled: Discovering the Power and Blessings of Glorifying God and Christ. Authored by Curtis A. Carter, this book offers a deep dive into understanding and experiencing God's glory. Through compelling narratives and reflections, Curtis provides a robust framework for listeners to explore and apply the profound truths about God’s presence and favor in their lives.

Alan shares inspiring and exciting stories about his life...from childhood, through 30+ years in the music industry working with some of the most famous personalities in the record industry - people like David Bowie, Johnny Cash, Bernie Taupin, Bill Aucoin (creator of KISS), famed producers, Phil Spector, and Tony Camillo, among others. Alan tells how God reveals Himself...and then talks to you about how you can develop your own personal and indescribably rewarding relationship with the Creator of all things; explaining how you may find The Way!