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"When Yahweh became a man, he was a homeless vagrant. He walked through Palestine proclaiming that a mysterious kingdom had arrived...He called people to follow him, and that meant walking." - Charles Foster Humans are built to wander. History...

Prayer Mountain is a practical handbook to the mountain ranges of the spiritual life. It takes us on a climbing tour of ten Biblical mountains and, with the companionship of those who have climbed them before, encourages us in our own ascent towards the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781579103071Author D A CarsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 444Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams) 608gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781725272323Author Addison Hodges HartFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

A valuable handbook for the server at all liturgical celebrations. Complete with illustrations, this volume covers in careful detail all the responsibilities and duties of the acolyte.Book InformationISBN 9780819212726Author Dennis G. MichnoFormat...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780898707755Author Peter J. KreeftFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Ignatius PressPublisher Ignatius Press

The minister's life is punctuated by unscheduled emergencies in the lives of church members or other acquaintances. Here is a resource to help deal with those occurrences seamlessly. Nelson's Minister's Manual offers fresh and creative resources to help...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830826971Author David G. PetersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 317Imprint Inter-Varsity Press,USPublisher InterVarsity PressWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933495248Author Macrina WiederkehrFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Ave Maria PressPublisher Ave Maria Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781426791581Author Rabbi Evan MofficFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Abingdon PressPublisher Abingdon Press

Knowing who God is - his character, his plans and why he wants us to pray - are essentials in building our understanding of prayer. Douglas Kelly is a distinguished theologian - he is well qualified to guide us both as a teacher and a fellow traveller,...

In the common practice of Christian churches, across many traditions, a call to worship is typically a few lines of Scripture (or a combination of Scripture texts) expressed at the beginning of a church service. The call to worship exhorts God's people...

"God has a wonderful plan by which you can have a world influence through your prayer," writes Dr. Wesley Duewel. "God has planned that ordinary Christians like you and me can become mighty in prayer for the reaping of Christ's harvest...

Of all the things we can know about J. S. Bach's Mass in B Minor and Christmas Oratorio, the most profound come from things we can hear. Listening to Bach explores musical style as it was understood in the early eighteenth century. It encourages ways of...

This ecumenical collection of prayers, liturgies and rituals seeks to illustrate the impressive creativity fo liturgy from the ground up - from congregations, groups and individuals struggling to come to terms with change and all the celebration and loss...

With the decision to provide of a scholarly edition of the Works of John Wesley in the 1950s, Methodist Studies emerged as a fresh academic venture. Building on the foundation laid by Frank Baker, Albert Outler, and other pioneers of the discipline, this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996049900Author Thomas McKenzieFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Rabbit RoomPublisher Rabbit RoomWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 137mm * 20mm

Seeks to identify and describe the continuing Christian vision, to trace its modes of transmission, and to permit it to illuminate the human context. The result is a systematic theology in the perspective of worship.About the AuthorGeoffrey Wainwright is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780800631314Author Gordon W. LathropFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Augsburg FortressPublisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 318g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780896226951Author Kate ThompsonFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Twenty-third PublicationsPublisher Twenty-third Publications

Have we replaced the glory of God with our church programs. If so, is there anything we can do to get the glory of God back into our gatherings and individual lives? While we have good music, well-written songs and history to learn from, we can still...

The seasonal liturgies at the heart of the Christian year have the ability to touch individuals and whole church communities in a way that changes lives. This companion and commentary to Lent, Holy Week and Easter offers advice on creatively using the...

Assist Our Song combines accessible teaching about the theology and shape of worship with essential information about the forms of music used, including congregational hymns, songs, canticles and psalm chant, and music performed by choirs and musicians...

Academic theology is in need of a new genre. In "Transgressive Devotion" Natalie Wigg-Stevenson articulates a theological vision of that genre as performance art. She argues that theology done as performance art stops trying to describe who God is,...

A striking book of contemporary spirituality based on the medieval writings of a woman ahead of her time, Julian of Norwich. An anchorite who lived in a monastic cell attached to a parish church, she found inspiration in the simple domestic detail of her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780827211223Author Traci SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Chalice PressPublisher Chalice PressWeight(grams) 363g

In 1549 Thomas Cranmer published the first "Prayer Book" in English. Based on a medieval form of worship, its language is both sublime and majestic. "Later Prayer Books" produced by the Anglican Communion are derived from it - and in the eyes of many are...

Christians who want to see Matthew's Gospel in a fresh and exciting way. Are you looking for a study to help you understand and use Matthew's Gospel? Will help individuals and groups to understand and use Matthew's Gospel in a small study or...

This book centres on the use of the Bible within contemporary digital social media culture and gives an overview of its use online with examples from brand-new research from the CODEC Research Centre at Durham University, UK. It examines the shift from a...

Harness the mythic power of the Celtic goddesses, gods, heroes and heroines to aid your spiritual quests and magical goals. This book explains how to use creative ritual and pathworking to align yourself with the energy of these archetypes, whose potent...

Burkert, Girard, and Smith hold important and contradictory theories about the nature and origin of ritual sacrifice, and the role violence plays in religion and culture. These papers and conversations derive from a conference that pursued the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780758655004Author Mark SengeleFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Concordia Publishing HousePublisher Concordia Publishing HouseWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798889834380Author Kellie LisiFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Fortress Press,U.S.Publisher Augsburg Fortress PublishersWeight(grams) 318g

Seed Sown is a practical and reproducible resource book for anyone who seeks to "break open" the Word of God: from those who preach every week to those who plan and lead Scripture courses and discussion groups based on the Sunday lectionary. Includes...

Christmas exerts an enormous attraction today even apart from its Christian character as a celebration of the incarnation of God in the Person of Jesus. Even marginal or indifferent Christians crowd the churches on Christmas Eve and in highly...

Singing a Hindu Nation is a study of rags>riya kirtan, a western Indian performance medium that combines song, Hindu philosophical discourse, and nationalist storytelling. Beginning during the anti-colonial movement of the late nineteenth-century,...

While much theological thinking assumes a normative male perspective, this study demonstrates how our ideas of religious beliefs and practices change in the light of gender awareness. Exploring the philosophy and practices of the Orisha traditions...

This study of controversy over the eucharist in sixteenth-century France argues that Calvinist interpretations of the Lord's Supper played a crucial role in the development of early modern revolutionary politics. Focusing on new understandings of signs...

Between Magic and Religion represents a radical rethinking of traditional distinctions involving the term 'religion' in the ancient Greek world and beyond, through late antiquity to the seventeenth century. The title indicates the fluidity of such...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556350993Author Debra Dean MurphyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...