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The Good Grief Devotional: 52 Weeks toward Hope

A wise, honest companion for the journey through grief

The Good Grief Devotional offers wise, honest companionship to those who struggle with the death of a loved one, a divorce, the loss of a job, or another major life transition.

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Practicing Our Faith: A Way of Life for a Searching People

Practicing Our Faith offers help to Christians who are asking how our faith can help us discern what we might do and who we might become. Practices are shared activities that address fundamental needs of humankind and creation and that, woven together, form a way of life. The twelve practices explored in this book are practices that human beings simply cannot do without, particularly at this time in history.

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More Cat Psalms: Prayers My Cats Have Taught Me

Inspired by Brokering's observations of cats, each of these whimsical, playful psalm-meditations is written in the "voice" of the cat and expresses what...

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Grievers Ask: Answers to Questions about Death and Loss

In his counseling work, Harold Ivan Smith has heard all the questions?even the most obscure, personal, and difficult ones?that occur to grievers...

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The Measure of a Man

Why nonviolence matters Eloquent and passionate, reasoned and sensitive, this pair of meditations by the revered civil-rights leader contains the...

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When Your Child Dies: Healing, hopeful words for grieving parents

The loss of a child is something no parent is prepared to face. Drawing on her experience as a counselor, Theresa Huntley gives grieving parents tools to...

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I Can Do No Other: The Church's New Here We Stand Moment

Author Anna M. Madsen's book is a fresh and challenging look at the legacy of Martin Luther and the new reformation that is calling people of faith to action today. She makes a compelling case that justice, anchored in justification, is our new Reformation moment, one not inconsistent with Luther's theology, but weighted differently to address the different weighty concerns of our day. A study guide is included to encourage group conversation and action.

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Prayer: Expanded Edition

Is your personal prayer life giving you problems? Read this book. It will clear your mind about your need for prayer and strengthen your will to do it....

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Surviving the Bible: A Devotional for the Church Year 2020

Using the annual lectionary as his guide, Christian Piatt has developed a devotional that allows us to read through major parts of the Old and New Testaments. Every week has four Scripture readings, glossary terms, deeper thoughts, and a closing prayer. Start anywhere. Set it down and come back to it. Use it as an in-depth study guide or a daily devotional. There's no "wrong way" to use Surviving the Bible.

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Crazy Book: A Not-So-Stuffy Dictionary of Biblical Terms, Revised and Expanded Edition

Very similar in tone and organization to Crazy Talk, the authors of Crazy Book unleash their passion, faith, and humor. This time they have their sights on the...

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Stretch and Pray, DVD

While on a pilgrimage trek through Thailand, Finck discovered the benefits of daily stretching and quiet prayer. On the physical level, after only one week, the...

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When You Are Depressed

Depression comes in many forms and can affect virtually anyone. It can separate you from God, alienate your friends and family, and make you feel like a...

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Preaching from the Old Testament

Walter Brueggemann shows Christian preachers how to consider the faith witnessed in several Old Testament traditions and to help them discover rich and suggestive connections to our contemporary faith challenges. He claims that sustained engagement with the Old Testament is worth the effort for the preacher. This volume is part of the new Working Preacher Books series designed to provide timely and compelling books on biblical preaching. God uses good preaching to change lives.

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Helping Children Grieve, revised edition: When Someone They Love Dies

This straightforward book helps adults talk to children in meaningful ways, nurturing their faith and building their emotional strength during a time of...

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When Your Child Loses A Loved One: A how-to guide for every parent

Talking with a grieving child may put a parent at a loss for words. In this brief guide, Theresa Huntley leads parents through a child's grief process,...

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How to Human: An Incomplete Manual for Living in a Messed-Up World

How to Human is a tender and irreverent take on one of life's most fundamental questions: how to be a better human in a world dead set against it. Alice Connor offers sage, no-nonsense wisdom, encouraging you to embrace the chaos and see life as an experiment--not a quest for the right answers.

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Carrying Them with Us: Living through Pregnancy or Infant Loss

Carrying Them with Us: Living through Pregnancy and Infant Loss is a reflection on what pastors David M. Engelstad and Catherine A. Malotky have learned...

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Strength to Love: Gift Edition

"If there is one book Martin Luther King, Jr. has written that people consistently tell me has changed their lives, it is Strength to Love." So wrote Coretta...

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Seasons of Grief and Healing: A Guide for Those Who Mourn

Drawn from Jim Miller's best-selling Winter Grief, Summer Grace, this book includes all the helpful features of the original—a compassionate exploration...

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Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep: Actions, Prayers, Poems, and Songs for Bedtime

Now children everywhere can share some peaceful moments with this new collection of activity prayers and quiet conversations with God. Charming full-color...

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