Augsburg Fortress

Embracing God's Future without Forgetting the Past: A Conversation about Loss, Grief, and Nostalgia in Congregational Life

Embracing God's Future without Forgetting the Past helps congregations, leaders and members alike, process the grief and loss in their congregational system, and use what they have learned to adapt creatively to the changing realities they face in mission and ministry. Congregations who work through their grief over change and loss and redefine their relationship with their past can draw strength and encouragement from their memories and step boldly into God's good future with confidence.

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They Don't Come with Instructions: Cries, Wisdom, and Hope for Parenting Children with Developmental Challenges

Hollie M. Holt-Woehl offers insights for the journey with a developmentally challenged child. As the mother of a son with an autism diagnosis, she also offers ways to keep hope.

The book focuses on the challenges of parenting children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADD/ADHD), and/or Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS).

Readers who seek to understand what it is like to live with a developmentally challenged child will appreciate Holt-Woehl's down-to-earth and compassionate approach.

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Psalms: The Prayer Book of the Bible

Dietrich Bonheffer gives one of his secrets behind the powerful witness of his own life. He had learned to pray the Psalms and from them drew on the power of...

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The Good Grief Journal: A Journey toward Healing

Every loss “deserves a fitting grief,” Jill Alexander Essbaum assures journalers in The Good Grief Journal, a path toward healing for those who grieve. Each...

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Prayer: A Primer

Prayer is often identified by people of faith as of first importance in the life of faith, at the same time, it is one of the least understood and least...

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Jesus Is Enough: Love, Hope, and Comfort in the Storms of Life

When stormy trials hit us, our recollection of Jesus' faithfulness can fade as worry, anger, jealousy, fear, sickness, stress, and unforgiveness threaten to rob...

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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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Friendship with Jesus: A Way to Pray the Gospel of Mark

Build a powerful friendship with Jesus through the ancient art of contemplative prayer. Perfect for individual or group use, this guide and workbook helps...

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God So Enters into Relationships That...: A Biblical View

Respected biblical theologian Terrence E. Fretheim weaves key insights from Scripture with theological reflections on the nature and activity of God. He emphasizes for pastoral leaders the importance of using this kind of language to speak to the realities of life and faith in sermons, worship, prayers, and teaching of all kinds. Filled with helpful insights communicated in clear language, this is a must-read for all want to know more about the nature of God.

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The Essential Forde: Distinguishing Law and Gospel

This volume includes some of the most essential writings of the theologian Gerhard Forde and trace the contours of Forde's theological argument. Organized around "Law and Gospel," the selections incude historical background on that doctrinal locus and express Forde's own views of the law and the gospel, including death and resurrection, the bondage of the will, good works, preaching, and the sacraments. The volume also includes a definitive introduction to Forde's life and work.

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A Grief Received: What to Do When Loss Leaves You Empty Handed

In A Grief Received, JL Gerhardt offers a personal, authentic, and practical approach to weathering grief with hope. She draws on the loss of her younger brother when she was twenty-one and other experiences of grief. Through nine practices grieving people can adopt to position themselves to receive the gifts of grief, Gerhardt sheds light on a path to transformation. Readers will feel comforted, directed, and inspired to seek God's shaping in their grief.

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Mansions of the Heart: Exploring Seven Stages of Spiritual Growth

In Mansions of the Heart, author R. Thomas Ashbrook tells of discovering a new path of spiritual transformation and offers seekers a way to move forward on their own spiritual paths. Mansions of the Heart offers a step-by-step guide based on Teresa of Avila's seven mansions.

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Dignity and Grace: Wisdom for Caregivers and Those Living with Dementia

Whether a diagnosis of dementia--for you or for someone you are accompanying--arrives suddenly or gradually, this illness reorganizes a family's entire life. Drawing on her own experience, as well as interviews with eight family and professional caregivers, Janet L. Ramsey helps caregivers and those with impaired memories learn as they listen to each other. She also shows them how the Holy Spirit can awaken their imagination and understanding while they discover how to live with dementia.

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Recalling Our Own Stories: Spiritual Renewal for Religious Caregivers

Recalling Our Own Stories, which author Edward P. Wimberly describes as “a spiritual retreat in book form,” is designed to help clergy and religious caregivers...

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Tracks in the Straw: Tales Spun from the Manger

In a memorable Christmas book full of surprises and wonder, Loder offers 15 nativity stories and fables that bring forth an amazing set of characters, animals,...

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Good Grief: The Guide and Devotional

This two-book pack, Good Grief: The Guide and Devotional, offers Good Grief, a foundation for understanding the natural process of grieving, along with The Good Grief Devotional, which provides valuable insights and wise companionship for reflecting on the experience.

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40-Day Journey with Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou is hailed as one of the great voices of contemporary literature, having authored twelve best-selling books, including I Know Why the Caged Bird...

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Soul Weavings: A Gathering of Women's Prayers

These rich, strong prayers reflect the needs and experiences of women of all ages. They are gathered from historic and contemporary women of faith from around...

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40-Day Journey with Julian of Norwich

The volumes in the 40-Day Journey series invite readers to take a spiritual journey with a great spiritual guide from the past or the present. In this volume,...

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Leading Lessons: Insights on Leadership from Women of the Bible

Asequel to Porter's first book, Leading Ladies, which explored how the Bible supports women in leadership, this volume delves deeper, providing insights into...

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