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Finding the Right Words: Offering Care and Comfort When You Don't Know What to Say

Practical suggestions for offering care and comfort. Bockelman discusses many common situations and provides guidelines for using Scripture and sharing your faith as you reach out to others.

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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The Forgotten Books of the Bible: Recovering the Five Scrolls for Today

You're probably missing out on some of the most interesting books of the Bible. In the Jewish tradition, the five books known as the Five...

In the Bleak Midwinter: Forty Meditations and Prayers for Advent and Christmas

Once again, well-known and beloved author Herbert Brokering offers spiritual nourishment, this time based on Christina Georgina Rossetti's Christmas carol,...

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A Song to Sing, A Life to Live: Reflections on Music as Spiritual Practice

In A Song to Sing, A Life to Live, Don and Emily Saliers help readers see the connections between Saturday night music and Sunday morning...

Good Grief: 50th Anniversary Gift Edition

For fifty years Good Grief has helped millions of readers, including NFL players and a former first lady, find comfort and rediscover hope after loss. Now this...

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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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Stretch and Pray: A Daily Discipline for Physical and Spiritual Wellness

In this book, Finck provides a step-by-step guide to forty stretches, movements, and postures to improve physical and spiritual well-being. The book features...

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Winter Grief, Summer Grace: Returning to Life after a Loved One Dies

Compassionate exploration of feelings that come with a loved one's death. Simple, affirming activities for discovering renewal in the midst of grief. ...

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Book of Christian Prayer: Gift Edition

More than 150 prayers help Christians express needs and praise in conversations with God.

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Love in a Time of Climate Change: Honoring Creation, Establishing Justice

Love in a Time of Climate Change issues a call to readers to develop a loving response to climate change, which harms the poor, threatens...

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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The Seven Last Words of Christ: The Message of the Cross for Today

Ideal for devotional reading and group study or for use as a preaching resource. Each meditation is accompanied by hymns and poetry that enlarge the possible...

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Life among the Lutherans

Based on Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon monologues, Life among the Lutherans is a collection of stories about the struggles of ordinary people in an imperfect...

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A Graceful Life: Lutheran Spirituality for Today

The author understands spirituality to be the attitudes, convictions, and practices that give a definite shape to religious faith. Further, he asserts that...

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This Risen Existence: The Spirit of Easter

Although Easter is the most significant event in the Christian year, we rarely take time to explore what it means in detail. Best-selling author, Paula Gooder, leads us on a biblical exploration of the resurrection through seven weeks of reflection.

Grief: Contemporary Theory and the Practice of Ministry

The experience of grief has been a source of intrigue and curiosity throughout history, and it continues to stimulate thought and theory in various fields of...

Jobs Lost, Faith Found: A Spiritual Resource for the Unemployed

Jobs Lost, Faith Found is for those who feel alone due to job loss. It is also for those who offer respect, companionship, guidance, and resources to the unemployed. Mary C. Lindberg draws on her family's experience of unemployment and the wisdom of many others to help readers discover a sense of worth and purpose on their way to a new job. Prayers, insights, stories, and reflections take readers from uncertainty to hope.

One Anothering, Volume 1: Biblical Building Blocks for Small Groups

Eleven sessions, based on such themes as "love one another," "bear one another's burdens," "submit to one another," and "encourage one another." Includes...

When Your Baby Dies: Through Miscarriage or Stillbirth

The loss of a baby is one of the most acute losses a person can experience. In this helpful book, Louis A. Gamino and Ann Taylor Cooney address both...

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