Cokesbury Small Group Essentials for Lent & Spring 2021

Small Group Study Essentials for Lent & Spring 2021

Achieve a richer UNDERSTANDING of the Christian FAITH THROUGH THE CROSS INSIDE C ATA LOG New & Notable for Lent/Easter............2–5 New & Notable......................................6–11 Women’s Studies.................................12–17 Men’s Studies............................................18 Small Group Studies...........................19–26 Stewardship...............................................26

Adult Bible Studies.............................27–29 Youth..........................................................30 Amplify.......................................................31 Cultural Studies.........................................32 Conversation Starters........................33–42 Lent/Easter Studies............................43–49 Conversation Starters Lent/Easter...50–54

Family Activities for Lent/Easter.............55 Congregational Devotions.................56–57 Leadership...........................................58–60 Preaching Reference................................61 Worship......................................................62 Study Bibles...............................................63

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about the study The cross is the central symbol of the Christian faith. In this study, Magrey deVega faithfully describes the need for reconciliation between humankind and a holy God through Jesus’ death on the cross.

The Bible uses many images to understand the meaning of Jesus’ death and resurrection, and deVega guides us through these images to achieve a richer understanding of the Christian faith.

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Explore why Jesus died on the cross and how it brings us salvation.

As Christians, we’re taught that Christ died on the cross to bring us salvation. We know this, but do we understand it? What exactly did Jesus do to save us from our sins? Was the cross really necessary? Could there have been another way?

In Savior: What the Bible Says about the Cross, you’ll be introduced to several biblically based ways of understanding Jesus’ death on the cross that may go beyond the explanations you’ve heard before. By exploring the mystery of salvation through the cross, you’ll find a deeper love for God and others while strengthening your commitment to follow Jesus.

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Components for the six-session study contain all the tools pastors, group leaders, and study groups need to make sense of Jesus’ death and resurrection. They include the book; a Leader Guide with session outlines for each group meeting with Scripture, prayer, opening activity, discussion questions, activity, and ending call to action; and a six-session DVD featuring Magrey deVega guiding participants through the study.

The Virtual Leader Kit has a downloadable, editable Leader Guide for virtual classes with tips for creating meaningful discussion and community online. Also includes art and graphics for promotion and staying in touch with members.

Abingdon Press.

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NEW Savior What the Bible Says About the Cross Magrey R. deVega

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about the author Susan Robb is the Senior Associate Minister at Highland Park United Methodist Church in Dallas, Texas, where she has been part of the church staff for 17 years. God’s call to ministry led her to pursue a Master of Divinity degree at the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University. She graduated Magna Cum Laude in 2006 with an award in Homiletics. Her area of expertise lies in writing and teaching Bible studies, and exploring the idea of listening to and responding to God’s call.

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NEW Seven Words Listening to Christ from the Cross Susan Robb

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Examine the last seven words of Christ on the cross this Lent.

The most difficult part of Lent is, of course, contemplating our Savior on the cross: the physical pain, the humiliation, and the undeniable injustice. Our hearts break. It’s natural to try and avoid the reality of how Jesus died, but it is from the cross that Jesus shows his deepest love for us. As Jesus draws his final breath and utters his last words, it is then that his deep trust in the Father and his divine glory are revealed.

In Seven Words, Susan Robb looks at Christ’s final words from a biblical and historical perspective, showing how we can find life and hope in them.

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In addition to the book, components for this six-week Lenten study include a DVD featuring Susan Robb guiding participants through the study and a comprehensive Leader Guide containing everything you need to guide a group through the six-week study including session plans, activities, and discussion questions, as well as multiple format options.

The Virtual Leader Kit has a downloadable, editable Leader Guide for virtual classes with tips for creating meaningful discussion and community online. Also includes art and graphics for promotion and staying in touch with members.

Abingdon Press.

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about the study What if the Ten Commandments were not just a set of ancient rules, but a guide to experiencing the good life today? A landmark work from one of our most trusted biblical thinkers, Words of Life is an inspiring, thought-provoking read for anyone seeking to live a meaningful and joyful life.

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Nearly everyone has heard of the Ten Commandments, the list of “thou-shalt-nots” found in the Bible. Jesus saw these commandments not as onerous burdens, but as guideposts to help us experience a good and beautiful life.

In this study, best-selling author Adam Hamilton brings modern eyes to the most important set of ethics in history. He looks at the commandments in their historical context, considering the meaning of each in Hebrew, how Jesus reinterpreted them, and how each was intended to point to a life-giving “thou shalt.” He also explores how the latest research in science and psychology illuminates these commandments as a way of ordering one’s life in the present day. In a culture marked by workaholism, materialism, and social media-driven envy, God has given us a SS21

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The study includes a Leader Guide with multiple format options; a DVD with Adam Hamilton guiding participants through the study; a Youth Study Book that interprets the ideas in the book for young people grades 6-12; and a Children’s Leader Guide (grades K-2 and 3-6) with games, activities, craft ideas, and reproducibles.

The Virtual Leader Kit has a downloadable, editable Leader Guide for adults; tips for creating meaningful discussion and community online; art and graphics for promotion; and promo video.

Abingdon Press.

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time-tested path that leads to gratitude, confidence, and peace.

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NEW Words of Life Jesus and the Promise of the Ten Commandments Today Adam Hamilton

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about the author Jen Hatmaker is the author of the New York Times bestsellers For the Love and Fierce, Free, and Full of Fire.

Jen hosts the award-winning For the Love podcast, is the delighted curator of the Jen Hatmaker Book Club, and she leads a tightly knit online community where she reaches millions of people each week. Jen is a co-founder of Legacy Collective, a giving community that grants millions of dollars around the world.

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NEWLY REVISED Simple and Free 7 Experiments Against Excess Jen Hatmaker

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Simple and Free is the true story of how Jen (along with her husband and five children) identified seven areas of excess— food, clothes, spending, media, possessions, waste, and stress—and made seven simple choices to fight back against the modern-day diseases of greed, materialism, and overindulgence.

So, what’s the payoff from living a deeply reduced life? It’s the discovery of a greatly increased connection with God—a call toward simplicity and generosity that transcends social experiment to become a radically better life.

In this new edition, written not just for readers of faith but for everyone who craves a gentler, simpler life, Jen shares how sustainability and generosity still impact and challenge her today. Now annotated throughout with new reflections from

the author, Jen offers thoughtful insights as she reflects on the vastly different world of Simple and Free back when it was first published as 7, and considers the dramatically different space she occupies now. Simple and Free is funny, raw, and not a guilt trip in the making. Come along and discover what Jesus’ version of rich, blessed, and generous might look like in your life.

In addition to the book, the nine-week study Simple and Free: Staging Your Own Experiment Again helps readers delve deeper into solutions and practices for their own seven areas of excess.

The Study Guide walks readers through these excesses and equips them with practical tools with which to create solutions, making this a way of life, not just an experiment. The Guided Journal helps readers simplify the excess in their lives in practice, not just wishful thinking.

Convergent. Coming in April.

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Hardcover Book $24.00; $17.29 Study Guide $15.00; $10.99 Guided Journal $16.00; $11.79

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about the study Courage is the foundational virtue required to live the vital life Jesus offers his disciples. We can look at the Jesus life in Luke’s gospel, we can see him proclaim his mission, cast out demons, confront authorities, refuse to back down, pick up his cross and make the greatest sacrifice of all. “Courage” is a word Luke never uses to describe Jesus, yet we can see it in every action Luke describes. Once we claim courage in our lives, we can begin to find the remarkable life Jesus offers us.

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NEW Courage Jesus and the Call to Brave Faith Tom Berlin

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As Christians, we do our best to live our lives as Jesus lived, following the examples of his many virtues—including honesty, faithfulness, and generosity. But one virtue that is often overlooked is courage.

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Throughout Jesus’ life, he was called upon to be brave: in the face of his enemies, when being tempted, and certainly at the time of his death. By examining the life of Christ, we can begin to understand what true courage is and how God works in our lives when we exhibit a brave faith.

In Courage: Jesus and the Call to Brave Faith, pastor and author Tom Berlin challenges us to unlock the courage that we already possess as Christ followers, and in doing so, we can begin to find the remarkable life Jesus offers us.

Although the book is a standalone resource, additional components for a six-week study include a comprehensive Leader Guide and a DVD featuring Tom Berlin guiding participants through the study.

Abingdon Press.

9781791015244 Book $16.99; $11.49 9781791015268 Leader Guide $14.99; $9.99 9781791015282 DVD [CC] 6 videos; 10–12 min. each $39.99; $31.99

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about the study Chris McNair, author of Abingdon’s Young Lions project, leads Christ’s Children Ministries in Minneapolis.

The ministry’s focus is mentoring at-risk African American boys. This new study includes content for ministry leaders as well resources for teaching and leading young men. Centered on instilling a sense of identity in Christ, the study encapsulates successful principles that Chris has gleaned over thirty years in addressing the social, emotional, physical, and spiritual issues of Black boys in the inner city.

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Learn how to engage with inner city African American young men for Christ.

Chris McNair has worked with at-risk African American boys in the inner city for over thirty years of ministry. Although all youth

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The seven-session study includes a Participant Guide with Leader Helps and a DVD with activities and discussion questions and features leadership helps from Chris for use with youth—as well as stories from Chris’ graduates—that can be used in flexible and creative ways.

Abingdon Press. Coming in March.

9781791000004 Leader Guide with Participant Helps $19.99; $13.49 9781791000028 DVD 7 session videos; 5–7 min. each; plus additional art videos; 2–3 min. each $39.99; $31.99

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Sometimes we confuse the idea that we are all equal with the idea that we are all the same. Being equal and being alike are two entirely different concepts.

may be created equal, he learned that we must discern how to address the social, emotional, physical, and spiritual issues facing young Black men in order to build a relational ministry.

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about the study 1 Corinthians is one of the most gripping books in the Bible. In 1 Corinthians: Searching the Depths of God, Jaime Clark-Soles examines the teachings of Paul—the complicated, layered apostle—as he addresses church history, the logic of the cross, spiritual gifts, death, afterlife and the resurrection, human sexuality, and the joys and challenges of living in community.

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NEW 1 Corinthians Searching the Depths of God Jaime Clark-Soles

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In 1 Corinthians: Searching the Depths of God, Jaime Clark-Soles explores these topics and the awe-inspiring, breathtaking world of the first-century church. In this six-week study, you will learn to look at 1 Corinthians from a variety of viewpoints and apply its lessons to your own faith.

Become a fool for Christ with 1 Corinthians.

Additional components include a comprehensive Leader Guide and a DVD featuring the author.

1 Corinthians is basically a letter Paul wrote to a people who were trying a wild new social experiment known as a Christian community. Centuries later, our churches deal with many of the same issues Paul addresses: factions, sexual immorality, gender issues, money concerns, theological questions, lawsuits, problems in worship, and problems in leadership.

9781501891434 Book $16.99; $11.49 9781501891458 Leader Guide $14.99; $9.99 9781501891472 DVD [CC] 6 videos; 10–12 min. each $39.99; $31.99

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about the author Eric Huffman is the founder and lead pastor of The Story Houston and host of the “Maybe God with Eric Huffman” podcast. He graduated from Centenary College in 2001, received his M.Div. from Saint Paul School of Theology in 2006, and was ordained as an elder by the Missouri Conference in 2011. Eric is passionate about leading new generations to know God’s transforming love through Jesus Christ.

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NEW Scripture and the Skeptic Miracles, Myths, and Doubts of Biblical Proportion Eric Huffman Understand the Bible by interpreting it through the lens of Jesus’s life, death, and resurrection.

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In Scripture and the Skeptic, Eric Huffman helps readers understand and cope with confusion about the Bible and provides answers to questions by interpreting the entire book through the lens of Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection.

He illustrates how the Bible—even the parts some consider ungodly—presents a perfect and seamless story: the beautiful story God intended to tell. Each chapter includes questions to stimulate personal reflection or group study.

Abingdon Press.

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If you find reading the Bible a struggle, it’s okay. You’re not alone.

We believe the Bible is the Word of God, but why is it so complex and difficult to interpret? It doesn’t help that we hear others who

misunderstand and misquote the Bible. And defending the Word can lead to unwanted, fierce debate.

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about the author Barb Roose is a popular speaker and author who enjoys teaching and encouraging women at conferences and events across the country, including the Aspire Women’s Events, She Speaks, and many more. She is the author of numerous books and Bible studies including, Surrendered Devotional; Winning the Worry Battle; Enough Already; Surrendered; I’m Waiting, God; Joshua; and Beautiful Already. Barb blogs regularly at BarbRoose.com and hosts the “Better Together” Facebook Live events and podcast.

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NEW Breakthrough Finding Freedom in Christ Barb Roose

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For some reason, many women feel they must be the perfect wife, the perfect mother, the perfect sister, daughter, employee… the perfect Christian. Why do we feel we must constantly measure up to be good enough for God? In this six-week study of Galatians, Barb Roose shows us that even the believers in the early church struggled to let go of rule-keeping in order to embrace God’s free gift of grace. We’ll learn that the Galatians had the same performance issues we

do. Learn to stop trying to measure up in God’s eyes and instead accept God’s grace, distinguish between lies and truth, and embrace God’s promise of freedom.

A Participant Workbook, a Leader Guide, and DVD, each sold separately, complement this six-week study. The Leader Bundle contains one of each component listed.

Abingdon Press. Coming in April.

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about this study In Pursued by Jennifer Cowart, you’ll discover how God is pursuing you. Although the Bible tells many stories, the main theme is God’s relentless love for us. This six-week Bible study explores God’s great love for us from Genesis to Revelation. Through this study, women will see the big picture of God’s love for them throughout the Scriptures, discover that God wants a personal relationship with them, experience God’s relentless love for them individually, and realize that God never stops pursuing them.

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NEW Pursued God’s Relentless Love for YOU Jennifer Cowart

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In this six-week study, Jennifer Cowart explores the main theme that runs throughout the stories in the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation: God’s relentless love for us. Like Cain, Abraham, Sarah, Rebekah, David, the adulterous woman, Peter, and many others, we have broken relationship with God. Yet God runs after us anyway to bring us home.

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Components for this six-week women’s study, each available separately, include a Participant Workbook, a Leader Guide, and a DVD. The Leader Bundle contains one of each component listed.

Abingdon Press. Coming in April.

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Participant Book Leader Guide DVD [CC] 6 videos; 25 min. each Leader Bundle 1 of each above

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There is something in all of us that longs to be loved, to be desired, to be pursued—whether by a special someone, our friends, or others in our lives. This longing for love and acceptance is the underlying story of many of our lives, and it’s the overarching story we see throughout the Scriptures.

Together we will explore God’s love as evidenced in the stories of Creation, the patriarchs, the judges and prophets, Jesus, and the early church. We will see the big picture of God’s love for us, discover that God wants a personal relationship with each one of us, and realize that God will never stop pursuing us.

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about the study Whether it is in politics, the professional world, a party, or a pew, we face conflict every day. As discussions get more heated and social media is deluged with opinion-spewing, hurt feelings, and broken relationships, we need hope and practical tools to navigate the tumultuous waters and live at peace with everyone.

Fortunately, the Scriptures hold the key to living at peace despite our differences. Learn to live at peace with others even when you disagree by studying biblical stories of rivalries in Common Ground by Amberly Neese.

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NEW Common Ground Loving Others Despite Our Differences Amberly Neese

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The Friendship Initiative 31 Days of Loving and Connecting Like Jesus Amberly Neese

Conflict has always been part of our lives, but these days, disagreements seem ramped up. This study for women shows us that the Scriptures hold the key to living at peace despite our differences. The author combines stories of sibling rivalries from the Bible with personal experience, humor, and hope to illustrate how we can have peace and reconciliation in all of our relationships—all while reassuring us that it’s possible to find common ground with everyone—despite our differences.

The study features a Study Guide with Leader Helps, a DVD, and a Leader Bundle (with one of each component).

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Study Guide with Leader Helps $16.99; $11.49 DVD [CC] 4 videos; 20–25 min. each $44.99; $35.99 Leader Bundle 1 each of above $61.99; $45.99

Were there ever a time we needed true connection with others…to cultivate meaningful relationships…this is it. The Friendship Initiative, a 31-day devotional that is a great companion to Common Ground, is a great place to start. Not only will you find encouragement and practical help for connecting with others, you’ll learn how to do so following Jesus’ example. Discover 31 new keys for building relationships every day, like exercising grace, having compassion, and being present. Each daily reading includes Scripture, a reflection, practical application ideas, and suggestions for prayer that focus on loving others as Jesus did. Abingdon Press. Coming in May. 9781791015916

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authors insights “Every woman I’ve ever met feels it—something deeper than just the sense of failing at what she does.

An underlying, gut feeling of failing at who she is.” In Captivating, the Eldredges attempt to explain the very nature of what it means to be a woman: “Every woman in her heart of hearts longs for three things: to be romanced, to play an irreplaceable role in a great adventure, and to unveil beauty.”

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This revised and expanded version helps readers by providing a look into the glorious design of women; describing how the feminine heart can be restored; casting a vision for the power, freedom, and beauty of a woman released to be all she

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Let your life be transformed!

Thomas Nelson Publishing. Coming in March.

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What the book Wild at Heart does for men, Captivating: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman’s Soul does for women: sets their hearts free. The groundbreaking New York Times best-selling book has transformed the lives of millions of women.

The message of Captivating is this: your heart matters more than anything else in all creation. The desires you had as a little girl and the longings you still feel as a woman are telling you of the life God created you to live. He offers to come now as the Hero of your story, to rescue your heart and release you to live as a fully alive and feminine woman—a woman who is truly captivating.

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author insights

Melissa Spoelstra leads women on an exploration of the

We all walk through seasons of hardship that come and

many names of our triune God—from El and Elohim to

go, but what do we do if we are walking through a story

Yahweh to Abba, Jesus, and Holy Spirit. As you study the

that we can’t change? Naomi understood what it felt

names, your ideas about God will become more personal,

like to live with an unchangeable story that hurts...but it

allowing a greater trust to share the details of your life.

ends with hope. Your story ends with hope, too.

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What’s in a name? When it comes to the names of God, quite a lot, actually. In a world where we find people creating God in their own image, studying God’s names can remind us that we are created in his image. In fact, one of the best ways to know God’s true character and grow closer to God is to study his names.

Author Melissa Spoelstra’s six-week women’s study shows us that the more we become grounded in God’s many names, the more personally we’ll understand God’s character, and so through the discovery of God’s names, we will discover him!

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Components for the study include a Participant Workbook, a Leader Guide, and a DVD.

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The Names of God His Character Revealed Melissa Spoelstra

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We hear that we can write our own stories, but life can happen. The loss of a loved one, an unwanted transition, a difficult diagnosis…our stories can change in a heartbeat and suddenly we’re dealing with disappointments through no fault of our own. In the Book of Ruth, Naomi was forced to chart a new path even as she mourned the loss of her husband and two sons. It was a hard story…a story she didn’t choose or like.

Using Naomi’s story, Renewed, a four-week woman’s Bible study, teaches women to flourish through a willingness to trust that God can transform them and trade their heartache for hope. Components for this study include a Participant Workbook with Leader Helps and a DVD.

Participant Workbook 9781501878084 $16.99; $11.49 Leader Guide 9781501878107 $14.99; $9.99 DVD [CC] 6 videos; 25 min. each 9781501878121 $49.99; $39.99 Leader Kit Contains 1 of each component above 9781501878190 $79.99; $59.99

Abingdon Press.

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In her no-nonsense, authentic teaching style,

New York Times best-selling author Lysa TerKeurst helps

Hoffpauir takes you on a six-week journey through

readers address how to stop suffering from what others

the Book of First Samuel. The study encourages you

have done to them while exploring what forgiveness is,

to lose control so that you can find your soul through

what it isn’t, and how to deal with difficult relationships.

a trusting relationship with your faithful God.

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You know when you’re carrying a very full cup of coffee, and you have to really focus on keeping the cup level, and then the doorbell rings and your dog bounds through the room knocking the cup right out of your grasp? You had plans.

You were in control. Until you weren’t. And you never really were. Mary Shannon Hoffpauir says this is a great way to look at what we say and what we do. Often, we think “God is in control” but we live like we are. It takes spilling a hot, burning mess to make us realize what little control we have and how dependent on God we truly are.

This study on 1 Samuel for women of all ages includes a Participant Workbook, a Leader Guide, and a DVD. Abingdon Press.

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Have you ever felt stuck in a cycle of unresolved pain, playing offenses over and over in your mind? You know you can’t go on living like this, but you don’t know what to do next. And you just aren’t sure if you’ll ever get past it.

Lysa TerKeurst has walked this journey, wrestling with deep hurts and struggling to move forward. And she’s discovered that to find life-giving freedom we have to let go of bound-up resentment and resistance to forgiving people who have hurt us. With deep empathy, therapeutic insight, and rich Bible teaching coming out of 1,000 hours of study, Lysa will help you discover what the Bible really says about forgiveness and the peace that comes from living it out right now.

Thomas Nelson Publishing.

Hardcover Book 9780718039875 $26.99; $19.49 Study Guide 9780310104865 $15.99; $11.79 DVD Video Study 6 videos 9780310104889 $29.99; $23.99 Study Guide with DVD 9780310104957 44.99; $35.99 Hardcover Companion Prayer Journal 9781400224388 $19.99; $14.49

WOMEN’S STUDIES

Participant Workbook 9781791004354 $16.99; $11.49 Leader Guide 9781791004378 $14.99; $9.99 DVD [CC] 6 videos; 25 min. each 9781791004392 $49.99; $39.99 Leader Bundle Contains 1 of each component above 9781791007157 $79.99; $59.99

Forgiving What You Can’t Forget Discover How to Move On, Make Peace with Painful Memories, and Create a Life That’s Beautiful Again Lysa TerKeurst

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about this study John Eldredge has revised and expanded his phenomenal bestseller, Wild at Heart, and invites men to become their most complete selves by recovering their masculine heart; seeing themselves in the image of a passionate God; and delighting in the strength and wildness that they were created to offer.

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In this updated edition of the best-selling classic, author John Eldredge reminds men they need adventure in their lives . . . in their work, in their love, and their spiritual lives. He reveals how God designed men to be dangerous. Simply look at the dreams and desires written in the heart of every boy: to be a hero, to be a warrior, and to live a life of adventure and risk. Sadly, most men today have abandoned these dreams and desires—aided by a Christianity that feels like nothing more than pressure to be a “nice guy.” It is no wonder that many men avoid church, and those who go are often passive and bored to death.

In this provocative six-session video study, John Eldredge explains how God wants to heal these deep wounds from earlier years that take away a man’s confidence and—in some cases—his masculinity. He shows that deep within the heart of every man is a longing for a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue—because that is how God created him. It is time for the church to reclaim these wounded warriors. It is time to give men permission to be what God designed them to be: dangerous, passionate, alive, and free.

Thomas Nelson Publishing. Coming in March.

9781400225262 9780310129103 9780310129127 9780310129134

Book $19.99; $14.49 Study Guide $13.99; $9.99 DVD Video Study 6 videos $29.99; $21.79 Study Guide with DVD $42.99; $30.99

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author insights We most clearly see who we were created to be in the person and work of Jesus. As you prepare to embark on the coming challenges, know that in the person and work of Jesus, you have been given the blueprint necessary for the life God intended for you to live.

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A Scripture, a prayer, and a challenge for daily life are also included for each day. Components for the three-week study include a Participant Book, a comprehensive Leader Guide, and a DVD featuring Chris Folmsbee.

Abingdon Press.

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Wesley who? The Wesley Challenge not only introduces younger adults to our denomination’s founder in a practical and accessible way, it engages small groups and churches to work through twenty-one questions studied over three weeks to help renew passion and discover a deeper commitment to God. Daily posts and messages will engage physical, emotional, and spiritual lives throughout the study. Abingdon Press.

9781501832901 Participant Book 9781501832925 Leader Guide 9781501832949 DVD [CC] 3 videos; 10–12 min. each.

9781501832987 Youth Participant Book

$14.99; $10.99 $12.99; $9.99 $29.99; $24.99 $9.99; $7.99

Streaming videos for The Wesley Prayer Challenge and The Wesley Challenge available on Cokesbury.com and Amplifymedia.com. (Amplify Media available by subscription.)

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The Wesley Covenant Prayer has been used in Methodist services worldwide on the first Sunday of the year since John Wesley introduced it in 1755. Wesley expected people would pray it as a way of remembering, renewing, and surrendering themselves in complete trust to God. The Wesley Prayer Challenge invites readers to consider words from the Wesley Covenant Prayer each day for three weeks.

The Wesley Challenge 21 Days to a More Authentic Faith Chris Folmsbee

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author insights True grace is shocking and scandalous, for God does not excuse sin but always treasures the sinner. God always extends his grace to individuals regardless of what they have done—for no one is unforgiveable in his eyes. Grace thus shakes our conventions with its insistence on getting close to sinners.

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Those who suffer from depression are often stigmatized, even Christians. In this five-session video Bible study on the life of Old Testament prophet Elijah, Chris Hodges uses his trademark blend of Bible-based wisdom, practical application, and vulnerability to show us that everyone is susceptible to depression while showing us a comprehensive approach to wellness. Thomas Nelson Publishing. Coming in May. 9781400221257 9780310117513 9780310117537 9780310117544

$18.99; $ 13.79 $13.99; $9.99 $29.99; $21.79 $42.99; $30.99

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Revised and Updated Philip Yancey

Book Study Guide DVD Video Study 5 videos Study Guide with DVD

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Yancey offers compelling and true portraits of grace’s lifechanging power. He searches for its presence in his own life and in the church. He asks how Christians today can contend graciously with moral issues that threaten all they hold dear.

And he challenges each of us to become living answers to a world that desperately wants to know, “what’s so amazing about grace.”

Zondervan. Coming in May. 9780310129776 9780310129790

9780310129806

Study Guide DVD Video Study 6 videos Study Guide with DVD

$13.99; $9.99 $29.99; $21.79 $42.99; $30.99

Mountaintop Moments Meeting God in the High Places Ed Robb

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In this six-session revised and updated video Bible study, best-selling author Philip Yancey explores the concept of grace—the one thing the world cannot duplicate and the one thing it craves above all else—and explores what it looks like in action. He also examines how Christians, as the sole dispensers, are doing at lavishing the grace on a world that knows far more of cruelty and unforgiveness than it does of mercy.

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Dr. Ed Robb associates those times when we experience the power, love, and grace of God with the mountains in the Old and New Testaments and the events related to these sacred places. He shows us how their lessons can be woven into our everyday lives. In addition to the book, the six-week study includes a comprehensive Leader Guide and a DVD featuring Dr. Robb. Abingdon Press.

Book 9781501884016 $17.99; $13.49 Leader Guide 9781501884030 $14.99; $10.99 DVD [CC] 6 videos; 8–10 min. each 9781501884054 $39.99; $38.79

Streaming videos available on Cokesbury.com as well as AmplifyMedia.com (by subscription).

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about the study Don’t let your life be mired by dissatisfaction, discontentment, or disappointment any longer. In How Happiness Happens, Max Lucado looks at several “one another” statements in the Bible that reveal how the happiest people on earth aren’t those who have the most but those who are willing to give the most away.

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In this updated and expanded edition of Sacred Pathways, Gary Thomas details nine spiritual temperaments—like the Enneagram and other tools to do with personality—and encourages you to investigate the ways you most naturally express yourself in your relationship with God. Zondervan.

Book 9780310361176

$18.99; $13.79

NEW Coming in April:

Study Guide 9780310122098 $13.99; $9.99 DVD Video Study 5 videos 9780310122111 $29.99; $21.79 Study Guide with DVD 9780310122128 $42.99; $30.99

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Thomas Nelson Publishing.

NEW IN PAPERBACK Coming in May. Book 9780718074272

Also available now:

$18.99; $13.79

Study Guide 9780310105718 $12.99; $9.49 DVD Video Study 6 videos 9780310105732 $29.99; $21.49 Study Guide with DVD 9780310105749 $41.99; $27.99 Happy Today Hardcover Journal (at right) 9781400217243 $16.99; $12.29

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We strive to live Christ-like lives. We know we should be kind, loving, and forgiving, but sometimes it’s hard to know how to walk with Jesus in a more exacting manner.

When Christ Lives in Us, written in both English and Spanish by renowned author Justo L. González, explores how today’s Christians may walk with Jesus in eight specific forms and acts of ministry: calling, praying, feeding, healing, commissioning, teaching, witnessing, and giving.

This combined student/leader book includes discussion questions at the end of every chapter. Abingdon Press.

Book with Student/Leader Helps 9781501899744 $19.99; $13.49

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When Christ Lives in Us / Cuando Cristo vive en nosotros Justo L. González

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from the introduction The Sermon on the Mount tells us what we need to do in order to have one foot in the kingdom of heaven. More than that, it tells us that this kingdom is already available to us, already manifested when we enact God’s will on earth as it is done in heaven.

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a solid knowledge of Hebrew Scriptures and moral teachings.

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In this six-week study based on Matthew 5–7, Dr. Amy-Jill Levine explores the major topics in the most popular sermon ever delivered, providing historical and theological context and using

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Abingdon Press.

9781501899898 Book $16.99; $11.49 9781501899911 Leader Guide $14.99; $9.99 9781501899935 DVD [CC] 6 videos; 10–12 min. each $39.99; $31.99 9781791009151 Devotional Book. Toward the Kingdom of Heaven: 30 Days of Readings on the Sermon on the Mount $14.99; $9.99

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about the study

about the study

This study on the book of Hebrews connects

The book of Proverbs invites people to grow in

God’s grace in our lives with the call to

wisdom—biblical wisdom—in order to

invest ourselves in God’s mission.

journey down the right path.

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There is a lot of talk these days about “the good life.” It’s not a new topic—the Book of Proverbs talked about just that. Its sayings and bits of wisdom were collected to make the lives of people just like us run a little more smoothly.

In Hebrews: Grace and Gratitude, deSilva helps us discover a bold perspective on the meaning and significance of Jesus’ death and resurrection in light of the Old Testament, allowing us to hear afresh God’s call to a life of faithfulness.

Proverbs: Pathways to Wisdom explores the biblical book’s well-known verses and prevalent themes in a manner that offers various interpretations, opening the way for us to see how they apply to our modern world. You’ll learn about the authorship, genre, and historical setting for each of these verses, which will broaden your understanding and bring more meaning to familiar passages.

Additional components for a four-week study include a comprehensive Leader Guide with session plans, activities, and discussion questions, as well as multiple format options; and a DVD featuring David deSilva guiding participants through the study.

Additional components for a four-week study include a comprehensive Leader Guide with session plans, activities, and discussion questions, as well as multiple format options; and a DVD featuring Dominick Hernández guiding participants through the study.

Abingdon Press.

Abingdon Press.

Book 9781501896101 $16.99; $12.99 Leader Guide 9781501896125 $14.99; $10.99 DVD [CC] 6 videos; 10–12 min. each 9781501896149 $39.99; $31.99

Book 9781501894299 $16.99; $12.99 Leader Guide 9781501894312 $14.99; $10.99 DVD [CC] 4 videos; 10–12 min. each 9781501894336 $39.99; $34.99

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about the study

about the study

In this eight-session video study, Sandra Richter

Walk more closely with God with the

connects the scholarly with the practical as we learn

boldness and the zeal of the apostles. Learn

what the Book of Psalms is, how it was utilized

to experience God’s faithfulness and guidance

in Israelite worship, and why the Book of Psalms

by joining the journey with Jesus’ followers.

remains critical to our devotional lives today.

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Sandra Richter brings our ancestors in the faith to the table where we learn from them in a cross-cultural experience bridging historical and modern day life. This eight-session study of the Book of Psalms masterfully mixes scholarly and practical teaching through the most-known wisdom Book of the Bible.

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Experience the Psalms with fresh connections to contemporary worship and devotional practices. Indulge in the biblical study of the Psalms from a scholar and former pastor. Letting Sandra do the “heavy lifting” of research and translation allows you to experience the Bible in a deeply sensitive way, answering the evergreen question, “so what does this have to do with me today?”

Zondervan. Coming in April.

Study Guide 9780310120520 $16.99; $12.29 DVD Video Study 8 videos 9780310120544 $39.99; $28.79 Study Guide with DVD 9780310120667 $55.99; $40.49

Acts Catching Up with the Spirit Matthew L. Skinner

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There’s no better explanation for how to live out the Great Commission—following the instruction of the resurrected Jesus Christ to spread his teachings to all the nations of the world—than in the book of Acts. It is a unique and crucial book that chronicles the story of God’s grace flooding out to the world through the lives of the apostles in the decades immediately following Christ’s ascension into heaven.

In Acts: Catching Up with the Spirit, author and biblical scholar Matthew Skinner explores six key themes that illustrate the ways in which reading Acts is capable of igniting our imagination about the character of the Christian gospel, the work of God’s people (the church), and the challenges of living faithfully in a complex and changing world.

Additional components for a six-week study include a comprehensive Leader Guide and a DVD featuring Matthew Skinner guiding participants through the study.

Abingdon Press.

Book 9781501894558 $16.99; $12.99 Leader Guide 9781501894572 $14.99; $10.99 DVD [CC] 6 videos; 10–12 min. each 9781501894596 $39.99; $31.99

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about the series

about the study

The 40 Days Through the Book series has been

Want to shake up the way you read the Bible?

designed to help believers more actively engage with

Take the New Testament Challenge and read

God’s Word. Each study encourages participants to

through the entire New Testament in a way

read through one book in the New Testament at

you have never experienced before, and

least once during the course of the study.

encounter God in a fresh new way.

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The 40 Days Through the Book series has been designed to help believers more actively engage with God’s Word. In Romans: In the Grip of Grace, best-selling author and pastor Max Lucado guides small-group members through Paul’s letter to the believers in the city of Rome, revealing what the apostle’s words meant to his original readers . . . and how they apply to us today.

Zondervan.

Study Guide 9780310126119 $13.99; $9.99 Video Study DVD 6 videos 9780310126133 $29.99; $21.79 Study Guide with DVD 9780310126140 $42.99; $30.99

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The New Testament Challenge is a simple but revolutionary idea: What if we gave people a New Testament with the books arranged in a disruptive yet insightful sequence, and invited them to read it all the way through?

The Study Journal includes the 40-day reading plan and journaling pages for recording thoughts, insights, and questions as you read through a special edition of the New Testament called The Books of the Bible, New Testament. By arranging the books with each of the four gospels at the beginning of a group of related books, you gain insights and make connections between books in a way that is both revealing and fascinating. The DVD Video Study RELEVANT features pastor and Bible teacher Jeff Manion.

Zondervan.

Study Journal 9780310125037 $13.99; $9.99 DVD Video Study 8 videos; 10 min. each 9780310125051 $19.99; $14.49 The Books of the Bible, New Testament, NIV 9780310448020 $14.99; $10.79 Leader’s Kit Contains one each of above 9780310125068 $47.99; $38.49

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Participants will be encouraged as they listen to Max’s teachings and, through the accompanying study guide, challenged to read the book of Romans on their own during the forty days they spend together in the study.

NEW The New Testament Challenge An Eight-Week Journey Through the Story of Jesus, His Church, and His Return Jeff Manion

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about the book This six-part study is based on Wesleyan values and helps you reach personal financial goals as well as address life concerns...money management from a Wesleyan perspective.

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Church, Money, and the New Millennium James L. Elrod, Jr.

How can churches develop a financial framework that will enhance their mission? Unfortunately, leaders of many churches—newly formed as well as established congregations—sometimes lack a firm grasp on what’s required to maintain financial equilibrium. By describing in everyday language some of the practical issues that promote (or erode) financial sustainability, this book will remove the mystery and frustration faith communities often experience when discussing their financial challenges and help create a framework that is a prerequisite for meeting any church’s missional objectives. Church Publishing. Coming in June.

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Money…is it good or bad? How do people of faith create healthy relationships with money and possessions? Saving Grace: A Guide to Financial Well-Being, adapted from the bestselling Freed-up Financial Living curriculum from Good Sense, provides the text and tools you need to address the topics of saving, earning, giving, spending, and debt, along with helpful strategies for achieving a sustainable financial life.

Includes a Participant Workbook; a Leader Guide containing session plans, outlines, discussion questions; a 40-day devotional; a Clergy Workbook addressing financial issues unique to pastors; and a DVD containing six sessions for the participant study, three sessions to complement the Clergy Workbook, plus interviews with financial experts.

Abingdon Press.

Participant Workbook 9781791008222 $22.99; $15.49 Leader Guide 9781791008390 $18.99; $12.79 Clergy Workbook 9781791008376 $22.99; $15.49 DVD 6 participant videos plus 3 clergy videos & interviews 9781791008246 $39.99; $31.99

Also available:

Devotional 9781791008413

$14.99; $9.99

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Legacy of a Lifetime A Planned Giving Implementation Resource Robert Sessum and L. Pendleton Armistead

In order for churches and related religious institutions to advance their strategic growth initiatives, a variety of funding vehicles are required, and a planned gifts program can play an important part because it offers a systematic and sustainable implementation model that is formalized, progressive, and—most importantly— volunteer-based and -driven. This manual by two successful fundraisers provides an implementation model that churches of any denomination and size can use to secure a significant number of planned gifts.

Church Publishing. Coming in April.

Book 9781640653801

$22.95; $16.79

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HOW CAN WE CONNECT OUR LIVES WITH OUR FAITH?

The world is complicated. Let’s work through it together.

FaithLink’s ready-to-use lessons connect faith to the issues and events making headlines every day.

Conveniently available as a weekly download or through a weekly e-mail subscription, you can print exactly what you need for each session. Great for regular use with small groups and adult Sunday school classes from college students to seniors, FaithLink also works as a short-term break between studies or as a quick replacement in unexpected circumstances. Cokesbury. $9.99 each issue.

EASY-TO USE FORMAT Formatted with discussion questions directly below each section to facilitate more conversation and give each lesson a more natural flow. In addition to the essay that makes up the core of each lesson, every issue includes sections highlighting Bible passages and United Methodist perspectives related to the issues presented.

LEADER HELPS The final page of each issue is designed for the session leader and includes leader helps, teaching alternatives, and an opening and closing prayer.

DOWNLOADABLE OR VIA EMAIL New weekly issues are available one of two ways: by e-mail subscription, billed monthly; or by download at Cokesbury.com/FaithLink, paid for at the time of purchase. Previous issues are also available for purchase at Cokesbury.com/ FaithLink. Call 844-291-7803 to sign up for an e-mail subscription today.

AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD WEEKLY OR BY E-MAIL SUBSCRIPTION. TO SET UP A FAITHLINK SUBSCRIPTION, CALL (844) 291-7803.

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Offering daily re and weekly less Connected Fait app that aims to with your comm

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EASY FOR PARTICIPANTS TO USE—­ANYWHERE!

FOR YOUR CONGREGATION Connected Faith was created with congregations in mind. Finding and providing fresh resources for smallgroup studies can be a challenge.

The Connected Faith Bible study app offers daily readings for individuals and weekly lessons for small groups. New units are available every three months.

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Group study can happen With Connected Faith, each person on-the-go as well, allowing can have the Bible, their study Visit www.connectedfaith.com for more information. participants to gather in different notes, a daily reading, and their spaces at more convenient times, group study in one convenient providing much-needed place: their pocket. Their daily flexibility built around the same Bible study can happen anywhere formational relationships. they are: on their commute, on their break, or even while standing in line!

HOW IT WORKS You send one access code to every participant in your church. Participants then redeem the code for unlimited access to studies in the app. Our simple pricing model was designed to suit every size church, large or small.

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LIVING IN CHRIST DOESN’T MEAN IGNORING THE WORLD WE LIVE IN

ISSUES ARE AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD WEEKLY OR BY E-MAIL SUBSCRIPTION. CALL (844) 291-7803 TO SET UP A SUBSCRIPTION. For a Free Sample, go to Cokesbury.com/LinC. A fresh, timely, and biblically based resource, LinC helps you help your teens examine relevant faith and life issues, using the latest music, movies, news, and current events. Through engaging Bible study, you’ll equip them to evaluate their world from a biblical perspective. Cokesbury.

EASY-TO-USE, FLEXIBLE LinC has everything you need to lead two 45-minute to 1-hour lessons, including background on the topic, Bible commentary, and a reproducible student page. Includes options for middle school, high school, combined middle and high school, and small groups. Each LinC lesson includes Bible prep material for teachers, a flexible lesson, learning activities, life application discussion questions, and a reproducible student handout.

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TIMELY & RELEVANT CONTENT Each week LinC uses newsmaking headlines, the latest music, movies, and current events plus sound, transforming, biblically based lessons to help you help your teens examine relevant faith and life issues. Through engaging Bible study, you’ll equip them to evaluate their world from a biblical perspective.

WEEKLY DOWNLOAD OR EMAIL Each week, LinC can be delivered through email subscription right to your e-mail inbox or your electronic device every Tuesday for $9.99 per week. (Call 844-291-7803 to set up a subscription.) You can also purchase LinC for downloading individual issues—great when looking for a small-group resource on a particular topic or event.

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praise for the book

about the book

“I love Will Willimon, and I love this book. Will writes with

Our lives change when we sit with one another and

prophetic sarcasm, a touch of humor, plenty of self-

converse. When we share our own stories and listen to

effacement, and a pastor’s heart. And his words will make

another. Real, honest, vulnerable conversation leads

you laugh, cringe, cry, confess, and repent.”

to empathy. It fosters our understanding and sharpens

—Adam Hamilton, senior pastor, The United Methodist

our convictions. It breaks down barriers and builds

Church of the Resurrection, Leawood, Kansas

surprising new relationships.

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There is a distinctively Christian way to engage the so-called “outsider” and “stranger.”

Tolerate one another. Wait. Isn’t that supposed to be love one another? It’s one thing to genuinely love people who are more or less the same as we are, but what about those who are not only strangers, but people who live completely different lives?

CULTURAL STUDIES

Reliable spiritual guide Will Willimon invites you to look more closely at the Gospel’s command to love—because to genuinely love those considered to be “Other” may be the hardest thing for people of faith to do.

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In addition to the book, a Leader Guide and a DVD are available for a 5-week, video-based, small group study.

Abingdon Press.

Book 9781501824753 $14.99; $10.99 Leader Guide 9781501857300 $9.99; $7.99 DVD [CC] 5 videos; 13–18 min. each.

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Holding Up Your Corner Talking about Race in Your Community F. Willis Johnson How do you talk about racial prejudice, entrenched poverty and exploitation, segregation, the loss of local education and employment, the ravages of addiction, and more?

Holding Up Your Corner walks you through a self-directed process of determining what role your church can play in your specific community. You’ll learn how to use testimony and other narrative devices, proclamation, guided group conversations, and other tactics in order to own the calling and responsibility we have as Christians. Examples from a wide variety of churches and leaders make this a valuable resource for everyone concerned with racial justice.

The Participant Guide includes everything pastors need to hold guided conversations about race and to organize, host, and lead a one- or two-day conversation, hosted by the church, including people from the congregation and the wider community.

Abingdon Press.

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author insights It’s uncertain that Howard Thurman made the remark often attributed to him, “I have been writing this book all my life,” but there is little doubt that he was deeply immersed in reflection on the times that bear an uncanny resemblance to the present day, which give voice to the Black Lives Matter movement.

Dear White Christians, Second Edition For Those Still Longing for Racial Reconciliation Jennifer Harvey

With the troubling and painful events of the last several years—from the shooting of unarmed Black men at the hands of police to the rallying of white supremacists in Charlottesville—it is clearer than ever that the reconciliation paradigm, long favored by White Christians, has failed to heal the deep racial wounds in the church and American society. In this provocative book, updated with new material, Jennifer Harvey argues for a radical shift away from the well-meaning but feeble longing for reconciliation toward a robustly biblical call for reparations.

Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing.

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Rudy Rasmus, editor Our “life’s book” is filled with sentence upon sentence of marginalization, pages of apartheid, chapters of separate and unequal. Now this season reveals volumes of violence against Blacks in America.

Raising White Kids Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America Jennifer Harvey

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Like many in the White community, you may think that racial tension in our country has eased…that we are more tolerant, more accepting. Events over the past few years have shown we are wrong. Our nation remains racially unjust and deeply segregated. How should we talk to children about these issues? How do we equip them to address racism when they encounter it? This book helps parents, teachers, and churches enter into a dialogue about the impact of racism on our children and offers guidance for sharing our commitment to equity and justice. Abingdon Press.

Ten Black women and men explore life through the lens of compelling personal religious narratives. They are people and leaders whose lives are tangible demonstrations of the power of a divine purpose and evidence of what grace really means in face of hardship, disappointment, and determination. Each of the journeys intersect because of three central elements that are the focus of this book. We’re Black. We’re Christians. We’re Methodists. Each starts with the fact, “I’m Black,” but to resolve the conflict of being Christian and Methodist means confronting aspects of White theology, white supremacy, and white racism in order to ground an oppositional experience toward domination over four centuries in America.

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Black and White Disrupting Racism One Friendship at a Time Teesha Hadra and John Hambrick

Working against racism is part of what it means to call Jesus Lord and Savior. Most of us don’t need to make speeches. We need to make friends. This is the core message of Black and White by authors Teesha Hadra, a young African American woman, and John Hambrick, a 60-year-old White man. The book helps us see the various and often subtle ways racism continues to be a part of American culture, but then, using their story of friendship as an example, we learn how racism can be disrupted when we risk forging friendships with those who do not look like us. Abingdon Press.

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White Lies Nine Ways to Expose and Resist the Racial Systems That Divide Us Daniel Hill More and more White Christians are awakening to the pervasive bias for White culture, ideas, and actions that shape every aspect of society. Many are eager to resist white supremacy and fight for racial equality. This thoughtful, practical guide offers ways to confront and dismantle white supremacy and promote racial justice in healthy, effective ways. Zondervan.

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NEW Methodist Mission at 200 Serving Faithfully Amid the Tensions Thomas Kemper and David Scott, editors

NEW The Black Church This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song Henry Louis Gates

This book tells stories of those who shared God’s love and offered healing, hope, and holiness even while suffering hardships and setbacks. It looks at how Global Ministries has and is living out lessons of cooperation, humility, and relationship while promoting personal, social, and cosmic transformation amid stressful situations that enrich and expand our awareness of Methodist identity in the world. Beacon Press.

From the New York Times-best-selling author and one of our most important voices on the African-American experience, comes a powerful new history of the Black church in America.

Gates takes us from his own experience onto a journey across more than four hundred years and spanning the entire country. At road’s end, we emerge with a new understanding of the centrality of the Black church to the American story.

Penguin Press.

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Be the Bridge Pursuing God’s Heart for Racial Reconciliation Latasha Morrison

Offers a clarion call for Christians to move toward relationship and deeper understanding in the midst of a divisive culture. This power-packed guide—and winner of the Christianity Today Book Award—helps readers deepen their understanding of historical factors and present realities, equipping them to serve as catalysts for righteousness, justice, healing, transformation, and reconciliation. Waterbrook Press.

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Exclusion and Embrace, Revised and Updated A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation Miroslav Volf It’s a disturbing reality that otherness— being different in some way—has come to be defined as evil. If the healing word of the gospel is to be heard today, Christians must learn that salvation comes not only as we are reconciled to God, and not only as we “learn to live with one another,” but also as we take the step of opening ourselves to the other. Abingdon Press.

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NEW Reparations

NEW Shaking the Gates of Hell

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Christians are awakening to America’s legacy of racism like never before. But American Christianity, with its tendency to view the ministry of reconciliation as its sole response to racial injustice is underequipped to offer solutions.

This book makes a compelling historical and theological case for the church’s obligation to provide reparations for the oppression of African Americans. Baker Publishing Group. Coming in April.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist—an all-American White boy and son of a long line of Methodist preachers—grew up in the midst of the Civil Rights revolution in the American South of the 1960s. In this moving and powerful book of growth and evolution, he writes of his difficult and uncomfortable reckoning with his past and his discovery of the culpability of silence within the church. Alfred A. Knopf. Coming in March.

A choral history of African Americans covering four hundred years in the voices of ninety writers, edited by Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist, and Keisha N. Blain, author of Set the World on Fire.

Penguin Random House.

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A Christian Call for Repentance and Repair Duke L. Kwon and Gregory Thompson

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NEW Religion and the Rise of Capitalism Benjamin M. Friedman

Critics of contemporary economics complain that belief in free markets— among economists as well as many ordinary citizens—is a form of religion.

In this book, one of the nation’s preeminent experts on economic policy provides a major reassessment of the foundations of modern economic thinking—one that explores the profound influence of an until-now unrecognized force—religion.

Alfred A. Knopf.

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This book features a top-notch lineup of contributors and is the first to focus entirely on cults, religious groups, and ethnocentric ideologies prevalent in the Black community. It brings the church up to speed on the legitimate issues that Blacks have with Western Christianity as well as the questions alternative religious groups pose about historic Christianity. Zondervan.

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A Community History of African America, 1619–2019 Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain, editors

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We Carry the Fire Family and Citizenship as Spiritual Calling Richard A. Hoehn

We Carry the Fire begins with actions that nurture families and citizenship, fostering present-moment satisfaction through service. This brand of spirituality results in tangible outcomes in the real world: less poverty and better health, the restoration of nature, minimization of inequality, optimization of education and opportunity, and the human spirit improved both qualitatively and quantitatively. The author shows how actively engaging in this direct and concrete work, as opposed to an abstract or elusive feeling of spirituality, provides a profound sense of meaning. Church Publishing.

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Restoring Black Dignity with the Gospel Eric Mason, general editor

A Search for Family and Truth in the Wake of the Civil Rights Revolution John Archibald

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Graves and Patai, renowned scholars of Greco-Roman and Hebrew mythology, transcend the Christian biblical and Judaic versions of these narratives, in order to redefine myth. Seven Stories.

Coming in May.

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NEW Open and Unafraid The Psalms as a Guide to Life W. David O. Taylor

Read the psalms in a fresh, life-giving way. From professor, pastor, and producer of the documentary Bono and Eugene Peterson: The Psalms, this is a devotional examination of the life of faith as presented in the Psalter—one lived in joy, sorrow, anger, doubt, fear, mortality, community, isolation, and above all in the presence of God—in order to deepen discipleship and worship. Thomas Nelson Publishing.

Coming in May.

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NEW Jesus for You

NEW The Gospels

What is the meaning of my life? What is my purpose? If you sometimes feel a disconnect between the church creeds you recite and the concrete challenges of your days, you’re not alone. In Jesus for You, best-selling authors Ravi Zacharias and Vince Vitale translate deep truths into accessible realities. They show that Jesus is not just abstractly true; he is concretely relevant to your real-life circumstances. Thomas Nelson Publishing.

In this remarkable new translation of the Gospels, Ruden treats the books of Mark, Matthew, Luke, and John with unprecedented precision, uniquely concentrating on the original words and sensitively reflecting on their historical and literary context, to give us the most accessible version of the text available to date. Succinct yet illuminating footnotes and a glossary explain the word choices that depart from the traditional. Modern Library. Coming in March.

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The One Who Meets Your Every Need Ravi Zacharias and Vince Vitale

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A New Translation by Sarah Ruden

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about the book The award-winning author of Grateful goes beyond the culture wars to offer a refreshing take on the comprehensive, multi-faceted nature of Jesus, keeping his teachings relevant and alive in our daily lives.

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Those Seven References A Study of the References “Homosexuality” in the Bible and Their Impact on the Queer Community of Faith John F. Dwyer This thoughtful analysis of the faulty rationale behind Christian anti-gay bias highlights how personhood, the intense value of our individuality, cannot be made less by a few passages of Scripture. God’s love for our uniqueness is not compromised by oft misinterpreted verses.

Morehouse Publishing. Coming in March.

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NEW Freeing Jesus Rediscovering Jesus as Friend, Teacher, Savior, Lord, Way, and Presence Diana Butler Bass “How can you still be a Christian?” This is the most common question Diana Butler Bass is asked today. It is a question that many believers ponder as they wrestle with disappointment and disillusionment in their church and its leadership. But while many Christians have left their churches, they cannot leave their faith behind.

In Freeing Jesus, Bass challenges the idea that Jesus can only be understood in static, one-dimensional ways and asks us to instead consider a life where Jesus grows with us and helps us through life’s challenges in several capacities: as Friend, Teacher, Savior, Lord, Way, and Presence.

Biblical womanhood—the belief that God designed women to be submissive wives, virtuous mothers, and joyful homemakers—pervades North American Christianity. Yet this isn’t biblical, says Baylor University historian Beth Allison Barr. It was born in a series of clearly definable historical moments—a product of human civilization that continues in the church. Barr’s historical insights provide context for contemporary teachings about women’s roles in the church and help move the conversation forward. Brazos Press.

Coming in April.

Freeing Jesus is an invitation to leave the religious wars behind and rediscover Jesus in all his many manifestations, to experience Jesus beyond the narrow confines we have built around him. It renews our hope in faith and worship at a time when we need it most.

The Making of Biblical Womanhood How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth Beth Allison Barr

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praise for the book This is beautiful and brilliant stuff, profound and plain, incredibly human, wise and charming. I trusted and enjoyed every word.

—Anne Lamott, New York Times best-selling author

NEW Prey Tell

NEW Praying with Our Feet

Addressing men and women in all work settings—within the church and beyond—popular author and podcast host Tiffany Bluhm sets out to understand the cultural and spiritual narratives that silence women and to illuminate the devastating emotional, financial, and social impact of silence in the face of injustice. Brazos Press.

Coming in March.

As a street chaplain, activist, and cofounder of Open Table Nashville, Krinks takes us on an unforgettable spiritual journey to tent cities, alleys, slums, and the front lines of movements for justice. This book challenges preconceptions about people who live on the streets, calling us to move from charity to justice and to get our hands dirty in the struggle for a better world.

With discussion questions. Brazos Press.

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Why We Silence Women Who Tell the Truth and How Everyone Can Speak Up Tiffany Bluhm

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Pursuing Justice and Healing on the Streets Lindsey Krinks

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NEW Looking for God in Messy Places A Book About Hope

By Jake Owensby

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When something breaks, it usually leaves a mess. The same is true with our broken lives. When we compare ourselves to others, stress becomes too much to handle, or when life in general overwhelms us, it’s hard to find hope inside the mess of our brokenness. Without hope we lack the courage to face adversity, the strength to tackle everyday problems, and sometimes, the will just to get out of bed in the morning.

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Looking for God in Messy Places by Jake Owensby is a book for anyone who has ever been frozen in place by loss or regret or endured suffering, cruelty, or rejection. Quite simply, it is a book about hope. How to find it. How to practice it. How to grow in it. How it makes life worth living. Because when we look for God in the middle of the mess, we find hope.

Abingdon Press. Coming in April.

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NEW Jesus for Farmers

NEW The God Beat

Climate disasters, tariff wars, extractive technologies, and debts are plummeting American food producers into a severe farm crisis. Agrarian and ethnobotanist Nabhan—the “father of the local food movement”—offers a fresh, imaginative look at Jesus’ parables to bring us into a heart of compassion for those in the food economy hit by this unprecedented crisis. Augsburg Fortress. Coming in March.

The God Beat brings together some of the finest and most representative samples of the emerging genre of New Religion Journalism—personal, subjective, and voice-driven. By curating and presenting these journalists as part of a meaningful trend, this compellingly edited collection helps us understand how we talk about God in public spaces—and why it matters—in a whole new way. Augsburg Fortress. Coming in June.

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What Journalism Says about Faith and Why It Matters Costica Bradatan and Ed Simon

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Christianity’s Surprise A Sure and Certain Hope C. Kavin Rowe

Many of us grew up in a Christian family. We “inherited” our faith. Although our faith is very important to us, it is also very familiar, common, and expected. This was not the case at the beginning of Christianity. It was surprising, powerful, creative, and world-shaking. We have developed societal amnesia and ignorance of what Christianity originally was—and what it still can be. In this book, we’ll learn to focus on the surprise of the gospel message, remembering and relearning the lifegiving power and witness that went with being Christian at the beginning. Be surprised all over again and chart a new course for your witness today. Abingdon Press.

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Life in Christ The Core of Intentional Spirituality Steve Harper

Some of us are rule followers. We rely on rules and dogmas to help us search for the life best lived...especially in the spiritual aspect of our lives. Steve Harper encourages us instead to see the spiritual life as a movement, where we are always on the way, taking steps forward to continually align our lives with Christ. He shows us how Christ can be the goal and pattern for our lives, and by living in relationship, we can live the life we long for—the abundant life God intends for us. Although Harper’s book can be used for individual study, his wealth of helps, including questions for reflection on each chapter and a discussion guide, makes it a meaningful resource for group study as well.

Abingdon Press.

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Divorce, betrayal, health issues, financial woes…many of life’s situations make us wish we could have a do-over. Of course, turning back the clock is not an option, but transforming or renewing our lives, even if it feels too late, is a definite choice. This book offers five elements that are crucial to renewal, each paired with an ancient practice that has helped people in countless cultures for thousands of years. It’s not too late. In fact, you were made for a turnaround. All you need is a heart-felt desire to see your life change and openness to the process. That’s it. The rest will be revealed along the way. Abingdon Press.

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Throughout history, God’s people have joyfully celebrated God’s deliverance and faithfulness. In happy moments, celebration happens naturally. But what about when we hit rock bottom? Celebration as a spiritual practice means living so well-anchored in the fuller story of God’s involvement with people throughout history that anticipatory faith and hope, regardless of our present circumstances, inform our thoughts, words, and actions.

Abingdon Press.

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Come Back Returning to the Life You Were Made For Roger Ross

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The Healing Practice of Celebration Elaine A. Heath

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praise for the book By turns funny, heartbreaking, and inspiring, Barbara Brown Taylor’s sermon collection Always a Guest delights in the possibilities of God and faith.... A pitch-perfect sermon collection for these anxious times. ­—Foreword Reviews

NEW The Hopeful Neighborhood Field Guide E SS N S IO Six Sessions on Pursuing the Common Good Right Where You Live Tony Cook and Don Everts

NEW Christian Minimalism

We all want our neighborhoods to flourish. But how do we pursue that?

This field guide walks you through a simple, powerful process for blessing your own neighborhood. Features six sessions for discovering the gifts of your community, imagining the possibilities, and pursuing the common good.

Includes exercises and assessments.

InterVarsity Press. Coming in March.

Logically, we all know our purpose in life is not wrapped up in accumulating possessions, wealth, power, and prestige—Jesus is very clear about that—but society tells us otherwise.

Christian Minimalism attempts to cut through our assumptions and society’s lies about what life should look like and invites readers into a life that Jesus calls us to live: one lived intentionally, free of physical, spiritual, and emotional clutter.

Morehouse Publishing. Coming in May.

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Simple Steps for Abundant Living Becca Ehrlich

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Always a Guest Speaking of Faith Far from Home Barbara Brown Taylor From beloved writer and renowned preacher Barbara Brown Taylor comes a new collection of stories and sermons of faith, grace, and hope. Taylor finds that when you are the invited guest speaking of faith to people you don’t know, one must seek common ground: exploring the central human experience.

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Full of Taylor’s astute observations on the Spirit and the state of the world, along with her gentle wit, this collection will be an inspiration to Taylor’s fans and preachers alike as she explores faith in all its beauty and complexity.

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Westminster John Knox Press.

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NEW When My Time Comes

NEW Relationship Goals Challenge

Presents the fervent arguments—both for and against—that are propelling the current debates about whether to adopt laws allowing those who are dying to put an end to their suffering.

With characteristic even-handedness, Rehm skillfully shows both sides of the argument, providing the full context for this highly divisive issue. Vintage Books.

Based on the author’s wildly popular sermon series and the instant bestseller Relationship Goals, this book is a 30-day challenge that helps you take your relationship from good to great. Todd develops the book’s message in practical, inspiring daily readings, with fresh steps and insights. This resource is ideal for individuals or couples who want to take their relationship to a deeper level with a practical, daily, step-by-step action plan.

Waterbrook Press.

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about the book As she does in her best-selling books, Lamott explores the thorny issues of life and faith by breaking them down into manageable, human-sized questions for readers to ponder, in the process showing us how we can amplify life’s small moments of joy by staying open to love and connection.

NEW Simply Christian

NEW A Simpler, More Soulful Life

Not since C. S. Lewis’ Mere Christianity has such a wise and informed leader taken the time to explain what Christianity is and how it is practiced. In Simply Christian, N. T. Wright makes a case for Christianity from the ground up. Walking the reader through the Christian faith step-by-step and question by question, Wright offers explanations for even the toughest doubt-filled skeptics, leaving believers with a reason for renewed faith. HarperOne.

When your soul is restless and you feel more burned-out than on fire, how do you begin to find space in your heart for the people who matter most?

Take a guided journey to embracing peace in a chaotic world. This exquisite guided journal features gorgeous color photography from the author, journaling space, and thought-provoking quotations. Zondervan. Coming in March.

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Why Christianity Makes Sense

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Self-Paced Practices and Prompts to Un-hurry Your Mind and Heal Your Heart Shauna Niequist

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NEW Dusk Night Dawn On Revival and Courage Anne Lamott

NEW The Conscious Enneagram

NEW The Fight to Flourish

Engaging in the Struggle to Cultivate the Life You Were Born to Live Jennie Lusko with A. J. Gregory

As the Enneagram has grown in popularity, the insights offered have focused either on the present or future, with little guidance on how to move from Point A to B. This book offers insight for those seeking to move from patterns to promise. Through practical coaching, storytelling, and personal inquiry, it explores three ways for getting from where we are to where we could be. Augsburg Fortress. Coming in April.

What if your struggles aren’t a barrier to thriving but an invitation into your most vibrant days? Discover how to live a life of joy and fullness, even in the midst of disappointment and broken dreams.

In The Fight to Flourish, Jennie Lusko draws on her experiences after the loss of her five-year-old daughter, Lenya, to show you that the ingredients for a fresh and thriving life are right in front of you. Thomas Nelson. Coming in May.

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We begin, Lamott says, by accepting our flaws and embracing our humanity.

Drawing from her own experiences, Lamott shows us the intimate and human ways we can adopt to move through life’s dark places and toward the light of hope that still burns ahead for all of us.

Random House. Coming in March.

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How to Move from Typology to Transformation Abi Robins

In Dusk Night Dawn, Anne Lamott explores the tough questions that many of us grapple with. How can we recapture the confidence we once had as we stumble through the dark times that seem increasingly bleak? As bad news piles up—from climate crises to daily assaults on civility—how can we cope? Where, she asks, “do we start to get our world and joy and hope and our faith in life itself back...with our sore feet, hearing loss, stiff fingers, poor digestion, stunned minds, broken hearts?”

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about the author Richard Rohr is a globally recognized ecumenical teacher whose work is grounded in Christian mysticism, practices of contemplation and self-emptying, and compassion for the marginalized. He is a Franciscan priest of the New Mexico province and founder of the Center for Action and Contemplation in Albuquerque.

NEW In the Grip of Grace

NEW God Will Help You

Do you live in fear of never doing enough? Do you feel like if you just work harder, longer, smarter you’ll get the right results? But the way of the cross guides us toward a place where we stop striving, stop pushing, and stop self-initiating—so that we can fall into the boundless, liberating, refreshing grace of God. New York Times bestselling author and pastor Max Lucado urges us to exchange the pressure of accomplishment for the peace of God’s grace. Thomas Nelson. Coming in March.

We all experience disappointing setbacks, overwhelming loneliness, and paralyzing fear at some point in our lives. When we trust in the God who is working miracles in the big and small things, no setback is too big to solve, and no prayer goes unnoticed. Each chapter offers reassurance that God will meet us in the midst of life’s messes.

Filled with biblical miracles, current stories, thoughts to ponder, prayers, and journaling prompts with space for reflection. Thomas Nelson Publishing.

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NEW Every Thing Is Sacred 40 Practical Reflections on the Universal Christ Richard Rohr and Patrick Boland

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In this companion to The Universal Christ, the authors offer forty reflections and practices exploring what it means to live “in Christ.” In his landmark book The Universal Christ, Richard Rohr articulated a transformative view of what it means to recognize Jesus as “Christ”—as a portrait of God’s constant, unfolding work in the world. Now, in partnership with Patrick Boland, a psychotherapist and member of Rohr’s Center for Action and Contemplation community, he invites readers to engage with the themes of the book through spiritual practice.

Each reflection in this book draws on a key passage of The Universal Christ, paired with prayers, journal prompts, and embodied exercises that invite readers into a more personal encounter with the truth RELEVANT that the presence and compassion of the Christ are in every thing.

Whether read daily for the season of Lent or explored over the course of a year, Every Thing Is Sacred is a hope-filled journey into the love at the heart of all things.

Convergent Books.

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The New York Times best-selling author of Chase the Lion offers seven powerful daily habits for success that help you tackle the present in order to reach your God-sized goals. He unpacks these habits rooted in Scripture and experience and then teaches you how to pursue them with dedication and lifechanging focus in the now. Multnomah.

God is in the business of fresh starts.

Are you struggling with sadness, pain, or disappointment? If so, take heart. A new chapter awaits you. Max Lucado celebrates God’s promise to restore and renew in Begin Again. This compilation— which also includes original, neverbefore-heard content from Max— assures us of the new possibilities ahead. Take the next step toward hope and renewal. Thomas Nelson.

7 Daily Habits to Help You Stress Less & Accomplish More Mark Batterson

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Hardcover Book 9781400226474

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My congregation tells me that the most helpful personal

In the Gospels, Jesus modeled for us the

stories I share with them are those where I’ve failed

Christian spiritual life. The apostles taught

or missed the point.... In the same way, the stories of

it in their writings. And the Church has,

Peter’s shortcomings serve to humanize Peter, allowing

through the last 2,000 years, sought to

ordinary Christians to identify with him.

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Simon Peter was an ordinary fisherman who heard an extraordinary call. He left everything to follow his teacher and possessed a passion that would change the world. That’s one way to describe Peter. Here’s another: poor, uneducated, quick-tempered, and full of doubts and fears. Doesn’t even sound like the same man. And that’s the point of the Bible study Simon Peter. Peter was just an ordinary guy who heard and followed God’s extraordinary call. Discover how you, too, have special gifts, talents, and abilities that God can use to make a difference today.

Abingdon Press.

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How do we walk with Christ—daily follow him, grow in him, and faithfully serve him? Join Adam Hamilton this Lent and Easter and discover five essential spiritual practices rooted in Jesus’ own walk with God. In each chapter, Hamilton explores one of these practices—each of which is intended to be a part of our daily walk with Christ—its New Testament foundation, and its potential effect on our personal lives and our lives together as the church. In addition to the book, create a six-week, churchwide study with the DVD, Leader Guide, and youth and children’s resources.

Abingdon Press.

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The Walk Five Essential Practices of the Christian Life Adam Hamilton

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Although the Bible gives us insights into what Jesus was

This resource makes for a great Lenten study that could

thinking between the time he entered into Jerusalem and

be used by classes or groups or form the basis of an

the night he spent in the Garden of Gethsemane, we can’t

entire churchwide experience. You’ll not only gain an

totally relate. If we look closely at the people who were part

appreciation for this historic play, you’ll also take away

of Jesus’ life during the last days before the crucifixion...how

new meaning for the story of Jesus’ Passion and the

might that deepen our understanding of what happened?

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Jesus’ final days were full of risk. Every move he made was filled with anticipation, danger, and the potential for great loss or great reward. Jesus risked his reputation when he entered Jerusalem in a victory parade. He risked his life when he dared to teach in the Temple. His followers risked everything when they left behind their homes, or anointed him with costly perfume. We take risks as we read and re-read these stories, finding new meanings and new challenges.

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In Entering the Passion of Jesus: A Beginner’s Guide to Holy Week, author, professor, and biblical scholar Amy-Jill Levine explores the biblical texts surrounding the Passion story.

She shows us how the text raises ethical and spiritual questions for the reader, and how we all face risk in our Christian experience. The book is part of a larger six-week study that is perfect for Lent. It includes a comprehensive Leader Guide, a DVD, and a Leader Kit. Abingdon Press.

9781501869556 Book 9781501869570 Leader Guide 9781501869594 DVD [CC] 6 videos; 10–12 min. each 9781501876226 Leader Kit 1 each of above

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The Passion Play Living the Story of Christ’s Last Days Rob Fuquay

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Jesus’ Passion story is presented each Lent in countless churches every year. But one play presented by the inhabitants of the village of Oberammergau, in Bavaria, Germany, may be one of the longest-running performance of all. Staged every ten years since 1634, the play makes an impact not only on the villagers who portray the characters but on all who see it as well.

In The Passion Play, Rob Fuquay follows the biblical story of the Passion and shows how this amazing play has been used both as a ritual of praise and later as a weapon through its anti-Semitic past. The book makes a perfect six-week Lenten group study when paired with the Leader Guide and the DVD, which was filmed on location in Germany and contains behind-the-scenes footage of the production.

Abingdon Press.

9781501884412 Book 9781501884504 Leader Guide 9781501884436 DVD [CC] 6 videos; 6–8 min. each 9781501884535 Leader Kit 1 each of above

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Les Misérables is a story that wrestles with the intersection

Don’t settle for a cursory glance or a

between offering grace and maintaining justice.... It’s

superficial understanding. Look long into the

the kind of story that leaves you asking better questions

heart of Christ and you’ll see it. Grace and life.

about God, the world, and our role within it; rather than

Forgiveness of sin. The defeat of death. This

offering a nice and polite moral with a curtain call.

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Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables is a truly epic story. Whether you’ve read the novel, seen the Broadway musical, heard its soundtrack, or seen the several screen adaptations, you already know the power in the story. In the six-week Lenten study The Grace of Les Misérables, author and pastor Matt Rawle dives into six ideals found in the story—grace, justice, poverty, revolution, love, and hope—each represented by a character in Hugo’s story. In keeping with his previous works, Rawle brings us to the intersection of Church and Pop Culture by drawing parallels between the iconic story and musical and our Christian calling, inspiring us to both understand our faith and live it out in the world.

In addition to the book, study components include a Leader Guide, a DVD, a youth resource, and a Worship Resources Flash Drive.

Book 9781501887109 $16.99; $10.99 Leader Guide 9781501887123 $14.99; $10.99 DVD [CC] 6 videos; 8–10 min. each 9781501887147 $39.99; $30.99 Worship Resources Flash Drive 9781501887239 $34.99; $19.99 Youth Study Book 9781501887215 $11.99; $8.99 Leader Kit 1 each of above 9781501887253 $118.99; $84.99

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For thirty-three years Jesus felt everything that we have ever felt: weakness, weariness, rejections. His feelings got hurt. His feet grew tired. His head ached. To think of Jesus in such terms almost seems irreverent. There is something about keeping Jesus divine that keeps him distant, packaged, and predictable.

But we have to remember that the people who saw Jesus first...saw him first as a person.

As Max Lucado reveals in this Bible study, because Jesus became human, it is now possible for us to see God and hear his voice. If we want to know what matters to God, all we need to do is look in the Bible to see what matters to Jesus. If we want to know what God is doing in our world, we need only ponder the words of Jesus. By learning more about the person Jesus was and is, we come to understand more RELEVANT clearly the people we were created to be.

Abingdon Press.

Hardcover Book 9781400214693 $24.99; $16.29 Study Guide 9780310105831 $12.99; $8.99 DVD Video Study [CC] 6 videos; 17–18 min. each 9780310105855 $29.99; $19.29 Study Guide with DVD 9780310105862 $41.99; $26.99

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Jesus The God Who Knows Your Name Max Lucado

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about the study The stories of these men and women who were present in the greatest story ever known—the story of Easter—give us great insights into our own relationship toward God.

John The Gospel of Light and Life Adam Hamilton

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Prepare your heart for a richer, deeper Easter experience. Liz Curtis Higgs, a seasoned Bible teacher and award-winning novelist, combines her storytelling skills with a thorough verseby-verse study of Scripture as together you explore the remarkable lives of three women three women named Mary, each of whom has a life-changing encounter with Jesus. Waterbrook.

Hardcover Book 9781601426826

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Study Guide 4 sessions 9780310121091 $10.99; $7.49

Also available, combined studies for Lent & Advent (Why Easter Matters & Who Needs Christmas): Study Guides with DVD 9780310121114 $49.99; $35.79 2-DVD Set 8 videos (see at right) 9780310121121 $29.99; $21.49

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Abingdon Press.

Book 9781501858475

$14.99; $8.29

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In this four-session study (DVD sold separately), pastor Andy Stanley explores the lives of some of these individuals and reveals how the story of Easter became real to them when they found themselves caught up in the events of Jesus’ crucifixion and resurrection. Their stories give us great insights into our own relationship toward God, revealing the attitudes of our hearts, and compel us to truly consider why Easter matters and the effect it has on our lives.

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As believers in Christ, we all would like to say that we trust in God. We would all like to claim that we believe God has our best interests in mind and that obedience to him is the best pathway to finding joy, peace, contentment, and fulfillment in life. But the truth is that we often find ourselves actively resisting the very God in whom we say we trust. Our hearts and our consciences tell us what is right—and what we need to be doing—but for some reason we tend to find ourselves going the other way.

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Guides us, step by step, through the last 24 hours of Jesus’ life, retracing the day that changed human history in a straightforward yet easy, conversational style that speaks to both long-time Christians and those who are simply curious about the story of Christ’s crucifixion. Includes devotions for each chapter and travel notes from Adam’s trip to the Holy Lands. Abingdon Press.

Book 9781501828775

$14.99; $8.79

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about the study How did Jesus teach the Greatest Commandment to his disciples? In Reckless Love, author and Pastor Tom Berlin writes that Jesus taught them to love neighbor first as a way to more deeply love God.

Restored Finding Redemption in Our Mess Tom Berlin

Alone on an 8-day retreat in the Egyptian desert, Chapman experienced physical, spiritual, and mental struggles. Our own desert experience may involve sudden challenges or difficult relationships or patterns of thinking that drain us of life and joy. A Lenten pilgrimage is testing. This vividly written book includes prayers and Scripture readings, along with guides to use with groups and in preaching and worship. InterVarsity Press.

Book 9781501822926

Book 9780281078530

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$15.00; $9.49

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Sometimes our lives are in such disarray we can’t envision a way through to redemption. But when we look through the eyes of Christ, we not only find redemption, we can clearly see spiritual restoration. This study for adults and youth encourages us to focus on the cross as a place to surrender control and find true redemption. Abingdon Press. $15.99; $11.99

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Maybe we have it a little backward. As Christians, we strive to follow Jesus’ teaching to love God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength which, in turn, we hope will help us better love our family, friends, and leaders…our neighbors.

But what if we turned that around and put the emphasis on loving our family, friends, leaders, and, yes, our neighbors?

Might we then find that becoming a better neighbor leads us into the deep and loving relationship we’re striving to have with God?

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There are two components to every miracle: divine action and human responsibility. For a real miracle to take place, God expects us to apply our talents and abilities—acting with God to perform divine work. This study examines biblical examples of how to use our God-given gifts for God’s glory.

Abingdon Press.

Hardcover Book 9781501841385

$18.99; $5.99

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In Reckless Love, you will consider how to follow the Greatest Commandment and learn how your love for the people around you can completely renew your faith and give you a new experience of loving God. In addition to the book, this six-week study includes a comprehensive Leader Guide and a DVD featuring Tom Berlin in his warm, engaging style guiding participants through the study.

Abingdon Press.

Book 9781501879869 $16.99; $12.99 Leader Guide 9781501879883 $14.99; $10.99 DVD [CC] 6 videos; 10–12 min. each 9781501879906 $39.99; $28.99

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Jesus’ vision of a kingdom worth dying for makes him the most radical revolutionary of all time. In the study Revolutionary Kingdom, we learn that to join this revolution…to be considered true disciples of Christ…we must exchange comfortable cultural worldviews and values for the radical requirements of living out the Kingdom in the here and now. Abingdon Press.

Made for a Miracle From Your Ordinary to God’s Extraordinary Mike Slaughter

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At-a-Glance Comparison Chart for Lent & Easter Helps You

Title

Author Audience Description

NEW Words of Life: Jesus and the Promise of the Ten Commandments Adam Hamilton Churchwide/ Small Group Adam Hamilton brings modern eyes to the most important set of ethics in history.

He looks at the commandments in their historical context, considering the meaning of each commandment in Hebrew, unpacking how Jesus reinterpreted them.

NEW Savior: What the Bible Says about the Cross

NEW Seven Words: The Walk: Five Essential The Grace of Listening to Christ from Practices of the Les Misérables the Cross Christian Life

The Passion Play: Living the Story of Christ’s Last Days

Magrey deVega Adult Individual/ Small Group Explores several biblically based ways of understanding Jesus’ death on the cross that may go beyond the explanations you’ve heard. By exploring the mystery of salvation through the cross, you’ll find a deeper love for God and others while strengthening your commitment to follow Jesus.

Susan Robb Adult Individual/ Small Group

Adam Hamilton Churchwide/ Small Group

Matt Rawle Churchwide/ Small Group

Rob Fuquay Adult Individual/ Small Group

In Seven Words, Susan Robb looks at Christ’s final words on the cross from a biblical and historical perspective, showing how we can find life and hope in them.

How do we walk with Christ—daily follow him, grow in him, and faithfully serve him?

Join Adam Hamilton this Lent and Easter in The Walk and discover five essential spiritual practices rooted in Jesus’ own walk with God. In each chapter, Hamilton’s engaging teaching style will help you explore one of these practices.

This Lenten study dives into six ideals found in the iconic book and musical—grace, justice, poverty, revolution, love, and hope—each of which is represented by a character. In keeping with Rawle’s previous works, he brings us to the intersection of Church and Pop Culture, drawing parallels between the two.

Jesus’ Passion story is presented each Lent in countless churches every year. In one village in Bavaria it has been staged every ten years since 1634. The Passion Play follows the biblical story of the Passion and shows how this play has been used both as a ritual of praise and later as a weapon through its anti-Semitic past.

6 Sessions

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6 Sessions

6 Sessions

__ H ardcover Book.

(Random House) 9781524760540. $25.00; $18.99 __ L eader Guide.

9781791013240. $14.99; $10.99 __ D VD. [CC] Six 10–12 min. videos.

9781791013264. $39.99; $34.99 __ L eader Kit. Contains 5 Hardcover Books, 1 adult Leader Guide, 1 DVD, and 5 Card Packs (25 cards each).

9780687985517 $149.47; $119.79 __ Y outh Study Book.

Grades 6–12.

9781791013332. $12.99; $9.99 __ C hildren’s Leader Guide. Grades K–2 & 3–6.

9781791013356. $18.99; $12.99 __ Cards.

9781791017316.

Pkg. of 25, $9.99 __ V irtual Leader Kit. Download only.

9781791021047 $34.99

__ Book.

9781501880995. $16.99; $12.99 __ L eader Guide.

9781501881015. $14.99; $10.99 __ DVD. [CC] Six 10–12 min. videos.

9781791007928. $39.99; $35.99 __ L eader Kit. Contains 1 of each of above.

9781791021061 $71.99; $54.99 __ V irtual Leader Kit. Download only.

9781791021023 $16.99

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9781791007812. $16.99; $12.99 __ L eader Guide.

9781791007836. $14.99; $10.99 __ DVD. [CC] Six 6–8 min. videos.

9781791007850. $39.99; $34.99 __ L eader Kit. Contains 1 of each of above.

9781791021054 $71.99; $54.99 __ V irtual Leader Kit. Download only.

9781791021030 $16.99 See p. 4 for more details.

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9781501887109. $16.99; $10.99 __ L eader Guide.

9781501887123. $14.99; $10.99 __ DVD. [CC] Six 8–10 min. videos.

9781501887147. $39.99; $30.99 __ Y outh Study Book.

Grades 6–12. Use with adult-level DVD. 9781501887215. $11.99; $8.99 __ W orship Resources Flash Drive.

9781501887239. $34.99; $19.99 __ L eader Kit. Contains 1 each of above.

9781501887253. $118.99; $84.99

__ Book.

9781501884412. $16.99; $11.49 __ L eader Guide.

9781501884504. $14.99; $10.99 __ DVD. [CC] Six 6–8 min. videos.

9781501884436. $39.99; $34.99 __ L eader Kit. Contains one each of above.

9781501884535. $71.99; $49.99

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__ H ardcover Book.

9781501891182. $19.99; $11.99 __ L eader Guide.

9781501891212. $14.99; $10.99 __ D VD. [CC] Six 10–12 min. videos.

9781501891236. $39.99; $34.99 __ Y outh Study Book.

Grades 6–12.

9781501891304. $11.99; $8.99 __ C hildren’s Leader Guide. Grades K–2 & 3–6.

9781501891328. $18.99; $12.99 __ D evotional Journal.

9781501891359. Pkg. of 10, $24.99; $19.99 __ Leader Kit. Contains one each of above.

9781501894671. $105.99; $79.99 __ Clings.

9781501891373. Pkg. of 25, $15.99; $12.99 __ Key Tags.

9781501899706. Pkg. of 30, $15.99; $12.99

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Find the Best Study for Your Small Group or Congregation

Title

Jesus: The God Who Knows Your Name

Entering the Passion of Jesus: A Beginner’s Guide to Holy Week

Reckless Love: Jesus’ Call to Love Our Neighbor

NEW The Sanctuary for Lent 2021

We Are Beloved: A Lenten Journey with Protestant Prayer Beads

Why Easter Matters

Author Audience

Max Lucado Adult Individual/ Small Group The God of the universe knows your name.

He has walked your streets. Jesus. Perhaps you’ve heard about him, studied him, or prayed to him. But do you know him? By learning more about the person Jesus was and is, readers will understand more clearly who they were created to be.

Amy-Jill Levine Adult Individual/ Small Group Explores the biblical texts surrounding the Passion story, raising ethical and spiritual questions for readers, and how we all face risk in our Christian experience. Provides a rich and challenging learning experience for small groups and individuals alike as part of a larger 6-week study that is perfect for Lent.

Tom Berlin Adult Individual/ Small Group

April Casperson Devotional

6 Sessions

6 Sessions

This annual favorite contains brief readings for each day in Lent, from Ash Wednesday through Easter Day, including a suggested Scripture, a short devotion, and a closing prayer—all based on the Revised Common Lectionary. An excellent gift for family, friends, those with special needs, or as a congregational resource. n/a 7 Sessions

Andy Stanley Adult Individual/ Small Group As Christians, we often find ourselves resisting God. This was true of people even during Jesus’ lifetime.

This study explores the lives of some of these individuals and reveals how the story of Easter became real to them when they found themselves caught up in Jesus’ crucifixion and resurrection.

# Sessions

As Christians, we strive to follow Jesus’ teaching to love God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength.

In Reckless Love, you will consider how to follow the Greatest Commandment and learn how your love for the people around you can completely renew your faith and give you a new experience of loving God. 6 Sessions

Kristen E. Vincent Adult Individual/ Small Group This 6-week Lenten journey follows stories of Jesus’ experience of God’s love. Each week begins with a Scripture passage, a weekly devotion, reflection questions, an optional prayer bead experience, and a listening meditation. A Leader’s Guide for small-group study is included.

Separate components or included features

__ Hardcover Book.

9781400214693. $24.99; $16.29 __ Study Guide.

9780310105831. $12.99; $8.99 __ DVD Video Study. 6 videos.

9780310105855. $29.99; $19.29 __ Study Guide with DVD. Contains 1 Study Guide and 1 6-session DVD. 9780310105862. $41.99; $26.99

__ Book.

9781501869556. $16.99; $9.49 __ Leader Guide.

9781501869570. $12.99; $8.49 __ DVD. [CC] Six 10– 12 min. videos.

9781501869594. $39.99; $26.49 __ Leader Kit. Contains one each of above.

9781501876226. $69.99; $49.99 __ Large Print Book.

9781501876158. $17.99; $10.49

__ Book.

9781501879869. $16.99; $12.99 __ Leader Guide.

9781501879883. $14.99; $10.99 __ DVD. [CC] Six 10– 12 min. videos.

9781501879906. $39.99; $28.99

__ Booklet.

9781791001766.

Pkg. of 10. $11.99

__ Book.

9780835818933. $11.99; $8.99

__ Study Guide.

9780310121091. $10.99; $7.49 Also available, combined studies for Lent & Advent: __ Study Guides with DVDs. Contains 1 Study Guide & DVD for Why Easter Matters and 1 Study Guide & DVD for Who Needs Christmas.

9780310121114. $49.99; $35.79 __ DVDs. 4 videos for Why Easter Matters and 4 videos for Who Needs Christmas.

9780310121121.

2-Disc Set. $29.99; $21.49

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Be transformed by God’s love this Lenten season. Upper Room Books.

Book 9780835818933

$11.99; $8.99

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Journey to the Cross 40 Days to Prepare Your Heart for Easter (In)Courage; Mary Carver, editor

Featuring (in)courage’s warm, authentic, and encouraging voice, this book guides you through forty days of encouragement that will help prepare your heart for Easter during the season of Lent. Through Scripture, short essays, encouraging stories, quotes, reflective questions, and prayers, you will be pushed to set aside the chaos and concerns of everyday life to focus on Christ. Makes a great gift. B & H Books.

Hardcover Book 9781535979825

$17.99; $13.49

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What Every Christian Needs to Know About Judaism Exploring the Ever-Connected World of Christians and Jews Rabbi Evan Moffic

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Explore the wisdom and traditions of the Jewish faith and examine what they mean for Christians.

We know Jesus was a Jew, but do we know what that means? Do we understand that his life was immersed in Jewish tradition and history? That Jewish texts, spiritual life, holidays, and events are interwoven with what it means to be Christian? Evan Moffic, rabbi, author, and guide to Jewish wisdom for people of all faiths, continues the What Every Christian Needs to Now About series, providing answers to the hundreds of questions he receives about Judaism.

His exploration reveals insights of the great Jewish sages, allowing us to live a richer and more meaningful life and to have a closer relationship with God.

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Abingdon Press.

Book 9781501871498

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What Every Christian Needs to Know About the Jewishness of Jesus: A New Way of Seeing the Most Influential Rabbi in History 9781426791581 $17.99; $15.99

The Wonder of Easter An Easter Journey for the Whole Family Ed Drew

Take ten minutes with your family each day to prepare for Easter. This flexible, easy-to-use Lent devotional will allow both adults and children to celebrate the limitless wonder of Easter. This is a discussion-based resource with differentiated questions for 3–4s, 5–7s, 7–12s, teens, and adults. Includes five devotions for each week.

The Good Book Company.

Book 9781784983352

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Living the Way of Love A 40-Day Devotional Mary Bea Sullivan

Offers 40 brief reflections about the seven Jesus-centered practices identified by Presiding Bishop Michael Curry in The Way of Love initiative.

Sullivan tells stories from her own and others’ experiences as a starting point for discussion about how to seek and find a deeper connection to God. Includes discussion questions, a guide for creating a personal rule of life, and a downloadable Facilitator’s Guide.

Church Publishing.

Book 9781640652309

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about the book Lent is about more than just giving things up. It’s about preparing your heart for Jesus.

Reflect in this season with The Hope of Easter.

A Path to Wholeness A Lenten Companion Russell J. Levenson Jr.

For those seeking inspiration and devotion for Lent and beyond, A Path to Wholeness is an invitation to Lenten observance through biblical passages and reflections. Intentionally written as an avenue towards deepening, strengthening, and for some, beginning a relationship with Christ during the forty days of Lent, this thoughtful book, focuses on Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection. Church Publishing.

Book 9781640653177

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NEW An Ocean of Grace

A Journey to Easter with Great Voices from the Past Tim Chester

Reflect on Jesus in the run-up to Easter with this collection of daily devotions and prayers by great Christian writers from church history, including Augustine, Charles Spurgeon, John Bunyan, Catherine Parr, and Martin Luther. Their time-tested words continue to paint a compelling portrait of Christ’s death and resurrection, and will encourage and inspire today’s readers. The Good Book Company.

Book 9781784985790

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NEW The Hope of Easter 40 Days of Reading and Reflection

Walking in the Wilderness Seeking God During Lent Beth A. Richardson

Meant as a companion for the reader’s journey through Lent, this book can be studied individually or as a small group. It includes daily reflections for Ash Wednesday through Easter. Sunday of each week introduces a spiritual practice for the wilderness. Each reading contains a quotation from an Upper Room resource, a short Scripture passage, an insightful reflection and prayer written by Richardson.

Upper Room Books.

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NEW Thy Will Be Done The 2021 Lent Book Stephen Cherry

This book invites readers to immerse themselves in the most central, important and iconic of Christian prayers—the Lord’s Prayer, the Our Father. The author mines the tradition for wisdom and insight, and finds inspiration in the theologians of the past such as St. Paul, Gregory of Nyssa, John Calvin, plus contemporary voices such as Evelyn Underhill, Simone Weil, and Michelle Obama. Macmillan Publishing.

Book 9781472978257

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Contains the majority of the text from the New International Version Gospel of John along with insightful reflections and prompt questions that lead to a deeper personal interaction with the Easter story.

Perfect for gift giving and solo or group study.

Zondervan.

Hardcover Book 9780310116660

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Experience the Easter story in a fresh way with The Hope of Easter—a beautiful 40-day book of Scripture readings, featuring text from the Gospel of John in the accurate, readable, and clear New International Version. Short reflections on the Scripture, journaling prompts, and room to write your thoughts after each day’s reading allow you to reflect on Jesus’ life, sacrificial death, and resurrection during the holy season of Lent.

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about the book The first Lenten book from the Bishop of London, exploring the ways in which we can live the Christian life to the full today.

NEW Lent of Liberation

Confronting the Legacy of American Slavery Cheri L. Mills

UPDATED Journey to Transformation 2021 Lenten Study Sharma D. Lewis

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This Lenten devotional invites readers to learn more about the brutal institution of slavery and its impact on Black people in America and discover how its evolution and legacy continue to harm their descendants today. Each of the 40 devotions includes the testimony of a person who escaped slavery through the Underground Railroad, a Scripture passage, and a reflection.

Westminster John Knox Press. $14.00; $11.49

This updated 2021 version of Bishop Sharma Lewis’ bestseller has been reformatted with daily studies for each date during the 2021 Lenten season. Sharing her individual journey, Bishop Lewis (Virginia Conference) invites readers to observe Lent by introspection, repentance, forgiveness, renewal, prayer, fasting, and biblical study. Journaling space provided.

Market Square Publishing. $16.95

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Who is the Christ we serve? What does it mean to be part of the body of Christ? How can we live more Christ-centred lives?

Introduced and edited by Bishop Sarah Mullally, here are forty reflections that lead us deeper into the meaning and practice of life in Christ today. Drawing on the collective wisdom of all the area bishops in the Diocese of London, each reflection includes a Bible reading, a prayer and a suggestion for action based on the reading. The result is an exceptionally helpful Lent book, offering a rich array of biblical insight and spiritual guidance that Christians of all traditions will warmly welcome and appreciate.

SPCK Publishing.

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NEW Atone

The Difference the Cross Makes Wil Cantrell

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Explores the great mystery behind all the theories of how Jesus’ sacrifice enables us to be at one with God, ourselves, and others. Challenges readers to move beyond solely intellectual discussions to experience for themselves the transformation made possible by Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross. Designed to be used as a 6-week study for individuals or small groups during Lent. Market Square Publishing.

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Hear It, See It, Risk It How Faith Grows Steve Cordle

Written for individual, small group, and congregational Lenten study, this book is not about getting whatever you want by using faith to manipulate God. Rather, this book is about how we learn to trust God more deeply, and in the process receive more of what God has always intended and promised to us.

Market Square Publishing.

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about the book The Resurrection accounts of Jesus in the Gospels are the most dramatic and impactful stories ever told.

One similarity unites each testimony—that none of his most loyal and steadfast followers could “see” it was him, back from the dead. The reason for this is at the very foundation of the Christian faith.

NEW Living His Story

Revealing the Extraordinary Love of God in Ordinary Ways, The Archbishop of Canterbury’s Lent Book 2021 Hannah Steele

This book explores the idea of evangelism as a way of sharing God’s love with people. It is “an outstanding assessment of the theology of the emerging church movement...an essential starting point for all reflecting on how to relate the Christian faith and the Christian church to the shifting complexities of postmodern British culture.” SPCK Publishing.

Book 9780281085170

NEW Where the Eye Alights

Phrases for the Forty Days of Lent Marilyn McEntyre

Lent is about more than going to church on weekdays and giving up chocolate or social media. It’s also a time to form one’s heart and mind through study and prayer. In Where the Eye Alights, Marilyn McEntyre offers forty short meditations, based on excerpts from Scripture and poetry, that guide readers on a devotional journey from Ash Wednesday through Holy Saturday.

Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing.

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NEW Hope in Times of Fear The Resurrection and the Meaning of Easter Timothy Keller

Reading Revelation at Easter Time Francis J. Moloney Revelation is one of the most difficult and misinterpreted texts in the Christian Scriptures, yet it is widely used in the liturgical life of the Roman Catholic Church. This book explores it as a celebration of the perennial and ongoing effects of Jesus’ death and resurrection. After an introduction to Revelation, the book provides an interpretation for each biblical reading in the Liturgy of the Hours across the Easter period. Liturgical Press Academic.

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NEW Journey to the Cross

A 40-Day Lenten Devotional Paul David Tripp

In this forty-day Lenten devotional, bestselling author Paul David Tripp invites us to set aside time from the busyness of our lives to focus on the suffering and sacrifice of Jesus. Each of the short readings encourages us to abide in the abundant joy found in Christ as we encounter the Savior more fully and follow him more faithfully during this Lenten season. Crossway Books.

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Hope in Times of Fear is a book that unlocks the meaning of Jesus’ resurrection for readers. Easter is considered the most solemn and important holiday for Christians. It is a time of spiritual rebirth and a time of celebrating the physical rebirth of Jesus after three days in the tomb. For his devoted followers, nothing could prepare them for the moment they met the resurrected Jesus. Each failed to recognize him. All of them physically saw him and yet did not spiritually truly see him. It was only when Jesus reached out and invited them to see who he truly was that their eyes were opened.

Here the central message of the Christian faith is revealed in a way only Timothy Keller could do it—filled with unshakable belief, piercing insight, and a profound new way to look at a story you think you know. After reading this book, the true meaning of Easter will no longer be unseen.

Viking Books. Coming in March.

Hardcover Book 9780525560791

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She turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not realize that it was Jesus. (John 20:14)

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from the introduction Easter is a time of new birth, joy, and song.

Following on the heels of Lent, when the church is made dark, and when our lives are filled with introspection, refocus, and attention to fasting, penance, and prayer, Easter is by sudden and delightful contrast a time for celebration. Alleluia!

NEW Essential Lenten Prayers

NEW The Way of Julian of Norwich

Book 9781640606272

Sheila Upjohn explores Julian of Norwich’s book, Revelations of Divine Love, alongside passages from Scripture. She reveals how Julian’s fresh perspectives on sin and judgement, anger and forgiveness, the Incarnation and the crucifixion—once thought so controversial that her book was kept hidden for centuries—can challenge and enlighten us, six hundred years later, in a world in need of the assurance of God’s unconditional love. SPCK Publishing.

A companion book for anyone observing the Christian season of Lent, with prayers and practices from a variety of denominations and traditions.

Beginning with Ash Wednesday, there are prayers for mornings and evenings, for good penance, of confession, “Lord, please” prayers of devotion, and more. These words will challenge and inspire any Christian during this most passionate time of the year.

Paraclete Press. $10.99; $8.49

A Prayer Journey Through Lent Sheila Upjohn

Book 9780281083695

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NEW Essential Easter Prayers

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A companion book for anyone celebrating the season of Easter, with prayers and practices from a variety of denominations and traditions.

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Sections include It’s Friday, But Sunday’s Coming; Easter Vigil Prayers; Pascha-themed Prayers; He Is Risen; and Prayers for Eastertide.

Throughout this season, as you use this little book, may your life be full of resurrection renewal and glory.

Paraclete Press.

Book 9781640606609

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Via Dolorosa A Guide for Christians to Pray the Stations of the Cross Martin Shannon

Based on early Christian practice, pilgrims to Jerusalem reconstructed the events of Good Friday along the “Way of Suffering,” the Via Dolorosa.

Over the centuries, the Stations of the Cross spread across Europe and the British Isles with accompanying books of readings and prayers. Allow these Scriptures, meditations, and prayers to accompany you as you walk and pray the Stations of the Cross. Paraclete Press.

Book 9781640604643

Surrender All An Illuminated Journal Retreat Through the Stations of the Cross Jen Norton

Contemporary Catholic artist Jen Norton offers a unique opportunity to ponder the extravagant love of Christ through the Stations of the Cross. Combining Norton’s powerful, full-color illustrations with Scripture, her original reflections and prayers, and journaling space, Surrender All will help you encounter Christ’s Passion in a new light.

Ave Maria Press.

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excerpt from the book ‘Twas the morning of Easter, before the sun rose, Two guards on a hillside were trying to doze. Now Jesus had died, only three days before, A huge stone was in place, sealed over the door.

NEW Meals with Jesus

NEW Easter Ideals 2021

The 34 easy-to-use daily devotions for families from Luke’s Gospel look at nine meals that Jesus shared with people. As you read these passages, your children will be transported to the dinner table alongside Jesus. Designed to be easy to lead (even if you only have 10 minutes), with different sets of questions for 3-4s, 5-7s, 7-12s, teens, and even parents.

The Good Book Company.

The new issue of Easter Ideals, a beautiful softcover treasury featuring authors and poets such as Pamela Kennedy and Eileen Spinelli, reflects upon the holiday’s special moments and spiritual significance. Includes beautiful photographs and artwork that bring color and life to each page. Easter Ideals will appeal to all who wish to embrace and experience the traditions, beauty, and joy of this special time of year.

Ideals Publications.

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A Journey Through Luke’s Gospel for the Whole Family Ed Drew

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Melinda Lee Rathjen

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NEW ‘Twas the Morning of Easter Glenys Nellist; Elena Selivanova, illustrations

Wild Hope Stories for Lent from the Vanishing Gayle Boss; David G. Klein, illustrator

We share this beautiful planet with creatures magnificent, delicate, intricate—and now vanishing at a faster rate than at any other time in Earth’s history. Spend Lent with 25 of these wild ones. Vivid descriptions of their lives will fill readers with wonder—and grief at their suffering shaped by human choices. Their stories wake us to greater compassion—which is what Lent has always been for. Paraclete Press.

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Make Room A Child’s Guide to Lent and Easter Laura Alary; Ann Boyajian, illustrator

How can children approach Lent in a way that is meaningful and not frightening?

Make Room presents Lent as a special time for creating a welcoming space for God. Simple and practical activities such as baking bread, having a neighbor over for dinner, uncluttering your room, and watching less TV become acts of justice and kindness, part of a life of following and imitating Christ, and a way to make room for God in our lives and in the world around us. Paraclete Press.

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This gorgeous picture book shares the true story of Easter with little ones with read-aloud rhymes and engaging illustrations by Elena Selivanova. With an eye-catching cover decorated in shining foil and embossing, this book is perfect for any Easter basket and sure to be a treasured Easter tradition for years to come.

Zondervan.

Hardcover Book 9780310769064

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FAMILY ACTIVITIES FOR LENT/EASTER

A follow-up to the popular ‘Twas the Evening of Christmas from beloved author Glenys Nellist. ‘Twas the Morning of Easter tells the story of the resurrection of Jesus in a fresh way, with a familiar rhythm and rhyme that children will love, following the pattern of Clement Moore’s iconic “’Twas the Night Before Christmas.

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about the booklet This annual favorite helps readers faithfully journey through Lent as they prepare to experience the joy of the Resurrection.

Messages of Letting Go for Lent 2021 3-Minute Devotions Michael White and Tom Corcoran

From Ash Wednesday through Easter Sunday, these simple yet spiritually rich devotions from Fr. Michael White and Tom Corcoran will guide you to let go of sin, bad habits, and grudges, and to instead trust in God. Ave Maria Press.

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Rejoice and Be Glad Daily Reflections for Easter to Pentecost 2021 Ronald D. Witherup

There’s no better season to renew one’s relationship with God than Easter.

Rejoice with these inspiring reflections on the daily Mass readings. In just minutes per day, the insightful meditations can help you embrace, live, and share the good news of the great Paschal mystery.

Liturgical Press.

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NEW The Sanctuary for Lent 2021 April Casperson The Sanctuary for Lent 2021 contains brief readings for each day in Lent, from Ash Wednesday through Easter Day, including a suggested Scripture, a short devotion and a short prayer—all based on the Revised Common Lectionary.

CONGREGATIONAL DEVOTIONS

Along with being a great congregational resource, it is an excellent gift for family, friends, and those your congregation connects with through outreach.

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Features a larger font for ease of reading. Sold in packs of 10, booklets are designed to fit in a #10 envelope, enabling churches to include them in Lent mailings and making it easy to share with visitors and others the church seeks to reach during Lent.

Abingdon Press.

Booklet, Pkg. of 10 9781791001766

$11.99

Not by Bread Alone 2021 Daily Reflections for Lent Mary DeTurris Poust

Prayerfully journey through Lent with Mary DeTurris Poust’s fresh and meaningful reflections on the daily Mass readings. In just minutes per day, the insightful meditations of Not by Bread Alone can deepen your experience of this solemn season of prayer and penance. Liturgical Press.

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The Living Gospel Daily Devotions for Lent 2021 Theresa Rickard

Be uplifted and inspired as Sr. Terry Rickard, O.P., president of Renew International, guides you through Lent and Holy Week with thought-provoking spiritual reflections on the daily gospel readings. Rickard also encourages you to go beyond prayer and fasting by completing a quick spiritual act that will help you grow in your love for God and others during this solemn season.

Ave Maria Press.

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about the book Lent calls us to undertake a journey, a stepby-step process in which our view of the world shifts almost imperceptibly—until we look around and realize how far we’ve come.

NEW Sacred Space for Lent 2021

NEW Daybreaks

Sacred Space, the internationally known online prayer guide now introduces Sacred Space for Lent 2021, a compact print edition that will heighten your Lent prayer practice in a way that’s accessible, engaging, and meaningful to daily life. Throughout the Lenten season, each day includes a Scripture reading and points of reflection, as well as a weekly topic enhanced by six steps of prayer and meditation. Loyola Press.

Jesus is alive and among us, and through these daily reflections Father Byron Miller, CSsR, shows us where we can find him in ourselves and others. Daybreaks offers meditation on the daily Lectionary readings from Masses throughout this holy season, and prayers and reflections for each day of Lent through the Easter Octave from a variety of well-known authors. Liguori Publications.

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The Irish Jesuits

Daily Reflections for Lent and Easter Byron Miller

NEW Go to Jerusalem A Lenten Devotional Mary Alice Mulligan Pastor and scholar Mary Alice Mulligan leads us through Jesus’ journey to Jerusalem, examining the Scriptures in which Jesus calls on his disciples to leave everything and follow him, is baptized and announces his ministry, predicts his own death, clears the temple and pledges to rebuild it in three days, and proclaims God’s love for all.

Spend 40 days with Jesus, exploring promises found in Scripture. In these select devotions from #1 best-selling author Sarah Young’s Jesus Always, you’ll experience a closeness with the Savior that invites you into a new way of living—embracing a joy-filled life. This booklet edition of key devotions offers a convenient format that fits into a purse or travel bag. Thomas Nelson Publishing.

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Return to the Lord Daily Devotions for Lent and Easter

Lent is a time in which Christians return to Christ, repenting for their sins and reflecting inwardly. Based on Joel 2:13-14, this book focuses on how God is calling you to return to Him. These daily devotions center readers around an event that occurred during the Passion narrative, focused particularly on the people within these retellings.

Concordia Publishing House.

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Chalice Press.

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40 Days of Jesus Always Joy in His Presence Sarah Young

During Holy Week, Mulligan takes us through the events of that long-ago week with fresh eyes, new ways to understand an old story. Entries begin with the darkness of Ash Wednesday and voyage through the glory of Easter morning. These concise entries include Scripture, reflections, suggested spiritual practices, and a prayer. Entries are undated, making this a perennial resource.

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Tempered Resilience How Leaders Are Formed in the Crucible of Change Tod Bolsinger What type of leadership is needed in a moment that demands adaptive change? Exploring the qualities of adaptive leadership within churches and nonprofit organizations, Tod Bolsinger deftly examines both the external challenges we face and the internal resistance that holds us back, showing how leaders can become both stronger and more flexible. InterVarsity Press.

Hardcover Book 9780830841646

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Canoeing the Mountains Christian Leadership in Uncharted Territory Tod Bolsinger

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Drawing from his extensive experience as a pastor and consultant, Tod Bolsinger brings decades of expertise in guiding churches and organizations through uncharted territory. He offers a combination of illuminating insights and practical tools to help you reimagine what effective leadership looks like in our rapidly changing world. If you’re going to scale the mountains of ministry, you need to leave behind canoes and find new navigational tools. Now expanded with a study guide, this book will set you on the right course to lead with confidence and courage. InterVarsity Press.

Hardcover Book 9780830841479

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NEW Resilience

NEW Communication

In difficult circumstances, conflicts, and life-changing events, we often need inspiration and support to move forward. Drawing from a variety of sources, this book looks at how we learn to recover and how we can lead others to do the same. The series of Little Books of Leadership is designed to foster conversations within congregations around certain principles and practices that nurture community and growth in the ongoing life of the church. Church Publishing. Coming in March.

Drawing from a variety of sources, this Little Book of Leadership addresses how we can communicate more effectively, and how we can lead others to do the same. The literal definition of communication is “to make common.” It shares a root with words we know well in congregational life: community and communion. At the heart of learning to live in common is the practice of speaking the truth in love: being honest and direct, fostering trust, and learning how to listen.

Church Publishing. Coming in March.

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Book 9781640654075

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A Little Book of Leadership

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NEW The Person You Mean to Be

NEW Lead Like It Matters to God

Many of us believe in equality, diversity, and inclusion. But how do we stand up for those values in our turbulent world? This inspiring guide from an award-winning social psychologist at the New York University Stern School of Business offers compelling stories, surprising science, and practical tools on how to confront difficult issues including sexism, racism, inequality, and injustice so that we can make the world (and ourselves) better. HarperCollins.

Stearns was a successful executive at several corporations before becoming president of World Vision US. There he inspired a culture of outcome-focused management and challenged other Christian leaders to embrace a bold vision for compassion, mercy, and justice in their work. Here he shares the principles he learned over the course of his career. InterVarsity Press. Coming in March.

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How Good People Fight Bias Dolly Chugh

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Values-Driven Leadership in a Success-Driven World Richard Stearns

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NEW Leading Things You Didn’t Start Winning Big When You Inherit People, Places, and Possibilities Tyler Reagin

A high-impact leadership coach gives inheriting leaders the tools you need to maximize your influence in a new role, giving you the ability to meet any challenge and take your team, organization, church, or company to new heights. This groundbreaking book provides a faith-based four-step plan on making a healthy transition. Waterbrook Press. Coming in March.

Hardcover Book 9780525654049

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Church Comes Home Start a House Church Network Anywhere Dave Barnhart

NEWLY UPDATED Listening Hearts, 30th Anniversary Edition Discerning Call in Community Suzanne G. Farnham, Joseph P. Gill, R. Taylor McLean, and Susan M. Ward

Written to make the often elusive and usually clergy-centered spiritual practice of discernment accessible to all people, this new edition of the beloved seminal work is presented for a new generation and features simple reflections and exercises drawn from Scripture and from Quaker and Ignatian traditions.

Morehouse Publishing. Coming in June.

Book 9781640654136

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NEW Navigating the Future

Traditioned Innovation for Wilder Seas L. Gregory Jones and Andrew P. Hogue

The words “traditional” and ‘innovative” seem to be opposites; but leaders, including church leaders, are discovering the concept of “traditioned innovation”—a way of being that cultivates a moral imagination shaped by storytelling and expressed in creative, transformative action. Learn new skills for nurturing a more faithful, fruitful life and a more vibrant, life-giving society.

Abingdon Press.

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God Will Make a Way Spiritual Life and Leadership in a Contested Season Ken Carter

This is not only a time of uncertainty and anxiety as a result of the pandemic, politics, and racial justice; it is one of the most tumultuous periods in the United Methodist denomination’s history. Ken Carter, president of the Council of Bishops of The United Methodist Church, was deeply involved in the special 2019 Conference and the 2020 General Conference.

In this book he shares reflections from his journey—giving us an inside view of the conflicts that inspired anger and national violence—as well as the high points—how people with dramatically different stances found common ground.

Abingdon Press. Coming in May. Book 9781791007133

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Fresh Expressions of People Over Property Scripture, Stories, and Strategies to Help People of Faith Reimagine Their Space Audrey Warren and Kenneth H. Carter, Jr.

What if our church properties didn’t have to be a source of pain but one of purpose and profit? Our church buildings have become a burden for pastors and church leadership. More and more money is spent on keeping the building running instead of providing for the needs of people. Fresh Expressions of People over Property shows how to rethink the way we utilize the space we inhabit. Strategies, Scriptures, and stories help leaders reimagine their community spaces so that the church reflects this truth: God’s people value each other and the community more than property. Abingdon Press.

Book 9781791004750

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Many large, thriving churches started small—in someone’s home—and grew either unintentionally or by design. This book provides an intentionally small home-church model of growth and discipleship for denominations and established churches—one that creates the intimacy that so many people hunger for and that is a viable, alternative model for providing diverse, multi-ethnic communities. Abingdon Press.

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about the book Learn to build, launch, and sustain a congregational care ministry in your church—no matter the size, type, or denomination.

Liturgies from Below Praying with People at the Ends of the World Claudio Carvalhaes

Better Sundays Begin on Monday 52 Exercises for Evaluating Weekly Worship David W. Manner

Book 9781791007355

Book 9781791004736

A group of approximately 100 people— the author, scholars, artists, students, and others—wrote prayers and stories of their experiences trying to live the Christian faith in abandoned and marginalized communities that deal with violence, drugs, misogyny, militarization, climate change, and more, showing the perspective of prayer and demonstrations of hope from the people there. Abingdon Press. $29.99; $21.99

Learn how to implement a collaborative process of analyzing worship services that can lead to more inspiring worship.

You’ll be encouraged to ask questions without being defensive, so that you can begin to think beyond style to biblical and theological worship content.

Though this requires a willingness to sacrifice your own ideas and interests, it will lead to a better worship experience for your congregation. Abingdon Press. $19.99; $14.99

NEW The Caring Congregation Ministry Implementation Guide Karen Lampe and Melissa Gepford Although caring for one another within a church family may seem easy, the theology of caring and the practicalities involved and even visitation etiquette are issues about which Congregational Care Ministers must be aware and understand.

In The Caring Congregation Ministry, Karen Lampe and Melissa Gepford have put together an indispensable implementation guide that equips pastors and lay leaders of any size, type, or denomination of church with all the necessary resources needed to build and sustain a Congregational Care ministry, including handouts, worksheets, and templates, in addition to advice on teaching people how to listen, comfort, and encourage congregants.

Abingdon Press. Coming in March.

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Implementation Guide 9781791013387 $19.99; $14.99

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The Purpose Pattern and Character of Worship L. Edward Phillips In The Purpose, Pattern, and Character of Worship, Phillips looks at six distinct characteristics of worship patterns and links them to patterns found in contemporary expression.

By discovering and defining these characteristics of worship, pastors and worship directors can lead more coherent and meaningful services.

Abingdon Press.

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Active Faith Resisting 4 Dangerous Ideologies with the Wesleyan Way Paul W. Chilcote

There are four fear-based dangers growing within contemporary church and society: Christian fundamentalism, Nationalism, Dispensationalism, and Antinomianism. Active Faith discusses the relationship between these practices, examines contemporary forms of Christianity that distort our received faith tradition, and offers guidance on how we can engage Wesleyan practices in our day-to-day lives. Abingdon Press.

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about the book Whether we need preaching has been asked for hundreds of years, long before an age of media saturation from streaming 24-hour news, entertainment, politics, and sports. This question hounded George Buttrick...but his answer remained hidden for 40 years until now.

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Congregational care is part of a pastor’s job, along with leadership and mission, but some may find counseling to be daunting, disorienting, and maybe even distracting. Kairos Care can help. It offers a theologically sensitive and practically formed framework for providing focused and time-limited pastoral care and counsel. Abingdon Press. Coming in March.

There are cultural differences in the Bible that can be disturbing and hard for today’s readers to discuss. This book addresses the ways in which liturgical practices have led to oppression and transgressions. Its practical ideas for responding to cultural differences and correcting past wrongs will inspire you to widen the reach and accessibility of liturgy and social awareness. Abingdon Press. Coming in March.

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A Process for Pastoral Counseling in the Office and in Everyday Encounters Aaron Perry

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A Practical Guide for Extraordinary Liturgy Gerald C. Liu and Khalia J. Williams

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George Buttrick’s Guide to Preaching the Gospel George A. Buttrick; Charles N. Davidson, Jr., editor Do we really need preaching? That’s a question that’s been asked for hundreds of years. The question hounded George Buttrick, one of the most profound preachers of the twentieth century.

Willimon presents a bold theology of preaching, emphasizing it as a distinctively theological endeavor that begins with and is enabled by God. God speaks, preachers dare to speak the speech of God, and the church dares to listen. With fresh biblical insights, creativity, and humor, Willimon offers encouragement to today’s preachers and congregations so that they can dare to speak up for God so that God might speak today. Abingdon Press.

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NEW How Women Transform Preaching Leonora Tubbs Tisdale

How Women Transform Preaching looks at the “untold stories” of women preachers throughout history who serve as examples of both the struggle and power of women’s preaching as well as stories of contemporary women preachers. Throughout, author Leonora Tubbs Tisdale draws practical lessons that show what we can learn from the extraordinary women pastors of both the past and present. Abingdon Press.

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Preachers Dare Speaking for God Will Willimon

In George Buttrick’s Guide to Preaching the Gospel, we learn what Buttrick said about our need for competent preachers, what the preacher must preach about, and the daily discipline preachers should take when creating the sermon: research, charting, outlining, writing and performance. These previously unpublished essays will not only provide practical help in crafting sermons, they’ll will give modern preachers much-needed inspiration.

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about the series Individuals and families can use Worship at Home resources for personal devotion and worship at any time, wherever they like. Use the entire service or simply choose whatever portions are helpful.

Pastors and group leaders can use it as complete worship plans for weekly church services.

Connections Year B, Volume 2: Lent through Pentecost A Lectionary Commentary for Preaching and Worship Joel B. Green, Thomas G. Long, Luke A. Powery, et al, editors This nine-volume series offers creative commentary on each reading in the three-year cycle of the Revised Common Lectionary. It does so first by viewing the readings through the lens of its connections to the rest of Scripture as well as contemporary lenses of culture, film, fiction, ethics, and science.

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Prepare! 2020–2021 An Ecumenical Music & Worship Planner Mary Scifres and David L. Bone

This all-in-one, weekly, lectionary-based resource helps both music directors and pastors plan worship services for each Sunday and holy day of the Church Year.

Features calendar format; 8 or more suggested hymns per service keyed to 16 hymnals from at least 7 denominations; complete lectionary text; reproducible forms; suggestions for prayers, solos, anthems, visuals, more. Abingdon Press.

Each $27.99 9781501896460 NRSV Version 9781501896446 CEB Version

NEW Worship at Home Lent 2021 Mary J. Scifres and B. J. Beu Weekly worship for wherever you are! This book is packed with weekly worship services you can do on your own or with others and includes services for each week in Lent, including Ash Wednesday and services for Holy Week. This book is for congregations and individuals who want to stay spiritually connected and growing, even when they’re not worshiping together in the same space. It provides everything you need to conduct meaningful, spiritually fulfilling, traditionally rooted worship services at home or in other intimate environments.

Each service includes essential worship elements, from gathering to benediction, with words and actions you can say and do yourself, links for online musical selections plus traditional hymn suggestions from a variety of hymnals.

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Worship at Home: Advent and Christmas 9781791019013 $9.99; $6.79

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Worship at Home: Easter and Eastertide 9781791018924 $9.99; $6.79

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Worship at Home: After Pentecost I 9781791018948 $9.99; $6.79

The Abingdon Preaching Annual 2021 Planning Sermons and Services for Fifty-Two Sundays Tanya Linn Bennett, editor A source of inspiration and edification for pastors, the Annual is lectionarybased and follows the calendar year (January–December). Each week’s entry includes Primary Theme, Secondary Themes, and Worship Helps. Also includes essays on preaching topics, full sermons, and sermon series ideas.

Abingdon Press.

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The Abingdon Worship Annual 2021 Worship Planning Resources for Every Sunday of the Year Mary Scifres and B. J. Beu, editors This trusted planning resource for traditional and contemporary worship follows the calendar year (January– December). Offers fresh resources for planning and implementing weekly worship: prayers, an order of worship, music, and even sermon preparation.

Liturgies and prayers are also included for New Year’s Day, Ascension Day, All Saints Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Eve. Abingdon Press.

Book 9781501896651

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about this Bible Verse mapping means getting real about studying the Bible. More than simply reading a verse or Scripture passage, verse mapping means using Bible study tools to research what you’ve just read in the Bible—to learn more about what God is saying to you and how you can apply his Word to your life today.

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NIV The Woman’s Study Bible, Full-Color Receiving God’s Truth for Balance, Hope, and Transformation Dorothy Kelley Patterson and Rhonda Kelley, editors

This beautifully redesigned full-color edition poignantly reveals the Word of God to women, inviting them to receive God’s truth for balance, hope, and transformation. It reflects the contributions of over 80 women from a wide variety of ethnic, denominational, educational, and occupational backgrounds and includes detailed biographical portraits of biblical women; verse-by-verse study notes; in-text topical articles and essays; maps, charts, and timelines; and more. Thomas Nelson Publishing.

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NEW NIV Verse Mapping Bible, Comfort Print Find Connections in Scripture Using a Unique 5-Step Process Kristy Cambron

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It features guided instructions on how verse mapping works; 350 partially completed verse maps with pre-selected verses in multiple Bible translations and helpful Hebrew or Greek word studies; more than 70 blank verse maps for your own inductive Bible study journey; topical index; and more.

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Expertly designed specifically to be used with the New International Version (NIV) text. Zondervan.

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Go beyond just reading the Bible. In the NIV Verse Mapping Bible, author Kristy Cambron expands her verse mapping curriculum series to include verses from the entire Bible, showing you how to compare Bible translations, pick out meaningful words, and delve into the true meaning of each verse using starter verse maps and prompts. Verse mapping will help you study the historical context, transliteration, translation, connotation, and theological framework of a verse. This unique study technique includes exploring Hebrew and Greek word studies, finding connections in Scripture, comparing Bible translations, and learning as much as you can from your time in God’s Word.

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Savior What the Bible Says about the Cross

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Words of Life Jesus and the Promise of the Ten Commandments Today

This study introduces us to several biblically based ways of understanding Jesus’ death on the cross that may go beyond explanations we’ve heard before and that can strengthen our commitment to follow Jesus.

It is from the cross that Jesus shows his deepest love for us. Susan Robb looks at Christ’s final words from a biblical and historical perspective, showing how we can find life and hope in them.

Adam Hamilton brings modern eyes to the ten commandments, considering their historical context, their Hebrew meaning, and unpacking how Jesus reinterpreted them.

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Words of Life Jesus and the Promise of the Ten Commandments Today

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It is from the cross that Jesus shows his deepest love for us. Susan Robb looks at Christ’s final words from a biblical and historical perspective, showing how we can find life and hope in them.

Adam Hamilton brings modern eyes to the ten commandments, considering their historical context, their Hebrew meaning, and unpacking how Jesus reinterpreted them.

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