Augsburg Fortress

To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation, 1520: The Annotated Luther Study Edition

With great clarity and insight, James M. Estes illuminates Luther's call to secular authorities to help with the reform of the church in this important 1520 treatise. To combat Rome's intransigent opposition to reform of any sort, Luther appealed to secular rulers to intervene and clear the way for ecclesiastical reform.

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Baptism: A User's Guide

Read Fortress Press's interview with Martin Marty, only on fortressforum.com! To see baptism as merely a ceremony greatly limits the meanings of Christian...

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Never Said a Mumbalin' Word

This unique devotional takes the reader on a spiritual journey through Lent and Holy Week. The focus is on the Spirituals, through which the reader comes to...

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When Your Spouse Dies

The death of a spouse can create emotional, spiritual, and financial chaos for the one left behind. It is a journey through grief no one wishes to make. In...

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Violet and the Jurassic Land Exhibit

Violet and her friends in the Infinity Rainbow Club are helping set up the new augmented reality exhibit at the natural history museum. But Violet's OCD means she's constantly checking the exhibit for errors. Can Violet find a way to relax and enjoy what she has helped create?

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The Kid with Big, Big Ideas

In a world that so often dismisses and excludes kids from decision-making, this book boldly suggests that not only should kids have a voice, but that their ideas just might be the ticket to making progress.

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Rainbow Boy

A story about a boy with a heart too big for one color alone.

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Leading with the Sermon: Preaching as Leadership

Prolific author William H. Willimon makes the compelling case that two key pastoral tasks--preaching and leadership--complement, correct, strengthen, and inform one another. Preaching is the distinctive function of pastoral leaders. Leadership of the church, particularly during a challenging time of transition in mainline Protestantism, has become a pressing concern for pastors. This book shows how the practices, skills, and intentions of Christian preaching can be helpful to the leadership of a congregation.

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Love and Quasars: An Astrophysicist Reconciles Faith and Science

In Love and Quasars, Paul Wallace shows how faith and science are pitted against one another, and he explains how the standard ways of reconciling them don't work. He then proposes a reasonable, thoughtful approach that will appeal to Christians and students of science alike. Readable and wise, Love and Quasars is an indispensable resource for people who wonder if faith and science can coexist.

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Maybe I Can Love My Neighbor Too

A book about loving your neighbor with kindness and creativity from the author of the award-winning Maybe God Is Like That Too.

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In the Midst of Chaos: Caring for Children as Spiritual Practice

In the Midst of Chaos, by Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore, explores parenting as spiritual practice.

Both honest about the difficulties and attentive to the blessings present in everyday life, it explores how parents might use seven daily practices, such as play, reading, chores, and saying goodbye or goodnight, as rich opportunities to shape both parent and child morally and spiritually.

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The Babylonian Captivity of the Church, 1520: The Annotated Luther Study Edition

In his The Babylonian Captivity of the Church, Martin Luther set forth a reconsideration of the sacramental Christian life that centered on the word. His thesis is that the papacy had distorted the sacraments with its own traditions and regulations, transforming them into a system of control and coercion.

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Jesus' Sermon on the Mount: Mandating a Better Righteousness

Through careful attention to the structure of Matthew's Gospel and the place of the Sermon within it, keen sensitivity to the patterns and themes of Israelite prophecy, and judicious comparisons with other Jewish and rabbinic literature, Jack R. Lundbom elucidates the meaning of the Sermon and its continuity with Israel's prophetic heritage as well as the best of Jewish teaching. By deft appeal to Christian commentators on the Sermon, Lundbom brings its most important themes to life for the contemporary reader.

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Life among the Lutherans

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

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Grieving the Death of a Mother

A mother's death can make a shambles of schedules, priorities, agendas, commitments, and, sometimes, even our most important relationships. A mother's last...

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All About Anxiety

All About Anxietytackles tough questions kids have about what's going on in their brains when they feel anxious and equips readers with new strategies to manage anxiety so they can thrive in their daily lives.

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Managing with Integrity: An Ethical Investigation into the Relationship between Personal and Corporate Integrity

Managing with Integrity challenges the readers to explore different perspectives on and conceptions of corporate ethics. It is an ethical guide for managers, employees, politicians, clergy, candidates for priesthood, and business students, equipping them to eradicate corporate unethical conduct from all spheres of life.

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Abundance: Creating a Culture of Generosity

Pastor and certified fundraising executive (CFRE) Michael R. Ward provides church leaders a resource to lead their congregations to a new culture of generosity and abundance that raises more money as well as more disciples. This book guides a process of study, reflection, and action that is clear and practical. Ward taps into years of experience fundraising in the nonprofit sector to address the ongoing challenges of financing ministry.

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The Story of Easter

Based on the award-winning Spark Story Bible, The Story of Easter uses spirited animation to help children marvel at God's love for the world through the resurrection of Jesus.

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Christian Faith: The Basics

Walt Kallestad, the senior pastor of one of the fastest growing churches in the United States, knows and understands spiritual seekers and new Christians....

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