Augsburg Fortress

Precious Baby

This light, rhyming board book celebrates the wonder and joy of welcoming a new baby into the home.

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Holy Grounds: The Surprising Connection between Coffee and Faith—From Dancing Goats to Satan’s Drink

From the coffee bean's discovery by ninth-century Ethiopian Muslims to being condemned as "Satan's drink" by medieval Christians, to becoming an integral part of Passover...

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Engage! Tools for Ministry in the Community

Author Dana Horrell calls on years of experience in community action to create this practical guide to help congregations reach out to their local communities. Engage! provides twenty-six practical and proven tools to help leaders develop methods and strategies to get started on a path of effective planning.

The primary audience for Engage! includes pastors, lay leaders, and members in local congregations who are engaged in community ministry.

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Let the Children Come: Reimagining Childhood from a Christian Perspective

In Let the Children Come, Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore explores the question, What does faithful parenting look like today? As she addresses this query, she updates outmoded and distorted assumptions about and conceptions of children in popular US culture. She also shows important insights and contributions religious traditions and communities, Christianity in particular, make as we examine how to regard and treat children well.

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Porcupine's Pie

Porcupine shares ingredients from her pantry with her woodland friends for the Fall Feast. When Porcupine loses a key ingredient for her pie, her friends come to the rescue.

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The Wrong Shoes: A Book About Money and Self-Esteem

When Marco learns he has the wrong shoes, he embarks on a journey to learn about money and self-esteem.

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Rufus and the Scary Storm: A Book about Being Brave

A scary storm sends Rufus running for cover. Can a prayer help him overcome his fear?

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The Homebrewed Christianity Guide to Being Human: Becoming the Best Bag of Bones You Can Be

This Homebrewed Christianity Guide explores how Christian theology can address our rapidly changing paradigms of human existence. Donna Bowman argues that theology can contribute to our knowledge of the human self, gained through the sciences, that a theological perspective on humanity is useful in contemporary pluralistic and global settings, and that there?s theological significance to work and play. She also tackles issues of gender, sexuality, creativity, and human expression ? with jokes!

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Thanksgiving in the Woods

Cheerful, colorful illustrations celebrate a real-life family's Thanksgiving in the woods.

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A More Radical Gospel: Essays on Eschatology, Authority, Atonement, and Ecumenism

Gerhard O. Forde has stood at the forefront of Lutheran thought for most of his career. This new collection of essays and sermons--many previously unpublished--makes Forde's powerful theological vision more widely available.

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Luther’s Liturgical Music: Principles and Implications

Martin Luther's relationship to music has been largely downplayed, yet music played a vital role in Luther's life—and he in turn had a deep and lasting effect on Christian hymnody. In Luther's Liturgical Music Robin Leaver comprehensively explores these connections. Replete with tables, figures, and musical examples, this volume is the most extensive study on Luther and music ever published. Leaver's work makes a formidable contribution to Reformation studies, but worship leaders, musicians, and others will also find it an invaluable, very readable resource. 

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The Preached God: Proclamation in Word and Sacrament

The Preached God speaks directly to preachers, calling them to deliver the truths of forgiveness, life, and salvation through both word and sacrament to all who listen.

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The Homebrewed Christianity Guide to God: Everything You Ever Wanted To Know about the Almighty

In this latest installment of the Homebrewed Christianity series, Eric E. Hall approaches the question of God from various perspectives. The classical conception of God is like the famously stoic-yet-lethal Mr. Miyagi in the Karate Kid. Competing versions of God include Your Hippie Aunt, St. Joan of Arc, and even the muscle-headed goons from Jersey Shore. At the end of this romp through history and pop culture, Hall argues that the God you need may be the very God you rejected years ago.

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Unstoppable: Norwegian Pioneers Educate Their Daughters

When Lutheran church leaders came from Norway in the middle of the nineteenth century, educational plans for each gender were based on deeply held beliefs about what a man was and what a woman was. Those arguments lived on in this country while pastors were deciding how to build institutions for their children. Now they lived in a new land and culture in a new era when the role of women was changing.

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The Creation of the World

From the formation of the stars to the blessing of all living creatures, kids will be delighted with the story of how God spoke the world into existence.

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The Forgotten Luther: Reclaiming the Social-Economic Dimension of the Reformation

This collection of essays from leading Lutheran thinkers, theologians, and activists excavates Luther's theological focus on social and economic justice. By bringing these "forgotten" elements of Reformation theology to light, The Forgotten Luther helps contemporary heirs of Luther's thought to honor and advance this neglected part of his legacy by responding to the economic and social injustices of our own time.

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Luther and Liberation: A Latin American Perspective, Second Edition

Luther and Liberation recovers the liberating and revolutionary impact of Luther’s theology, read afresh from the perspective of the Latin American context. 

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Introduction to the History of Christianity in the United States: Revised and Expanded Edition

The history of Christianity in the United States is a fascinating and lively story. In this revised and expanded account, Nancy Koester introduces students to the major events and movements that influenced the tradition.

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African Theology on the Way: Current Conversations

In this exciting volume, Diane B. Stinton has assembled the work of nearly twenty prominent African theologians, making their writings accessible to the introductory level student.

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A Commentary on Acts

The book of Acts recounts the birth of the church and the ministry of the disciples. It is of critical importance in the New Testament, and in this helpful guide, the section-by-section commentary draws out the historical, theological, and pastoral significance of the biblical text.

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