Augsburg Fortress

God's Protection Covers Me

"Every day, in all you do, God's protection covers you!"

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Big Questions, Worthy Dreams: Mentoring Emerging Adults in Their Search for Meaning, Purpose, and Faith

Big Questions, Worthy Dreams was written to inform and inspire educators, church leaders, and others to consider the institutional and cultural patterns that affect emerging adults. It serves to bridge the divide between generations and to encourage more adequate recognition of what is at stake in the response of all who interact with emerging young adult lives.

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Sexuality and Holy Longing, 2nd Edition: Embracing Intimacy in a Beautiful, Broken World

In this newly revised edition of Sexuality and Holy Longing, author Lisa Graham McMinn beautifully describes how people are created by God for relationship, and our sexuality guarantees that we will long for and be drawn toward others. McMinn provides a blueprint for understanding sexuality--and our longing to be loved--at all stages of life (childhood, teen years, early adulthood, midlife, and old age).

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When Day Is Done

A soothing bedtime book for calming down after a busy day.

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Recalling Our Own Stories: Spiritual Renewal for Religious Caregivers

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

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Honoring the Body: Meditations on a Christian Practice

In Honoring the Body, Stephanie Paulsell speaks to those who have ever wondered how to celebrate the body's pleasures and protect the body's vulnerabilities in a world that seems confused about both. What we need, she shows, are practices that honor the body.

Paulsell invites readers to explore how we might honor the body in daily activities, seeking wisdom from Scripture, history, and contemporary experience, in story and song and poetry/

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Receiving the Day: Christian Practices for Opening the Gift of Time

In Receiving the Day, Dorothy C. Bass shows how Christian practices for rest and worship continually welcome us into a way of life attuned to the love of God, neighbor, earth, and self. Through them, we can learn to dwell more graciously, attentively, and faithfully within the hours and days we have and to share the gift of time with others.

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Mansions of the Heart: Exploring Seven Stages of Spiritual Growth

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

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Owen and Eleanor Make Things Up (Paperback)

Owen and Eleanor spin a tale that spirals out of their control, and learn important lessons about telling stories.

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Cross Vision Study Guide Bundle

Tackle the Bible's biggest dilemma now with the paperback version and study guide in one package. In his revolutionary book Cross Vision, Gregory A. Boyd proposed...

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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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Presumed Guilty: Why We Shouldn't Ask Muslims to Condemn Terrorism

All of us should condemn terrorism–whether the perpetrators are Muslim extremists, white supremacists, Marxist revolutionaries, or our own government. But it's time for us to...

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Keeping Faith in Congress: Why Persistence, Compassion, and Teamwork Will Save Our Democracy

In 1996, Walter Capps won a seat in US House of Representatives. Less than a year later, he suffered a massive heart attack at Dulles...

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The Prophetic Imagination: 40th Anniversary Edition

A classic text in biblical theology–still relevant for today and tomorrow. In this 40th anniversary edition of the classic text from one of the most...

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Sermons of Consequence

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Sermons of Consequence is a collection of sermons preached at Grace Lutheran Church in River Forest, Illinois. Although the places and people have named have local familiarity, the sermons set forth here speak to the wider human condition, which makes this book applicable to people everywhere. These sermons provide a model for broader witness to the Holy Spirit as the power for consequential preaching.

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The Last Blues Preacher: Reverend Clay Evans, Black Lives, and the Faith that Woke the Nation

One of America’s most famous gospel singers, civil rights heroes, and the godfather of Chicago’s black preachers, Reverend Clay Evans inspired a city and a nation to see, hear, and witness the dignity and value of black lives. Zach Mills’s lively and powerful biography, The Last Blues Preacher, brings the life and work of Reverend Evans into our time and examines how current national conversations on race, religion, politics, and popular culture can and should inform contemporary activism.

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Rising: The Amazing Story of Christianity's Resurrection in the Global South

Pundits regularly declare that Christianity is dying?its golden age of influence is long gone in Western Europe, and similar trends are happening in North America. But while it slowly dies in the West, Christianity has been coming to life in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Now immigrants, refugees, and missionaries from the Global South bring their vibrant faith to our shores. They are bringing the gospel back to us in new and surprising ways. Christianity is rising, you just have to look around. 

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Follower of the Living Jesus - An Authentic Evangelical Appreciation

Michael Hayes, a self-professing evangelical, offers in this volume perhaps the first--and only--biography that shows how Dietrich Bonhoeffer's life and legacy can be of great inspiration to evangelicals, while not diminishing or dismissing Bonhoeffer's liberal theological, ethical and social commitments. Hayes understands Bonhoeffer's contribution to address key concerns for evangelicals: scripture, salvation, sin, Jesus Christ, church, and world.

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Joy Unspeakable: Contemplative Practices of the Black Church (Second Edition)

Joy Unspeakable focuses on the aspects of the Black church that point beyond particular congregational gatherings toward a mystical and communal spirituality not within the exclusive domain of any denomination. Holmes's research--through oral histories, church records, and written accounts--details not only ways in which contemplative experience is built into African American collective worship but also the legacy of African monasticism, a history of spiritual exemplars, and unique meditative worship practices.

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Charles W. Ore: An American Original

This book celebrates the ministry and extraordinary gifts of Charles W. Ore, nationally recognized church musician, educator, and composer. During his teaching career, especially his many years at Concordia College, Seward, Nebraska, Ore's contributions have helped shaped church music in America.

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