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Journeying through Lent with Luke: Daily Meditations

A Christ-Centered guide to the Gospel of Luke for daily devotion and group study during Lent. Exploring the major themes found in Luke's gospel, including...

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Be Still...And Know That I Am God: Devotions for Every Day of the Year

This daily devotional is based on selected reflections written over a three-year period by the author whose challenging, thoughtprovoking, and personal...

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Nurturing Hope: Christian Pastoral Care in the Twenty-First Century

Lynne Baab discusses seven trends in pastoral care with stories about Christian caregivers meeting those challenges in creative ways. Baab also presents four practical skills pastoral carers need: to understand common stressors, to listen, to pray with others, and to nurture their personal resilience. In each chapter, she offers discussion question as well as tips for readers who are training other pastoral carers.

Nurturing Hope brings readers hope for their caring role and their own spiritual journey.

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When You Have a Chronic Illness

Illness can strike at anytime, but dealing with a life-long ailment takes faith, patience, and adjustment to a different kind of lifestyle. Accepting and...

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Prayer: Expanded Edition

Is your personal prayer life giving you problems? Read this book. It will clear your mind about your need for prayer and strengthen your will to do it....

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Everyone Must Eat: Food, Sustainability, and Ministry

Rural contexts are often over-looked, treated as "flyover land." But because everyone must eat, rural communities and their work in food production are important to the whole of society. Mark Yackel-Juleen, the executive director of Shalom Hill Farm, connects issues of food production and environmental sustainability in profound ways to the Bible and theology. He offers actionable tools for rural leaders and ministers to address issues of sustainability and land use in their ministry.

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Elders Rising: The Promise and Peril of Aging

Riding the age wave with grace In this inspiring book, Roland D. Martinson draws on the folk wisdom and experience of over fifty persons between...

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Dignity and Grace: Wisdom for Caregivers and Those Living with Dementia

Whether a diagnosis of dementia--for you or for someone you are accompanying--arrives suddenly or gradually, this illness reorganizes a family's entire life. Drawing on her own experience, as well as interviews with eight family and professional caregivers, Janet L. Ramsey helps caregivers and those with impaired memories learn as they listen to each other. She also shows them how the Holy Spirit can awaken their imagination and understanding while they discover how to live with dementia.

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Good Grief: The Complete Set

This three-book collection, Good Grief: The Complete Set, offers Good Grief, a foundation for understanding grief; The Good Grief Devotional, a collection of valuable insights...

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More Dog Psalms: Prayers My Dogs Have Taught Me

Inspired by Brokering's observations of dogs, each of these whimsical, playful psalm-meditations is filled with tender wisdom and expresses what dogs can teach...

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Little Prayer Book, 1522 and A Simple Way to Pray, 1535: The Annotated Luther Study Edition

This volume provides two of Martin Luther’s most significant writings on prayer. In Little Prayer Book, 1522, Luther seeks to reform the theology and practice...

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The Good Grief Devotional: 52 Weeks toward Hope

A wise, honest companion for the journey through grief

The Good Grief Devotional offers wise, honest companionship to those who struggle with the death of a loved one, a divorce, the loss of a job, or another major life transition.

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Helping Children Grieve, revised edition: When Someone They Love Dies

This straightforward book helps adults talk to children in meaningful ways, nurturing their faith and building their emotional strength during a time of...

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When Trauma Wounds: Pathways to Healing and Hope

In When Trauma Wounds, psychologist Karen A. McClintock combines psychological approaches with faith resources to improve trauma recovery. Whether you have experienced trauma or are a caregiving pastor, church member, or friend to a survivor, this book will familiarize you with trauma symptoms and healing strategies.

McClintock shows readers how to create a sanctuary to shelter a wounded soul. She helps trauma survivors find acceptance, hope, and healing.

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The Anatomy of Grace

Combining lively prose and creative insight, pastor and radio host Peter W. Marty probes the intricacies of daily human experience and invites readers to...

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Come to the Water Animated Video

Featuring a hand-drawn animation style that perfectly complements the illustrations of Daniel Erlander, this video highlights the messages found in Daniel Erlander's baptism manuals.

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Journeying through Lent with Mark: Daily Meditations

A Christ-centered guide to the Gospel of Mark for daily devotion and group study during Lent. Lent is traditionally a time to reflect on the life, death, and...

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40-Day Journey with Martin Luther

Drawing from Luther’s Small Catechism, his Large Catechism, and other sources, editor Gracia Grindal here selects forty inspiring passages that raise profound truths...

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Martin Luther's Table Talk

In this volume, editor Henry F. French has carefully chosen some of the best of Luther's conversations with many guests who frequented the dinner table in the home of Martin and Katie Luther. Those who read this book will join the conversation with Luther and friends around the dinner table as they wrestle with important questions of the day. Pull up a chair and join the circle.

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God's Word for Today: A Daily Devotional for the Whole Year

Here are classic devotions, based on the Bible, for every day of the year, with ten devotions for special days and church festivals. Each meditation brings...

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