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CHRISTIAN LIVING

TABLE OF CONTENTS CHRISTIAN LIVING 1

BIBLE STUDIES 15

COMMON ENGLISH BIBLE 31

INSPIRATIONAL & SEASONAL 37

LEADERSHIP, THEOLOGY & 53 BIBLICAL STUDIES

CURRICULUM 73

CHURCH SUPPLIES 83 ORDERING INFORMATION 107

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Explore the life of Joseph, the earthly father of Jesus Christ.

FAITHFUL Christmas Through the Eyes of Joseph

ADAM HAMILTON From his beginnings as a humble carpenter to his all-important role as the earthly father of Jesus Christ, Joseph's place in the nativity story is sometimes overlooked but contains valuable lessons for all of us. Join Adam Hamilton as he examines Christmas through the eyes of Joseph.

Absent from much of the biblical narrative, Joseph never spoke a word, but his courageous actions were crucial to the birth of Christ and God's salvation plan for humanity.

As you read this book, you will understand how Joseph's story is much like our own. In life, we encounter circumstances that we would never have chosen for ourselves. At times it can be tempting just to walk away. Joseph provides us a great example of humbly obeying God even when we don't understand and faithfully moving forward in the strength that God provides.

Exchange your doubt for courage this Advent and Christmas season.

Learn to accept and glorify God's will even when circumstances make it difficult to do so.

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Additional components for a four-week adult study include a comprehensive Leader Guide as well as a Youth Study Book and a Children's Leader Guide, to create an all-church Advent study.

KEY FEATURES • Readers will be drawn into this fascinating nativity story, told from Joseph's unique and valuable perspective.

• Readers will learn how Joseph's story is much like their own, as he encountered circumstances beyond his control and emerged, with God's help, to be abundantly blessed.

• Works beautifully as a stand-alone book or can be combined with the DVD, Leader Guide, and youth and children's resources to create a churchwide study. Videos feature Adam Hamilton in 10-12 minute sessions.

Adam Hamilton is senior pastor of The United Methodist Church of the Resurrection in Leawood, Kansas, one of the fastest growing, most highly visible churches in the country.

Hamilton is the best-selling and award-winning author of Creed, Half Truths, The Call, The Journey, The Way, 24 Hours That Changed the World, John, Revival, Not a Silent Night, Enough, When Christians Get It Wrong, and Seeing Gray in a World of Black and White, all published by Abingdon Press. Learn more about Adam Hamilton at AdamHamilton.org.

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Embark on the transforming journey of faithfulness.

CHOOSE WISELY, LIVE FULLY Lessons from the Book of Proverbs

DONNA GAINES The Book of Proverbs is a gold mine of divine wisdom. Author and speaker Donna Gaines applies that wisdom in very practical ways to the issues women face. Choose Wisely, Live Fully examines the blessings and curses associated with the choices made by the two women in Proverbs. This discipleship tool will help equip you to: • discern the voice of God and follow his clear path between Wisdom and Folly; • experience the joy of wholehearted obedience; • let God help you to mentor the lives around you in remarkable ways.

Exploring the timeless counsel of God's Word, Choose Wisely, Live Fully is your invitation to embark on the transforming journey of faithfulness as you seek God and boldly choose the path that leads to life.

KEY FEATURES • Wisdom Call questions for personal reflection or starting group discussions.

• Provides commentary on how to mentor others.

• Focuses on what the Book of Proverbs says about daily life, how it applies to modern times, and how it reveals the wisdom of God. • Practical and simple instructions to help readers be successful and prosperous in life.

• Readers discover what it means to be a godly woman and wife, how investing in family and faith refines priorities as a spouse and parent, and how mistakes are opportunities for growth.

Donna Gaines is a speaker, author of Choose Wisely, Live Fully, Seated: Living from Our Position in Christ, and Leaving Ordinary: Encounter God Through Extraordinary Prayer, and founder of Arise2Read – a nonprofit that recruits churches to adopt and provide tutors for inner-city elementary schools. Donna also teaches Bible study at her home church, Memphis-area Bellevue Baptist Church, in which her husband, Steve Gaines, Southern Baptist Convention President, pastors. She is the mother of four and "Nonna" to six grandchildren.

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From Overwhelmed by Life to Overwhelmed by God.

A WOMAN OVERWHELMED Finding God in the Messes of Life

HAYLEY DIMARCO A Woman Overwhelmed is a phrase with which many women can relate.

But what would happen if we could see the insanity in our pace and embrace our overwhelming God? There is a reason they say that a woman's work is never done—because it isn't! As women, we often are overwhelmed by the demands and circumstances of life, resulting in stress, fear, worry, impatience, fatigue, frustration, and even depression.

The truth is that we were created to be overwhelmed . . . not by life but by God! When we learn to be overwhelmed by God, the fruit in our lives goes from rotten to fragrant—filling our days with peace, hope, love, and joy. In A Woman Overwhelmed, best-selling author Hayley DiMarco shares biblical insights and personal stories to offer a glimpse at the comedy of an overwhelmed life while encouraging us to discover the depths and heights of God's love and power. Be empowered to find freedom in becoming overwhelmed with who God is—by learning to focus on what we know about God so that we can hold onto faith even when it seems that all is lost. For it is when an overwhelmed woman gives up the mission of me and exchanges it for the mission of God that being overwhelmed becomes a good thing. Choose to bask in the abundance of the Father instead of the abundance of life as his unfathomable depths can surely replace our fathomable messes.

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KEY FEATURES • Teaches the importance of focusing on God and his mission rather than the “mission of me”.

• Encourages finding freedom when we are overwhelmed by learning to be overwhelmed by God instead.

• Offers biblical strategies for addressing stress, worry, frustration, uncertainty, and isolation.

• Encourages seeing the spiritual beauty surrounding life’s messes.

• Gives insights into the depths of God’s love.

Hayley DiMarco, author of the A Woman Overwhelmed Bible study and trade book, is the best-selling author of more than forty books, including Mean Girls, Own It, Die Young, God Girl, God Girl Bible, and The Fruitful Wife. As the founder of Hungry Planet, a company intensely focused on feeding the world's appetite for truth, Hayley is passionate about taking on issues of faith and life with a transparent and winsome voice. She speaks regularly for women's groups and events, including groups such as Women of Faith, dotMOM, Precept National Women's Convention, and MOPS International. A pastor's wife, she and her husband, Michael, live outside Nashville with their daughter and four dogs. Visit her online at HayleyDiMarco.com.

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Lay your deepest hurt at the foot of the cross and allow God to anchor your brokenness.

ANCHORED IN

Experience a Power-Full Life in a Problem-Filled World

MICAH MADDOX As a pastor's daughter, author, and speaker, Micah Maddox knew about the power of God. When her father abandoned the family on a Sunday morning and didn't return, she faced a choice to cling to what she had been taught or turn away from God. Problems paralyze, but the power of God propels us. When we push forward, we can hold onto God during a ripple or a tidal wave in our lives. In Anchored In, Micah focuses on the power and presence of God in our lives as a life preserver in days that are filled with complex problems, people, and perplexing situations. A power-full life is not problem-free. The problems of this world fall under the greatest Power ever known. God's power grants us permission to navigate anything that comes our way. We only need to anchor into our Savior.

KEY FEATURES • Prompts us to access the power of God in our lives.

• Explores the importance of pursuing and pressing into our problems to look for God no matter what.

• Encourages pouring out our dreams in God’s presence.

• Motivates us to surrender to hear God speaking and to know that we are loved.

• Inspires humbled hearts and purposeful and passionate focus on God. • Moves us to be confident in God’s character and promises.

Micah Maddox is a women's conference speaker, Bible teacher, writer, blogger, and author of Anchored In: Experience a Power-Full Life in a Problem-Filled World. She is passionate about helping women find purpose, peace, and calm in our chaotic world. As a pastor's wife and mother of three, she contributes her time to MOPs and her local church — including serving as a women's ministry leader. Learn more about her at micahmaddox.com.

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Find abundant life by living a life of voluntary loss.

LIVING FOR ANOTHER More of Others, Less of You

BRENT GAMBRELL What did Jesus really mean when he said, "For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it."

(Matthew 16:25 NIV)?

In Living for Another, author and speaker Brent Gambrell calls the reader to realize that God has called us all to abundant life, but in order to have that, we must live a life for someone other than ourselves. You must live for another.

Your life is not destined to be a cautionary tale of what could have been. Have an abundant life by living a life of voluntary loss; a life poured out intentionally for others. Live a life that pleases the One who gave his life for you.

Live an abundant life when you live for another.

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KEY FEATURES • Provides questions and Bible study for personal reflection or starting group discussions.

• Reminds readers that some things matter more than others, and pushes them to refocus their life and energy on what is most significant.

• Challenges readers to live and die basking in the cross of Christ and living a life for others.

• Shares that fulfillment in life comes from losing, not gaining, and encourages being selfless in a ‘selfie’ world.

• Highlights what it truly means to love, bear with, forgive, and serve one another as he or she is completely satisfied being totally spent for Christ.

Brent Gambrell is the president of Brent Gambrell Ministries, a nonprofit ministry based in Nashville, Tennessee, which includes A Door to Hope missions. Since 1990, Brent has been traveling full-time, speaking and ministering to adults, students, groups, and churches around the world. He is author of Living for Another, and co-authored the Experiencing God Bible study, youth edition and developed the Who You Are in Christ DVD Bible study series. Visit him online at brentgambrellministries.com.

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Celebrate the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation through inspirational readings.

GODSPEED

Voices of the Reformation

DAVID TEEMS For the Protestant reformer, times were treacherous. The reformer lived, moved, and exercised his or her faith within the shadow of a powerful and intolerant church that dominated Western culture. Many of these men and women paid the ultimate price for their faith.

Celebrating the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, Godspeed is a 365-day devotional that features the words of prominent reformers, including Martin Luther, William Tyndale, John Calvin, and others, thoughtfully illuminated by best-selling author David Teems with both historical precision and charm.

Godspeed: Voices of the Reformation possesses a startling relevance for today's reader, offering a word of hope, comfort, and instruction to a culture threatened by religious intolerance. The reformer's voice is clear and bright and comes to us with the authority of heaven. This special package includes a flex cover with spot varnish and a ribbon marker.

KEY FEATURES • One-year devotional with 365 entries observes the Quincentennial of the Protestant Reformation (1517-2017) and the Reformers who gave it life.

• Compliments each day’s entry using a prayer, a word of counsel, a benediction, a provocative thought, or a relevant Scripture passage.

• Gain awareness of our Christian heritage, and heroes and heroines of the faith.

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• Ribbon marker.

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David Teems is an author and musician who grew up in Atlanta, Georgia, where he studied Psychology at Georgia State University and cultivated a life-long passion for the English voice—Shakespeare, Tyndale, Wordsworth, Whitman, Thomas Wolfe, and others. He has written six books including Godspeed: Voices of the Reformation, Tyndale: The Man Who Gave God an English Voice, and Majestie: The King Behind the King James Bible, and recorded several music and spoken-word albums. David lives with his wife, Benita, in Franklin, Tennessee and they have two grown sons. Find him online at DavidTeems.com.

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Give your Christmas a makeover with this practical approach to help your family learn what it means to truly celebrate their Savior.

TOTAL CHRISTMAS MAKEOVER

31 Devotions to Celebrate with Purpose

MELISSA SPOELSTRA In the bustle of the Christmas season, it can be easy to get swept up in all of the things to do. But it's important to pause and remember that our priority should be to spend time celebrating Christ's birth and not forget to invite Jesus to his own party.

Christmas is far more than a celebration of an event from long ago or a modern holiday centered around shopping. Mindfully take time to listen to how God continues to speak through the Christmas story as the Gospel narratives centered around the birth of Jesus are filled with encouragement and revelation concerning the love of God and his wisdom for us today.

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In Total Christmas Makeover, author and Bible teacher Melissa Spoelstra provides a practical approach for you and your family to turn your attention toward God's grace day-by-day as you prepare for Christmas. This 31-day devotional presents key scriptures, ideas to implement with each reading, and questions for reflection to guide you in rediscovering rituals, relationship, and rest to connect you more deeply with Christ this holiday season.

KEY FEATURES • Teaches parents to be intentional during the Advent season, focusing on Jesus’ birth and not the things of this world.

• Provides practical hands-on ideas, including ritual and service ideas, ways to spend time strengthening relationships, and suggested rest activities to reflect on God.

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Melissa Spoelstra is a popular women's conference speaker, Bible teacher, and writer who is madly in love with Jesus and passionate about helping women of all ages to seek Christ and know him more intimately through serious Bible study. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Bible Theology and enjoys teaching God's Word to diverse groups and churches within the body of Christ. She is the author of the First Corinthians: Living Love When We Disagree, Joseph: The Journey to Forgiveness, and Jeremiah: Daring to Hope in an Unstable World Bible studies and the Mom's Choice Award-winning Total Family Makeover: 8 Steps to Making Disciples at Home book. She lives in Dublin, Ohio, with her pastor husband and four kids. Find her online at MelissaSpoelstra.com.

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Discover the abundance of gifts just waiting for you.

ORDINARY GRACES Word Gifts for Any Season

LUCINDA SECREST MCDOWELL Everyone loves to receive a gift. And God has given us many, such as his grace—the gift we don't deserve and can never earn. Promises from the One who declares we are already loved, already accepted, already created in his image. The question becomes, will we truly receive that gift? Will the reality of it actually change the way we think and notice and reach out? God's Word will stand forever, in any season of life. These truths prompt us to respond with compassion and courage. Through inspiring devotions, Lucinda Secrest McDowell reveals biblical blessings that remind us that: God’s promises give us strength, God’s grace can be most evident at our weakest points, that a proper response to our abundance of blessings is simply gratitude, and the “more” we are all looking for is the same abundant life that Jesus came to give us. Join Lucinda in focusing on one word a day through devotional readings and short benedictions for any and every season— fall, Advent, Lent, and summer—to explore the many facets of Grace, Strength, Gratitude, and Life.

KEY FEATURES • Devotionals and inspirational readings focused on studying the biblical context of just one word a day.

• Each day/word includes a short benediction.

• Provides a renewed inspiration for growing your spiritual life.

• Helps readers recognize and give thanks for the grace that has been given to them.

Lucinda Secrest McDowell is the author of 11 books, including Live These Words, Amazed by Grace, and Quilts from Heaven. She has contributed to an additional 25 books and has been published in more than 50 magazines. A graduate of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and Furman University, she speaks internationally through her Encouraging Words ministry. An award-winning writer who has earned accolades from prominent writers' conferences and retreats, McDowell has also worked in radio broadcasting, in retreat planning, and on church pastoral staffs. She writes from "Sunnyside" cottage in Connecticut. Find her online at EncouragingWords.net.

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Pray the prayer of Christ.

VENITE

A New Book of Daily Prayer

ROBERT BENSON The Latin word venite is an invitation given to pray the prayers of Christ. It is an invitation to pray the ancient prayer, until life becomes a prayer without ceasing. Best-selling author Robert Benson brings together deep-rooted and traditional prayer practices of the Church in a volume for laypeople who want to practice daily prayer throughout the year in their own solitude. Venite offers a means of framing one's day in the rhythm of the ancient daily prayers of the Church, and allows for participation in those rhythms by beginning the day with prayer to sanctify it; by ending the day's work with psalms, prayers, and thanksgiving; and by committing oneself to the darkness and silence of the night with confession, forgiveness, and confidence.

Like The Book of Common Prayer, Venite is a daily book of connecting to God for people of all Christian faiths. Crossing denominational lines in spirit and in practice, it is divided into six parts: Office, Seasons, Days of Remembrance, Canticles, Psalter, and Gospel.

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Easy to use and follow, Venite is an uplifting and enlightening book for all experienced in or new to sacred daily prayer. This special package includes a flex cover with spot varnish and a ribbon marker.

KEY FEATURES • Helps a reader start a daily prayer practice.

• Offers instruction and explanation of the hours, the form, and the liturgical calendar.

• Provides a sense of spiritual community.

• Delivers wisdom that is real, gritty, and filled with astonishing amounts of grace, from one of the best contemplative and contemporary memoirists.

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Robert Benson is a critically acclaimed writer who has published nine works on the contemplative life, including Punching Holes in the Dark, Moving Miss Peggy, Living Prayer, and A Good Life. He is a graduate of the Academy for Spiritual Formation and a member of the Friends of Silence and of the Poor, an international ecumenical prayer community. He leads retreats and workshops on prayer, writing, and the contemplative life around the country. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee.

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Are you sick of your fears holding you back and weary of pretending that you have it all together?

BEING BRAVE

A 40-Day Journey to the Life God Dreams for You

KELLY JOHNSON "For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and selfcontrol." (2 Timothy 1:7 ESV) God has made us brave, not fearful beings. In a forty-day devotional format, author and blogger Kelly Johnson invites you to consider a new way of thinking about what it means to be brave and challenges you to seek a greater intimacy with God and the people God has placed in your life.

Through Scripture, stories, prayers, and thought-provoking questions, you will recognize the seeds of divinely inspired bravery and learn the strength found in community. Using letters of the word brave as a guide, Being Brave highlights what God's Word has to say about the characteristics of bravery: Bold, Resilient, Authentic, Vulnerable, and Engaged and Empowered by the Spirit.

Banish the fear that holds you back. You are a brave soldier!

KEY FEATURES • 40-day devotional that focuses on what God’s Word says about being brave in your daily life and provides inspiration for growing your spiritual life.

• Questions for personal reflection or group discussions.

• Practical and simple instructions will challenge the reader to overcome any obstacles that they may have.

• An everyday women's devotional that can also serve as a Lenten season devotional.

• An in-depth look at strong, courageous people of the Bible.

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Kelly Johnson, author of Being Brave, is a counselor, writer, speaker, retreat leader, and human rights advocate. A blogger since 2005, Kelly established her current blog, Grace Notes, in 2014 and maintains a following of readers on her monthly contributions to The Glorious Table and her church blog, Today I Saw God. She is a regular contributor to The Huffington Post, The Mighty, and Today Parenting. Follow her online at KellyJohnsonGraceNotes.com.

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Experience gratitude for country and love of God with these 365 daily devotions.

STRENGTH FOR SERVICE TO GOD AND COUNTRY Daily Devotions for Those in the Service of Others

RON AND MARSHA HARVELL Strength for Service to God and Country is a year-long devotional, first written for those in active service during World War II. The original book, published in 1942, was brought back to life when a young Eagle Scout discovered a worn copy of the volume that belonged to his grandfather, a World War II Navy corpsman. The devotional has since seen over one million copies purchased by and distributed to deserving service members.

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This updated edition contains original entries which still ring true today, coupled with newly written devotions, many from service men and women from around the world, that offer encouragement and strength for their peers.

Ron and Marsha Harvell love serving the Lord and ministering in the Air Force where Ron is a Command Chaplain responsible for the spiritual care of 32,000 Airmen and their families. They lead training conferences for international believers and are authors of three books, including devotional prayer books. They have also pastored civilian and military parishes.

One of the greatest Christian writers of the 20th Century teaches us how to live in the 21st.

MASTERY

364 DAILY DEVOTIONS

E. STANLEY JONES Jesus Christ lifted our fear by giving us the capacity to face things that happen to us and to make something out of them. In Mastery, E. Stanley Jones shows us how to attain the moral and spiritual mastery that came to the disciples on the Day of Pentecost. He demonstrates that mastery of living comes not by being tense and anxious, but by being receptive to the grace of God and the power of the Holy Spirit. In daily inspirational readings, affirmations, and prayers for one full year, Jones offers us guidance in mastering our lives.

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E. Stanley Jones (1884–1973) was a universally admired Christian missionary and evangelist of the 20th century. Called “the world’s greatest missionary evangelist”

by Time magazine in 1938, Jones spent 70 years traveling throughout the world.

His approach to evangelism presented Christ as the universal Son of Man without the trappings of Western culture. He delivered tens of thousands of sermons and lectures, traveled 50 weeks a year, and often spoke two to six times a day. His message of the necessity of “surrender” to Jesus Christ and “Jesus is Lord” had a life-changing impact on the millions of people throughout the world who heard him speak or read his books.

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MOSES Adam Hamilton

MOTHERPRAYER Barbara Mahany

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Turn your reluctance into boldness by walking in the footsteps of Moses.

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Join Adam Hamilton in exploring popular sayings that miss the point.

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As mothers, prayer is at its glorious best when we soar beyond words; it’s how we breathe; it’s motherlove.

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Who would you become if you decided to let Hope be your theme song?

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A guidebook for spirituality in a post-Christian world.

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CHRISTIAN LIVING BEST-SELLERS

SERVICE TAILS Ace Collins

TOTAL FAMILY MAKEOVER Melissa Spoelstra

WAITING FOR WONDER Marlo Schalesky

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Heart-tugging true stories of the courage, faith, and loyalty of remarkable service dogs.

Recapture your hope restore your soul and renew your vision of a wondrous Savior when you learn to live on God’s time.

PUNCHING HOLES IN THE DARK Robert Benson

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Robert Benson helps us discover strength in the gifts of the Spirit and encourages us all to start punching holes to let the Light of the world sneak in.

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Give your family a makeover with this practical approach to helping your children learn what it means to be a follower of Jesus.

A shocking discovery of hidden family secrets leads to profound revelations of faith.

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Say no to the desire for bigger, better, faster.

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NUMBERS - WOMEN'S BIBLE STUDY LEARNING CONTENTMENT IN A CULTURE OF MORE

MELISSA SPOELSTRA Something in us aches for more. All around, people are dancing to the steps of bigger, better, and faster, and we can easily join in. Before long, complaining and comparing accompany our desire for more, yet we’re not any closer to filling the ache inside. God offers us another way.

In this study of the Book of Numbers, we'll find a group of people that wandered in the desert for forty years, unable to enter the Promised Land because of their complaining, grumbling, and lack of faith. The New Testament tells us that their story was written to warn us (1 Corinthians 10:6) so that we would not make the same mistakes and suffer the same consequences. God sent his only Son to die to buy our freedom from the sin that leads to discontentment, and we find our own promised land of peace and contentment in the life he gives us.

By exploring Numbers together, we will learn contentment as we discover more of our incredible God who truly is more than enough. Only God can fill that ache inside and help us focus on his provision and purpose in the midst of life’s joys and pains.

Available components for the six-week Bible study, each available separately, include a Participant Workbook with five days of lessons per week, Leader Guide, DVD with six 2025 minute sessions (with closed captioning), and boxed Leader Kit containing one of each component.

KEY FEATURES • Identify the reasons for our complaining and recognize its relationship with worry.

• Learn contentment while being authentic about life’s difficulties.

• Accept short-term hardship in light of the greater good of God’s ultimate deliverance.

• Discover how to realign with God’s character and promises.

• Utilize guide’s space for writing answers and reflections, plus “Extra Info” and “Digging Deeper” articles.

• Offer participants options for varying levels of study/time commitment.

Melissa Spoelstra is a popular women's conference speaker, Bible teacher, and writer who is madly in love with Jesus and passionate about helping women of all ages to seek Christ and know him more intimately through serious Bible study. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Bible Theology and enjoys teaching God's Word to diverse groups and churches within the body of Christ. She is the author of the First Corinthians, Joseph, and Jeremiah Bible studies and the Mom's Choice Award-winning Total Family Makeover book. She lives in Dublin, Ohio, with her pastor husband and four kids. Find her online at MelissaSpoelstra.com.

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Learn how Jesus taught us to communicate with God.

GROUNDED IN PRAYER PARTICIPANT AND LEADER BOOK JIM COWART & MATTHEW HARTSFIELD JENNIFER COWART & JORGE ACEVEDO This offer to community groups (and small groups of any kind) is a sixsession study based on the Lord's Prayer, which Jesus used to teach all disciples about how to communicate with God. This participant experience expands on the Living the Five principles that (1) you can't do life alone, and that (5) worship is a lifestyle. Christians order their lives in relationships that are strengthened through personal and corporate prayer with God. The Lord's Prayer is a template for how to bring our needs, concerns, and challenges to God who cares for all of us.

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The six sessions are: Session One: Your Holy Name Session Two: Our God's Reign Session Three: Everything We Need Session Four: Forgive Us! Session Five: Deliver Us! Session Six: For God's Glory KEY FEATURES • A focus on prayer for six weeks helps overcome the isolation that individuals sometimes feel when trying to sustain a prayer life alone.

• Groups bring accountability to their practices.

• Building connections by sharing your story with a few people who really know you and who earn your trust.

Jim Cowart is the founding pastor of Harvest Church, a United Methodist congregation in Warner Robins, GA, near Macon.

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Matthew Hartsfield is the lead pastor of Bay Hope Church in Tampa, Florida, where he has served since 1993.

Jorge Acevedo is the Lead Pastor at Grace Church, a multi-site United Methodist congregation in Southwest Florida.

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God wants to begin—and then continue—a work of renovation in you.

RENOVATE

Building a Life with God

JACOB ARMSTRONG Using the Book of Nehemiah, popular author and pastor Jacob Armstrong explores the physical and spiritual renovation experienced by the nation of Judah. Nehemiah knew that his plan for renovating the wall and gates of Jerusalem would be hard work. But equally hard would be the spiritual renovation of the Jewish people as they returned to their homeland.

Thankfully, spiritual renovation is not a do-it-yourself project. We need God's great power working through us to renovate our lives by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Additional components for a six-week study include a comprehensive Leader Guide and a DVD featuring author and pastor Jacob Armstrong.

Renovate is part of Jacob Armstrong's study series The Connected Life. Available with this study is a companion book, The Connected Life: Small Groups That Create Community, which describes Jacob's unique and inspiring approach to small group ministry in churches.

KEY FEATURES • Readers will learn to celebrate the renovating work God is doing in our lives.

• Readers will learn how to renovate their lives through the power of the Holy Spirit.

• Perfect for Christians at all stages of their spiritual journey.

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Jacob Armstrong is the founding pastor of Providence Church, a five-year-old United Methodist church plant in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee, reaching 1,000 people each week. Providence’s vision is to see those who are disconnected from God and the church find hope, healing, and wholeness in Jesus Christ. Jacob is the author of Treasure, The God Story, Upside Down, Loving Large, Interruptions, and The New Adapters.

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Wesley showed us ways to reorder our lives through the “means of grace.”

FIVE MEANS OF GRACE

Experience God's Love the Wesleyan Way

ELAINE A. HEATH John Wesley gave the Methodist movement (and all Christians in general) a discipleship pathway to follow. Wesley began with Three Simple Rules (or "General Rules"), and followed this instruction a year later with the Five Marks of a Methodist (or "Character of a Methodist").

Over the next decade, Wesley observed the need for continuous renewal of relationships with God and others, so he established a recurring annual process for God's people to make One Faithful Promise: The Wesley Covenant for Renewal

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Wesley confirmed the tendency in each of us for the love of God and others to grow cold, so that we drift away from the gift of God's unmerited grace. So Wesley showed us ways to reorder our lives through the "means of grace." These means are the ordinary channels that God uses to draw us into a fruitful relationship. These five means or channels are: 1. Prayer 2. Searching Scripture 3. Receiving the Lord's Supper 4. Fasting 5. Conferencing (worship together) This six-week, video-based study will help Christians (new and seasoned) to reorder their lives by recognizing and affirming the outward signs, words, and actions of an invisible divine grace. Through these "means" we receive God's gifts together, and we experience the power of a spiritual relationship with God. KEY FEATURES • Helps followers of Christ understand God’s invisible gifts that confirm and strengthen faith.

• Provides a set of practices for deepening our relationship with God. • Shows how God is at work blessing us personally and in the community with grace that makes our faith more complete.

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Elaine A. Heath is the dean of the Duke Divinity School in Durham, North Carolina. Previously she was the McCreeless professor of evangelism at Perkins School of Theology in Dallas, Texas. She cofounded the Missional Wisdom Foundation, which administers networks of missional and new congregations through a training program for church planters who work beyond the walls of the traditional church. She is a highly sought-after preacher and teacher.

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A biblical look at vocation in the office, home, and the world.

A WOMAN'S PLACE

A Bible Study Exploring Every Woman’s Call to Work

KATELYN BEATY When it comes to women and work, there is often an “us-versus-them” mentality, dividing women according to the choices they make. Yet all women have a shared calling to work in a way that glorifies God— whether it be in the office, home, ministry, or beyond.

In this eight-week study built around Katelyn Beaty’s A Woman’s Place book, groups will explore the idea of a woman’s work. The book contains profiles of eight women, considerations of Scripture, and reflections on the meaning of work. This study provides additional Bible study resources, journal prompts, and questions for reflection to help groups to move through Beaty’s message in a rich and meaningful way with an emphasis on Scripture and prayer. Through authentic discussion, women will be encouraged to affirm one another in their calling to engage in the holy act of work, regardless of their specific choices.

Components for the eight-week study, each available separately, include a Participant Guide, Leader Guide, and DVD (with closed captioning) featuring eight sessions each approximately eight minutes long presenting Beaty and guest interviewees.

KEY FEATURES • Encourages deep thought of the meaning of work and vocation.

• Inspires affirmation of others' callings.

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Katelyn Beaty is an editor at large at Christianity Today, where she previously served as the magazine's youngest and first female managing editor. She is the cofounder of Her.meneutics, a daily website covering news, cultural trends, and theology from the perspective of Christian women. A graduate of Calvin College, Katelyn lives outside Chicago, Illinois. Find her online at katelynbeaty.com.

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Using John Wesley as guide, this study describes the ten most important United Methodist beliefs.

TOP 10 UNITED METHODIST BELIEFS DVD with Leader Guide

DON ADAMS There can be no doubt about what Jesus thought was "the main thing," the Great Commandments to love God with our heart, soul, and mind and to love neighbor as yourself. What were the non-negotiables for the founder of the Methodist movement, John Wesley? Wesley's first priority was to grow Christian disciples who loved God and neighbor with a holy love that keeps those Commandments.

As United Methodists, what is our primary purpose? Put simply, it is to follow Christ as redeemed persons who put those Commandments into daily practice. Using John Wesley as guide, this book describes the ten most important United Methodist beliefs, so that we are equipped for every good work.

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The DVD features six sessions focusing on the chapters from the book Top 10 United Methodist Beliefs. The session topics include: • Session One: Put On the Wesley Lenses • Session Two: Scripture Is Our Primary Source and Reason, Tradition, and Experience Help Us Understand Scripture • Session Three: Grace Is the Necessary Glue of All Discipleship and Prevenient Grace • Session Four: Repentance and Justification • Session Five: Initial Sanctification and Holy Love • Session Six: Christianity Is a Social Faith and Entire Sanctification KEY FEATURES • Provides information about fundamental United Methodist beliefs.

• Offers John Wesley’s point of view on matters of faith.

• Study questions suitable for personal devotion / group conversation.

• Participants will live out their faith more effectively.

Don Adams is a native of Indiana. His MDiv is from Asbury Theological Seminary and his DMin is from Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary. He has worked numerous Emmaus Walks and Kairos Prison ministry weekends.

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Connect your passion with the world’s great need.

MAKE A DIFFERENCE Following Your Passion and Finding Your Place to Serve

JAMES A. HARNISH Every day we see that things are not right in our world, and as followers of Jesus Christ, we have an impulse to do something about it. We long to connect our passions and gifts with the world's great needs, making a unique contribution for the healing of the world.

In Make a Difference, author James A. Harnish helps United Methodists answer the questions "How can I contribute to God's healing work in this world?" and "How can I find my place to serve and make a difference?" Drawing upon biblical wisdom and real stories of real people who have found their place to serve, he provides practical guidance to help every disciple make a difference as a participant in God's transformation of the world.

This six-week study is perfect for anyone desiring to: • engage service or mission as a vital part of discipleship, • find a place to serve—in the church, the community and/or the world • engage in God's work in the world The study includes a book, leader guide, and DVD featuring six engaging and lively discussions with the author and several special guests highlighting opportunities and outcomes of making a difference in this world.

KEY FEATURES • Six readable and relevant chapters that help readers identify their passions and places of service.

• Readers will learn how to participate in God’s work of healing and transformation in the world.

• Small-group study materials include a Leader Guide and a DVD featuring lively discussions with the author and special guests.

• Utilizes a United Methodist theology that encourages members to engage in service or mission opportunities as a key part of discipleship.

James A. Harnish is the author of numerous books and Bible studies, including A Disciple’s Path, Strength for the Broken Places, Simple Rules for Money, and You Only Have to Die. He is an acclaimed pastor and ordained elder in The United Methodist Church who has led congregations throughout Florida, most recently Hyde Park in Tampa where he served for twenty-two years. In 2014, after forty-two years of active ministry, he retired from full-time ministry and moved to Winter Haven, Florida, where he lives with his wife, Marsha, and enjoys writing, reading, and playing with his grandchildren.

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Learn to persevere and trust in God during life’s most trying times.

FAIL

What to Do When Things Go Wrong

MATT MIOFSKY We all know the feeling. We take a leap, only to land flat on our face.

Just when our plan appears to be perfect, it falls apart. Life's failures and disappointments can make it difficult to move forward; how do we pick ourselves up and dust ourselves off?

Author and pastor Matt Miofsky examines the life of Jeremiah, whose failed pursuits are described in more detail and depth than with any other prophet. Even though God set him apart to speak to the nation of Israel, Jeremiah's attempts to fulfill his calling were met with ridicule, punishment, and suffering. But through it all, God never left his side.

The story of "the weeping prophet" has much to teach us about trusting God during life's most trying times.

Additional components for a four-week study include a comprehensive Leader Guide and a DVD featuring author and pastor Matt Miofsky.

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Matt Miofsky is lead pastor of The Gathering UMC, St. Louis, MO, a church begun in 2006 and today welcoming over 1,000 people worshiping each week across four sites and over eight services. The Gathering was founded with a vision of creating a Christian community that is compelling for new generations in St. Louis. Matt gained a degree in Advanced Math and played football at Washington University and then attended Candler School of Theology.

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KEY FEATURES • Readers will learn about perseverance and trusting God during life’s most trying times.

• By studying the life of the prophet Jeremiah, readers will understand how our failures can be used by God. • Book can be a stand-alone resource or combined with the DVD and Leader Guide for a four-week small group study.

• DVD includes four session videos featuring Matt Miofsky in 10-12 minute sessions.

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Invite God to work powerfully in your life.

THE MIRACLES OF JESUS Finding God in Desperate Moments

JESSICA LAGRONE Jesus demonstrated the presence and power of God by performing miracles. He turned water into wine, healed the sick, calmed the storm, opened blind eyes, and raised the dead. While these beloved stories draw our attention to divine power, they also have something else in common: human desperation. Every time we see Jesus performing a miracle, we also get a glimpse into the gift of desperation, a gift that opens us to the dramatic power of God through our desperate need for him.

In this six-week Bible study, Jessica LaGrone leads us in a captivating exploration of the miracles of Jesus, helping us to see that our weakness is an invitation for God to work powerfully in our lives and reminding us that we need God on our best days just as much as we do on our worst.

KEY FEATURES • Discover how the supernatural acts of Jesus help us understand the presence and power of God. • Learn that God not only intervened in biblical times but is at work in our lives today.

• Grow in faith as you dig into the stories of miracles performed by Jesus and the desperate lives he touched.

Jessica LaGrone is Dean of the Chapel at Asbury Theological Seminary and an acclaimed pastor, teacher, and speaker who enjoys leading retreats and events throughout the United States. She previously served as Pastor of Creative Ministries at The Woodlands United Methodist Church in Houston, Texas. She is the author of the Set Apart: Holy Habits of Prophets and Kings, Broken and Blessed: How God Changed the World Through One Imperfect Family, and Namesake: When God Rewrites Your Story Bible studies and Broken & Blessed book. She and her husband, Jim, have two young children and live in Wilmore, Kentucky.

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Free yourself from the power of sin and be empowered for faithful living.

CRASH TEST DUMMIES

Surprising Lessons from the Book of Judges

TALBOT DAVIS You've seen them, haven't you? They ride in the front seats of expensive cars and drive headlong into a brick wall. And then they do it again. And again. They're crash test dummies. Why do they keep doing the same dumb thing over and over again? Or maybe a better question is, why do we?

In this study on the Book of Judges, author Talbot Davis explores the stories of the judges from the perspective of the Israelites' repeated failure to be faithful to God alone. Through his creative, quirky angle on the book, Davis highlights how the Israelites in Judges made the same mistake of apostasy over and over again. Each time God delivered them, they eventually fell back into the predictable, tragic pattern.

As he explores each judge's story, Davis invites readers to consider the shape that patterns of sin take in our lives, and how God seeks to free us from them and empower us for faithful living. Readers will come to know the Book of Judges and its central characters more deeply, and they will come to appreciate this biblical book as a source of wisdom for living well.

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KEY FEATURES • Six readable chapters on stories from the Book of Judges.

• Readers will understand individual stories in the Book of Judges as well as key themes in the whole book.

• Readers will see how Judges applies to our personal lives, considering the shape that sin takes and how God seeks to free us from it and empower us for faithful living.

• Perfect for Christians in all walks of their spiritual journey.

• Includes discussion questions and a practical focus for each week for small group study.

Talbot Davis is the pastor of Good Shepherd United Methodist Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, a congregation known for its ethnic diversity, outreach ministry, and innovative approach to worship.

Talbot blogs frequently at talbotdavis.com. He is the author of Head Scratchers, The Storm Before the Calm, The Shadow of a Doubt, and Solve. A graduate of Princeton University and Asbury Theological Seminary, Talbot lives in Charlotte with his wife, Julie. They have two grown children.

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Help Christianity become more Christian.

WAY OF LIFE

A BIble Study Based on The Great Spiritual Migration

BRIAN MCLAREN The study Way of Life will help groups approach and engage the spiritual, theological, and missional proposals in Brian McLaren's book The Great Spiritual Migration. This participant guide provides an introduction to the main text with additional commentary and questions. The book also contains new content from Brian McLaren, including personal devotionals written to accompany each section.

In The Great Spiritual Migration, Brian McLaren argues that in order to survive, Christianity must shift away from an outdated system of beliefs to a way of life based on love. In order to achieve this, McLaren outlines three migrations: spiritually, Christians focus less on doctrine and more on the abiding life of love made manifest in Jesus; theologically, a new way of reading Scripture shifts away from literalism and toward a more generous, literary approach; and missionally, the new way of life leads to "organizing religion," rather than organized religion, in which spiritual activists are committed to ecological, economic, and interfaith concerns.

KEY FEATURES • Readers will learn how outgrowing old, broken religious systems can lead to new, more redemptive ways of life.

• Challenges participants to embrace the powerful new understandings that are reshaping the church.

• Includes Participant Guide, Leader Guide, and DVD featuring global activist, pastor, and public theologian, Brian McLaren.

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One of Abingdon's most beloved Bible studies has been updated!

GENESIS TO REVELATION

A Comprehensive Verse-by-Verse Exploration of the Bible This revision of the Abingdon classic Genesis to Revelation Series is a comprehensive, verse-by-verse, bookby-book study of the Bible based on the NIV. These studies help readers strengthen their understanding and appreciation of the Bible by enabling them to engage the Scripture on three levels: 1. What does the Bible say? Questions to consider while reading the passage for each session.

2. What does the passage mean? Unpacks key verses in the selected passage.

3. How does the Scripture relate to my life? Provides three major ideas that have meaning for our lives today.

The meaning of the selected passages are made clear by considering such aspects as ancient customs, locations of places, and the meanings of words.

The simple format makes the study easy to use. Each volume is 13 sessions and has a separate leader guide.

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GENESIS

PSALMS

MATTHEW

Study the entire Book of Genesis, beginning with the creation story and ending with Jacob and his family reuniting. Some of the major ideas explored in this Book of the Bible are: personal relationship with God, the mystery of God, God's unconditional love, courage to face the unknown, and turning evil into good.

The Book of Psalms study begins with a look at the hymns of praise and ends with the Psalms of confidence. Some of the major ideas explored are: God is the Creator of all, what does the Lord require of me, the diversity of the Psalms, responses to crisis, and the use of Psalms in worship.

The study of the Book of Matthew follows Jesus from his birth through his life to his death and resurrection.

Some of the major ideas explored are: Dreams, Do not fear, Lord help me, Write your own parable, and This cup is My blood of the covenant.

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PROVERBS, ECCLESIASTES, SONG OF SONGS

JOB

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Study the entire Book of Acts in this comprehensive 13-session study, beginning with the mission to the world and ending with Paul's journey to Rome.

Some of the major ideas explored are: a Gospel that cannot be contained, divine initiative and human responsibility, the subtle work of the Holy Spirit, what holds us together, and the plight of theology in a cynical world.

Study all of Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Song of Songs, beginning with a look at the springs of life in the Proverbs and ending with the Song of Songs' declaration that love is as strong as death. Some of the major ideas explored are: the cost of getting involved, joy unlimited, the constancy of friendship, time to love and to hate, and the old and the new.

Study the entire Book of Job, beginning with a look at a man named Job and ending with when God asks questions. Some of the major ideas explored are: saying the right thing at the wrong time, personal vindication and the desire for immortality, why do the wicked live, playing the last card, and God delivers the afflicted.

Study the entire Book of John, beginning with the Good News and ending with the victory of Christ and his call. Some of the major ideas explored are: a new day in religion, what does it mean for me to live on the bread of life, the resurrection and the life, "My peace I give to you,� and searching for Jesus.

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Covenant is based on the understanding that we can best discover the Bible’s transformative power through shared reflection and engagement. The comprehensive group study covers both New and Old Testaments. It is organized in three 8-week modules, each dealing with a different aspect of covenant—Creating, Living, and Trusting. Each lesson includes a video in which two pastor cohosts engage one of 23 prominent biblical scholars in conversation, asking questions participants would likely ask the scholars. The Covenant Kit contains everything a leader needs.

Each participant will need the Participant Guides.

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AT THIS TABLE… deeper understanding of scripture awaits, relationships grow, new church leaders emerge.

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The Bible is our story. Help tell it.

THE CEB STORYTELLERS BIBLE Stories convey truths through plot, character, and point of view. Nowhere is that more true than in the Bible. Jesus and the prophets taught through story, and The CEB Storytellers Bible helps readers see the big themes and important truths of the Bible while also guiding them in how to tell these stories in contemporary language.

The supplementary material in this Bible comes from the acclaimed Storyteller’s Companion to the Bible, which Madeleine L’Engle endorsed: “In a day when unquestioning literalism is on the increase, it is a delight to receive a book that takes biblical storytelling seriously and gloriously! The writers and editors are indeed to be commended for their willingness to understand biblical imagination and narrative

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richness. This book should be a real mindstretcher and encourage many people to return to the Bible with newly opened eye.

KEY FEATURES • Articles about reading and telling Bible stories.

• Extensive commentary on all the best-known (and many of the less common) stories of the Bible.

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Christmas Through the Eyes of Joseph

ADAM HAMILTON From his beginnings as a humble carpenter to his all-important role as the earthly father of Jesus Christ, Joseph’s place in the nativity story is sometimes overlooked but contains valuable lessons for all of us. Join Adam Hamilton as he examines Christmas through the eyes of Joseph. Absent from much of the biblical narrative, Joseph never speaks a word, but his courageous actions were crucial to the birth of Christ and God’s salvation plan for humanity.

As you read this book, you will understand how Joseph’s story is much like our own. In life, we encounter circumstances that we would have never chosen for ourselves. At times it can be tempting just to walk away. Joseph provides us a great example of humbly obeying God even when we don’t understand and faithfully moving forward in the strength that God provides.

Exchange your doubt for courage this Advent and Christmas season. Learn to accept and glorify God’s will even when circumstances make it difficult to do so.

KEY FEATURES • Readers will be drawn into this fascinating nativity story, told from Joseph’s unique and valuable perspective.

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• Works beautifully as a stand-alone book, or can be combined with the DVD, Leader Guide, and youth and children’s resources to create a churchwide four week study. Videos feature Adam Hamilton in 10-12 minute sessions.

Adam Hamilton is senior pastor of The United Methodist Church of the Resurrection in Leawood, Kansas, one of the most highly visible churches in the country. The Church Report named Hamilton’s congregation the most influential mainline church in America. Hamilton is the best-selling and award-winning author of The Call, The Journey, The Way, 24 Hours That Changed the World, John, Half Truths, Moses, Revival, Not a Silent Night, Enough, When Christians Get It Wrong, and Seeing Gray in a World of Black and White, all published by Abingdon Press. Learn more about Adam Hamilton at AdamHamilton.org.

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The whole created world waits and hopes for the coming of Christ.

ALL EARTH IS WAITING Good News for God’s Creation at Advent

KATIE Z. DAWSON All Earth Is Waiting invites readers to explore the familiar Advent themes of hope, preparation, joy, and peace with the heavens and earth in mind.

Through her powerful and personal reflections, author Katie Z. Dawson calls us to consider how all creation longs for the coming of Christ, taking seriously the notion that the good news of Christ is good news for all the world. Anticipating in Christ’s birth the reconciliation of the heavens and the earth, Dawson highlights our responsibility to care for this earth in preparation for Christ’s return.

This thematic Bible study is designed to be used by individuals and small groups during Advent. Each chapter offers questions for reflection and discussion, a brief prayer, and a focus for the week that will encourage readers to engage a specific act of creation care that will help them apply the week’s lesson.

Also included are Advent candle lighting liturgies, a Call to Worship, a Prayer of Confession that can be used throughout Advent, and hymn suggestions for each chapter. These can be used for small group worship opportunities or in corporate worship.

KEY FEATURES • Readers will consider how creation care is a central concern of the Christian faith.

• Readers will explore familiar Advent themes with “the heavens and the earth” in mind.

• Perfect for Christians in all walks of their spiritual journey.

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Katie Z. Dawson is the lead pastor at Immanuel UMC in Des Moines. At Simpson College she studied communications, religion, and physics and then received her Masters of Divinity from Vanderbilt Divinity School.

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Learn how to use your God-given gifts this Christmas.

CHRISTMAS GIFTS THAT WON’T BREAK Expanded Edition with Devotions

JAMES W. MOORE WITH JACOB ARMSTRONG Go on an Advent journey with beloved teacher and storyteller James W. Moore, exploring the spirit of Christmas. As you light the candles of your Advent wreath, reflect on the unbreakable gifts that God has given us: hope, love, joy, and peace. And remember God’s greatest gift, who comes to us as a baby and leads us through all the days of our lives.

This revised edition of the popular book includes stories, Scriptures, and thoughts to warm your heart throughout the season, as well as devotions

by Jacob Armstrong and a new fifth chapter for Christmas Eve/Christmas Day. KEY FEATURES • Includes Scripture and excerpts drawing from popular author James W. Moore’s experiences as a pastor, speaker, and church leader.

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James W. Moore is a best-selling author of more than 40 books and an acclaimed pastor and ordained elder in The United Methodist Church. He has led congregations in Jackson, Tennessee; Shreveport, Louisiana; and Houston, Texas. In 2006, after 50 years of active ministry, he retired from full-time ministry and moved to the Dallas area, where he currently serves as Minister-in-Residence at Highland Park United Methodist Church. He and his wife, June, live at Heritage Ranch in Fairview, Texas.

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Jacob Armstrong is the founding pastor of Providence Church in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee, reaching 1,000 people each week. Providence’s vision is to see those who are disconnected from God and the church to find hope, healing, and wholeness in Jesus Christ. Jacob is the author of Treasure, The God Story, Upside Down, Loving Large, Interruptions, and The New Adapters.

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Seasonal devotions from Donald K. McKim.

ADVENT

A Calendar of Devotions 2017

DONALD K. MCKIM An annual favorite, this booklet of daily devotions is designed for every family or individual in the congregation to have a copy. Advent: A Calendar of Devotions 2017 contains brief readings for each day in Advent, including a passage of Scripture, a short devotion, and a closing prayer. In honor of the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, the selections for 2017 reflect the writings of the Protestant reformers. Sold in packages of 10, the booklets are designed to fit in a #10 envelope, enabling churches to include them in their Advent mailings, especially to parishioners unable to attend services, and making it easy to mail to visitors or share as a part of homebound or prison ministry.

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Donald K. McKim served as executive editor for Westminster John Knox Press, as academic dean and professor of theology at Memphis Theological Seminary, and as professor of theology at the University of Dubuque Theological Seminary. He is the author or editor of more than thirty books.

Prepare for God’s coming by rediscovering the light that began in the manger.

THE LORD IS OUR LIGHT

An Advent Study Based on the Revised Common Lectionary

A. ELAINE BROWN CRAWFORD The Lord Is Our Light invites you to explore God’s hope and presence through a study of the scripture readings for Advent and Christmas. Author Elaine Crawford calls us to explore our hope for new beginnings, praising God as we eagerly await the birth of Christ in our lives. Recalling the fulfillment of God’s promises at Christmas, she invites us to imagine the future culmination of our hope in Christ’s death, resurrection, and second coming. Crawford’s reflections challenge readers to cultivate faithful lives here and now, in active expectation for the coming of the Christ Child.

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Originally released in 2014 and based upon the Revised Common Lectionary scriptures for year B of the church year. The study includes commentary and reflection on key Bible readings from the Old Testament, the Gospels, and the Epistles. It offers the opportunity to explore these Bible readings in a fivesession study.

A. Elaine Brown Crawford serves as Adjunct Faculty at the Interdenominational Theological Center, and Candler School of Theology Course of Study faculty, in Georgia. She is an elder appointed to Newman Chapel United Methodist Church in Newman, Georgia as Senior Pastor. She also holds a Ph.D. in Historical Theology from Union Theological Seminary.

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Explore the restoration and wholeness of God’s redeeming love.

THE LORD IS OUR SALVATION

A Lenten Study Based on the Revised Common Lectionary

KATIE Z. DAWSON The Lord Is Our Salvation invites us to explore God’s saving and redeeming love through a study of the scripture readings for Lent and Easter. Author Katie Z. Dawson invites us to a deeper understanding of the salvation Christ offers by exploring the various ways God restores us and our world to wholeness. In this book, first published in 2014, Dawson opens the Scriptures to show God’s redemption at work in the men, women, and communities of the Bible. In her personal and insightful reflections, readers will hear a call to embrace Christ’s salvation in their lives and in the world around them during the Lenten season.

Katie Z. Dawson is currently the lead pastor at Immanuel United Methodist Church in Des Moines, Iowa. At Simpson College she studied communications, religion, and physics and then received her Masters of Divinity from Vanderbilt Divinity School. Katie and her husband, Brandon, enjoy playing disc golf, spending time with family, and their two cats, Tiki and Turbo. When she can find the time, Katie blogs at SalvagedFaith.com.

Learn to engage and wrestle with life’s uncertainties this Lenten season.

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EMBRACING THE UNCERTAIN A Lenten Study for Unsteady Times

MAGREY R. DEVEGA Just turning on the news lets us know we are living in uncertain times.

Economic instabilities, eruptions of violence, and natural catastrophes can alter the lives and landscapes of entire communities. The reality is that in our fast-changing, unpredictable world there are few guarantees in life.

Embracing the Uncertain invites readers to engage and wrestle with life’s uncertainties during Lent, not ignore them. The book highlights Gospel stories between the Transfiguration and the Passion. Each of these stories is a signpost in the gospel narrative, pointing at a world filled with uncertainty, but also pointing us forward to a cross that can show us how to follow Jesus with courage, hope, and obedience.

Magrey R. deVega is the Senior Pastor at Hyde Park United Methodist Church in Tampa, Florida. He is the author of Awaiting the Already: An Advent Journey through the Gospels. He is also the Leadership Editor for Covenant Bible Study, overseeing the weekly small group classroom experience. He has written leader’s guides and program manuals for numerous small group materials. He is a graduate of United Theological Seminary in Dayton, Ohio, and Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida, and he is the father of two daughters, Grace and Madelyn.

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How does Jesus redefine what it means to be a hero?

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WHAT MAKES A HERO? The Death-Defying Ministry of Jesus

MATT RAWLE What Makes a Hero? offers us an image of what it looks like to be victorious over trials and temptations. Looking at pop culture heroes and others through the lens of faith, Matt Rawle shows how Jesus turned the concept of hero on its head. In keeping with his theme “Pop in Culture,” the book examines how good vs. evil, right vs. wrong, and overcoming adversity are fundamental to how Christians understand salvation. Heroes help us discern the good, fight for what’s right, define identity, execute justice, spark revolution, and save lives.

Rawle enters the Gospel story to tell quite a different victory story—one obtained through humility, obedience to the cross, and an empty tomb. How does Jesus redefine what it means to be a hero?

Additional components for a six-week study include a comprehensive Leader Guide, a DVD featuring Matt Rawle, a Worship Resources Flash Drive, and youth and children’s resources.

KEY FEATURES • Readers will look at pop culture heroes through the lens of faith alongside the countercultural example of Jesus as a hero.

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• A six-week study perfect for Lent and beyond.

• DVD features the teaching of Matt Rawle in 10-12 minute sessions.

• Leader Guide includes complete session plans for facilitating the study.

Matt Rawle is Lead Pastor at Asbury United Methodist Church in Bossier City, Louisiana.

Matt is an international speaker who loves to tell an old story in a new way, especially at the intersection of pop culture and the church. He is the author of a new series of books titled The Pop in Culture Series. The series includes The Faith of a Mockingbird, Hollywood Jesus, The Salvation of Doctor Who and The Redemption of Scrooge.

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Use your God-given gifts and talents to become part of God’s miracles.

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MADE FOR A MIRACLE

From Your Ordinary to God’s Extraordinary

MIKE SLAUGHTER At some time in our lives, most of us have prayed for or hoped for a miracle—an event that seems impossible but is brought about by God’s transcendent power. But when miracles occur, did you know that you have a role to play?

If that’s true, what’s the catch? What do we have to do? What’s it going to cost us?

Popular author and pastor Mike Slaughter examines the two components of every miracle: divine action and human responsibility. For a real miracle to take place, we must act with God, using whatever gifts, talents, and abilities we have and directing them toward God’s work. We need to follow the examples of Mary in the birth of Jesus, Jesus’ followers when he healed them, and Jesus’ disciples after he rose from the dead.

This Lent, use your God-given gifts and talents for God’s glory, and get ready to be made for a miracle.

Additional components for this six-week study include a comprehensive Leader Guide and a DVD featuring author and pastor Mike Slaughter.

KEY FEATURES • Readers will understand the two components of every miracle: divine action and human responsibility.

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Mike Slaughter is the lead pastor at Ginghamsburg Church in Tipp City, Ohio. Under his leadership, Ginghamsburg Church has become known as an early innovator of small group ministry, the Church “media reformation,” and cyber-ministry. Mike is the author of multiple books, including Down to Earth, The Passionate Church, Change the World, Dare to Dream, Renegade Gospel, A Different Kind of Christmas, Spiritual Entrepreneurs, Real Followers, Momentum for Life, UnLearning Church, and Upside Living in a Downside Economy.

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Celebrating heritage, deepening faith, and building community through interactive devotions.

AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & DEVOTIONS Readings and Activities for Individuals, Families, and Communities

TERESA L. FRY BROWN Foreword by Sharma D. Lewis.

Twenty-eight devotions for individuals, families, or small groups, including a scripture verse, a reflection on the scripture, related activities for each day, and a prayer. This intergenerational devotional is great for use during Black History Month, but can be used at any time.

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Teresa L. Fry Brown is the Bandy Professor of Preaching at Emory University’s Candler School of Theology in Atlanta, where she became the first African American woman to attain the rank of full professor. She holds a PhD from Iliff School of Theology in Denver and is ordained in the African Methodist Episcopal Church.

Devotions for each day of Lent.

THE SANCTUARY FOR LENT 2018 KATIE Z. DAWSON The Sanctuary for Lent 2018 contains brief readings for each day in Lent, including a suggested Scripture, a short devotion, and a closing prayer.

These daily readings help readers faithfully journey through the wilderness of Lent as they prepare to experience the joy of the Resurrection. Sold in packs of 10, the booklets are designed to fit in a #10 envelope, enabling churches to include them in Lent mailings, especially for those unable to attend services, and making it easy to mail to visitors or share as a part of homebound or prison ministry.

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Katie Z. Dawson is currently the lead pastor at Immanuel United Methodist Church in Des Moines, Iowa. At Simpson College she studied communications, religion, and physics and then received her Masters of Divinity from Vanderbilt Divinity School. Katie and her husband, Brandon, enjoy playing disc golf, spending time with family, and their two cats, Tiki and Turbo. When she can find the time, Katie blogs at SalvagedFaith.com.

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Young children can dive deep into God’s story!

DEEP BLUE BIBLE STORYBOOK Dive Deep into God’s Story

DAPHNA FLEGAL AND BRITTANY SKY Introduce young children to the Bible with the new Deep Blue Bible Storybook for children ages 3-6. The Bible Storybook contains 146 stories written in language young readers can understand. Plus, the Bible Storybook is organized in a way that helps children begin to learn the books of the Bible and practice beginning Bible skills. The illustrations are sure to delight young children. Also includes fun “piggyback” songs and prayers.

Daphna Flegal is a diaconal minister in The United Methodist Church. She is a certified laboratory leader in the area of young children and has worked with preschool children for more than 20 years. Daphna is currently the lead editor for children’s curriculum at The United Methodist Publishing House. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee.

Brittany Sky holds a Bachelor of Arts in Christian Education from Oklahoma City University, and a Master of Arts in Christian Education from GarrettEvangelical Theological Seminary. Brittany is currently the Senior Editor of Children’s Resources at The United Methodist Publishing House. Before coming to The United Methodist Publishing House, Brittany worked as a minister with children and their families in local United Methodist congregations, and taught children’s ministry workshops for the Oklahoma Annual Conference.

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DEEP BLUE KIDS BIBLE DICTIONARY The Deep Blue Kids Bible Dictionary is written to help kids (ages 7-12) learn about the persons, places, events, ideas, and terms in the Bible. Each definition includes references to passages in the Bible where the word appears. The entries also include a guide for pronouncing each proper name and other words. Colorful artwork throughout helps you see what life was like during Bible times. When you read the text and look at the illustrations, you will experience day-to-day activities, occupations, and living conditions of people who lived in Bible lands. This dictionary is perfect for Sunday school groups, families, Christian school classes, and libraries. Includes full-color illustrations, pronunciations, maps, over 1,000 scriptural references, and more.

KEY FEATURES • Written for children ages 7-12 • Hundreds of illustrations • Special pages featuring people and places from Bible times.

JUVENILE NONFICTION / RELIGION / CHRISTIANITY AUGUST 15, 2017 HARDBACK 9781501840616

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ACTS

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Abraham’s Journey

Abraham or Abram

Absalom

(AY-bruh-ham, AY-bruhm)

(AB-suh-luhm) The third son of King David. Absalom was handsome and ambitious.

He led a revolt against his father and tried to take the throne.

2 Samuel 15:1–19:8.

Acacia (uh-KAY-sh) A hard, close-grained, orange-brown wood sometimes called shittim wood.

It was used in building the Ark of the Covenant and is still common in the desert regions of Nebeg and Sinai. The tree has sweet-smelling yellow blossoms and soft green leaves. Acacia trees are also grown in the United States.

OT patriarch known as the father, or ancestor, of the Hebrew people.

He was noted for his obedience to God. Born near Ur in Mesopotamia, Abraham wandered with his family close to Haran. Abraham, in obedience to God, left Haran and led his family to Canaan, the land of promise. God made a covenant, or agreement, with Abraham, promising that he would be the father of a great nation, and that through him God would bless all the families of the earth. A son, Isaac, was born to Abraham’s wife, Sarah, in her old age. The faith of Abraham was tested through this son, and God’s promise was passed on through this son. In the NT, Abraham is often mentioned because of his great example of obedience and trust, and he was called a man of faith.

Exodus 25:3-5, 10, 13, 23; Deuteronomy 10:3; Isaiah 41:19.

Acts of the Apostles (uh-Pah-suhls) The fifth book in the NT. It was written as a sequel to the Gospel of Luke. Acts records many of the experiences of Jesus’ followers after the Resurrection and describes how the Christian church began and spread.

See the Book itself.

Genesis 11:27–25:11; John 8:39-40; Galatians 3:6-9; Hebrews 11:8-17; and other references.

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Dive deep into the stories of Christian faith!

DEEP BLUE TODDLER BIBLE STORYBOOK Dive Deep into God’s Story

DAPHNA FLEGAL & KERRY BLACKWOOD The Deep Blue Toddler Bible Storybook contains several beloved stories from the Old and New Testaments retold for toddlers. Each story invites the reader and the listener into the experience happening on the pages, and creates space for children to wonder about the people and events that have shaped so many.

With bright and exciting illustrations, your children will find themselves immersed in the culture of these beloved stories.

Daphna Flegal is a diaconal minister in The United Methodist Church. She is a certified laboratory leader in the area of young children and has worked with preschool children for more than 20 years. Daphna is currently the lead editor for children’s curriculum. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee.

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Kerry Blackwood holds a M.A. in Early Childhood Education. Kerry is a Certified Director of Christian Education in the United Methodist Church and has been a school teacher for children in kindergarten, third grade, and fourth grade.

DEEP BLUE BIBLE STORYBOOK MIRACLES OF JESUS BRITTANY SKY AND DAPHNA FLEGAL This hardcover Storybook contains nine Bible stories illustrated in full-color, and tells the stories of Jesus’ miracles. Stories include: 1. The Man in the Synagogue (Matt. 12:9-14) 2. The Four Friends (Mark 2:1-12) 3. Jesus Calms the Storm (Mark 4:35-41) 4. Jairus’s Daughter (Mark 5:21-43) 5. Bartimaeus Shouts to Jesus (Mark 10:46-52)

6. Jesus Heals (Luke 4:38-44) 7. Ten Lepers (Luke 17:11-19) 8. The Man by the Pool (John 5:1-17) 9. A Boy’s Lunch (John 6:1-15)

Brittany Sky holds a Bachelor of Arts in Christian Education from Oklahoma City University, and a Master of Arts in Christian Education from Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary. Brittany is currently the Senior Editor of Children’s Resources at The United Methodist Publishing House.

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Daphna Flegal is a diaconal minister in The United Methodist Church. She is a certified laboratory leader in the area of young children and has worked with preschool children for more than 20 years. Daphna is currently the lead editor for children’s curriculum at The United Methodist Publishing House. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee.

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A resource on shaping a Gospel-centered ministry across five generations.

THE GARDEN RESONATES A Gospel Emerging Generations Can Believe In

CHRIS FOLMSBEE

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Within the church today there are five generations represented: Traditional, Boomers, Xers, Millennials, and Gen Z. Each generation has value and influences the church community, but research indicates that churches are not engaging Millennials and Generation Z for the purpose of making lasting disciples and that a trend of decline has developed.

There will always be a “next generation” to reach. The Garden Resonates will equip church leaders with a framework for sharing the gospel in relevant and compelling ways to the emerging generations. It reframes the gospel narrative and provides leaders with practical help to reverse the trend of decline while weaving a new story of growth and vibrancy.

Chris Folmsbee is the director of discipleship at the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection in Leawood, KS. He is the author of numerous books on spiritual formation, practical theology and missional living. He is a sought-after speaker, and consults with dozens of churches around North America each year.

Today’s leader must seek to find ways in which to constantly get better as a leader.

THE KALEIDOSCOPE EFFECT What Emerging Generations Seek in Leaders

SCOTT CHROSTEK The Kaleidoscope Effect identifies the common leadership needs of emerging generations. This book dives deep into the character and leadership traits of both Millennials and Gen Z. Pastors and volunteers will learn how to rotate their individual leadership skill sets emerging generations crave.

The implementation of the ideas and principles found in this book will produce better leaders who will serve a greater number of people, resulting in the ability to cultivate and sustain attractive environments that ignite the imagination of emerging generations.

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Scott Chrostek is pastor at Resurrection Downtown, a campus of The United Methodist Church of the Resurrection. RezDowntown launched in 2009, and has grown dramatically ever since. Scott is active as a coach and mentor to church planters across the country and spends time speaking with young adults about finding life at work.

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A new take on the traditional approach of communicating the Bible to youth.

TEACHING OUTSIDE THE BOX Five Approaches to Opening the Bible With Youth

ANDREW ZIRSCHKY Rather than tweaking the ways youth ministers communicate the gospel, Teaching Outside the Box explores five distinct approaches to forming youth in the faith—approaches that open youth to experiencing the implications of the gospel in new ways. We’ll start by providing a new take on the instructional approach, and then introduce four additional approaches that are likely new to readers: community of faith, interpretive, liberation, and contemplative.

Andrew Zirschky (Ph.D. Princeton Theological Seminary) is Assistant Professor of Practical Theology and Youth Ministry at Memphis Theological Seminary and serves as academic director at the Center for Youth Ministry Training in Brentwood, Tennessee. He has 20 years of youth ministry experience at churches in Idaho, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Tennessee.

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6 secrets from a children’s ministry expert to guide you in ministry with preteens.

6 SECRETS OF PRETEEN MINISTRY SARAH FLANNERY For children ages 10-12, transition is the name of the game.

Accompanying these not-quite-children on their spiritual journeys is a constant balancing act. 6 Secrets of Preteen Ministry will help you manage this balancing act by covering the basic principles of discipleship with preteens, including developmental milestones, the role of parents, the use of technology, and ways to be inclusive of preteens with special needs. Sarah’s stories of hit-or-miss personal experiences of ministry with preteens, you’ll not only develop a love for this age group, you’ll look forward to your next chance to disciple them!

Sarah Flannery has devoted the last 15 years to ministry with children in many settings, both as church staff and a volunteer. She is currently Assistant Pastor at First United Methodist Church in Lexington, Kentucky.

Sarah holds an undergraduate degree from Asbury University and a master’s degree in Family Sciences from the University of Kentucky. She co-chairs the Kentucky Annual Conference Children & Family Ministry Team.

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No-nonsense help for building relationships.

THE MISSION-MINDED GUIDE TO CHURCH AND SCHOOL PARTNERSHIPS JAKE MCGLOTHIN Partnering your church family with a public school can be a rewarding experience, but it also presents some unique challenges.

The Mission-Minded Guide to Church and School Partnerships offers practical steps that congregations can take to make a difference with the children in their community.

From basic organization, training, safety, and planning helps, leaders will learn how to share the vision and effectively recruit and train volunteers.

Most importantly, leaders will discover how to begin a two-way, trusting relationship with a school, principal and teachers.

In addition, there are suggestions for sharing information through newsletters, presentations, and special Sundays for welcoming the schools, teachers, principals, and more.

Inspire your church family to embrace the power they have to change lives and make a difference in their community.

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KEY FEATURES • Seven chapters take you step-by-step through new partnership ideas for different ways diverse congregations can serve local schools.

• Guidelines for first meetings with school staff and early planning.

• Helps for engaging, training and inspiring church volunteers.

Jake McGlothin is the Director of Serve Ministries at Floris United Methodist Church in Herndon, Virginia. At Floris, he is responsible for all community service programs and mission work, including the church’s work with Hutchison Elementary School. Prior to working at Floris, Jake was a Peace Corps volunteer in Armenia and did disaster relief and recovery work in post-Katrina New Orleans. Jake holds a graduate degree from Wesley Theological Seminary. Jake lives with his wife Robin, his son Mack, and Maggie the dog.

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Women in ministry offer unique and powerful gifts and face distinct challenges.

SHE Five Keys to Unlock the Power of Women in Ministry

KAROLINE M. LEWIS Women who serve as clergy or in other church leadership roles experience ministry differently than men do. They offer remarkably powerful gifts, but their pathways are full of obstructions and thorny challenges. Compounding this problem is the fact that there often is an assumption that these issues have been solved; women are ordained, have been ‘granted’ their places, end of story. But in fact the issues have not been solved; they are just masked, disguised or buried below the surface.

Karoline Lewis’s best-selling book SHE: Five Keys to Unlock the Power of Women in Ministry addresses the problem. SHE covers everything from biblical arguments for and against women in the church to what not to wear. With startling clarity, Lewis reveals the underpinnings of sexism and examines issues of identity, authority, sexuality, authenticity, embodiment, boundaries and self-care. She guides the reader to develop a personal theology of leadership. Lewis is a scholar and clergywoman, and her book is practical, insightful, and thought-provoking.

The SHE study is the essential next step, helping pastors and other leaders to process the information and apply it in their own lives and ministries. It is a five-session group experience for clergy, staff and laity, women and men.

It includes this Participant Book, which serves as a personal workbook and journal. It also includes a DVD with brief segment starter videos featuring the author. The facilitator’s guide is included on the DVD. The study can be organized over a period of weeks, or can be completed as a one- or two-day retreat. It is an exceptional training tool for clergy, church staff, lay leaders, and other ministry professionals, especially women. It shapes leaders who are more fruitful, confident, and theologically grounded.

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KEY FEATURES • Takes the powerful material from the author’s original book, SHE, and places it in the hands of any group’s focus to work in unity, grace and trust.

• Includes both theoretical and practical elements.

• The Participant Book will take you through a self-reflective process.

Karoline M. Lewis (Ph.D. Emory University), holds The Marbury E. Anderson Chair of Biblical Preaching at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, MN. She is a regularly featured presenter and preacher at the Festival of Homiletics and a frequent contributor for numerous Christian journals and online resources, including the popular website WorkingPreacher.org where she also co-hosts the site’s weekly podcast, Sermon Brainwave, and authors the site’s weekly column, Dear Working Preacher. She lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.

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Some of the most important stories of spiritual maturity in Scripture happen due to the failures of those we consider closest to God.

THE OTHER SIDE OF FAILURE Biblical Leadership Lessons

SHANE STANFORD & ANTHONY THAXTON Many leaders look to those in Scripture and the more spiritually mature and accomplished around them and assume they have never experienced the same life-altering setbacks that afflict other mere mortals. Or, they imagine that the strongest in the faith could never make serious mistakes or make the kinds of devastating choices that undermine career, family, and faith. For many, failure is almost a foreign concept to what it means to live and lead faithfully in this world.

As Shane Stanford and Anthony Thaxton demonstrate, some of the most important stories of spiritual maturity in Scripture happen due to the failures (not the successes) of those we consider closest to God — one only has to mention Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, Peter, Paul... the list goes on and on... as examples of the best of our faith whose lives were significantly shaped and impacted because of their failures. While we do learn much from their successes, understanding the impact of their contribution to God’s Kingdom calls us to paint the entire picture, including the failures.

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KEY FEATURES • Explains the Biblical principles of failure revealed in the stories of “fantastic failures” whose whole lives reveal the fruit of God’s faithfulness.

• Exposes the lie of self-sufficiency that fuels cultural models of success and failure and occludes the significance of God’s faithfulness and favor.

• Details the benefits and spiritual fruit of failure by redefining success from the perspective of God’s faithful love and purpose for the world.

Shane Stanford (MA, Duke University; Doctorate, Asbury Theological Seminary) is Senior Pastor of a 5,000+ member church in Memphis, Tennessee. Dr. Stanford is the author of numerous books, including The Seven Next Words of Christ, The Cure for the Chronic Life, and The Eight Blessings: Rediscovering the Beatitudes. His memoir, A Positive Life, details his life as an HIV+ and HepC+ hemophiliac, husband, father, and pastor. He is the co-host of the Covenant Bible Study program, now used in over one thousand churches. Dr. Stanford married Dr. Pokey Stanford, and they have three daughters.

Anthony Thaxton is the Producer and Director of Creative Design for Christ Church Global (a media outreach ministry of Christ Church - Memphis). A renowned painter and videographer throughout the Southeast USA, Anthony has received numerous awards and recognitions for his art and various productions. Anthony is also the Producer/Director of The United Methodist Hour, a TV/Radio ministry that airs in over 30 million homes, and he is the Executive Producer for We Believe in Memphis and You Matter, both ministries of Christ Church- Memphis.

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Strategic thinking is not about seeing a need and addressing it. It is about focusing on a purpose and pursuing it single-mindedly.

STRATEGIC THINKING How to Sustain Effective Ministry

THOMAS G. BANDY Strategic thinking involves an element of risk. This is because the goal is not only to perfect ongoing programs, but to initiate new ideas and terminate ineffective tactics. The risk of strategic thinking arises because of the changes in the mission field (or community) in which, and toward whom, the church focuses its vision. Demographic research and lifestyle sensitivity are necessary for effective church ministries. Whenever a church fails to track demographic trends and shifting lifestyle expectations, the strategic thinking always stalls. Program improvements and new ideas never go beyond the comfort zones of the members. Ineffective tactics are simply repeated over and over again because the church doesn’t want to offend particular members or financial givers.

In order to go beyond the box to be relevant to the changing community, churches must accept more risk. They must be willing to go beyond the comfort zones of members to improve the effectiveness of programs. They must be willing to risk failure and learn from mistakes by implementing creative new ideas. And they must be willing to stop wasting limited resources of time, talent, and money on sacred cows that no longer drive the church toward its vision.

The challenge, of course, lies in keeping that line straight. This is not a curved line connecting identity, mission, and results. It is not a wavy line, or an intermittent line, or even a partially angled line. It is not a line that sways one way to protect this self-interest, and another way to protect that membership privilege. It is not a line that takes a circuitous route to its destination in order not to disturb some leader’s sensibilities or avoid stressing some faction’s opinions. It is a straight line. Nothing else will really do.

KEY FEATURES • Illustrates how strategic thinking is really about drawing a line from organizational identity to a desired mission result.

• Offers a powerful and more effective alternative to the inherently limited models of strategic planning.

• Equips leaders to think strategically, to make good decisions, timely adjustments, and to get measurable results.

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Thomas G. Bandy is an internationally-recognized church consultant and leadership coach. Tom coaches transforming and transitioning congregations, church plants, multi-site and cross-cultural churches, and faith-based nonprofits. He is the president of Thriving Church Consulting LLC at ThrivingChurch.com. He is the author of several books on congregational leadership.

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New forms of church that gather and network with people who typically have never been to church.

FRESH EXPRESSIONS

A New Kind of Methodist Church For People Not In Church

KENNETH H. CARTER, JR. & AUDREY WARREN A wave of new Christian churches are emerging to reach unchurched and dechurched people who live in a culture that is increasingly nonreligious and multi-religious. These new forms of church gather and network with people who typically have never been to church. The new faith communities listen to people and go where they are on the journey toward Jesus. They are deeply ecumenical but do not lose their distinctiveness because they learn fresh ways to communicate their identity through discipleship.

Fresh Expressions began in the United Kingdom where it ignited over 3,000 new faith communities. In the United States the movement is putting down roots in Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Florida.

Ken Carter and Audrey Warren offer this book as a group study for church leaders and congregations who are in the grip of Holy Spirit motivation to renew their tradition by reaching people who are dechurched or not yet in a discipleship relationship with Jesus.

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KEY FEATURES • 6-session study to guide a small team who work with missions and evangelism to reach people who are not interested in traditional or institutional church.

• 12 Bible studies (2 per chapter) for introducing each step in the process of implementing fresh expressions.

• Readers will be able to define fresh expressions and explain them to others.

• Readers will be able to interpret current shifts in the cultural and religious landscape in light of ecumenical movements.

Kenneth H. Carter, Jr., is Bishop of the Florida Annual Conference of The United Methodist Church. He is a member of the board of trustees of Bethune-Cookman University, Florida Southern College, the Russia United Methodist Theological Seminary in Moscow and the board of visitors of Duke Divinity School. Bishop Carter is the author of Pray for Me, A Way of Life in the World, The Gifted Pastor, three volumes of the Just in Time! series, and others. He and his wife live in Lakeland, Florida.

Audrey Warren, a native Floridian, currently resides in Miami, FL. Audrey earned her Bachelor of Arts from Florida Southern College where she majored in Religion, and her Masters of Divinity from Duke Divinity School in Durham, NC. Audrey then continued her studies at Wesley Theological Seminary where she earned her Doctorate of Ministry focusing on Children and Spirituality.

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Innovative Christians - engaging in time-honored practices - are creating new types of communities.

DIVERGENT CHURCH

The Bright Promise of Alternative Faith Communities

TIM SHAPIRO & KARA BRINKERHOFF New faith communities are appearing across the U.S. Many of them bear little resemblance—on the surface—to ‘church’ in its conventional form.

But when we look a little deeper we see striking continuity with the most deeply rooted practices of the Christian faith in community.

What are those practices? What do these unconventional, alternative faith communities look like? How are they, perhaps, indicators of a hopeful new future for the church? And what can we learn from them?

Authors Tim Shapiro and Kara Brinkerhoff spent more than a year researching and exploring these questions, closely examining the life of a dozen alternative faith communities across the country. They include new monastic communities, food-oriented communities, affinity group communities, house churches, hybrid churches and others. They are creative, ingenious, innovative, clever, dynamic and transformative. But they represent human expressions of activities that have always been part of human religious congregations: hospitality, learning, storytelling, care, leadership, worship and honoring place.

This fascinating book goes beyond simply analyzing current trends. It reveals how innovative Christians are engaging in time-honored practices, creating new types of communities, which will shape the church to come.

Further, it shows us how we too might innovate while holding true to the essential practices of our gathered faith. This is an instructive picture of Christian community, past, present and future.

KEY FEATURES • This book is unique because it combines telling the stories of alternative/new faith communities but within the frame of practices that grounds the work in the past, present and future.

• The book argues that alternative faith communities are not just a passing, contemporary concern, but creative expressions of universal practices.

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Tim Shapiro is President of the Center for Congregations in Indianapolis, Indiana. He previously served Presbyterian churches in Indiana and Ohio.

He studied family systems theory under Edwin Friedman.

Kara Brinkerhoff is the resource grants director at the Center for Congregations, as well as a consultant to congregations. She has a marketing degree from Butler University’s College of Business Administration and a Master of Divinity degree from Christian Theological Seminary.

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The Bible’s understanding of leadership is decidedly different from that of the business world.

WEAK ENOUGH TO LEAD Habits of a Faithful Christian Leader

JAMES C. HOWELL The Bible’s version of leadership is pretty different from — and, more often than not, alien to — that of the business world. It is also different from our usual assumptions about what makes a great leader in the church, where we tend to focus on preaching ability, strategic hutzpah, and managerial savvy.

But what if the Bible actually points toward a different set of characteristics necessary for leadership? What if our weakness is an essential qualification? Do we know our limitations, our inabilities? Do we see clearly our vulnerable, broken selves? Do we really believe that God’s strength is perfected in our weakness, and do we lead with that as a core belief?

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James Howell’s Weak Enough to Lead is not a list of ‘leadership principles’ from the Bible. This book is an examination of stories about leaders from the Old Testament, followed by a consideration of the spiritual dispositions of those leaders. What dispositions do we see in these women and men? Which ones are helpful to us? Which are problematic? Which might we imitate or avoid, not only so that we might lead well, but that we might honor God and be faithful or even holy?

KEY FEATURES • A new and easy to understand perspective on Christian leadership.

• Based on the author’s conclusions from studying Old Testament prophets and kings, using the Prayer of Jehoshaphat as its starting point.

• Offers 8 leadership habits or dispositions, many of which are unusual and unexpected, but rooted in Scripture.

• Gives the reader a new way to approach leadership, theologically.

• Reveals clear Biblical models for leadership & leadership traits.

James C. Howell is the senior pastor of Myers Park United Methodist Church in Charlotte, NC, and adjunct professor of preaching at Duke Divinity School. He is co-author of Preaching the Psalms (Abingdon, 2001) and author of The Beautiful Work of Learning to Pray (Abingdon Press, June 2003). He is also author of Servants, Misfits, and Martyrs and Yours Are the Hands of Christ (Upper Room Books)

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There is no quick fix or secret formula to help move a church out of a rut.

STRIDE

Creating a Discipleship Pathway for Your Church

MIKE SCHREINER & KEN WILLARD Churches of all types around the country are struggling. The more programs they try the more evident it becomes that there is no quick fix or secret formula to help them out of their rut. John Wesley, the founder of the Methodist Movement, once said, “The way to keep a Methodist alive is to keep him moving.�

The authors developed and launched a highly successful pathway to discipleship in their church (Morning Star UMC, in St.Louis, Missouri). Here, they show others how to create a successful discipleship pathway for their own particular contexts, based on the principles developed at Morning Star.

Mike Schreiner is the Lead Pastor of Morning Star Church, the largest United Methodist Church in the Missouri Annual Conference. With the help of a core group, Schreiner launched Morning Star Church in 1999.

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Ken Willard is a Christian leadership coach, certified church consultant, author, speaker and developer of curriculum used by pastors and laity leaders.

He is an Associate Certified Coach with the International Coach Federation and a member of the faculty with Coaching4Clergy.

Building trust is essential for the leader to succeed in the ministry to which God has called them.

TRUST BY DESIGN

The Beautiful Behaviors of an Effective Church Culture

AMY VALDEZ BARKER Trust is a bankable asset for leaders who direct, shape, and guide faith communities. Trust is a form of equity that fuels attitudes, behaviors, and actions in faith communities who aim to transform the world. Through a process of self-examination into the behaviors and actions that help build or break trust, leaders can step boldly into ministry where God is sending them.

Amy Valdez Barker is the lead executive for the Connectional Table, which coordinates the mission, ministries, and programs of The United Methodist Church. As an ordained deacon from the North Georgia Conference, she was project manager of the 2012 Vital Churches Initiative. She earned a doctorate in Christian education and congregational studies. She is the author with her husband of 365 Meditations for Couples, published by Abingdon Press.

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Growing interest in Christian mindfulness practice is rooted in the rediscovery of ancient Christian practices.

RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW The Practice of Christian Mindfulness

AMY G. ODEN Christians have always practiced mindfulness. Yet, from the popular landscape of mindfulness movement, you’d never know that. Where is the Christian voice in this fast-growing movement? Many Christians practice mindfulness outside of church and believe it does not belong to our faith tradition. This book reveals the Christian roots of mindfulness and the actual practices that, when reclaimed, deepen the life of faith and the power of our mission of love in the world. When we understand how radical it is to live in God’s presence right here, right now, our lives are transformed toward mercy, justice and abundant life.

Amy Oden shows how the practice of Christian mindfulness begins with the teachings of Jesus and continues throughout Christian history.

It also includes step-by-step instructions for the practice of Christian mindfulness today. Pastors and leaders will find this book useful on the ground as they curate current culture and guide Christians in spiritual practices.

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Amy G. Oden is Professor of Early Church History and Spirituality at Saint Paul School of Theology at Oklahoma City University and the author of In Her Words and And You Welcomed Me, both published by Abingdon Press.

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KEY FEATURES • Explains the Biblical foundations of “gospel mindfulness” and shows what is distinctive about Christian mindfulness.

• Details the benefits and spiritual fruits of mindfulness, locating Christian mindfulness within widespread practices in the broader contemporary culture.

• Gives step-by-step instructions for a variety of Christian mindfulness practices to start today.

• Provides a study guide for small groups.

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The Old Testament is the story of God’s mission to restore creation and form God’s people as an instrument to participate in that mission.

TELLING THE OLD TESTAMENT STORY God’s Mission and God’s People

BRAD E. KELLE While honoring the historical context and literary diversity of the Old Testament, Telling the Old Testament Story is a thematic reading that construes the Old Testament as a complex but coherent narrative. Unlike standard, introductory textbooks that only cover basic background and interpretive issues for each Old Testament book, this introduction combines a thematic approach with careful exegetical attention to representative biblical texts, ultimately telling the macro-level story, while drawing out the multiple nuances present within different texts and traditions.

The book works from the Protestant canonical arrangement of the Old Testament, which understands the story of the Old Testament as the story of God and God’s relationship with all creation in love and redemption—a story that joins the New Testament to the Old. Within this broader story, the Old Testament presents the specific story of God and God’s relationship with Israel as the people called, created, and formed to be God’s covenant partner and instrument within creation.

KEY FEATURES • Accessibly written, this book invites readers to enter imaginatively into the biblical story and find the Old Testament’s lively and enduring implications.

• Honors the historical context and literary diversity of the Old Testament.

• Uses a thematic, narrative approach.

• Presents the Old Testament as the story of God and God’s people who are called, created, and formed to be God’s covenant partner and instrument within creation.

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Brad E. Kelle is Professor of Old Testamentat Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego, California. He is Past-President of the Society of Biblical Literature - Pacific Coast Region; as well as Founding Chairperson of the War in Ancient Israel section of the Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting. He is Director of the H. Orton Wiley Lecture Series in Theology.

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An up-to-date, readable commentary on the book of Numbers.

ABINGDON OLD TESTAMENT COMMENTARIES: NUMBERS CAROLYN PRESSLER The Abingdon Old Testament Commentaries provide compact, critical commentaries on the books of the Old Testament for the use of theological students and pastors. In addition to providing basic information and insights into the Old Testament writings, these commentaries exemplify the tasks and procedures of careful interpretation, to assist students of the Old Testament in coming to an informed and critical engagement with the biblical texts themselves.

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The present volume gives an up-to-date, readable commentary on the book of Numbers. The commentary covers critical issues section by section while emphasizing the larger theological and literary issues in Numbers and illustrating its relevance for modern readers.

Carolyn Pressler is Harry C. Piper Jr. Professor of Biblical Interpretation at United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities and an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ.

How the Pentateuch employs narrative and law to provide the foundations for an ideal national and religious identity.

THE PENTATEUCH MARVIN A. SWEENEY

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The Pentateuch, in the Core Biblical Studies series, introduces the Five Books of Moses: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.

It combines a purely literary approach to reading the final form of the Pentateuch with a historical reading of the text. The literary approach will emphasize the structural role played by the so-called toledoth (generations) formulae that trace the history of humankind from Adam, through the ancestors of Israel, and finally to Moses and Aaron as the founders of Israel’s priesthood. The historical reading of the text will challenge the older model of source analysis to argue instead for a model that traces the composition of the Pentateuch from its origins in northern Israel during the 9th-8th centuries B.C.E., (E), through its subsequent editions in Judah during the 8th-7th centuries B.C.E., (J and D), and finally through the final redaction in the Persian period (P).

Marvin A. Sweeney is Professor of Hebrew Bible at Claremont Graduate University and Professor of Tanak at the Academy for Jewish Religion California. He was also Vice-President of the National Association of Professors of Hebrew.

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The New Testament presents us with not one picture of Christ, but many.

CHRISTOLOGY IN THE NEW TESTAMENT DAVID L. BARTLETT New Testament writers offer varied and persuasive pictures of Jesus that seek to draw people into faith.

For David Bartlett, New Testament Christology is “not so much a set of doctrines as a variety of stories, songs and scriptural interpretations that help Christian believers and Christian churches follow the Jesus they read about, hear about, and praise.” Early Christians framed and told stories, shared teachings, testified to encounters, found solutions to problems, acted out in faith and love, and sang songs about and to Jesus Christ – the resurrected one who represents and shares God’s very self to repair and redeem a broken world.

David L. Bartlett is Professor Emeritus of Christian Communication, Yale Divinity School, and Distinguished Professor of New Testament, Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur, Georgia.

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A clear and concise introduction to John’s gospel and letters.

JOHN AND THE JOHANNINE LETTERS COLLEEN M. CONWAY While the book necessarily includes discussion of key concepts in Johannine scholarship (e.g., the existence or not of a distinctive Johannine community, questions regarding the gospel’s sources and redactional layers), it also takes into account more recent developments in New Testament studies. It includes gender-related issues with influence by postcolonial approaches as well as the influence of the Gospel’s sociopolitical context in shaping its Christology and theology.

Colleen M. Conway is Professor of Religious Studies in the Department of Religion at Seton Hall University. Her primary research focus in on the function of gender categories in biblical texts from literary, cultural and historical perspectives.

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PREACHING

WILL WILLIMON’S LECTIONARY SERMON RESOURCE: YEAR B PART 1 & PART 2 WILLIAM H. WILLIMON Will Willimon is widely acclaimed as one of the top ten preachers in the world. For each Sunday of the Christian year, Will provides just what you need to begin the journey toward a sermon. This guide will stoke, fund, and fuel your imagination while leaving plenty of room to insert your own illustrations, make connections within your congregational context, and speak the Word in your distinctive voice. Guidance from Will Willimon is like sitting down with a trusted clergy friend and asking, “What will you preach next Sunday?” Year B, Parts 1 and 2 are part of a six-volume set that includes years A, B, and C (2 volumes per year) in the Revised Common Lectionary. ach week of sermon resources includes: E 1. Readings 2. Theme title 3. Introduction to the Readings 4. Encountering the Text 5. Proclaiming the Text 6. Relating the Text KEY FEATURES • Selected readings, themes, and introductions to the lectionary passages for every Sunday of Year B in the Revised Common Lectionary.

• “Encountering the Text” and “Proclaiming the Text” reflections to help you move from Bible to sermon.

• “Relating the Text” observations for sermon illustration or use in bulletins or on the church’s website.

Feeling most at home behind a pulpit, Will Willimon’s deepest calling is to be a preacher and truth-teller of Jesus Christ. He is Professor of the Practice of Christian Ministry at Duke University Divinity School and retired Bishop of the North Alabama Conference of The United Methodist Church, after serving for 20 years as faculty member and Dean of the Chapel at Duke University. He lives in Durham, North Carolina. Will Willimon has published many books, including his preaching subscription service on MinistryMatters.com, Pulpit Resource, and Fear of the Other: No Fear in Love, both published by Abingdon Press.

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The preaching pastor’s go-to resource for weekly sermon and worship planning.

THE ABINGDON PREACHING ANNUAL 2018

Planning Sermons and Services for Fifty-Two Sundays

EDITED BY SCOTT HOEZEE Each week’s entry includes: A Primary Theme, Secondary Themes, and Worship Helps. The volume also includes essays on preaching topics, full sermons, and sermon series ideas. The Abingdon Preaching Annual is designed to spur the preacher’s imagination, offer fresh, intriguing ideas and point the preacher in a good direction.

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Scott Hoezee is an ordained pastor in the Christian Reformed Church in North America. He serves as the Director of the Center for Excellence in Preaching at Calvin Seminary.

The trusted planning resource for traditional and contemporary worship.

THE ABINGDON WORSHIP ANNUAL 2018

Worship Planning Resources for Every Sunday of the Year

EDITED BY MARY J. SCIFRES & B. J. BEU Weekly worship planning materials to assist pastors and worship leaders.

Using a theme idea based on the lectionary readings, each week’s offering of prayers and litanies follows a basic pattern of Christian worship: Invitation and Gathering, Proclamation and Response, Thanksgiving and Communion, and Sending Forth. Alternative ideas for Praise Sentences and Contemporary Gathering Words are offered for contemporary worship settings. Available with purchase, access to a PDF of printed text.

Mary J. Scifres is a United Methodist pastor, teacher, and consultant who inspires and equips twenty-first-century leaders in creative worship, church growth, visioning, and strategic planning. She is co-author of The UM Music and Worship Planner and Prepare! and author Searching for Seekers.

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B. J. Beu has served churches in the UCC. Beyond his work on this resource, B. J. has contributed sermons to The Abingdon Preaching Annual. He is passionate about creative worship, preaching, and advocating for peace and justice.

B. J. and Mary live in Laguna Beach, California.

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A weekly worship planning book for pastors and musicians.

PREPARE! 2017-2018

An Ecumenical Music & Worship Planner

DAVID L. BONE & MARY J. SCIFRES An all-in-one resource that helps music director and pastor plan worship services for each Sunday and holy day of the year. The 2017-2018 edition is lectionary-based and places at one’s fingertips a calendar format that helps plan the entire worship year from September through August. Included are reproducible worship planning forms, suggestions for prayers, hymns from a wide variety of sources, solos, anthems, visuals, and much more. Also included is the complete lectionary text of the Old Testament, Psalm, Epistle, and Gospel readings from the Common English Bible or New Revised Standard Version.

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THE UNITED METHODIST MUSIC & WORSHIP PLANNER 2017-2018 DAVID L. BONE & MARY J. SCIFRES An all-in-one resource that helps both the music director and pastor plan the worship services for each Sunday, along with holy days and United Methodist specific days of the year. This worship planner is lectionary-based and includes: • Calendar format that helps you plan the entire worship year, from September through August.

• Eight or more suggested hymns for each service keyed to United Methodist worship resources.

• Complete lectionary text of the Old Testament, Psalm, Epistle, and Gospel readings using the Common English Bible or New Revised Standard translations.

• Reproducible worship planning forms.

• Resources for holidays and special days.

• Suggestions for prayers, solos, anthems, visuals, and much more.

David L. Bone is Executive Director of The Fellowship of United Methodists in Music and Worship Arts. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee.

Mary J. Scifres is a United Methodist pastor, teacher, and consultant who inspires and equips twenty-first-century leaders in creative worship, church growth, visioning, and strategic planning. She is co-author of The Abingdon Worship Annual and author of Searching for Seekers. Mary lives in Laguna Beach, California.

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Whether one is the pastor of a small congregation, a music director, or a member of a large worship planning team, this unique tool can help create and capture weekly worship service details: sermon topic, hymns, anthems, acolytes, lay readers, and special services such as communion or baptisms.

The planning chart provided for each Sunday includes: the lections, liturgical day, liturgical colors, and hymn suggestions from United Methodist specific hymnals and song books. The standard month-at-a-glance format includes all the features of a great standard calendar including U.S. and Canadian national days, beginning and ending dates for Daylight Saving Time, major Jewish observances, and more.

THE UNITED METHODIST CALENDAR & WORKBOOK 2018

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An enhanced appointment calendar for clergy, choir directors, church school workers, and all church staff. View appointments for the entire week in one spread. It includes United Methodist-specific worship planning information, and extra space on Sunday to record special details related to worship services. Spiral-bound, it also includes month-at-a-glance, pages for recording contact information, Natinal days for the U.S. and Canada, and the dates of Daylight Savings Time.

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CALENDAR & WORKBOOK FOR CHURCH LEADERS 2018

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An enhanced appointment calendar for all church leaders. View appointments for the entire week in one spread. Convenient, stay-flat, spiral binding. Includes all the information one expects to find in an outstanding desk calendar: a month-at-a-glance section, pages for recording contact information for the current worship team, leaders, and other groups, national days for the United States and Canada, and beginning and ending dates for Daylight Saving Time, which helps keep the rest of the user's life organized.

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A deeper dive into understanding the key themes and storylines of the Bible.

FATHOM BIBLE STUDIES | A Deep Dive into the Story of God Fathom is a Bible study for teens that covers the Old and New Testaments in 18 4-session studies. The lessons are a blend of narrative and traditional theological approaches to understanding the Bible story. Each lesson will focus on one passage that will launch into the larger context of God’s story being studied, and how that story is meant to be theirs.

Fathom is suitable for groups with middle schoolers and high schoolers, and provides activities specific to each age group, as well as activities for mixed groups in which older youth have leadership opportunities.

KEY FEATURES • A blend of narrative and traditional theological approaches to understanding the Bible story.

• A broad Bible survey enhanced by deeper dives into key themes and story-lines to provide anchor points for teens as they are considering their faith commitments.

• A student guide that creates space and tension for teens to wrestle with how to interpret the Bible • Explores the history of the Bible.

• “What’s Next” activities promotes discussion, reflection, and continued engagement after the class or group time ends.

RELIGION / CHRISTIAN EDUCATION / CHILDREN & YOUTH

THE LIFE IN THE CHURCH 1 This study will cover what it may have been like to be part of the early church in the first century. In addition to unpacking selected teachings of Paul, teens will gain an understanding of the historical contexts and local church situations that led him to write these letters (Romans-Philemon).

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THE WILDERNESS The wilderness journey of the Israelites was filled with mishaps, mistakes, doubts, fears, complaints, whining, and outright rebellion on their part. God guided them on the journey with God’s holy presence, miraculous deeds, outpouring of mercies, and corrective discipline. There were lessons to be learned along the wilderness journey that would prepare them to live as God’s people in the Land of Promise (Exodus-Deuteronomy).

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THE COMING OF JESUS The Coming of Jesus is a journey through some of the key Old Testament scriptures that shape our beliefs about the specific events leading to the birth of Jesus. As you compare these scriptures to the New Testament's fullfillment, may you join those first disciples in saying, “Weren’t our hearts on fire... when he explained the scriptures for us,” (2 Samuel, Jeremiah, Isaiah, Ezekiel, Matthew, Luke).

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THE PROMISED LAND This study explores the faithfulness of God towards the Israelites as Joshua leads them across the Jordan River into the Promised Land. The study centers on the books of Joshua and Judges and focuses on God’s promises towards the Israelites as they struggle to settle the land while staying faithful to God (Joshua-Judges).

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THE BIRTH OF THE CHURCH In this study, students will explore what it meant to be followers in the early church. Using both scripture and historical knowledge of how churches would have functioned, they will discover similarities and differences between the early church and churches today (Acts 1-8).

THE TEACHINGS OF JESUS In this study, you and your teens will gain a groundlevel perspective of the message of the gospel from the writers and their sources. With each lesson, your group will become transformed by the teachings of Christ who became flesh and lived among us with grace and truth.

This study will explore the Gospels (Matthew-John).

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Reproducible Scripture-based activities for children.

BIBLE STORYBOOK ACTIVITY BULLETINS This versatile resource for ages 4–7 provides reproducible activity pages that fold to create a fun children's bulletin! Each activity page centers on one of 146 foundational Bible stories for children.

Activities include puzzles, mazes, and coloring pages that keep children engaged while helping grow their faith. Perfect for use during worship services, these bulletins are also great for Sunday school classes, children's church, or as an at-home companion to each child’s bible, like the Deep Blue Storybook Bible.

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KIDS CHURCH Deep Blue Kids Church is an all-inclusive leader guide helping you host your own weekly kids’ church. Each of the thirteen lessons is divided into four sections designed to last up to 15 minutes, and can be customized to fit your needs. The four sections are: Invitation, the Bible, Worship, and Extended Time. Each month, the lessons focus on a new character trait such as wisdom and lovingkindness. Every lesson includes a worship practice component, a reproducible, and a Bible story corresponding to a session on the optional Deep Blue Kids Adventure DVD. Deep Blue Kids Church | $14.99 FALL 2017 | 9781501837814 | JUNE 20, 2017 WINTER 2017-2018 | 9781501837838 | SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

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LARGE GROUP/ SMALL GROUP Children gather in large groups for the Bible story, music, and movement, then break into age-level small groups to dig deeper and apply the story to their daily lives. Perfect for Sunday school, children’s church, and midweek sessions.

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52 Weekly Devotional Activities A new resource containing 52 weekly devotions for families! The devotions deepen users’ understanding of the Bible stories taught in Sunday school.

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ONE ROOM SUNDAY SCHOOL

An all-in-one resource for children ages 3–12. Works perfectly as a small-group Sunday school option for varying ages or as a midweek program.

One Room Sunday School Kit | $76.99 FALL 2017 | 9781501828119 | AVAILABLE JUNE 20, 2017 WINTER 2017-2018 | 9781501834776 | AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

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LEADER GUIDE • Your volunteers will find it easy to teach with step-by-step session plans including active Bible lessons, games, art, worship, and more!

ADVENTURE DVD Today’s media-savvy kids will be hooked by these engaging, animated videos! Travel with the Deep Blue Crew and meet kids around the world.

Each video segment tells a Bible story through the kids’ point of view.

There are also music videos and Bible story quizzes for even more fun! For ages 3-10.

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TODDLERS & TWOS CLASS STUFF • Includes an interactive poster, Bible storytelling figures, Bible verse posters, Bible songs, puzzles, games, matching cards, a quarterly attendance chart, and other visual and kinesthetic activities.

• This is a comprehensive component, necessary for teaching all children the various learning styles.

LEADER GUIDE • Help children learn the Bible through movement, songs, art activities, and more!

• Monthly Bible stories and Bible verses are shared using a learning-center approach with colorful visuals.

BIBLE STORY PICTURE CARDS • A colorful card for children to take home each week.

• Includes the monthly Bible story that parents or guardians can retell and reinforce at home.

• Helps children learn the monthly Bible stories using their different senses and learning styles.

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BABIES & WODDLERS

Introduce babies and woddlers to the Christian faith through play, prayer, praise, and promise.

ANNUAL MINISTRY GUIDE Caregivers in the nursery will be equipped to: • Share faith with babies and woddlers in loving, caring, and age-appropriate ways.

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Help preteens learn they are wonderfully made with this faith and sexuality education program.

WONDERFULLY MADE MARK HUFFMAN, TANYA EUSTACE CAMPEN & LEIGH MEEKINS

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Wonderfully Made provides children the opportunity to find faithbased answers for their questions about growing up and changing.

This biblically based program communicates to children they are made in the image of God. The resources help preteens understand the changes happening to their body, mind, and emotions and how their development is related to their relationship with God. The curriculum will cover physical development and spiritual connection while helping preteens establish a foundation for their life in Christ. Includes a Facilitator Guide, Participant Workbook for each preteen, and a Parent Guide (included with the Facilitator Guide) to build conversations between kids and parents.

Mark Huffman earned a MTS from Vanderbilt Divinity School. He is certified as a sexuality educator by the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists. He has presented educational programs about sexuality for thousands of teens in schools, religious organizations, and other community settings, as well as leading professional trainings on sexuality education for school teachers from preschool through high school.

Tanya Eustace Campen is an ordained deacon in the Rio Texas Conference of the United Methodist Church and previously served as director of children and intergenerational ministries at Discipleship Ministries. She holds a masters of divinity from Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary and a doctor of philosophy in Christian education and congregational studies from Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary. She has served as a Christian educator and minister to children and families in the local church for nineteen years.

Leigh Meekins holds a MRE from the Divinity School at Duke University and a PhD in education. She has served in children’s ministry for over 20 years and understands the needs of children to explore God’s Word and to live a faith-filled life for themselves. She regularly teaches faith and sexuality to preteens at churches across the country, having led hundreds of retreats reaching thousands of children. She is an ordained deacon in the United Methodist Church and currently serves as the editor of older elementary resources at the United Methodist Publishing House.

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An inspiring way to learn the Bible!

MY TESTAMENT VOLUME TWO A Picture and Word Journal About Me and God

MARK BURROWS This Bible study will help children connect themes from both the Old and New Testament. Useful in multiple settings from Sunday school to weeknight study, My Testament includes creative journaling and holy conversations for children in grades three to five. Each child will create a one-of-a-kind journal of what they believe to be true about their relationship with God.

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The ideal length for each session is 45 minutes. Within this time, opportunities are provided for holy conversations in the form of wonder questions. As the participants create their testaments, responding to scripture, they will be encouraged to discuss their responses with those around them.

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Submerge emphasizes nurturing faithful relationships while engaging students in fun and creative activities.

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The Submerge Diver’s Log 2017-2018 is an interactive and reflective log/journal/ sketchbook that allows students to write, draw, sketch, and reflect while engaging in faith formation. It is designed for weekly use (weekly prompts, weekly Bible topics, etc.) and can be used in a classroom setting, as well as at home or school. It is geared towards ages 11 and up.

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Enjoy the clarity of glass with the convenience of plastic. You have the option of the regular cup, sized 1 1/4”or 1 3/8”, and the flexible cup, sized 1 1/4”. They are inexpensive enough to be disposable, but are durable enough to be reused. Recyclable and fits most standard Communion trays.

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Records 40 years of pastorates, baptisms, members received, marriages, funerals, sermons delivered, funds raised, and more. Acid-free paper; gift boxed.

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This attractive full-color flower chart is for recording the names of persons presenting altar flowers. Each month includes seven ruled lines for easy writing, with name of each month superimposed over beautiful flower designs, and words “Date” and “Presented By” under name of month. Mylar reinforced and shipped in a mailing tube to prevent creases.

This attractive chart is used for recording the names of persons presenting altar flowers. Each month includes six ruled lines for easy writing, with beautiful full-color flower designs over the name of each month, and words “Date” and “Presented By” under name of month. Mylar reinforced and shipped in a mailing tube to prevent creases.

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How storytelling helps us explore our lives and meet God in new ways.

Spoken into Being Divine Encounters through Story

Michael E. Williams Everyone is a storyteller, according to Michael Williams, and all of us are on a spiritual journey. Storytelling helps us make sense of our lives, the world around us, and God. When we tell stories, we speak a world into being—just as God did in the creation accounts in the book of Genesis.

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Michael E. Williams is a United Methodist pastor who served in the Tennessee Conference for over 40 years, most recently as senior pastor at West End United Methodist Church, Nashville. The author of numerous articles, stories, poems, plays, and books, he was general editor of The Storyteller's Companion to the Bible series (Abingdon Press). Michael has been a featured storyteller at the Nashville Storytelling Festival. He and his wife, Margaret, live in Nashville and have two adult daughters.

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Spoken into Being is both a guide to telling our own stories and a reminder that we have been spoken into being as part of a much larger story. It is a voyage of discovery for those of us who wish to deepen our experience of God’s presence in our lives.

Employing poetry, personal narrative, and retellings of biblical stories, Michael Williams leads us to a deeper knowledge of the power of narrative. Storytelling is not simply a means of expressing spiritual insights already learned but also a way of exploring our lives and the world around us in order to encounter the divine presence anew.

Not all stories serve us well, however. Stories of fear stop us in our tracks and become roadblocks on the journey, while stories of fantasy, no matter how alluring, are dead-end streets. Spoken into Being points to a path beyond fear and fantasy, a way toward encounters with the Holy, where all things are being made new and the unexpected is the norm.

KEY FEATURES • Personal stories from the author’s life • Retellings of biblical stories • Reflection questions

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TARGET AUDIENCE • Christians interested in storytelling as spiritual formation • Those who want to experience God’s presence in their daily lives

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The life and travels of the apostle Paul can help us find God’s purpose for our lives.

Which Way, Lord?

Exploring Your Life’s Purpose in the Journeys of Paul

Rob Fuquay God created every person with a desire for meaning and purpose.

Many of us wonder, How do we live the purposeful life God intends for each of us? This 6-week churchwide series is designed to help us consider that big question.

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The Damascus road experience was not the only event that sent the apostle Paul on his quest. His entire life—his traditions, education, travels, and challenges—shaped him for ministry. After years of preparation through prayer and discernment, Paul traveled roughly 10,000 miles throughout the Mediterranean world to spread the Good News. When he started, he had no idea how God’s plan for him would take shape. This series helps us unpack our lives alongside Paul’s life to find our purpose and passion.

A perfect study series for back-to-school, the beginning of a new year, or anytime you need a fresh start, Which Way, Lord? includes a book; DVD with video sessions filmed in Turkey, Israel, and Greece; agelevel discussion guides for children, youth, and adults; plus free online sermon starters, worship media, and more.

Rediscover the truths that you are wonderfully made, created for purpose, and equipped to live a life of significance. Despite the adversities and detours you will encounter along the way, you can rely on God. Join us as we travel together to find our purpose.

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For more information, visit RobFuquay.com.

Rob Fuquay is senior pastor of St. Luke’s United Methodist Church in Indianapolis, Indiana. He has served several congregations with his gifts of strong preaching, leadership development, and preaching. Rob and his wife, Susan, have 3 daughters.

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KEY FEATURES • Easy-to-use churchwide study for all ages: adults, youth, and children The study book includes • Study of biblical stories about the life and missionary journeys of Paul • Stories from Fuquay’s own experiences of discerning and learning to follow God’s will • Servant Spotlights—stories about Christians who discerned and lived out God’s purpose for them • Reflection questions The companion DVD features • Six weekly sessions filmed in Turkey, Israel, and Greece. Fuquay explains the significance of various locations in Paul’s missionary journeys, enlightening viewers with tidbits about the history and culture of Paul’s time.

• Age-level guides for children, youth, and adults

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Thoughtful meditations that help us apply God’s Word to daily life.

The Upper Room Disciplines 2018 A Book of Daily Devotions Each year The Upper Room offers this best-selling book of insightful devotions to help people spend daily time with God. Fifty-three writers from diverse Christian backgrounds encourage us to immerse ourselves in scripture and apply its truths to our lives.

Each day of this powerful devotional guide offers a selected Bible reading, a meditation on the scripture passage, and a prayer or suggestion for reflection. The scriptures are drawn from the Revised Common Lectionary.

Authors for Disciplines 2018 include Mary Lou Redding, Willie James Jennings, Amy Oden, Jan Richardson, Andy Dreitcer, Anne Broyles, Safiyah Fosua, Jim Melchiorre, Lynne Deming, Max O. Vincent, Pam Hawkins, and Marshall Jenkins.

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KEY FEATURES • Simple but thoughtful daily readings; each devotion is one page • Contains an overview of scriptures for each week, plus questions/ suggestions for individual or group reflection • Available in multiple formats: regular, enlarged print, digital versions • Includes an outline for small-group discussion

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A simple daily practice that draws us into the meaning of Advent.

Pauses for Advent Words of Wonder

Trevor Hudson In this beautifully minimalist book, Trevor Hudson focuses on one biblical word of wonder each day of Advent. Pausing for a few moments to read Hudson’s meditations on the word for the day will guide readers to a deeper understanding of Advent.

Hudson also briefly explores the lives and thoughts of four significant characters in the Christmas story, encouraging readers to immerse themselves in the dramatic story. His simple approach provides a doable daily practice and gently leads readers to discover how they can open their hearts and lives more generously to God.

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TARGET AUDIENCE • Busy people who want to carve out a few minutes each day to have a meaningful Advent • Those who don’t know what Advent is about • Buyers of Hudson’s Pauses for Lent and other books

Trevor Hudson is a Methodist minister in South Africa. The author of 16 books, he travels widely, teaching and lecturing in the areas of spiritual formation, spiritual direction, and pastoral therapy. Hudson is a senior fellow of the Dallas Willard Center at Westmont University, a teacher at the Renovaré Institute, and a lecturer in the DMin program in spiritual direction at Fuller University. He and his wife, Debbie, live in Benoni, near Johannesburg, and have two adult children.

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A rich observance of Advent and Christmas that extends into the new year.

In Days to Come From Advent to Epiphany

George H. Donigian Many people end their celebration of Christmas on December 25, but George Donigian reminds us that the celebration is just beginning.

Donigian offers meditations that begin with Advent and continue through the 12th night of Christmas—January 6 or Epiphany. The meditations, like the surprises of an Advent calendar, touch on many different subjects. Some topics included are “An Editor,” “A Counting Song,” “Prudence,” and “Chrismons.” Instead of putting away the decorations on December 25, celebrate all the days to come!

In Days to Come offers devotional meditations based on a merger of several Christmas traditions: Advent calendars, ancient Advent prayers known as the O Antiphons, the traditional celebration of Christmas on December 25, and the Armenian Orthodox celebration of Christmas on January 6. The meditations—four per week—count down from the first week of Advent to Epiphany. While each reading stands alone, the meditations are rooted in a weekly theme. Donigian’s writing style is conversational, and given his diverse interests, the conversation ranges widely.

KEY FEATURES • Each chapter has an introduction and four meditations • Meditations end with a prayer or reflection questions • Includes a brief Leader’s Guide to help small-group leaders facilitate conversations

TARGET AUDIENCE • Readers of daily devotions who want something more for the Advent and Christmas seasons • Sunday school classes and other small groups looking for an Advent study • Pastors and other church leaders seeking congregational resources for Advent

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George H. Donigian, a native of Hopewell, Virginia, graduated from Berry College and Emory University. Ordained in The United Methodist Church, Donigian served as a pastor in Virginia and now in South Carolina.

Between his pastoral appointments, he spent 21 years in Christian publishing at The United Methodist Publishing House and at Discipleship Ministries. He is married to the Rev. Mary Teasley, also a United Methodist pastor in South Carolina.

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A tangible way to stay centered on God during Advent.

Mandalas, Candles, and Prayer A Simply Centered Advent

Sharon Seyfarth Garner Slow down, simplify, and add a burst of color to your Advent this year.

The spiritual practice of coloring mandalas, lighting candles, and praying regularly can help us stay centered on God during this busy time of year.

This is more than a coloring book for adults. Mandalas, Candles, and Prayer is a prayer journal that weaves together the popular practice of coloring with four simple methods of contemplative prayer using the four candles of the Advent wreath.

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Sharon Seyfarth Garner is a United Methodist pastor, spiritual director, and retreat leader in Cleveland, Ohio. She is the founder and director of Belly of the Whale Spiritual Direction & Retreat Ministries. Sharon is the author of Praying with Mandalas: A Colorful, Contemplative Practice. She enjoys spending time with her family, kayaking, making pottery, singing loudly, and taking long walks with her husband and dog.

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Each chapter includes a short vignette, an explanation of the weekly theme and prayer method, a simple candle lighting liturgy, 7 mandalas for each week of contemplative coloring, and a closing prayer of illumination.

Let the candles light the way and calm your spirit. Color and pray. And you will experience the most meaningful gift of all—a peace that passes all understanding as you journey toward the manger.

KEY FEATURES • Vignettes related to holiday themes such as candles and lights; some are personal stories • 28 mandalas corresponding with the four weeks of Advent, plus one mandala for Christmas Day • Weekly themes based on candles of the Advent wreath: Hope, Love, Joy, Peace • Instructions for practicing four methods of prayer: Examen, intercessory prayer, lectio divina, centering prayer • Each chapter includes a simple liturgy that can be used by individuals or groups as they light candles on the Advent wreath TARGET AUDIENCE • Individuals and small groups who desire a simple, focused observation of Advent • Christians seeking creative ways to pray

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What difference does Christ’s resurrection make in our lives?

Easter Earthquake How Resurrection Shakes Our World

James A. Harnish Like a news reporter announcing breaking news, Matthew reports that on the first Easter morning, a great earthquake shook the earth. An angel descended from heaven, rolled back the stone from the entrance to Jesus’ tomb, and sat on the stone.

This is the second earthquake recorded in the Gospel of Matthew. The first one took place on Friday, when the noonday sky turned black and Jesus died. Matthew says, “The earth shook, and the rocks were split.”

In Easter Earthquake, James Harnish invites us to place Easter at the center of our Lenten journey. This study explores how Christ’s resurrection shakes some of our most basic assumptions about ourselves and God. Harnish reverses the usual focus of Lenten studies by starting at the empty tomb and seeing the entire journey in light of the Resurrection. This different perspective on the Passion can bring fresh energy into our lives as followers of Christ.

KEY FEATURES • Thoughtful reflection on scripture and practical application to daily life • Each week begins with reflection on one part of the Easter story, followed by daily meditations on the lectionary scripture readings for Lent • Includes questions for reflection and discussion • Recommends a hymn for the week as a tool for individual or group meditation • Offers church leaders a fresh way to connect with people during Lent

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James A. Harnish is a retired United Methodist pastor, writer, and teacher. He served in pastoral ministry for 43 years, including 22 years as senior pastor of Hyde Park United Methodist Church in Tampa, Florida. He and his wife, Martha Lea, live in Winter Haven, Florida. They have two daughters and five grandchildren.

TARGET AUDIENCE • Individuals and groups looking for a Lenten study • New followers of Christ

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Discover a spiritual practice that helps maintain spiritual, emotional, physical, and mental health.

For Sabbath’s Sake Embracing Your Need for Rest, Worship, and Community

J. Dana Trent Many Americans balk at the idea of setting aside an entire day for worship, rest, and time with those who matter most to them. In a culture of constant busyness, the lines have blurred between our work and personal lives, and we feel pulled in many directions.

Yet we long for more time well spent—unrushed time to be alone, relax with friends and family, and grow closer to God. Many of us seem to have forgotten the ancient spiritual practice that can help us regain balance in our lives: sabbath.

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J. Dana Trent is an adjunct faculty member at Wake Tech Community College, a speaker and workshop leader, and a grant writer. She is the author of Saffron Cross: The Unlikely Story of How a Christian Minister Married a Hindu Monk. Dana and her husband, Fred Eaker, live in Raleigh, North Carolina.

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For Sabbath’s Sake dives into the heart of what keeps us from sabbath.

With humor and honesty, J. Dana Trent reveals her own struggles with setting apart a day devoted to God, rest, and community. This book traces the rich history of sabbath, helps readers find ways to overcome barriers to this spiritual practice, and gives them achievable ways to build sabbath into their own lives.

KEY FEATURES • Interesting, relatable stories from the author’s life • Explanation of the scriptural, historical, and cultural basis for sabbath in the Judeo and Christian traditions • Explores three aspects of sabbath—rest, worship, and community— that are not understood or encouraged in an individualistic world • Practical advice for building sabbath into daily life TARGET AUDIENCE • Christian women ages 25-65 • Mainstream persons ages 25-65 who yearn for more time well spent

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What does it mean to be compassionate in the way Jesus was?

Living Compassion Loving Like Jesus

Andrew Dreitcer In the face of hurtful public discourse and worldwide conflict, many Christians long for lives of genuine compassion. After all, centuries of Christian teachings have insisted that compassion forms the heart of the Christian life.

But what does it mean to be compassionate in the way Jesus was?

What does wise, courageous, world-transforming compassion look like in daily life? And assuming we know what compassion is, how do we form true compassion in our lives? How do we become compassionate toward ourselves and others—even those we experience as enemies?

In response to such questions, psychologists, scientists, and religious teachers have begun offering meditative practices that cultivate compassion. But what about Christianity? Do compassion practices show up within the Christian spiritual path? It turns out they do. But the compassion-forming power of these practices has been largely overlooked—until now.

In Living Compassion, Andrew Dreitcer leads us through compassion practices that appear from the earliest centuries of Christianity right up to the present. Each practice, whether ancient or contemporary, moves us from understanding compassion to truly living compassion.

KEY FEATURES • Informs readers about the rich tradition and contemporary potential of compassion formation in Christianity • Teaches people how to cultivate compassion through Christianbased practices • Includes examples and stories to illustrate the process of compassion formation • Introduces the Compassion Practice to those who do not know about it TARGET AUDIENCE • Laypersons interested in spiritual life and spiritual practices, particularly compassion formation in Christianity • Anyone interested in becoming more compassionate • Seminary spiritual formation classes and the Academy for Spiritual Formation

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Andrew Dreitcer is a faculty member of Claremont School of Theology, where he is associate professor of spirituality, director of spiritual formation, and codirector of the Center for Engaged Compassion. He and his wife live in Oakland, California, and have two adult daughters.

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RELIGION / CHRISTIAN MINISTRY / DISCIPLESHIP NOW AVAILABLE | PAPERBACK

Believe, Follow, Grow, Transform: Covenant Discipleship for Children, Youth, and Adults.

Disciples Making Disciples Everyday Disciples A Guide for Covenant Discipleship Groups and Class Leaders

Covenant Discipleship with Youth

Growing Everyday Disciples

Steven W. Manskar

Chris Wilterdink

Disciples Making Disciples: Guide for Covenant Discipleship Groups and Class Leaders by Steven W. Manskar is for pastors, Covenant Discipleship group members, and class leaders.

It provides information needed to organize the ministry, form groups, write a covenant, lead a meeting, support groups so they help the congregation live out its mission of making disciples for the transformation of the world.

Everyday Disciples: Covenant Discipleship with Youth by Chris Wilterdink resources pastors, youth leaders, and youth groups with information and planning materials related to Covenant Discipleship and accountability practices. Covenant Discipleship encourages youth to connect with Christ and one another through mutual accountability. It also encourages a networked support structure for living in the world as Christ followers.

Melanie C. Gordon Susan Groseclose Gayle Quay

Steven W. Manskar is the Director of Wesleyan Leadership for the Discipleship Ministries of The United Methodist Church, Nashville, TN. An elder in the Minnesota Annual Conference, he was a pastor for ten years prior to coming to Nashville.

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Chris Wilterdink is Director of Young People’s Ministries Development. He has a BA in English Education, and an MS in Project Management, and over 15 years of local-church youth ministry experience.

Covenant Discipleship with Children

A formational resource that equips adults who serve in ministry with children ages 8-11 to guide children towards a mature faith through everyday acts of compassion, justice, worship, and devotion under the guidance of the Holy Spirit.

Melanie C. Gordon serves as Director of Ministry with Children and has authored a book and blogs regularly on issues that impact how children grow in faith at ministrywithchildren.com.

Susan Groseclose, is a published writer and editor for periodicals, books, and curriculum and an ordained deacon.

Gayle Quay has served as a full time ordained deacon and in all areas of Christian education and for the last 15 years solely in the area of children’s ministry.

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Thinking outside the box for 21st-century church growth.

Flipping Church How Successful Church Planters Are Turning Conventional Wisdom Upside-Down

Michael Baughman An innovative anthology written by successful church planters who have consistently and successfully challenged prevailing assumptions about healthy church development and "best practices." This informative book gives insight into how they broke the mold of church planting. Includes chapters written

by Michael Baughman, Olu Brown, Doug Cunningham, Kenda Creasy Dean, Mark DeVries, Amanda Garber, Trey Hall, Diane Harrison, Elaine Heath, Jerry Herships, Derek Jacobs, Matt Miofsky, David Rangel, and Owen Ross.

They have discovered a divine creative spark in breaking the rules of conventional church wisdom and cultivated a flame which they bring back into the church in this book.

Rev. Mike Baughman is founding pastor and Community Curator for Union, a Coffee House and Church located in Dallas, Texas. Just as a curator in a museum takes different works of art and puts them together in ways that strengthen the museum’s collection, Mike seeks to do the same work at Union–pulling together different parts of the community to strengthen Dallas.

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Reaching a wide variety of the community both outside and inside the church walls.

A Missionary Mindset What Church Leaders Need to Know to Reach Their Community—Lessons from E. Stanley Jones

Douglas Ruffle Doug Ruffle writes A Missionary Mindset using the timeless principles of E. Stanley Jones and transfers them for use today. Teaching us to approach the mission field as if we were from a different country and learning a new culture, a new way of communicating, and a new way to connect people to the good news of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Douglas Ruffle serves as associate executive director of Path 1, the Division of New Church Starts at Discipleship Ministries of The United Methodist Church. Before accepting this position in 2013, he served as coordinator of congregational development for the Greater New Jersey Annual Conference.

Ruffle is author of Roadmap to Renewal: Rediscovering the Church’s Mission, which has been translated into Spanish (Hoja de Ruta: La Iglesia Renueva Su Misión).

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Essential information on spirituality for the generation that has had an impact on every phase of life.

Boomer Spirituality Seven Values for the Second Half of Life

Craig Kennet Miller As the boomer generation navigates dramatic change as it ages, it will be informed by a unique spirituality that was forged in the tumultuous years of the 1960s and 1970s. If you are a boomer, you are sure to be reminded of the events and experiences that had an impact on you when you were young. If you are the child of a boomer, this book will help you understand why your parents act the way they do. If you are creating ministry for this generation, this will be your guide to the way boomers view the world and look toward the future.

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Craig Kennet Miller is the Director of Pastoral Leadership through Disciple-Making Faith Communities at Discipleship Ministries of The United Methodist Church in Nashville. He is an elder in the Cal-Pac Annual Conference and the author of numerous books including NextChurch.Now: Creating New Faith Communities and co-creator of the L3 Leadership Incubator and the Church Vitality Indicator (CVI).

Boomer Spirituality invites you to explore the values of brokenness, loneliness, rootlessness, and self-seeking that form the spiritual roots of boomers. Godliness, supernaturalism, and wholeness capture the boomers’ unique search for God as they look toward a future that is filled with peril and promise. As boomers age, these issues will not suddenly disappear. They will be amplified as younger generations wrestle with how to take care of an aging generation who wants to stay young, who relishes its freedom, and whose rampant individualism has led to broken relationships and diminished financial resources.

KEY FEATURES • Relatable personal stories • Easy to follow statistics and facts • Easy ways to tap into this wise population TARGET AUDIENCE • Church leaders working with spiritual but not religious adults • Adult ministry leaders • Senior care ministers

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Title

Title

Page

55

Living for Another

Abingdon Preaching Annual 2018, The

70

Lord Is Our Salvation, The

Abingdon Worship Annual 2018, The

70

Made for a Miracle

Abingond Old Testament Commentaries, Numbers

66

Make a Difference

Advent: A Calendar of Devotions 2017

42

Mandalas, Candles, and Prayer

African American Family Devotions

48

Maps 94

All Earth is Waiting

40

Mastery 12

Anchored In Attendance Supplies Being Brave

6 43 46, 47 23 100

5

Miracles of Jesus, The

25

93

Missionary Mindset, A

105

Mission-Minded Guide to Church and School Partnerships, The

56

Bookplates 92

My Testament Volume 2

81

Boomer Spirituality

11

NRSV Wesley Study Bible

106

36

Bulletins 86-90

Numbers

Calendar & Workbook for Church Leaders 2018

72

Ordinary Graces

CEB Large Print Thinline Flex Black

33

Other Side of Failure, The

58

CEB Storytellers Bible

16, 17

32

9

Pauses for Advent

98

Certificates 92

Pentateuch, The

66

Choose Wisely, Live Fully

Postcards 91

3

Christmas Gifts That Won’t Break

41

Prepare! 2017-2018

Christology in the New Testament

67

Renovate 19

Communion Supplies

Right Here Right Now

64

26

Sanctuary for Lent 2018, The

48

Deep Blue Bible Storybook

49

She 57

Deep Blue Bible Storybook: Miracles of Jesus

51

Spoken into Being

95

76-79

Strategic Thinking

59

Strength for Service to God and Country

12

Deep Blue Kids Bible Dictionary Deep Blue Toddler Bible Storybook Disciples Making Disciples

84, 85

71

Crash Test Dummies

Deep Blue Curriculum & Resources

50 51 104

Stride 63 Submerge Diver’s Log 2017-2018

81

Divergent Church

61

Teaching Outside the Box

55

Easter Earthquake

101

Telling the Old Testament Story

65

Everyday Disciples

104

The United Methodist Calendar & Workbook 2018 Personal Planner Edition

72

Fail 24

Top 10 United Methodist Beliefs

22

Faithful

Total Christmas Makeover

2, 38, 39

Fathom Bible Studies

74, 75

Five Means of Grace

8

Trust by Design

63

20

United Methodist Calendar & Workbook 2018, The

72

Flipping Church

105

United Methodist Music & Worship Planner 2017-2018, The

71

For Sabbath’s Sake

102

United Methodist Worship Planning Calendar 2018, The

72

Fresh Expressions

60

Upper Room Disciplines 2018, The

97

54

Venite: A Book of Daily Prayer

10

Way of Life

27

Garden Resonates, The Genesis to Revelation

28, 29

Godspeed 7

Weak Enough to Lead

Grounded in Prayer Participant and Leader Book

What Makes a Hero?

Growing Everyday Disciples

18 104

62 44, 45

Which Way, Lord?

96

In Days to Come

99

Will Willimon’s Lectionary Sermon Resource

John and the Johannine Letters

67

Woman Overwhelmed, A

54

Woman’s Place, A

21

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Wonderfully Made

80

Kaleidoscope Effect, The Living Compassion

110

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6 Secrets of Preteen Ministry

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Acevedo, Jorge Adams, Don

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Hoezee, Scott

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Howell, James C.

62

Armstrong, Jacob

19, 41

Hudson, Trevor

98

Bandy, Thomas G.

59

Huffman, Mark

80

Barker, Amy Valdez

63

Johnson, Kelly

11

Bartlett, David L.

67

Jones, E. Stanley

12

Baughman, Michael

105

Kelle, Brad E.

65

Beaty, Katelyn

21

LaGrone, Jessica

25

Benson, Robert

10

Lewis, Karoline M.

57

Beu, B.J.

70

Maddox, Micah

Blackwood, Kerry

51

Bone, David L.

71

Brinkerhoff, Kara

61

Brown, Teresa L. Fry

48

Burrows, Mark

81

Carter Jr., Kenneth H.

60

Chrostek, Scott

54

Common English Bible

32, 33, 36

Conway, Colleen M.

67

Cowart, Jennifer

18

Cowart, Jim

18

Davis, Talbot

26

Dawson, Katie Z.

40, 43, 48

DiMarco, Hayley

4

Donigian, George H.

99

Dreitcer, Andrew

103

Eustace, Tanya

80

Flannery, Sarah

55

Flegal, Daphan

41, 49, 51

Folmsbee, Chris

54

Fuquay, Rob

96

Gaines, Donna

3

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106

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41

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64

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66

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104

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44, 45

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105

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63

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61

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49, 51

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46, 47

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58

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66

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102

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60

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63

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23, 101

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18

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95

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12

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68, 69

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12

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104

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55

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