In this exciting addition to Kay Arthur and Janna Arndt's Discover 4 Yourself® Inductive Bible Studies for Kids series characters Max, Molly, and Sam (the great detective beagle) help young faith adventurers explore the feats and faith of three fascinating men from the Bible: Isaac, Jacob, and Esau. This outdoor adventure through imagined mountain treks and whitewater rides, reveals how children of God are outfitted with all the gear they need for their amazing trip through life. All along, they discover courage, forgiveness, loyalty, and how to trust God even when you face disappointment. Excellent stories, engaging activities, and puzzles create a study of godly character ideal for Sunday school classes, Bible studies, and independent study. For ages 8-12.
Bible study is serious fun! The Discover 4 Yourself(r) Inductive Bible Studies for Kids help you find out for yourself what the Bible is all about - and give you exciting ways to do it! These hands-on books help teach the basic skills of Bible study for a lifetime of discovering God's Word. Did You Know That God Has A Plan For Your Life? Join Max, Molly, and Sam (the great detective beagle) for an outdoor adventure and a faith expedition. Rappelling down rocks, rushing through white water, and hiking into the wilderness are no problem when you are outfitted with the gear God gives you for the journey, including your map - the Bible. Through puzzles, games, and other activities, God's plan will unfold as you find the answers to these questions: HOW does God keep His promises? WHEN can asking for help keep you on the right track? HOW do Jacob and Esau get along? Are they friends, or is there "brother trouble"? WHAT important lessons do you learn about anger, holding a grudge, and forgiveness? HOW can you trust God's choice even when you face struggles and disappointments? Take a leap of faith and discover what it means to trust God--even during the most extreme life adventures. Compelling stories, engaging activities, and fun puzzles create a study ideal for Sunday school classes, homeschools, and independent study! NEW! Teacher Guides The Discover 4 Yourself(r) Teacher Guides have been developed by collegiate teacher educator, Elizabeth A. McAllister, Ed. D., and Janna Arndt for use by teachers in both classrooms and home school. The Teacher Guides provide invaluable tools to help you maximize the time you invest teaching a Discover 4 Yourself(r) Bible study. The Teacher's Guide will show you how to clearly, carefully, and sensitively lead your students through inductive Bible study, giving them a greater understanding of God and His ways coupled with practical ways to live out what they are learning. Teaching strategies are designed to enhance memory, creativity, and reasoning skills and to ignite young imaginations with the fun and rewards found only in studying God's Word. FEATURES include: Teacher s Edition with answers to all exercises in student workbooks. Creative ways to handle different learning abilities. Memory enhancement: reading out loud, drawing pictures, creating and marking key words, and making charts, lists, and timelines. Guided daily instructions including topic introductions and suggestions for: key word markings (symbols and colors), leading discussions, and playing games. Weekly Quizzes and Final Exam. Answer Keys for all student workbook questions, crossword puzzles, mazes, weekly quizzes, and final exa
This exciting addition to Kay Arthur's and Janna Arndt's Discover 4 Yourself Inductive Bible Studies series invites children to solve great mysteries about the future using the inductive study method and the power of a fun story. Young explorers can join the dynamic Bible detective team of Max, Molly, and Sam—the amazing beagle—for an adventure they will never forget. Through Bible word studies, activities, and clever investigation, kids will discover the secrets of Revelation's first 7 chapters including: God's special messages to the churches why the future is exciting how their faith today relates to end times Excellent stories and lots of action create a child-friendly study of end times ideal for Sunday school classes, Bible studies, and independent study.
Whether you're a longtime outdoorsperson looking to get your kids involved in the activities you loved B.C. (Before Children), or have no outdoor experience but want to enjoy a new sport alongside your children, Extreme Kids will take the whole family on an adventure. Learn the basics of outdoor sports, some extreme (whitewater rafting, kiteboarding, backcountry skiing), and some less so (day hiking, peak bagging, flatwater canoeing), and how to share them with your kids. The book also includes practical and philosophical reasons for family outdoor adventuring. It's never too early to hit the trail (or the river, or the vertical wall) with your kids--each section has an easier version of an extreme sport to get the family's feet wet before diving in.
Many Christians in the West sense that traditional Christian teaching is losing traction in the public square. What does faithful Christian witness look like in a post-Christian culture? Paul Williams, the CEO of one of the world's largest and oldest Bible societies, interprets the dissonance Christians often experience while trying to live out their faith in the 21st century. He provides constructive tools to help readers understand culture in myriad contexts and offer a missional response. Williams calls for a truly missional understanding of post-Christendom Christianity whereby local churches are reimagined as embassies of the kingdom of God and Christians serve as ambassadors in all spheres of life and work. This book invites readers to embrace the language of exile and imagine a hopeful mission of the scattered and gathered church in the post-Christian West. It shows a clear pathway for fruitful missional engagement for the whole people of God, helping Christians make sense of the world in which they live, more authentically integrate faith with everyday life, and orient all of their efforts within God's missional purpose for the world.
Real-life psychic, near-death, and paranormal experiences are combined with cutting-edge science and vivid adventure stories in this energetic look at why extreme athletes and mountaineers take the risks that allow them to push the limits of consciousness, and what they encounter there. In the life-or-death world of extreme adventure sports, there is one thing that athletes often keep quiet about: the “forbidden” territory of paranormal experiences. Ranging from fleeting moments of transcendence to full-blown encounters with ghosts and everything in between—visions, near-death experiences, psychic communication—many extreme athletes have experienced these moments of connection with the beyond, but have been reluctant to talk about them. In Explorers of the Infinite, award-winning outdoors journalist and lifelong adventure sports devotee Maria Coffey probes the mystical and paranormal experiences of mountaineers, snowboarders, surfers, and more. She reviews cutting-edge science, and consults the history of philosophy and spirituality to answer the question: Could the state of intense “aliveness” that is the allure of extreme sports for so many actually be a route to a connection with the beyond? Coffey investigates the scientific explanations for mystical phenomena, ranging from simple explanations to theories from consciousness studies and quantum physics, and leaves us wondering where science ends and spirituality begins. An energetic, you-are-there look at the spiritual lives of extreme athletes, Explorers of the Infinite asks why extreme athletes take the risks that allow them to push the limits of consciousness, what they encounter there, and what we can learn from them.
Noted Bible teachers Kay Arthur and Janna Arndt add an exciting adventure book to the Discover 4 Yourself® Inductive Bible Studies for Kids series (more than 560,000 copies sold)! This brand-new interactive study helps kids understand how much God loves them and what His amazing plans are for them. They’ll discover the extent and significance of God’s covenant with mankind by… breaking codes doing crosswords solving mazes drawing action scenes filling in story blanks The Discover 4 Yourself® Bible study series engages kids 8 to 12 and challenges them to get to know God’s Word better in fun and meaningful ways.
"On every continent, in every nation, God is at work in and through the lives of believers. From the streets of Amsterdam to remote Pacific islands to the jungles of Ecuador and beyond, each international adventure that emerges is a dramatic episode that could be directed only by the hand of God. Stories from the Philippines bring a challenge to a deeper, tested faith that will change believers' lives and the lives of those they encounter.
God’s Amazing Creation takes kids through the first five chapters of Genesis, focusing on the theme of creation in chapters one and two. Young scholars will put on their archaeologist hats to help the book’s main characters—inductive detectives Max and Molly—dig up the truth about how the world began. Kids will discover who the world’s creator is, how the heavens and earth were formed, what exactly happened in the beginning, and how the earth, the sea, people, and animals came into existence. Great fun and wonderful Bible truths for kids with an insatiable appetite for the “whys” of life!
Join Adam and Christine Jeske as they mine their experience, from riding motorcycles in Africa to dicing celery in Wisconsin, in search of a God who is always present and who is charging every moment with potential. You'll discover the amazing things God is doing in the shadows of even the most ordinary day.
