Living the Questions
Living the Questions

Author: David Felten

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2012-08-07

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 006220128X

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Ministers David Felten and Jeff Procter-Murphy, along with an all-star cast of Bible scholars and top church teachers, provide a primer to a church movement that encourages every Christian to “live the questions” instead of “forcing the answers.” Based on the bestselling DVD course of the same name, Living the Questions: The Wisdom of Progressive Christianity includes commentary from such bestselling authors as Diana Butler Bass, John Shelby Spong, Marcus Borg, John Dominic Crossan, Brian McLaren, and others. Tackling issues of faith and controversial subjects such as the church’s position on homosexuality, Living the Questions is the most comprehensive, indeed the only survey of progressive Christianity in existence today.

Major United Methodist Beliefs
Major United Methodist Beliefs

Author: Mack B. Stokes

Publisher:

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780687229246

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Now completely revised, this discussion of the basic beliefs of The United Methodist Church is written especially for laypersons and expresses in simple language what the people called United Methodists believe and how they interpret the Bible. Includes a Leader's Guide.

The Sunday Service of the Methodists in North America
The Sunday Service of the Methodists in North America

Author: John Wesley

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 1787-01-31

Total Pages: 498

ISBN-13: 9781546452171

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A careful student of church liturgies, John Wesley created this book for use in the Methodist churches of North America in order that the young movement would have access to reliable liturgy. This book is, in its own sense, a masterpiece of solid doctrine, Wesleyan inspiration, and liturgical practice. "The Sunday Service of Methodists in North America" has been available as a reprint of the original book for many years. However, this edition does what others have not done until now: Rather than photocopying the pages of the original book, we have painstakingly typed each word and character to match the original text, and formatted the book for contemporary usage (included an updated and easily readable font), while maintaining Wesley's own language, spelling, and grammar.

John
John

Author: Adam Hamilton

Publisher: Abingdon Press

Published: 2015-12-15

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 1501805347

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The Gospel of John is the most deeply spiritual of the four gospels. This writing is filled with rich images and profound truths, but John notes that his aim in writing the gospel is that readers will not only believe in Jesus Christ, but that they “may have life in his name.” Adults, youth, and children alike can experience a season of spiritual growth and life-changing renewal in Adam Hamilton’s six-week, DVD-series, John: The Gospel of Light and Life. You’ll follow the life, ministry, death, and resurrection of Jesus through the Gospel of John and understand the context of some of the best-known verses in the New Testament. Everything you need to lead small groups of all ages is available for this special study including the entire Gospel of John in the CEB translation printed in the book.

A Time to Grow
A Time to Grow

Author: Kara Eidson

Publisher: Presbyterian Publishing Corp

Published: 2022-01-11

Total Pages: 153

ISBN-13: 1646982274

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From Eden to Gethsemane to the garden in which Jesus was buried and raised, our story of faith wanders through much fertile soil. But in our current world of fast food and to-go meals, we often do not make time to explore where our food comes from and how we break bread together. Journeying through the season of Lent with this in mind, A Time to Grow encourages readers to slow down, move through the painstaking process of growth, and end together with great feasting and celebration of the resurrection. Themes of soil, water, light, time, fasting, feasting, and more guide the way from Ash Wednesday to Easter Sunday. Readers will explore the intricacies of how faith is required to produce food and how that faith can lead us all to feast at the table on Easter morning. Additional elements are included to enhance communal spiritual practice for small groups or the entire congregation during Lent. These elements include sermon prompts, liturgies with communal responses, altar art ideas for decorating worship spaces, and prompts for children's time in worship.

Pursuing Science, Finding Faith
Pursuing Science, Finding Faith

Author: R. Lawson Bryan

Publisher: First United Methodist Church Montgomery

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13: 9780984942602

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Dr. R. Lawson Bryan never lost his passion for science, even after he answered a calling to the ministry-a calling he discovered through his experience in a cancer research lab. For as long as he can remember he has been a person of both faith and science, and he finds a profound and beautiful complementarity in these two fields that we so often view as contradictory. In Pursuing Science, Finding Faith, Dr. Bryan shows us how faith and science can enable us to see the world with two eyes and gives us resources to continue developing our own understanding of their complementarity.