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  • Process Theology and Celtic Wisdom

    Process Theology and Celtic Wisdom

    The Christian life is a holy adventure.

    Bruce Epperly has opened up that adventure to everyone in his previous books Process Theology, Process Spirituality, and Process and Ministry. Now he connects this adventure to ancient roots in Celtic spirituality.

    This book takes a meditative, experiential approach to the complex, often difficult topic of process theology and brings it to life for everyday spiritual practice, while rooting it in Celtic wisdom. This is not the place for rigid doctrine and adherence to a set of commands. Instead, Epperly hears God’s call to embrace a God who is available to us, a call to adventure, and the hope for new spiritual vistas. This spiritual journey will resonate in how we live and build community.

    This is a short volume, designed for anyone to read. It is suitable for individual or group study. It aims to make both process theology and Celtic wisdom available to everyone.

  • Process Theology and Celtic Wisdom (Office Stock)

    Process Theology and Celtic Wisdom (Office Stock)

    The Christian life is a holy adventure.

    Bruce Epperly has opened up that adventure to everyone in his previous books Process Theology, Process Spirituality, and Process and Ministry. Now he connects this adventure to ancient roots in Celtic spirituality.

    This book takes a meditative, experiential approach to the complex, often difficult topic of process theology and brings it to life for everyday spiritual practice, while rooting it in Celtic wisdom. This is not the place for rigid doctrine and adherence to a set of commands. Instead, Epperly hears God’s call to embrace a God who is available to us, a call to adventure, and the hope for new spiritual vistas. This spiritual journey will resonate in how we live and build community.

    This is a short volume, designed for anyone to read. It is suitable for individual or group study. It aims to make both process theology and Celtic wisdom available to everyone.

  • Process Theology

    Process Theology

    Process theology is considered a very complex and difficult to understand system. Is it possible to get a basic grasp of what it is and how it impacts our lives and service to others?

    In this brief, lively, and engaging book, Dr. Bruce Epperly untangles the difficult concepts of process theology and shows how we can envision a God who is in relation to us throughout our lives here and in the next world. He believes that “God is present at the moment of our conception, guides us through the adventures of this lifetime, urging us to rejoice in embodiment and bring healing to our world, and upon our final earthly breath receives us with open arms with visions of future adventures in communion with God and our fellow creatures.”

    Not only is this theology easy to understand, but it also challenges us to live out God’s adventure in with joy, sharing God’s life with all of God’s creatures.

    This book is an excellent introduction to process theology, useful for small groups or individual study, and includes a list of resources for further study.

  • Reflections on Scripture, Dandelions, and Sparrows (Devotional Edition)

    Reflections on Scripture, Dandelions, and Sparrows (Devotional Edition)

    The words of Scripture are both inspired and inspiring. Too often, as we defend the former, we forget the latter. We read Scripture to absorb facts, settle doctrinal disputes, and organize church life.

    In Reflections on Scripture, Dandelions, and Sparrows, Wanda Thompson brings the power of photography, art, and poetry to our experience of Scripture, and through it, the God of Scripture. Using stunning photography, graphite drawings, and watercolors, she brings us into closer touch with the God whose eye is on the sparrow, who created dandelions, and who wants to be in fellowship with us.

    This book is a beautiful, and yes, a fun experience. At the same time, it will lead to deeper reflection on our Creator. You’ll find yourself coming back to these images and the verses that accompany them again and again.

    Note on Editions

    This Devotional Edition is small (5.5″ x 8.5″ rather than 8.5″ x 11″), and is printed in full color using a standard color, print-on-demand process. It is for those who would like to have an accessible edition for devotional use.

    The Library Edition is case laminate (hardcover) and is 8.5″ x 11″ pages and printed with premium color. Both editions can be personalized if you want to add a note.

    The preview is taken from the devotional edition.

  • Reframing a Relevant Faith

    Reframing a Relevant Faith

    Many people expect faith to be inflexible and unchanging. It is relevant because it always has been, at least to them. To admit change is to bring on the end of faith and all of its benefits. Others believe that a relevant faith is by nature shallow and unrooted. Author and educator Drew Smith disagrees. He believes that it is both possible and necessary to reframe faith in such a way that it is relevant to our present society. At the same time, this reframed faith is still a historic faith. It is definitely not shallow and in fact is rooted deeply in the person and teaching of Jesus. Chapters look at why a faith should be progressive, how it can be rooted in the scriptures, the importance of the person of Jesus, and what this means for the mission of the church. Each chapter includes questions for reflection and discussion, making it easy to use this guide in group study. Those who are looking for an alternative to an anti-intellectual and narrow Christianity will find in this book an essential and friendly guide.

  • Religion and Science

    Religion and Science

    Can faith and science work together? How?

    Science and religion have done most to shape our lives in the modern West. At first it might seem there is little relationship between them and none that could ever be close. In Religion and Science: An Exploration, the author indicates in a sensible and uncomplicated manner that there is a working relationship but that it is something that must be searched for if it is to be achieved. The result is a book that deals with a most importat issue with impartiality.

    This book is primarily aimed at those who want to integrate their understanding of science with their understanding of faith.

  • Rendering Unto Caesar

    Rendering Unto Caesar

    “What does it mean to render to Caesar what is his and render to God what is His? How a believer understands this text will, to a large degree, determine how they will approach matters of nationalism and politics as they follow Jesus.” – Dr Chris Surber Matthew 22:15-22 is a passage usually seen as essentially about paying taxes. Author Chris Surber takes us deeper into Jesus’ meaning as he includes the historical context and the crowd to whom Jesus was speaking.

  • Researching Abroad

    Researching Abroad

    The plane has landed, the boxes are unpacked, and you’re finally doing what you prepared for years to do, teach in a distant classroom. This preparation- aside from a decade or more of post high school education-included conferences, extensive research, advice from seasoned travelers, interviews, and hours of family discussions and prayers. One notable omission was likely made in your preparation, an omission that may go unnoticed until sitting at your new desk five thousand miles from home: practical advice on how to conduct research abroad. This brief, encouraging, and easy-to-read book provides advice, with down-to-earth tips and tools, for professors in the arts and humanities who aspire to research and write while living internationally.

  • Rite of Passage for the Home and Church

    Rite of Passage for the Home and Church

    Most of us today would agree that the children of this new millennium are growing up in a world that is filled with pitfalls and treacherous paths that previous generations have not had to negotiate. How do we prepare these children to not only survive these paths but be victorious?

    Father, former youth pastor, and now church pastor, Kevin Brown shares the vision he has been given for teaching about and expecting from our children an involved, discipled way of life. He believes “The Christian faith depends upon the transfer of the gospel from one generation to the next.” Rite of Passage in the Home and Church describes, not a “program,” but instead a family’s commitment to making a change in priorities that will impact them for generations to come.

    Pastor Kevin says, “The family has been fractured and splintered by the culture and this segregation of family by age has been brought to the church.” At his home church, the family worships together. There is no children’s church, no youth services…just the family of God worshiping together as indicated in Scripture. Kevin believes the only hope for our culture is the church and the only hope for the church is the restoration of the family.

    This book will be of value to you individually, but is designed for use in a church community for best results.

  • Running My Race

    Running My Race

    This book is the story of my existence — a meandering spiritual voyage through the beautiful loud crazy called life. — Dr. David Alan Black

    With his usual frank but gentleman-farmer honesty, Dave Black shares his reflections on his life, as he has shared it with hundreds every day through daveblackonline. Since November 2013 when his beloved Becky Lynn, wife of 37 years, went on to Heaven, Dave has been traveling a journey of grief but also a time of reflection with the immediate question of “What’s next?”

    What does it mean to be running 5K races and climbing mountains in Europe? What do you do when the silence is deafening at 3 a.m. and you can’t sleep? What has the professor learned in 40 years of teaching?

    These and other questions are addressed and dissected and shared as Dave gets on with living and learning more in this loud crazy called life.

  • Ruth and Esther

    Ruth and Esther

    How does one read the literature of a patriarchal society in a 21st century context? Where can one find good role models for girls and women in the Bible?

    All too often these questions are answered by presenting the answers given by patriarchal society and not by looking for liberating, examples. It is all too easy to let God’s message of setting the captives free ring forth, but directed to a limited audience. But Ruth and Esther provide strong counter-examples of women who had to struggle against the cultural norms in order to live and to do great things for their people. All too often these women are excluded from our studies or when included are portrayed as subordinate people.

    Dr. Bruce Epperly, pastor, father, grandfather, and theology sees them as women of agency and adventure, resourceful and proactive women in patriarchal cultures. But despite being subject to the apparently arbitrary decisions of males with authority, both women were agents in their destiny fulfilling their vocations in their particular culture. If you are a Christian pastor or teacher, you owe it to those in your circle of influence to let them experience these two Bible books in new ways, to see them as liberating documents that let everyone know that God doesn’t exclude them. From these women of agency and adventure, those who find themselves excluded from power can find encouragement to stand up and be the persons of agency and adventure that God created them to be, no matter what restrictions others have placed upon them.

    This book is for the women in the church who feel that their gifts are not appreciated and used, and for those in the church who tend to overlook the gifts and leadership abilities of women.

  • Salvation

    Salvation

    A grandmother who loves spending time with her grandchildren and wants to share that God is Creator and Father and loves them. Sound familiar?

    Join Kamden as he learns about God, not just facts, but through the testimony of his life and his grandmother’s.

     

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