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  • Love in a Time of Crisis and Pandemic

    Love in a Time of Crisis and Pandemic

    How can you talk positively with your children or grandchildren about living in a time of crisis such as a pandemic?

    Our lives have been disrupted in so many ways, whether through economic hardship, such as lost jobs or closed businesses, or emotional hardship resulting from the lockdown. For many, it has been much worse. Your loved one may be dying in a hospital and you can’t even visit.

    Adults have a difficult enough time sorting through this situation. What about our children? How do we talk to them and help them learn and grow, even as the world around them is deeply troubled?

    Dr. Bruce Epperly has authored two previous books about this time of Pandemic: Faith in a Time of Pandemic, and Hope after Pandemic. In those books, he addressed letting our faith guide us through and motivate us to work for a better world following this difficult time. Now, in Love in a Time of Crisis and Pandemic, he offers words that can be shared with our children, words of faith, hope, and yes, of love.

    This book will help you talk to your children, but it does so in a way that will help you as well. What can you do, what can you think about, and how can you live, so as to make the best of your current situation, no matter what that is?

    This book is for everyone who needs courage to live in this time and to learn from it as a time of holy adventure.

  • Love Me to Life

    Love Me to Life

    An unacknowledged crisis haunts the church as we fail to deal with the causes and aftermath of suicide and the stigma society often places on victims and their loved ones. How can we stand up for life and love these people as the Body of Christ?

    In Love Me to Life, Veronica Sites responds from personal experience, serious research and training, and a biblical perspective. Combining these crucial elements, she presents a plan for responding with the gospel message as we live out the message of Jesus in our churches.

    Crucial to this plan is involving leaders, but also in educating and empowering all members to understand and positively impact those in need of support. In support of this, she provides detailed information on the situation as we find it in most churches. She then looks at scripture for guidance in how we should deal with those who most need our support and sometimes active intervention.

    Finally, she looks at how the church can follow up and build the lives and ministries of the church to those in need.

    This book is filled with practical experience, detailed data, and scriptural support. It can provide the basis for a church to plan how they will acknowledge and respond to the suicide crisis. Individuals and small groups can benefit greatly as well, but we recommend studying this issue at the congregational level so that everyone is prepared to love their neighbors — whether down the pew or down the street — into a life of restoration and identity in Christ and not identified by a tragic event.

    Thus, this book is for everyone.

    For an extract from the appendix, see Love Me to Life – Appendix IV.

  • Meditations on According to John (Telugu Edition)

    Meditations on According to John (Telugu Edition)

    The gospel of John, titled simply “According to John” in ancient manuscripts contains some of the simplest language in the New Testament.

    The Greek of this book is so simple that it is often used in teaching beginning students to read New Testament Greek. Pastors and teachers often recommend the book as a good starting point for new Christians reading the Bible for the first time. But the simple vocabulary and structure belies an extraordinary spiritual depth.

    While there are lessons to be learned from an initial surface reading, diligent seekers will find incredible depths. Understanding these deeper lessons requires one to see the book as a whole and understand the intricate pattern of connections between the various parts. Verse-by-verse and even passage-by-passage study can be misleading.

    New Testament scholar Herold Weiss spent a considerable amount of time searching for the best way to open up the treasures of this gospel to non-scholars and settled on a series of meditations on various phrases or events related in the book. In each meditation he ties the specific theme to related passages and imagery throughout the gospel.

    His masterful presentation will open your eyes and mind to new insights into the fourth gospel, early Christianity, and its application to 21st century Christianity.

  • Messy Incarnation

    Messy Incarnation

    The incarnation is a central Christian doctrine. Many books have been dedicated to attempting to understand its mystery and how it fits with the rest of Christian theology. But what about the way this doctrine can and should impact the way we live?

    Process theologian and pastor Bruce Epperly addresses this topic in this easy-to-read but challenging book. Starting with a look forward in Advent and moving through the seasons of the Christian year and indeed of life, he examines different elements of both the story and the doctrine. From expectation we move through the various “messy” ways in which God acts, Christmas, Epiphany, Pentecost, and the emerging kingdom of Christ.

    This book is theology where it meets practice, reflection put into practical action, and ethics drawn from the deepest wells of the Christ story. It will drive you deeper into scripture and spiritual growth from a variety of perspectives and sources, reflecting the chasms crossed in the one very messy incarnation.

  • Miss Daisy Dupree and Her Afternoon Tea

    Miss Daisy Dupree and Her Afternoon Tea

    A story full of warmth, wonder, heart, and whimsy, Miss Daisy Dupree and Her Afternoon Tea invites readers, young and old, to delight not only in the beauty around us, but also in the joy that comes from friendship and helping others!

    You’ll be captivated by the stunning illustrations, a collaboration between two gifted artists with a special connection to the author. A dearest friend, Ellen Holland, and the author’s son, Noah Leal, worked together to bring Miss Daisy’s enchanting world to life. Families will fall in love with each charming character, such as Mr. Pepper, a top hat-wearing squirrel, or young Jack, a hedgehog with blackberry juice dripping down his face (to name a few). These and more were hand-painted using vibrant watercolors in a nostalgic artistic style, along with the whimsical wooded scenes, mushrooms, and willow trees, making this fantastic children’s book a work of art and an instant classic.

    Miss Daisy will warm hearts everywhere, opening eyes as hers to the beauty and wonder of the world. Most of all, she’ll encourage readers to see that the very best, most beautiful moments come from sharing and caring for one another.

  • Naomi, the Rabbi’s Wife

    Naomi, the Rabbi’s Wife

    He now advanced closer, his finger pointing at her. “I married a Jew, I expected she would have stayed a Jew.”

    Naomi’s acting career was soaring—until she became pregnant. Her boyfriend told her, “You know what to do—think about your career.” Yet after Naomi complied with his wishes, she found her career was the last thing she could think about.

    Can a moment in time cause a human soul to collapse? A choice was made. A wound etched into the heart. What was promised as the way to be free was a lie she chose to believe. Then the unexpected happens-love-in the form of Rabbi Dan. They call it b’sheirt, the fingerprints of divine providence. Now that Naomi has found true love, will her secret be safe? Will her recurring nightmares finally cease? And when she finds true forgiveness, what will be the cost?

    Walk with Naomi through the world of theatre, life as a rabbi’s wife, and ultimately to Jerusalem’s Wailing Wall.

  • Oh Sweet Minnie

    Oh Sweet Minnie

    The Lord speaks to us in many ways, and as Linda has begun a new chapter in her life, God is using a seven-pound Morkie to show her that He is with her in this new journey, just like He has always been.

    This book is full of lessons and blessings that God has given Linda through her sweet Minnie. Lessons on the gifts from God, how the enemy is a thief, seeing things through God’s perspective, how God trains us in righteousness, how God cares for all our needs, the importance of staying close to God, how God wants to fight our battles, and many more topics. These truths are good reminders for the seasoned believers and basic truths of our Christian faith for those just starting their journey with God. Stories about Linda’s Morkie lead us into these truths and promises of God. Enjoy drawing closer to God as you read and apply these truths to your own life.

    This is an easy-to-read devotional book to light up your spiritual life and bring practical insights for your daily walk.

  • Overcoming Sermon Block

    Overcoming Sermon Block

    When called on to preach, whether you are a pastor or lay preacher, do you sometimes find yourself blocked?

    “Writer’s block is a common complaint from many authors. They reach a point sometimes when they simply cannot produce anything worth reading. Preachers often encounter this same kind of roadblock when they attempt to prepare sermons.”- William Powell Tuck

    With this opening sentence, Dr. Tuck brings his many years of experience as professor and pastor and freely gives some “nuts and bolts” of sermon preparation and “pots and pans” essential for effective preaching.

    This book is not about the philosophy or theology of preaching but about preparing for, writing, and preaching a sermon. While the reader may quickly find a solution to this week’s sermon, Dr. Tuck also gives ideas and plans for long-term preparation to open a new pathway, moving sermons from a burden to a blessing for the writer as well as the intended listener.

    Anyone called to preach can benefit from reading this book.

  • Piglet’s Process

    Piglet’s Process

    Does theology have to be dry and boring in order to be serious? Not at all!

    The prophet Isaiah once said, “a little child will lead them.” But, what about a character from Winnie the Pooh? Can anxious, yet adventurous, Piglet help us understand our relationship with God and one another?

    Theology is serious business. So serious that it can’t be left solely to adults! Bruce Epperly’s imaginative conversations with Piglet explore the contours of theological reflection from the perspective of Process Theology. Process Theology is often seen as far too complicated for adults to understand and impossible to teach or preach to laypeople. In this text, an experienced pastor and professor and a beloved character from the Winnie the Pooh stories bring Process Theology to life and explore themes such as beauty, spirituality, adventure, friendship, healing, and God’s presence in our lives. In the spirit of Jesus’ parables, Piglet’s Process will inspire your imagination and creativity and invite you on a never-ending spiritual journey with a theologian, stuffed animal, and the healer from Nazareth as your companions.

    This is a book to read for fun and study seriously. It’s theology for everyone.


     


  • Prayer Scriptures for Prayer Warriors (2nd Edition)

    Prayer Scriptures for Prayer Warriors (2nd Edition)

    How can you learn to pray the scriptures?

    Praying from the word of God is a powerful way to pray, but how can you learn to do it? This booklet provides some scriptures and prayer suggestions to help you get started, along with some pointers to resources to help you learn more about prayer and communion with God.

    This new, second edition is expanded to include the tract “Self Defense for Prayer Warriors,” which provides some suggestions for prayer warriors to keep from getting worn out and discouraged.

    This booklet is useful for individual study, but more so to a prayer group as a starting point to grow in scriptural prayer.

  • Process Theology and Biblical Interpretation

    Process Theology and Biblical Interpretation

    Can one profitably read scripture from a relational or process point of view? Can one do so without discarding those portions of scripture that on first read seem problematic to a modern-day reader?

    Ronald L. Farmer, a minister and New Testament scholar, thinks it is possible and can, in fact, be a liberating and stimulating experience. His Beyond the Impasse: The Promise of a Process Hermeneutic (Mercer UP, 1997) was the first book-length work describing this exciting interpretative perspective. He then wrote a commentary on the book of Revelation (Chalice Commentaries for Today, 2005), a book that is one of the most challenging for modern interpreters, and has been problematic throughout Christian history.

    In the present book, Farmer explores the way in which we read scripture and asks us to be conscious of what we bring to the table and the ways in which we use it. He then examines various interpretive tools and approaches to help us understand the ways of thinking that contributed to their development. Finally, he uses Revelation 4 & 5 to illustrate the impact of how rethinking our approach to scripture can contribute to us receiving and applying scripture in new and dynamic ways.

    This book does not propose new interpretative tools for Bible study but rather focuses on a process perspective that enables us to gain new insights from the tools that have been developed over the centuries. This book will be valuable to anyone who wants to study the Bible while being conscious of one’s own (and others’) biases and presuppositions.

  • Process Theology and Healing

    Process Theology and Healing

    Religious and spiritual healing practices are often seen as a show in which a healer claims to physically cure someone through actions or words. These healings mostly fail.

    In this booklet, the third of three that integrate process theology with contemporary spiritual life and activity, Bruce Epperly presents a very different view of healing. He calls for a healing ministry, but one that finds God in all things and uses scientific medicine, healing ritual practices, and prayer in concert, sometimes for spiritual healing but also for a way to live out the challenge of illness, to face death with dignity, and yes, sometimes for a cure that appears miraculous. He applies these healing practices not just to human beings, but to all life and to the planet we live on. Healing is not the province of a few, calling on supernatural forces. Rather, it is a cooperation with the energies God has placed in the universe. Rather than supernatural it is more natural than anything.

    Epperly is a specialist in bringing difficult concepts to life for everyone. He combines that skill with the short format of the Topical Line Drives series to present a call for all of us to be healed and to become healers as part of God’s call to life and light.

    This book may well be the call you need to hear to find wholeness, Shalom, in your life and your relationships to others and this world.

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