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Lutheran Study Bible, Second Edition (New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition) HARDCOVER

Lutheran Study Bible, Second Edition, features the NRSVue translation and introductions, notes, and articles written by more than seventy Lutheran pastors and teaching theologians.

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Lutheran Study Bible, Second Edition (New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition) PAPERBACK

Lutheran Study Bible, Second Edition, features the NRSVue translation and introductions, notes, and articles written by more than seventy Lutheran pastors and teaching theologians.

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Together by Grace: Bible Conversations ROMANS, Participant Guide

Written in the first century, Romans describes the good news or gospel that is God’s power of salvation for all humanity, for all creation, for all time. God, in Christ, is reclaiming the world from the power of sin, justifying and saving us from sin and death. Paul’s letter to the Romans declares that, in the end, absolutely nothing can separate us from God’s love!  

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Together by Grace: Bible Conversations ROMANS, Facilitator Guide

 Written in the first century, Romans describes the good news or gospel that is God’s power of salvation for all humanity, for all creation, for all time. God, in Christ, is reclaiming the world from the power of sin, justifying and saving us from sin and death. Paul’s letter to the Romans declares that, in the end, absolutely nothing can separate us from God’s love!  

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Together by Grace: Bible Conversations MATTHEW, Participant Guide

Written between 80 and 90 CE, Matthew records the life and ministry of Jesus several decades after his death and resurrection. Written by a Jewish follower of Jesus, for other Jewish followers, Matthew highlights certain details of Jesus’ life, often highlighting not only his Jewishness but also struggle of living under an oppressive empire that threatened his life more than once. Read through the book of Matthew while learning about the more human side of Jesus including his struggles, how he was challenged, confronted, and at times even changed. 

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Together by Grace: Bible Conversations MATTHEW, Facilitator Guide

Written between 80 and 90 CE, Matthew records the life and ministry of Jesus several decades after his death and resurrection. Written by a Jewish follower of Jesus, for other Jewish followers, Matthew highlights certain details of Jesus’ life, often highlighting not only his Jewishness but also struggle of living under an oppressive empire that threatened his life more than once. Read through the book of Matthew while learning about the more human side of Jesus including his struggles, how he was challenged, confronted, and at times even changed. 

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The Mindful Christian: Cultivating a Life of Intentionality, Openness, and Faith

The Mindful Christian offers an overview of mindfulness practice through the lens of faith, showing how the ancient healing practice of mindfulness can help us live more joyfully and wholeheartedly. It also includes easy-to-do practices, leaving us more compassionate, joyful, content, and at peace with ourselves--and with God. Now in paperback.

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Unscheduled Grace: 40 Reflections and Prayers for College Students

This collection of devotions and prayers accompanies college students through the many changes, challenges, and joys of college living.

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Remind Me Again Facilitator Guide: 41 Sessions Based on the Poetry of Joe Davis

Have meaningful discussions about Joe Davis’s Remind Me Again in small groups with your community. This facilitator guide provides 41 lessons, one for each poem. Designed to be flexible for short gathering times or hour-long sessions.

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Ordinary Blessings: Prayers, Poems, and Meditations for Everyday Life

The ordinary moments of life can be sacred, if we simply take a moment to notice. From gifted poet and empathetic pastor Meta Herrick Carlson, Ordinary Blessings is a collection of prayers, poems, and meditations offering a brief respite from the hectic, harried pace of our days. Pause, take a deep breath, and open these pages to find that you've been standing on holy ground all along.

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40-Day Journey with Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The 40-Day Journey with Dietrich Bonhoeffer introduces Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a well- known and courageous German theologian and Lutheran pastor, who during the...

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Welcoming and Affirming: A Guide to Supporting and Working with LGBTQ+ Christian Youth

A handbook for pastors, youth workers, church leaders, educators, and other adults in Christian settings, this guide provides answers to the most pressing questions about sexuality, gender, mental health, safe sex, and more. You'll walk away with a lot of insight, prepared to love, affirm, and accept the LGBTQ+ teens in your community the way God does--exactly as they are.

A companion book to Queerfully and Wonderfully Made: A Guide for LGBTQ+ Christian Teens.

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Love Makes Room: And Other Things I Learned When My Daughter Came Out

When Christian singer and speaker Staci Frenes learned her teenage daughter was gay, she found her dreams for the future--along with her lifelong faith--collapsing around her. Coming to terms with a new reality offered an invitation to make room for many things: the inevitability of uncertainty, hope in the midst of loss, awkward and tough conversations, an expanding faith, and a greater understanding of how people are more the same than different.

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Beside Still Waters: Favorite Prayers, Poems, and Scriptures to Calm the Soul

This small treasury is an essential source of wisdom, encouragement, and faith for every season.

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Expecting Wonder: The Transformative Experience of Becoming a Mother

Pregnancy isn't just a physical transformation. An emotional and spiritual journey is also taking place: you're becoming a mother.

In Expecting Wonder, Brittany L. Bergman explores this identity transformation with wit and grace, offering a heart-level guidebook for women in the season of pregnancy. By sharing her own journey of fear, change, and hope, Bergman offers readers a picture of the miracle that God is working not just in her body, but in her soul.

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Coming to God in the Stillness: Discovering the Power of Contemplative Prayer

In a simple style with very practical emphasis, Dutch Catholic spiritual leader Jim Borst outlines twelve stages of contemplative prayer, offering readers an easy-to-follow guide. Through this classic primer, discover the power of meeting God in the silence and stillness of contemplation.

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You Can Change: Stories from Angola Prison and the Psychology of Personal Transformation

Can people make positive changes in their lives that really last? To answer this question, Dr. Mark W. Baker wound up interviewing inmates in the largest maximum-security prison in the United States, located in Angola, Louisiana. Baker uses stories from inside Angola, along with his decades of experience as a clinical psychologist, to show all of us how to change our lives for the better--no matter who we are or what we've done.

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How to Human: An Incomplete Manual for Living in a Messed-Up World

How to Human is a tender and irreverent take on one of life's most fundamental questions: how to be a better human in a world dead set against it. Alice Connor offers sage, no-nonsense wisdom, encouraging you to embrace the chaos and see life as an experiment--not a quest for the right answers.

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Love Big: The Power of Revolutionary Relationships to Heal the World

Love has the power to transform us In the words of Mother Teresa, "We have forgotten that we belong to each other." This lapse in...

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Jesus Wept: When Faith and Depression Meet

Jesus Wept, Barbara C. Crafton?s best-selling and brilliant reflection on faith and depression, is now released in its tenth-anniversary edition. Religious belief can make depression...

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