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Becoming The Pastors Wife
$24.99

As a pastor’s wife for twenty-five years, Beth Allison Barr has lived with assumptions about what she should do and who she should be.

In Becoming the Pastor’s Wife, Barr draws on that experience and her academic expertise to trace the history of the role of the pastor’s wife, showing how it both helped and hurt women in conservative Protestant traditions. While they gained an important leadership role, it came at a deep cost: losing independent church leadership opportunities that existed throughout most of church history and strengthening a gender hierarchy that prioritized male careers.

Barr examines the connection between the decline of female ordination and the rise of the role of pastor’s wife in the evangelical church, tracing its patterns in the larger history (ancient, medieval, Reformation, and modern) of Christian women’s leadership. By expertly blending historical and personal narrative, she equips pastors’ wives to better advocate for themselves while helping the church understand the origins of the role as well as the historical reality of ordained women.

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Understanding Trauma : A Biblical Introduction For Church Care
$16.99

Many of us long to serve and be there for those who are suffering from trauma, but we don’t know how to do so in a way that is caring and helpful.

This book enables Christians, and especially pastors, elders and ministry leaders, to understand what trauma is, and how it affects people, including their experience of church, so that we can lovingly support those who are suffering from it.

Author Steve Midgley trained as a psychiatrist before being ordained, served as Vicar of Christ Church Cambridge for 18 years and is now the Executive Director of Biblical Counselling UK. He writes with wisdom and compassion to summarize current understanding in this area, gives a biblical perspective, and makes lots of practical suggestions about how churches can be sensitive to, and be there for, those who have experienced trauma.

This book will help whole church communities to help and care for those who are struggling with trauma.

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AI Shepherds And Electric Sheep
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Since ChatGPT burst into the public consciousness in 2022, AI has thoroughly infiltrated everyday life. Machines can now take on work once thought to be solely the domain of human beings–from writing college essays to composing worship music. How should Christians respond to this brave new technology?

In this accessible introduction to AI, Sean O’Callaghan and Paul Hoffman explore its social and ethical impacts for ministry and teaching. The authors shed light on the biblical vision for human flourishing–and on how AI can help or hinder that flourishing. Avoiding both alarmism and uncritical acceptance, O’Callaghan and Hoffman offer resources and practical tools for using AI in our classrooms and congregations.

AI can write a generic three-point sermon, but it cannot replace an authentic encounter between humans and the divine. In a time of cultural confusion, O’Callaghan and Hoffman encourage readers to embrace the clarity found in the gospel.

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Heart Of The Preacher
$18.99

“Keep a close watch on yourself and on the teaching.” –1 Timothy 4:16

*Understand the greatest threats to your preaching
*Identify common tests of your character
*Learn gospel-based habits that guard your heart

Preachers cannot separate themselves from their preaching. Every time a preacher proclaims the word, something of themselves is also delivered to the congregation–for better or worse.

In The Heart of the Preacher, Rick Reed draws from over three decades of preaching experience to emphasize how preachers must prepare their hearts before they are ready to preach. Sermon preparation involves more than mere technical steps. Preachers are people. Exhaustion, discouragement, insecurity, and more threaten a preacher’s character, and thus their preaching. Reed equips pastors with practices and habits to face these threats. Preachers must guard their lives so that their teaching will be accompanied by the fruit of the Spirit.

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Gathered For Good
$17.99

We live in a season when church attendance is still building back to what it was before the pandemic. Many Christians have been separated from their church communities. How do we resume and re-prioritize church life and join back together? Why do we even need to-especially when online church fits so neatly around our schedules? Gathered for Good addresses this felt need with empathy and authority and encourage believers to commit to their local church community as a way to deepen their spiritual growth and invest in treasure that will last.

Jonathan Griffiths offers a path that calls Christians to “gather.” As believers, Jonathan reminds us that God’s design for our lives is to gather to serve, to give, to commit, and several other reasons that are discussed powerfully. But above all, God’s gift to his people is that gathering is for our own good.

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Street Smarts Study Guide Plus Streaming Video (Student/Study Guide)
$24.99

Building on Street Smarts, this study guide by Gregory Koukl will take you deeper, teaching you the strategies for productive conversations with those who challenge your convictions on a variety of issues. The focus is on revealing the fundamental flaws in common, current challenges to Christian beliefs and values. It then provides individual strategies to exploit those shortcomings by offering model questions and sample dialogues to help guide believers in genial, yet persuasive, conversations.

This study guide has everything you need for a full personal or group experience.

*The study guide itself–with thoughtful introductions, questions for personal reflection and application, and discussion questions for leading a group or team.

*An individual access code to stream all video sessions online. (You don’t need to buy a DVD!)

Sessions and video run times:

1 – Getting Ready for the Street (33 min)
2 – Questions Keep You Safe (34 min)
3 – Intel for Navigating the Street (23 min)
4 – Atheism: The Best Explanation for the Way Things Are? (37 min)
5 – Evil: Atheism’s Fatal Flaw (29 min)
6 – Jesus the Son, Christ the Savior (32 min)
7 – The Bible: Ancient Words, Ever True? (24 min)
8 – God: The Science Stopper? (29 min)
9 – Abortion: Only One Question (41 min)
10 – Marriage, Sex, Gender, and Common Sense (41 min)

Streaming video access code included.

Access code subject to expiration after [insert 5 years after OSD]. Code may be redeemed only by the recipient of this package. Code may not be transferred or sold separately from this package. Internet connection required. Void where prohibited, taxed, or restricted by law. Additional offer details inside.

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Lay Leadership : For The Care Of Souls
$19.99

Inviting others into God’s good work

*Learn how to empower laity in leadership
*Understand a theology of leadership
*Gain practical wisdom for your own context

The church is ordered so that good can run wild. God appoints leaders to commission the laity in the church’s ministry and mission. Pastors and ministry leaders serve and organize the church in such a way that people in their care can pursue their unique gifts.

In Lay Leadership: For the Care of Souls, Aaron Perry empowers pastors to empower laity in leadership. Perry helps leaders recognize the challenges and pursue the opportunities in sharing vision, inviting participation, delegating roles and responsibilities, and equipping people for sustained ministry. With theological structure and practical wisdom, Perry provides a foundational theology of the laity and specific actions for leaders to apply in their own context.

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Heaven Bible Study Book With Video Access (Student/Study Guide)
$36.65

Heaven. Who goes there? Where is it? What will we do there? Questions like these arise when we consider an eternal future beyond this physical life. How can we know the truth about what comes next?

In this 7-session video-based study, Jennifer Rothschild explores the subject of Heaven from a biblical perspective. She will separate what’s true about Heaven from what’s based on legend, media depictions, and hopeful guesses. As you walk through the study, you’ll not only gain a deeper understanding of what God has prepared for His children, but also learn how to live with confidence today as you look forward to the glorious unending that awaits. Don’t just wonder about Heaven-embrace it with a faith that turns anticipation into excitement and peace.

Features:?

*7 video teaching sessions, approximately 25-30 minutes, available via redemption code printed in the Bible study book

*6 weeks of personal study to be completed between the 7 group sessions?

*Leader helps to guide questions and discussions within small groups

Video Sessions:?

*Session 1: Introduction: Getting the Scoop on Heaven (20:47)-From the opening illustration, Jennifer piques our interest and welcomes us to this Bible study of Heaven. In this first teaching video, she provides an overview of the study and a working definition of Heaven as she sets the stage for all that’s to come.

*Session 2: Living an 8:18 Life (28:48)-In Session 2, Jennifer reviews the Neapolitan ice cream illustration that gives us a fun framework for how Heaven is understood throughout Scripture. She then unpacks Romans 8:18 to discuss how we should view our suffering in this life in light of the glory we will experience in Heaven.

*Session 3: Numbering Our Days (30:41)-Jennifer starts off the Session 3 video teaching reminding us of the truth that we are made for more than longevity, we are made for eternity. She then walks us through Psalm 90 giving us three principles and a prayer that define how to live with that truth in mind.

*Session 4: Getting Ready to Rise (26:51)-Session 4 video teaching centers on 1 Corinthians 15:51-53. Jennifer will share three “Listen Willis!” points that focus our attention on the victorious truth that when Christ returns, all believers will rise to meet Him with new, glorious, resurrected bodies.

*Session 5: Making Jesus the Treasure of Heaven (24:02)-In Session 5, Jennifer shares that what most of us long for about Heaven is the fulfillment of what we’re mis

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Together Bible Study Book With Video Access (Student/Study Guide)
$33.31

Together Bible Study Book with Video Access includes printed content for six sessions, personal study between group sessions, applicable Scripture, “How to Use This Study,” and tips for leading a group.

The first generation of believers embraced the idea of “church” in a way that impacted every aspect of their lives and empowered the gospel to spread far and wide.

This six-session Bible study invites us to challenge our distinctions between “Sunday Church” and the rest of our lives, to go all in with our faith and commitment to church community, and to live the truly dynamic, impactful life God has always intended for Christians to live.

As we study the foundations and rhythms of the early church, we can more intentionally emulate their way of life to make a greater impact in our world today while also experiencing the fullness of God in our own lives.

Discover how being deeply connected in the community of believers can transform our lives, our cities, and the world.

Session Topics:

1. Seeing God’s Vision
2. Relating as Family
3. Being Known and Loved
4. Living Generously
5. Reaching Beyond
6. Maintaining Unity

Features:

*Video sessions with teaching by Ben Mandrell
*6 small group sessions
*Personal study opportunities for ongoing spiritual growth
*Promotional content, including promotional video

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Both And Ministry
$15.99

Gospel workers are called to be both/and people:

*both patient and urgent,
*both confident and humble,
*both dependent on God and committed to hard work,
*both theologically driven and practically wise, and more.

Often, these requirements feel as though they’re in tension. But this book shows that rather than leaning one way or the other, or seeking to strike a balance, authentic gospel ministry is found in pursuing both/and. To settle for less puts ourselves and our churches in danger.

Gary Millar has been involved in training hundreds of gospel workers at Queensland Theological College. Pointing to Christ as our supreme example, he helps readers to reflect on and refine their own ministry practice in a range of different areas-while also enjoying God’s grace where they fall short.

As you look at all things through the lens of the gospel, you’ll increasingly become the fully-formed follower of Jesus and servant of his church that you have been called to be.

Ideal for church staff and lay leaders, students preparing for ministry, and ministry apprentices and interns, as well as for any Christian who is heavily involved in their local church.

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God Of Creation Bible Study Book With Video Access (Student/Study Guide)
$41.65

The opening lines and chapters of Genesis teach us fundamental truths about God. We watch Him bring light after darkness, order after chaos, and rest after toil-all through the power of His Word.

Over 10 sessions of verse-by-verse study, dive into the first 11 chapters of Genesis by following three critical stages of understanding: comprehension, interpretation, and application. Teaching videos are key in understanding this study. Revisit familiar stories and historical figures, challenge your basic knowledge, and discover deeper meanings in the text. As God reveals Himself through Scripture, we can only begin to understand ourselves when we first glimpse the character, attributes, and promises of our Creator.

Features:

*Personal study segments with homework to complete between 10 weeks of group sessions

*Leader helps to guide questions and discussions within small groups

*Essential teaching videos (30 to 35 minutes per session) that build upon and tie together the personal study, available for purchase or rent

*Verse-by-verse study for comprehension, interpretation, and application

Video Sessions:

*Session One: Introduction (37:34)-Introducing Genesis as the seed plot for the rest of the Bible and the history of Hebrew people, Jen reminds us that we can only truly know God, and consequently our place in the world, through His Word. Genesis informs our knowledge and worship of God, our awareness of self, and our understanding of the entire Bible.

*Session Two: The God Who Was in the Beginning (40:26)-In the creation account, we are so prone to focus on all that God creates — the land, animals, and mankind. But, Jen encourages us to instead hone in on the Who of the creation story and allow that growing knowledge of God to inform the way we walk forward in faith and worship in our everyday lives.

*Session Three: Six Days and a Rest (39:30)-Detailing the creation account, Jen describes God’s creative nature and the way that He spoke intentional order and form into the world.

*Session Four: Created in the Image of God (36:34)-As God created mankind, male and female, He also orchestrated perfect communion and harmony between man, woman, and God in the Garden of Eden. Jen focuses on God’s plan for life and flourishing, examining the beauty of the His design.

*Session Five: Paradise Lost (40:11)-In the fall of mankind in the Garden of Eden Jen helps us understand the allure of sin, God’s consistent intention to do us good, a

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Sanctuary For Lent 2025 Pkg Of 10
$14.99

A Convenient and Affordable Lenten devotional for the entire church.

The Sanctuary for Lent 2025 contains brief readings for each day in Lent, from Ash Wednesday through Easter Day, including a suggested Scripture, a short devotion, and a short prayer or practice-all based on the Revised Common Lectionary. This annual favorite helps readers faithfully journey through Lent as they prepare to experience the joy of the Resurrection. Along with being a great congregational resource, it is an excellent gift for family, friends, and those your congregation connects with through outreach.

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