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The desert is a common image for Lent, evoking Jesus' temptation in the wilderness and the barren expanse we might associate with self-denial. Such a stark view of the desert fails to capture the immense potential for growth and discovery that can be found amid the shrubs. There is compassion for self and others to be cultivated along this arduous trek as we grow more aware of life's trials and traumas. Srubas uses wilderness stories both literal and metaphorical, from both Scripture and modern life, to guide readers on a challenging, yet rewarding, journey of mindfulness, empathy, commitment, and action.

Ring in the festive season with this wonderful color by numbers collection, featuring over 60 Christmas themed artworks to color. From the merry red of Rudolf's nose to the rich green of a fir tree, this wonderful collection is waiting to be filled with the colors of Christmas! Each image contains numbered sections which correspond to a color in the flip-out color key. By following the professional coloring guidance you can build up an impressive artwork to keep or display. Features: - Thick, high-quality paper to prevent bleed-through - Previews of the finished designs in full-color to aid design selection.>This color by numbers collection is the perfect way to get in the festive spirit and channel your inner artist. ABOUT THE SERIES: The bestselling Sirius Color by Numbers Collection features peaceful and enchanting designs from an array of artists, printed on thick, high-quality paper and including a handy flip-out color key.

In For Every Matter under Heaven: Preaching on Special Occasions, Beverly Zink-Sawyer and Donna Giver-Johnston offer a process for creating biblically grounded, relevant sermons for events that arise from calendars, celebrations, or circumstances by considering the occasion, the gathered listeners, and the ways God is at work in that season.

This Easter, discover the power of I AM! We know that Jesus's work on the cross and His resurrection changed the world. Two thousand years later, His work is still changing lives--one person at a time--thanks in part to His I AM statements. Those simple words have the power to change your life and the world today. Hebrews says that Jesus is the exact imprint of God the Father. In the weeks leading up to his final days, Jesus made seven simple statements that revealed His closeness to God; that He was one with God. In those statements, Jesus was establishing His authority. In those statements, He revealed to the world that He shared the same attributes with God, known to Israel as the "I AM." With those statements, Jesus is inviting you into relationship where He can intervene on your behalf. Jesus, the I AM, an eight-week study devotional for the 2022 Easter and Lent season, will help you appreciate anew the gift and significance of Jesus's words. Written with a worshipful and contemplative tone, Jesus, the I AM invites you to discover the power and relevance of the I AM in your life today. This Easter, lean into the I AM.

The Christmas season can often feel chaotic and cluttered, but it doesn't have to be that way. Jesus invites us to experience the fullness of joy that only comes when we rest in his presence. This Advent devotional is for those who want to recover joy during the holidays! We need only to prepare him room.

Este libro recopila una serie de 365 historias del mundo del deporte significativas, que incluyen desde pequeñas biografías a un hecho histórico en particular, y hasta un emblema. A través de estas cortas historias se busca generar una analogía con el campo espiritual. El objetivo del libro es que sirva de herramienta para que cada lector pueda acercarse a Cristo.

Lent is a wonderful opportunity for families to grow closer to God-and each other! This Lent, families are invited to read this booklet together and discover the good news about Jesus that will add meaning and purpose to life. Each week, families will encounter Jesus in a new way through a Scripture story, conversation starters, and a simple prayer. Also includes ideas for Lenten activities, a guide to Confession, and the Stations of the Cross.

Ross Peterson is among the most beloved American history teachers ever to step inside a college classroom. Several generations of students have voted him their favorite instructor, and a fair number became teachers themselves, some with Ross's photo on an office wall. Christmas in Montpelier offers a beguiling look into Professor Peterson's early life, where his wry humor, work ethic, and kindness were honed. Twelve Christmases come to life as he grows from a small boy in a hardscrabble farmhouse with no running water inside and a two-hole privy outside, to one of the nation's most honored educators.

Prepare yourself this Christmas to celebrate the real reason for the season! Beginning with the first Sunday of Advent, And the Glory of God Shone Around Them Advent Devotional takes the reader through the entire Christmas season with twenty-one devotionals organized around the four weekly themes of Advent. Through short, engaging reflections on hope, peace, joy, and love, combined with the beauty and relevance of The Passion Translation(R), you will find the inspiration you need to celebrate God's gift to the world throughout your week. Each devotional follows the inspiring journey of the main characters of the Christmas story and offers an Advent prayer, making them perfect for personal, family, or small-group use. Scripture readings from The Passion Translation will give you greater insights in your journey toward Bethlehem. This devotional and fresh version of God's Word will kindle and inspire your faith in the one who came to rescue us and will come again to create us anew!

"Faith is like gumbo; for it to be authentic, at some point you have to make it your own." In From Eden to Heaven: Spiritual Formation for the Adventurous, author Kelly Pigott describes the journey to authentic faith using the language of pilgrimage, or perigrinatio, that path that all believers travel as they seek to follow Jesus, mature in their faith, and explore their most common fears and deepest questions: What does it mean to follow Christ? Is this all there is? How do I keep going? Who am I-and who has God designed me to be?Enriched by the author's superb storytelling and warm style, From Eden to Heaven provides pastoral guidance steeped in church and biblical history-along with journaling exercises and relevant additional reading-all intended to offer both challenges and guideposts along the path to authentic spiritual transformation.Kelly Pigott is a professor in the Logsdon School of Theology at Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, Texas, where he teaches courses in church history, ministry, and spiritual formation. He has served for more than 25 years as a pastor, currently serving two congregations.Praise for From Eden to Heaven"Kelly Pigott is a master modern storyteller. He is also a really good historian who doesn't know how to bore people. All of this and more is evident in this excellent book, which helps you pay attention to the signposts of Christian pilgrimage." -John H. Armstrong, author of Costly Love"With wit and wisdom, Pigott entices the reader to take seriously the Christian path of transformation. Herein lies a trustworthy guide for those seeking to live an abundant life." -Phileena Heuretz, author of Pilgrimage of a Soul: Contemplative Spirituality for an Active Life

During the forty days of Lent, we explore the gift of repentance that turns us back to Christ and his finished work. There is no repentance apart from Christ. There is no Lent apart from Christ's suffering on our behalf. There is no hope apart from his righteousness gifted to us. All of these daily devotions are written with these great truths in mind. Dear Sinner/Saint, prepare to be told in these pages to go home to your forgiving Father over and over.* Forward by Daniel Emery PriceEach day features a bible passagereflectionshort prayersuggestions for further reading

James wrote to Christians whose faith was under attack. Persecution, false teachings, and loveless actions were troubling God's baptized people. Things have not changed much for the church in these latter days. Though Luther referred to this letter as "an epistle of straw," James gives much wisdom to Christ's troubled bride. In his foreword to Finding Christ in the Straw: A Forty-Day Devotion on the Epistle of James, Robert M. Hiller writes "[Martin] Luther felt that this letter lacked the focus on the person and work of Jesus Christ to warrant much of his energy. Straw has its benefits but is not all that useful in the long run."However, these forty devotions, based on James, will both challenge and comfort you, while showing you Christ in the straw.

If you knew you were dying soon, would you see the people around you differently? Jesus knew in his last week before the resurrection that the end of his human life neared. He knew exactly how events would unfold. He knew what the voices of the people and places around him would say.40 Voices - A Lenten Devotional captures the words and settings surrounding Jesus that final week, so we hear them with new insights. Their stories and experiences hold wisdom for us today and show us the transformational power of the cross.Jesus' presence in their story predicts his proximity within our story. Lent offers us a time to deepen our relationship with Jesus and to hear God in new ways. 40 Voices - a Lenten Devotional will give you a fresh look to the sounds from Christ's journey to the cross and will inspire and enrich our journey through Lent.Each reading opens with scripture and a thought-provoking reflection and closes with a suggested symbol to observe, a question to ponder, and a prayer to guide your time with God. Listen to the voices on the way to Calvary and draw closer to Christ.

On December 17, 1927, the crew of the Navy submarine S-4 trolled beneath the waters of Cape Cod Bay, engaged in routine testing of their vessel. At the same time, the Coast Guard cutter Paulding traveled across the surface. Those traveling on the two craft never saw each other. The submarine broke the surface just in time to receive a death blow from the Paulding. The submarine, with its crew of forty, sank in less than five minutes. It came to rest more than one hundred feet below on the ocean floor.Rescue attempts began at once. Due to inclement weather, it took twenty-four hours for the first diver to descend to the wreckage. As soon as the diver's feet hit the hull, he heard tapping. Survivors were trapped inside. Pounding out Morse code on the hull with a hammer, the diver discovered that six crewmen had survived the collision. With renewed efforts, the rescue crew struggled to reach these men before it was too late. Again, the weather would not cooperate. Every attempt failed. With their air supply dwindling, the six survivors tapped out in Morse code a final haunting question, "Is there any hope?"This provocative question echoes across the craft we call Earth. By our own experience, we agree with the New Testament's words that all of creation groans for renewal and relief. The world hopes for something better. As part of this expectant world, we do the same. We hope for a better future for ourselves, our children, and our families.Hope is the intangible fuel that moves the human spirit along when life appears untenable; when marriages fail; when sickness invades; when we face difficult decisions; or when we encounter inexplicable suffering in our lives and in our world. We need hope to live on this planet the same way we need oxygen in our lungs.In our faith tradition, all hope is fastened to the child we find lying in a Christmas manger. Christians gather in houses of worship and around Advent wreaths to reflect upon the implications of his birth and to anticipate the day when hope will become certainty, when what we can only pray for now will become definite. Advent is a season to remember, but it is also a time to renew our lives of hope in the One born in Bethlehem.

What does it mean to take up the cross? In this fifth book of the Lessons Learned In The Wilderness series, pastor and author Ken Winter leads us to look at the cross our Lord has set before each one of us, as we follow Him in our wilderness journey. The backdrop is the last forty-seven days of the earthly ministry of Jesus, picking up at His triumphal entry into Jerusalem and continuing to the day He ascended into heaven to sit at the right-hand of the Father. We will look through the lens of the Gospels at what taking up the cross looked like in His life, and what He has determined it will look like in ours. He doesn't promise that there won't be a cost - there will be! And He doesn't promise that it will be easy - it won't be! But it is the journey He has set before us - a journey that will further His purpose in and through our lives - and a journey that will lead to His glory.As you read a chapter each day, or read it straight through, allow the Master to use it to draw you closer to Him as you walk with Him each day in your journey.Pick up your copy by clicking the "buy-now" button.

A festive collection of 90 holiday-themed puzzles with 300-400 numbered dots each. Finished pictures depict snowmen, decorated trees, angels, elves, and other fun-to-color signs of the season.

Explores the profound, life-changing impact the last day of Jesus's life had on human history.

If you're looking for a new Lenten experience, here are forty fresh ideas. Some will challenge you to deepen your prayer life; others will open your mind to new ways to serve others. Each of the forty ways includes a reflection to help you understand more about Lent and why it matters. You'll learn how to have a more creative experience of Lent. You'll discover positive, proactive ways to take action instead of the same old routine of giving something up. The result will be spiritual transformation and a closer walk with Christ--not only during Lent but throughout the year. The audio edition of this book can be downloaded via Audible.

For readers of Richard Paul Evans and Greg Kincaid comes The 13th Gift, a heartwarming Christmas story about how a random act of kindness transformed one of the bleakest moments in a family's history into a time of strength and love.After the unexpected death of her husband, Joanne Huist Smith had no idea how she would keep herself together and be strong for her three children--especially with the holiday season approaching. But 12 days before Christmas, presents begin appearing on her doorstep with notes from their "True Friends." As the Smiths came together to solve the mystery of who the gifts were from, they began to thaw out from their grief and come together again as a family. This true story about the power of random acts of kindness will warm the heart, a beautiful reminder of the miracles of Christmas and the gift of family during the holiday season.

What could be more familiar than the Christmas story--and yet what could be more extraordinary? The cast of characters is strange and exotic: shepherds and magicians, an emperor and a despot, angels, and a baby who is Almighty God. The strangeness calls for an explanation, and this book provides it by examining the characters and the story in light of the biblical and historical context. Bestselling author Scott Hahn who has written extensively on Scripture and the early Church, brings evidence to light, dispelling some of the mystery of the story. Yet Christmas is made familiar all over again by showing it to be a family story. Christmas, as it appears in the New Testament, is the story of a father, a mother, and a child--their relationships, their interactions, their principles, their individual lives, and their common life. To see the life of this "earthly trinity" is to gaze into heaven.