At Home with God


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With busy work lives, extra-curricular activities and other pressing demands on the schedule, how does the family live and celebrate the gospel of Jesus Christ at home? With the constant demands and pressures of our daily lives, how do we remind ourselves of our identities as believers? At Home with God seeks to provide fun and simple ways for Christian families to retell and celebrate God's Redemptive Story in the home. By translating ancient rhythms of our Faith into accessible, easy-to-use tools, At Home with God helps families rediscover the vibrancy of our Faith in everyday life. Through simple daily, weekly and seasonal rhythms, At Home with God reaches back to our rich heritage of faith and helps us discover our identities and roles in God's Redemptive Progress. At Home with God provides insight and practical guidance into adapting these family rhythms to create home environments that foster family fun and creativity. Though the Story is thousands of years old, it is as relevant as ever. From the businessman to the teacher, and from children to the pastor or theologian, At Home with God helps believers of all ages rediscover the beauty of the Great Redemptive Story in home and community life.




The Home of God


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We live in the midst of a crisis of home. It is evident in the massive uprooting and migration of millions across the globe, in the anxious nationalism awaiting immigrants in their destinations, in the unhoused populations in wealthy cities, in the fractured households of families, and in the worldwide destruction of habitats and international struggles for dominance. It is evident, perhaps more quietly but just as truly, in the aching sense that there is nowhere we truly belong. In this moment, the Christian faith has been disappointingly inept in its response. We need a better witness to the God who created, loves, and reconciles this world, who comes to dwell among us. This book tells the "story of everything" in which God creates the world as the home for humans and for God in communion with God's creatures. The authors render the story of creation, redemption, and consummation through the lens of God's homemaking work and show the theological fruit of telling the story this way. The result is a vision that can inspire creative Christian living in our various homes today in faithfulness to God's ongoing work.




The Home of God (Theology for the Life of the World)


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We live in the midst of a crisis of home. It is evident in the massive uprooting and migration of millions across the globe, in the anxious nationalism awaiting immigrants in their destinations, in the unhoused populations in wealthy cities, in the fractured households of families, and in the worldwide destruction of habitats and international struggles for dominance. It is evident, perhaps more quietly but just as truly, in the aching sense that there is nowhere we truly belong. In this moment, the Christian faith has been disappointingly inept in its response. We need a better witness to the God who created, loves, and reconciles this world, who comes to dwell among us. This book tells the "story of everything" in which God creates the world as the home for humans and for God in communion with God's creatures. The authors render the story of creation, redemption, and consummation through the lens of God's homemaking work and show the theological fruit of telling the story this way. The result is a vision that can inspire creative Christian living in our various homes today in faithfulness to God's ongoing work.




Home


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Where is Home? This question troubles many of us. We may live far from where we grew up, away from those we love or in a culture not our own. But we all need somewhere to belong, to find a sense of home in this world. Jo Swinney was born in the UK, but grew up in Portugal and France. She went to an English boarding school, did a gap year in southern Africa and in her twenties studied theology in Canada, where she met her American husband. Now back in the UK, she's had more reason than most to wonder what 'home' really means. Is home where you come from - where you live now - where the people you love are - or what? Interweaving a frank and poignant retelling of her own story with theological and psychological insights, Jo's original and authentic exploration of home in all its many and varied forms is a heartfelt call to find our home in the things that are truly of most value.




God's Welcome:


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"God’s Welcome" is a different kind of how-to book on hospitality, one that studies the stories of God’s welcome and takes seriously the culture of hostility that sometimes masquerades as Christianity. Gather your small group or leadership group (discussion guide included in the book) and dig into the important work of gospel hospitality.




Experiencing God at Home


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Experiencing God at Home takes a fresh path back into the rich roots of Henry Blackaby’s world-renowned Experiencing God writings to connect what happens in our homes to what happens in our churches. Here, his sons Tom and Richard Blackaby first establish the biblical case for the idea of experiencing God at home, illuminating how the clear foundation for God’s work in nations and churches around the world is his work in families. Indeed, healthy families lead to healthy churches, and the Blackabys illustrate that through real-life stories of families that have found ways to experience God in marriage, in choosing life’s direction, in rescuing broken relationships, in forgiveness, in the salvation of loved ones, etc. Lessons from the Bible support these moving accounts, and the book concludes with resources that will guide individuals families as well as entire churches toward practically experiencing God at home.




Dear God, He's Home!


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What do you do when your husband calls and says he's lost his job? How do you handle a husband who has been diagnosed with Parkinson's and is now homebound? Will your routine ever get back to normal now that your loving husband who has been deployed for 12 months is now suddenly back at home? Regardless of the reason he's home, one fact is clear . . . he's home. Dear God, He's Home! is a practical, honest look at how women can deal with a spouse—regardless of the reason—who is forced to become a stay-at-home man. Husbands across the country are experiencing life changes and are being forced home for multiple reasons including health changes, job loss, end of military deployment, and other factors. Their wives are being forced to deal with these changes, too, and the combination of stresses can take its toll on a marriage. Couples do not have to go through these changes alone. Author and former Saddleback Church leader Janet T. Thompson shares from her heart and her personal experience on how to deal with the paralyzing shock that comes with life changes; what to do next; how to deal with people's reactions; grieving the losses associated with any change; discovering a new focus and purpose as a couple; and restoring the joy to your marital relationship. Dear God, He's Home! includes personal thought questions, discussion questions for couples, and a small-group discussion guide.




Bringing God Home


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Praise for Bringing God Home “A profound book. As we set out to bring God home, we are the ones who return home.” --Archbishop Desmond Tutu “Forrest Church is a perfect guide through the oceans of belief.” --Diane Ackerman “Bringing God Home is a book whose arrival could not have come at a more important moment in human history.” --Faye Wattleton “Intensely human and mystically profound. A spiritually hungry world will love this book.” --Bishop John Shelby Spong Using his own spiritual quest as a starting point, Forrest Church has written a book that will comfort and inspire readers of all backgrounds and creeds. Drawing insight and courage from poets, philosophers, and prophets from across the ages, and from ordinary people from across the street, he challenges us to set out on the journey of our lives, and then guides our steps back home.




From Every Angle


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The complete anthology of resources for year-round planning and execution of a successful stewardship campaign comes shrink-wrapped and already hole-punched -- all you need to do is insert it in a binder. It's a wide-ranging compendium that includes all of the following: -- Nineteen outstanding stewardship sermons from preachers of many denominations. -- Eleven lively, captivating children's object lessons examining stewardship through the concepts of Action, Direction, Earth, Home, Inheritance, Portion, Responsibility, Steward, Sacrifice, Treasure, and Willing. (The first letters form an anagram of stewardship.) -- Temple Talks, brief sketches that provide a lighthearted, non-threatening way to subtly remind congregations of the purpose of stewardship. -- Three insightful dramas that are perfect for getting stewardship callers off to an enthusiastic start before they make their contacts. -- A gold mine of quips, quotes, stories, and pithy sayings about stewardship that are great for use in newsletters, on bulletin boards, or as illustrations in sermons and speeches. -- Twelve monthly agendas with detailed plans that will help stewardship committees systematically develop new leadership and increase participation in and financial support for church programs. -- A detailed handbook for leading a successful stewardship campaign through advance planning and eager congregational support. Especially effective for smaller and medium-sized congregations, it's a must-have resource for every stewardship committee member. -- A how-to resource with several approaches for getting young children and teens started early in understanding stewardship and participating inthe life of the parish.




Home; a Book for the Family


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