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  The Dangerous Act of Worship -...

  Mark Labberton, John Ortberg

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  What's at stake in our worship? Everything. Worship is the dangerous act of waking up to God and God's purposes in the world. But something has gone wrong with our worship. Too often worship has become a place of safety and complacency, a narrowly private experience in which solitary individuals only express their personal adoration. Even when we gather corporately, we often close our eyes to those around us, focusing on God but ignoring our neighbor. But true biblical worship does not merely point us upward--it should turn us outward as well. In this prophetic wake-up call for the contemporary church, pastor Mark Labberton reconnects Christian worship with biblical justice. From beginning to end, worship must pursue justice and seek righteousness, translating into transformed lives that care for the poor and the oppressed. Labberton shows how to move beyond the comfort of safe worship to authentic worship that is awake to the needs of the world.

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  Gospel of John The: NASB - The...

  Lockman Foundation, Multiple...

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  The New American Standard Bible is one of the most accurate translations of the Scriptures, and the gospel of John is one of the most fundamental books in the New Testament. Let professional voice artist Dale McConachie, narrator of over 100 audiobooks, take you on a narrated journey through John, where you will discover the deity of Christ as the Son of God. Dale’s goal in this recording was to make a simple but reverent audio copy of God's Word that you can take with you everywhere you go, while you commute, in the kitchen, or at the gym. You can easily access any chapter of John at any time. It is the reader's prayer that many will, “let the Word of Christ richly dwell” in them.

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  Pastoring Small Towns - Help and...

  Ronnie Martin, Donnie Griggs

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  2023 For the Church Book Awards, Winner Small town life is quite different from life in a big city. There is not as much traffic. People recognize each other at the grocery store. Local sporting events carry a different cultural weight, and it may not be out of the ordinary to wait behind a tractor or get used to the smell of a nearby factory. These communities are unique, and pastoring here is an extraordinary task.  Ronnie Martin and Donnie Griggs are well-aware of this reality. In Pastoring Small Towns, their hope is to equip pastors and ministry leaders to take on the different nuances that come with pastoring smaller communities. They point out the cultural realities of these places and give pastors the tools to effectively engage their people with the Gospel.      

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  A Bride for Tedrick

  Michele Pollock Dalton

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  In the wake of the Civil War, Merry Sherman and her sisters were forced to accept untenable situations that left them at the mercy of wealthy men’s capricious whims. But when Merry is forcefully expelled from the estate she served, the specter of homelessness and hunger is all she can see. 
  When his aunt tosses a housemaid down the grand staircase of her home, the desperate girl left crumpled at the bottom tries to crawl away from the furious matron’s rage. And Tedrick Barr knows he must intervene. But how can he possibly make a difference in the girl’s life when he’s barely of an age to care for himself? 
  All Teddy knows is that he must get Merry away from the vindictive woman set on destroying her and the men who disgraced her. Where that journey will take them, nobody knows. Yet, faith always finds a way.

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  Afikotective

  Amalia Hoffman

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  A family of bears is getting ready for the Passover seder, preparing all the items for the seder plate. When the time comes in the seder for hiding the afikomen, Grandma breaks the middle matzah into two pieces. She hides the bigger piece, the afikomen, that the kids will eagerly search for later in the seder. It's a good thing one little bear has turned his toy elephant into an Afiko-Sniffer! The invention sniffs out apples in a bowl, eggs in the fridge, and horseradish in the pantry, but can it help find the afikomen?

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  Beyond Distraction - Five...

  Shaila Catherine

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  “An invaluable guide for all those journeying on the path to greater freedom.”—Joseph Goldstein 
  The mind can be a potent tool, used to guide extraordinary achievements, inspire good works, and incline your spiritual path toward peace and awakening. But the mind can also produce thoughts that lead to suffering. 
  Most of us have experienced thoughts running rampant and seeming to oppress or control our lives. Even the Buddha tells us that before his enlightenment, he sometimes found his mind preoccupied by thoughts connected with sensual desire, ill will, and harm. But he figured out how to respond to thoughts skillfully and developed a step-by-step approach to calm the restless mind. 
  Following the Buddha’s pragmatic approach, a beloved Insight Meditation teacher guides you through five steps for overcoming distraction and focusing the mind:Replace unwholesome thoughts with wholesome thoughts.Examine the dangers of distracting thoughts.Avoid it, ignore it, forget it.Investigate the causes of distraction.Apply determination and resolve. 
  Each chapter includes exercises and reflections to help you cultivate these five steps to deeper concentration. You’ll learn about your mind and develop your ability to direct your attention more skillfully in meditation and daily activities. And ultimately, you’ll discover for yourself how these five steps boil down to one key realization: In the moment you recognize that a thought is just a thought, you will find yourself on the path to a life of remarkable freedom.

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