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The Lenten tree contains eighty-two Lenten devotions for children and adults that will enable individuals and families to travel on a meaningful journey through Lent, the season before Easter.

Each devotion reveals who Jesus Christ is and what He has done. In addition to these devotions, this book contains illustrations, which may be used to create a special "Lenten tree." Each of the forty-one days has prayers, a memory verse, questions for children, and hymns or songs to coincide with the symbol for the day. Lenten activities are suggested for families to do together during Lent.

This powerful book of passages from Martin Luther's Easter sermons portrays the reformer's lasting thoughts on faith, human imperfection, salvation through grace, and the wonder of God. The sermons explore events from Holy Week through the Resurrection. They combine marvelous insights with inspiring calls to action that are so characteristic of the great reformer: "The resurrection consists not in words, but in life and power."

The Christian spiritual journey is a pilgrimage to wholeness, a search for home that is in God. In this classic work on contemporary spiritual living, Alan Jones explores the various parts of the pilgrimage home. Using literature, art, and biblical texts as illustrations, he explores our search for light and love, repentance, and forgiveness in the context of the Passion and Easter stories.

An excellent book for group study during Lent and Easter, this new edition includes study questions at the end of each chapter. Passio for Pilgrimage is also provocative reading for individuals at any...

Fun activities that teach children and their families about the holy season of Lent. Includes family Lenten devotionals. Suitable for any Christian denomination that follows the liturgical calendar.

These fun-filled activities for home, pew, or church school, help children ages 4-7 learn about the seasons of Lent and Easter. This book includes mazes, crossword puzzles, connect the dots, and more. 41 pages of activities and a 4-page parent guide designed to promote parenting in the pews.

No other series provides such unique and varied material as the Program Builder series. In this 22nd edition, plays, songs, recitations, and exercises are included to help build any Easter program. Features include a playlet for children ages 9-11 and a multi-media production for teens and adults titled ’The Story of the Cross.’ Permission to make photocopies of program builders is granted when three copies of the same book have been purchased.

Lillenas’ 20th book in the Easter Program Builder series includes several types of scripts that make it unique. ’Were You There?’ is a choral reading for children agest 9-11. Also included is a presentation for teens titled, ’Lives That Touched Jesus.’ It features short monologues from characters such as disciples John and Judas as well as Pilate, Simon of Cyrene, Mary Magdalene and Mary Mother of Jesus. The book ends with several songs for the season. Permission to make photocopies of program builders is granted when three copies of the same...

Jesus' resurrection is a time for setting earthquakes shaking in the soul. The seven excellent Easter messages in this book will help to make that happen in your congregation. Leonard Budd and Roger Talbott have combined well-crafted stories, most of them imaginative fiction pieces, with solid exposition of texts from Old and New Testaments. These messages will provide preaching resources for the entire Easter season.
Two additional resources expand the usefulness of this volume:
- Prayers and readings for each Sunday follow each message.
- There are study/discussion questions...

This is an account, at once rigorously theological and warmly devotional, of the death and resurrection of Christ, and their significance for the Christian life. Von Balthasar offers sharp insights into some current controversies--for example, the 'bodiliness' of the Resurrection--and spiritual inspiration for the year round. This scholarly reflection of the climax of the Christian year is an established classic of contemporary Catholic theology.

"Restore Me" includes a large collection of Lent and Easter season worship resources created to draw congregations into closer relationship with God.
Specific chapters for both Lent and Easter include:
- Calls to worship
- Common prayers
- Prayers of dedication
- Benedictions
- Prayers of confession and pardon
- Gospel dialogues
"These resources grew out of my continued interest in the whole use of scripture in weekly worship," Craig M. Sweet writes. "The dialogue use of scripture adds an extra dimension to the 'dramaturgical' experience of worship."
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Building on the interest generated by Sullivan's previous art and spirituality title, Windows into the Soul, this book focuses on the journey from darkness to light inherent in Lent. By using an easily accessible liturgical format, the book provides a pathway for those who walk from Ash Wednesday to the empty tomb of Easter.

Organized around holy days and Sundays in Lent, chapters begin with a prayer or poetic excerpt, followed by scripture for the day or week. A narrative then expands on the themes introduced by the prayer and scripture. Exercises following the narratives are...

Three Simple Rules for Christian Living
by Jeanne Torrence Finley and Rueben P. Job

This small-group study by Jeanne Torrence Finley is based on Rueben P. Job's book Three Simple Rules: A Wesleyan Way of Living. Six sessions provide extended reflection for adults on three principles of Christian life: do no harm, do good, and stay in love with God. Each rule has a session to help you understand the rule and a session to help you explore ways to practice the rule.

Your church can do a church-wide study of the three simple rules by using the youth...

This six-week study introduces youth to John Wesley's General Rules, challenging them to find ways to apply the rules to their daily lives.

The leader guide includes Scripture and excerpts from Wesley's writings and Rueben P. Job's original book Three Simple Rules. The guide provides commentary and gives youth ministers and study leaders detailed plans for each of the six sessions, discussion questions, activities, and worship ideas.

For a free online copy of Three Simple Rules A Conversation Guide for Parents click here

Ideal for showing children how to be effective stewards of the world around them This leader's resource helps plan six sessions that will help children

- Learn what it means to care for the world and God's people

- Consider the ways to do good things for their families, their church, their community, and the world

- Discover the value of spiritual disciplines and how to practice them

The three simple rules of "Do No Harm," "Do Good," and "Stay in Love with God" are easy enough for children to understand and profound enough to begin a lifelong journey of faith.

For a...

For several years, the students and staff of Ridley Hall, the Anglican theological college in Cambridge, have compiled a book of daily readings for the 48 days from Ash Wednesday to Easter Day. Sold directly to churches by former students now in ministry, it has been an important way of raising funds for the training of future ordinands, youth and pastoral workers. This is Ridley's third Lent book in partnership with Canterbury Press. A team of ordinands and some of the teaching staff consider some of the characters we meet in the pages of the Bible. In their ways, they all model an aspect of...

Beginning with Palm Sunday, the gospels record every day of Jesus' life up to the time of his death and resurrection. These eight days are unparalleled in the canon of Scripture for their narrative power, their detail, and their focus. A unique synthesis of the four gospel accounts of the passion and resurrection of Christ is provided in this seamless and elegant narrative account of the Easter events, including every detail mentioned in all four Gospels, but without any unnecessary repetition or distracting references.

A chapter is assigned to each of these days to facilitate...

Take your congregation back in time and put worshipers right in the midst of the events surrounding humanity's salvation with this collection of three sets of five monologues, each centered around a different perspective on the life and death of Jesus. Who Is This Man? looks at the death of Jesus through the eyes of ordinary people who through various circumstances find themselves caught up in the passion story, including a soldier of King Herod, Roman centurions, and Malchus, a servant of the high priest. In Women of the Promise, audiences will journey through the Old Testament as five women...

-This day-by-day book for families is a perfect companion for the season of Lent. Each week begins with a Sunday Gospel reflection for parents and children to read together, followed by daily reflections, activities, and simple prayers for a meaningful, fruitful Lent. With the busy lives of today's families in mind, Paige Byrne Shortal has created an inspirational and useful book that every family member will find enriching.-

This second Lent resource from the author of The Naturalist and the Christ explores Christian understandings of salvation in a five-part study course based on the film The Way. Starring Martin Sheen as a bereaved father, this soulful and uplifting film observes a group of pilgrims walking the Way of St James to Santiago de Compostela. As it follows their journey of inner transformation, the course examines biblical accounts and images of salvation past, present and future and addresses the questions: What are we saved from? What are we saved for? Who can be saved? What do we have to do to be...

For over 1,500 years, believers from all Christian traditions have looked to St. Benedict, the patriarch of Western monasticism, for spiritual wisdom. And rightly so: his rule has shown how one may experience a simple, holy, and common sense life, despite the increasingly busy pace of our daily existence.

The latest addition to Liguori's popular series of seasonal meditation books provides not only Scripture readings for the seasons of Lent and Easter, but pairs them with a daily selection from the cherished writings of St. Benedict. This book encourages the reader to set aside time...