Grief, anxiety, hope, love, pain, despair, awe—many emotions are used to describe our relationship with all of Creation. What is your personal, physical, and spiritual relationship with God’s Creation?How does this relationship affect how you follow Christ? This Lenten devotional invites us to deepen our love for Creation and take action or fast for a climate in crisis. Includes a study guide.

Here is a complete, integrated, principles-centered approach to releasing the awesome potential trapped within you. If you are frustrated by your dreams, ideas, and visions, this book will show you a step-by-step pathway to releasing your potential and igniting the wheels of purpose and productivity.

What if you only had one month to live?Kerry and Chris Shook’s thirty-day challenge now includes a revolutionary study for making every day count. This is the guidebook for taking the next steps toward integrating the One-Month-to-Live lifestyle into your personal way of life. Alone, one-on-one, or in a group, this in-depth, scriptural study brings a whole new level of power to living passionately, loving completely, learning humbly, and leaving a legacy to impact ...

Much ministry to children looks more like mere entertainment than authentic spiritual formation. But what if children's ministries were rooted in a mind set whereby we taught children, with our words and actions, how the story of God, the story of church history, the story of the local community, and the story of the child intersect and speak to one another? What if children's ministry was less about downloading information into kids' heads and more about leading them into these powerful, ...

Does your faith inform your daily choices? Lesser Evils reflects on the decisions we make every day, from “Do I take this parking space?” to “Do I wear this mask?” to “Do I choose to forgive you?” Daily scripture, reflections, personal questions, and prayers for individual devotions or group study explore how to attempt to seek wisdom and do good as followers of Jesus. A study guide for groups is included.

Christian people who come to work in Australian Indigenous communities have expectations about what the Indigenous Christians are like. Most likely this will be based on what Christian fellowship was like at home. However, many find what they see and experience unexpected and puzzling.The primary reason for this is that our Western culture views the world in a completely different way from Indigenous culture.The beliefs which underlie our cultures affect every aspect of our l...

Where do we find the core of life's meaning? Right on the job! At whatever work we do - with head or hand, from kitchen to executive suite, from your house to the White House! "Work is the great equalizer - everyone has to come to it in order to find meaning in living: no short cuts, no detours, no bargain rates."

A Rocha is an international Christian organization which, inspired by God’s love, engages in scientific research, environmental education and community-based conservation projects. Our vision is the transformation of people and places into healthy communities through a movement of individuals and groups, caring for God’s world.

The design approach called permaculture is most often used for landscape planning, natural resource planning, and gardening. Now, more often, it's ethics and principles are being applied to human communities. There is also a growing acknowledgement of its foundation in land-based spirituality and practice of indigenous communities across the globe.The humble awareness of this integration is instructive for people of faith seeking to address the climate crisis. This field guide seeks to app...

Ana Levy-Lyons, a public theologian who is equally at home in secular and religious worlds, offers a deeply perceptive reinterpretation of the Ten Commandments for our modern lives.The Ten Commandments are a spiritual resource for social justice. A politically and spiritually brazen prescription for living, the Ten Commandments would turn our world upside down if we actually followed them. Far from being only ethical norms on which everyone already agrees or a remn...

Downstream from Eden is a celebration of water in a less-than-perfect world. It will inspire you and bring you hope,Probably the most comprehensive study of water and the Bible you will find anywhere. Well-researched and highly readable, with stories from Icelandic waterfalls to the Aral Sea, from the origins of the universe to the Apocalypse, the author weaves a conversation that turns water into wine. You will sip and savor page after page.Water is an urgent global concer...

2020 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award Finalist—Body, Mind and SpiritI choose to breathe in the wonder of God's eternal love, And dance to the rhythm of eternal breath,Listening to the whispers calling me to slow down and take notice. I choose to absorb the beauty of the divine presence, to delight in the Creator of all things and relish the delight God takes in me.Can you imagine a God who dances with shouts of joy, laughs when you la...