Christmas is coming—break out the eggnog and candy canes! But for church communicators, this isn’t always a season of peace on earth and goodwill toward men. Christmas often means pulling out all the stops—adorable pageants, packed pews, beloved music. Not to mention planning it all on a very limited budget.For many communicators, planning your Christmas services often starts too late and never seems to end. Just when you think you’ve unraveled that last knot of Christmas lights, s...

This compilation includes the following Christmas tales for children: I - Christmas At Fezziwig's Warehouse II - The Fir-Tree III - The Christmas Masquerade IV - The Shepherds And The Angels V - The Telltale Tile VI - Little Girl's Christmas VII - "A Christmas Matinee" VIII - Toinette And The Elves IX - The Voyage Of The Wee Red Cap X - A Story Of The Christ-Child XI - Jimmy Scarecrow's Christmas XII - Why The Chimes Rang XIII - The Birds' Christmas XIV - The Little Sister's Vacation XV - ...

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Upas Tree" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Ronny West goes off to Africa by himself to research his next novel, leaving his wife, Helen, in England, unaware that she is pregnant. Ronnie is due to return around Christmas, but on the way he stops off in Leipzig where he meets one of Helen's cousins, Aubrey, a 'bad guy' who had once proposed to her. Aubrey finds Helen's letter in which she notifies Ronnie of gi...

Pray the Pre Vatican II, Traditional Roman Catholic Breviary to sanctify the Summer days, in English totally in order! No back and forth flipping, no excessive clicking, no complex calculating what Day it is or which propers, or antiphons - just click the Date and pray the Liturgy of the Hours. Super easy.*Optimized Table of Contents - click the Hour you need!+ 1960 Rubrics & Latin Mass Calendar+ Link to the Hour in the Table of Contents+ Exclusive Full Martyr...

It took only a week to make Pastor Jeff dangerous. A team of church communication pros descended on his church to share their knowledge, a venture known as Creative Missions. The status quo is now endangered.Is your church ready to be dangerous?This booklet is written by the reinforcements, men and women in the trenches of church communication. They’re Creative Missions alumni and now offer that same insight, wisdom and help to you. This booklet includes 19 essays on church...

"There in the Temple, carved in wood, The image of great Odin stood, And Other gods, with Thor supreme among them." As early as two thousand years before Christ Yule-tide was celebrated by the Aryans. They were sun-worshipers and believed the sun was born each morning, rode across the upper world, and sank into his grave at night. Day after day, as the sun's power diminished, these primitive people feared that he would eventually be overcome by darkness and forced to remain in the under wo...

Church communicators need heroes. Someone to look up to. Someone to give a jolt of inspiration, a shot of encouragement, a challenge that we can do more than this.While mulling over mobile, sizing up strategy and battling bulletins, church communicators need to know we’re not alone. The tools of the 21st century may be new, but the struggles are familiar. There are heroes who have walked this path before. They were revolutionaries, rebels and reformers. They were also artists, writ...

In this brief work, The Speciality, Generality, and Practicality of the Church Life, Witness Lee sets forth three vital items for the maintenance and growth of the church: the speciality—the faith held in common by all believers; the generality—the general attitude practiced by the apostle Paul in Romans 14 regarding practices not common to our experience; and the practicality—the practical way for the church to grow.

Christmas is the most famous holiday of the year, and the word itself evokes images of Santa Claus, reindeer, snow, Christmas trees, egg nog and more. At the same time, it represents Christianity's most important event, the birth of the baby Jesus. Instantly, well known Christmas carols ring in your ears, pictures of the Nativity Scene become ubiquitous, or maybe you even picture nutcrackers or Scrooge and Tiny Tim.

A Mustard Seed The cat and kitten were both eating supper and Marian was watching them. Her own supper of bread and milk she had finished, and had taken the remains of it to Tippy and Dippy. Marian did not care very much for bread and milk, but the cat and kitten did, as was plainly shown by the way they hunched themselves down in front of the tin pan into which Marian had poured their supper. In the next room Grandpa and Grandma Otway were sitting and little bits of their talk came to Mar...

The word but was used by Jesus often to clarify to his disciples his teaching was different from the conventional wisdom of the time: "But I say to you..." This was never more true when he was speaking about how the disciples (right up to today) were to act toward one another and toward those outside the group. Louis DeThomasis, a well-respected De La Salle Christian Brother and President Emeritus of St. Mary's University of Minnesota, uses this method of Jesus to look at the Catholic Chur...

This is the true story of a father's struggle within a close knit, relationship based Christian group whose Assemblies are spread across the USA. The story starts just before the eighty year old fundamental Bible-based group suffers a sudden hostile takeover, as mind control techniques are deployed by a long standing minister who just retired from his mysterious job at a government weapons development center.It is the most disturbing time of Rhett's life as the group fragments and ...