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Beginning with a brief overview of the Bible's structure and history, the authors highlight the development of the canon, point out the major events in the story of the Bible's translation into English, and assess the strengths and weaknesses of the different contemporary English translations of Scripture.

A new identity can't protect Becca from a past that refuses to go away.

Conveys the nature and role of the Conference in Methodist life and polity during John Wesley's time.

The Fund for Theological Education (FTE) annually invites our nation's premier preachers to address a group of young adults who are considering a vocation in pastoral ministry. As part of the FTE's honoring their outgoing president, Dr. James Waits, for his remarkable service as President of the Fund for Theological Education, they have collected these superb sermons. These eight sermons on vocation offer an important resource for high school and college students making vocational decisions, for older adults considering vocational changes, and for all who teach and mentor in the area of vocational discernment and who help others sort out a commitment to professional ministry. The purpose of the Ministry Conference, and the sermons delivered at the event, intersects well with Abingdon's mission to help form pastors who will serve the church faithfully and effectively. The preachers are highly recognizable and respected individuals, who will serve as trusted and wise guides for discerning a ministry vocation. They include Fred Craddock, Walter Brueggemann, Tom Long, Barbara Brown Taylor, Brad Braxton, and Renita Weems. The volume includes an annotated bibliography of publications on ministry as a vocation, and a foreword by Dr. James T. Laney, former Ambassador to South Korea, President of Emory University, Dean of Candler School of Theology. He is currently a faculty member of Emory's Center for Ethics. He chairs the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia, is a trustee of the Henry Luce Foundation, and chairs (with Andrew Young) The Faith and The City Program in Atlanta.

Methodism started out as a missional alternative to establishment Christianity, but is now like the establishment Christianity it once critiqued.

Refreshing insights into popular, well-loved Scripture. Each lesson offers a biblical basis for facing life's decisions and encourages a deeper personal faith. Contains 26 scripture passages for study that may be studied in any order. Appropriate for use in groups or for individual study. Volumes may be studied in any order.In this volume 12 Old Testament passages and 14 New Testament passages will be studied. Some of the chapters include: The Lord Is My Shepherd, The Suffering Servant, A New Covenant, The Beatitudes, Go Into All the World and A New Heaven and a New Earth. (separate leader's guide #071895)

A trustworthy guide to the rich and perplexing symbolism of the Book of Revelation.

The first of three theological volumes, this volume is devoted to four foundational treatises on soteriology.

This 64-page Leader Guide pdf contains everything needed to guide your group through the 5-session DVD study, The Journey: Walking the Road to Bethlehem. Inside you ll find session plans, discussion questions, as well as multiple format options and suggestions of ways to make the study a meaningful experience for any group.

This book is the story of the Central Jurisdiction of the Methodist Church, the jurisdiction that was created for African American members of the three bodies uniting in 1939. James S. Thomas sketches the history of American Methodism from its earliest beginnings through the years of tumult around the issue of slavery and on into the twentieth century. But the bulk of the book is that story that could best be told only by an insider, in this case, by the one who served as chairperson of the Central Jurisdiction Study and Research Committee, popularly known as the Committee of Five, which formulated the plan for the merger of the Central Jurisdiction's annual conferences into the regional jurisdictions. Officially, the story of the Central Jurisdiction began in 1939. But the attitudes and social practices that prompted its creation go much further back into history. As those attitudes evolved--by a combination of legislated change within the wider society and the opening of the minds of many people--the ever-present dilemma of the Central Jurisdiction was resolved. Its demise, says Bishop Thomas, enables The United Methodist Church more faithfully to seek the goal of one Shepherd, one fold. ............................. For those desiring to read a concise but accurate historical outline of African Americans in The United Methodist Church, this is the book. For those desiring tidbits of data not included in typical history books, commingled with insertions of American history, this book will serves as a rich resource. - From the Foreword by Bishop Forrest C. Stith

The "Switching Hour" is that time both hoped for and dreaded, when children go from one world to another as they shuttle between divorced parents.

An easy-to-understand introduction to basic financial principles as related to stewardship and church administration