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A book teaching about and from the Christian contemplative and mystic tradition to help people walk the mystic path of peace through life.

Seven out of ten Christian leaders feel overworked, four in ten suffer financial pressures, only two in ten have had management training, and 1,500 give up their job over a ten-year period. This book faces the challenge of raising up new leaders and helps existing leaders to mature.

This inspirational book takes the reader through Advent to the celebration of Christmas through the eyes and beliefs of Celtic Christianity.

Nurturing children in the Christian faith is a privilege given to all of us whose responsibility it is to raise children. God's desire is that our parenting guides each child to meet and know him, and to live with him every day through to eternity.In this fully updated compilation of her Parenting Children for a Life of... series, Rachel Turner explores how the home can become the primary place in which children are nurtured into the reality of God's loving presence and encouraged to grow in a two-way relationship with him that will last a lifetime.This book examines how we can enable our children to know what it means to be in a relationship with God, rather than just know about him - helping our children to be God-connected rather than merely God-smart. Each chapter includes true stories and questions to help us reflect on our own experience as we journey together with our children.

'Great are the works of the Lord, studied by all who delight in them,' says Psalm 111:2. We all benefit from science, and we all make choices about how to use its fruits. This series of reflections lets scientific discoveries fuel your worship and helps you to consider how we can move forward wisely in a scientific society. Written by a diverse group of scientists and theologians associated with the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion in Cambridge, UK, you are invited into the conversation whether you are a scientist or not, and you are given the opportunity to respond in both praise and practical action.

God loves to bring people into community, into a knowledge of being loved and valued. Many people, especially those living in marginalised and socially deprived communities, struggle with mainstream church. The Ignite café-church model, pioneered in Canterbury Diocese, is designed to build relationships and share faith with people where they are, in their own communities. Through eating and exploring faith together, Ignite shares the gospel in both word and action, while also supporting people's essential needs. This book sets out how to plan and run Ignite in your context. It covers building and supporting a team, how best to set up for Ignite and the style in which it should be delivered. Pre-planned 'running orders' provide two years' worth of weekly material including video clips, table discussions, quizzes, short talks, craft activities, drama and prayer responses.

An Advent journey through the Bible, exploring the brokenness of the world and the gift of a saviour to bring healing and wholeness.

Is this all there is to faith?Every Christian carries a map, a mental image of their journey through life, created from their Christian tradition, their cultural background and their understanding of the Bible. Most Christians will also, at some point in their life, begin to question their map - causing them to ask, 'Is this all there is?' and 'How did I get here?'Mary and Charles Hippsley help us to identify our faith map, including the unexamined assumptions that underpin it. Then, drawing on a range of sources of wisdom including personal experience, they gently encourage us to allow God to expand our map when we find that our faith doesn't match up with the reality of life. They aim to equip the reader to navigate their journey towards maturity by exploring new paths and landscapes of faith.

A prayerful resource, this book uses reflection, scripture and Julian of Norwich's own teachings to present a meditation that enables the reader to linger on the wonder of the cross.

Step into the Easter story...Acclaimed storyteller David Kitchen reimagines the Easter narrative through a varied cast of characters, from Mary Magdalene to Caiaphas. If you want to understand who might have been where and doing what as the Easter story unfolds, this book gives you answers. It also lets you sense what it could have been like to be one of those involved in the twists and turns of one of the most extraordinary stories in the whole of history.

Each issue of New Daylight provides four months of daily Bible readings and comment, with a regular team of contributors drawn from a range of church backgrounds. New Daylight covers a varied selection of Old and New Testament passages, biblical themes, characters and seasonal readings.

Each issue contains twelve session outlines for Messy Churches, running through the year from September to August. Everything you need to run your Messy Church, including activity photos, mealtime cards, social action ideas and templates, all downloadable from the Messy Church website. With an introduction by Aike Kennett-Brown.

A beautifully illustrated book focusing on forty women from the Old Testament. Designed to be used as a devotional journey, with a practical reflection and prayer each day.

Say goodbye to exhaustion and overwhelmâEUR¿ In our fast-paced world, Finding Flourishing redefines wellbeing as an accessible daily pursuit, even for the busiest among us. Naomi Aidoo presents a practical and tangible approach to achieving wellbeing, one that doesnâEUR(TM)t require adding yet another technique to your busy schedule. Instead, it enhances your day-to-day mentally, emotionally and spiritually. Exploring wellbeing from a biblical standpoint, Aidoo considers how it might look in our relationships, our work and the rest of our lives, and uses the T.I.M.E. framework to offer manageable steps towards achieving it. This book is an interactive journey with thought-provoking questions, journal prompts, and the opportunity to reflect on daily life from a spiritual perspective, helping you discover a path to everyday wellbeing.

Isabelle Hamley explores what it meant for God to become flesh and how this enables us to understand what it means to be human.

The Everyday God explores, through an extended biblical reflection upon Matthew 25:34-40 and real-life examples, how works of social and environmental justice and mercy can transform lives.

Drawing from his experience of co-leading pilgrimages in Britain and Ireland, Michael Mitton captures the essence of 23 significant pilgrimage sites for anyone from experienced pilgrims to armchair pilgrims. Each chapter outlines the story of the Celtic saint who founded the site, together with information about the location, a poem inspired by the author's experience of that place, a reflective question, a suggested Bible reading and a photo of the site.

Christmas is a musical destination as well as a spiritual one, yet when we reach the newborn Christ child in the manger, what do we see? What music do we hear in our hearts as we join our songs with those of the angels?In 25 short chapters, each concluding with a specially written prayer, Gordon Giles explores the spiritual and biblical allusions to be found within our best-loved Christmas carols. A Calendar of Carols can be used either as an Advent calendar up to Christmas, or more flexibly over the Christmas season and into January.

In this book, Becky Sedgwick explores how grandparents can proactively encourage and equip their grandchildren to meet and know God

As a society we aren't good at talking about death, and as individuals we may try and avoid thinking about it. But death is part of life, and we must all face it eventually. For Christians, dying and death are not the end but a transition point in a story that continues. Reflecting well on our own mortality can help us to make peace with the prospect of death and to live more fully in the here and now. This research-based book includes all you need to plan and deliver a course enabling people - old or young, healthy or frail - to prepare practically, emotionally and spiritually for their last months on this earth. The course covers six topics: Legal practicalities; Life stories; Funeral planning; Physical aspects of dying; Spiritual aspects of dying; and The life to come. It also offers a range of materials on the theme of living well in the light of mortality: a creative workshop, sermon starters, Bible studies, meditations, and a set of prayer stations which combine to form a prayer walk.

In On the Way to Work Chris Gillies explores the basics of a theology of work, studies biblical role models, and discusses how to overcome common challenges associated with work.

Lenten readings and reflections consider how to love in truth, love the vulnerable and the suffering, embrace difference, care for our world, love ourselves, and love to the very end.