Religion Education

Sonja Stewart and Jerome Berryman have taken the needs of children into account and devised an exciting method for introducing three- to seven-year-olds to the wonder of worship. Their approach, which integrates religious education and worship, has been presented at numerous workshops and training sessions. Based on the authors' experiences, the methods described here will be invaluable to teachers helping children understand and appreciate worship.

This book is an invitation to a life of passion and significance. As you listen, you’ll feel like you’re sharing a heartfelt chat with a dear friend, exchanging stories, laughter, and moments of deep insights. Kim’s uplifting new book will challenge and inspire you; it will revolutionize your spiritual life.

Can somebody please help me with my money problems? Does that sound like you? This book reveals God’s plan and purpose for you to live in abundance as well as generosity. It is filled with inspiring stories of everyday people who benefited from the principles in this book. The practical advice on getting out of debt and living without financial stress cannot be overemphasized. The results are guaranteed because the teaching and principles are based on God’s word.

Humans are fascinating beings that have captured the interest of philosophers, contemporary thinkers, great theorists, and others for centuries. However, despite unending research and the many theories that abound, we continue to wrestle with the how, why, when, and where of humanity. Who are we? Are we merely biosocial beings more highly intelligent than other living organisms? Or is there more? Why are we here on Earth? Where were we before conception? What happens with us after our earthly departure? What is, indeed, the true essence of a human?

Every day, we are being formed by what we consume and engage. From social media to the latest Netflix binge, our minds are being led by what we ingest with our eyes. Yet, the call of the Christian is this: to be conformed to Christ. The work of Christian formation is an exercise in surrender of the whole self, dwelling in God's Word and allowing Him to shape and mold His people.

Your kids in public schools are swayed by secular teaching from elementary through high school. Help insulate them by finding other Christian friends early on before they lose their faith. If you see the next generation in dire need of direction and want children to know the love of God, then download this audiobook. Our kids are barraged daily, but you can help unite them for mutual support and the right friends.

Life is a gift, brimming with seemingly endless possibilities. Often, our days are filled with joy and purpose. But life can change in an instant, plunging us into a sea of chaos and fear as our faith is tested. Perhaps we are going through a prolonged season of suffering that feels like it will never end—and we spiral into the depths of despair. No matter our season of life, we're meant to live in a way that glorifies God. We're meant to find joy, hope, and peace in the midst of suffering.

Teacher, Do You Love Me? examines 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 through the lens of teaching and learning. Each chapter unpacks a word or phrase from "Love is Patient" to "Love Always Perseveres" using stories, definitions, research, and biblical references to help educators understand and apply the various aspects of the love is and love is nots outlined in the book's key passage, 1 Cor. 13:4-8. Listeners are encouraged to examine what each facet of love means and to apply the insights gleaned to the classroom and school communities.

As a ministry leader, you are constantly confronted with questions about how to handle complex situations, challenges, emotions, and pressures that surround your daily lives—both at home and at church. Children's and family ministry pioneer Jim Wideman empowers listeners to be dynamic, effective, and efficient next-level ministry leaders through practical, proven methods, not just theory. If you've been leading for years or you're just beginning, this audiobook will give you up-to-date, practical tools and checklists to live and lead well and help you to develop authentic leadership.

In this audiobook, you'll discover why Christians should never try to prove God exists. Doing so will give atheists justification for unbelief, and also demonstrates the Christian disagrees with scripture. You'll also learn the hidden agenda behind the purpose for interrogating Christians. Most importantly, Christians will learn why debating nonbelievers, and trying to reason with atheists will not bring them to Christ.

Colleges, universities, and seminaries do more than just transfer knowledge to students. They sell themselves as "experiences" that transform young people in unique ways. The conservative evangelical Protestant network of higher education has been no different. In Fundamentalist U, Adam Laats shows that these colleges have always been more than just schools; they have been vital intellectual citadels in America's culture wars. These unique institutions have defined what it has meant to be an evangelical and have reshaped the landscape of American higher education.

Beth Peltola grew up in Southern Africa, and then moved to London to begin her career in missions serving a Turkish-speaking church for refugees and immigrants. She has spent her life training Christians in the tenets of Islam and Christian mission to Muslims. This accessible book will help Christians understand the beliefs of their Muslim neighbors so that they may love them and engage them in gospel conversations.

This insightful history explores the stereotype of Dallas Theological Seminary as an anti-intellectual stronghold of fundamentalism and dispensational premillennialism. The tenures of the schools five presidents reveal the tensions that DTS, a blend of differing heritages and of opposing traditions, has experienced amid changes in American religious and cultural life.

Este libro explora una visión continua del trabajo con las nuevas generaciones para asegurar una mayor eficacia en la formación espiritual y el discipulado de niños, pre adolescentes, adolescentes y jóvenes.

He Chose You is a personal message to tweens of God's unconditional love for them. His perfect understanding of the needs of tweens today is shown in each detail revealed to us when Christ's chose to die on the cross for all. Illustrating his points with stories today's tweens will be able to apply to their lives, Lucado reveals to tweens the gifts of the cross.

The book reveals the universal and cosmic love of the Red Road. The Red Road is the philosophy/worldview/religion of the native Indian tribes/pueblos of North and South America. This worldview promotes integration with Mother Earth and the cosmos to achieve harmony within eternally evolving existence. Using the Chicano as an example, the book explores the human lifetime as a cosmic being with eternal cycles of reincarnation and integration. This cosmic journey is examined from the perspective of the Red Road.

Former Time magazine Jerusalem bureau chief Aikman takes a sober, balanced look at the Middle East, issuing a challenge to take a uniquely Christian approach to the Middle East rather than religious crusading.

Since 2000, America's most ambitious young evangelicals have been making their way to Patrick Henry College in Virginia, a small Christian school that has earned the nickname "God's Harvard". Most of these students are home-schoolers whose idealism and discipline put the average American teenager to shame. The school grooms them to become the Christian elite of tomorrow, dispatching them to the front lines of politics, entertainment, and science to wage the battle to take back a godless nation.

In this study, Ronald R. Rodgers examines several narratives involving religion’s historical influence on the news ethic of journalism: its decades-long opposition to the Sunday newspaper as a vehicle of modernity that challenged the tradition of the Sabbath; the parallel attempt to create an advertising-driven Christian daily newspaper; and the ways in which religion - especially the powerful Social Gospel movement - pressured the press to become a moral agent.

Theological Education demonstrates how churches and seminaries can cooperate through a competency-based learning approach to ministry preparation-that is, competency-based theological education (CBTE). CBTE focuses on the mutual mission of the church and theological education: developing followers of Christ who flourish in their vocations.