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Telling God's Story, Year One: Instructor Text And Teaching Guide (Telling God's Story #0)
by Peter EnnsA new religion curriculum from the team that brought you The Story of the World. The first level in a twelve-level series designed to take young students from elementary through high school, Telling God’s Story: Year One provides weekly lessons for elementary-grade students, based on the parables and the Gospels. The Instructor Text and Teaching Guide contains pithy, content-filled background information for the teacher, a biblical passage to read aloud, and a scripted explanation of the passage designed especially for young children to grasp with ease. This Year One curriculum provides a full year of religious instruction.
Telling God's Story, Year Three: Instructor Text & Teaching Guide (Vol. 3) (Telling God's Story)
by Rachel Marie StoneWeekly religion lessons for upper elementary students, drawn from the New Testament, are free from political and sectarian agendas. The lessons are scripted to make preparation and instruction straightforward and simple for parents and teachers. The third in a series designed to take young students from elementary through high school, Telling God's Story, Year 3 provides scripted weekly lessons for third graders and the adults who teach them. Each weekly lesson provides content-filled background information for the teacher, a biblical passage from one of the four Gospels to read aloud, and a scripted explanation of the passage designed especially for children to grasp with ease. Together with the accompanying Activity Guide, Telling God's Story, Year 3 provides a full year of religious instruction.
Telling God's Story, Year Three: Student Guide and Activity Pages (Vol #3)
by Justin MooreColoring pages, craft projects, group activities, and lesson plans turn Telling God's Story, Year Three into a complete, easy-to-use elementary religion curriculum. Designed for historical accuracy in consultation with historian Susan Wise Bauer. These lesson plans, designed to accompany the weekly lessons laid out in Telling God's Story, Year Three, provide enough additional activities to fill out an entire week of home school or private school study; a core set of activities is also provided for use of SundaySchool teachers. Coloring pages accompany each lesson and accurately reflect the historical setting of the original stories, while a full range of crafts, games, and activities help young students understand and remember. Peace Hill Press has already produced best-selling activity books to accompany its award-winning educational series The Story of the World: History for the Classical Child; First Language Lessons for the Well-Trained Mind; and The Complete Writer: Writing with Ease.
Telling God's Story, Year Two: Instructor Text & Teaching Guide (Telling God's Story)
by Peter EnnsWeekly religion lessons for second-graders, scripted for parents and teachers to make preparation and instruction straightforward and simple. The second in a twelve-year series designed to take young students from elementary through high school, Telling God's Story, Year Two provides scripted weekly lessons for second graders and the adults who teach them. Each weekly lesson provides pithy, content-filled background information for the teacher, a biblical passage from one of the four Gospels to read aloud, and a scripted explanation of the passage designed especially for children to grasp with ease.
Telling God's Story, Year Two: Student Guide & Activity Pages (Telling God's Story)
by Justin MooreHost a feast like ones Jesus and his disciples might have eaten. Defend a flock from wolves. Learn about compassion by playing the Good Samaritan Game, and re-create Jesus' final days with the Passion Week comic strip. These lesson plans, designed to accompany the weekly lessons laid out in Telling God's Story: Instructor Text and Teaching Guide, Year Two (sold separately), provide enough additional activities to fill out an entire week of home school or private school study. A core set of activities is also provided for the use of Sunday School teachers. Coloring pages accompany each lesson and accurately reflect the historical setting of the original stories, while a full range of crafts, games, and activities help young students understand and remember.
Telling God's Story: A Parents' Guide to Teaching the Bible (Telling God's Story)
by Peter EnnsA new religion curriculum from the team that brought you The Story of the World. In this accessible and engaging book, Peter Enns (author of the controversial and best-selling Inspiration and Incarnation: Evangelicals and the Problem of the Old Testament) provides parents and teachers with a straightforward and intelligent twelve-year plan for teaching the Bible. Written for lay readers but incorporating the best scholarly insights, Telling God's Story avoids sectarian agendas. Instead, Enns suggests beginning with the parables of the Gospels for the youngest students; continuing on with the more complex stories of the Old and New Testaments for middle grade students; and guiding high school students into an understanding of the history and culture of biblical times.
Telling Others: The Alpha Initiative (ALPHA BOOKS)
by Nicky Gumbel'What distinguishes Alpha from other initiatives is the easy going, relaxed feel of the proceedings - that and its astonishing success.' - The TimesTelling Others imparts the vision, excitement and challenge of Alpha, with a practical guide to running a successful course. Perfect as a resource for churches, the book details the principles and structure of Alpha, tips on hosting small groups and giving talks, and guidance on pastoral care. A series of appendices provides suggestions for practicalities such as administration and running daytime and workplace courses, and advice on avoiding common mistakes and pitfalls. The chapters are interspersed with testimonies, written in their own words, from people whose lives have been changed by God through Alpha.
Telling Others: The Alpha Initiative (Questions Of Life Ser.)
by Nicky Gumbel'What distinguishes Alpha from other initiatives is the easy going, relaxed feel of the proceedings - that and its astonishing success.' - The TimesTelling Others imparts the vision, excitement and challenge of Alpha, with a practical guide to running a successful course. Perfect as a resource for churches, the book details the principles and structure of Alpha, tips on hosting small groups and giving talks, and guidance on pastoral care. A series of appendices provides suggestions for practicalities such as administration and running daytime and workplace courses, and advice on avoiding common mistakes and pitfalls. The chapters are interspersed with testimonies, written in their own words, from people whose lives have been changed by God through Alpha.
Telling Secrets
by Frederick BuechnerWith eloquence, candor, and simplicity, a celebrated author tells the story of his father's alcohol abuse and suicide and traces the influence of this secret on his life as a son, father, husband, minister, and writer.
Telling Silence: Thresholds to No Where in Ordinary Experiences (SUNY series, Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature)
by Charles E. ScottIn Telling Silence, Charles E. Scott speaks of silence, often indirectly, in such ways as to create occasions in which people might become more aware of silence in their experiences of themselves and the world around them. The core question of the book is: how can people be aware of silence without turning it into a thing and losing it? Lack of awareness of silence is lack of awareness of a major dimension of lives, both human and nonhuman. Attunements with silence enable attunements with being alive in the fragility that invests even the strengths of living beings. Telling Silence performs this attunement in descriptive accounts and instances of non-reflective awareness, awareness that does not deliberate or ponder. In twenty-three "fragments," poems, stories, and ways of thinking and speaking are brought together to intensify intimations of silence telling of itself.
Telling Terror in Judges 19: Rape and Reparation for the Levite’s wife (Rape Culture, Religion and the Bible)
by Helen PaynterTelling Terror in Judges 19 explores the value of performing a ‘reparative reading’ of the terror-filled story of the Levite’s pilegesh (commonly referred to as the Levite’s concubine) in Judges 19, and how such a reparative reading can be brought to bear upon elements of modern rape culture. Historically, the story has been used as a morality tale to warn young women about what constitutes appropriate behaviour. More recently, (mainly male) commentators have tended to write the woman out of the story, by making claims about its purpose and theme which bear no relation to her suffering. In response to this, feminist critics have attempted to write the woman back into the story, generally using the hermeneutics of suspicion. This book begins by surveying some of the traditional commentators, and the three great feminist commentators of the text (Bal, Exum and Trible). It then offers a reparative reading by attending to the pilegesh’s surprising prominence, her moral and marital agency, and her speaking voice. In the final chapter, there is a detailed comparison of the story with elements of modern rape culture.
Telling The Gospel Through Story: Evangelism That Keeps Hearers Wanting More
by Christine DillonIn an age when prepackaged gospel formulations leave people cold, well-told Bible stories can be used powerfully by God to touch people's hearts and draw them to himself. After ministry in both Western and non-Western contexts, church planter Christine Dillon has discovered that Bible storying is far more effective than most other forms of apologetics or evangelistic presentations. In fact, non-Christians actually enjoyed storying and kept coming back for more. Storying provides solid biblical foundations so listeners can understand, apply and respond to the gospel, and then go on to fruitful maturity in God's service. This book includes practical guidance on how to shape a good story, how to do evangelism through storying and how to lead Bible discussions. With particular insights for trainers and those working in cross-cultural contexts, this guide provides you with concrete steps for sharing the Story that everyone needs to hear.
Telling Truths in Church
by Mark D. Jordan"This is a major contribution to the telling of truth and truths. Jordan's analysis lays bare the fear and anxiety behind the silence and spins of church authorities; it is a profound and provocative book. " --Donald B. Cozzens, author of Sacred Silence: Denial and the Crisis in the Church and The Changing Face of the Priesthood"After thirty years of attempting dialogue with the Catholic Church on the issue of homosexuality without success, I have never ceased to be astonished and totally frustrated by all the techniques the Church uses to avoid seeing the truth of its failure to deal honestly with human sexuality in general and homosexuality in particular. At this point the Church is guilty of deliberate ignorance. At last, along comes a book that skillfully analyzes all the motives and methods the Church uses to avoid truth-telling in matters concerning human sexuality. Hopefully, the present crisis will persuade Church officials to begin to speak the truth and to dialogue. If they fail to do so, this book will be a great help in enabling all of us to see through the lies and deceptions they are using. " --John J. McNeill, author of The Church and the Homosexual and Taking a Chance on God
Telling Yourself the Truth: Find Your Way Out of Depression, Anxiety, Fear, Anger, and Other Common Problems by Applying the Principles of Misbelief Therapy
by Marie Chapian William BackusMost of What Happens in Your Life Happens Because of the Way You Think. <p><p> Wrong thinking produces wrong emotions, wrong reactions, wrong behavior--and unhappiness! Learning to deal with your thoughts is the first step on the road to healthy thinking. <p><p> How to handle one's thoughts properly is what this book is all about! It explains the life-changing method the authors call Misbelief Therapy, and it can work for you. <p><p> Based on the Bible, this book has helped thousands of people for many years, and it can help you! <p><p> Telling Yourself the Truth can show you how to identify your own misbeliefs and replace them with the truth.
Telling a Better Story: How to Talk About God in a Skeptical Age
by Joshua D. ChatrawChristianity Today 2021 Book Award Winner: Apologetics & EvangelismTelling a Better Story clears a path to a more effective, empathetic apologetics for today—both for experienced apologists and those new to sharing their faith with others.Today's Christians often view the practice of defending their faith as pushy or unnecessary. Won't it just be taken for proselytizing? Don't many unbelievers find it offensive? Many Christians have shifted to a strategy of hoping that our lives will show Christ to our neighbors—and, while this is certainly good, it's no substitute to actively telling people about Christ.In Telling a Better Story, author Joshua Chatraw presents a new and refreshing way to engage in apologetics that will help you tell the story of Christ in a holistic, culturally-contextual manner that—while being respectful—helps unbelievers imagine a more complete happiness and a better meaning to life.Telling a Better Story will give you the tools to:Understand the cultural stories that surround us.Recognize how these secular stories have shaped the way many people think.Learn how to tell God's story in a fresh way that allows today's younger generations to see it as a more meaningful and more hopeful story than the scripts around it.Finally, you'll also learn how to deal with the perennial issues and common objections to Christianity.
Telling the Gospel Through Story: Evangelism That Keeps Hearers Wanting More
by Christine DillonOutreachEverybody loves a good story.In an age when prepackaged gospel formulations leave people cold, well-told Bible stories can be used powerfully by God to touch people's hearts and draw them to himself.After ministry in both Western and non-Western contexts, church planter Christine Dillon has discovered that Bible storying is far more effective than most other forms of apologetics or evangelistic presentations. In fact, non-Christians actually enjoyed storying and kept coming back for more. Storying provides solid biblical foundations so listeners can understand, apply and respond to the gospel, and then go on to fruitful maturity in God's service.This book includes practical guidance on how to shape a good story, how to do evangelism through storying and how to lead Bible discussions. With particular insights for trainers and those working in crosscultural contexts, this guide provides you with concrete steps for sharing the Story that everyone needs to hear.
Telling the Old Testament Story: God's Mission and God's People
by Brad E. KelleWhile honoring the historical context and literary diversity of the Old Testament, Telling the Old Testament Story is a thematic reading that construes the OT as a complex but coherent narrative. Unlike standard, introductory textbooks that only cover basic backgroundand interpretive issues for each Old Testament book, this introductioncombines a thematic approach with careful exegetical attention torepresentative biblical texts, ultimately telling the macro-level story,while drawing out the multiple nuances present within different textsand traditions. The book works from the Protestant canonical arrangement of the OldTestament, which understands the story of the Old Testament as the storyof God and God’s relationship with all creation in love andredemption—a story that joins the New Testament to the Old. Within thisbroader story, the Old Testament presents the specific story of God andGod’s relationship with Israel as the people called, created, and formedto be God’s covenant partner and instrument within creation. The Old Testament begins by introducing God’s mission in Genesis. Thestory opens with the portrait of God’s good, intended creation ofright-relationships (Gen 1—2) and the subsequent distortion of that goodcreation as a result of humanity’s rebellion (Gen 3—11). Genesis 12 andfollowing introduce God’s commitment to restore creation back to theright-relationships and divine intentions with which it began. Comingout of God’s new covenant engagement with creation in Gen 9, this divinepurpose begins with the calling of a people (who turn out to be themanifold descendants of Abraham and Sarah) to be God’s instrument ofblessing for all creation and thus to reverse the curse brought on bysin. The diverse traditions that comprise the remainder of thePentateuch then combine to portray the creation and formation of Israelas a people prepared to be God’s instrument of restoration and blessing.As the subsequent Old Testament books portray Israel’s life in the landand journey into and out of exile, the reader encounters complexperspectives on Israel’s attempts to understand who God is, who they areas God’s people, and how, therefore, they ought to live out theiridentity as God’s people within God’s mission in the world. The finalprophetic books that conclude the Protestant Old Testament ultimatelygive the story of God’s mission and people an open-ended quality,suggesting that God’s mission for God’s people continues and leadingChristian readers to consider the New Testament’s story of the Church asan extension and expansion of the broader story of God introduced inthe Old Testament.The main methodological perspective that informs the book includes workon the phenomenological function of narrative (especially story’sfunction to shape the identity and practice of the reader), as well asmore recent so-called "missional" approaches to reading Christianscripture. Canonical criticism provides the primary means for relatingthe distinctive voices within the Old Testament texts that still honorthe particularity and diversity of the discrete compositions. Accessibly written, this book invites readers to enter imaginativelyinto the biblical story and find the Old Testament's lively andenduring implications.
Telling the Truth: Evangelizing Postmoderns
by D. A. Carson"A pre-modern baseball umpire would have said something like this: 'There's balls, and there's strikes, and I call 'em as they are.' The modernist would have said, 'There's balls, and there's strikes, and I call 'em as I see 'em.' And the postmodernist umpire would say, 'They ain't nothing until I call 'em.'" With that humorous quote, Ravi Zacharias illustrates the challenge postmodernism poses to Christians passionate about evangelism. How do you communicate truth to a world that isn't sure what truth is--or even if truth is? How do you commend spiritual absolutes to people who insist there are none? If you've puzzled, even struggled, over such questions, the book you hold in your hands is required reading, Telling the Truth provides informed insights on the heart of the Gospel, the soul of postmodern culture, and their complex interface. This book is a compilation of thoughts and strategies from twenty-nine prominent practitioners of contemporary evangelism. Originating at a three-day conference held at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Telling the Truth draws on knowledge gained in the trenches by Ravi Zacharias, Kelly Monroe, D.A. Carson, Ajith Fernando, and other notables. It will open your eyes to how the contest for souls is fought, guerilla-style, at a multitude of fronts: relationships, the university, ethnicity, reason and emotion, the pulpit, communications . . . in short, the broad spectrum of human experience and values. You'll be challenged to discern between the unchanging Gospel and the flexible means by which we communicate it. Telling the Truth can help you lay the groundwork necessary to point biblically uninformed, postmodern men and women toward an encounter with non-negotiable truth -- an absolute revealed in the Bible that points to the reality of sin and the need for a Savior.
Telling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy, and Fairy Tale
by Frederick BuechnerA fresh, creative look at the underlying meaning of the Gospels that stresses the many dimensions of God's relationship to humanity.
Temas del Nuevo Testamento: Citas, anotaciones y comentarios
by Alberto Meca KettererAl teólogo corresponde interpretar la palabra revelada a la luz de la tradición apostólica. Los pensamientos que conforman las páginas de este libro, unos proceden de Dios (las citas), otros de los hombres (los comentarios). <P><P>Los de Dios, revelados en el Antiguo Testamento y completados por Jesús en el Nuevo. Los de los hombres intentan desarrollar los primeros adecuándolos como respuesta a tantos porqués humanos. Al teólogo corresponde interpretar la palabra revelada a la luz de la tradición apostólica. Ese ha sido mi intento, siguiendo la temática que, a mi parecer, ofrece la Buena Nueva.
Temperance and Cosmopolitanism: African American Reformers in the Atlantic World (Africana Religions #1)
by Carole Lynn StewartTemperance and Cosmopolitanism explores the nature and meaning of cosmopolitan freedom in the nineteenth century through a study of selected African American authors and reformers: William Wells Brown, Martin Delany, George Moses Horton, Frances E. W. Harper, and Amanda Berry Smith. Their voluntary travels, a reversal of the involuntary movement of enslavement, form the basis for a critical mode of cosmopolitan freedom rooted in temperance. Both before and after the Civil War, white Americans often associated alcohol and drugs with blackness and enslavement. Carole Lynn Stewart traces how African American reformers mobilized the discourses of cosmopolitanism and restraint to expand the meaning of freedom—a freedom that draws on themes of abolitionism and temperance not only as principles and practices for the inner life but simultaneously as the ordering structures for forms of culture and society. While investigating traditional meanings of temperance consistent with the ethos of the Protestant work ethic, Enlightenment rationality, or asceticism, Stewart shows how temperance informed the founding of diasporic communities and civil societies to heal those who had been affected by the pursuit of excess in the transatlantic slave trade and the individualist pursuit of happiness. By elucidating the concept of the “black Atlantic” through the lenses of literary reformers, Temperance and Cosmopolitanism challenges the narrative of Atlantic history, empire, and European elite cosmopolitanism. Its interdisciplinary approach will be of particular value to scholars of African American literature and history as well as scholars of nineteenth-century cultural, political, and religious studies.
Temperance and Cosmopolitanism: African American Reformers in the Atlantic World (Africana Religions)
by Carole Lynn StewartTemperance and Cosmopolitanism explores the nature and meaning of cosmopolitan freedom in the nineteenth century through a study of selected African American authors and reformers: William Wells Brown, Martin Delany, George Moses Horton, Frances E. W. Harper, and Amanda Berry Smith. Their voluntary travels, a reversal of the involuntary movement of enslavement, form the basis for a critical mode of cosmopolitan freedom rooted in temperance. Both before and after the Civil War, white Americans often associated alcohol and drugs with blackness and enslavement. Carole Lynn Stewart traces how African American reformers mobilized the discourses of cosmopolitanism and restraint to expand the meaning of freedom—a freedom that draws on themes of abolitionism and temperance not only as principles and practices for the inner life but simultaneously as the ordering structures for forms of culture and society. While investigating traditional meanings of temperance consistent with the ethos of the Protestant work ethic, Enlightenment rationality, or asceticism, Stewart shows how temperance informed the founding of diasporic communities and civil societies to heal those who had been affected by the pursuit of excess in the transatlantic slave trade and the individualist pursuit of happiness. By elucidating the concept of the “black Atlantic” through the lenses of literary reformers, Temperance and Cosmopolitanism challenges the narrative of Atlantic history, empire, and European elite cosmopolitanism. Its interdisciplinary approach will be of particular value to scholars of African American literature and history as well as scholars of nineteenth-century cultural, political, and religious studies.
Temperance's Trial, a Novella: Virtues and Valor #1
by Hallee BridgemanMARIE GILBERT flees France after the Gestapo arrest her father. In London, Marie is recruited into an experimental all female cohort dubbed the Virtues, a collection of seven extraordinary women with highly specialized skills. Known only by her code name, TEMPERANCE, she is trained to operate a wireless radio and returns to her beloved France. As the H-hour to execute a daring mission draws near, Marie plays a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with the unrelenting and merciless young Nazi forces that surround her.
Tempered Resilience Study Guide: 8 Sessions on Becoming an Adaptive Leader
by Tod BolsingerLeadership leads to vulnerability that requires the security of relationships to endure. Tempered Resilience: How Leaders Are Formed in the Crucible of Change is about forming resilience so leaders can lead through the resistance that always accompanies change. Tod Bolsinger, an organizational and pastoral leader, writes that experiencing resistance leaves us feeling "exposed, unsure, and often discouraged." Honest and supportive relationships are key to flourishing in these moments of vulnerability. Thus the sessions in this guide are designed to lead to honest conversations for self-discovery as well as offering practices that leaders and their teams can take on together. Following the structure of review, reflect, relate, and practice, this guide for both individuals and groups will help you to forge the kind of tempered and resilient leadership that the times demand.
Tempered Resilience: How Leaders Are Formed in the Crucible of Change
by Tod BolsingerWhat type of leadership is needed in a moment that demands adaptive change? Tod Bolsinger, author of Canoeing the Mountains, is uniquely positioned to explore the qualities of adaptive leadership in contexts ranging from churches to nonprofit organizations. He deftly examines both the external challenges we face and the internal resistance that holds us back. Bolsinger writes: "To temper describes the process of heating, holding, hammering, cooling, and reheating that adds stress to raw iron until it becomes a glistening knife blade or chisel tip." When reflection and relationships are combined into a life of deliberate practice, leaders become both stronger and more flexible. As a result, these resilient leaders are able to offer greater wisdom and skill to the organizations they serve. Also available: Tempered Resilience Study Guide