Download or read book The Upper Room Disciplines 2013 A Book of Daily Devotions written by and published by Upper Room Books. This book was released on with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Upper Room Disciplines 2013 written by Upper Room Books and published by . This book was released on 2007-08 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers daily Bible readings and reflections that can develop the practice of spending regular devotional time with scripture.
Download or read book The Upper Room Disciplines 2013 written by Upper Room Books and published by . This book was released on 2007-08 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers daily Bible readings and reflections that can develop the practice of spending regular devotional time with scripture.
Download or read book The Upper Room Disciplines 2022 written by and published by Upper Room Books. This book was released on 2021-09-01 with total page 665 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Upper Room Disciplines 2022: A Book of Daily Devotions helps readers become rooted in the teachings of God through meditations and scripture reading. A diverse group of 52 Christian thought leaders each contribute a week of topical devotions that reveal something new about God and humanity, sin and grace, revelation and humility, individual discipleship and life in community. Daily readings in The Upper Room Disciplines include a selected scripture passage, a meditation on the scripture, and a prayer or suggestion for reflection. Each week has 7 devotions focusing on a particular theme, engages readers with texts from the Revised Common Lectionary, and helps show how the ancient stories of the Bible relate to our lives today. Among the writers for 2022 are Patricia Raybon, Steve Harper, Lydia Wylie-Kellermann, Will Willimon, Gennifer Brooks, Ben Ingebretson, Layton E. Williams, Ben Yosua-Davis, Amy Oden, Juan Carlos Huertas, Kathy Khang, Derek Weber, Brandan Robertson, and Heather Murray Elkins.
Download or read book The Upper Room Disciplines 2014 written by Rita Collett and published by Upper Room Books. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You probably know the benefits of rest, relaxation, and meditation for your physical health. But what about your spiritual health? What if you could escape every day to a tranquil retreat to restore your soul? You can find this kind of peace and rejuvenation through Disciplines, The Upper Room's best-selling book of daily devotions based on scripture passages from the Revised Common Lectionary. Fifty-three writers from diverse locales, ethnicities, and Christian traditions help you grow in your knowledge of the Bible and how to apply its truths to your life. Sample of 2014 Topics & Writers Choose Love – Amie H. Vaughan What Only Faith Can See – Kwasi Kena Voices of Holy Week – Michael E. Williams Trust in God – Luis F. Reyes Letting Go – Missy Buchanan The Gift of Faith – Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove Heeding God's Direction – Claudio Carvalhaes Where Heaven and Earth Meet – Jan L. Richardson. Enrich your daily walk with God with The Upper Room Disciplines. If you want to share the journey with a small group, each week offers an overview of the scripture for that week plus questions and thoughts for reflection and discussion. With Disciplines, your escape to a spiritual retreat is always nearby. Also available in Enlarged Print.
Download or read book The Upper Room Disciplines 2014 Enlarged Print Edition written by Rita Collett and published by . This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This best-selling book of daily devotions based on the Revised Common Lectionary features 53 writers from diverse locales, ethnicities, and Christian traditions. Writers for 2014 include Missy Buchanan, Jan Richardson, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, Steve Garnaas-Holmes, Luis Reyes, Kwasi Kena, Claudio Carvalhaes, and many others. Each week opens with a scripture overview and questions and thoughts for reflection that can be used individually or with a small group. Each daily reading focuses on a selected scripture passage and ends with a prayer or suggestion for meditation.
Download or read book The Upper Room Disciplines 2023 written by and published by Upper Room Books. This book was released on 2022-09-01 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strength for Your Spiritual Journey Center your heart and mind on God each day with The Upper Room Disciplines. Readings in this year-long devotional will awaken and strengthen your awareness of God's presence in your daily life. Each week a different Christian thought leader offers daily meditations, scripture readings, and prayers that will help you engage God's Word. Based on the Revised Common Lectionary, a three-year cycle of Sunday scripture readings, Disciplines features: a focal scripture passage for each day, short daily meditations from 53 thought leaders from diverse Christian traditions, a reflection or prayer to carry with you each day, weekly scripture overviews, an index of scripture readings, and a guide to daily prayer. Among the writers for the 2023 edition of Disciplines are Hannah Adair Bonner, Tex Sample, Barbara Brown Taylor, Elizabeth Corrie, Bishop Karen Oliveto, Richard Morgan, Chanequa Walker-Barnes, and Peter Wallace.
Download or read book The Upper Room Disciplines 2016 written by Rita Collett and published by Upper Room Books. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The word discipline stirs up many feelings—anxiety or anticipation, dread or excitement. Yet spiritual disciplines (or practices) can give structure to our Christian life and help us grow spiritually. The practice of setting aside a regular time to spend with God—reading scripture, praying, meditating on God's message for us—is one of the most helpful disciplines Christians can undertake. Let The Upper Room Disciplines help strengthen your daily walk with Christ. This award-winning daily devotional guide features 53 writers from various Christian traditions and locales. Writers for 2016 include Elaine Stanovsky, D. J. del Rosario, Mary Donovan Turner, Thomas R. Hawkins, Linda Douty, Juan Huertas, Chanequa Walker-Barnes, and Heather Murray Elkins. The Upper Room Disciplines offers us the annual gift of deciding to be disciplined—to schedule and practice daily attention to God. We can choose whether to accept this invitation. When we do, Disciplines grants us the opportunity to meet the living presence of the triune God—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—the one who creates, redeems, and sustains us through all the seasons of our lives.
Download or read book A Guide to Prayer for All Who Walk with God written by Norman Shawchuck and published by Upper Room Books. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, the fourth in The Upper Room’s bestselling “Guide to Prayer” series, offers a simple pattern of daily prayer built around weekly themes and organized by the Christian church year. Each week follows this pattern: Affirmation Psalm Psalm Prayer Daily Scripture Readings Silence Daily Reading Reflection (Silent or Written) Prayers Offering of Self to God Blessing The daily readings are drawn from the history of Christian spirituality and feature such writers as Francis of Assisi, Teresa of Avila, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Henri J. M. Nouwen, Sue Monk Kidd, Douglas Steere, Jan Richardson, Trevor Hudson, Wendy M. Wright, and many others. Beautifully bound in a leather-like cover, A Guide to Prayer for All Who Walk with God makes a perfect gift and a reliable companion for anyone seeking to deepen a steady life of prayer.
Download or read book Guidelines for Leading Your Congregation 2013 2016 Worship written by Taylor W. Burton-Edwards and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2012-11 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The worship ministry of the local church is often the first, if not only, entry point for people seeking to establish a relationship with God in a Christian community. The ways in which we worship and honor God set a tone for the overall ministry of the church. This guideline is designed to help implement and guide the work of the ministry area. This is one of the twenty-six Guidelines that cover church leadership areas including Church Council and Small Membership Church, the administrative areas of Finance and Trustees, and ministry areas focused on nurture, outreach, and witness including Ev.
Download or read book Guidelines for Leading Your Congregation 2013 2016 Set of 26 written by General Board Of Discipleship and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 985 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Guidelines’ booklets, one for each ministry area, are tools that enable you to help get new lay leaders off to a good start. Each booklet includes the basic "job description" for the leader as well as practical "how-to" information important to implementing ministry effectively. Brief and to the point for the busy, but spirit-led leader, these Guidelines take some of the unknown out of leading these ministry areas. One booklet for each title makes up this set of 26 Guidelines, perfect for making them available to all church members. The twenty-six Guidelines, one for each ministry area, cover church leadership areas including Church Council and Small Membership Church; the administrative areas of Finance and Trustees; and ministry areas focused on nurture, outreach, and witness including Worship, Evangelism, Stewardship, and Christian Education, age-level ministries, Communications, and more. The download file of a product is copyrighted just as a print resource is copyrighted. In the case of the Guidelines Set of 26, the purchaser can extract one copy of each booklet for an individual to use. (For example, one copy can be extracted for the chair of the stewardship committee; one for the person responsible for adult ministries; one for the lay leader). Additional copies are purchased separately as needed. Download files for each individual booklet are sold separately, just as print copies of the booklets are sold separately.
Download or read book Serenity Prayer written by Trevor Hudson and published by Struik Christian Media. This book was released on 2010-12-15 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of our greatest longings today is for peace – in our own hearts and in the world around us. We have the desire to be at peace with ourselves, others and with God. In response to this search for peace, Trevor Hudson expounds on a simple prayer that most of us are familiar with:"God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference." Trevor carefully explains the meaning of each part of the prayer and its application to our lives. Chapters include: Learning to live one day at a time; Surrendering to God’s will; Accepting hardships; Changing the things we can. The Serenity Prayer will help you develop those attitudes that will enable you to find peace even in difficult circumstances.
Download or read book The Upper Room Disciplines 2024 written by and published by Upper Room Books. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 701 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I pray you find the same poetic beauty, awe-inspiring wisdom, and challenge to deeper discipleship that I have discovered in the lectionary and the pages of Disciplines." —Kara Lassen Oliver Challenge yourself to a deeper relationship with Christ each day with The Upper Room Disciplines. Readings in this year-long devotional will awaken and strengthen your awareness of God’s presence in your daily life. Each week a different Christian thought leader offers daily meditations and prayers that will help you engage in God's Word. Based on the Revised Common Lectionary, a three-year cycle of scripture readings, Disciplines features: A focal scripture passage for each day of the year Brief, insightful meditations from 53 thought leaders from diverse Christian traditions A prayer or reflection to carry with you each day Weekly scripture overviews An index of scripture readings A guide to daily prayer Among the writers for the 2024 edition of Disciplines are Gabby Cudjoe-Wilkes, Johnathan Wilson-Hartgrove, Will Willimon, Tracy Malone, David Dark, Whitney Simpson, and Ray Buckley.
Download or read book The Upper Room Disciplines 2000 written by Rita Collett and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gather Us In written by Angela D. Schaffner and published by Upper Room Books. This book was released on 2020-07-01 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The church can become a place where people want to run to instead of away from during times of suffering. Small groups offer a safe space for individuals to connect meaningfully with one another, and they also provide an environment where relational healing can begin. This comprehensive guide to leading small groups provides eight strategies for leading transformative small groups, dispels common myths about leading groups, and helps readers understand how groups work and the life stages of a group. The author suggests practical ways to lead groups effectively, using examples from scripture of how Jesus worked to transform people spiritually and emotionally. Gather Us In will equip small-group leaders with wisdom for relating to others, knowledge for helping others talk about their unfolding faith journeys, and confidence in their newly acquired facilitation skills. They will realize they don't need to know all the answers to be able to lead well.
Download or read book Lay Servant Ministries Basic Course Participant s Book written by Brian Jackson and published by Upper Room Books. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "God calls you to a life of servanthood as a disciple of Jesus Christ. …Lay Servant Ministries is the first step for many laypersons toward their faith journey as they strive for a closer relationship with the Lord," the authors write in the introduction. The Lay Servant Ministries Basic Course is a foundational course designed to equip new church leaders and renew current leaders in The United Methodist Church. It explores personal spiritual gifts servant leadership each leader's role in developing future leaders the importance of consistent spiritual practices the core ministries of Leading, Caring, and Communicating and much more. The Basic Course can be used for both adults and youth. Consisting of five two-hour sessions, it may serve as a short-term study for small groups, Sunday school classes, and new member classes. NOTE: This book replaces the Lay Speaking Ministries Basic Course, DR551. The Leader's Guide is also available here.
Download or read book Aging Ministry in the 21st Century written by Richard H. Gentzler and published by Upper Room Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The church is in the hands of its elders. While the popular perception is that the aged are needy and infirm, Gentzler affirms that the majority of older adults have plenty to give. The church needs to tap into their wisdom, energy, experience, and talents. Gentzler stresses that older adult ministries need to be by and with elders as well as for them, since participants will represent all stages of retirement and activity levels. In addition to the practical issues of programming, Gentzler takes on more difficult topics of aging including chronic conditions, depression, and death. He also recommends that churches pay special attention to the needs of the Baby Boomer generation, since they are now becoming the older adults who will determine the church's path for years to come. "As Boomers have cycled through their various life stages, they passed through 'hippie' and 'yuppie' to become 'abbies': aging Baby Boomers," Gentzler writes. "But don't tell Boomers they're aging. ...They really do expect to stay young and see getting old as an option, rather than a reality." The Leader's Guide is here.
