Download or read book Easter Faith written by Gerald O'Collins and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Belief in the resurrection of Jesus is central to the Christian faith. But how sure can we be that this belief is well-founded? In Easter Faith one of the most distinguished Catholic biblical scholars and theologians of our time draws on a lifetime's study and research to review the evidence for the credibility of the resurrection. The result is a lucid and elegant work that brings together biblical scholarship, theology, and lived experience into a unique and compelling portrait of the Easter faith of the Christian community. +

Download or read book Sharing the Easter Faith with Children written by Carolyn C. Brown and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sharing the Easter Faith with Children is theologically sound, biblically focused, educationally on target, and developmentally appropriate. Carolyn Brown writes clearly and helpfully, with conviction and passion for what to share and how to share one's faith with children. It should be required reading for every parent, educator, and pastor who wants to communicate and celebrate the Easter faith with children. Brown packs a lot of practical suggestions, insights, and activities into this very readable resource. I am confident children will mature in their understanding and affirmation of the Easter faith when they have been nurtured in families and congregations that take seriously what Brown offers. --Donald Griggs, author of Teaching Today’s Teachers to Teach It is easy to share the Christmas story and faith with children. The story is beautiful and lends itself well to pageants and other celebratory events for children. It is not so easy to share the Easter story and faith with children because the message and images are complex. Many parents have trouble articulating what Easter means to them personally much less answering their children’s questions. In many congregations children are featured in palm parades on Palm Sunday, but they are not specifically planned for at other Holy Week services. When schools schedule an Easter break, many families go away and thus unintentionally bypass the whole Easter message for years. This book explores what the Easter message can mean to children as they grow up. The author helps congregations and families share the Easter message with their children and include the children meaningfully in Lent, Holy Week and Easter observances. Included are materials for children from birth (in the church nursery) to age 12, and reproducible pages to create a booklet for parents. The first section of the book describes the particular parts of the Easter faith that are important to children at different ages and comments on the biblical Easter texts from a child’s point of view. The second part of the book works through the Lenten season, describing ways congregations can include children and providing program and worship plans, including: Lenten disciplines for children and their families Ash Wednesday Celebrating Palm Sunday or looking ahead on Passion Sunday Maundy Thursday: Recalling the Last Supper Keeping Good Friday The church-sponsored Easter Egg Hunt Easter Sunday Morning Another part of the book offers help to leaders who want to share the content with teachers, parents, or committees. Also included is a comprehensive list of related resources. This carefully researched and well-grounded, practical resource from a highly regarded Christian educator will strengthen your educational ministry with children and support parents as they shape the faith of their children.

Download or read book The Case for Easter written by Lee Strobel and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2004 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of the many world religions, only one claims that its founder returned from the grave. The resurrection of Jesus Christ is the very cornerstone of Christianity. But a dead man coming back to life? In our sophisticated age, when myth has given way to science, who can take such a claim seriously? Some argue that Jesus never died on the cross. Conflicting accounts make the empty tomb seem suspect.sHow credible is the evidence for the resurrection? Focusing his award-winning skills as a legal journalist on history's most compelling enigma, Lee Strobel retraces the startling findings that led him from atheism to belief. Drawing on expert testimony first shared in his blockbuster book The Case for Christ, Strobel examines: The Medical Evidence -- Was Jesus' death a sham and his resurrection a hoax? The Evidence of the Missing Body -- Was Jesus' body really absent from his tomb? The Evidence of Appearances -- Was Jesus seen alive after his death on the cross? Written in a hard-hitting journalistic style, The Case for Easter probes the core issues of the resurrection. Jesus Christ, risen from the dead: superstitious myth or life-changing reality? The evidence is in. The verdict is up to you. Book jacket.

Download or read book An Easter Egg Hunt for Jesus written by Susan Jones and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-08-29 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The perfect book for young boys and girls to celebreate the Easter holiday, learning the meaning of Easter and the love of Jesus through a story of lovable forest animals A quiet forest wakes up from its winter sleep. Buds blossom and trees stretch their branches—spring is here! All the animals are excited for the season of rebirth, because it means Easter is soon to come! Little Bunny and his friends get ready for the special and important day with an Easter egg hunt. But when Little Bunny makes a mistake that makes him think he’s ruined all the fun, his friends and family come together to help him understand the meaning of Easter—a celebration of Jesus's resurrection and the new life He offers us. An Easter Egg Hunt for Jesus features the same adorable forest creatures met in the heartwarming Christmas storybooks, A Birthday Party for Jesus and Everyone Is Invited to Christmas. Beautifully illustrated by Lee Holland, this picture book will offer young children a fun, relatable story of a little rabbit who makes a mistake and learns how disappointment can transform into hope.

Download or read book Easter Faith and History written by Daniel P. Fuller and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Berenstain Bears The Very First Easter written by Jan Berenstain and published by Zonderkidz. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrate Easter with the Berenstain Bears family as they share the story of Jesus’ final days on Earth and His glorious resurrection. Join Mama, Papa, Brother, Sister, and Honey as they take you down that fond and familiar sunny dirt road, deep in Bear Country to discover the story of the very first Easter. See the very first Easter from the heartwarming Berenstain Bear’s point of view—from Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem to the Last Supper to the risen Lord’s first appearance on Easter Sunday. In this holiday classic, children will experience the signature Berenstain Bears artwork as they enjoy story time with parents and grandparents. A new addition to Living Lights series of books, The Berenstain Bears The Very First Easter: Shares wholesome and heartfelt lessons Berenstain Bears fanshave come to expect Can be read by children ages 4 to 8 Sparks important conversations for early readers about what Easter means for us all Written and illustrated by Mike Berenstain, The Berenstain Bears The Very First Easter is sure to be a holiday favorite and is part of one of the bestselling children’s book series ever created, with more than 250 books published, and impacting over 300 million children and their families. Look for additional inspirational children’s picture books in the Berenstain Bears Living Lights™, A Faith Story series.

Download or read book The Berenstain Bears and the Easter Story written by Jan Berenstain and published by Zonderkidz. This book was released on 2012-01-24 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bear cubs are candy-crazy this Easter! But Missus Ursula and some Sunday school students tell the cubs about Jesus’s resurrection and show them that salvation is much sweeter than candy! Includes a sheet of colorful stickers!

Download or read book Religious Pamphlets written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Theological Investigations On the Spirituality of the Easter Faith written by Karl Rahner and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: V. 1, God, Christ, Mary and Grace; volume 2, Man in the Church; volume 3, Theology of the Spiritual Life; volume 4, More Recent Writings; volume 5, Later Writings; volume 6, Concerning Vatican Council II; volume 7, Further Theology of the Spiritual Life; volume 8, Further Theology of the Spiritual Life 2; volume 9, Writings of 1965-1967 I; volume 10, Writings of 1965-1967 II; volume 11, Confrontations; volume 12, Confrontations 2; volume 14, Ecclesiology, Questions in the Church, The Church in the World; volume 15, Penance in the Early Church; volume 16, EXperience of the Spirit: Source of Theology; volume 17, Jesus, Man, and the Church; volume 18, God and Revelation; volume 19, Faith and Ministry; volume 20, Concern for the Church; volume 21, Science and Theology; volume 22, Humane Society and the Church of Tomorrow; volume 23, Final Writings.

Download or read book The Comfort Crisis written by Michael Easter and published by Rodale Books. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “If you’ve been looking for something different to level up your health, fitness, and personal growth, this is it.”—Melissa Urban, Whole30 CEO and New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Boundaries “Michael Easter’s genius is that he puts data around the edges of what we intuitively believe. His work has inspired many to change their lives for the better.”—Dr. Peter Attia, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Outlive Discover the evolutionary mind and body benefits of living at the edges of your comfort zone and reconnecting with the wild—from the author of Scarcity Brain, coming in September! In many ways, we’re more comfortable than ever before. But could our sheltered, temperature-controlled, overfed, underchallenged lives actually be the leading cause of many our most urgent physical and mental health issues? In this gripping investigation, award-winning journalist Michael Easter seeks out off-the-grid visionaries, disruptive genius researchers, and mind-body conditioning trailblazers who are unlocking the life-enhancing secrets of a counterintuitive solution: discomfort. Easter’s journey to understand our evolutionary need to be challenged takes him to meet the NBA’s top exercise scientist, who uses an ancient Japanese practice to build championship athletes; to the mystical country of Bhutan, where an Oxford economist and Buddhist leader are showing the world what death can teach us about happiness; to the outdoor lab of a young neuroscientist who’s found that nature tests our physical and mental endurance in ways that expand creativity while taming burnout and anxiety; to the remote Alaskan backcountry on a demanding thirty-three-day hunting expedition to experience the rewilding secrets of one of the last rugged places on Earth; and more. Along the way, Easter uncovers a blueprint for leveraging the power of discomfort that will dramatically improve our health and happiness, and perhaps even help us understand what it means to be human. The Comfort Crisis is a bold call to break out of your comfort zone and explore the wild within yourself.

Download or read book Dictionary of the Apostolic Church written by James Hastings and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book New Patterns for Worship paperback written by Church of England and published by Church House Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-20 with total page 591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This versatile collection provides a wealth of supplementary material to help you customize Common Worship services for any locality, age group, special occasion or festival. It offers: • Advice and guidance on planning, preparing and structuring services. • Over 250 pages of prayers and liturgy, conveniently organised by function, e.g. Gathering and Greeting, Praise and Thanksgiving, Action and Movement. • 22 easy-to-adapt sample services for eucharistic, non-eucharistic, all-age worship and seasonal services.

Download or read book Do You Believe written by Andrew Nugent, OSB and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do You Believe? guides readers reflectively through the events of Holy Week and the Easter Triduum offering challenging insights and questions for reflection.

Download or read book Subversive Jesus written by Craig Warren Greenfield and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Jesus left the most exclusive gated community in the universe to come live with the people he loved and gave his life for, he turned everything we know and believe about life on its head. Jesus said that he came to bring good news to the poor, but most Western Christians remain disconnected and isolated from the poor and their contexts of injustice. Even our churches echo society’s pressure to isolate ourselves from the margins (e.g. by moving to a better suburb) and instead teach us how to be “nice people” who worship a “nice Jesus” and don’t disrupt the status quo. Convinced that Jesus places love for the poor and the pursuit of justice central, Craig Greenfield has sought to follow in Christ’s footsteps by living among people at the edges of society for the last fourteen years. His quest to follow this Subversive Jesus has taken Craig and his young family from the slums of Asia to inner city Canada and back again. This is the story of how Jesus led them to the margins: initiating the Pirates of Justice flash mobs, sharing their home with detoxing crackheads, welcoming homeless panhandlers and prostitutes to the dinner table, and ultimately sparking a movement to reach the world’s most vulnerable children. This book is a strong and potentially controversial critique of the status quo too often found in our churches, but it offers an inspirational and hopeful vision of another way. While readers may not relocate to a slum, they will certainly come to view their lives and ministry through a fresh lens—reconsidering how they are uniquely called by Jesus to subversively love the poor and break down systems of injustice in their sphere of influence.

Download or read book Easter for Progressive Christians written by Donald Schmidt and published by Wood Lake Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2020-01-10 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So what really happened that first Easter Sunday? The simple answer is that no one knows… only a problem if one is trying to prove that each of the stories is factually accurate. If we suspend that attempt for a moment and read the Easter stories in the gospels for what they are – profound statements of faith – we may discover something much more powerful and lasting… Few stories in the entire pantheon of literature evoke as much emotion as the gospel accounts of the resurrection of Jesus. For many Christians, these are the quintessential texts, the ones that define Christianity, their personal faith, and the whole of human existence. That’s a lot to put onto a few simple stories! When using this study, therefore, it will be helpful to have a sense of where participants are coming from. Are they a mixed group with ideas that are all over the theological map? Do they tend to approach the stories as metaphor and take the stance that the resurrection could not possibly have happened? Do they take it literally and believe that things must have happened exactly as they are recorded? Do they feel that there is some point to reading these stories, even though they leave us with more questions than answers? People’s ideas may differ – slightly or greatly – and that’s okay. The point of doing this study is not so that everyone comes out with the same belief, nor is it to convince anyone, at any time, that they must believe one thing or another. The purpose of this study is to explore these powerful faith stories so that they might in turn inform and enhance our daily living.

Download or read book The Berenstain Bears Easter Sunday written by Mike Berenstain and published by Zonderkidz. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young readers will understand the true meaning behind the celebration of Easter in this addition to the Living Lights™ series of Berenstain Bears books. Join Mama, Papa, Brother, Sister, and Honey as they go to church services, have an Easter treasure hunt, and learn about Easter. Join the Berenstain Bears as they explore the real reason of Easter and learn about Jesus’s death and resurrection. Children will discover the joy in sharing God’s goodness in Zonderkidz The Berenstain Bears Living Lights™ series of books with over 13 million copies sold since 2008. The Berenstain Bears' Easter Sunday: Encourages age appropriate discussions about the true meaning behind the celebration of Easter Is perfect for back-to-school or summer reading, birthday gifts, and holiday?gift-giving Is great for early reader ages 4-8, reading out loud at home, in church small groups, or in a classroom The Berenstain Bears' Easter Sunday: Is written and illustrated by Mike Berenstain Features the hand-drawn artwork of the Berenstain family Continues in the much-loved footsteps of Stan and Jan Berenstain as part of the Berenstain Bears series of books Is part of one of the bestselling children’s book series ever created, with more than 250 books published and nearly 300 million copies sold to date

Download or read book The Victory of Faith written by Mark J. Molldrem and published by CSS Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark J. Molldrem is senior pastor of Central Lutheran Church in Mondovi, Wisconsin. A summa cum laude graduate of Concordia College, he also holds M. Div. and D. Min. degrees from Luther Theological Seminary. A popular speaker at conferences and retreats, he has authored numerous articles in a variety of publications.