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June 2011 Featured TitlesJune highlights: · Book of the Month: Church in the Present Tense. Scot McKnight , Peter Rollins, Kevin Corcoran & Jason Clark. Four authors look at the still-evolving emerging church movement from new angles. Their sympathetic yet critical assessment examines the impact that it has had and is having on wider traditions. DVD included. · Other Featured & Recent Titles. · Messy Church. 4 new resources to support this outreach mission programme. · Hymnmakers CDs. Many titles in this popular series are now available again in boxed sets of 2 or 3 CDs. Click here for a full list of Hymnmakers CDs you can order from us: http://www.epworthbooks.org.nz/featured_books/Hymnmakers_CDs.htm
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Church in the Present Tense: A Candid Look at What’s Emerging. Scot McKnight , Peter Rollins, Kevin Corcoran & Jason Clark. 156pp + DVD. Brazos. $39.99. Four authors look at the still-evolving emerging church movement from new angles, and readers will be rewarded with new insights. They discuss important cultural, theological, philosophical and biblical underpinnings, and implications of the movement. Their sympathetic yet critical assessment examines the impact that it has had and is having on wider traditions. Corcoran says, “The emerging church is allergic to thinking about who’s going to heaven and who’s going to hell, who’s on the inside or outside. The focus is on right living rather than right believing.” DVD included. The 60-minute companion DVD provides: an introduction to the emerging church, video clips of alternative worship services and interviews with emerging church leaders and observers including Brian McLaren and Rowan Williams.
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The Hospitality of God: Emerging Worship for a Missional Church. Mary Gray-Reeves & Michael Perham. 160pp. Seabury. $35.00 Bishops Gray-Reeves and Perham visited 14 diverse emergent churches throughout the U.S. and U.K. to share in worship and identify the principles that link their new forms of worship and community. The book captures the authors’ practical and inspiring findings and builds a bridge between fresh new voices and the institutional church. A detailed and systematic analysis that features case studies and examines such issues as history, method, setting, scripture, prayer, music and Eucharist. Also includes liturgical texts the authors encountered on the road or created in response to their journey into emergence.
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Rediscovering Jesus. Lloyd Geering. 48pp St Andrew’s Trust. (2010) $12.00. Geering surveys the advances in Jesus research since the 1980s. He contends that Jesus was neither a prophet nor a divine figure, but a sage, one whose vision of a new kind of society so inspired his fellow Jews that they could not forget him after his undeserved execution. Geering sketches how Christian doctrine evolved out of the enigma posed by his death. He suggests that while the modern secular world has little interest in a divine Christ sacrificed on a cross, it may find the words of the rediscovered Jesus surprisingly relevant and challenging. Also by Geering:
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If The Church Were Christian: Rediscovering The Values Of Jesus. Philip Gulley. 197pp. HarperOne. $26.99. Quaker pastor Gulley explores how the church has lost its way. An eye-opening examination of the values of Jesus reveals the extent to which the church has drifted from the teachings of the man who inspired its creation. Many Christians might be surprised to discover how little Jesus had to say about the church, and that he might never have intended to start a new religion. Gulley provides a profound picture of what the church would look like if it refocused on the real priorities of Jesus. Includes questions for study groups. If the church were Christian… · Jesus would be a model of living, not an object of worship · Gracious behaviour would be more important than right belief · Inviting questions would be valued over supplying answers
Also by Gulley publishing mid-Aug 2011. Pre-order now.:
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Creative Mission: Over 50 Ideas For Special Days, Celebrations, Festivals, Community-Based Projects And Seasonal Activities. Rona Orme. 223pp. BRF. $27.99. Demonstrates that mission is fun, practical, easy-to-do and, above all, possible. The book contains a wealth of ideas to help churches, large and small, urban and rural, to connect with people who have occasional contact with the church, as well as suggestions for the church family to join in community events. Many of the ideas are for families, children and adults, to enjoy together or alongside one another. Some ideas can be used within worship; others are for social events, fundraising activities, campaigns for justice across the world or RE and assemblies in schools. All will appeal to children as well as adults, but many can also be used if there are few or no children in the church family. The suggestions are offered for both traditional churches and Fresh Expressions of church to select those that will work best for them and the community they serve.
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Creative Ideas for Children’s Worship: Year A. Based on the Sunday Gospels. Sarah Lenton. 288pp. + CD ROM. Canterbury. $58.99. A whole year’s worth of activities and ideas complete with artwork and visual aids. These 60 outlines have been developed and used in an Anglican parish church over the last eight years by a professional educationalist, artist and experienced children's church leader. The worship outlines include simple children’s liturgies and a complete lesson or story plan that harmonises with what the adults are doing in church on the same day. Through fun ideas, children encounter a real aspect of the Christian faith focused on a theme to be found in the Gospel of the day. Each outline includes a variety of options which make them workable with small and large groups of children or single groups of mixed ages. Illustrated throughout, the text and artwork appears on the accompanying CD Rom in full colour for downloading and printing or copying.
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Prayers for All Occasions. Ian Black. 154pp. SPCK. $29.99 140 original prayers suitable for anyone who leads public prayers, or is looking for a resource to enrich private devotions. Covering a wide variety of subjects, the prayers are grouped under broad headings: Through the year; Church and ministry; Pastoral prayers; Community; Government and justice; Home and family life; Food and hospitality, and Devotional prayers. A comprehensive index is provided to guide you quickly to exactly what you need.
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With Love to the World. Annual Subscription - 4 issues $36 including p&p. Single issue $9.50 + $1.30 p&p. Gaining in popularity, this Daily Bible reading guide based on the RCL, features Australian and NZ contributors. For each day there is a short reflection and a sentence of prayer. Over the course of the week the four RCL readings for the next Sunday are included, along with three other related passages. For each Sunday there is a series of questions for discussion and personal reflection.
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to Teenagers – DVD. Nigel Latta.180mins. Rated M. TVNZ. $29.99. Following the success of The Politically Incorrect Parenting Show (DVD $29.99), comes the next series from clinical psychologist Nigel Latta, focusing on the hormone-filled, angst-ridden world of the teenager. The show blends Latta's irreverent and provocative approach to parenthood, with sound and informed parenting advice based on his 20 years work with New Zealand families. In this fast-paced, entertaining mixture of live stage show, animation, documentary, sketches and some choice archive from 'the good old days', Latta peels back the layers of silliness which have gradually sucked a lot of the fun out of childhood, and have layered guilt on parents whilst at the same time destroying our confidence in our basic ability to grow happy, healthy kids.
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A Grandmother Prays. Rosemary Atkins. 52pp. Pleroma Press. $22.50. Rosemary Atkins has responded to requests from friends, many of whom are grandmothers, to write a book of prayers that includes many of the issues they have to face. The prayers are in a conversational style and gaps are left for the pray-er to add words of their own.
“Faith-filled writings on the gifts of aging. Gentle, prayerful and always practical.” Joy Cowley
“This is her best book yet, because she has captured absolutely the cares and concerns of grandmothers as they brew over their children and grandchildren and face change and loss in many forms.” Beverley, Lady Reeves.
A lovely gift.
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Messy Church Resources |
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NEW Messy Church DVD. Lucy Moore. BRF. $29.99 Messy Church is a way of being church for families based around hospitality, creativity and celebration. It began in 2004 in the UK and has since caught the imagination of churches of all denominations around the world as they try to rethink how to be church for people who have little or no church connection. This DVD tells the story of Messy Church and explores the issues it raises through conversations with leaders from around the UK and meeting the children and adults who make up the congregations.
This 90 minute DVD can be used to: · Introduce the concept of Messy Church · Help a new team understand what starting a Messy Church might entail · Help an existing team think through some of the important issues faced by leadership teams as the Messy work goes on.
Click here to view extracts from the DVD on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IR-VTHYer4
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NEW Messy Crafts: A Craft-Based Journal For Messy Church Members. Lucy Moore. 128pp. BRF. $19.99. A craft book with a difference! As well as bulging with craft ideas to inspire your creativity at Messy Church, it is also a journal to scribble in, doodle on and generally make your own. The intention is that it will become a scrapbook of conversations, messy moments and prayers - a part of everyday life at home where you can sketch in your own ideas, list useful websites, make notes, reflect on spiritual moments, and journal your Messy Church journey.
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NEW Messy Cooks: A Handbook For Messy Church Catering Teams. Jane Butcher. 112pp. BRF. $19.99. Designed for everyone involved in Messy Church catering teams! As well as being a useful treasure store of practical and easy-to-prepare recipes for all your Messy Church events, it also provides tips on quantities, basic cooking skills, essential equipment and ideas for relating food to a Bible story, theme or festival. There are 36 recipes in total - two delicious main courses and a scrummy dessert for every month of the year. Each recipe includes at least one helpful hint, suggested variations to ring the changes or provide a vegetarian option, and space for you to jot down your own personal reflections, comments and notes.
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NEW Messy Readings: 14 Messy Moments To Get You Into The Bible. Lucy Moore. 20pp. BRF. $3.99. Lots of people belonging to Messy Churches are starting to see that there may be more to the Bible than they'd thought, as they enjoy the stories with their children and discover its helpfulness for living the best life possible in a difficult century. These short readings for adults and teenagers, taken from all sorts of books in the Bible, give everyone a chance to join with Christians all over the world in enjoying God’s word and seeing the difference God can make in their lives through reading it.
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Messy Church: Fresh Ideas For Building A Christ-Centred Community. Lucy Moore. 208pp. BRF (2006). $26.99. Overflowing with creative ideas to draw the community together for fun, food, fellowship and worship, this resource book contains 15 themed programme outlines. Each outline has ideas for creative art and craft activities, meal plans and recipes for eating together and family-friendly worship.
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Messy Church 2: Ideas For Discipling A Christ-Centred Community. Lucy Moore. 208pp. BRF (2008). $24.99. Explores the importance of discipleship, faith development and training for leadership. Includes many ideas for practical ways to promote a sense of fellowship and community. The book contains a further fifteen units of fun, food, crafts and mess, with a year's worth of material that your Messy Church will love. There is also the guidance to enable those taking part to go deeper with God.
Messy Church 2 is ideal for clergy, lay ministers and those responsible for all-age worship; it is also ideal for those involved with outreach to the wider community looking to build on the success of the Messy Church initiative. The book is written for an adult readership, but contains material designed to resource people of all ages.
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Hymnmakers CDs |
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Many titles in this popular series, previously released as single CDs, are now available again in boxed sets of 2 or 3 CDs. Charles Wesley and Sankey CDs are available again.
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NEW Songs Of The Redemption Hymnal CD. Various composers. 15 tracks. Kingsway (2010). $24.99. This album is a treasured collection of some of the most cherished songs of the past. Birthed in the period in the church’s life where social inequalities were challenged, where great outpourings of the Holy Spirit were experienced, and where growth was significant, this collection of hymns speaks of power, intimacy and urgency in ways that are vital for us to hear today. First published in 1951, the Redemption Hymnal drew together songs that were the result of a two-decade period of growth and change within the church worldwide. Pentecostalism had been born, and a thirst for the Holy Spirit was widespread. Containing over 800 hymns, it was eventually followed by Songs of Fellowship in 1981. Click here for a track list for this CD and a full list of Hymnmakers CDs you can order from us: http://www.epworthbooks.org.nz/featured_books/Hymnmakers_CDs.htm
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Recent Titles We have one copy of each of these new books in stock. Time to supply additional copies is shown below. |
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Seeking the Risen Christa. Nicola Slee. 175pp. SPCK. $44.99 [Allow 4-6 weeks] The figure of the feminine side of Christ is widely present in art and in feminist theology, but the risen Christa has not so far been explored. In this ground-breaking book, Slee, writing in a mixture of reflection, poetry and images, revisits many of the central narratives of the gospels and key Christological themes, re-imagining them through the eyes and voice of the Christa, offering original and creative perspectives as a resource for theology and spirituality. This book is in quest of a risen Christa who invites women and men to leave behind a clinging, dependent relationship with God and to discover a wider, freer Christ.
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The Monastery of the Heart: An Invitation to a Meaningful Life. Joan Chittister. 224pp Hbk. Bluebridge. $39.00. [Allow 2-3 weeks] A powerful spiritual guide for all of us who are seeking a more purposeful life today. The book is written for seekers of any faith or none—individuals, couples, families, small groups—who are looking for true meaning while facing seemingly countless options, both spiritual & secular, and feeling overwhelmed by choices. It builds on the ancient Rule of Benedict to show us new ways of meaningful living in the very center of our own world—without ever withdrawing from it. The Monastery of the Heart is anchored in the Rule, rooted in its values, but attempts to redefine it for seekers today. Fresh in form & focus, it invites us to become within ourselves monastics of the heart.
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The King James Bible: A Short History from Tyndale to Today. David Norton. 232pp. Cambridge. $49.99. [Allow 6-8 weeks] The King James Bible was the result of an extraordinary effort over nearly a century to make many good English translations and turn them into what the translators called ‘one principal good one, not justly to be excepted against.’ Norton (Professor of English at Victoria University of Wellington) traces the work of Tyndale and his successors, analysing the translation and revisions of two representative passages.
This fascinating new account follows in detail the creation of the KJB, including attention to the translators’ manuscript work. He also examines previously unknown evidence such as the diary of John Bois, the only man who made notes on the translation. At the centre of the book is a thorough discussion of the first edition. The latter part of the book traces the printing and textual history of the KJB and provides a concise account of its changing scholarly and literary reputations.
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The 360 Gospel of Jesus: Every Angle for Every Person. Jim Currin. 28pp. Grove. $16.00. [Allow 2-3 weeks] In our concern to have a simple gospel to explain, we often narrow down the message of Jesus. This might meet our need, but does it engage with the needs of others—as Jesus did? Starting with the wide range of ways Jesus presented the good news of the kingdom, this study explores the implications of sharing faith by making connections with different aspects of the multi-faceted diamond that is the good news.
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Matariki
Matariki starts on 4 June this
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Matariki Wall Calendar June 2011 - May 2012 Te Papa Press. 24pp 48 colour photos. 300 x 300mm $19.99 [Allow 2 weeks] Matariki is a time to reflect on the land’s rhythms and how to protect and sustain resources. Traditionally, each Maori tribe had its own Matariki lore, which taught people how to live in balance with nature. The Matariki Calendar highlights the relevance of these principles today. Appealing to all ages, it features images of Te Papa’s precious taonga (treasures), contemporary Maori life, and our beautiful country through the seasons.
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CRE - Christian Religious Education 2011 |
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“… helping students make good life choices.” Epworth Books distributes this curriculum in New Zealand. The CRE curriculum is biblically faithful, educationally sound, student focussed, theologically clear and contextually appropriate. Created by practicing classroom teachers across Australia and New Zealand, CRE materials are designed for use with both single and multi-aged classes. Would you like to know more about this programme? Click here: http://www.epworthbooks.org.nz/CRE/CRE_Intro.htm Please email sales@epworthbooks.org.nz if you would like us to send you a catalogue.
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35 more titles specialled this month,and 93 titles already on special have been reduced by a further 50%. Priced to clear at 50-70% off. Click here for the list http://www.epworthbooks.org.nz/stock/sale.htm
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