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March 2010 Featured Titles
Book of the Month
Turnaround Church:
Inspiration and Tools for Life-Sustaining Change.
Mary Louise Gifford. 97pp. Alban Institute.
$33.00.
Want to turn your church around, but don’t know where to start? Read how new pastor Gifford transformed a dying church into a vibrant, Spirit-filled faith community.
This is the story of Wollaston Congregational Church, a 130-year-old congregation that once was thriving in ministry, membership, mission, music, and money. For half a century, however, the church had slowly declined and was considering closing its doors. The two dozen remaining members knew they had to change, but did not know how. They had very little money left, but they were willing to risk it all. They hired Gifford, a new seminary graduate, to be their full-time minister.
Changes in worship, stewardship, and priorities, combined with the congregation’s resilience and Gifford’s optimistic leadership, have transformed this church. Honest, practical & hopeful.
Lent & Easter Selection
Click here http://www.epworthbooks.org.nz/featured_books/lent_easter.htm for our 2010 Lent-Easter list for those of you who:
· Are planning Lent and Easter services
· Wonder what’s new for group study, personal reading and reflection
· Want some fresh ideas for children’s ministry, including crafts and activities
· Are looking for Easter children’s story books.
Featured Easter titles
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LENT STUDY |
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21st century living is hectic. Getting the right ‘life balance’ between rest, work and play seems almost impossible. Life Balance aims to help groups explore:
· How to build Sabbath time into the crazy pressures of everyday life.
· How ‘Sabbath attitudes’ can transform the way we spend our time.
In five interactive sessions are: Time to Pause; Time to Celebrate; Time to Rest; Time to Play; Time to Liberate
Each session contains enough material for a 90-minute session and includes guidelines for group study, with full background notes for leaders, interactive activities, including questions for discussion and multi-media ideas (e.g. film and music) and ideas for practical action. Each member of the group will need a copy of the book. Ideal for Lent, cell and house groups.
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Lent for Everyone - Luke - Year C.A Lent lectionary resource using Tom Wright’s For Everyone Bible translation, this is the first in a three-volume series to cover the three years of the Revised Common Lectionary. For each day of Lent, there is a reading chosen from the Gospel designated for the year, plus a reflection by Tom Wright. The book grows out of a project to encourage Lent reading in the diocese of Durham.
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LENT STUDY |
Through Grit To Glory: A Daily Companion for Lent, Holy Week and Easter. Craufurd Murray. Craufurd Murray, NZ (2010) $12.00. |
In the first five weeks of Lent, this book follows the Anglican Communion’s five Marks of Mission: Pastoral Care, Care for Creation, Nurture, Evangelism and Social Justice. Holy Week dwells on the Seven Last Words from the Cross. Canon Emeritus Murray has dedicated his book to all School Chaplains and Religious Education teachers. Foreword by Victoria Matthews, Bishop of Christchurch.
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Now in eBook format |
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The Cross Walk.Now released in eBook PDF format, this book of reflections and inspiring colour photos will be a valuable resource for worship, personal and group devotions during Lent and Easter.
The eBook is a 3.38mb PDF format file. (You need Adobe Acrobat Reader software version 8 or later installed on your computer to view this book.) We will email the PDF to you when you purchase a copy from us - no postage to pay. You can easily copy and paste the photos and text from the eBook into PowerPoint or other software for presentations in church or other gatherings.
“This is a volume to lift the spirit, to warm the heart. Anna’s reflective, dramatic monologues embrace the good news of God’s love in Jesus in a charming, conversational, grounded spirit. Be ready for astonishing, wonderful words. Be ready for photographs to fill you with wonder.” John Hunt, author of We Celebrating People.
Other featured titles
The Lord’s Prayer.
John Bluck & Muru Walters. 40pp. Anglican Taonga.
$12.00
If you’re not sure whether praying the Lord’s Prayer will make any difference to your life, or have given up trying, then read this booklet because it’s written for you. Bluck and Walters encourage readers to reflect deeply about this important prayer. Includes te Reo Maori section. Suitable for study groups.
Working From A Place Of Rest:
Jesus And The Key To Sustaining Ministry. Tony
Horsfall. 130pp. BRF. $24.99.
Exhaustion, burnout, tiredness, even breakdown are all too common, not least among those involved in Christian ministry. We can easily forget that there were many times when Jesus was willing to rest, to do nothing except wait for the Spirit’s prompting. Horsfall reflects on the story of Jesus and the Samaritan woman to draw out practical guidance for sustainable Christian life and work.
Also on this topic: Ministry Burnout. Geoff Read. 28pp. Grove Books (2009). $16.00.
Coming Back To Earth: From gods, to God, to
Gaia. Lloyd
Geering. 221pp. Polebridge. $37.00
Geering suggests that mainline churches are struggling because they are out of step with the secular world. He calls on churches to abandon old doctrines and to bring the sacred back to earth.
Coming soon by Geering: Such is Life: A Close Encounter with Ecclesiastes. Steele Roberts. $29.99
Introverts in the Church:
Finding Our Place in an Extroverted Culture.
Adam McHugh. 222pp IVP. $36.00.
McHugh shows how introverts can live and minister in ways consistent with their personalities. He explains how introverts and extroverts process information and approach relationships differently and how introverts can practice Christian spirituality in ways that fit who they are. With practical illustrations from church and parachurch contexts, McHugh offers ways for introverts to serve, lead, worship and even evangelise effectively.
Leading Common Worship Intercessions:
A Simple Guide. Doug Chaplin. 66pp. Church
House. $21.99.
This concise, plain-speaking book is designed to help anyone who leads intercessions to do so as well as they are able. Its fundamental message is simple, but vital: You are leading people in prayer, not praying in front of other people. Includes: sample forms of intercession based on Common Worship, important dos and don’ts, and creative ways to develop intercessions.
Vows: Words of Love and Promise.
Hilary Hudson. 95pp Raupo (2008). $19.99.
Step-by-step advice and full ceremonies for New Zealand:
• marriages
• civil unions
• name giving ceremonies
• renewing vows.
Lots of helpful tips on holding your ceremony outdoors or at home, co-ordinating photos, music and invitations, choosing a celebrant, getting a license.
Mansions of the Heart: Exploring
the Seven Stages of Spiritual Growth. Thomas
Ashbrook. Hbk 282pp. Jossey-Bass. $46.00.
For anyone who wants to develop a deeper more meaningful relationship with God, Ashbrook offers a step-by-step guide through a spiritual formation road map based on Teresa of Avila’s Seven Mansions. Includes a Mapping Tool that will help you discern your place on your spiritual journey and offers church leaders a process for helping members to grow into spiritual maturity.
Spiritual Masters for All Seasons.
Michael Ford. 176pp. Hidden Spring. $33.00
Thomas Merton, Henri Nouwen, Anthony de Mello and John O’Donohue all died suddenly at the height of their fame as spiritual masters but they continue to have immense followings. Through un-published interviews with some of the authors themselves, encounters with their friends, and reflections from readers, Ford explores their secrets and why their legacies endure.
A Year with God: Living Out
the Spiritual Disciplines. Richard Foster. Hbk.
HarperOne. $46.00
Through daily spiritual exercises and meditations, A Year with God explores 18 spiritual disciplines. Each discipline has 20 days of readings, beginning with scripture and followed by commentary, a meditation, and a spiritual exercise. Practicing these spiritual disciplines will help readers live intentionally, contributing to a more balanced spiritual life and a reformation of the inner self.
95 Questions to Shape the Future of Your Church:
Tools To Fulfill The Congregation’s Mission.
Thomas Bandy. 225pp. Abingdon. $49.99.
A comprehensive commentary on systemic change for the church. Church leaders and members all yearn for a new Reformation that will realign Christian congregations with God’s mission. This book frames the right questions, and focuses the right answers. It helps church leaders do the hard work of assessment and planning. We want to be faithful. Now we know how to be faithful.
First 48 Hours:
Spiritual Caregivers as First Responders.
Jennifer Cisney & Kevin Ellers. 145pp. Abingdon.
$38.00
In the aftermath of natural disaster, community violence, personal injury, and crime, spiritual caregivers are often among those first on the scene. Responses covered include: the power of presence, safety, assessment and triage, how we help, putting the pieces together, telling the story, hope, and caring in the long haul.
Introducing the Missional Church:
What It Is, Why It Matters, How to Become One.
Alan Roxburgh & Scott Boren. 200pp. Baker Books.
$34.99.
In our post-Christian culture, church leaders need to think like missionaries, right here at home. Two leading voices in the missional movement provide an accessible introduction, explaining how the movement developed, why it’s important, and how churches can become more missional.
Also by Roxbugh: Missional Map-making: Skills for Leading in Times of Transition. Hbk 204pp. Jossey-Bass (2010). $49.00
IBRA 2010 Reading Notes
Words for Today 2010. Nicola Slee ed. 384pp.
IBRA. $10.00.
(3
copies with damaged covers only left)
This book provides thoughtful, mature Christians with a year’s Bible reading notes in one volume from writers across the globe and from many different traditions. It includes Jewish as well as Christian biblical scholars and presents a lively, fresh and often radical approach to the text. Readers are challenged to act in the light of the readings.
Topics for 2010 include: Resting Places and Sacred Spaces; The Jesus Way; Silence; Moods and Emotions; Old Age; Women of the New Testament; Treasures of Darkness; Readings in Luke, Genesis, Romans 1-8, Micah.
Light
for Our Path 2010.
Kate Hughes ed. 384pp. IBRA. $27.00. (10 copies left)
Light for Our Path is aimed at younger people and those getting started with daily Bible reading. The straightforward language and style of this book is also appreciated by people with English as a second language.
These daily notes introduce readers to some of the biblical books as a whole, but they also cover a variety of themes, showing how the Old and New Testaments read together can reveal the depth, richness and relevance of the Bible for today's world.
This is not a book of technical Bible study: rather, writers from all over the world and from many different churches help readers to meditate on the word of God and see its relevance for their own life as they share its relevance to their lives.
Books of the Bible studied this year are: Genesis 1-35, Micah, Luke's Gospel, Romans 1-8. Themes cover such diverse topics as: The economy of God, Reconciliation, Treasures of darkness, Peter the Apostle
Preaching, Worship & Devotional resources for 2010 / Year C
Visit this page for a comprehensive list of Preaching, Worship & Devotional resources for 2010 / Year C: http://www.epworthbooks.org.nz/featured_books/2010_Year_C.htm
Visit our 2010 Devotional webpage for a list of resources for 2010:
http://www.epworthbooks.org.nz/featured_books/2010_devotionals.htm
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Autumn Specials
17 more titles specialled this month
Priced to clear at 50-70% off.
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