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"Celebrate Easter with the Berenstain Bears in this new My First I Can Read! It's springtime in Bear Country and the Berenstain Bears are excited to celebrate Easter! Colored eggs, sweet goodies, and beautiful flowers help make the holiday beloved. But when the Easter Bunny fails to deliver eggs on this special day, it's up to the Bears to save the holiday! Beginning readers will enjoy this fun holiday tale about their favorite family of bears. This...
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Journey through Lent with Best-Selling Author Paul David Tripp
"During our forty days together, may your mourning increase so that your joy may deepen."
-Paul David Tripp
Lent is a time in the yearly Christian calendar when we mourn our sin and let go of worldly things that keep our hearts from experiencing God more fully. But how do we reevaluate and recalibrate the values of our hearts to match those of our suffering Savior?
In this forty-day Lenten...
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Fresh, accessible, and thought-provoking look at the life and ministry of Jesus
Each day's entry includes a Scripture text, meditation, and questions for journaling and spiritual growth
Lent is a journey of the mind, heart, and spirit from the ashes of humanity to the cross and beyond-to the empty tomb. The central figure in that journey is Jesus. But who was he really? Why did he come and minister among us? How can his teachings enhance our lives?...
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Beginning with Palm Sunday, the gospels record every day of Jesus' life up to the time of his death and resurrection. These eight days are unparalleled in the canon of Scripture for their narrative power, their detail, and their focus. A unique synthesis of the four gospel accounts of the passion and resurrection of Christ is provided in this seamless and elegant narrative account of the Easter events, including every detail mentioned in all four...
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Each year on Good Friday and throughout Lent, Christian congregations all over the world walk the Stations of the Cross, a commemoration of Jesus' walk to Calvary. In Walking the Way of Sorrows, artist Noyes Capehart and writer/journalist Katerina Whitley provide a fresh resource for congregations and individuals who want to explore the meaning of these Stations more deeply. Capehart's stark and powerful blockcuts of the fourteen Stations are accompanied...
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The New Covenant Passover Misnamed Easter by Orukpe Andrew is an inspirational book for the Lent. Like other great books authored by Orukpe Andrew, this book is very enlightening and motivational.
We all know Easter is the celebration of the suffering, death, burial and resurrection of Christ, but there is more! It is a generally well-known fact that the children of Israel were held captive in the land of Egypt.
After God had brought them out, the...
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• Incisive theology, yet accessible
• Small book with large possibilities for group study and personal reflection
• Makes a marvelous Lenten resource
This brilliant series of theological reflections from internationally known scholar and Anglican cleric Samuel Wells reflects on the challenges of our understanding of Christ's crucifixion that arise today using contemporary ideas in history, biblical studies, and philosophy.
Wells deals with...
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Easter is fun to celebrate but how much do you know about the first Easter Sunday? Are you able to name who the first person to see Jesus after His resurrection was? Or which gospel has the most information about the Easter story? What about who the soldiers took Jesus to first? The story of Easter is one of the most emotional and sacred tales contained within the New Testament, and the Bible as a whole; telling the story of the arrest, death, and...
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Society tells us we have the power and where-with-all to make it on our own. The Passionate Journey runs counter to these voices of self-sufficiency with a thoughtful collection of 47 Lenten devotions leading up to the most sacred time of the year--Easter. Through guided reflection, Scripture reading, journaling, silence, and prayer, we are drawn into the peace that is generated by solitude, and prompted to reorganize our priorities, slow down, and...
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From the desert to Jerusalem
The desert is a solitary place, where vital resources are scarce. The word desert conjures up images of struggle, hardship, and loneliness.
Yet, it is in the desert that the season of Lent begins. There we find Jesus, fasting forty days, and undergoing temptation by the devil.
God used the desert to prepare Jesus for his mission. What is otherwise a place of desolation and despair became the necessary starting point...
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Jessica's perfect life began to unravel, as she faced the twin pressures of raising her kids and watching her parents age. But along the way, she found new clarity on the freedom available to those willing to unclench their fists, lay down control, and truly die in a new way. Drawing inspiration from Jesus's story from Garden to grave, Jessica's message can help anyone struggling with maintaining control when life and family relationships are hard....
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Derek Maul beckons you to join him on a devotional pilgrimage through Lent. Imagine yourself sitting at the table with Jesus and his disciples. Walk with Jesus on the dusty path from Bethany to Jerusalem. Watch him closely and listen to his words of grace, hope, and challenge as he moves purposefully toward the Cross. Reaching Toward Easter features 49 daily devotions that include in-depth Bible study, personal stories, and prayers. Maul hopes that...
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Celebrate Easter with a joyful, soulful, and inspiring collection of songs about the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Most people don't often associate Easter with music, but author Michael D. Young has collected a variety of inspirational hymns and songs-some solemn, some jubilant-and his commentary on their meaning can enhance our holiday experience.
Each chapter focuses on the rich history of two songs that relate to the events...
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• Experiential activities for celebrating secular and sacred seasons of the year
• For use in churches, schools, camps, at home
Many of our experiences in life happen when several generations are together-at church, at home, in our communities. Holidays and family events are times for celebration, learning, rituals, food, and fun. This edition of Faithful Celebrations focuses on Mardi Gras/Carnival, Shrove Tuesday, Lent, Holy Week, Easter, and...
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Lent is a time to refocus our hearts and revive our love of the Lord and one another.
A Companion for the Forty Days of Lent (from Ash Wednesday to Easter Sunday)
Designed in a convenient, easy-to-use format:
-Inspiring daily reflections from some of the most gifted Catholic writers
-Faith-filled essays
-Prayers, poetry, and devotions
-Meditations for the Way of the Cross
-A treasury of spiritual insights
By spending a few moments meditating...
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¿Estás buscando en esta Cuaresma un camino de vuelta a la Iglesia o un impulso más vivo en tu fe?
Magnificat Especial Cuaresma 2023 es la ayuda perfecta.
El tiempo de Cuaresma apela a nuestras luchas y tristezas diarias, mostrando cómo la respuesta a todos los problemas de la vida se encuentra en el misterio de Jesucristo.
Este práctico librito ofrece una serie de reflexiones para guiarte a lo largo de cada día de la Cuaresma hacia el corazón...
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¿Estás buscando en esta Cuaresma un camino de vuelta a la Iglesia o un impulso más vivo en tu fe?
Magnificat Especial Cuaresma 2024 es la ayuda perfecta.
El tiempo de Cuaresma apela a nuestras luchas y tristezas diarias, mostrando cómo la respuesta a todos los problemas de la vida se encuentra en el misterio de Jesucristo.
Este práctico librito ofrece una serie de reflexiones para guiarte a lo largo de cada día de la Cuaresma hacia el corazón...
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For those seeking inspiration and devotion for Lent and beyond, A Path to Wholeness is an invitation to Lenten observance through Biblical passages and reflections.
The ache of the human heart has always been to be made whole. The thrust of the Christian hope is that it can only come to that wholeness by way of a personal relationship with God, through Christ. This book is intentionally written as an avenue towards deepening, strengthening, and for...
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La interpretación metafísica bíblica fue el punto central de las enseñanzas de Charles Fillmore. Esto se ve claramente en sus dos libros de interpretación bíblica: Misterios del Génesis y éste, Misterios de Juan. Charles Fillmore pensaba que el Evangelio de Juan tiene ciertas cualidades espirituales que no se encuentran en los otros evangelios. Fillmore altentaba a quienes deseaban encontrar lo místico a que lo buscaran en el Evangelio de...
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