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What is a call to leadership in the church and how is that calling discerned?The goal for this session is to help leaders understand the practical and spiritual demands of leadership within the church. This study uses the modern "Help Wanted" classif...

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$7.50

The Art of Active Listening

By Allan Hugh Cole, Jr.

In any encounter between two persons, one or both of them may stand in urgent need of speaking and being heard. We should not be surprised by this need. Human beings desire for others to listen to them with consistency and care. When someone we value...

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$15.00

Choosing Curriculum

By Nancy Ferguson

It is time to select the curriculum for the next year's Sunday school. You have been asked to bring several samples back to the CE committee or curriculum subgroup. Everyone has expressed an opinion about the curriculum. Teachers want something that ...

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$7.50

How to Talk about Stewardship

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Stewardship is a lot like breathing. There is a life-giving cycle--a pattern of give and take that keeps us alive. Receiving without finding opportunities to share is akin to inhaling without ever exhaling. Likewise, if we give and give without findi...

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Introduction to Stewardship

By Elaine W. Barnett, Eugenia Anne Gamble

How do we talk about stewardship in times of employment insecurity, financial instability, and economic turmoil? Should we just hang our heads, talk about other things, and hope that this too shall pass? Or do we have a unique responsibility to bring...

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$12.00

Leading Prayer in Groups

By Kathleen Long Bostrom

All Christians believe that prayer is important. Most of us continually strive to make prayer a regular part of our day and are glad we do. Even our Book of Order insists that "all meetings of governing bodies (including local church session) shall b...

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$7.50