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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

Atonement
How Jesus' Death Saves Us

By Michael L. Lindvall

The ideas tentatively explored by Jesus' early followers and then further developed by later generations of Christians are often called theories of the atonement. Even though the English term "atonement" is relatively recent, the word has become the ...

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$12.00

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

Christianity in Medieval Times

By Rebecca H. Weaver

Many Christians have a notion that the Church in the Middle Ages struggled or barely survived until its revitalization in the Protestant Reformation of the sixteenth century. Yet reality shows a very different church, one that was remarkably resilien...

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$7.50

Early Church History

By Rebecca H. Weaver

When Presbyterians think of important moments in the history of the church, the events and people who shaped both the content of our belief and the practices by which we live, we turn first, of course, to the New Testament. From there we tend to jum...

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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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$7.50

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

The Meaning behind the Presbyterian Seal

By John M. Mulder

Upon the establishment of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) in 1983, the General Assembly commissioned graphic artist Malcolm Grear to create a church seal that would honor the historic symbols of the Reformed tradition but also provide a fresh new sy...

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$30.00

Mission-Driven Budgeting

By Elaine W. Barnett

It is the responsibility of session members to create and adopt a budget for the mission and ministry of the congregation. While the Book of Order clearly describes the budget-building responsibilities of the session, how that responsibility is carri...

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$7.50

Our Creeds and Confessions

By Elaine W. Barnett, Louis B. Weeks

When Presbyterian ministers, elders, and deacons accept a call to church leadership, they promise to "receive and adopt the essential tenets of the Reformed faith as expressed in the confessions of our church." And each week we stand with our fellow ...

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$12.00

Our Reformed Traditions

By Elaine W. Barnett, Louis B. Weeks

The goal of this session is to acquaint church leaders with specific information about the theological and organizational model of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). A heavy emphasis on the historical roots and basic practices of the congregation is p...

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$12.00

People, Look East
A Study Pack on Advent Hymns

By Mary Louise Bringle

The Presbyterian Leader is proud to present an Advent study pack on five Advent hymns. It is written by Mary Louise (Mel) Bringle, the chair of the committee that created the new Presbyterian hymnal, Glory to God, which will be published in Fall 2013...

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$18.00

The Trinity

By Michael L. Lindvall

Is the concept of the Trinity in the Bible? Or was it a political maneuver by the Emperor Constantine? Is it sexist? Or is it simply abstract and irrelevant? These are common questions and arguments about the Trinity--God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit....

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$18.00