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Patricia K. Tull
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Introduction to St...
Elaine W. Barnett, Eugenia Anne Gamble
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People, Look East
A Study Pack on Ad...
Mary Louise Bringle
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Rebecca H. Weaver
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An Acceptable Fast 
An Adult Lenten Study
By Patricia K. Tull
In this six-week adult study, "An Acceptable Fast: An Adult Lenten Study," Old Testament scholar and teacher Patricia Tull begins each session by locating the biblical verses in their original context and then exploring a key Lenten theme related to ...
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$26.00

By Martha Miller
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

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

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

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

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

This four-session study helps youth and young adults, particularly college students, explore the many facets of the problem of gun violence in our country. Sessions are built around the movements of worship—Gather, Encounter, Respond, and Send. In ea...
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$10.00

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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

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

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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By Mary Louise Bringle, Beverly Howard
Editor’s Note: This study was originally published by www.TheThoughtfulChristian.com. No substantive changes have been made. All rights reserved.Discover the meaning of the season with "O Come, O Come Emmanuel: Reflections on Four Seasonal Hymns." ...
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$18.00

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

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

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