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Take Care of My Sheep
0$5,07This first part of The Pastors’ Manual deals with what it means to be a pastor. Jethro’s first advice to Moses is: ‘You must be the people’s representative before God’ (Exodus 18:19). The pastor is called to carry his congregation to God in prayer and at the same time represent God to the church. This is a special position, in which the pastor speaks on behalf of both the church and God. The pastor’s entire life is marked by this responsibility. In this book we will look at how this ministry affects his spiritual life and his daily existence. We will also consider the task itself, typical pitfalls, and how to persevere as a pastor. While reading and studying this chapter, never forget the promise of our Lord in 1 Thessalonians 5:24: “The One who calls you is faithful, and He will do it”!
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Orthodoxy
0$10,14يشرحُ تشسترتون في هذا الكتاب سببَ اعتقادة أنَّ ’’الإيمان القويم‘‘ هو أفضلُ ما يفسِّر الوجودَ البشريّ، كما يُبيِّن الأسباب التي تجعلُه يرى الفلسفات والمعتقدات الأخرى غير مُقنعةٍ البتَّة. غير أنَّه في دفاع تشسترتون عن المسيحيَّة، يتناوَل أيضًا ما يكتنفُها من مفارَقات وغموضٍ ودهشة، مستخدمًا أمثلةً وتوضيحات ممَّا شهدَه في حياته.
ويصف تشسترتون حالنا بالقول إنَّه: ’’حسبَ أغلب الفلاسفة، إنَّ الله في خلقِه العالم استعبدَه، أمَّا في المسيحيَّة فإنَّ الله في خلقِه العالم أطلقَه حرًّا. لم يكتُبِ الله قصيدةً، بل بالأحرى مسرحيَّة- وهي مسرحيَّة خُطِّطت بكمال، لكنْ وجبَ تسليمها إلى البشر من الممثِّلين وإداريِّي المسرح، الذين منذ أن تسلَّموها حوَّلوها إلى حالٍ فوضويَّة مسعورة‘‘.
’’إنَّ من المناسب جدًّا أن نستمعَ إلى صوت تشسترتون بالعربيَّة في سياقنا الحاليّ، لا سيَّما وهو يُثبتُ بالبرهان المنطقيّ التجريبيّ، أنَّ الإيمانَ القويمَ الذي ألهمَ القدماء، لا يزالُ قادرًا على إلهامنا، وأنَّ حُلم المدينة الفاضلة النازلة من السماء، هو أكثر ما سيجعلُنا نبني في واقعنا الحاليِّ مُدنًا أفضل‘‘
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Bible for Young Children – Compact Size
0$10,14Each chapter faithfully tells the history of God’s family in language which is easily understood by young children.
The vibrant illustrations will delight both the listener and the reader! Used for family devotions or bedtime stories, this book is sure to become a favorite in your home.
The author Dawn Mueller has been a teacher of the bible for 30 years, and she currently serving as the International Director of International Projects for Children’s Christian Concern Society. She lives in rural Illinois, USA, with her husband, Tim, who serves as a Pastor.
The illustrator Gill Guile has illustrated more than 400 children’s books with her beautiful artork. Most of her work is in acrylic but she also works with gouache, pen and ink.
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Passion for Preaching
0$5,07The second advice Jethro gives his son-in-law Moses is: “Teach them the decrees and laws”. In our contemporary language this means: preach to them the Word of God. Teaching and preaching are intertwined in the Bible and so Moses has the task of preaching. Today preaching is seen as one of the main tasks of a pastor. When the congregation has gathered to worship and listen to the Word of God, the preacher is there to explain and apply God’s words to His people. In preaching, God’s words as they are written down in the Bible come alive. In order to preach biblically and relevantly, the pastor needs to dig deep into the Word, bring it close to the hearts and lives of the people. He has to make sure that the Word of the Lord has touched his own heart as well. This part will show you how to do so.
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Wa Anta Ya Azizi
0$6,76What can we find in the underprivileged fringe outskirts? We find poverty, misery, boredom, tiresome and poor services. However, if we lived in such a place, we could find a positive value hidden in all of this negativity. We might find simple people, transparent souls and a kind of deep and abyssal wisdom, which give life a meaning. The world of underprivileged is a place of joy hidden behind sadness- joy that is disconnected from technology and means of comfort. However, it is generated from inside- from the heart of humanity.
This book narrates stories from one of those underprivileged places in Homs (Syria), where people are famous for sense of humor. They are social, simple and express their feelings and experiences with simple words, but deep meanings. Therefore, the stories here are theirs, and I retold them with a bit of fantasy and a lot of literature. These stories describe their misery on one hand, and their hopes and optimism on the other. They include useful experiences to all people, no matter which social class they belong to.
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Qal Arrawi
0$6,76Stories are obligatory passages to express facts that go beyond words. They are a gate of respect through which man can look at the horizons of the secret and meaning of existence. A gate of respect because stories do not push or try to convince anyone, they rather present an event, and leave to the reader or listener the freedom to understand and decide.
This book is like a garden of stories, where you can pick fruits, sometimes easily and in others you need to exert some effort. You may find inedible stories, simply because they are colorful flowers, which covers the garden in beauty, so the spectator can enjoy its presence before leaving the place.
At the end of each story, a question or a piece of thought is included for thinking and devotion.
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Encounters with Jesus
0$10,14One of the biggest obstacles for people to accept or believe in Christianity is that they think they know all about it already. After all, hasn’t it been around for thousands of years? Doesn’t everybody know what Christians believe?
But if we look at Jesus’ encounters with various men and women during his life, we will find some of our assumptions challenged. These conversations were not about personal sins or specific religious views and practices, nor were they a set of talking points or a political platform. Instead, in these encounters we see him meeting people at the point of their big, unspoken questions: Who are we, and why are we here? Why be a good person; why love instead of hate? What’s wrong with the world—And what, if anything, can make it right?
The Gospels are full of encounters that made a profound impact on those who spoke with Jesus in this way. In this 10-part ebook series, available as a hardcover book in Fall 2013, Timothy Keller explores these encounters and how they can still address our questions and doubts today.
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Her Daughter’s Dream
0$20,28Her Mother’s Hope, Francine Rivers delivers a rich and deeply moving story about the silent sorrows that can tear a family apart and the grace and forgiveness that can heal even the deepest wounds.
Growing up isn’t easy for little Carolyn Arundel. With her mother, Hildemara, quarantined to her room with tuberculosis, Carolyn forms a special bond with her oma Marta, who moves in to care for the household. But as tensions between Hildie and Marta escalate, Carolyn believes she is to blame. When Hildie returns to work and Marta leaves, Carolyn and her brother grow up as latchkey kids
in a world gripped by the fear of the Cold War.
College offers Carolyn the chance to find herself, but a family tragedy shatters her newfound independence. Rather than return home, she cuts all ties and disappears into the heady counterculture of San Francisco.
When she reemerges two yearslater, more lost than ever, she reluctantly turns to her family to help rebuild a life for her and her own daughter, May Flower Dawn.
Just like Carolyn, May Flower Dawn develops a closer bond with her grandmother, Hildie, than with her mother, causing yet another rift between generations. But as Dawn struggles to avoid the mistakes of those who went before her, she vows that somehow she will be a bridge between the women in her family rather than the wall that separates them forever.
Spanning from the 1950s to present day, Her Daughter’s Dream is the emotional final chapter of an unforgettable family saga about the sacrifices every mother makes for her daughter—and the very nature of unconditional love.
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Teach Me Your Way
0$5,07This part is about the third word of advice Jethro offers Moses, in which he says: ‘show them the way they are to live and how they are to behave’ (Exodus 18:20). Here, Jethro is talking about the task of teaching the people of God. Teaching focuses on the practical application in daily life of that which has been preached. In the Bible, teaching always centres on practising what we preach.
In the worldwide church, this teaching is known as discipleship. How can we live our lives as disciples of Jesus? How can we grow in following Christ? What does it mean to be a child of the Father? These things require knowledge of what the faith is really all about, and instruction as to how to put this knowledge into practice day by day. Discipleship combines our creed with our conduct; it deals with what we believe and what we do. That is what this part of the Pastors’ Manual is all about: what do you teach your people in order to help them grow as disciples of Jesus. You can present the many questions in this section to your congregation when you teach them these lessons and you can also use them to go deeper into these lessons yourself.
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Simply Good News
0$10,14The Gospel means good news. But if the message has been around for 2,000 years, what makes it significant today? What’s so “good” about stories involving damnation, violence, and a God who sacrifices his only son?
Noted Bible scholar N.T. Wright shows us how Christians today have lost sight of what the “good news” of the gospel really is. In Simply Good News, he takes us back in time to reveal how the people of the first-century—the gospel’s original audience—would have received Jesus’ message. He offer a clear and thoughtful analysis of what the “good news” really is, and applies it to our lives today, revealing its power to transform us.
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Vanishing Grace
0$13,52Philip Yancey has been asking this all his life as a journalist. His perennial question is more relevant now than ever. Research shows that favorable opinions of Christianity have plummeted drastically―and opinions of Evangelicals have taken even deeper dives.
So what’s so good about the Good News?
In his landmark audiobook, What’s So Amazing about Grace, Yancey issued a call for Christians to be as grace-filled in their behavior as they are in declaring their beliefs. He now aims this book at Christians again, showing them how they have lost respect, influence, and reputation in a newly post-Christian culture. Exploring what may have contributed to hostility toward Evangelicals―especially in their mixing of faith and politics instead of embracing more grace-filled ways of presenting the gospel―Yancey offers illuminating stories of how faith can be expressed in ways that disarm even the most cynical critics. Then he explores what is Good News and what is worth preserving in a culture that thinks it has rejected Christian faith.
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We are different & Alike- A Book about Diversity- Just for me books
0$5,07us are exactly alike. Every creature is unique and every person has their own individual personality, talents, and interests. In We Are Different And Alike, author Cynthia Geisen helps young people understand and appreciate the diversity of the world around us and its many expressions in families, faiths, races, and cultures.
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My Family is changing- A Book about Divorce- Just for me books
0$5,07Inevitably divorce is difficult for children. There is no way around this. But even the very youngest children need a way to understand and make sense of how their family is changing. Author Emily Menendez-Aponte offers a starting point to begin explaining divorce to your child. She helps explain to children that divorce is not their fault, that it’s normal to feel upset and scared and confused, and that it’s good to get all these feelings out.
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Jesus Calling Storybook Bible
0$13,52Jesus is calling out to our hearts, and you can hear His voice in every story in the Bible. These carefully selected stories are paired with new children’s devotions from Sarah Young and will help young hearts understand God’s grand plan to send His Son, Jesus, to save His children and prepare a place for us in heaven.
Bestselling author Sarah Young has touched millions of lives through her devotionals based on Scripture and written as though Jesus is speaking directly to the reader. This book will lead God’s children, young and old, to talk to Jesus through prayer and to listen to His voice speaking love to their hearts.
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As Sure As the Dawn
0$20,28In this final installment of the Mark of the Lion series, Atretes, the Germanic warrior, returns to play a central role in the story. Hadassah is confined to the cells below the arena and is facing death once again. Marcus, shattered by the loss of Hadassah, goes in search of God, while his sister Julia lies dying of a strange new illness, longing for a forgiveness beyond her reach. Meanwhile, Atretes vows to move heaven and earth to find his son—the baby he thought was dead, and whose life Hadassah has saved—and take him back to Germania. Only one thing stands in his way: Rizpah, a Christian widow who has cared for the baby since his birth. Atretes has not counted on Rizpah’s fiery resistance to having “her son” taken away, nor is he prepared for the woman’s strength and beauty. From their first meeting, the two are caught in a stormy battle of wills. Marcus and Julia and, finally, Atretes, come to realize that God’s love can heal all scars and bring forth a new dawn.
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When The Internet Goes Down
0$8,45The existence of pain and evil has baffled people in the world over the centuries, at various scientific, cultural, philosophical and theological levels. It is a universal dilemma which is difficult to understand. What is even more complicated when one tries to reconcile this dilemma with the holiness of God and His love, care and mercy for humans.
We may wonder: is it possible that God is pleased with the presence of evil, pain and suffering in the lives of human beings, who created them in his image? Did God create the world and abandoned it? How can we reconcile between God’s sovereignty and the spread of injustice, corruption, evil and tyranny?
This book presents a study of the Book of Habakkuk, and it is particularly important these days considering what the Arab world is passing through.
