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How can you learn to pray the scriptures?Praying from the word of God is a powerful way to pray, but how can you learn to do it? This booklet provides some scriptures and prayer suggestions to help you get started, along with some pointers to resources to help you learn more about prayer and communion with God.This new, second edition is expanded to include the tract "Self Defense for Prayer Warriors, " which provides some suggestions for pray...

If the Pentateuch was built from multiple sources as many scholars believe, what might these sources have looked like?In this booklet, Henry Neufeld takes a look at the text of Genesis 1-2 (the creation stories) and Genesis 6-9 (the flood stories) to see how the various sources might have looked. This is not intended as a new scholarly proposal, but rather a summary and example based on existing scholarship. It should help readers who have not...

How can you learn to pray the scriptures?Praying from the word of God is a powerful way to pray, but how can you learn to do it? This booklet provides some scriptures and prayer suggestions to help you get started, along with some pointers to resources to help you learn more about prayer and communion with God.This pamphlet is useful for individual study, but more so to a prayer group as a starting point to grow in scriptural prayer.

Christians frequently disagree on the subject of creation and evolution, but what are the main points of the various views?This booklet gives a brief summary of the various positions and their major tenets, along with a brief explanation of the support for each position. It also provides a list of resources to help you study further.This booklet is useful for those who simply want to understand what the debates are about without going into gre...

What does the term biblical criticism mean? What is the historical-critical method? Is it an attack on my faith, a valuable tool, or a combination of these things?This booklet aims to give the non-scholar an overview of what this is involved in biblical criticism and to point to some resources for those who want to know more. If you are wondering how scholars determine things like date and authorship, or look into the history of the compositio...

Sometimes going radical means getting to the root. Sometimes it means pulling something up by the roots. What is it that is keeping you from doing what God wants you to do?

The words of Scripture are both inspired and inspiring. Too often, as we defend the former, we forget the latter. We read Scripture to absorb facts, settle doctrinal disputes, and organize church life.In Reflections on Scripture, Dandelions, and Sparrows, Wanda Thompson brings the power of photography, art, and poetry to our experience of Scripture, and through it, the God of Scripture. Using stunning photography, graphite drawings, and waterc...

All too frequently studies of the gifts of the Spirit consist largely of answering two questions: "What are the gifts?" and "Which ones do I have?" In many cases studies go on to a third question: "How can I get more?"In response, institutional churches and theologically and intellectually respectable Christians often tend to avoid the work of the Holy Spirit in the church entirely. It's much easier to simply close the doors and windows than i...

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A Living Psalter: Creative Reflections on the Book of Psalms is one faith community's atttempt to appropriate the ancient hymns of Israel in a postmodern context. This book is filled with poetry, art, photography, and short stories that provide creative reflections on the Book of Psalms. They invite the reader into a faithful, yet deeply human conversation with God. The creative work in this book covers the extremes of human emotion from exube...

What does it take to make a church congregation a community that fully carries out its mission? What can be done to correct the problems of a dysfunctional community and encourage healthy discipleship? In Out of This World, Darren McClellan studies these questions, not with a purely theoretical approach but rather by studying a specific congregation in a specific situation, and letting the members and former pastors speak in their own words. H...

This study guide to the book of Hebrews is designed for individual or small group studies. Its 13 lessons are ideal for Sunday School classes, small study or prayer groups and Wednesday evening studies. The guide is based on the participatory method, developed by author Henry Neufeld to help lay people learn to understand the Bible better. Features: 1. Clearly defined study method for individuals and groups. 2. Basic lessons with graded additi...

Have you ever felt led to share your testimony with others, but just did not know how to get started? Studying testimonies of the Bible can help us to better understand what needs to be shared in a testimony. Reviewing testimonies in history and in our contemporary society can provide a better picture of the various ways a testimony can be shared. Testify: By the Blood of the Lamb and the Word of Our Testimony provides all of this plus a techn...

This study guide to Revelation is designed for individual or small group studies. Its flexible lessons are ideal for Sunday School classes, small study or prayer groups and Wednesday evening studies. The guide is based on the participatory method, developed by author Henry Neufeld to help lay people learn to understand the Bible better. Features: Clearly defined study method for individuals and groups. Basic lessons with graded additio...

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Author Doris Horton Murdoch has taken her longer study book, Testify: By the Blood of the Lamb and the Word of Our Testimony, and boiled it down to 44 pages in this Topical Line Drives edition. Mrs. Murdoch helps the reader to construct their own testimony in a brief, personal way which points the listener to God and His sacrifice for us. The testimony should reflect the personal relationship of the teller to the Savior and engage the listener...

What If? What if a very long time ago there existed on this Earth a species as intelligent as Homo sapiens and maybe more intelligent? What if this ancient creature ruled the entire planet and half the solar system? What if this creature's civilization rose and fell and disappeared into the mists of Time? What if evidence of this lost world remained buried for tens of millions of years? What if - one day - a modern human paleont...