Shows teachers how to develop the "big idea" of a passage, improve their classroom skills, and allow the text itself to suggest creative teaching methods. 258 pages.

Rose Campbell, tired and ill, has come to live at The Aunt Hill after the death of her beloved father. Six aunts fussing and fretting over her are bad enough, but what is a quiet 13-year-old girl to do with seven boisterous boy cousins?

Eleven-year-old Elijah lives in Buxton, Canada, a settlement of runaway slaves near the American border. Elijah's the first child in town to be born free, and he ought to be famous just for that - not to mention for being the best at chunking rocks and catching fish. Unfortunately, all…

1. The Virgin Mary Had a Baby Boy 2. Serenity (O Magnum Mysterium) 3. Hallelu! 4. Carol of the Bells 5. Christ the Apple Tree 6. All My Heart Rejoices 7. Wake, Awake 8. O Come, O Come, Emmanuel 9. Christmas Bells 10. Gabriel's Message 11. Lord, Now Lettest Thou (No. 5 from All-Night Vigil) 12. What Sweeter Music 13. It Came…

Steve Saint was five years old when his father, missionary pilot Nate Saint, was speared to death by a primitive Ecuadorian tribe. In adulthood, Steve, having left Ecuador for a successful business career in the United States, never imagined making the jungle his home again. But when that same tribe…

Energy Lab for Kids offers 40 fun, discovery-filled challenging projects. Kids will learn about all kinds of energy as well as how to conserve it.   Energy Lab for Kids offers 40 discovery-filled and thought-provoking energy projects by Emily Hawbaker, a science educator from the NEED (National Energy Education Development) project—with a foreword by Liz…

A Framework for Teaching

As the race began, it had seemed obvious that Eric Liddell was overmatched. Now the crowd in the Olympic Stadium hushed as this runner from Scotland refused to be passed. As Eric crossed the finish line, the crowd erupted in applause heard all over Paris. Eric Liddell had done the…

From the Editor's Preface: "This book is a literary guide to the entire Bible. We have defined the concept of literature very broadly as anything having to do with how biblical writers have expressed their content. The foundational premise of all verbal communication is that meaning is conveyed through form, starting…

From the Introduction: "The ESV Student Study Bible was created to help people understand the Bible in a deeper way - that is, to encounter the timeless truth of God's Word as a powerful, compelling, life-changing reality. It combines the best and most recent evangelical scholarship with the ESV Bible text, which…

1. Lord of the Dance 2. This Little Light of Mine 3. Softly and Tenderly, Jesus is Calling 4. Water Night 5. The Battle of Jericho 6. The Souls of the Righteous 7. In Paradisum (from Requiem) 8. God So Loved the World 9. I Sat Down Under His Shadow 10. Whispers 11. Also hat Gott die Welt geliebt 12. Ave…

Here is a statement from one of evangelicalism's foremost spokesmen that boldly places the trinitarian gospel at the center of faith. Here is an exquisite crystallization of essential beliefs about revelation, the cross and the work of the Spirit. Recognizing that how we live this truth is as important as…

The swooning Victorian ladies and the 1950s housewives genuinely needed to be liberated. That much is indisputable. So, First-Wave feminists held rallies for women's suffrage. Second-Wave feminists marched for Prohibition, jobs, and abortion. Today, Third-Wave feminists stand firmly for nobody's quite sure what. But modern women--who use psychotherapeutic antidepressants at…

In today's increasingly competitive and insecure economic environment, we often question the reason for work: why am I doing this? Why is it so hard? And what can I do about it? Work may seem just a means to an end: we do it to earn the money to enjoy…

Every Moment Holy, Volume II: Death, Grief, and Hope offers prayers for all of us, for we all face loss, death, and grief in the course of our lives. In times of deep loss, when facing our own mortality or grieving the death of one close to us, prayer can…

The three volumes of Every Moment Holy contain beautiful prayers that remind us that God is present and involved in every detail of our lives. Every moment is holy if we dedicate it to God, and these prayers help us do that. In our fast-paced world, these books remind us…

Every Moment Holy, Volume III: The Work of the People is a collection of over 100 liturgies written by a range of authors from ancient theologians to contemporary poets. These prayers remind us that every moment is indeed holy if we offer ourselves and our activities in worship to our…

A preschool activity book that introduces discriminating between different shapes, letters, and words; writing letters and the child's name; and hearing several initial consonant sounds. Some exercises are included to develop thinking skills.

DVD contains discussion and demonstration of instrumental and choral conducting techniques by the author and Eugene Migliaro Corporon; in part, animation.

Describes how God sent Moses to lead his people out of slavery in Egypt and into the promised land of Canaan.

A gripping historical novel, set on the Pennsylvania-Ohio frontiers from 1810-1861. The murder of an Amish baby goes unsolved for more than 50 years, greatly disturbing these settlers and their newly formed communities.

Several Eric Whitacre titles define this recording by the renowned Concordia Choir conducted by Rene Clausen. 10 songs. 1. Faire Is the Heaven 2. Agnus Dei 3. Psalm 43 4. When David Heard 5. Lo How a Rose E'er Blooming (Hugo Distler) 6. Lo How a Rose E'er Blooming (Jan Sandstrom) 7. Leonardo Dreams of His Flying…

On January 21, 1525, a group of fifteen people gathered to pray. Before the night was over, something had happened that would change the world forever. The Anabaptist movement had begun. In this easy-to-read book, you will get a glimpse of the lives of five of the founders of Anabaptism:…