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Bercot, David | Jesus says, "If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My… | Christian Living | ||
Frederick, Ryan and Selena | Marriage is all about sharing: sharing space, sharing joys and sorrows, sharing hopes and dreams. Yet we often hold back a part of ourselves because we fear that being wholly transparent--about our past, our desires, our failures, our faults--will bring judgment, rejection, or even just unwanted friction to our relationship… | Christian Living ⋅ Marriage | ||
Degering, Etta | It was a boy, not a man, who devised the ingenious system of raised bumps for reading and writing used by the visually handicapped. When Louis Braille was almost 4 years old he blinded himself with a sharp awl in his father's harness shop. But the instrument that caused his… | Living History Weavings | ||
Nabeel Qureshi. Paperback. | Providing an intimate view into a loving Muslim home, Qureshi shares how he developed a passion for Islam before discovering, almost against his will, evidence that Jesus rose from the dead and claimed to be God. Unable to deny the arguments but not wanting to deny his family, Qureshi struggled… | Missions & Service | ||
Pathway Publishers | Reader for Pathway reading series, Grade 7. Workbook and teacher's manual of same title available separately. | Curriculum ⋅ Pathway ⋅ Level 34 items ⋅ Level 43 items | ||
Pathway Publishers | Teacher's manual for Pathway workbook (available separately) of the same title. | Curriculum ⋅ Pathway | ||
Pathway Publishers | Workbook to accompany Pathway reader of same title. Teacher's manual available separately. | Curriculum ⋅ Pathway | ||
London, Jack | John Griffith "Jack" London was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and to amass a vast fortune from his fiction alone. His most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White Fang. Also included in this volume are the… | Literature ⋅ Classics | ||
Smucker, Barbara | Selina is a Mennonite girl living in Pennsylvania in the 1860s. She loves her farm delights in the spring flowers and most of all, takes pleasure in watching her grandmother piece together a quilt. Grandmother is following the Bear Paw pattern using stitches and techniques that were brought to America… | Level 21 items | ||
Faith Builders Colloquy 2013 | Faith Builders Colloquy 2013
The historical Anabaptist church responded to the divine call to separate from the corruption of the world to follow God in holiness. Today, too often our vision of nonconformity is negative or weak. We may see separation and nonconformity either as avoiding certain cultural patterns of our… | Colloquies | ||
Jordan, Clarence | Anxiety, insecurity, military power, racial prejudice, and heavy taxes - all these problems of contemporary life were also faced by those who first heard the teaching of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount. Author Clarence Jordan points out that this Sermon presents many of the major features of the… | Bibles & Bible Study ⋅ Study Helps | ||
Greenleaf, Robert K. | This highly influential book is filled with prophetic essays on what Greenleaf coined "autocratic leadership" with a holistic approach. | Leadership | ||
Enlow, Ralph E. | What did Jesus really mean when he said, "Anyone who wants to be first must be the very last, the servant of all" (Mark 9:35)?
Servant leadership is commended by popular leadership writers and scholars. However, much of the practical, theoretical, and even theological commentary on servant leadership doesn't do the… | Leadership | ||
Drescher, John M. | Drescher deals with seven things all children need: significance, security, acceptance, love, praise, discipline and God. Paper. 129 pp. | Christian Living ⋅ Family | ||
Ellen Dykas and Harvest USA | Sexual Sanity for Women guides participants through the process of understanding why they struggle with destructive relational and sexual patterns and how the gospel brings change and a new way of living. Twenty lessons guide participants to understand God's good design for sexuality, the underlying reasons they struggle with sexual… | Women | ||
Elliot, Elisabeth | The murder of Jim Elliot and four fellow missionaries by the Auca Indians in 1956 shocked the nation and motivated thousands to a life of service. The story of what led Elliot to the jungles of Ecuador, told by his wife, Elisabeth, has become a modern Christian classic. Drawing from… | Biography & History | ||
Moser, Helga | Shadow was a shy cat, but she was also brave and diligent. When Farmer Don ruined her perfect hiding place in a tunnel under the hay, she didn't give up. Shadow searched and searched for a new spot. It had to be just right for keeping her secret safe.
A Pleasant… | Children's Books ⋅ Picture Books | ||
Tripp, Tedd | In this revised edition of Shepherding a Child's Heart, Dr. Tedd Tripp not only draws on his thirty years of experience as a pastor, counselor, school administrator, and father, but he also shares insights gained in ten years of teaching this material in conferences worldwide, providing more valuable help for… | Christian Living ⋅ Family | ||
Speare, Elizabeth George | Once their cabin is finished Matt's father leaves to bring the rest of the family and Matt is left to survive on his own. During an attack by swarming bees, Matt is astonished when he's rescued by an Indian chief and his grandson, Attean. As the boys come to know… | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | ||
Eliot, George | Classic of English literature recounts the engrossing story of a lonely and embittered old man and the orphaned child who helps him find love and hope.As a young man, Silas Marner shut himself off from the world after being wrongly accused of theft and losing the girl he loved. Much… | Classics | ||
Endo, Shusaku | Seventeenth-century Japan: Two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to a country hostile to their religion, where feudal lords force the faithful to publicly renounce their beliefs. Eventually captured and forced to watch their Japanese Christian brothers lay down their lives for their faith, the priests bear witness to unimaginable cruelties that… | Literature ⋅ Classics | ||
Lewis, C.S. | The story of Eustace and Jill and the search for Prince Rilian. | Literature ⋅ Classics | ||
Barzun, Jacques | In "Simple & Direct, " Jacques Barzun, celebrated author and educator, distills from a lifetime of writing and teaching his thoughts about the craft of writing. In chapters on diction, syntax, tone, meaning, composition, and revision, Barzun describes and prescribes the techniques to correct even the most ponderous style. Exercises… | Resources By Subject ⋅ Language Arts & Literature | ||
Beatrice King | Celebrate over twenty-five years of the best recipes served from the Faith Builders kitchen ...
- Over 500 recipes for the home kitchen
- 65 recipes designed for large groups
- Tips for kitchen preparation
- Memories and pictures from the Faith Builders
kitchen
- Original recipes from the Faith Works Bakery
You will find in these… | Books ⋅ Cookbooks, Planners, & Miscellany | ||
Swope, Cheryl | This revolutionary new book guides parents and teachers in implementing the beauty of a classical education with special needs and struggling students.
Increase your child's academic success.
Restore your child's love of learning.
Regain confidence to teach any child.
Renew your vision of hope for your special-needs child.
Receive help… | Educational Resources ⋅ Philosophy of Education | ||
St. Olaf Choir | Songs for Christmas and "New Songs of Love" by Brahms- Directed by Kenneth Jennings. 10 songs total.
1. O Yule, Full of Gladness
2. Carol of the Drum
3. Thy Little Ones, Dear Lord, Are We
4. Glory Be to God
5. Jeg er sa glad (I am so Glad)
6. A Spotless Rose
7. The Christmas… | Music ⋅ Christmas Music ⋅ Saint Olaf Choir | ||
Brubaker, Brooke | A story about the first German printing of the Martyrs Mirror in America."The candle was burning in a small room off the passageway. It showed a desk cluttered with printed pages. Then he saw something on the window shelf and forgot the cold. It was the Great Book." | Picture Books | ||
Park, Linda Sue | When Tree-ear breaks a ceramic masterpiece, he works to repay a debt to the gruff potter Min. Tree-ear dreams of someday making beautiful pots himself and is crushed to learn that while homeless orphans can perform backbreaking labor, they cannot become potters. Still, Tree-ear toils to help Min achieve his… | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | ||
Coblentz, John | Subjects such as dating, engagement, and marriage are more popular than singlehood. Perhaps this is because more people marry than stay single, and perhaps also because most people want to be married. But it means, unfortunately, that sometimes people find themselves in situations they never have given much thought to… | Christian Living ⋅ Singleness | ||
Borthwick, Paul | However you see the world, this book could blow your view apart. It's got six sticks of dynamite in it--in the form of six questions-- that could remake the way you see other countries, cultures, and ethnic groups. Take the risk to see the world as Jesus sees it. | Christian Living | ||
Adler, Mortimer J. | ▪Truth ▪Goodness ▪Beauty ▪Liberty ▪Equality ▪Justice | Theology & Worldviews ⋅ Ethics | ||
de Angeli, Marguerite | With his German family, Eli crosses the Atlantic on The Charming Nancy. From Philadelphia, oxen pull their wagon into Penn's Woods, where they make their new home in the Skippack area. Eli loves outdoor work and play, but Mom says he must go to school. Though Eli expects the teacher… | Level 12 items | ||
Moser, Helga | Snoopy's new home at Pleasant Valley Farm was cozy and safe. She had plenty of fresh green grass to eat, and a tall wire fence protected her from hungry coyotes. But Snoopy was not content. Then one afternoon she wandered up the hillside alone and found herself in big trouble.
A… | Children's Books ⋅ Picture Books | ||
Kjelgaard, Jim | The steel-gray husky Chiri was just a puppy when he watched the black wolf kill his mother and two brothers. Left alone in the snow-covered land of the coyote ,caribou, and grizzly, Chiri learned to fend for himself, to hunt, and to survive by his own keen instinct and natural… | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | ||
McSwigan, Marie | A daring adventure based on a true story about a group of Norwegian children who smuggled nine million dollars in gold past Nazi sentries during World War II. A story of courage and wits and grim determination.--The New York Times. | Books ⋅ Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | ||
Martin, Jacqueline Briggs | Snow in Vermont is as common as dirt. Why would anyone want to photograph it? But from the time he was a small boy, Wilson Bentley has thought of the icy crystals as small miracles, and he determines that one day his camera will capture for others their extraordinary beauty. | Children's Books ⋅ Picture Books | ||
Silver, Harvey F. | One of the greatest challenges faced by every school and every educator is encouraging and accommodating a full range of student diversity while simultaneously promoting a uniformly high level of academic achievement for all students. Two powerful learning models--multiple intelligences and learning styles--provide us with the best means of rising… | Methods of Teaching | ||
Ridenour, Fritz | Completely revised and updated for the postmodern age, So What's the Difference? gives you easy-to-understand, nonjudgemental answers to the question, "How does orthodox biblical Christianity differ from other faiths?" Here Fritz Ridenour explains the basic tenets of Protestantism, Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jehovah's Witnesses, Christian Science, New… | Theology & Worldviews ⋅ Worldviews | ||
Politi, Leo | Song of the Swallows, which won the Caldecott Medal when it was first published in 1948, was written and illustrated by Leo Politi, one of Los Angeles' most beloved artists. It tells the famous story of the yearly return of the swallows to the Mission San Juan Capistrano through the… | Children's Books ⋅ Picture Books | ||
Nathan Good Family | 1. Bless God, My Soul2. Seasons' Beauty3. Judge Eternal4. Church of Christ5. I Commit My Love to You6. O Holy Night7. Plenty Good Room8. Revelation 199. Show Me Thy Face10. O Gladsome Light | Music ⋅ Nathan Good Family | ||
O'Brien, Michael | Sophia House is set in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. Pawel Tarnowski, a bookseller, gives refuge to David Schäfer, a Jewish youth who has escaped from the ghetto, and hides him in the attic of the book shop. Throughout the winter of 1942-1943, haunted by the looming threat of discovery… | Literature ⋅ Contemporary | ||
Keith Drury | How does spiritual transformation happen? Not through our own striving, but through God's grace working to shape our souls into Christ's likeness.
Does this mean that we should simply wait passively for God to "do His thing" in our lives, since we are powerless to change ourselves. No! The spiritual disciplines… | Books ⋅ Christian Living ⋅ Disciplines & Spiritual Formation | ||
Guite, Malcolm | Malcolm Guite explores the riches of the Christian year in this collection of sonnets. Including sequences for Advent, Christmas and epiphany, Lent, Holy Week and the Stations of the Cross, and poems for major feasts and festivals, it is a versatile resource for enriching worship, reflection and devotion. | Literature ⋅ Poetry | ||
Harder, Leland | The South German/Austrian Anabaptist branch of the Anabaptist family was unique for its mystical origins and spiritualist emphases, its early fascination with the End Times, and for the communal forms of Anabaptism that evolved from these beginnings. From influential pre-Anabaptist writings by Jorg Haugk von Juchsen and Hans Hergott, through… | Anabaptist History & Thought | ||
Sanders, J. Oswald | With over one million copies sold, Spiritual Leadership has established itself as a true classic. It presents key principles from Scripture about what makes a good leader - in ministry or any other realm. Those who want to lead with God's blessing, cannot ignore this book. | Leadership | ||
Susan Hunt | Many churches lack a crucial element central to the flourishing of women: older women mentoring younger women. Using Titus 2 as a guide, seasoned author Susan Hunt casts a biblical vision of what the church can be when women invest in vibrant relationships with one another. Featuring inspiring stories from… | Relationships & Mentoring | ||
Bobbie Kalman | Spotlight on Brazil introduces children to the country of Brazil, where almost half the population of South America lives. Children will read about Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, the daily lives of Brazilians in the cities, and why the way of life of native peoples in the Amazon rain forest… | Level 34 items | ||
Kalman, Bobbie | Spotlight on Canada introduces children to Canada's multicultural people, its varied landscapes and climates, its exciting cities, and its joyful celebrations. A huge country with only one neighbor, the United States, Canada is divided into provinces and territories. French and English are its two official languages, and its rich history… | Level 43 items | ||
Kalman, Bobbie | Spotlight on India introduces children to the land, people, and rich traditions of this beautiful country. Breathtaking photos feature the Himalaya Mountains, the Ganges and Indus Rivers, and major cities such as New Delhi. This joyful book also celebrates India’s unique mixture of peoples, monuments such as the famous Taj… | Level 12 items | ||
Kalman, Bobbie | Holidays, celebrations, and symbols are highlighted in this up-to-date fact-filled introduction to the United States. Spotlight on the United States of America looks at the colonial history of the U.S., its government, and some of its important leaders. Many colorful pictures, maps, and illustrations the different regions, climates, cities, and… | Level 21 items |