For those who want something deeper than the commercialized trappings of the Advent season, Finding Our Way with the Magi gives readers a daily opportunity to be spiritually challenged, encouraged, inspired, and confronted with Jesus' admonitions to live out our faith in an increasingly secular world. Seamless shifts are made from common, sometimes humorous life stories to biblical truths that all of us need to apply to our daily lives. Creative "Advent Actions" appear at the end of each day's reading to give concrete, practical suggestions for putting that day's focus into practice during Advent. Guided prayers help readers begin a conversation with God based on the reading for the day. Michael Helms clears away the layers of wrappings, ribbons, and assorted commercial glitz so that once again we can gaze upon the Christ Child. These delightful, often touching reflections usher us gracefully through the Advent season. -Dr. Jim Barnette Professor, Samford University With the narrative grace of a gifted pastor, Michael Helms offers meaningful devotional engagement along with thoughtful direction for actually living through the Advent season with purpose and intention. -Rev. Dr. Amy Butler Senior Pastor, Calvary Baptist Church Washington, DC Michael Helms' Finding Our Way with the Magi is a Christ-centered GPS that will navigate your family through the Advent season with a gentleness and grace that foster the peace and hope so often absent in the daily bustle of life. -Dr. Bruce Gourley Executive Director, Baptist History & Heritage Society Dr. Michael Helms is the senior pastor of the First Baptist Church of Jefferson, Georgia, and the author of numerous books, including Finding Our Way: An Introspective Journey Through the Labyrinth of Life, Hoping Liberia: Stories of Civil War from Africa's First Republic, and Finding Our Way Through the Wilderness-A Journey for Lent and Other Days of Spiritual Reflection and Prayer.

Finding Our Way With the Magi: A Daily Guide Through the Season of Advent

Religion & Spirituality

Helms, John Michael

Christian Books & Bibles

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This life will eventually carry us through a wilderness, a period of life epitomized by hardships, suffering, wandering, and grief. The wilderness can also be a time to withdraw from the world, to give up something of significance in order to think, pray, read, and gain spiritual insight on life. Finding Our Way Through the Wilderness is designed to help those who are in a wilderness by no choice of their own and those who choose to enter the wilderness to prepare spiritually for the arrival of Easter or the next part of their journey. Readers will emerge from the wilderness stronger, healthier, wiser, and better equipped to continue on their way.

Finding Our Way Through the Wilderness: A Journey for Lent or Other Days of Spiritual Reflection and Prayer

Cooper, Erica

It is almost guaranteed. Most of us know someone who is struggling with the disease of addiction. Friends and family members who find themselves journeying with an addict are on a difficult path. No one is immune. Even pastors. It was during Jim Dant's fifteen-year tenure as pastor of Highland Hills Baptist Church in Macon, Georgia that one of his children fell prey to the disease of addiction. Jim came face to face with his pastoral, parental, and human limitations. As his child began a struggle for sobriety, this father began a struggle for serenity. Both began 12 Step Programs, and three years into his child's recovery, Jim found the strength to share his gleanings in the form of a series of sermons preached to his congregation, and included in this book. Within and between every line of the sermons are the experience, strength and hope that Jim found in his journey through the valley of the shadow of addiction. May they bring the same to you as you make your journey. Jim Dant is the married father of three grown daughters. After serving as a pastor for almost thirty years, in February 2012 he began working as a partner at Faithlab writing, leading retreats and conferences, and providing spiritual direction for individuals. In his leisure, he enjoys music, dabbling in Hebrew, playing Texas Hold 'em poker and training for triathlons.

One Pastor, Twelve Steps: Preaching My Way Through the Valley of the Shadow of Addiction

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Dant, Jim

Addiction & Recovery

Finding Your Voice: How to Speak Your Heart's True Faith

Answers offered by the most religiously conservative among us frequently sound too narrow. Questions asked by those outside the faith seem broad and unmoored. As thoughtful Christians, we often find it difficult to talk about our faith because at one extreme we're met with simplistic truths and at the other extreme complex wonderings. In Finding Your Voice, Jim Dant offers the thinking Christian a manageable and credible faith language. While respecting the evangelical language of his childhood and those who gave it to him, Jim addresses and offers fresh language regarding the issues of: God, Scripture, Jesus, Salvation, the church, the world, and more. He provides a language for the things we believe but are not quite sure how to say. Jim takes us to his childhood home and introduces us to the language offered him by his faith community. He gives an honest accounting of that faith and, with an extreme dose of humanity and trust, shares with us how that faith has changed. The result is a language that makes sense both in and out of church. Whether you agree or disagree with Jim's conclusions, you are invited into a conversation and perhaps the discovery of your own voice.

Winner of the National Bronze Medal for Gay/Lesbian/Bi/Trans Non-Fiction in the 2014 Independent Publisher Book Awards, Queer Lessons for Churches on the Straight and Narrow is about changing the questions we ask about sexuality, gender identity, and faith. Sanders helps us imagine new pathways into old conversations by shifting our attitude from one of suspicious scrutiny toward LGBTQ people to one of compassionate curiosity. Less concerned with answering questions, it aims to cultivate our imagination for asking new questions. Sanders asks, "What can all Christians learn from LGBTQ people that will enhance our lives and strengthen our communities of faith?" Lessons are offered on the themes of relationship, community, faithfulness, love, violence, and forgiveness.

Queer Lessons for Churches on the Straight and Narrow

Sanders, Cody J.

Most of us don't live our lives from one sparkly mountain top moment to the next. We aren't skipping through our days holding God's hand as doves coo and rainbows flash across the sky to the beat of Amazing Grace. Yet the Psalmist insists that God is always there beside us. If we really believe that, shouldn't we keep an eye out for God? Search the grimy corners as well as the flowery meadows? Scan the aisles of Walmart and the soccer field, the cubicle and the laundry room? In What's a Nice God Like You Doing in a Place Like This? Jim Dant and Becky Ramsey mine their lives for the divine and, lucky for us, find God's fingerprints all over their days. Read along as they spot God in muddy knees and kidney stones, at poker tables and chemistry class, in the words of a homeless grandmother and a rock star. As you walk with them through a year of holy surprises, Dant and Ramsey hope you'll join in the fun, frisking your own life for God's sacred presence. You may even find yourself asking the question, What's a Nice God Like You Doing in a Place Like This? Follow the authors' lead and listen to God speak through the holy souvenirs he's dropped in your lap, whispering, "You are my beloved. How could I be anywhere else?"

What's a Nice God Like You Doing in a Place Like This?: A Completely Unorthodox Devotional Guide

Ramsey, Becky

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Finding Our Way With the Magi: A Daily Guide Through the Season of Advent

Finding Our Way Through the Wilderness: A Journey for Lent or Other Days of Spiritual Reflection and Prayer

One Pastor, Twelve Steps: Preaching My Way Through the Valley of the Shadow of Addiction

Finding Your Voice: How to Speak Your Heart's True Faith

Finding Your Voice: How to Speak Your Heart's True Faith

Queer Lessons for Churches on the Straight and Narrow

What's a Nice God Like You Doing in a Place Like This?: A Completely Unorthodox Devotional Guide