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A unique guide to enhance and enrich your enjoyment of classical music, this book is for music lovers who want to better understand the works of the masters.

With straightforward answers, practical suggestions, rich insights, and encouragement this book can help you build a solid marriage relationship.

This is the miraculous story of a music therapist who treats terminally ill and mentally handicapped patients with the medicine of music.

Charts of World Religions provides an invaluable resource for students and anyone interested in understanding today's complex religious mosaic. It allows quick comparison and contrast of numerous religions. In clear, easy-to-understand charts, this book provides vital information on such topics as the origins of different religions, the nature of deity or ultimate spiritual reality, the source of spiritual truth, the nature of the human predicament, and the nature of salvation/enlightenment/liberation. Similarities and differences between various beliefs are brought out, and subdivisions of broad categories, such as various branches of Christianity and Islam, are detailed. More than ninety charts appear in six major sections: * Prolegomena to World Religions * Comparison of World Religions * Ancient Mediterranean Religions o Egyptian pantheon, Graeco-Roman deities, and more * Western Religions o Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Baha'i, and Secular Humanism * Eastern Religions o Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Jainism, Zoroastrianism, Shintoism, Confucianism, and Sikhism * Indigenous Religions o African, Caribbean, and Native American 'Wayne House's Charts of World Religions is an excellent resource for both the overall picture and the painstaking details of religious belief around the world.'---Win Corduan, professor of philosophy and religion, Taylor University

When busy people want to know more about the Bible and the Christian faith, the Zondervan Quick-Reference Library offers an instant information alternative. Covering the basics of the faith and Bible knowledge in an easy-to-use format, this series helps new Christians and seasoned believers find answers to their questions about Christianity and the Bible. The information is presented in units of one or two pages, so that each section can be read in a few minutes. The Zondervan Quick-Reference Library makes important knowledge affordable, accessible, and easy to understand for busy people who don't have a lot of time to read or study.

This is a series of brief reference books for laypeople designed to be read in units of one or two pages.

When busy people want to know more about the Bible and the Christian faith, the Zondervan Quick-Reference Library offers an instant information alternative. Covering the basics of the faith and Bible knowledge in an easy-to-use format, this series helps new Christians and seasoned believers find answers to their questions about Christianity and the Bible. The information is presented in units of one or two pages, so that each section can be read in a few minutes. The Zondervan Quick-Reference Library makes important knowledge affordable, accessible, and easy to understand for busy people who don't have a lot of time to read or study.

This is a fun collection of nearly 300 games for indoor and outdoor events.

This book empowers parents to prepare their children for dating by answering questions such as, What is the purpose of dating? When should a child date? Who should he or she date? Where should they go and what should they do on a date?

Drawing on his own experience in shepherding a church through a difficult building program, the author explains how to survive the storms of pastoral ministry spiritually and emotionally.

This is a practical guidebook for African-American churches to help black families win the spiritual warfare being waged in their lives.

If you are willing to live a life of prayer and practice the disciplines of solitude and community, a new hunger will make itself known. This new hunger is the first sign of God's presence. Henri Nouwen is much loved for his profound but simple insight on Christian spirituality. Making All Things New and Other Classics contains four of his short books focusing on different aspects of the Christian life. Making All Things New introduces the life of spirituality for those whose lives are over-full and over-burdened, yet who yearn to experience more of God's presence. Intimacy answers pastoral questions with an underlying theme of intimacy in relation to God and other people. A Letter of Consolation explores very personally the subject of bereavement in the form of a letter by Henri Nouwen to his father following his mother's death. In The Living Reminder he looks at the seamless connection between spirituality and ministry. Nouwen's pastoral concern and natural empathy with fellow human beings overflow from his gentle observations and wise insight.

In A Brief History of Old Testament Criticism---a concise, intelligent, in-depth historical overview ideal for classroom use---Mark Gignilliat discusses key critical scholars and their theories of Old Testament interpretation.

Linus and Julia Easterday find themselves in the strangest situations. Repeatedly. And it's entirely their own fault.

More than 50,000 references with their contexts and over 2,000 entries make this NIV concordance a handy reference tool, now converted for the new NIV 2011.

You learned so much from the first Skits That Teach that the Skit Guys---Tommy Woodard and Eddie James---are back with another volume of sketches for your youth group to use anytime, anywhere. Tested with teenagers around the country, these skits are guaranteed to get laughs, and are completely free of typical church sketch cheesiness.

A desire to know God's will is the top priority of any serious Christian. Yearning to Know God's Will is an eight-week workbook on knowing God's will. Each week's exercise begins with an account of a personal experience of the author from which he brings forth biblical, theological, and historical principles to help you in your search.

Lee Strobel's bestselling book on forgiveness and grace, adapted for kids.

In the second book of From Sadie's Sketchbook by Naomi Kinsman Downing, Sadie learns about the nature of God and his love when she works to help save one of the local bears, and finds herself becoming friends with her worst enemy, Frankie, in the process.

When twelve-year-old Sadie has to move away from her home in California, she stumbles into questions of faith, doubt, and wrestling with the answers.

The story of Olympian swimmer Cullen Jones, who nearly drowned at age 5 yet went on to swim on the USA Olympic swim team alongside such greats as Michael Phelps.

Most people think the average teenager isn't capable of much beyond hanging with their friends and wasting time. But Zach Hunter isn't your average teenager. And he's hoping to show you that you're not either.

Everything a boy ever wanted to know about his body and how to take care of it---from a Christian perspective!

In the fifth book of the Keystone Stables series, perfect for girls who love horses and horse fiction, foster child Skye hopes to find a new friend in Katie, a blind girl who is encountering horses for the first time---but Katie's anger might end their relationship before it really starts.

For the summer, Skye and her school friend Chad work at special needs Camp Penn's Woods. Skye runs into a brick wall when she tries to teach Jonathan Martin, a young deaf boy, how to ride Buddy western style, but Jonathan insists on riding him English. When Jonathan and Buddy disappear into the mountains, Skye and Chad lead the rescue to find him.

Skye and Morgan have their hands full when a runaway named Tanya Bell becomes a foster girl in the Chambers' household. It isn't until Southern Belle, one of the mares, dies giving birth to a foal that Tanya opens up to the love offered from the Chambers' family, and she is transformed.

Five-year-old Natalie determines to pull off a one-of-a-kind, wonderful thing. Her inimitable spirit of adventure leads our heroine through a series of foiled attempts and ensuing disasters, until she discovers that being "Only Natalie" is a good thing in God's eyes and she, Nat, is that one-of-a-kind wonderful thing.

Content with her Quaker life, Hannah Brown is shaken when she discovers a family secret and meets a runaway slave and the slave catcher fast on her trail. Her friend, Sarah Smith, only wants to study to be a doctor, until she meets a young orphan whose past is shattered by the evils of slavery. Excellent for educators and homeschool use.

Disguised as a Yankee soldier and fighting on the battlefields, Emma Edmonds risks her life as an undercover spy for the Union army. In Richmond, her friend Molly Turner discovers a spy ring against the Confederacy and must decide if she too will risk everything for what she believes. Excellent for educators and homeschool use.