Stories of God at Home

Stories of God at Home
Author: Jerome W Berryman
Publisher: Church Publishing, Inc.
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2018-04
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0898690498

A method for families to share the biblical story at home and learn the practice of sharing one another’s stories as part of God’s Story. Using Godly Play® methods, Jerome Berryman offers families a way of nourishing faith in the home while supporting children’s spiritual growth through the practice of “storying,” our most ancient way of making meaning. This book offers “storying” rituals and techniques from Godly Play for exploring the meaning of Christmas, Easter, Creation, the Parable of the Good Shepherd, Pentecost, and the Trinity to give sustenance to the family’s flow, play, love, and spirituality. Stories of God at Home follows the rhythm of life’s cycles (birth, death, earth, life, God, and depth) in telling biblical stories and shows how parents and caretakers can grasp their role with children using classic children’s literature.

The Story of Home

The Story of Home
Author: Caroline Saunders
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
Total Pages: 18
Release: 2023-03-14
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1087781787

No one makes a home like God! The Bible is filled with stories about homes, from the Garden of Eden to the Promised Land, from the tabernacle in the desert to the temple in Jerusalem. But what do these stories have in common? What is God showing us through them? Enter The Story of Home and discover God’s perfect plan to build the homiest of homes through Jesus. Learn how Jesus welcomes all who are homesick to be part of His family and live happily with Him forever! Filled with stunning illustrations Traces the theme of home throughout the Bible A perfect house-warming gift for a family Can also encourage those who are homesick, lonely, or without a permanent home Also available in this series: The Story of Water: God at Work in the Bible's Watery Tales

Stories from the Street

Stories from the Street
Author: David Nixon
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2016-04-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1317049837

Stories from the Street is a theological exploration of interviews with men and women who had experienced homelessness at some stage in their lives. Framed within a theology of story and a theology of liberation, Nixon suggests that story is not only a vehicle for creating human transformation but it is one of God's chosen means of effecting change. Short biographies of twelve characters are examined under themes including: crises in health and relationships, self-harm and suicide, anger and pain, God and the Bible. Expanding the existing literature of contextual theology, this book provides an alternative focus to a church-shaped mission by advocating with, and for, a very marginal group; suggesting that their experiences have much to teach the church. Churches are perceived as being active in terms of pastoral work, but reluctant to ask more profound questions about why homelessness exists at all. A theology of homelessness suggests not just a God of the homeless, but a homeless God, who shares stories and provides hope. Engaging with contemporary political and cultural debates about poverty, housing and public spending, Nixon presents a unique theological exploration of homeless people, suffering, hope and the human condition.

The Children's Bible in 365 Stories

The Children's Bible in 365 Stories
Author: Mary Batchelor
Publisher: David C Cook
Total Pages: 420
Release: 1995
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780745930688

Tells all the better known stories of the Old and New Testaments.

Home

Home
Author: Elyse Fitzpatrick
Publisher: Baker Books
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2016-08-02
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1441230440

Heaven Is the Home You've Been Waiting For In this world of fear, trials, and loneliness we often feel adrift--like we're still searching for a place where we can truly make ourselves at home. There's a longing for something more, something that makes us feel like we belong, something that resonates perfectly with who we were made to be. This longing is no small thing to be brushed off and forgotten--it's a guidepost letting us know we were made for another world. Earth is not our home. But it's close. What we long for is the new earth, the place God has been preparing for our eternity with him. In Home, Elyse Fitzpatrick explores heaven and the afterlife, demonstrating that our final destination is not some dull, featureless space in the clouds, but rather a perfected earth. It's a real, physical place that we'll explore with real bodies. A place of beauty and wonder and free of all death and decay. No need to chase a bucket list. On the new earth there will be no end of glorious sites and amazing activities, and we'll never run out of time to do them all. Includes questions for group discussion.

My Life Story God's Love Story He Cares For You

My Life Story God's Love Story He Cares For You
Author: Jackie Bauder
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2019-01-22
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1641405627

This book is a testament of how the Lord has helped me and my family throughout our lives, providing for and helping us with the choices we make in our daily lives. The meaning of this book is very special. It outlines the details of how God has taken care of us. The colored, underlined, and capitalized words point out just how much God does care about us. I pray that whoever reads this book, finds that God is there for them, even though they may not think he is. I also pray that this will lead everyone that chooses to read this to a better relationship with God, as it has with me in writing it.

Into the Mess and Other Jesus Stories

Into the Mess and Other Jesus Stories
Author: Debie Thomas
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2022-05-17
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1666706221

He was a disrupter and a peacemaker, a rebel and a rabbi. His friends were the riffraff, and his enemies the religious elite. He was the wounded man who healed the sick, the homeless man who fed the hungry, the convicted criminal who released the captives, and the dead man who conquered the grave. The stories he told were scandalous, and the stories he lived changed the world. To reflect on the Jesus of the Gospels is to reflect on paradox, mystery, wonder, and messiness. It is to find God in the shadows, the tensions, and the ambiguities of life on earth as it is. These essays on the stories of Jesus are invitations to faith in all its complexity and untidiness. The Jesus who emerges here is not the sanitized Christ of piety and platitude, but the Christ of complicated joys and transcendent sorrows. The Christ who weeps, wonders, loses, learns, and seeks. These are the stories of the Incarnate God who finds and loves us in the messiness of our lives.

God's Story, Your Story: Youth Edition

God's Story, Your Story: Youth Edition
Author: Max Lucado
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2011-09-25
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 031072547X

Is there a story behind the daily drama of your life? Being a teenager isn’t always easy. From homework to after-school jobs to having to think about the future, life can feel chaotic. But did you know that the chaos and confusion, as well as the joys and excitements you experience, are part of God’s ordered plan? In this teen adaptation of God’s Story, Your Story, bestselling author Max Lucado explores the divine narrative in the New Testament, as well as several contemporary examples, to show how your everyday life is part of God’s bigger redemption story, and that God is there, no matter what you may face in your life. Real teen responses and real-life application questions are also included to help you further connect God’s narrative to your own. Because God’s story is your story—and he is adding to your chapter every day.

Living in The Story

Living in The Story
Author: Charlotte Vaughan Coyle
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2021-08-26
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 166670525X

What kind of book is the Bible? Is it a rulebook or a guidebook for moral living? Is it a history book or a book filled with fascinating (and sometimes fantastic) stories? Did humans write the Bible or did God somehow speak a perfect message that the authors transcribed? Many people have asked these questions about the nature of this beautiful, odd, comforting, disturbing book the church calls its "Holy Scripture." Charlotte Vaughan Coyle shares her own journey to make sense of the Bible in this read-through-the-Bible-in-a-year project. She discovered that the crucial work of asking hard questions and even arguing with the Bible revealed the Scriptures to be a symphony of polyphonic voices, a work of art that paints an alternative vision of reality, a complex novel-like story unavoidably embedded in its own culture and time, and yet able to give witness to the God beyond history who has acted (and continues to act) within history. With the heart of a pastor and the passion of a preacher, Rev. Coyle invites seekers and students (both churched and un-churched) to strap on their scuba gear and join her for a deeper dive beneath the surface of this immense, colorful, mysterious world of the Bible.