Nurturing Your Faith
Resources we’ve found helpful in our faith journey
App
Ceaseless
Ceaseless is an app that helps you experience the joy of prayer by showing you a Scripture and three people to pray for each day. You can add notes from your conversations with them and use it as a private prayer journal. Send an encouraging message letting them know you prayed for them.
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Book
Half Truths
“God Helps Those Who Help Themselves and Other Things the Bible Doesn’t Say.” We’ve heard similar phrases all of our lives, but in Adam Hamilton’s new book, you’ll learn that although they capture some element of truth, when compared to the wisdom found in Scripture, they’re really just popular sayings.
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Bible
The Book
The Book, a contemporary, easy-to-understand Bible, available in the New Living Translation. Designed for the new Bible reader, or for an unbeliever, The Book features a topical helpfinder, book introductions, and indexes that help people understand God’s Word.
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Devotional
Upper Room Disciplines
A devotional guide for Christians who want to delve deeper into scripture and apply it to their daily lives. Fifty-three writers from diverse Christian backgrounds share messages of hope, challenge, and joy. Each daily reading includes a focal scripture passage from the Revised Common Lectionary, a meditation related to the scripture, and a prayer or suggestion for reflection.
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Bible Study
Study Helps to the Bible
“This is one of the best short introductions to the Bible I’ve found.” – Pastor Steve Scott
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Book
Seven Spiritual Gifts of Waiting
A Wisconsin pastor, Holly W. Whitcomb, writes that waiting can reveal spiritual gifts. Our favorites: Patience is trusting there’s no quick fix. Gratitude moves us beyond a sense of entitlement. And, it takes humility to trust in the grace of God.
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Book
On Our Way
Christian Practices for Living a Whole Life. On Our Way looks at common subjects in fresh, meaningful ways. It presents “study,” for example, as “not synonymous with reading books or with academic reflection, though it may well include these.” Instead, this essay explains study as “a particular kind of attending to Christ and the world, a particular stance of curiosity, vigilance, and openness to learning—an openness that extends even to unlearning what we have previously learned to take for granted.” Other chapters explore such subjects as discerning God’s call, friendship and intimacy, care for creation, knowing and loving our neighbors of other faiths, and doing justice. By Dorothy C. Bass & Susan R. Briehl.
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Book
Foundations
An Introduction to Christian Practices. Growth as a disciple begins with a good foundation. We need to learn how to pray, how to begin reading the Bible, how to live in authentic relationships, how to have a devotional time, how to use the resources God has provided, how to discern our call to serve, and how to share our faith. These basic foundational spiritual disciplines are presented in an easy to understand and very practical format in “Foundations”. Use this resource with a small group of new believers or with a new member class or as a guide in a mentoring relationship. Even seasoned believers are finding this to be a valuable resource to strengthen their spiritual lives.
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General Resource
Leading Causes of Life
Leading Causes of Life: Five Fundamentals to Change the Way You Live Your Life.
Focuses on five powerful concepts: Connection, Coherence, Agency, Blessing, and Hope. Co-written by a United Methodist deacon, based on how Methodist Hospital promotes health in Memphis, Tenn.
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Bible
Wesley Study Bible (NRSV)
Contributors from across the Wesleyan family join together to help one experience God in fresh ways. The Wesley Study Bible offers easy-to-understand explanations of core terms that cover eternal life, forgiveness, grace, heaven, holiness, justice, and mission. The Bible has extended references to works by John Wesley. In the New Revised Standard Version translation.
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Bible
Wesley Study Bible (CEB)
Contributors from across the Wesleyan family join together to help one experience God in fresh ways. The Wesley Study Bible offers easy-to-understand explanations of core terms that cover eternal life, forgiveness, grace, heaven, holiness, justice, and mission. The Bible has extended references to works by John Wesley. In the Common English Bible translation.
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Book
What Color is Your Parachute?
This classic job-hunting career manual, updated annually for four decades, includes an insightful Christian perspective on your mission in life.
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Book
United Methodist Questions & Answers
United Methodist Questions, United Methodist Answers:
Exploring Christian Faith
F. Belton Joyner takes the reader through illuminating questions and answers on United Methodist terms and beliefs on God, Jesus, the Bible, the church, salvation, and more.
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Book
Parenting in the Digital Age
iKids: Parenting in the Digital Age
by Craig Kennet Miller
This book takes a close look at today’s culture raises critical questions about the effects of technology on children’s brains, physical health, educational experiences, relationships, and faith formation. For the iKids blog, click here.
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Book
The Centered Life
Is there an alternative to a fragmented, frantic, meaningless life? Jack Fortin finds it in a life centered in God. Spiritual exercises, questions for reflection, and discussion in every chapter.
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Children’s Bible
Deep Blue Bible
“I love the fact that my children can open up an actual translation of the Bible, find a verse in it, read it, and be able to understand what the meaning of that verse is. It makes a difference to me, and I think it makes a difference for my children, too.” – a parent
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Relationships
Love & Respect
Researches asked 7,000 people the question, “When you are in a conflict with your spouse or significant other, do you feel unloved or disrespected?” 83% of the men said “disrespected” and 72% of the women said “unloved.” Though we all need love and respect equally, the felt need differs during conflict.
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