Just pretending offers parents and teachers an exciting journey through the imaginative world of young children. Inside you'll find techiniques to encourage and enhance a child's imaginative play at home and in pre-school settings, along with hundreds of anecdotes of children at play. You'll also discover how imaginative play helps children: develop social skills, express creativity, acquire k…
Erasmus: His Life, Works, and Influence is a comprehensive introduction to Erasmus's life, works, and thoughts. It integrates the best scholarship of the past twenty years and will appeal to undergraduates in all areas of cultural history as well as Erasmus specialists.
In this very readable biography, a noted scholar traces Erasmus's youth, his years as an itinerant scholar, sojourns in England, France, Switzerland, and Italy, friendship with Sir Thomas More, and disputes with Martin Luther. The author also probes Erasmus's mind and character and discusses his writings.
"Many in the church are insulated from in-depth interaction of any kind," say Jerry and Mary White in Friends and Friendship. "We wish we could say that Christians don't experience this frustration in friendship. But we can't." God has placed within you a need for intimate companionship. When this need is unfulfilled, you're lonely. However, because of Christ's love you can deal with lonelin…
Feeling good strats on the inside. From his experience as a chaplain and counselor, Dr. Miller brings stories of people who have overcome problems and started new lives.
Selected from sermons delivered by C. S. Lewis during World War II, these nine addresses show the beloved author and theologian bringing hope and courage in a time of great doubt. "The Weight of Glory," considered by many to be Lewis's finest sermon of all, is an incomparable explication of virtue, goodness, desire, and glory. Also included are: "Transposition," "On Forgiveness," "Why I Am Not …
Preaching is central to the Church's life; it is the heart of Christian theology. However, until the preacher himself is involved in what he is saying, he is unlikely to persuade others : "before a man can learn to preach he must first learn to believe in preaching." Professor Pitt-Watson bridges the gap between the academic theologian and the preacher. He isolates and analyzes the essential el…
How to preach an effective sermon in as little as 10 minutes! Robert Young here demonstrates how ministers today can greatly improve the quality of their preaching simply through the use of shorter sermons. "This book", writes Young, "is a plea for shorter sermons. Just as the twenty-minute sermon replaced the hourglass lecture of Colonial America, a new day invites ministers to trim down furth…
Leadership today is no easy task. Christian leaders called to shepherd others get caught in power struggles and are tempted to abuse their pastoral authority. Pastors feel that they must project strength and certainty in order to preach and minister credibly. Too often our models of leadership are shaped more by culture than by Christ. John Stott offers an alternative vision in this biblical ap…