Outdoor garden or indoor garden? Tomatoes or flowers? Herbs or lettuce? In the Christian Kids' Gardening Guide, you will discover how to grow all types of gardens from start to finish. And as you plant your garden, you will dig into the Bible so you can grow in Christ as your plants grow.

God's creation is fun! In this book, you'll learn about amazing plants and what to do with them, such as:
Flowers that bloom at night and sleep during the day.
Herbs to keep your pets bug-free.

Popcorn you can grow and eat.
Plants that grow - even if you forget to water them.
Potatoes that bloom in a tire without dirt!

Ready to grow? Grab a shovel, put on your gloves and start digging!

Beckett's book, "Commitment to Conqour," pictures ministry not just in the local church but in the whole community. He challenges the reader through personal example how to positively attack spiritual strongholds. The church he serves and founded, The Dwelling Place, demonstrates the best of evangelical desire and congregational focus. Together, they confront the principalities and powers and see the victory of the Holy Spirit over demonic activity. Beckett illustrates well how to unify pastors and churches to take one's city for God. We are not in a battle by ourselves but in a battle for Jesus Christ, a battle ultimately to be won by God Himself. By uniting 30 pastors together, they come together in agreement with God and claim the land. Clearly, this is a must read for anyone who wants to take their city for God. Beckett's excellent teaching skills shine in this book. Reviewed by Rev. Lawrence H. Potts, Pastor of Beverly United Methodist Church, Beverly, NJ

This is the subject treated by the master of Early Christian History. There's no better place to learn about this confusing era than in her lectures--this is about as good as it will ever get without paying expensive tuition!

Chuck Pierce is a voice crying out in the wilderness, "Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord."

There is a prophetic voice emerging out of mainline Christianity today and Chuck Pierce is one of those Prophets. He captures, in one volumn, the heart of God and what Christ is doing in the hearts of this generation in preparation for His soon return.

Chuck Pierce opens a window into the Spiritual realm easily understood by anyone. He speaks of intercessory warfare and explains God's strategy in tearing down strongholds of the enemy.

He talks about and explains the coming Apostolic Church Government and the raising up of Prophets who will and are admonishing us to prepare our hearts before God.

Chuck Pierce has defined in depth what God means in His Commandment to 'Love God first with your whole heart and soul, and your NEIGHBOR as yourself.' Jesus Christ longs to share the fire of His love with us. Embrasing Him intimately is key to our growing up in Him.

Chuck Pierce shows us the way. One small paragraph sums up the whole of his prophetic message here:

"As we learn to operate in our gifts, the Body of Christ will function as it was meant to. No demonic force, including lawlessness, will be able to stand against a fully functioning Body of Christ. Operating properly in the gifts will lead us back to love (1 Cor. 13:1010), where we can work together according to the heart of God." (Page 203-204).

This book is a wonderful help to those who want to start a daily Christian practice, as well as for those who want to deepen their spiritual lives. The four-week program of spiritual reading and reflection is full of provocative scripture and poetry, and lots of helpful options for praying--such as chanting, or drawing, as well as the more "traditional" options most people know of. The writing and suggestions are inviting, rather than demanding, and focus not only on what you read, but how you will respond to it. This is an enormously helpful workbook for individuals, study groups, and congregations.

This is an excellent book for anyone wanting to escape from mediocrity. Following the life of King David (including Saul and Jonathan), Rebecca covers emotions such as rebellion, fear, hatred, envy and despair and examines the remedies of submission, faith, love, compassion and hope. I would never have described myself a jealous person or someone with a lot of hatred but this book really challenged me about how I do live my life and the way I respond to people.

History is full of examples of ecclesial disconnect -- the lack of a connection between the ideas of the church and the worship of the church and the social responsibility and action of the church. This still is a problem in many denominations and individual churches within denominations -- just what is the connexion between how we worship and how we act outside of worship? Shouldn't there be some connexion? Shouldn't what we do in church both influence and reflect what we do outside of church? Shouldn't our worship transform us, and, if yes, what is the nature of this transformation in the world?

This book, 'Liturgy and the Moral Self: Humanity at Full Stretch Before God,' edited by E. Byron Anderson and Bruce T. Morrill, is a tribute and witness to the work of liturgical theologian Don E. Saliers, who challenged both the church and the academy with finding the ways in which prayer and worship form the Christian life, and ensuring that the rhetoric and the reality match.

'In a day concerned more with promoting "good" feelings, enthusiasm, self-certainty, and self-fulfillment, Saliers' concern for the formation of the deep affections of the Christian life is perhaps most radical in his attention to the formation of those affections that address the apparent lack of certainty in the Christian life. In summoning the Christian community from what he calls "presumptuous prayer", Saliers summons us to liturgical practices of invocation, beseeching, lamentation, and confession by which, in addition to thanksgiving and praise, we name the fullness of human life, our experiences of God's absence as well as God's presence.'

The book begins with an essay by Saliers, in which he lays forth some guiding ideas for beginning the search for a connexion between liturgical practice and ethics, most especially as they reflect upon the prayerful formation of the self in community, and the development and expression of the ethics of Christian character.

From this beginning, the book proceeds in several parts. The first part begins exploring the tradition, practice and beliefs behind liturgical theology. This might well be summed up by the essay title by James F. White: How do we know it is us? The essays in this section different traditions, high, low and broad in liturgy, and the attendant assumptions and expressions that are valid for the communities.

The next part explores the formation of character. Many parts of the liturgy are deeply reflective of who we are as individuals and communities. Are we musical? Are we movement-oriented or stillness-oriented? Are we contemplative? Anderson's essay in this, subtitled Hymning the Self Before God, discusses the importance of hymnody, the style of hymnody, the reasons why changing music or hymnals is so volatile: the music is an integral part of the soul. We sing because it expresses who we are, Anderson writes. Later, he writes, 'We know that the act of singing identifies us as singers. But in singing a hymn, we identify ourselves also with a particular text and tune, even in only momentarily.' Further essays on prayer also serve to illuminate this topic.

The final section discusses the connexion of words and music, including a discussion of liturgical music and and essay of reflections on writing, prayer and practice entitled Clunky Prayers and Christian Living. In this essay, Brian Wren writes: 'Do they matter, these clunky prayers that spill out Sunday by Sunday onto worship bulletins in so many mainstream Protestant churches?' By exploring the spirit of worship, what works and what doesn't, he begins to details that do not occur to the regular parishioner, even the one who recites the clunky prayers week after week for years.

Saliers claims the last word, clarifying at the end of this work yet more questions, foundational and ongoing, as well as his concern that the knowledge of God cannot be without a form of recognising how God is known. Sustaining aspects of the knowledge of God are either upheld or drowned by liturgy; the glory of God is expressed or masked -- the community needs to be aware of what is happening in what they're doing. Saliers calls for an always-reforming spirit (semper reformanda) that is akin to the very call of the gospel itself, to a radical reconnexion with God made new in each place, by each community, in each time.

Ron Anderson is a professor and friend of mine, teaching at Christian Theological Seminary. It has been honour to have been instructed by him, to assist in teaching with him, and to be able to review this book.

A friend of mine gave me this book and it has been a God-send. The activities don't require a lot of things that I don't have (like so many other activity books for Moms and kids). It is organized by month with a character trait, something about our world and new words to learn for each month. The activities for each week follow those themes. You don't have to do something every day. I just use it as I have time. It is a great tool for a Mom to build a relationship with her child and teach character at the same time.

I just got this book today. I'm about to start reading it very soon. I'm going to write back and let everyone know how this book is! It sounds very very good! Talk to ya later. Oh, Let me just say....everyone needs to read ''The Princess'' By:Lori Wick. It's the best!

I've been a homeschooling mom for over 6 years now. After using Concerned Communication's A Reason For Writing since the beginning, we stumble on A Reason For Spelling this year. I was tired of "boring" spelling curriculumns, so figured we'd spend the extra $$$ and give this a try. Well, we ALL love it (we're using levels A, C and E for our 1st, 3rd and 5th graders). There is a lot of activities packed into these pages, and you can pretty much pick and choose how much of it you want to do. There are reproducibles in the teachers manuals of additional activities. I'm thinking of using it again next year with all the activities, and I should be able to turn it into our full Language Arts program. One word of warning, DON'T try to use this without the teachers manual, you will be LOST! I find the teacher's manual invaluable!