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Parables from the Back Side Volume 1
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 169

Parables from the Back Side Volume 1

Includes Meet J. Ellsworth Kalas and 12 weekly sessions (10 minutes each) that examine the chapters of the book Parables from the back side: Bible stories with a twist.

Old Testament Stories from the Back Side
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 142

Old Testament Stories from the Back Side

Brings a new perspective to selected Old Testament stories by exploring them from a unique starting point or from a different person's viewpoint. Chapter titles: The Second Sin; The Importance of Naming Joseph; Because My Mother Told Me; Moses' Midlife Crisis; Patron Saint of the Minority Report; Tragic Son, Tragic Father; Honey in the Lion; Beauty and the Beast; A Refugee at the King's Table; In Defense of Job's Wife; Jonah's Christmas Story; God Is Better Than His Plans. 12 Sessions with a leader's guide.

I Love Growing Older, But I'll Never Grow Old
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 162

I Love Growing Older, But I'll Never Grow Old

Growing older is a process. Growing old is a conclusion. If you're growing older you see some hope because you have perspective and you keep learning. If you've grown old, you may cynically think that times have never been as bad as they are now, and that they can only get worse. This book is about learning how to "make peace with where you are right now." It's about learning from the past and then moving past it. It's about growing--personally, spiritually, and in our relationships with God and with others. If we think properly about growing older we'll never have to grow old.

Strong was Her Faith
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 148

Strong was Her Faith

J. Ellsworth Kalas focuses on several women of great faith who were crucial to the story of the New Testament. Kalas looks into the life and times of eleven different women such as Elizabeth, Mary, Dorcas, and Mary Magdelene. He examines the Scriptures to see what we can learn about these women, what we can from them, and how each woman fits into the New Testament story.

The Beatitudes from the Back Side
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 145

The Beatitudes from the Back Side

J. Ellsworth Kalas opens up new possibilities of insight into the beatitudes, Jesus' blessings from the Sermon on the Mount.

The Thirteen Apostles
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 179

The Thirteen Apostles

In this engaging book from popular author J. Ellsworth Kalas, a portrait of each apostle as a servant in ministry, a human being, and individual are drawn from Scripture as well as historical writings and tradition. A chapter is also devoted to Mathias, the successor to Judas Iscariot. Each chapter features a key passage of Scripture. At the end of the book is a 16-page study guide.

A Faith of Her Own
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 160

A Faith of Her Own

Stories of the women whose faith in God led the way

The Best of J. Ellsworth Kalas
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 172

The Best of J. Ellsworth Kalas

Take the best preacher you’ve ever heard; add in the teacher who first opened your eyes to the excitement and meaning of your favorite subject in school; combine these with that member of the family to whom you could always turn for the best advice; stir them all together, and you’ll get a flavor of the writing of Ellsworth Kalas. And now the very best thoughts and reflections of this wise teacher and guide are available together in one volume. Across his career Ellsworth Kalas has worn many hats: pastor, professor, seminary president. Through all of them, however, he has remained first and foremost an interpreter of God’s Word. His most potent skill is to open up new insights and meanings in even the most familiar biblical stories. Gathered here are some Kalas’s most humorous, touching, and enlightening writings, drawn from his own experience of finding God in Scripture.

Faith from the Back Side
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 140

Faith from the Back Side

In his popular series of books "From the Back Side," J. Ellsworth Kalas looks at Christian topics through a new lens, takes unique starting points on those subjects, and uses creative re-telling from different points of view. In Faith from the Back Side, Kalas explores something that is central in a Christian life but often difficult to understand. "We exercise faith every day, in hundreds of secular moments, then struggle to find it in its purest form when we need God’s help the most. The back side, indeed! Sometimes it’s the only side of faith we can seem to approach. Yet faith is nearer than our hands or feet, and more real than the air we breathe. It’s time we learned more about it." (J. Ellsworth Kalas, adapted from the foreword) A discussion guide is included for small-group use.

Being United Methodist
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 174

Being United Methodist

What exactly is a Methodist?