This unique devotional takes the reader on a spiritual journey through Lent and Holy Week. The focus is on the Spirituals, through which the reader comes to understand the bright sadness of Lent. This title helps readers pave a path of rededicating their lives to God. Meditations and spiritual exercises will enrich and empower your faith as you encounter the Christ who suffered and died, and who seeks to live in and with you.

Never Said a Mumbalin' Word

Bozzuti-Jones, Mark Francisco

Religion & Spirituality

AUGSBURG FORTRESS* PUBLISHERS

Illustrations and simple text detail God's creation of everything that exists.

God Created

Augsburg Fortress Pub

Bozzuti-Jones helps children explore Jesus's importance, as revealed in John 1:1: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." 
Lyrical language and evocative illustrations are woven together to reveal how God has created and redeemed all life through Jesus, God's Word in the flesh.

Jesus, The Word

Hehenberger, Shelly

Mark Bozzutti-Jones offers a unique perspective on the season of Advent. Along with Scripture readings and prayers, he offers four weeks of meditations that focus on the growth of Jesus in the womb of Mary as he approaches the day of his birth, learns his mother's voice, responds to the presence of light and dark, and begins to position himself for birth. What does this teach us about our own spiritual journey through Advent? Waiting and preparation is essential to the Christian life. By reflecting on our own birth experiences and Jesus' own progress through the womb, Christians can learn how to remain intimate with God, how to approach the light, and how to get ready for new birth in Christ. The Womb of Advent guides the reader through each day with a mantra, scripture reading, and questions to focus our meditation. Each session ends with a spiritual exercise.

The Womb of Advent

Christian Books & Bibles

Church Publishing

The story of a former slave and America's first Black Episcopal priest is an inspiring model for living a full life of service and love. This book, appropriate for children but engaging enough for adults, begins by describing the reality of slavery during Jones's life. Absalom Jones purchased his wife's freedom before his own and dedicated himself to living the Christian faith. Through the difficulties and challenges of his time, he answered the call to serve the church and was ordained a priest and deacon to serve the first Black Episcopal Church in the United States. The first Black priest in the Anglican Communion continues to be one of the most important historical figures in the Episcopal Church. As the church pays attention to its own sins of racism, this book offers encouragement, guidance, hope, and inspiration. Jones's life is an example of what it means to follow Jesus through faithful, courageous, and selfless living of the way of love.

Absalom Jones: America's First Black Priest

Children's Books

Biographies

Morehouse Publishing