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New Year, New Look, New Stuff
Like Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Terminator, the Bristol Blog is baaaaack. Our revised, reinvented, retooled website is up and running. We’ve got some new things to show you.
Everyone’s favorite, Bob Tuttle, is back in the Bristol line up with Shortening the Leap. It is a great book for folks who are having trouble taking the step to belief in Jesus Christ as Savior. Those whose friends and/or relatives are struggling with faith issues will find the book very helpful. Dick Sochacki, our seminary-educated warehouse manager, says it is a great book for both lay people and clergy. He’s been both. I trust him on this.
Phil Thrailkill has been writing sermons, essays and study resources for years, but we have his first full-length book, a study on scripture passages relating to Mary, the mother of Jesus. Mary: Lessons in Discipleship from Jesus’ Earthly Family, is a real winner. My Sunday school class at Pendleton First UMC (Pendleton, Ind.) is discussing it now. Phil is a gifted writer whose work you will enjoy.
If you want to break up those long family road trips or boring commutes, take a look at The Story of the Old Testament, Volume 1 on CD. It is the first of five volumes based on more than 100 Sunday school lessons Dr. John Stumbo taught in the Fort Valley (Ga.) UMC. Designed to give lay people a better understanding of the people and stories of the Old Testament, this well-researched volume is inspirational and informative. Besides, it’s read by the author, a retired lawyer and law professor who was once described as “that man who sounds like God.”
Do you need a gift for a pastor who has everything—a gift in your price range, that is? Would you like to express appreciation to your church organist who feels overshadowed by the praise band? How about getting something for someone who just needs to feel appreciated? Then please take a look at our “Gifts and Fun Stuff” section.
Your pastor needs a clergy cap. Randy Booth, one of our Our Faith Today writers, wears his regularly.
Your organist could certainly use an “Organ Music Rocks” t-shirt.
The members of your staff parish committee would look swell in the “My Pastor Can Beat Your Pastor to a Pulpit” shirt. It might go over big at the next Charge Conference.
Wouldn’t your district superintendent appreciate a “Wesley World Tour” shirt?
And all those fans of Riley Case’s Hackleburg stories would love to sport our brand new 13-pie t-shirt.