New Releases by Adam Hamilton

In his best-selling book, 24 Hours that Changed the World, pastor and popular author Adam Hamilton helped readers relive the one day in history that changed everything.€Hamilton invites readers and viewers to experience and understand the significance of Jesus'' final hours. Based on this popular series by Adam Hamilton, 24 Hours That Changed the World For Youth offers an age-appropriate perspectve on the fnal day in Jesus'' life on earth.

In his best-selling book, 24 Hours that Changed the World, pastor and popular author Adam Hamilton helped readers relive the one day in history that changed everything and experience and understand the significance ofJesus'' final hours. This 80-page Leader Guide helps leaders facilitate small-group discussion about the book, the devotions, and the DVD. The Leader Guide provides questions and exercises keyed to each session, as well as multiple format options and suggestions of ways to make the study a meaningful experience for any group.

No single event in human history has received more attention than the suffering and crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth. In this Lenten journey, Adam Hamilton guides us through the last twenty-four hours of Jesus'' life. Each chapter is designed to help the reader experience and understand the significance of Jesus'' suffering and death in a way you have never done before. Whether readers are long-time Christians or simply curious about the story of Christ''s crucifixion, they are invited to join the author in retracing the last 24 hours of Jesus'' life. The program that supports this product includes: 1) a DVD that contains session video filmed in the Holy Land and a leader''s guide; and 2) a paperback devotional book. Lent, Lenten, Lenten Resource, Lenten Resources, Lent Study, Lent Studies, Easter, Easter Study, Easter Studies

Catch brings you a comprehensive plan for implementing the proven marketing and visitor follow-up techniques from the Church of the Resurrection. It is designed for small groups (12-15 people) and takes them through intense Bible study to help your church attract visitors and then integrate them into the life of your community. The additional book, Catch a new life is designed for the new visitors who wish to join your church by responding to the call of discipleship. It encourages them through the transformative experiences that come with a lifelong commitment to serve as a member of the body of Christ.

Adam Hamilton presents a welcoming, inspiring vision of eight Christian denominations and faith traditions, contending that each tradition has a unique, valuable perspective to offer on the Christian faith.

Christianity and World Religions is the third title in our series of video-based small-group studies from Adam Hamilton. Like Making Love Last a Lifetime and Confronting the Controversies, the study is designed as a "fishing expedition," with tools and helps that will enable congregations to make the study a church-wide and community-wide outreach event, including sermon starters and promotion aids. Christianity and World Religions is six weeks long, with the following topics: 1. Questions Thinking People Ask 2. Hinduism 3. Buddhism 4. Islam 5. Judaism 6. Christianity The opening session deals openly and honestly with questions people ask about other religions, including why we should believe the claims of Christianity over those of other faiths. In the sessions on Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, and Judaism, Hamilton interviews a religious leader from that tradition and includes the taped comments in his remarks. He treats the world religions with great respect, recognizing the unique contributions of each and then comparing and contrasting them with Christianity. In the final session, he attempts to distill the essential beliefs of Christianity, in light of the other religious beliefs that have been presented. Contains 1 each of the VHS tape and DVD and Pastors Guide - 4 Leader''s Guides - 20 Participants Books For more information about Adam Hamilton''s studies, go to www.adamhamilton.cokesbury.com.

DO NOT USE THIS COPY FOR LOVE TO STAY 2013************************************************* This small-group study is more than a small-group study. It provides the components to create a powerful small-group experience, including video presentations, a leader''s guide with activities for class sessions and home use, and a thoughtful, inspiring participant''s book written by Adam Hamilton, the dynamic young pastor of The United Methodist Church of the Resurrection in Leawood, Kansas. But it is more than that. A Pastor''s Guide with CD-ROM provides the information and tools needed to create a congregation-wide event that will reach beyond the classroom, beyond the sanctuary, and into the community, bringing young people and families into the church who ordinarily might only stop by on Christmas or Easter. Making Love Last a Lifetime is a comprehensive program for reaching new people, creating excitement, launching new small groups, and strengthening existing classes. It includes sermon starters and illustrations, marketing materials, and outreach tools built around an eight-week study on a topic that holds great interest for singles and married persons, both inside and outside the church. Designed for use in 60-90-minute sessions. For more information about Adam Hamilton''s studies, go to www.adamhamilton.cokesbury.com.

The Pastor''s Guide includes a CD and instruction for sermon preparation and promotion

The Leader''s Guide includes: how to set up and facilitate a group, coordinating with church-wide activities, reproducible worksheets, brief summary of session content, discussion questions, practical applications and activities.

Good pastoral leadership is not a by the numbers proposition. It is a matter of heart and soul, of devoting the whole self to the vision God gives for the congregation in which one serves. Yet neither is it purely intuitive; it requires hard, careful thinking about the directions and details of the path down which God calls. When Adam Hamilton became pastor of the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection, its membership consisted of himself and his family. Ten years later the church averages between five and six thousand worshipers per weekend. Throughout this remarkable period, Hamilton learned many serious lessons about both the broad visions and the specific details of pastoral leadership. Bringing a depth of analytical skills often lacking in visionary leaders, in this book he goes beyond simply telling the story of Church of the Resurrection. He shares the questions that he learned to ask about the largely unchurched population to which Church of the Resurrection has reached out. Further, he demonstrates what he learned by listening to the answers to these questions, and how doing so has made possible a number of strategically crucial decisions the church has made. One of those crucial decisions was to make more traditional forms of worship and praise the center of the congregation''s life. The result is that the example of Church of the Resurrection offers pastors and church leaders (especially those in mainline denominations) the realization that they need not completely change their liturgical and theological identity in order to reach out to the unchurched. Drawing on his own experience, as well as the detailed research on the characteristics of highly successful congregations he undertook during a sabbatical leave, Hamilton offers pastors and other church leaders solid, substantive thinking on steps that congregations can take to become centers of vibrant outreach and mission. Also available in: Adobe Ebook 9780687026753Microsoft Ebook 9780687027491

This is the story of Karl Gray, an individual who becomes a new man through a dark metamorphosis. Karl hates himself and the world he has created. He doesn’t realize how badly he wants to escape and to change his life until he meets a homeless man, Alexander. Through his relationship with Alexander, he is taught a new religion, a new set of beliefs about his role within and without society. What will his life amount to? Does it matter? Why does he have to spend the precious seconds of his life within a machine’s inner workings? Why does his past propel him into a new future? Karl realizes his new dogma by finally ridding himself of a cursed memory in order to open a new tomorrow.

Adam Hamilton, named by PBS’s Religion and Ethics Newsweekly as one of the top “Ten People to Watch,” has created an inviting new series of video-and-book studies on love and marriage, life issues, world religions, and Christian denominations. Hamilton calls these small-group studies “fishing expeditions,” because they include tools for congregation wide and communitywide programs to draw in new members. Christianity and World Religions: Wrestling With Questions People Ask is a video-based small-group study and outreach program that explores four major world religions- Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, and Judaism – and compares the beliefs of each with those of Christianity. This six-week study deals openly and honestly with questions people ask about other religions, including why we should believe the claims of Christianity over those of other faiths. As part of the study, author and presenter Adam Hamilton interviews a religious leader from each tradition. He treats the world religions with great respect, recognizing the unique contributions of each. In examining these major world religions and the beliefs of their followers, the Reverend Hamilton urges us as Christians to build bridges with others so that we might grow in our faith, seek peace in our world, love our neighbor, and find positive ways to share the gospel. Six 15 - minute video segments feature Hamilton''s message on world religions and comments from leaders of those faiths. To view a video clip from Christianity and World Religions DVD click here For more information about Adam Hamilton''s studies, go to www.adamhamilton.cokesbury.com.