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Greetings SKS Members and faithful followers! Christmas is around the corner! Here are what's hot and happening this week: IDMC 2017: Rekindling Your Spiritual Passion MP3 Sermon CD by Rev Edmund Chan, What Are Christmas & Easter All About? by John Cross, A Bigger Table: Building Messy, Authentic & Hopeful Spiritual Community by John Pavlovitz, Growing God's Kids series by Carolyn Larsen, and more!

At the top of this list, here is an excerpt from I'd Like You More if You Were More Like Me by John Ortberg: "We were created for deep connections. When people have deep connections, says John Ortberg, they win in life. When they don't have deep connections, they cannot win in life. I'd Like You More if You Were More like Me offers help in overcoming one of the biggest obstacles to making deep connections: the fact that we're so different. Different from God and different from each other."  Loving it so far? Just scroll down and read on!

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We were created for deep connections. When people have deep connections, says John Ortberg, they win in life. When they don't have deep connections, they cannot win in life. I'd Like You More if You Were More like Me offers help in overcoming one of the biggest obstacles to making deep connections: the fact that we're so different. Different from God and different from each other.

The good news is that connectedness is not based on similarity, but on shared experiences. When one person invites another to share an experience, they're connected. It can be sharing a beautiful sunset or a meal, having a great conversation over cup of coffee, going for walk, or even teasing somebody. And when we share those same experiences with God, we get closer to him, too. God wants to connect with us—so much that he sent his son to live as a human being. God took on flesh and shared every human experience. So we don't have to wonder what a close relationship with God looks like anymore.

An intimate relationship with God and other people doesn't have to be a cliché, it can be a daily way of life.

PASSION IS ABOUT LIVING THE INTENTIONAL LIFE.

The problem is that many of us live unintentionally. There is an emptiness of soul, a seeking for something more. Our lives are focused on the external and we live lives apart from the deep riches of God.

Rekindling Your Spiritual Passion comes to the real issue that people's lives are no longer fired up by God. We have lost that passion. We have lost that first love. Yet in discipleship today, we must come back to reengaging that first love for Jesus in our lives. This is the heart of the issue. Otherwise, the soul is empty and there is nothing that will anchor the inner life. What we need is a spiritual compass that will lead us to grand adventure of faith with God.

Plenary speakers: Reverend Edmund Chan and Pastor Ann Chan

Contents:
Plenary 1 | Break Up Your Fallow Ground
Plenary 2 | Restoring Your Spiritual Passion
Plenary 3 | Overcoming The Primal Wounds Of The Heart
Plenary 4 | Overcoming The Cynicism Of The Mind
Plenary 5 | Overcoming The Paralysis Of The Will
Plenary 6 | Overcoming The Overcrowding Of The Soul
Plenary 7 | Living The Intentional Life

The purpose of this book is to explain the most important story in the Holy Bible: It is a story that tells us what Christmas and Easter are all about. However the book doesn't stop with the stories of these two festivals: It explains much more. It tells us the Bible's answers to life, death and life after death. It helps us understand what the Bible is all about!

This book is written in EasyEnglish, which means all ages can benefit from it. If English is a difficult language for you to read, this book will be helpful.

No one likes to eat alone; to approach a table filled with people, only to be told that despite the open chairs there isn't room for you. The rejection stings. It leaves a mark. Yet this is exactly what the church has been saying to far too many people for far too long: "You're not welcome here. Find someplace else to sit." This is antithetical to what we see in the life and ministry of Jesus, where diversity is a given and where the inherent value of all people is placed front and center. How can we who claim faith in Christ expand the table and embody the community Jesus envisioned? How can we extend unconditional welcome and acceptance in a world increasingly marked by bigotry, fear, and exclusion?

Pastor John Pavlovitz invites readers to join him on the journey to find—or build—a church that is big enough for everyone. He holds a mirror up to the modern church and speaks clearly into the heart of the issues the Christian community has been earnestly wrestling with: LGBT inclusion, gender equality, racial tensions, global concerns, and theological shifts. A Bigger Table: Building God's Messy, Authentic, Hopeful Community asks if organized Christianity, which has become ever more politicized in focus and narrow in scope, can find a new way of faithfully continuing the work Jesus began two thousand years ago, where everyone gets a seat.

Pavlovitz shares moving personal stories, his careful observations as a pastor, and his understanding of the ancient stories of Jesus to set the table for a new, positive, more loving conversation on these and other important matters of faith. He invites us to build the bigger table Jesus imagined, practicing radical hospitality, total authenticity, messy diversity, and agenda-free community.

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