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  • Children's Ministry in the Way of Jesus

    by David M Csinos, Ivy Beckwith ...
    Attract kids to church, the logic often goes, and you get parents in the pews. All that's left, then, is to get the kids out of the way. Here children's ministers David Csinos and Ivy Beckwith draw on research in human development and spiritual formation to show how children become disciples and churches become centers of lifelong discipleship. For too long, the local church has focused primarily ... Read more

    $37.23 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Weinzweig

    Essays on His Life and Music

    Edited by John Beckwith, Brian Cherney ...
    First comprehensive study of John Weinzweig (1913–2006), the pre-eminent Canadian composer of his generation, with essays by composers, theorists, and musicologists. Includes a CD of extracts.Influenced by European modernists such as Stravinsky, Berg, and Webern, Weinzweig was the first Canadian composer to employ serialism, thereby bringing a spirit of innovation to mid-twentieth-century Canadian ... Read more

    $55.19 CAD

  • The Modern Composer and His World

    Edited by John Beckwith, Udo Kasemets ...
    Series series Heritage
    Proceedings of the International Conference of Composers attended by SCEG at the Stratford Festival, Stratford, Ontario in August 1960. ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Musical Canada

    Words and Music Honouring Helmut Kallmann

    Edited by John Beckwith, Frederick Hall ...
    Series series Heritage
    The foremost historian of Canadian music and musical life, Helmut Kallmann is the inspiration for this volume. Its twenty-three contributions, written by prominent composers and writers representing many different regions and both national languages, present a cross-section of current work in historical research, bibliography, analysis, criticism, and creative composition.Among the subjects ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • Unheard Of

    Memoirs of a Canadian Composer

    Edited by John Beckwith ...
    Series series Life Writing
    The memoir of renowned Canadian composer John Beckwith recounts his more than sixty years in creative output and music education. His life story is a slice of Canadian cultural history.Canadian composer John Beckwith recounts his early days in Victoria, his studies in Toronto with Alberto Guerrero, his first compositions, and his later studies in Paris with the renowned Nadia Boulanger, of whom he ... Read more

    $16.79 CAD

  • Mapping Canada's Music

    Selected Writings of Helmut Kallmann

    by Helmut Kallmann ...
    Mapping Canada’s Music is a selection of writings by the late Canadian music librarian and historian Helmut Kallmann (1922–2012). Most of the essays deal with aspects of Canadian music, but some are also autobiographical, including one written during retirement in which Kallmann recalls growing up in a middle-class Jewish family in 1930s Berlin under the spectre of Nazism.Of the seventeen selected ... Read more

    $46.39 CAD

  • Do Christians, Muslims, and Jews Worship the Same God?: Four Views

    by Wm. Andrew Schwartz, John B. Cobb, Jr., Francis J. Beckwith, Gerald R McDermott, Jerry Walls, Joseph Cumming, David W. Shenk, Ronnie Campbell, Christopher Gnanakan, Stanley N. Gundry, Zondervan ...
    Series series Counterpoints: Bible and Theology
    During a time of global conflict, the theological question of whether Muslims, Jews, and Christians worship the same God carries political baggage. Is the God of ISIS the same as the God of Israel? Do Sunni Muslims and Protestant Christians pray to the same Creator and Sustainer of the universe?In this Counterpoints volume, five leading scholars present the main religious perspectives on this ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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  • Making Your Children's Ministry the Best Hour of Every Kid's Week

    by David Staal ...
    Promiseland is Willow Creek’s highly successful children’s ministry. Using examples from Promiseland and churches of all sizes around the country, this book provides step by step guidance and creative application exercises to help churches develop a thriving children’s ministry—one that strives to be the best hour of every kid’s week. Included are Scripture-based principles and practical resources ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

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  • When God Goes to Starbucks

    A Guide to Everyday Apologetics

    by Paul Copan ...
    More than ever, Christians are bombarded with tough faith questions from their pluralistic friends and neighbors. Many of these emerge as "anti-truth claims" and slogans we are all familiar with:• Why not just look out for yourself?• Do what you want--just as long as you don't hurt anyone• Miracles violate the laws of nature• Aren't people born gay?Paul Copan has been answering questions like ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • 10 Answers for Atheists

    How to Have an Intelligent Discussion About the Existence of God

    by Alex McFarland ...
    With notable nonbelievers such as Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens featured prominently in the media, it is no surprise that many Christians wonder how best to answer the growing number of atheist arguments they encounter every day. 10 Answers for Atheists is a one-of-a-kind resource from respected Christian apologist Alex McFarland that looks closely at the philosophical ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Music

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Nicholas Cook ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The world teems with different kinds of music - traditional, folk, classical, jazz, rock, pop - and each type of music tends to come with its own way of thinking. Drawing on a wealth of accessible examples ranging from Beethoven to Chinese zither music, this Very Short Introduction considers the history of music and thinking about music, ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

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  • The First Four Notes

    Beethoven's Fifth and the Human Imagination

    by Matthew Guerrieri ...
    A TIME Magazine Top 10 Nonfiction Book of 2012A New Yorker Best Book of the YearLos Angeles Magazine's #1 Music Book of the YearA unique and revelatory book of music history that examines in great depth what is perhaps the best-known and most-popular symphony ever written and its four-note opening, which has fascinated musicians, historians, and philosophers for the last two hundred years.Music ... Read more

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