Not a Silent Night DVD

David Burns on January 19, 2024

  • Publication Date: 09/16/2014
  • Binding: DVD
  • ISBN: 9781426771859

Imagine Jesus from Mary’s point-of-view—proud of her son, in awe of his gifts and mission, guided by love for him as a person and so much more. Adam Hamilton begins at the end, with Mary at the crucifixion and resurrection; travels back in time as she witnesses his life and ministry; and ends at the beginning, with the Christ child born in a stable, Mary’s beautiful baby. This year, experience Advent and Christmas with Mary.

This DVD, meant for group use along with Adam Hamilton’s book Not a Silent Night: Mary Looks Back to Bethlehem, brings Hamilton and his dynamic teaching style into the group. The DVD presents five videos of about 10 minutes each, one for each book chapter. The videos are based on the book chapter topics:

1. Beginning with the End
2. The Piercing of Mary’s Soul
3. Amazed, Astounded, and Astonished
4. Mary, Full of Grace
5. It Was Not a Silent Night

All video sessions are closed captioned.

Love to Stay Leader Guide

David Burns on January 19, 2024

  • Publication Date: 08/06/2013
  • Binding: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9781426759543

Falling in love is easy, but staying in love takes courage, hard work, and lots of grace! The leader guide includes everything a group leader needs to facilitate sessions and tailor them to the time and style of each group.

The videos and leader guide are based on the book chapter topics:
More Than a Piece of Paper
What She Wants, What He Wants
The Significance of Sexual Intimacy
Habits That Hurt, Habits That Heal
Clothe, Bear With, and Forgive
A Love That Lasts a Lifetime

Leading Beyond the Walls 21293

David Burns on January 19, 2024

  • Publication Date: 01/01/2002
  • Binding: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9781426754852

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.

Final Words From the Cross Leader’s Guide

David Burns on January 19, 2024

  • Publication Date: 12/01/2011
  • Binding: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9781426746840

In 24 Hours That Changed the World, Adam Hamilton took us on a Lenten journey through the last day of Jesus’ life. Now, in his inspiring follow-up book, Hamilton examines Christ’s dying hours and his final words as seen and heard through the eyes and ears of those who stood near the cross.

Moving through each chapter you will begin to understand and respond to Jesus’ final words at the cross while learning about those who were eye witnesses to the crucifixion. In the final chapter, Hamilton moves beyond the cross to Jesus’ words to the disciples on the road to Emmaus and to those who were witnesses to the Resurrection.

This small-group Leader Guide is a companion piece to the Final Words DVD and contains seven teaching sessions with topics that include:

Father Forgive Them
Behold Your Son
My God, Why Have You Forsaken Me?
Today You Will Be with Me in Paradise
I Thirst
Into Your Hands I Commit My Spirit
On the Road to Emmaus

Lent, Lenten, Lenten Resource, Lenten Resources, Lent Study, Lent Studies, Easter, Easter Study, Easter Studies

The Way: Youth Study Edition

David Burns on January 19, 2024

  • Publication Date: 12/01/2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9781426752544

Travel with Adam Hamilton as he retraces the life and ministry of Jesus Christ. Once again, Hamilton approaches his subject matter with thoughtfulness and wisdom, just as he did with Jesus’ crucifixion in 24 Hours That Changed the World and with Jesus’ birth in The Journey. Using historical information, archaeological data, and stories of the faith, Hamilton follows in the footsteps of Jesus from his baptism to the temptations to the heart of his ministry, including the people he loved, the parables he taught, the enemies he made, and the healing he brought.

Everything needed to conduct a 6-week study during Lent and Easter for ages 13-18. Use with the adult-level DVD.

Lent, Lenten, Lenten Resource, Lenten Resources, Lent Study, Lent Studies, Easter, Easter Study, Easter Studies

The Way – eBook [ePub]

David Burns on January 19, 2024

  • Publication Date: 12/01/2012
  • Binding: ePub
  • ISBN: 9781426764882

Travel with Adam Hamilton as he retraces the life and ministry of Jesus Christ. Fascinating video from his personal travels to the Holy Land give you a “first-person” experience while his biblical wisdom and historical knowledge provide thoughtful and insightful commentary. For personal or small-group study, especially fitting as part of a 40-day churchwide emphasis during Lent and Easter. Resources include book, Leader Guide, DVD, devotional, and materials for youth and children’s ministries.

Love to Stay DVD

David Burns on January 19, 2024

  • Publication Date: 08/06/2013
  • Binding: DVD
  • ISBN: 9781426759536

The idea of a lasting marriage has almost vanished. But in Love to Stay, Adam Hamilton explores how, with God’s help, it doesn’t have to be that way. Drawing upon a survey of thousands of couples and singles, interviews with relationship and marriage therapists, the latest research in the field, and wisdom from the Bible, Hamilton looks at what it takes to create and sustain healthy, meaningful romantic relationships across the course of a lifetime. The Leader Guide includes everything needed to facilitate this six-session study and the DVD brings Hamilton’s dynamic teaching style into the group.
Contents include:
More Than a Piece of Paper
What She Wants; What He Wants
The Significance of Sexual Intimacy
Habits That Hurt, Habits That Heal
Clothe, Bear With, and Forgive
A Love That Lasts a Lifetime

All video sessions are closed captioned. Presents 6 videos of about 10 minutes each, one for each book chapter.

Final Words From the Cross DVD

David Burns on January 19, 2024

  • Publication Date: 12/01/2011
  • Binding: DVD
  • ISBN: 9781426746833

In 24 Hours That Changed the World, Adam Hamilton took us on a Lenten journey through the last day of Jesus’ life. Now, in his inspiring follow-up book, Hamilton examines Christ’s dying hours and his final words as seen and heard through the eyes and ears of those who stood near the cross.

This small-group study DVD contains seven teaching sessions featuring Hamilton providing fresh insight into Jesus’ final words at the cross through the perspective of those who witnessed the crucifixion. Then, he moves beyond the cross to Jesus’ words to the disciples on the road to Emmaus and to those who were witnesses to the Resurrection. Each session is approximately 8-10 minutes.

Final Words from the Cross offers six chapters/sessions plus a postscript chapter/session, so that classes have the option of a seventh session on Easter Sunday.

Session 1: Father Forgive Them (10:09)
Session 2: Today You Will Be with Me in Paradise (8:47)
Session 3: Behold Your Son…Behold Your Mother (10:26)
Session 4: My God, Why Have You Forsaken Me? (9:05)
Session 5: I Thirst (10:16)
Session 6: It Is Finished…Into Your Hands I Commit My Spirit (10:15)
Postscript: The Words After That (10:11)

Leader Guide sold separately.

Lent, Lenten, Lenten Resource, Lenten Resources, Lent Study, Lent Studies, Easter, Easter Study, Easter Studies

Unleashing the Word

David Burns on January 19, 2024

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  • ISBN: 9781426707001

Imagine announcing a new series of sermons and seeing worship attendance increase by 1,000 people on the first Sunday of the new series. Or consider a pastor developing sermon plans two to three years out. What kind of pastor sits in a bar with a notepad just looking for ideas for sermons? Or has as his aim to preach the best prepared, best researched sermons his congregation has ever heard? All of these and more explain part of the reason the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection has grown from four people to over 10,000 in just thirteen years.

In Unleashing the Word, Adam Hamilton helps pastors and church leaders consider the purpose, planning, and execution of excellent preaching. He offers detailed descriptions of the sermon planning, writing and preaching process behind one of the fastest growing churches in the United States. He includes numerous personal anecdotes and enough sermon ideas to keep the average pastor busy for years! If you only buy one book on preaching this year, this is the book you must buy!

Praise for Unleashing the Word:

“I wish I had read this book early in my thirty-eight year pastoral ministry. If so, I would have done a better job.” –J. Ellsworth Kalas, Professor of Preaching, Asbury Theological Seminary.

“Unleashing the Word will be around a long time to help preachers preach the Word with power and conviction!” –Tyrone Gordon, Senior Pastor, St. Luke “Community” UMC, Dallas

“Hamilton offers a goldmine of practical advice…Pastor-preachers will benefit greatly by adopting and adapting Hamilton’s approach.” –O. Wesley Allen, Jr. Assistant Professor of Homiletics, Lexington Theological Seminary

“Anyone wanting to discover something about the art of preaching and its relationship to the life of a thriving congregation would be hard put to find any better reading resource.” –Charles Killian, Professor of Preaching and Storytelling, Asbury Theological Seminary

24 Hours That Changed the World for Youth

David Burns on January 19, 2024

  • Publication Date: 12/01/2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9781426714320

In his best-selling book, 24 Hours that Changed the World, pastor and popular author Adam Hamilton takes readers on a Lenten journey to 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 a 7-session age-appropriate perspective on the final day in Jesus’ life on earth.