John Indermark

Gospeled Lives

Sat, 14 May 2022 02:31:39 GMT

"Gospeled" lives are lives that have encountered Jesus Christ. Christ's call leads to a continually unfolding story for each of us.

An encounter with the living Christ demands a response, John Indermark says. In this book you will learn about New Testament characters who encountered Jesus. Some responded with joy and gratitude. Others ignored or rejected his offer of good news.

Indermark's powerful reflections on the various biblical characters, along with daily reading of scripture, written prayers, and suggested exercises, make an ideal 6-week study for individuals or groups. Each chapter contains 5 daily readings.

Here are a few of the New Testament characters you will explore:

Bartimaeus
The women at Jesus' tomb
Mary and Jesus' family
The slave of the high priest
A rich young man
Herod Antipas
The woman with the hemorrhage
The Gerasene demoniac
Mary Magdalene
Ten lepers

Study this book during Lent or any time you or your small group wants to think more deeply about what it means to hear and respond to Christ's word.

Includes a Leader's Guide.

Worship in Light of the Cross

Sat, 14 May 2022 01:15:46 GMT

How can the cross shed light on what we do in worship and why—not just in the Lenten season but in every season?

John Indermark urges us to focus on the cross, its imprint on how we worship as a community, and how it transforms our discipleship. This 6-week study inspires us to connect corporate worship with our daily lives. He organizes the daily readings according to the components of corporate worship: gathering, invocation, confession, proclamation, creed, response, and sacrament.

Leader's Guide helps you share this worship experience with your community of faith.
Daily readings are key in preparing you for worship experiences.
Each daily reading includes a reflection question or action.
Includes ideas for creating a weekly worship center to emphasize each week's theme.

The Way of Grace Participant's Book

Thu, 05 May 2022 20:49:20 GMT

The Way of Grace Leader's Guide is also available.

Grace is a gift. Even before we recognize its need in our lives, God extends us favor. This 9-week study in the Companions in Christ series explores the Gospel of John and how divine grace is at work in our lives today, just as it was in the lives of biblical characters 2,000 years ago. "God's grace comes to us in the distinctive shape of our personal histories, needs, and possibilities," Indermark writes. "Yet divine grace also reveals the depths of what we share across all boundaries of time and place."

Participants in this small-group study will explore the central stories of John, focusing on people who discovered God's grace through their encounters with Jesus. This is more than a survey of the biblical stories of Andrew, Simon, Philip, and Nathaniel; Nicodemus; the Samaritan woman; the lame man; the woman caught in adultery; the blind man; Mary and Martha; and Simon Peter. The Way of Grace is a transforming interaction with the events and the characters, a chance to identify with what God provided for these people — a provision they could never achieve for themselves.

Groups new to Companions in Christ or to spiritual formation will find The Way of Grace to be a good introductory course. If you long to open your heart to a deeper knowing of God's grace — to recognize the "soul's deep compass steering us Godward," this is the study for you.

Gospeled Lives

Thu, 05 May 2022 20:44:28 GMT

"Gospeled" lives are lives that have encountered Jesus Christ. Christ's call leads to a continually unfolding story for each of us.

Here are a few of the New Testament characters you will explore:

Bartimaeus
The women at Jesus' tomb
Mary and Jesus' family
The slave of the high priest
A rich young man
Herod Antipas
The woman with the hemorrhage
The Gerasene demoniac
Mary Magdalene
Ten lepers

Study this book during Lent or any time you or your small group wants to think more deeply about what it means to hear and respond to Christ's word.

Includes a Leader's Guide.

Parables and Passion

Thu, 05 May 2022 20:30:48 GMT

Discover new insights about the passion story through the lenses of Jesus' parables.

"Parables nudge us all to receptive insight," writes Indermark. "For those new to the Lenten journey, they give access to the holy through the ordinary. For those who have navigated this season many times, they allow an opportunity to experience Lent from a different perspective. …[Parables] take us deeper, revealing the approaching realm of the God who has come to us in One who teaches still in parables."

Lent offers a time to reflect on how we live compared with God's expectations. Our best example is to study how Jesus lived and taught in the presence of God.

Through Parables and Passion you'll reflect on one parable each day of the season, one thematic chapter per week. The Prologue offers a reading for Ash Wednesday, while the Epilogue provides readings for the final days of Holy Week. This 6-week study includes a Leader's Guide.

Open your eyes and spirit to the sacred in the ordinary moments and people of your life. As the parables prove, when we fail to see the holy in life, we may lose sight of the sacredness of life. What better lesson to reinforce during the Lenten season?

Do Not Live Afraid

Thu, 05 May 2022 20:24:01 GMT

In scripture, the opposite of faith is often fear.

With remarkable frequency, the first thing God says to those poised at the edge of momentous decisions or holy encounters is, "Do not be afraid." What God intends is not simply an attitude adjustment but empowerment.

"Do not be afraid" finds its expression when we do not live afraid. This book invites readers and groups who gather around it to take that word to heart — and beyond heart to living.

Each chapter considers a theme that explores what God's message of "do not be afraid" makes possible in our lives: trust, vocation, witness, justice, and transformation. After each chapter, Indermark includes spiritual exercises that invite readers to move deeper into the words on the page.

The Leader's Guide at the back of the book provides step-by-step suggestions for an 8-week small-group study.