Books

Holding Your Family Together (FAITH5 Parenting)

RICH Learning

Let’s Kill Sunday School (before it kills the church) Volume 1

Let's Kill Sunday School (and Birth Cross+Gen Ministry) - Volume 2

Let's Kill Sunday School (and Birth the Cross+Gen Movement) - Volume 3

  • Four years after the first 12 churches experimented with Cross+Gen ministries using FAITH5 at the core and two years after the next 12 churches were mentored, a third group of brave systems thinkers created their own experiments. What worked? What didn’t work? How did they adjust? What did they learn about the beauty, depth and wonder of colliding the wisdom of the elder and the wonder of the child in the same sacred space every week at church and every night in each other’s prayers?

  • Let's Kill Sunday School (before it kills the church) - Volume 1

    Let's Kill Sunday School (and Birth Cross+Gen Ministry) - Volume 2

<18> - Faith for the Next Generation

  • <18> is a funny and thought-provoking exchange between friends from different Christian traditions.

    <18> is an insightful look into the science and theology of early faith formation from a doctor in linguistic philosophy, a youth evangelist, and an artist/mother. They expose the urgency of sharing God’s love with people under the age of <18>.

    <18> speaks to every stage of development and season of life. Through deeply personal stories, Bob and Rich offer encouragement, challenges, and practical advice from firsthand Experience.

    These <18> experiences are simple but profound. Each practice is easily personalized to fit families of all shapes, ages and sizes, enriching the lives of both children and adults.

  • Holding Your Family Together

    RICH Learning: Brain-based learning on Arts-based Platforms

The Melheim Children’s Collection

The Christmiss Guest

The Girl Who Liked Trucks

Giggle de Smalley Bok

Mickey’s Not the Same

This Christmas Morning

  • Her father's a grump.

    Her kids won't stop fighting.

    Her husband's in the closet closing business deals on his cell phone.

    Her brother's latest fiancé is a flake.

    Her future nephew is seriously dangerous.

    Her "Martha Stewart" mother died a month ago on Thanksgiving day.

    The cat is choking on the tinsel.

    And Jana is supposed to magically put it all together and put on a Christmas just like mama used to do to make it all better.

    Yeah. Right.

  • The Melheim Children’s Collection
    The Christmiss Guest

Unfinished Business

101 Ways to Get Your Adult Children to Move Out

  • Adult children moving back home? This book is here to help!

    For the millions of parents plagued by the phenomenon of adult children moving back in with them, and for the millions soon to be dealing with it, we offer these humble (and humorous) suggestions which, used in the right combination over time, are guaranteed to remove any and all adult children from your premises.

  • The Melheim Children’s Collection
    Young Four Eyes
    Unfinished Business

Young Four-Eyes

  • He was 25 when she died in his arms. It was Valentine's Day - the anniversary of their engagement. Young Theodore Roosevelt gave his newborn daughter to his sister and left Manhattan for the Badlands of the Dakotas, privately telling his friend Henry Cabot Lodge that he didn't know when, or if, he would ever return. =It was in the Badlands of what is now North Dakota in the badlands of his life that he began to heal. The raw beauty of the land and the strenuous life of the cowboy conspired to bring him back to life. It was the love of his childhood sweetheart that drew him back to Manhattan, back into the political arena, and hurled him into the center of the events that launched him as the youngest president in U.S. history and the man who set the stage for the American Century. Most people have a picture of the robust TR as president. Few know the story of his pain, struggle and triumph over multiple tragedies as a young man. We hope this piece of historical fiction does a little to remedy that situation.

  • The Melheim Children’s Collection
    Unfinished Business
    101 Ways to Get Your Adult Children to Move Out

Luther

  • With humor, wit, and meticulous historic detail, playwright and storyteller Dr. Rich Melheim weaves a spell-binding tale of courage, deception, and a world about to unravel.

    72 pages, full color

    Standard Graphic Novel Size: 6.5 x 10.25 inches

  • Luther: The Coloring Book

Luther: The Coloring Book

  • Color along with the story of Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation with these stunning original inks by the award winning artists, Jonathan Koelsch and Sherwin Schwartzrock straight from the pages of Luther the Graphic Novel and the stage of Luther the Rock Opera.

  • Luther Graphic Novel

Reformation Moments

  • Perfect for worship announcements, children’s sermons, coffee hour conversations, Cross+Gen Education, Sunday school and youth group. These short, graphically vibrant historical moments can be used piece-by-piece or gathered together into 4-8 teaching segments. Resourses include:

    42 Mini-Reader’s Theater Scripts

    42 Corresponding PowerPoint Presentations

    42 Worship Bulletin Coloring Pages

    42 Full-Sized Coloring Pages

    42 Coffee Hour Coloring Placemats

  • Luther Graphic Novel

    Luther: The Coloring Book

A “Press and Play” One-Hour Choral/Worship Band Presentation with Graphic Novel Projections and Props for 3-30 Singers. Music by Lost and Found. Art by Sherwin Swartzrock and Jonathan Koelsch. Story by Rich Melheim.