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  • The New Parish: How Neighborhood Churches Are Transforming Mission, Discipleship and Community, By Paul Sparks and Tim Soerens and Dwight J. Friesen
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    The New Parish

    How Neighborhood Churches Are Transforming Mission, Discipleship and Community

    by Paul Sparks, Tim Soerens, and Dwight J. Friesen

    Christianity Today Award of Merit

    Readers' Choice Awards Honorable Mention

    Best Books About the Church from Byron Borger, Hearts and Minds Bookstore

    "When . . . faith communities begin connecting together, in and for the neighborhood, they learn to depend on God for strength to love, forgive and show grace like never before. ...

  • Bible Matters: Making Sense of Scripture, By Tim Chester
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    Bible Matters

    Making Sense of Scripture

    by Tim Chester

    The Bible is God's Word.The Bible teaches us how we should live.The Bible is something we should read every day.The Bible is something we should enjoy reading.

    Most of us agree with these statements. At least in theory. But what's our reality?Sometimes reading the Bible is a delight. But if we’re honest, many times reading the Bible feels like hard work and we read out of a sense ...

  • Overturning Tables: Freeing Missions from the Christian-Industrial Complex, By Scott A. Bessenecker
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    Overturning Tables

    Freeing Missions from the Christian-Industrial Complex

    by Scott A. Bessenecker

    Outreach Resource of the Year Recommendation

    Best World Missions Book, from Byron Borger, Hearts and Minds Bookstore

    We are more than the businesses we have become.

    Muchof Christian ministry has been shaped to operate not according to the witness of the Scriptures, but according to the values of the free market. We adopt ...

  • Run with the Horses: The Quest for Life at Its Best, By Eugene H. Peterson
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    Run with the Horses

    The Quest for Life at Its Best

    by Eugene H Peterson
    Preface by Eric E Peterson

    Learning to Live the Life You Long For

    In Jeremiah 12:5 God says to the prophet, "If you're worn out in this footrace with men, what makes you think you can race against horses?"

    We all long to live life at its best—tofuse freedom and spontaneity with purpose and meaning. Why then do we often find our lives so humdrum, so unadventuresome, so routine? Or else so frantic, ...

  • A Year of Slowing Down: Daily Devotions for Unhurried Living, By Alan Fadling
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    A Year of Slowing Down

    Daily Devotions for Unhurried Living

    by Alan Fadling

    With the overwhelming pace of life, many of us struggle to stop long enough to be present. Our long to-do lists and full calendars leave little breathing room to hear from God. We know we need to slow down but we don't even know how to begin.

    Alan Fadling has spent years coaching leaders and communities on how to live an unhurried life, teaching that productivity and success ...

  • Working from the Inside Out: A Brief Guide to Inner Work That Transforms Our Outer World, By Jeff Haanen
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    Working from the Inside Out

    A Brief Guide to Inner Work That Transforms Our Outer World

    by Jeffrey Haanen

    Many today are experiencing social isolation, deep anxieties about the future, and various difficulties in the workplace. For too many of us, work seems tedious, painful, or meaningless. And we don't know what to do about it.

    Working from the Inside Out pulls back the veil on the deep emotional and vocational challenges faced by the majority of workers and shows how ...

  • Worship in an Age of Anxiety: How Churches Can Create Space for Healing, By J. Michael Jordan
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    Worship in an Age of Anxiety

    How Churches Can Create Space for Healing

    Dynamics of Christian Worship

    by John Michael Jordan

    The history of the theology of worship is riddled with examples of clergy and worship leaders who have sought to manipulate their parishioners' anxiety in order to spur repentance and turn people toward God. Even if such ends may be desirable—at what cost?

    In Worship in an Age of Anxiety, Jordan challenges this utilitarian approach, offering a critical assessment ...

  • Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God, By Dallas Willard
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    Hearing God

    Developing a Conversational Relationship with God

    by Dallas Willard
    Foreword by James Bryan Smith

    "The best book on divine guidance I have ever read. I recommend it highly.” – Richard Foster, author of Celebration of Discipline

    “This is simply the best book I’ve ever found on hearing God’s voice. It does it all—with nuance, grace, intelligence and spirit.” – John Mark Comer, author of The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry

    How ...

  • A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society, By Eugene H. Peterson
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    A Long Obedience in the Same Direction

    Discipleship in an Instant Society

    by Eugene H Peterson
    Preface by Leif Peterson

    Over 300,000 Copies Sold

    Pursue Deeper Faithfulness with Eugene Peterson's Classic Work on Discipleship

    Since Eugene Peterson first wrote this spiritual formation classic more than forty years ago, hundreds of thousands of Christians have been inspired by its call to deeper discipleship.

    As a society, we are still obsessed with the immediate, ...

  • The God Who Is There, By Francis A. Schaeffer
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    The God Who Is There

    The IVP Signature Collection

    by Francis A. Schaeffer
    Foreword by James W. Sire and Steven Garber

    • Over 400,000 Sold

    For over fifty years The God Who Is There has been a landmark work that has changed the way the church sees the world. Francis Schaeffer's first book presents a wide-ranging analysis of the intellectual and cultural climate of the second half of the twentieth century, from philosophy to art to liberal theology. Arguing that Christians ...