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  • Recapturing an Enchanted World: Ritual and Sacrament in the Free Church Tradition, By John D. Rempel
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    Recapturing an Enchanted World

    Ritual and Sacrament in the Free Church Tradition

    Dynamics of Christian Worship

    by John D. Rempel
    Foreword by Gordon T. Smith

    How might our worship recapture and reflect the enchanted world of God's nearness in Jesus Christ?

    In this first volume in IVP Academic's Dynamics of Christian Worship series, John D. Rempel offers a vision for this kind oftransformative worship. A theologian and minister in the Mennonite Church, Rempel considers the role of the sacraments and ritual within the Free Church ...

  • AI Goes to Church: Pastoral Wisdom for Artificial Intelligence, By Todd Korpi
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    AI Goes to Church

    Pastoral Wisdom for Artificial Intelligence

    by Todd Korpi
    Foreword by Ed Stetzer

    "...his practical approach neither demonizes nor deifies technology, and is buttressed by robust yet accessible theological explorations of existential questions about what it means to be human. This will provide tech-curious Christians plenty of food for thought." – Publishers Weekly Review, June 2025

    Thinking Theologically About Artificial Intelligence

    AI ...

  • Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture
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    Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture

    Edited by Thomas C. Oden

    Volumes in the Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture (ACCS) offer you the opportunity to study for yourself key writings of the early church fathers. Arranged canonically and employing the RSV, each volume allows the living voices of the church in its formative centuries to speak as they engage the sacred page of Scripture. This thirty-volume series—now in paperback for the first time—includes ...

  • Beyond Church and Parachurch: From Competition to Missional Extension, By Angie Ward
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    Beyond Church and Parachurch

    From Competition to Missional Extension

    by Angie Ward
    Foreword by Jerry E White

    Discovering New Dimensions in Faith-Based Community Work

    "A welcome and needed book addressing the current tensions and opportunities. . . . Dr. Ward's foundational book points us to a way forward. I am enthused at what this book can do to lead us as church leaders and agency leaders to a new synergy." – Jerry E. White, international president emeritus of The Navigators, ...

  • Starting Missional Churches: Life with God in the Neighborhood, Edited by Mark Branson and Nicholas Warnes
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    Starting Missional Churches

    Life with God in the Neighborhood

    Edited by Mark Branson and Nicholas Warnes

    All mission is local—the people of God joining the work of God in a particular place. In Starting Missional Churches Mark Lau Branson and Nicholas Warnes introduce us to seven missional churches while examining common challenges regardingtheir genesis. Using stories, interviews with pastors and a look at common preconceived notions of church planting in the West, this guide brings together ...

  • Loving the Church . . . Blessing the Nations: Pursuing the Role of Local Churches in Global Mission, By George Miley
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    Loving the Church . . . Blessing the Nations

    Pursuing the Role of Local Churches in Global Mission

    by George Miley

    Rediscovering the role God designed for the church in mission is a critical issue facing the missions movement today. That role is to glorify God by planting churches among every tongue, tribe, and nation. Planting churches amid unreached peoplesis a complex process. It calls forth every ministry gift and the contribution of every believer. Imagine a businessman, a construction worker, a schoolteacher, ...

  • The Community of the King, By Howard A. Snyder
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    The Community of the King

    by Howard A. Snyder

    A classic revisited--revised and expanded.For over twenty-five years, Howard Snyder's Community of the King has set the standard for a penetrating look at the relationship between the kingdom of God and the earthly church. Biblically andpractically Snyder helps us think through such crucial questions as

    • What is the kingdom of God?
    • What role does it play in history?
    • What ...
  • Confronting Sexism in the Church: How We Got Here and What We Can Do About It, By Heather Matthews
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    Confronting Sexism in the Church

    How We Got Here and What We Can Do About It

    by Heather Matthews
    Foreword by Scot McKnight

    How to Fight Sexism in the Church

    Despite the real progress that has been made in recent years, women continue to be silenced, wounded, and relegated to the sidelines in our churches. Many churches—even churches that outwardly affirm and platform women—remain unaware of the patterns and cultures at play that set up unseen barriers for women.

    This is a book for Christians ...

  • Faithful Disobedience: Writings on Church and State from a Chinese House Church Movement, By Wang Yi
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    Faithful Disobedience

    Writings on Church and State from a Chinese House Church Movement

    by Wang Yi
    Foreword by Ian Johnson
    Edited by Hannah Nation and J. D. Tseng

    Christianity Today Book Award Finalist—Missions/Global Church

    Reader's Choice Award Winner

    Throughout China's rapidly growing cities, a new wave of unregistered house churches is growing. They are developing rich theological perspectives that are both uniquely Chinese and rooted in the historical doctrines of the faith. To understand ...

  • Our Church Speaks: An Illustrated Devotional of Saints from Every Era and Place, By Ben Lansing and D. J. Marotta
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    Our Church Speaks

    An Illustrated Devotional of Saints from Every Era and Place

    by Ben Lansing and D. J. Marotta

    Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award Winner

    Find Strength in the Legacy of the Saints Who Walked Before Us

    Step into the stories of faith, courage, and perseverance that have defined Christian history through the ages. Our Church Speaks offers a beautifully illustrated, deeply inspiring devotional that bridges the teaching of Scripture ...