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PaperbackPracticing the Way of Jesus
Life Together in the Kingdom of Love
by Mark A. Scandrette
Take a casual survey of how people practice their faith, and you might reasonably conclude that Jesus spent his life going door to door offering private lessons, complete with chalkboard and pop quizzes. We think about God in the comfort of our own minds, in isolation from one another; meanwhile the world waits for a people to practice the way of Jesus together.Mark Scandrette contends that Jesus ...
PaperbackEvangelistic Preaching That Connects
Guidance in Shaping Fresh and Appealing Sermons
by Craig A. Loscalzo
"One problem with evangelistic sermons is that they look and sound like evangelistic sermons."So says Craig Loscalzo, respected preacher and teacher of preachers. He believes in the gospel and its unique power, but knows that today's pastors no longer proclaim the gospel in a more or less "Christian" culture. Our pluralistic setting means that the evangelistic sermons of yesterday--which ...
PaperbackCharitable Writing
Cultivating Virtue Through Our Words
by Richard Hughes Gibson and James E. Beitler III
Afterword by Alan Jacobs
Foreword by Anne Ruggles GereECPA Top Shelf Book Cover Award
Our written words carry weight.
Unfortunately, in today's cultural climate, our writing is too often laced with harsh judgments and vitriol rather than careful consideration and generosity. But might the Christian faith transform how we approach the task of writing? How might we love God and our neighbors through our writing?
This ...
HardbackChristmas
The Season of Life and Light
Fullness of Time
by Emily Hunter McGowin
Series edited by Esau McCaulley"O wondrous exchange!"
Of all the seasons of the church calendar, the Christmas season is the one most recognized and celebrated by our society at large. That means it's the season we're most familiar with—but that can also make it harder to see past Christmas's many cultural trappings to its timeless beauty.
At the first Christmas, God exchanged the glories of divinity ...
PaperbackRethinking Incarceration
Advocating for Justice That Restores
by Dominique DuBois Gilliard
IVP Readers' Choice Award
Outreach Magazine Resource of the YearThe United States has more people locked up in jails, prisons, and detention centers than any other country in the history of the world. Mass incarceration has become a lucrative industry, and the criminal justice system is plagued with bias and unjust practices. And the church has unwittingly contributed ...
PaperbackWorld Religions in Seven Sentences
A Small Introduction to a Vast Topic
Introductions in Seven Sentences
by Douglas Groothuis
Understanding the beliefs and practices of other faiths is essential not just to the task of interreligious dialogue, but also to grasping one's own faith.
In this brief volume in IVP Academic's Introductions in Seven Sentences, philosopher Douglas Groothuis creatively uses a single sentence representing each of several world religions as a way to open readers to their depth ...
PaperbackTeaching in a Distant Classroom
Crossing Borders for Global Transformation
by Michael H. Romanowski and Teri McCarthy
Thousands of North American Christians teach overseas every year. International teaching experiences can be tremendously rewarding. But often teachers are not fully prepared for the challenges of crosscultural life, and many are jolted and disillusioned by the realities of the overseas classroom.Veteran educators Mike Romanowski and Teri McCarthy provide an essential guide for Christians teaching ...
PaperbackStrong and Weak Bible Study
IVP Signature Bible Studies
by Andy Crouch
With Jan JohnsonThroughout the Bible, we see that God entrusts each of us with authority as his image bearers, even as we remain vulnerable to loss and pain. To truly flourish, Andy Crouch argues, we must follow the way of Jesus. He perfectly blended authority and vulnerability and used his power for the liberation of others.
In these six easy-to-use studies written by spiritual formation ...
Number of Studies: 6
PaperbackTen
Words of Life for an Addicted, Compulsive, Cynical, Divided and Worn-Out Culture
by Sean Gladding
To most people living in today's world, the Ten Commandments represent archaic rules dictated by a taskmaster God, meant for a society long gone. Many see them as irrelevant, even unattainable, today. But what if we're not that different from those who gathered around Moses as he handed down God's Ten Words to his people? What if they were never meant to be a set of rules, but instead a ...
HardbackIn Church as It Is in Heaven
Cultivating a Multiethnic Kingdom Culture
by Jamaal Ellis Williams and Timothy Paul Jones
Christianity Today Award of Merit
Heaven is multiethnic. Are you ready for that?
The Bible tells us that the congregation gathered around God's heavenly throne will be "a vast multitude from every nation, tribe, people, and language," all singing the praises of the Lamb. God's intention has always been to delight for all eternity in a redeemed ...
