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  • The Art of Pastoring: Ministry Without All the Answers, By David Hansen
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    The Art of Pastoring

    Ministry Without All the Answers

    by David Hansen

    • Named one of the Top Ten Books of 1994 by the Academy of Parish Clergy

    What should a pastor do?

    What makes a pastor good or effective?

    What is a pastor, after all?

    Hundreds of books, tapes, workshops and seminars promise to answer these impossible questions. Some offer a set of practical guidelines; others suggest a system or pattern to follow. Some ...

  • Kingdom Calling: Vocational Stewardship for the Common Good, By Amy L. Sherman
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    Kingdom Calling

    Vocational Stewardship for the Common Good

    by Amy L. Sherman
    Afterword by Steven Garber
    Foreword by Reggie McNeal

    Christianity Today Book Award winner

    Imagine the scenarios:

    • a CEO successfully negotiates a corporate merger, avoiding hundreds of layoffs in the process
    • an artist completes a mosaic for public display at a bank, showcasing neighborhood heroes
    • a contractor creates a work-release program in cooperation with a local prison, growing the business ...
  • God on Campus: Sacred Causes  Global Effects, By Trent Sheppard
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    God on Campus

    Sacred Causes Global Effects

    by Trent Sheppard
    Afterword by Pete Greig

    "Let every student be plainly instructed . . . to consider well the main end of . . . life and studies is to know God and Jesus Christ which is eternal life . . . and therefore to lay Christ in the bottom, as the only foundation of all sound knowledge and learning."-Harvard College Laws, 1642There was a time when Harvard was considered a holy place and Princeton trained prophets, when students and ...

  • Dying to Live: The Paradox of the Crucified Life, By Clive Calver
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    Dying to Live

    The Paradox of the Crucified Life

    by Clive Calver

    Many Christians acknowledge that they love Jesus but are disillusioned about their spiritual condition. They come to Christ to drink from the well of his new life, yet find that their thirst remains. Why has the Christian life not met their expectations for spiritual growth and how can they satisfy this craving for their Christian walk to have a deeper impact?Do you desperately yearn for a deeper ...

  • My Soul Waits: Solace for the Lonely in the Psalms, By Marva J. Dawn
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    My Soul Waits

    Solace for the Lonely in the Psalms

    by Marva J. Dawn

    "An overwhelming number of us are lonely," writes Marva Dawn. "Sometimes we are lonely for a specific reason: our spouse has recently died or left us; our children have just gone from home or have been tragically killed; we are fighting a particular battle against illness or suffering the ravages of chemotherapy; we are new in the neighborhood; our values are different from those of our work colleagues; ...

  • 1-2 Samuel, 1-2 Kings, 1-2 Chronicles, Edited by Derek Cooper and Martin J. Lohrmann
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    1-2 Samuel, 1-2 Kings, 1-2 Chronicles

    Old Testament Volume 5

    Reformation Commentary on Scripture

    Edited by Derek Cooper and Martin J. Lohrmann

    "Then David said to the Philistine, 'You come to me with a sword and with a spear and with a javelin, but I come to you in the name of the LORD of hosts.'" (1 Samuel 17:45) Reflecting upon David's victory over Goliath, Reformation translator, theologian and commentator William Tyndale compared it to Christ's victory over sin and death: "When David had killed Goliath the giant, glad tidings came ...

  • John 13-21, Edited by Christopher Boyd Brown
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    John 13-21

    Reformation Commentary on Scripture

    Edited by Christopher B. Brown

    After he had washed the disciples' feet, Jesus said, "Just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another."

    The second half of the Gospel of John, sometimes called the most "theological" of the Gospels, includes John's account of Jesus' final night with his disciples, his betrayal and arrest, his crucifixion, his resurrection, and his appearances to his disciples.

    When ...

  • A Life of Listening: Discerning God's Voice and Discovering Our Own, By Leighton Ford
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    A Life of Listening

    Discerning God's Voice and Discovering Our Own - A Memoir by Leighton Ford

    by Leighton Ford

    The Christian life is a life of listening.In this memoir, lifelong minister of the gospel Leighton Ford tells his story as a personal history of listening for God’s voice. Beginning with his earliest memories, he recounts the different ways God has spoken to him, and the different ways he has learned to listen. Through the joys of ministry, first as an international evangelist, ...

  • We Believe in the Holy Spirit, Edited by Joel C. Elowsky
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    We Believe in the Holy Spirit

    Ancient Christian Doctrine Series

    Edited by Joel C. Elowsky
    General Editor Thomas C. Oden

    "The Spirit blows where it pleases," Jesus said to Nicodemus. "You hear its sound but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit."

    The Spirit, like the wind, is hard to pin down. Any discussion of the Spirit is fraught with the difficulty of speaking about something or someone who defies definition and who purposely ...