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  • How to Inherit the Earth: Submitting Ourselves to a Servant Savior, By Scott A. Bessenecker
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    How to Inherit the Earth

    Submitting Ourselves to a Servant Savior

    by Scott A. Bessenecker

    Ambition isn't bad; it just does bad things.In a culture that too often prizes leadership uncritically and unreflectively, a faith that calls us to take up crosses, lay down lives and otherwise submit ourselves to something outside ourselves simply sounds like a bad idea. Nevertheless, this is the faith that we find Jesus talking about.Scott Bessenecker has learned from new friar communities, from ...

  • Journal Keeping: Writing for Spiritual Growth, By Luann Budd
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    Journal Keeping

    Writing for Spiritual Growth

    by Luann Budd

    Would you like to journal, but you're not sure how to start?

    Do you love to journal, but need some fresh ideas?

    Journal Keeping is a book to help you discover (or recover) the power of writing as a spiritual discipline.

    In these pages you'll find intriguing and encouraging insights on topics like "ordinary things," "discovery journaling," "drawing from ...

  • Living into the Life of Jesus: The Formation of Christian Character, By Klaus Issler
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    Living into the Life of Jesus

    The Formation of Christian Character

    by Klaus Issler
    Foreword by Calvin Miller

    Why does merely understanding and trying hard to follow the example of Jesus often yield little progress--and even less joy and peace? In this foundational work of Christian formation, Klaus Issler derives insights from the life of Jesus in the Gospels to uncover the dynamics of becoming Christlike. You will discover how you can forge much deeper connections with Jesus so that his life begins to ...

  • The Decline of African American Theology: From Biblical Faith to Cultural Captivity, By Thabiti M. Anyabwile
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    The Decline of African American Theology

    From Biblical Faith to Cultural Captivity

    by Thabiti M. Anyabwile
    Foreword by Mark A. Noll

    Who were Jupiter Hammon, Lemuel Haynes and Daniel Alexander Payne? And what do they have in common with Martin Luther King Jr., Howard Thurman and James Cone? All of these were African American Christian theologians, yet their theologies are, in many ways, worlds apart.In this book, Thabiti Anyabwile offers a challenging and provocative assessment of the history of African American Christian theology, ...

  • Short-Term Mission: An Ethnography of Christian Travel Narrative and Experience, By Brian M. Howell
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    Short-Term Mission

    An Ethnography of Christian Travel Narrative and Experience

    by Brian M. Howell

    Over the past few decades, short-term mission trips have exploded in popularity. With easy access to affordable air travel, millions of American Christians have journeyed internationally for ministry, service and evangelism. Short-term trips are praised for involving many in global mission but also critiqued for their limitations.Despite the diversity of destinations, certain universal commonalities ...

  • Souls in Full Sail: A Christian Spirituality for the Later Years, By Emilie Griffin
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    Souls in Full Sail

    A Christian Spirituality for the Later Years

    by Emilie Griffin

    2011 Christianity Today Book Award Winner

    "We do not set out to become old. Far from it. We hardly intend even to become middle-aged. Instead we plan to live in some eternal now which will lead on to something better, something more complete than what we had before. . . .

    Sometime in our spiritual travels, as a complete surprise, we notice it has become winter. ...

  • Discovering Church Planting: An Introduction to the Whats, Whys, and Hows of Global Church Planting, By J. D. Payne
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    Discovering Church Planting

    An Introduction to the Whats, Whys, and Hows of Global Church Planting

    by J. D. Payne
    Foreword by David J. Hesselgrave

    In Discovering Church Planting, J. D. Payne explores the biblical, historical, and missiological principles of global church planting as well as unfolding practical strategies for confronting contemporary challenges to our vital task in reaching a lost world.

    This comprehensive introduction to church planting shows the reader how to apply effective, international church planting ...

  • Liturgical Theology: The Church as Worshiping Community, By Simon  Chan
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    Liturgical Theology

    The Church as Worshiping Community

    by Simon Chan

    Bad worship produces bad theology, and bad theology produces an unhealthy church.In Liturgical Theology, Simon Chan issues a call to evangelicals to develop a mature theology of the church--an ecclesiology that is grounded in the church'sidentity as a worshiping community. Evangelicals, he argues, are confused about the meaning and purpose of the church in part because they have an inadequate ...

  • Economics in Christian Perspective: Theory, Policy and Life Choices, By Victor V. Claar and Robin J. Klay
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    Economics in Christian Perspective

    Theory, Policy and Life Choices

    by Victor V. Claar and Robin Jo Klay

    Unemployment. Environmental damage. Poverty.

    Economists Victor Claar and Robin Klay critically engage mainstream economic theory and policy recommendations to provide guidance for faithfully and responsibly addressing these and other important economic issues. Affirming that a just and prosperous society depends for its continued success on maintaining the right balance of power among three ...

  • Business as Mission: A Comprehensive Guide to Theory and Practice, By C. Neal Johnson
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    Business as Mission

    A Comprehensive Guide to Theory and Practice

    by C Neal Johnson
    Foreword by Steven Rundle

    Business as mission (BAM) is a mission strategy whose time has come. As global economics become increasingly interconnected, Christian business people and entrepreneurs have unanticipated opportunities to build kingdom-strategic business ventures.But Christian companies and business leaders do not automatically accomplish missional purposes. BAM requires mastery of both the world of business and ...