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EbookPartnering with the Global Church
Urbana Onward
by Nikki A. Toyama-Szeto and Femi B. Adeleye
In our globally interconnected world, mission depends on healthy partnerships across the globe. Many talk about wanting to partner with the Global South, but we're not always sure what that looks like on the ground. Too often North Americans haveacted as if we don't need others to do what we think God has called us to do. And our witness overseas has suffered as a result.We need to live out a more ...
EbookThis Ordinary Adventure
Settling Down Without Settling
by Christine Jeske and Adam Jeske
They started out living the dream. They promised themselves and each other that every day would be an amazing day. They even stuck that phrase—"Amazing Days"—on their refrigerator, like Martin Luther pounding his conviction into a door and launching the next great era of the church. "Ready or not," they told the world, "here we come."They traveled the planet, doing missions and community development ...
EbookBusiness as Mission
A Comprehensive Guide to Theory and Practice
by C Neal Johnson
Foreword by Steven RundleBusiness 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 ...
EbookCrafting a Rule of Life
An Invitation to the Well-Ordered Way
by Stephen A. Macchia
Foreword by Mark BuchananYour personal rule of life is a holistic description of the Spirit-empowered rhythms and relationships that create, redeem, sustain and transform the life God invites you to humbly fulfill for Christ's glory.
All of us have an unwritten personal rule of life. We wake at certain times, get ready for our days in particular ways, use our free time for assorted purposes and practice ...
EbookBecoming a Just Church
Cultivating Communities of God's Shalom
by Adam L. Gustine
Foreword by Dennis R EdwardsIVP Readers' Choice Award
Stop outsourcing justice!
Many local churches don't know what to do about justice. We tend to compartmentalize it as merely a strategy for outreach, and we often outsource itto parachurch justice ministries. While these organizations do good work, individual congregations are left disconnected from God's just purposes in the ...
EbookIntroduction to Political Science
A Christian Perspective
by Fred Van Geest
Evangelical Christian Publishers Association Top Shelf Book Cover Award 2017
We are political beings and our lives are shaped by political institutions. Being a good citizen involves understanding these institutions and how they can be used to promote the common good. Christians further believe these institutions are integral to God's created order, intended by God to ...
EbookImaginative Prayer
A Yearlong Guide for Your Child's Spiritual Formation
by Jared Patrick Boyd
How do we help our kids connect with God?
Most parents want their kids to learn to love God. But most of us struggle to facilitate real spiritual experiences. It's hard enough to have a meaningful conversation with our kids about spiritual things, let alone help them experience true transformation in the presence of God.
Jared Patrick Boyd discovered that children's spiritual formation ...
EbookFrom Every People and Nation
A Biblical Theology of Race
New Studies in Biblical Theology
by J. Daniel Hays
Series edited by D. A. Carson"After this I looked and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language . . ." (Revelation 7:9).The visions in the book of Revelation give a glimpse of the people of God at the consummation of history—a multiethnic congregation gathered together in worship around God's throne. Its racial diversity is expressed in a fourfold formula that ...
EbookThe Cultivated Life
From Ceaseless Striving to Receiving Joy
by Susan S. Phillips
Foreword by Eugene H PetersonDallas Willard Center Book and Research Award Finalist
Hearts Minds Bookstore's Best Books of 2015, Spirituality and the Devotional Life
"This is a book written specifically for those of us who are assigned the task of developing an imagination for living the Christian faith with insight and skill in and for a society that is disconnected from the biblical ...
EbookThe Radical Pursuit of Rest
Escaping the Productivity Trap
by John Koessler
Foreword by Mark GalliEvangelical Christian Publishers Association Top Shelf Book Cover Award
We live in a culture that values activity, achievement and accomplishment. Whether in our careers, churches, schools or families, busyness is the norm in our lives, and anything less makes us feel unproductive and anxious. We have to work all the harder, then, to pursue true rest in a 24-7 world that ...
