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PaperbackThe Gift of Hard Things
Finding Grace in Unexpected Places
by Mark Yaconelli
Foreword Reviews' 2016 INDIES Book of the Year Award, Silver Winner in Self-Help
In many ways society teaches us to try to have everything under our control. If we are honest, we tend to think that this can be true even of our spiritual lives.
But Mark Yaconelli eloquently expresses the reality of our situation: "We are small, sensitive creatures with short ...
HardbackPursuing God's Will Together
A Discernment Practice for Leadership Groups
Transforming Resources
by Ruth Haley Barton
Logos Book of the Year; Leadership Journal Leadership Book Award Winner
Create a Leadership Team Led by the Spirit
Meetings can sap our energy, rupture community, and thoroughly demoralize us. They can go on forever with no resolution. Or they can rush along without consensus just to "get through the agenda." What if there was another way?
Church ...
PaperbackA Caregiver's Survival Guide
How to Stay Healthy When Your Loved One is Sick
by Kay Marshall Strom
When you are responsible for another person's physical needs, your own needs are often neglected. After caring for her spouse, who for ten years suffered from a rare, debilitating disease, Kay Marshall Strom is able to bring a voice of experienceand compassion to this important topic. She shows you how to
- find spiritual support
- maintain balanced relationships
- decide when ...
PaperbackWhy Do Christians Shoot Their Wounded?
Helping (Not Hurting) Those with Emotional Difficulties
by Dwight L. Carlson
It's no sin to hurt.
Thousands of Christians suffer real emotional pain--such as depression, anxiety, obsessiveness. Many other Christians, including prominent leaders, believe emotional problems are the result of sin or bad choices. Theseattitudes often only add to the suffering of those who hurt.
In this book Dwight Carlson marshals recent scientific evidence that demonstrates many ...
PaperbackPentecostal Orthodoxy
Toward an Ecumenism of the Spirit
by Emilio Alvarez
Foreword by John Behr“Can anything orthodox come from Pentecostalism?”
This recasting of Nathaniel's familiar question from the Gospel is a fair summary of many modern Christians' assessment of the Pentecostal tradition. Yet in recent years, a growing number of Pentecostals have been turning afresh to the ancient, creedal Christian faith.
Bishop Emilio Alvarez has himself been at the forefront ...
PaperbackMariner
A Theological Voyage with Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Studies in Theology and the Arts Series
by Malcolm Guite
Instead of the cross, the Albatross
About my neck was hung.Samuel Taylor Coleridge's famous poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" is often regarded as having heralded the beginning of the Romantic era in British literature. The poem narrates the story of a sailor who has returned home from a long voyage having suffered great loss, yet survived.
In this ...
HardbackFoundations of the Christian Faith
A Comprehensive & Readable Theology
by James Montgomery Boice
In one systematic volume, James Montgomery Boice provides a readable overview of Christian theology. Both students and pastors will benefit from this rich source that covers all the major doctrines of Christianity.With scholarly rigor and a pastor's heart, Boice carefully opens the topics of the nature of God, the character of his natural and special revelation, the fall, and the person and work ...
PaperbackHow I Changed My Mind About Evolution
Evangelicals Reflect on Faith and Science
BioLogos Books on Science and Christianity
Foreword by Deborah Haarsma
Edited by Kathryn Applegate and J. B. StumpPerhaps no topic appears as potentially threatening to evangelicals as evolution. The very idea seems to exclude God from the creation the book of Genesis celebrates. Yet many evangelicals have come to accept the conclusions of science while stillholding to a vigorous belief in God and the Bible. How did they make this journey? How did they come to embrace both evolution and faith?
Here are ...
PaperbackDefeating Pharisaism
Recovering Jesus' Disciple-Making Method
by Gary Tyra
Pharisaism (legalism, dogmatism, separatism, judgmentalism, etc.) is alive and well and a destructive force in too many evangelical churches. This plague hinders effective outreach, burns out professional and lay leaders and has contributed to themass alienation of tens of thousands of young people from evangelical churches to the point where they have no church affiliation at all or they associate ...
PaperbackThe Leadership Jump
Building Partnerships Between Existing and Emerging Christian Leaders
by Jimmy Long
Leadership is changing.Not only are established leaders passing the baton to up-and-coming leaders, the very nature of leadership is being transformed. Veteran leader and cultural observer Jimmy Long has discerned how leadership positions and roles have changed in light of societal shifts. Authority is no longer derived from positional status but is earned from relational credibility. Leaders focus ...
