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  • Relational Leadership: A Biblical Model for Influence and Service, By Walter C. Wright Jr.
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    Relational Leadership

    A Biblical Model for Influence and Service

    by Walter C. Wright
    Foreword by Richard J. Mouw and Eugene H Peterson

    Leadership. What does it mean? How do I do it? Who is a leader and who is not? Relational Leadership will stimulate your thinking about leadership and management, causing you to both ask questions and find answers. Ultimately, this will enable you to invest yourself in people for the sake of the kingdom. Drawing on leadership theory, his own experience and insights from Jude, Philemon and ...

  • Women & Identity, By Adele Ahlberg Calhoun and Tracey D. Bianchi
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    Women & Identity

    LifeGuide Bible Studies

    by Adele Ahlberg Calhoun and Tracey D. Bianchi

    We live only a small fraction of the lives God has for us. Our lives get smaller and smaller, circling around the minute-by-minute disappointments and demands of the present moment while God whispers softly or even hollers for us to harness our whole hearts. Written by experienced spiritual leaders Adele Ahlberg Calhoun and Tracey Bianchi, the nine sessions LifeGuide® Bible Study follow the biblical ...

    Number of Studies: 9

  • Companions in Suffering: Comfort for Times of Loss and Loneliness, By Wendy Alsup
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    Companions in Suffering

    Comfort for Times of Loss and Loneliness

    by Wendy Alsup
    Foreword by Trillia Newbell

    2020 The Gospel Coalition Book Award - Christian Living

    Have you experienced an ongoing trial that left you wrung out emotionally? Do you feel alone in your pain?

    Though suffering often leavesus feeling isolated, God invites us into the community of the Trinity and offers us many companions in Scripture. We experience loneliness alongside the ...

  • Permission to Be Black: My Journey with Jay-Z and Jesus, By A. D.
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    Permission to Be Black

    My Journey with Jay-Z and Jesus

    by Adam David Thomason

    Embracing your Christian identity does not make you "soft." Embracing your Black identity does not make you less Christian.

    Throughout American history, Black people were not given the freedom to acknowledge their suffering. A. D. Thomason believes that the Holy Spirit brings freedom and liberation as we're able to name our pain, recognize its roots in history and society, ...

  • Basic Christianity, By John Stott
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    Basic Christianity

    The IVP Signature Collection

    by John Stott
    Foreword by Pastor Rick Warren and Christopher J. H. Wright

    • Named a "Book of the Century" by Christianity Today

    Who is Jesus Christ? While Jesus and his teaching continue to hold appeal, many people question the plausibility or relevance of the Christian faith. Is it reasonable to believe that Jesus was truly divine? If so, what does it mean for us?

    John Stott's accessible, classic book examines the historical ...

  • Foundations of the Christian Faith: A Comprehensive & Readable Theology, By James Montgomery Boice
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    Foundations 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 ...

  • Disunity in Christ: Uncovering the Hidden Forces that Keep Us Apart, By Christena Cleveland
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    Disunity in Christ

    Uncovering the Hidden Forces that Keep Us Apart

    by Christena Cleveland

    Leadership Journal Book Award
    Readers' Choice Awards Honorable Mention

    Despite Jesus' prayer that all Christians "be one," divisions have been epidemic in the body of Christ from the beginning to the present. We cluster in theological groups, gender groups, age groups, ethnic groups, educational and economic groups. We criticize freely those who disagree with ...

  • Teaching Across Cultures: Contextualizing Education for Global Mission, By James E. Plueddemann
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    Teaching Across Cultures

    Contextualizing Education for Global Mission

    by James E. Plueddemann
    Foreword by Duane H Elmer

    Outreach Magazine Resource of the Year

    In our globalized world, ideas are constantly being exchanged between people of different cultural backgrounds. But educators often struggle to adapt to the contexts of diverselearners. Some focus so much on content delivery that they overlook crosscultural barriers to effective teaching.

    Educator and missiologist James ...

  • Having the Mind of Christ: Eight Axioms to Cultivate a Robust Faith, By Matt Tebbe and Ben Sternke
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    Having the Mind of Christ

    Eight Axioms to Cultivate a Robust Faith

    by Matthew Jacob Tebbe and Benjamin Eric Sternke

    Reader's Choice Award Winner

    "Why doesn’t the Christian life work like I thought it would?"

    While we often start with good intentions, it feels like real transformation is elusive at best, and maybe even impossible. We deeply want to live in the freedom that Christ offers, but we are acutely aware of the gap between a transformed life and our reality. ...

  • Slow Kingdom Coming: Practices for Doing Justice, Loving Mercy and Walking Humbly in the World, By Kent Annan
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    Slow Kingdom Coming

    Practices for Doing Justice, Loving Mercy and Walking Humbly in the World

    by Kent Annan

    14th Annual Outreach Magazine Resource of the Year, Social Justice

    No one said pursuing justice would be easy.

    The road can be so challenging and the destination so distant that you may be discouraged by a lack of progress, compassion or commitment in your quest for justice. How do you stay committed to the journey when God's kingdom can seem so slow in coming?

    Kent ...