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  • A Big Gospel in Small Places: Why Ministry in Forgotten Communities Matters, By Stephen Witmer
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    A Big Gospel in Small Places

    Why Ministry in Forgotten Communities Matters

    by Stephen Witmer
    Foreword by Raymond C Ortlund, Jr.

    2019 World Magazine Book of the Year Short List

    2019 The Gospel Coalition Book Award

    2019 Send Institute's Top Ten Church Planting Related Books of 2019

    Kevin DeYoung's Top 10 Books of 2019

    Jesus loves small, insignificant places.

    In recent years, Christian ministries have ...

  • Renaissance: The Power of the Gospel However Dark the Times, By Os Guinness
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    Renaissance

    The Power of the Gospel However Dark the Times

    by Os Guinness

    Logos Bookstores' Best Book in Christianity and Culture

    Honorable Mention, Best Book of the Year from Byron Borger, Hearts and Minds Bookstore

    We live in dark times. Christians wonder: Are the best days of the Christian faith behind us? Has modernity made Christian thought irrelevant and impotent? Is society beyond all hope of redemption and renewal?

    In ...

  • Excellence in Leadership: Reaching Goals with Prayer, Courage and Determination, By John White
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    Excellence in Leadership

    Reaching Goals with Prayer, Courage and Determination

    by John White

    • Short deadlines
    • Not enough staff
    • Tight budgets
    • Personal attacks
    • External opposition
    • Internal conflicts
    • A huge task

    Every leader faces these problems. But as Christians, should we solve them by using the secular strategies of best-selling management books? Or is there another way?John White says there is. Nehemiah provides the model ...

  • Troubled Minds: Mental Illness and the Church's Mission, By Amy Simpson
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    Troubled Minds

    Mental Illness and the Church's Mission

    by Amy Simpson
    Foreword by Marshall Shelley

    Christianity Today Book Award Winner
    Leadership Journal Book Award

    Mental illness is the sort of thing we don't like to talk about. It doesn't reduce nicely to simple solutions and happy outcomes. So instead, too often we reduce people who are mentally ill to caricatures and ghosts, and simply pretend they don't exist. They do exist, however—statistics ...

  • Liturgical Mission: The Work of the People for the Life of the World, By Winfield Bevins
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    Liturgical Mission

    The Work of the People for the Life of the World

    by Winfield Bevins
    Foreword by Justo L. González

    Modern missional movements have often viewed the historic Christian traditions with suspicion. The old traditions may be beautiful, the thinking goes, but they’re too insular, focused primarily on worship and on the interior lifeof the church, and not looking outward to evangelism and good works.

    In Liturgical Mission, Winfield Bevins argues that the church's liturgy ...

  • The Coming Race Wars: A Cry for Justice, from Civil Rights to Black Lives Matter, By William Pannell
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    The Coming Race Wars

    A Cry for Justice, from Civil Rights to Black Lives Matter

    by William E Pannell
    Introduction by Jemar Tisby

    In the wake of the 1992 Los Angeles riots, Fuller Seminary theologian William Pannell decried the sentiment among white evangelicals that racism was no longer an urgent matter. In The Coming Race Wars? he meticulously unpacked reasons why our nation—and the church—needed to come to terms with our complicity in America's racial transgressions before we face a more dire reckoning. ...

  • How Not to Waste a Crisis: Quit Trying Harder, By Tod Bolsinger
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    How Not to Waste a Crisis

    Quit Trying Harder

    Practicing Change Series

    by Tod Bolsinger
    Illustrated by Mark Demel
    Foreword by Marty Linsky
    Read by Taylor Tutt

    Christian Book Award® Finalist—Ministry Resources

    Crises are inevitable, but your response to them can shape your legacy.

    In a world where crises seem to be the new normal, leadership that adapts ismore vital than ever. In his new book How Not to Waste a Crisis bestselling Tod Bolsinger offers a refreshing perspective on turning chaos into ...

  • Breaking the Marriage Idol: Reconstructing Our Cultural and Spiritual Norms, By Kutter Callaway
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    Breaking the Marriage Idol

    Reconstructing Our Cultural and Spiritual Norms

    by Kutter Dan Callaway

    Should all Christians be married?Although we might quickly respond "no," our cultural stories and norms—including those in the church—often communicate "yes."Theologian and husband Kutter Callaway considers why marriage, which is a blessing from God, shouldn't be expected or required of all Christians. Through an examination of Scripture, cultural analysis, and personal accounts, ...

  • With a rich seventy-five year history of publishing titles and textbooks that have facilitated broader conversations taking place in the academy and the church, IVP Academic will soon offer another vantage point of the academic publishing process with a new podcast called Behind the Books. The first episode releases May 2.

  • Homosexuality: The Use of Scientific Research in the Church's Moral Debate, By Stanton L. Jones and Mark A. Yarhouse
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    Homosexuality

    The Use of Scientific Research in the Church's Moral Debate

    by Stanton L. Jones and Mark A. Yarhouse

    How prevalent is homosexuality? What causes it? Is it a psychopathology? Can it be changed?

    Questions like these often accompany discussions of homosexual behavior. For answers we naturally look to scientific studies. But what does the scientific research actually show? More important, what place should this research have in shaping the church's response?

    Stanton Jones and Mark Yarhouse ...