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PaperbackReimagining Evangelism
Inviting Friends on a Spiritual Journey
by Rick Richardson
Foreword by Brian McLaren and Luis PalauFinalist, Fourth Annual Outreach Resource of the Year
Sometimes talking about Jesus with your friends can feel like trying to close a deal on a sales call, pushing something on people they may not really want. But what if you thought of it more like inviting them on a spiritual journey?
Imagine being free to be yourself and free for the Spirit to work in you. Imagine ...
PaperbackThe Fabric of Faithfulness
Weaving Together Belief and Behavior
by Steven Garber
Voted one of Christianity Today's Books of the Year
All kinds of important choices are made during the college years. Young men and women explore what they really believe about the nature of the world and the purpose of life. They choose their work. They build friendships or even choose to marry. They develop goals and adopt habits that may very well last a lifetime.
Yet ...
PaperbackThe Relational Pastor
Sharing in Christ by Sharing Ourselves
by Andrew Root
One of the Academy of Parish Clergy's "Top 10 Books for Parish Ministry"
When is the last time you asked yourself hard questions about why you were pursuing certain relationships in your ministry? Could it be that the end game for many of us is not relationship per se but loyalty, adherence, even submission? The sheep in our flock become the means to our end: pastoring becomes ...
PaperbackTroubled Minds
Mental Illness and the Church's Mission
by Amy Simpson
Foreword by Marshall ShelleyChristianity Today Book Award Winner
Leadership Journal Book AwardMental 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 ...
PaperbackSex and the City of God
A Memoir of Love and Longing
by Carolyn Weber
When Carolyn Weber moved to Oxford University to study, she didn't expect to find God there. But she did. As she grappled with her newest and most important relationship, she also found that there was another invitation: to thinkbigger about love.
In these pages we follow the journey Weber began in her first memoir, Surprised by Oxford, from her relationship with ...
PaperbackThe Openness of God
A Biblical Challenge to the Traditional Understanding of God
by Clark H. Pinnock, Richard Rice, John Sanders, William Hasker, and David Basinger
Voted one of Christianity Today's Books of the Year
The Openness of God presents a careful and full-orbed argument that the God known through Christ desires "responsive relationship" with his creatures. While it rejects process theology, the book asserts that such classical doctrines as God's immutability, impassibility and foreknowledge demand reconsideration.
The ...
PaperbackRead the Bible Smarter, Not Harder
Exploring the Stories Behind the Books
General Editor Christopher R. Smith
There is an increasing recognition that we need to engage the Bible as a collection of books. But we haven't been taught to read or study the Bible on the book level. Almost all of our approaches to the Bible are based on chapters, verses, or sections, so how do we change this?The units of meaning in the Bible are not chapters, or verses, or topical sections, but the literary compositions that God ...
PaperbackCat & Dog Prayer
Rethinking Our Conversations with Our Master
by Bob Sjogren and Gerald Robison
Cats and dogs respond differently to their masters's care. While the dog thinks "You must be God!" the cat thinks "I must be God!":
When we first become believers, we still have a natural tendency to be self-centered, especially in how we pray. As a result, many Christians prayers that are more of a laundry list of "all about me" requests. Because God doesn't answer these kinds of prayer, ...
PaperbackThe Reciprocating Self
Human Development in Theological Perspective
Christian Association for Psychological Studies Books
by Jack O. Balswick, Pamela Ebstyne King, and Kevin S. Reimer
On the basis of a theologically grounded understanding of the nature of persons and the self, Jack O. Balswick, Pamela Ebstyne King and Kevin S. Reimer present a model of human development that ranges across all of life's stages: infancy, childhood, adolescence, young adulthood, middle adulthood, elder adulthood. They do this by drawing on a biblical model of relationality, where the created goal ...
PaperbackTheology for Better Counseling
Trinitarian Reflections for Healing and Formation
Christian Association for Psychological Studies Books
by Virginia Holeman
At one time, Virginia Todd Holeman "Toddy" thought being biblically literate was all she needed and had little interest in what real theologians talked about. But in her counseling she found that clients pressed her for more.They didn't just want what she had gained through training in the best theories and practices available for counseling. They asked hard theological questions often related to ...
