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PaperbackStarting Missional Churches
Life with God in the Neighborhood
Edited by Mark Branson and Nicholas Warnes
All mission is local—the people of God joining the work of God in a particular place. In Starting Missional Churches Mark Lau Branson and Nicholas Warnes introduce us to seven missional churches while examining common challenges regardingtheir genesis. Using stories, interviews with pastors and a look at common preconceived notions of church planting in the West, this guide brings together ...
PaperbackThe Self-Aware Leader
Discovering Your Blind Spots to Reach Your Ministry Potential
by Terry Linhart
Foreword by Carey NieuwhofParish Clergy - Top Ten Books
Effective ministry begins here.
You've studied what you think you need to know before entering a career in ministry. Is there anything that is more important than knowingabout hermeneutics, homiletics, theology, exegesis, and everything else you have likely learned in seminary and church ministry so far?
Yes, there ...
PaperbackSeeing Jesus in East Harlem
What Happens When Churches Show Up and Stay Put
by José Humphreys
IVP Readers' Choice Award
We are all located in different places. And the way we grow as disciples and lead others in spiritual growth depends on our contexts.
Pastor José Humphreys recognizes how deeply our faith is tied to our particular stories in our particular places. Grounded in his own deep faith and wisdom, he writes out of his experiences as a Puerto Rican pastor ...
PaperbackOverturning Tables
Freeing Missions from the Christian-Industrial Complex
by Scott A. Bessenecker
Outreach Resource of the Year Recommendation
Best World Missions Book, from Byron Borger, Hearts and Minds Bookstore
We are more than the businesses we have become.
Muchof Christian ministry has been shaped to operate not according to the witness of the Scriptures, but according to the values of the free market. We adopt ...
PaperbackThe Passionate Intellect
Christian Faith and the Discipleship of the Mind
by Alister McGrath
- 2011 Christianity Today Book Award winner
Alister McGrath, one of the most prominent theologians and public intellectuals of our day, explains how Christian thinking can and must have a positive role in shaping, nourishing and safeguarding the Christian vision of reality. With this in our grasp, we have the capacity for robust intellectual and cultural engagement, confidently ...
PaperbackOwnership
The Evangelical Legacy of Slavery in Edwards, Wesley, and Whitefield
by Sean McGever
Foreword by Vincent E. BacoteECPA Top Shelf Book Cover Award
The Gospel Coalition Book Awards Award of Distinction–History and Biography
Men of their time?
Jonathan Edwards, John Wesley, and George Whitefield were the three most prominent early evangelicals—and all three were deeply compromised on the issue of slavery. Edwards and Whitefield both kept slaves ...
PaperbackMother to Son
Letters to a Black Boy on Identity and Hope
by Jasmine Holmes
Foreword by Jackie Hill PerryChristianity Today Book Award
"Wynn is my son. No little boy could be more loved by his parents. Inquisitive, fiercely affectionate, staunchly opinionated, he sees the world through eyes of wonder and has yet tobecome jaded by society's cruelty. I know he'll grow up with stories of having been made to feel 'other' because of the color of his skin. I want to teach ...
HardbackMother to Son
Letters to a Black Boy on Identity and Hope
by Jasmine Holmes
Foreword by Jackie Hill PerryChristianity Today Book Award
"Wynn is my son. No little boy could be more loved by his parents. Inquisitive, fiercely affectionate, staunchly opinionated, he sees the world through eyes of wonder and has yet tobecome jaded by society's cruelty. I know he'll grow up with stories of having been made to feel 'other' because of the color of his skin. I want to teach ...
PaperbackYou Were Never Meant to Lead Alone
The Power of Sharing Leadership
by Eun Kyong Strawser
Afterword by David E. Fitch
Foreword by Alexia SalvatierraBuild a Collaborative and Sustainable Ministry Structure
The work of the church is more than any one person can handle, and God never intended for one pastor to do all a church's ministry alone.
Discover a communal andbiblical model of missional leadership in You Were Never Meant to Lead Alone. In this book, E. K. Strawser seeks to recover the shared leadership ...
PaperbackWhat Gen Z Really Wants to Know About God
Seven Questions About Life and Faith
by Tanita Tualla Maddox
Foreword by Chap ClarkChristian Book Award® Finalist—Ministry Resources
What is Good News to Gen Z?
Gen Z, born into a complex and rapidly changing world, carries unique questions about life and God. Church methodologies that worked for previous generations often miss their mark with this one. Understanding Gen Z's real questions about faith opens the door to meaningful ...
