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PaperbackHealthy Calling
From Toxic Burnout to Sustainable Work
by Arianna Molloy
When You Don't Know Who You Are Anymore
Research shows that people who have a sense of calling are more productive, motivated, and resilient than their peers. But they are also more likely to experience the physical,mental, and spiritual exhaustion of burnout. When they do, the impact is more severe and disorienting. Burnout often starts from something very ...
PaperbackBeing Human
The Nature of Spiritual Experience
by Ranald Macaulay and Jerram Barrs
Who is right about what it means to be human?The Greeks envisioned an ideal humanity. Their ethereal sculptures depict a transcendent, spiritual model. But today many scientists view human beings as mere machines. And some believe we will be ableto make machines with human-like intelligence in the near future.The biblical view of humanity is different from both of these. For the writers of Scripture, ...
PaperbackThe Unhiding of Elijah Campbell
A Novel
by Kelly M Flanagan
Illumination Book Award
Nautilus Book Award
Elijah Campbell is on the verge of losing his writing career, his faith, and his marriage when a recurring childhood nightmare drives him back to hishometown, Bradford's Ferry. There, his encounters with loved ones both past and present shed light on the reason his wife left him—and the meaning ...
HardbackStrengthening the Soul of Your Leadership
Seeking God in the Crucible of Ministry
Transforming Resources
by Ruth Haley Barton
Afterword by Leighton Ford
Foreword by Gary A. HaugenSpiritual Practices for Burnt Out Leaders
"I'm tired of helping others enjoy God—I just want to enjoy God for myself."
With this painful admission, Ruth Haley Barton invites spiritual leaders into an honest exploration of what happens when they lose track of their souls. Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership weaves together contemporary illustrations ...
PaperbackPsychology in the Spirit
Christian Worldview Integration Series
by John H. Coe and Todd W. Hall
- Can real change happen in the human soul?
- Is it possible to have truly healthy relationships?
- Is psychology something that can help us see reality as God sees it?
John H. Coe and Todd W. Hall tackle these and other provocative questions in this next volume of the Christian Worldview Integration Series which offers an introduction to a new approach to psychology that ...
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 ...
PaperbackFinding Your Yes
Living a Life That's Open to God's Invitations
by Christine Wagoner
Finding your yes is all about living a life of openness to the invitations of God in our lives. Christine Wagoner, a senior leader with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, invites readers to be attentive to the movements of the Spirit and engage with opportunities God gives them. She shares about her own yes moments as well as those of others. And she offers practical tools for moving ...
PaperbackThe Magnificent Story
Uncovering a Gospel of Beauty, Goodness, and Truth
Apprentice Resources
by James Bryan Smith
We are story-making people. We love reading stories—and we love hearing the personal stories of others. We need stories, or narratives, to make sense of our world. And those stories shape our lives. What is the story you have been told about the gospel? About God? About the Christian life? About Jesus? About the cross? About yourself? About heaven?Your answers to these questions will form a story ...
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PaperbackPracticing the Way of Jesus
Life Together in the Kingdom of Love
by Mark A. Scandrette
Take a casual survey of how people practice their faith, and you might reasonably conclude that Jesus spent his life going door to door offering private lessons, complete with chalkboard and pop quizzes. We think about God in the comfort of our own minds, in isolation from one another; meanwhile the world waits for a people to practice the way of Jesus together.Mark Scandrette contends that Jesus ...
