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PaperbackCultivating Mentors
Sharing Wisdom in Christian Higher Education
Foreword by Mark R. Schwehn
Edited by Todd C. Ream, Jerry Pattengale, and Christopher J. DeversMany colleges and universities informally highlight the value of mentoring among academic professionals. Yet scholars often lack clear definitions, goals, practices, and commitments that help them actually reap the benefits mentoring offers. As new faculty members from younger generations continue to face evolving challenges while also reshaping institutions, their ability to connect ...
HardbackCultivating Mentors
Sharing Wisdom in Christian Higher Education
Foreword by Mark R. Schwehn
Edited by Todd C. Ream, Jerry Pattengale, and Christopher J. DeversMany colleges and universities informally highlight the value of mentoring among academic professionals. Yet scholars often lack clear definitions, goals, practices, and commitments that help them actually reap the benefits mentoring offers. As new faculty members from younger generations continue to face evolving challenges while also reshaping institutions, their ability to connect ...
PaperbackThe Garden of the Soul
Cultivating Your Spiritual Life
by Keri Wyatt Kent
Work. Parenting. Chores. These words can fence in your life. The demands on your time and energy too often leave you feeling depleted. How do you foster spiritual growth amid the realities of life today? Confession, solitude, service, studying theWord, praying, simplifying. Keri Wyatt Kent introduces these disciplines--the practices that foster a flourishing, fruitful garden within your soul. In ...
PaperbackRelational Leadership
A Biblical Model for Influence and Service
by Walter C. Wright
Foreword by Richard J. Mouw and Eugene H PetersonLeadership. 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 ...
PaperbackHearing God
Developing a Conversational Relationship with God
by Dallas Willard
Foreword by James Bryan Smith"The best book on divine guidance I have ever read. I recommend it highly.” – Richard Foster, author of Celebration of Discipline
“This is simply the best book I’ve ever found on hearing God’s voice. It does it all—with nuance, grace, intelligence and spirit.” – John Mark Comer, author of The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry
How ...
PaperbackDefeating Pharisaism
Recovering Jesus' Disciple-Making Method
by Gary Tyra
Pharisaism (legalism, dogmatism, separatism, judgmentalism, etc.) is alive and well and a destructive force in too many evangelical churches. This plague hinders effective outreach, burns out professional and lay leaders and has contributed to themass alienation of tens of thousands of young people from evangelical churches to the point where they have no church affiliation at all or they associate ...
PaperbackLife After Church
God's Call to Disillusioned Christians
by Brian Sanders
Life without church. It's getting easier to imagine.And maybe you already left. A leaver, then. Committed to Jesus, not an institution. Perhaps you've left your church in spirit, remaining in the pew. Outwardly silent. Secretly bored. Ineither case, Brian Sanders has a word for you.Out of his own experience as a leaver, Brian distills the complex problem into two viable options:
- Stay. ...
PaperbackEmpowered Church Leadership
Ministry in the Spirit According to Paul
by Brian J. Dodd
You've seen or heard the promises:
- Proven leadership strategies.
- Grow your church by 30 percent.
- Increase your budget through sound marketing principles.
The lure of success can be seductive, and the adoptionof secular standards or methods to achieve it may seem a small but necessary price to pay. Brian J. Dodd, however, holds out a different model for us, ...
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