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  • Teach Us to Want: Longing, Ambition and the Life of Faith, By Jen Pollock Michel
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    Teach Us to Want

    Longing, Ambition and the Life of Faith

    by Jen Pollock Michel
    Foreword by Katelyn Beaty

    Logos Bookstores' Best Book in Spirituality/Devotional

    Christianity Today Book of the Year

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

    As Christians, we're squeamish about desire. Isn't wanting sinful and selfish? Aren't we supposed to find and follow God's will rather than insisting ...

    Number of Studies: 5

  • Decisions: Seeking God's Guidance, By Donald Baker
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    Decisions

    Seeking God's Guidance

    LifeGuide Bible Studies

    by Donald Baker

    Do you sometimes wish that the Bible could make your decisions for you? Donald Baker is familiar with this desire. He writes, "God has given me free will, and while I appreciate his confidence in my ability to choose, there are times when I wish that he would make the decisions for me."

    The Bible won't give you a direct answer to each choice—or dilemma—you face. But the Bible will teach you ...

    Number of Studies: 9

  • Life in the Presence of God: Practices for Living in Light of Eternity, By Kenneth Boa
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    Life in the Presence of God

    Practices for Living in Light of Eternity

    by Kenneth Boa

    2018 IVP Readers' Choice Award

    God is everywhere and always with us. So why don't we experience his presence more?

    Life is full of distractions, and our 24/7 news cycles and social media drown out the voice of God. It's hard to discern God's presence amid the hubbub. But experiencing God is not just for the super-spiritual or ultra-mature. Every Christian can learn to ...

  • Prophetic Lament: A Call for Justice in Troubled Times, By Soong-Chan Rah
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    Prophetic Lament

    A Call for Justice in Troubled Times

    by Soong-Chan Rah
    Foreword by Brenda Salter McNeil

    Missio Alliance Essential Reading List
    Hearts Minds Bookstore's Best Books
    RELEVANT's Top 10 Books
    Englewood Review of Books Best Books

    When Soong-Chan Rah planted an urban church in Cambridge, Massachusetts, his first full sermon series was a six-week exposition of the book of Lamentations. Preaching on an obscure, depressing Old Testament book was ...

  • The Unhiding of Elijah Campbell: A Novel, By Kelly Flanagan
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    The 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 ...

  • Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling, By Andy Crouch
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    Culture Making

    Recovering Our Creative Calling

    by Andy Crouch
    Afterword by Tish Harrison Warren

    Christianity Today Book Award winner
    Publishers Weekly's best books

    The only way to change culture is to create culture.

    Most of the time, we just consume or copy culture. But that is not enough. We must also do more than condemn or critique it. The only way to change it is to create it.

    For too long, Christians have had ...

  • Authentic Human Sexuality: An Integrated Christian Approach, By Judith K. Balswick and Jack O. Balswick
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    Authentic Human Sexuality

    An Integrated Christian Approach

    by Judith K. Balswick and Jack O. Balswick

    Sex pervades our culture, going far beyond the confines of the bedroom and spilling over into the workplace, the church and the media. Yet despite all the attention and even obsession devoted to sex, human sexuality remains confusing and even foreboding. What, after all, is authentic human sexuality?That is the question Judith and Jack Balswick set out to answer in this wide-ranging and probing ...

  • Released from Shame: Moving Beyond the Pain of the Past, By Sandra D. Wilson
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    Released from Shame

    Moving Beyond the Pain of the Past

    by Sandra D. Wilson

    Sandra D. Wilson explains the patterns of thinking and feeling common to children of dysfunctional families and helps readers start on their own journey toward freedom and wholeness.

  • The Gift of Being Yourself: The Sacred Call to Self-Discovery, By David G. Benner
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    The Gift of Being Yourself

    The Sacred Call to Self-Discovery

    The Spiritual Journey

    by David G. Benner
    Foreword by M. Basil Pennington

    Embark on the Spiritual Journey of Knowing Your True Self

    "Grant, Lord, that I may know myself that I may know thee." —Augustine

    Much is said in Christian circles about knowing God. But what if thereis also value in knowing yourself? Christians throughout the ages have agreed that there cannot be deep knowledge of God without deep knowledge ...

  • Opening to God: Lectio Divina and Life as Prayer, By David G. Benner
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    Opening to God

    Lectio Divina and Life as Prayer

    by David G. Benner

    Most Christians want to experience spiritual transformation. But many are frustrated by the limited progress of our spiritual self-improvement efforts. We find our praying burdened by a sense of obligation and failure.

    But prayer is not merely something we do; prayer is what God does in us. Prayer is not just communication with God—it is communion with God. As we open ourselves ...