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EbookRadiant Church
Restoring the Credibility of Our Witness
by Tara Beth Leach
Outreach Resource of the Year
Something is not right. The witness of the church in North America is eroding. Many Christians are alarmed by the decline in church attendance and seek a culprit. Too often, we point the finger away from the church, make culture the enemy, and build walls between us and others. But our antagonism and enemy-making are ...
EbookShaped by Suffering
How Temporary Hardships Prepare Us for Our Eternal Home
by Kenneth Boa
With Jenny M Abel"The God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast." 1 Peter 5:10Suffering comes to us all. It may be disease or debilitation, pain or persecution. Our difficulties may be invisible to others or impossible to hide. Sometimes we suffer because of our Christian ...
EbookThe Soul of Wine
Savoring the Goodness of God
by Gisela H Kreglinger
★ Publishers Weekly starred review
Wine is a wonderful, lavish, and mysterious gift from God.
Gisela Kreglinger, the daughter of a vintner and trained as a theologian, invites us to discover wine as part of a more full-bodied Christian spirituality. She shows us how the soulful savoring of wine is God's way of wooing us back into a great love affair. ...
EbookMobilizing Hope
Faith-Inspired Activism for a Post-Civil Rights Generation
by Adam R Taylor
Foreword by Jim WallisMartin Luther King Jr. read the words of the apostle Paul to the church in Rome--"Be transformed by the renewing of your mind"--as a call not to retreat from the world but to lead the world into the kingdom of God, where peace and justice reign. In King's day the presenting problem was entrenched racism; the movement of God was a revolution in civil rights and human dignity. Now Adam Taylor draws ...
EbookGenesis
An Introduction and Commentary
Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries
by Andrew Steinmann
Series edited by David G. Firth
Consulting Editor Tremper Longman IIIBiblical Foundations Award Finalist
Genesis is a book of origins: of the world, of sin, of God's promise of redemption, and of the people of Israel. It traces God's pledge of a Savior through Abraham's line down to his great-grandson Judah. It serves as a foundation for the New Testament and its teaching that Jesus is the fulfillment of God's promise to save humankind from ...
EbookPraying
Finding Our Way Through Duty to Delight
by J. I. Packer and Carolyn Nystrom
Merit Award, World Guild Christian Living Book
Praying is an action that is of the essence of Christian existence. It involves our beliefs, emotions, values, hopes and fears, certainties and uncertainties, knowledge and ignorance.
As J. I. Packer and Carolyn Nystrom explain, "Our aim is not just to clarify Christian understanding but to foster Christian ...
EbookSubversive Mission
Serving as Outsiders in a World of Need
by Craig Warren Greenfield
For many, missions is the story of heroes, martyrs, and the advance of the gospel. For others, it's the story of colonialism and missionary disasters. So how do we respond to God's call to love our neighbors as a new era emerges?
Subversive mission is submission—to God and local leaders. Subversive mission offers a new way forward for outsiders called to crosscultural ministry ...
EbookHermanas
Deepening Our Identity and Growing Our Influence
by Natalia Kohn Rivera, Noemi Vega Quiñones, and Kristy Garza Robinson
Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Finalist - Multicultural
God calls Latinas to lives of influence. He created his Latina daughters to partner with him, live into the incredible plans he has for eachof us, and walk in his grace and strength to help change this world. But many of us have heard cultural messages that make us doubt our adequacy. We have ...
EbookThe Riches of Your Grace
Living in the Book of Common Prayer
by Julie Lane-Gay
Word Guild Award Winner—Christian Living—Personal Growth
ECPA Top Shelf Book Cover Award
An Invitation into God's Grace
As we race to work in the morning, have coffee with a friend, or fall into bed exhausted, we want to feel God's presence, to sink into his grace. Yet too often he feels aloof, absent. Our prayers feel trivial. ...
PaperbackAll Your Life
What It Really Means to Live for Jesus
by Lina AbuJamra
Real Answers for Real Life: Faith, Calling, Relationships, and More
God invites you to love him with all of who you are. But what does that actually look like when following Jesus feels hard, and the questions you face are overwhelming?
- How can you handle relationships, money, and big decisions in a way that honors God?
- What does it ...
