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PaperbackCommunity Is Messy
The Perils and Promise of Small Group Ministry
by Heather Zempel
Heather Zempel oversees the community life at a multisite church in Washington, D.C., a challenging population with one of the highest relocation rates in the United States. And yet under her leadership, National Community Church has become a model for creative, dynamic, deep small group ministry.Drawing from her background as an environmental engineer (including such bizarre experiences as monitoring ...
PaperbackAlways Reforming
Explorations in Systematic Theology
Edited by A. T. B. McGowan
The Reformed churches of the sixteenth century affirmed the need to be semper reformanda--always reforming.
But in the ensuing centuries, some have taken this conviction as a mandate to abandon the departure from received orthodoxy, while others have progressed toward a rigid confessionalism that cements the Reformation itself as a final codification of truth.
Between these ...
PaperbackAn Emergent Theology for Emerging Churches
by Ray S. Anderson
Foreword by Brian McLarenIf the emerging church movement is looking for a theology, Ray Anderson offers clear and relevant theological guidance for it in this timely book.
Reaching back through time, Anderson roots an emergent theology in what happened at Antioch,where Saul (Paul) and Barnabas were set apart for a mission to establish churches outside of Jerusalem--among Gentiles who had to be reached in their own ...
PaperbackDisability and the Church
A Vision for Diversity and Inclusion
by Lamar Hardwick
Foreword by Bill GaventaIVP Readers' Choice Award
Lamar Hardwick was thirty-six years old when he found out he was on the autism spectrum. While this revelation helped him understand and process his own experience, it also prompteda difficult re-evaluation of who he was as a person. And as a pastor, it started him on a new path of considering the way disabled people are treated in ...
HardbackTempered Resilience
How Leaders Are Formed in the Crucible of Change
by Tod Bolsinger
Christian Book Award Finalist
The Kind of Leadership that Lasts in Times of Change
What type of leadership is needed in a moment that demands adaptive change?
Tod Bolsinger, leadership expert and author of Canoeing the Mountains, is uniquely positioned to explore the qualities of adaptive leadership in contexts ranging from ...
PaperbackTransforming Worship
Planning and Leading Sunday Services as If Spiritual Formation Mattered
Transforming Resources
by Rory Jon Noland
Foreword by Ruth Haley BartonSpiritual formation is the key to the survival of our faith.
There is an urgent need today for church services that are substantive and purposeful. Stigmatized by scandal, the church in North America and throughout Europe has been branded as useless and irrelevant. To stem the tide of nominal Christianity, we need to get serious about making disciples who can make other disciples.
Rory ...
PaperbackSermons That Sing
Music and the Practice of Preaching
Dynamics of Christian Worship
by Noel A Snyder
Foreword by Jeremy S BegbiePreaching and music are both regular elements of Christian worship across the theological spectrum. But they often don't interact or inform each other in meaningful ways.
In this Dynamics of Christian Worship volume, theologian, pastor, and musician Noel A. Snyder considers how the church's preaching might be helpfully informed by musical theory. Just as a good musical composition ...
PaperbackThe Glory of Preaching
Participating in God's Transformation of the World
by Darrell W. Johnson
In these pages you will find a vision of preaching that is both illuminating and inspiring. Drawing from biblical and theological resources as well as years in the pulpit, Darrell Johnson takes us far beyond the mere mechanics of delivering sermons. He dynamically unpacks the link between the human task of speaking to a congregation and the real, gracious action and presence of the living Christ ...
PaperbackMen and Women in the Church
Building Consensus on Christian Leadership
by Sarah Sumner
Foreword by Phillip E. JohnsonEvangelicals stand divided in their view of women in the church.On one side stand complementarians, arguing the full worth of women but assigning them to differing roles. On the other side stand egalitarians, arguing that the full worth of women demands their equal treatment and access to leadership roles. Is there a way to mend the breach and build consensus?Sarah Sumner thinks there is. Avoiding ...
PaperbackRedeeming Sex
Naked Conversations About Sexuality and Spirituality
Forge Partnership Books
by Debra Hirsch
Foreword by Gabe LyonsMissio Alliance Essential Reading List
Readers' Choice Award Winner
Seedbed's 10 Notable BooksNothing has exposed the gap between the church and the broader society quite like the cultural argument over sexuality.Relationships, identities, orientations and even seemingly straightforward concepts such as gender have cut battle lines between the church and the world. ...
