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  • Diverse Worship: African-American, Caribbean and Hispanic Perspectives, By Pedrito U. Maynard-Reid
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    Diverse Worship

    African-American, Caribbean and Hispanic Perspectives

    by Pedrito U. Maynard-Reid

    Let the nations sing.What are the universal constants of Christian worship? What are the unique elements that arise out of diverse local contexts? How do we appropriately respect and honor both the constancy and the diversity?In Diverse Worship Pedrito U. Maynard-Reid explores the multiethnic dimensions of worship by looking at three specific cultural contexts--African-American, Caribbean ...

  • Struck: One Christian's Reflections on Encountering Death, By Russ Ramsey
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    Struck

    One Christian's Reflections on Encountering Death

    by Russ Ramsey
    Foreword by Scott Sauls

    EPA 2018 Christian Book Award Finalist —Biography and Memoir

    "When my doctor told me I was dying, I came alive."

    What happens when you come face-to-face with your mortality? When your body fails you, what happens to your faith?

    Russ Ramsey was struck by a bacterial infection that destroyed his mitral valve, sending him into heart failure ...

  • Pursuing God's Will Together: A Discernment Practice for Leadership Groups, By Ruth Haley Barton
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    Pursuing 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 ...

  • Spiritual Rhythms for the Enneagram: A Handbook for Harmony and Transformation, By Adele Ahlberg Calhoun and Doug Calhoun and Clare Loughrige and Scott Loughrige
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    Spiritual Rhythms for the Enneagram

    A Handbook for Harmony and Transformation

    by Adele Ahlberg Calhoun, Doug Calhoun, Clare Loughrige, and Scott Loughrige
    Foreword by Jerome Wagner

    The Enneagram opens a remarkable window into the truth about us, enabling us to see how image, wounds, lies, triggers, and default responses shape us every bit as much as our faith. But simply diagnosing our number doesn't do justice to who we are. Nor does it necessarily change us or our relationships. Transformation happens as we grow in awareness and learn how to engage and reflect God's image. ...

  • Mirror for the Soul: A Christian Guide to the Enneagram, By Alice Fryling
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    Mirror for the Soul

    A Christian Guide to the Enneagram

    by Alice Fryling

    "Who in the world am I?"

    The Enneagram is like a mirror, reflecting dimensions of ourselves that are sometimes hard to see. In this helpful guide, spiritual director and Enneagram teacher Alice Fryling offers an introduction to each number of the Enneagram and their respective triads. More than just helping us discern our number, this book relates the Enneagram to our spiritual ...

  • The Face of Forgiveness: A Pastoral Theology of Shame and Redemption, By Philip D. Jamieson
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    The Face of Forgiveness

    A Pastoral Theology of Shame and Redemption

    by Philip D. Jamieson

    Jesus tells Peter to forgive "not seven times, but seventy-seven times" (Matt 18:22), and the atoning work of Christ is at the center of Christian thought. Yet many followers of Christ often struggle with offering or receiving forgiveness.The Face of Forgiveness seeks to address this dilemma and present a way forward. Utilizing contemporary distinctions between shame and guilt, Philip Jamieson ...

  • A Prayer for Orion: A Son's Addiction and a Mother's Love, By Katherine James
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    A Prayer for Orion

    A Son's Addiction and a Mother's Love

    by Katherine James

    2020 ECPA Top Shelf Book Cover Award

    It's always somebody else's kid—until it's yours.

    When Katherine James and her husband found out their son was using heroin, their responses ran the gamut: disbelief, anger, helplessness, guilt. As they struggled to come to grips with their son's addiction and decide how best to help him, their home became ...

  • Room of Marvels: A Story About Heaven that Heals the Heart, By James Bryan Smith
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    Room of Marvels

    A Story About Heaven that Heals the Heart

    by James Bryan Smith
    Foreword by Dallas Willard

    Three deaths in three years. His mother. His best friend. And now, his two-year-old daughter. In this moving story a Christian author goes to a retreat center to grieve and face the hard questions about God that he is asking in the wake of these losses.

    If you have ever felt alone, betrayed, abandoned—if you have found yourself asking God why—this novel may be a source of ...

  • Encountering Religious Pluralism: The Challenge to Christian Faith  Mission, By Harold Netland
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    Encountering Religious Pluralism

    The Challenge to Christian Faith Mission

    by Harold Netland

    Christianity Today Book of the Year

    The world is filled with religions.

    That is not a new observation. But the way we think about religious diversity, argues Harold Netland, is new.

    In this book Harold Netland traces the emergence of the pluralistic ethos that now challenges traditional Christian faith and mission. Identifying theologian ...

  • 20th-Century Theology: God and the World in a Transitional Age, By Stanley J. Grenz and Roger E. Olson
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    20th-Century Theology

    God and the World in a Transitional Age

    by Stanley J. Grenz and Roger E. Olson

    • Recipient of a Christianity Today 1993 Critics' Choice Award

    Now in paperback! Stanley Grenz and Roger Olson offer in this text a sympathetic introduction to twentieth-century theology and a critical survey of its significant thinkers and movements. Of particular interest is their attempt to show how twentieth-century theology has moved back and forth between two basic ...