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  • The Softer Side of Leadership: Essential Soft Skills That Transform Leaders and the People They Lead, By Eugene B. Habecker
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    The Softer Side of Leadership

    Essential Soft Skills That Transform Leaders and the People They Lead

    by Gene Habecker
    With Marylou Habecker
    Read by Ron Schneemann

    Many who lead or who aspire to lead rightly champion the importance of hard skills. These are skills that are informed by quantitative measurement and analytical thinking, among others. Knowing the numbers, embracing leadership tasks, and implementing the right strategies are important but no longer enough to be an effective leader. Indeed, the best of the leadership literature consistently emphasizes ...

  • Intercultural Theology, Volume One: Intercultural Hermeneutics, By Henning Wrogemann
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    Intercultural Theology, Volume One

    Intercultural Hermeneutics

    Missiological Engagements

    by Henning Wrogemann
    Translated by Karl E. Böhmer

    Christianity is not only a global but also an intercultural phenomenon. The diversity of world Christianity is evident not merely outside our borders but even within our own neighborhoods.

    Over the past half century theologians andmissiologists have addressed this reality by developing local and contextual theologies and by exploring issues like contextualization, inculturation, and ...

  • New Testament Theology and Ethics, By Ben Witherington III
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    New Testament Theology and Ethics

    New Testament Theology and Ethics

    by Ben Witherington III

    All too often, argues Ben Witherington, the theology of the New Testament has been divorced from its ethics, leaving as isolated abstractions what are fully integrated, dynamic elements within the New Testament itself. As Witherington stresses, "behavior affects and reinforces or undoes belief."Previously published as The Indelible Image, Volume 2, Witherington offers the second of a two-volume ...

  • Spiritual Practices of Jesus: Learning Simplicity, Humility, and Prayer with Luke's Earliest Readers, By Catherine J. Wright
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    Spiritual Practices of Jesus

    Learning Simplicity, Humility, and Prayer with Luke's Earliest Readers

    by Catherine J. Wright

    Luke's Gospel was written to transform. In its original context, readers would have seen a portrait of Jesus as an ideal teacher and king, able to shape his people through exemplary leadership. They would have come to the Gospel expecting to be changed for God's purposes through the imitation of Jesus' lifestyle and adoption of his teaching. When today's readers approach the text ...

  • John, By Rodney A. Whitacre
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    John

    A Commentary on the New Testament

    The IVP New Testament Commentary Series

    by Rodney A. Whitacre

    The Gospel of John declares its purpose clearly--"these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and thay by believing you may have life in his name." Thus it fulfills a dual function, encouraging believers and providing them with evidences for proclaiming that Jesus is God's Messiah, the divine, incarnate Son of God.Christians today, as in the first century, can ...

  • New Testament Theology and Ethics, By Ben Witherington III
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    New Testament Theology and Ethics

    New Testament Theology and Ethics

    by Ben Witherington III

    All too often, argues Ben Witherington, the theology of the New Testament has been divorced from its ethics, leaving as isolated abstractions what are fully integrated, dynamic elements within the New Testament itself. As Witherington stresses, "behavior affects and reinforces or undoes belief."Previously published as The Indelible Image, Volume 1, Witherington offers the first of a two-volume ...

  • Separated by the Border: A Birth Mother, a Foster Mother, and a Migrant Child's 3,000-Mile Journey, By Gena Thomas
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    Separated by the Border

    A Birth Mother, a Foster Mother, and a Migrant Child's 3,000-Mile Journey

    by Gena Thomas
    Foreword by Michelle Ferrigno Warren

    In 2017 five-year-old Julia traveled with her mother, Guadalupe, from Honduras to the United States. Her harrowing journey took her through Mexico in the cargo section of a tractor trailer. Then she was separated from her mother,who was held hostage by smugglers who exploited her physically and financially. At the United States border, Julia came through the processing center as ...

  • Mapping Your Academic Career: Charting the Course of a Professor's Life, By Gary M. Burge
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    Mapping Your Academic Career

    Charting the Course of a Professor's Life

    by Gary M. Burge

    One of Nijay Gupta's Best Academic New Testament Books

    You're finishing your first year of teaching. It's been exciting and gratifying, but there've been some wobbly episodes too. How will you carve out a space to flourish?

    You're feeling secure in mid-career, with some accomplishments to be proud of. But what should success really look like?

    You're nearing the ...