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PaperbackCreating a Missional Culture
Equipping the Church for the Sake of the World
Forge Partnership Books
by JR Woodward
Foreword by Alan HirschOnce upon a time, Moses had had enough.Exhausted by the challenge of leading the Israelites from slavery to the Promised Land, Moses cried out to God, "What have I done to displease you that you put the burden of all these people on me? . . . If this is how you are going to treat me, please go ahead and kill me" (Exodus 11:11, 15).If that sounds hauntingly familiar to you, you may be the senior ...
PaperbackThe Power of the 72
Ordinary Disciples in Extraordinary Evangelism
by John Teter
They were not professionals. They were not celebrities. We don't even know their names.We know very little about them, except that they were everyday people who were drawn to Jesus. When Jesus asked them to join him in his mission, they stepped up, answered the call, and went out in his name. And amazing things happened as a result.They were the 72.Pastor and evangelist John Teter explains how Jesus ...
PaperbackBeyond the Local Church
How Apostolic Movements Can Change the World
by Sam Metcalf
Foreword by Alan Hirsch2016 IVP Readers' Choice Award
Many people have given up on the church. But that doesn't mean that they've given up on God or Christianity. In many cases, it was merely that local church congregations were not the best context for missional people to live out their sense of God's call.
The good news is that God is raising up vibrant movements of Christians in a vast ...
PaperbackMulticultural Ministry Handbook
Connecting Creatively to a Diverse World
BridgeLeader Books
Edited by David A Anderson and Margarita R. Cabellon
Outreach Magazine Book Award winner
The world is becoming increasingly diverse. More and more of our neighbors are from a variety of cultures, ethnicities and cultural backgrounds. But most churches are still culturally homogenous and do not represent every tribe and tongue. What can we do to minister more effectively to our multicultural society?
David Anderson ...
PaperbackThe Worship Maze
Finding a Style to Fit Your Church
by Paul A Basden
Worship has become a problem.It is the center of the Christian life, but like so much else in our kaleidoscopic late-modern world, worship has gotten complicated. Confusing. And even controversial. Church leaders and laypeople have joined the debate over "traditional," "contemporary" and a growing array of other worship styles.Pastor (and professor) Paul Basden believes worship should be the occasion ...
PaperbackWindow on the World
An Operation World Prayer Resource
Operation World Resources
Edited by Molly Wall and Jason Mandryk
Teach Kids to Pray for the World with Window on the World
Window on the World is your ticket to travel the globe! If you've appreciated Operation World as an adult, the kids in your life will lovethis invaluable and age-appropriate prayer resource that develops cultural, political, and geographical awareness through a Christian lens. Find out how ...
PaperbackFreedom from Tyranny of the Urgent
by Charles E. Hummel
Winner of the 2004 ECPA Platinum Book Award!
Is the clock a slavemaster or a tool that serves you?
Does the quantity of your responsibilities squeeze out the quality of your life?
Are urgent things so pressing that you don't have "inner time" to sort out what's really important?
How can you discern what God wants you to do?Charles Hummel's classic ...
PaperbackWomen Rising
Learning to Listen, Reclaiming Our Voice
by Meghan Christian Tschanz
Foreword by Carolyn Custis JamesFresh out of college, hating her job, and searching for meaning, Meghan Tschanz left everything to join a mission trip around the globe, and quickly witnessed oppression experienced by women that she never thought possible.
Over the next several years, she befriended women around the globe who had survived sex trafficking, female genital mutilation, and violence so extreme ...
PaperbackPatron Saints for Postmoderns
Ten from the Past Who Speak to Our Future
by Chris R Armstrong
Are you feeling discouraged in your efforts to reflect Christ each day in our broken world? Does it feel lonely? Too difficult? Too overwhelming?The saints can help you. Especially the ones whose stories Chris Armstrong tells here, because he's chosen them for the ways they've inspired him and deepened his own faith. A professor of church history, Armstrong provides rich portraits of ten people ...
PaperbackHow to Read Job
How to Read Series
by John H. Walton and Tremper Longman III
Preaching's Survey of Bibles and Bible Reference
We often turn to the book of Job when we encounter suffering. We look for an explanation for the questions "Why me?" or "Why her?" But what if it turns out that although Job does suffer, the book is not really about his suffering?
If ever a book needed a "How to Read" instruction manual, it is the book of Job. ...
