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  • Tried and True: The Countercultural Virtues of Christian Leadership, By Shirley Mullen and Margaret Diddams
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    Tried and True

    The Countercultural Virtues of Christian Leadership

    by Margaret Diddams and Shirley A Mullen

    Recovering Timeless Leadership Vision for Contemporary Challenges

    Successful leadership needs more than top-down strategic plans and lofty vision statements. Real leadership happens at the intersection of a leader’s inner life with the outer expression of care for their organization and the communities it serves. To find sustainable paths of leadership, we can look to reliable ...

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  • People-Pleasing Pastors: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Approval-Motivated Leadership, By Charles Stone
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    People-Pleasing Pastors

    Avoiding the Pitfalls of Approval-Motivated Leadership

    by Charles Stone
    Foreword by Ed Stetzer

    • 12th Annual Outreach Resource of the Year Recommendation (Leadership)

    Pastors and church leaders often fall into the trap of people-pleasing. Charles Stone's research on thousands of pastors and ministry leaders demonstrates the dangers of approval-motivated leadership. Bringing together biblical insights and neuroscience findings, Stone shows why we fall into people-pleasing ...

  • Early Christian Mission
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    Early Christian Mission

    by Eckhard J. Schnabel

    How is it that a first-generation Jewish messianic movement undertook a mission to the pagan world and rapidly achieved a momentum that would have a lasting impact on world history?

    In this monumental two-volume study, Eckhard Schnabel provides a unified and detailed picture of the rise and growth of early Christian mission. He begins with a search for a missionary impulse ...

  • The Gospel in the Marketplace of Ideas: Paul's Mars Hill Experience for Our Pluralistic World, By Paul Copan and Kenneth D. Litwak
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    The Gospel in the Marketplace of Ideas

    Paul's Mars Hill Experience for Our Pluralistic World

    by Paul Copan and Kenneth D. Litwak

    Our world is multicultural, multireligious, multiphilosophical. It ranges from fundamental monotheism to do-it-yourself spirituality to strident atheism. How can Christians engage in communicating across worldviews in this pluralistic and often relativistic society? When Paul visited Athens, he found an equally multicultural and multireligious setting. From Jews to Gentiles, elite to poor, slaves ...

  • A Pastoral Rule for Today: Reviving an Ancient Practice, By John P. Burgess and Jerry Andrews and Joseph D. Small
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    A Pastoral Rule for Today

    Reviving an Ancient Practice

    by John P. Burgess, Jerry Andrews, and Joseph D. Small

    The pastoral office has always been a difficult calling. Today, the pastor is often asked to fulfill multiple roles: preacher, teacher, therapist, administrator, CEO. How can pastors thrive amid such demands?What is needed is a contemporary pastoral rule: a pattern for ministry that both encourages pastors and enables them to focus on what is most important in their pastoral task.This ...

  • Welcoming the Stranger, By Matthew Soerens and Jenny Yang and Leith Anderson
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    Welcoming the Stranger

    Justice, Compassion & Truth in the Immigration Debate

    by Matthew Soerens, Jenny Yang, and Leith Anderson

    Academy of Parish Clergy Top Ten List

    Immigration is one of the most complicated issues of our time. Voices on all sides argue strongly for action and change. Christians find themselves torn between the desire to uphold laws and the call to minister to the vulnerable.

    In this book World Relief immigration experts Matthew Soerens and Jenny Yang move beyond the rhetoric ...

  • The Vulnerable Pastor: How Human Limitations Empower Our Ministry, By Mandy Smith
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    The Vulnerable Pastor

    How Human Limitations Empower Our Ministry

    by Mandy Smith
    Foreword by David Hansen

    Missio Alliance Essential Reading List

    Hearts Minds Bookstore's Best Books

    ProdigalThought.net's Top Reads

    Englewood Review of Books Best Books

    Leadership Journal's Best Ministry Books of the Year

    Often as pastors we feel like we need to project strength and competency in order ...

  • Operation World: The Definitive Prayer Guide to Every Nation, By Jason Mandryk
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    Operation World

    The Definitive Prayer Guide to Every Nation

    Operation World Resources

    by Jason Mandryk

    Operation World, the definitive global prayer handbook, has been used by more than a million Christians to pray for the nations. Now in its 7th edition, it has been completely updated and revised by Jason Mandryk with a team of missionaries and researchers, and it covers the entire populated world.Included in this updated and revised 7th edition:

    • All the countries of the world ...
  • Why I Am Protestant, By Beth Felker Jones
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    Why I Am Protestant

    Ecumenical Dialogue Series

    by Beth Felker Jones

    Exploring the Strengths and Challenges of the Protestant Tradition

    What does it mean to be Protestant? How can its strengths shape faith in the modern world, and how should its challenges be addressed? With clarity, warmth,and theological depth, Beth Felker Jones explores these questions in Why I Am Protestant. This book offers a positive, theologically grounded reflection ...

  • Transcending Mission: The Eclipse of a Modern Tradition, By Michael W. Stroope
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    Transcending Mission

    The Eclipse of a Modern Tradition

    by Michael W. Stroope

    IVP Readers' Choice Award

    Mission, missions, missional, and all its linguistic variations are part of the expanding vocabulary and rhetoric of the contemporary Christian missionary enterprise. Its language and assumptions are deeply ingrained in the thought and speech of the church today. Christianity is a missionary religion and faithful churches are mission-minded. What's ...