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PaperbackChristian Community
LifeGuide Bible Studies
by Rob Suggs
One of the greatest gifts that Christ has given us is each other. Through Christ's body, the church, we discover our unique gifts and experience worship, healing and power.
In this ten-session LifeGuide® Bible Study, Rob Suggs leads us to grow in community—loving and nurturing one another, and in reflecting Christ's love to the world around us.
For over three decades LifeGuide Bible ...
Number of Studies: 10
PaperbackThe Arts as Witness in Multifaith Contexts
Missiological Engagements
Edited by Roberta R. King and William A. Dyrness
In search of holistic Christian witness, missionaries have increasingly sought to take into account all the dimensions of people's cultural and religious lives—including their songs, dances, dramatic performances, storytelling, and visualarts. Missiologists, educators, and practitioners are cultivating new approaches for integrating the arts into mission praxis and celebrating creativity ...
PaperbackThe Hispanic Challenge
Opportunities Confronting the Church
by Manuel Ortiz
"The Sleeping Giant" is the fastest-growing minority group in the U.S.--the Hispanic community. Hispanics, especially Puerto Ricans, Cubans and Mexicans, are changing society and the church. As a second-generation Puerto Rican, born and reared in El Barrio of New York City, Manuel Ortiz knows first-hand what it is like to be a Hispanic in the U.S. As a sociologist, he recognizes the exciting potential ...
PaperbackThe Mestizo Augustine
A Theologian Between Two Cultures
by Justo L. González
Few thinkers have been as influential as Augustine of Hippo. His writings, such as Confessions and City of God, have left an indelible mark on Western Christianity. He has become so synonymous with Christianity in the West that we easily forget he was a man of two cultures: African and Greco-Roman. The mixture of African Christianity and Greco-Roman rhetoric and philosophy gave ...
PaperbackHow Africa Shaped the Christian Mind
Rediscovering the African Seedbed of Western Christianity
Early African Christianity
by Thomas C. Oden
Africa has played a decisive role in the formation of Christian culture from its infancy. Some of the most decisive intellectual achievements of Christianity were explored and understood in Africa before they were in Europe.If this is so, why is Christianity so often perceived in Africa as a Western colonial import? How can Christians in Northern and sub-Saharan Africa, indeed, how can Christians ...
PaperbackA Community Called Taize
A Story of Prayer, Worship and Reconciliation
by Jason Brian Santos
Foreword by Desmond TutuTaizé--the word is strangely familiar to many throughout the contemporary church. Familiar, perhaps, because the chanted prayers of Taizé are well practiced in churches throughout the world. Strangely, however, because so little is knownabout Taizé--from its historic beginnings to how the word itself is pronounced.
The worship of the Taizé community, as it turns out, is best understood ...
PaperbackThe Glory of the Ascension
Celebrating a Doctrine for the Life of the Church
by Ross Hastings
Rediscover the Majesty of the Ascended Christ
The doctrine of Christ’s ascension is often overlooked in the church today, yet it holds profound significance for Christian theology and the Christian life. The Glory of theAscension by theologian Ross Hastings invites readers to rediscover this essential truth. With thoughtful precision, Hastings illuminates the ascension ...
PaperbackStory-Shaped Worship
Following Patterns from the Bible and History
by Robbie F. Castleman
What is the right way to worship?Right worship does not require a return to the identical forms found in the early church or later in Rome or after that in Westminster. What it calls for is a faithful response today to the God of our salvation inlight of those biblically ordered and historically informed patterns.In this study Robbie Castleman uncovers the fundamental shape of worship. What she ...
PaperbackEnding Human Trafficking
A Handbook of Strategies for the Church Today
by Shayne Moore, Sandra Morgan, and Kimberly McOwen Yim
Foreword by John Cotton RichmondAuthor Sandra Morgan awarded Wilberforce Award
Human trafficking is one of the most pressing social justice issues of our time, and in recent years there has been renewed interest among Christians, as many have beenstirred up to take their part in the ongoing battle.
This is a wonderful thing—and yet misinformed and misguided efforts can do more harm ...
