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PaperbackPolitical Church
The Local Assembly as Embassy of Christ's Rule
Studies in Christian Doctrine and Scripture
by Jonathan Leeman
Series edited by Kevin J. Vanhoozer and Daniel J. TreierThe church is political.
Theologians have been debating this claim for years. Liberationists, Anabaptists, Augustinians, neo-Calvinists, Radical Orthodox, and others continue to discuss the matter. What do we mean by politics and the political? What are the limits of the church's political reach? What is the nature of the church as an institution? How do we establish these ...
PaperbackI Beg to Differ
Navigating Difficult Conversations with Truth and Love
by Tim Muehlhoff
Foreword by Gregg A. Ten ElshofHow do we communicate with people who disagree with us?In today's polarized world, friends and strangers clash with each other over issues large and small. Coworkers have conflicts in the office. Married couples fight over finances. And online commenters demonize one another's political and religious perspectives. Is there any hope for restoring civil discourse?Communications expert Tim Muehlhoff ...
PaperbackA Caregiver's Survival Guide
How to Stay Healthy When Your Loved One is Sick
by Kay Marshall Strom
When you are responsible for another person's physical needs, your own needs are often neglected. After caring for her spouse, who for ten years suffered from a rare, debilitating disease, Kay Marshall Strom is able to bring a voice of experienceand compassion to this important topic. She shows you how to
- find spiritual support
- maintain balanced relationships
- decide when ...
PaperbackAfter Shock
Searching for Honest Faith When Your World Is Shaken
by Kent Annan
In the wake of a historic earthquake in the fragile country of Haiti, Kent Annan considers suffering--from the epic to the everyday--as a problem for faith. Less than two weeks after the release of Kent's book about his work with Haiti Partners, he heard the news.
Friends trapped under the rubble of buildings. Friends sprinting across the city looking for family. Churches--including one Kent ...
PaperbackKingdom Without Borders
The Untold Story of Global Christianity
by Miriam Adeney
The twenty-first century opened with a rapidly changing map of Christianity. While its influence is waning in some of its traditional Western strongholds, it is growing at a phenomenal pace in the global South. And yet this story has largely eluded the corporate news brokers of the West. Layered as it is with countless personal and corporate stories of remarkable faith and witness, it nevertheless ...
PaperbackAn Impossible Marriage
What Our Mixed-Orientation Marriage Has Taught Us About Love and the Gospel
by Laurie Krieg and Matt Krieg
"People say our marriage is impossible."
Laurie and Matt Krieg are in a mixed-orientation marriage: a marriage in which at least one partner's primary attraction isn't toward the gender of their spouse. In the Kriegs' case, Laurie is primarily attracted to women—and so is Matt.
Some find the idea of mixed-orientation marriage bewildering or even offensive. But as the ...
PaperbackSin and Grace in Christian Counseling
An Integrative Paradigm
Christian Association for Psychological Studies Books
by Mark R. McMinn
Sin. Grace. Christian Counseling.How do these fit together?In Christian theology sin and grace are intrinsically interconnected. Teacher and counselor Mark McMinn believes that Christian counseling, then, must also take account of both human sin and God's grace. For both sin and grace are distorted whenever one is emphasized without the other.McMinn, noting his own tendencies and the temptation ...
PaperbackThe Flourishing Pastor
Recovering the Lost Art of Shepherd Leadership
Made to Flourish Resources
by Tom Nelson
Foreword by Chris BrooksChristianity Today Book Award—Church and Pastoral Leadership
The Gospel Coalition Book Awards Honorable Mention
Pastoral leadership is in crisis.
It's not just that many pastors feel overwhelmed and stressed out; many have lost their way. With the risk of burnout at an all-time high, what pastors need is not just a ...
PaperbackGod Behaving Badly
Is the God of the Old Testament Angry, Sexist and Racist?
by David T. Lamb
God has a bad reputation. Many think of God as wrathful and angry, smiting people right and left for no apparent reason. The Old Testament in particular seems at times to portray God as capricious and malevolent, wiping out armiesand nations, punishing enemies with extreme prejudice.
But wait. The story is more complicated than that. Alongside troubling passages of God's punishment ...
PaperbackNow I Lay Me Down to Fight
A Poet Writes Her Way Through Cancer
by Katy Bowser Hutson
Illustrated by Jodi Hays
Foreword by Tish Harrison WarrenIn stirring verse and essays, Katy Bowser Hutson chronicles her battle with breast cancer and the complications of faith amid such a fight. Accentuated by the art of Jodi Hays, Katy's words lead us through the realization of cancer, the experience of chemotherapy and a mastectomy, relentless rounds of radiation, the uncertainty of ongoing treatment, and what comes after survival. ...
