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  • The Healing Journey for Adult Children of Alcoholics, By Daryl E. Quick
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    The Healing Journey for Adult Children of Alcoholics

    by Daryl E. Quick

    I feel like people leave me abandoned all the time.Sometimes I'm so afraid for what seems like no reason.I just don't seem to have any energy.Why do the same thoughts keep racing through my mind?I usually don't feel happy or sad.If there isn't real excitement, I feel bored.I want to be close to people, but I just never make it.Do you see yourself in this list? Children of alcoholic parents have ...

  • Why Church History Matters: An Invitation to Love and Learn from Our Past, By Robert F. Rea
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    Why Church History Matters

    An Invitation to Love and Learn from Our Past

    by Robert F. Rea

    Does it matter how Christians in other times and places thought?If the Bible alone is God?s revelation, why spend time studying church history?Aren?t history and tradition more of a problem than a solution?For many Christians whobelieve the Bible is the ultimate authority for faith and life, questions about the role and value of the church's traditions can be difficult to tackle. ...

  • Having the Mind of Christ: Eight Axioms to Cultivate a Robust Faith, By Matt Tebbe and Ben Sternke
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    Having the Mind of Christ

    Eight Axioms to Cultivate a Robust Faith

    by Matthew Jacob Tebbe and Benjamin Eric Sternke

    Reader's Choice Award Winner

    "Why doesn’t the Christian life work like I thought it would?"

    While we often start with good intentions, it feels like real transformation is elusive at best, and maybe even impossible. We deeply want to live in the freedom that Christ offers, but we are acutely aware of the gap between a transformed life and our reality. ...

  • You Welcomed Me: Loving Refugees and Immigrants Because God First Loved Us, By Kent Annan
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    You Welcomed Me

    Loving Refugees and Immigrants Because God First Loved Us

    by Kent Annan

    "Wait, Dad. Are we for them or against them?"

    Kent Annan was talking with his eight-year-old son about the immigrant and refugee crises around the world. His son's question, innocent enough in the moment, is writ large across our society today. How we answer it, Annan says, will reveal a lot about what kind of family, community, or country we want to be.

    In ...

  • Keeping Place: Reflections on the Meaning of Home, By Jen Pollock Michel
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    Keeping Place

    Reflections on the Meaning of Home

    by Jen Pollock Michel
    Foreword by Scott Sauls

    To be human is to long for home.Home is our most fundamental human longing. And for many of us homesickness is a nagging place of grief. This book connects that desire and disappointment with the story of the Bible, helping us tosee that there is a homemaking God with wide arms of welcome—and a church commissioned with this same work. "Many of us seem to be recovering the sacred, ...

  • Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes: Cultural Studies in the Gospels, By Kenneth E. Bailey
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    Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes

    Cultural Studies in the Gospels

    by Kenneth E. Bailey

    Understand the Life of Jesus in Cultural Context

    Discover a deeper, richer understanding of the life and teachings of Jesus with Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes by renowned scholar Kenneth Bailey. This book invites readers to see Jesus through the lens of his historical and cultural context, lifting away the layers of Western interpretation that have shaped modern ...

  • Perfecting Ourselves to Death: The Pursuit of Excellence and the Perils of Perfectionism, By Richard Winter
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    Perfecting Ourselves to Death

    The Pursuit of Excellence and the Perils of Perfectionism

    by Richard Winter

    Honored as a "Year's Best Book for Preachers" by Preaching magazine.

    Perfect body. Perfect clothes. Perfect family. Perfect house. Perfect job.

    We strive for excellence in all areas of our lives. And there's nothing wrong with a healthy, mature pursuit of excellence. But what begins as healthy and normal can sometimes become neurotic and abnormal, leading to ...

  • The Kingdom and the Cross, By James Bryan Smith
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    The Kingdom and the Cross

    Apprentice Resources

    by James Bryan Smith

    We believe a lot of false narratives about the nature of God, things like "God helps those who help themselves"; "God blesses the righteous"; "God might not be out for your good, and you might be missing something." But pastor and professor James Bryan Smith, author of the Apprentice Series, points us to the truth of who God is, revealed by Jesus: A God who loves to help the helpless. A God who ...

  • Between One Faith and Another: Engaging Conversations on the World's Great Religions, By Peter Kreeft
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    Between One Faith and Another

    Engaging Conversations on the World's Great Religions

    by Peter Kreeft

    How do we make sense of the world's different religions?In today's globalized society, religion is deeply intertwined with every issue we see on the news. But talking about multiple religions can be contentious. Are different faiths compatible somehow? And how can we know whether one religion is more true than another? In this creative thought experiment, Peter Kreeft invites us to encounter dialogues ...

  • Becoming Dallas Willard: The Formation of a Philosopher, Teacher, and Christ Follower, By Gary W. Moon
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    Becoming Dallas Willard

    The Formation of a Philosopher, Teacher, and Christ Follower

    by Gary W. Moon
    Afterword by John Ortberg
    Foreword by Richard J. Foster

    • ECPA 2019 Christian Book Award Finalist
    • 2018 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award Finalists - Biography

    Dallas Willard was a personal mentor and inspiration to hundreds of pastors, philosophers, and average churchgoers. His presence and ideas rippled through the lives of many prominent leaders and authors, such as John Ortberg, Richard Foster, James Bryan Smith, ...