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  • Nourishing Narratives: The Power of Story to Shape Our Faith, By Jennifer L. Holberg
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    Nourishing Narratives

    The Power of Story to Shape Our Faith

    by Jennifer Louise Holberg

    Humans are story-shaped creatures.

    We make sense of our world, pattern our lives, and reflect on what is ultimately significant through language and the words that compose our stories. But how does this relate to the narrative of the Bible and the story that God is writing through history?

    In Nourishing Narratives, writer and professor Jennifer Holberg engages ...

  • Hearing God Through the Year: A 365-Day Devotional, By Dallas Willard
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    Hearing God Through the Year

    A 365-Day Devotional

    by Dallas Willard
    Edited by Jan Johnson

    A Guide for Drawing Close to God

    Being close to God means communicating with him. It requires both telling him what is on our hearts in prayer and understanding what he is saying to us. The second half of this conversation is so important—and so difficult. How do we hear God?

    In these daily devotionals, Dallas Willard helps us understand how we can know the voice of ...

    Number of Studies: 365

  • Hearing God Through the Year: A 365-Day Devotional, By Dallas Willard
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    Hearing God Through the Year

    A 365-Day Devotional

    Through the Year Devotionals

    by Dallas Willard
    Edited by Jan Johnson

    A Guide for Drawing Close to God

    Being close to God means communicating with him. It requires both telling him what is on our hearts in prayer and understanding what he is saying to us. The second half of this conversation is so important—and so difficult. How do we hear God?

    In these daily devotionals, Dallas Willard helps us understand how we can know the voice of ...

  • Forty Days on Being a Seven, By Gideon Yee Shun Tsang
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    Forty Days on Being a Seven

    Enneagram Daily Reflections

    by Gideon Yee Shun Tsang
    Series edited by Suzanne Stabile

    What is it like to be an Enneagram Seven?

    Adventurer, spiritual leader, and artist Gideon Tsang tackles this question with the signature style of a Seven. Intermixed with stories of travel and making new friends in surprising places, is a commitment to honest self-assessment. Gideon shares how his Enneagram journey has led to personal and spiritual transformation in a series ...

    Number of Studies: 40

  • The Relational Pastor: Sharing in Christ by Sharing Ourselves, By Andrew Root
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    The Relational Pastor

    Sharing in Christ by Sharing Ourselves

    by Andrew Root

    One of the Academy of Parish Clergy's "Top 10 Books for Parish Ministry"

    When is the last time you asked yourself hard questions about why you were pursuing certain relationships in your ministry? Could it be that the end game for many of us is not relationship per se but loyalty, adherence, even submission? The sheep in our flock become the means to our end: pastoring becomes ...

  • Economic Parables: The Monetary Teachings of Jesus Christ, By David Cowan
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    Economic Parables

    The Monetary Teachings of Jesus Christ

    by David Cowan

    Ever wondered how to pay the next bill? Felt the world is unfair in economic rewards? Been indecisive about investing wisely? These types of fiscal questions are addressed from a Christian viewpoint in Economic Parables.

    Using his vast experience in the financial world as well as church ministry, the author invites you to listen directly to the words of Jesus and reflect on a number ...

  • The Theology of the Book of Isaiah, By John Goldingay
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    The Theology of the Book of Isaiah

    by John Goldingay

    Preaching's Preacher's Guide to the Best Bible Reference

    "Yahweh sits enthroned, high and lifted up
    A shoot grows from the stump of Jesse
    A Servant pours himself out to death
    Kings and nations stream to Zion"

    The book of Isaiah's imagery sparkles as it inspires. It draws us in to meditate and extends our vision toward the future. But ...

  • Demystifying Evil: A Biblical and Personal Exploration, By Ingrid Faro
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    Demystifying Evil

    A Biblical and Personal Exploration

    by Ingrid Faro
    Foreword by Heather Davediuk Gingrich

    The evil that afflicts our lives often leaves us confused and directionless, wounded and powerless. How should we respond to evil's power to assault us? How can we understand God's work in a world that seems all too often to be permeated with evil?

    Narrating her own wrestling with evil as well as engaging in biblical and philosophical analysis, biblical scholar Ingrid Faro ...

  • All God's Children: How Confronting Buried History Can Build Racial Solidarity, By Terence Lester
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    All God's Children

    How Confronting Buried History Can Build Racial Solidarity

    by Terence Lester
    Foreword by Daniel Hill

    Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award Finalist

    The more you understand someone's history, the better you can see their humanity. This is true for individuals as well as for society at large. Race relations have suffered because of the erasure of important Black history and cultural context. As we fill in the gaps of our collective knowledge, communities ...

  • The Seamless Life: A Tapestry of Love and Learning, Worship and Work, By Steven Garber
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    The Seamless Life

    A Tapestry of Love and Learning, Worship and Work

    by Steven Garber

    We all want to make sense of life, of who we are and why we are, and to know that what we do—day in and day out—matters. But daily demands often lead to a life that feels void of meaning and disjointed from our deepest beliefs.

    Steven Garber challenges us to move beyond our fragmented sense of reality and begin to see all we are and all we do—our work, play, ...