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  • Taking It to the Streets: Lessons from a Life of Urban Ministry, By Harry Louis Williams II
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    Taking It to the Streets

    Lessons from a Life of Urban Ministry

    by Harry Louis Williams

    17th Annual Outreach Magazine Resource of the Year—Church

    There's an urgent need for Christian ministry in our cities—but we need a guide.

    Known around Oakland, California, as "OG Rev.," Reverend Harry Williams's calling is to the streets: to the hungry, homeless, addicted, incarcerated, and vulnerable. In Taking It to the Streets, ...

  • Understanding Your Teen: Shaping Their Character, Facing Their Realities, By Jim Burns
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    Understanding Your Teen

    Shaping Their Character, Facing Their Realities

    by Jim Burns

    Parenting teenagers is one of the biggest challenges parents face. New realities make becoming independent more difficult. Teens are traveling a different road and are moving at a different pace than those of previous generations. Today's culturalenvironment is more complicated and confusing than ever.

    But fear not! Family expert Jim Burns provides a handy guide for parenting teens. For teens ...

  • From Cairo to Christ: How One Muslim's Faith Journey Shows the Way for Others, By Abu Atallah and Kent A. Van Til
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    From Cairo to Christ

    How One Muslim's Faith Journey Shows the Way for Others

    by Abu Atallah and Kent A. Van Til

    "If I were to become a Christian, it would mean not only changing my religion but changing my whole identity and bringing shame upon my family. My whole family is Muslim, and my society and culture were Muslim. . . . Changing from Islam to Christianity would mess up my life forever."So writes Abu Atallah, who grew up in Cairo as an ordinary Egyptian Muslim. He was deeply embedded in his family, ...

  • Blood From a Stone: A Memoir of How Wine Brought Me Back from the Dead, By Adam S. McHugh
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    Blood From a Stone

    A Memoir of How Wine Brought Me Back from the Dead

    by Adam S. McHugh

    Men's Journal Best Wine Books 2023 and André Simon Food and Drink Book Award Longlist

    "This is the story of how wine brought me back from the dead."

    Thus begins Adam McHugh's transition through the ending of one career—as a hospice chaplain and grief counselor—into the discovery of a new life in wine among the grapevines of the Santa Ynez Valley of California.

    "This ...

  • Movies Are Prayers: How Films Voice Our Deepest Longings, By Josh Larsen
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    Movies Are Prayers

    How Films Voice Our Deepest Longings

    by Josh Larsen
    Foreword by Matt Zoller Seitz

    "Movies are our way of telling God what we think about this world and our place in it. . . . Movies can be many things: escapist experiences, historical artifacts, business ventures, and artistic expressions, to name a few. I'd like to suggest that they can also be prayers."Movies do more than tell a good story. They are expressions of raw emotion, naked vulnerability, and unbridled ...