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  • Thirsting for Living Water: Finding Adventure and Purpose in God's Redemption Story, By Michael J. Mantel
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    Thirsting for Living Water

    Finding Adventure and Purpose in God's Redemption Story

    by Michael J Mantel
    Foreword by Richard E Stearns

    When a perfect storm of personal, professional, and natural disaster threw Mike Mantel into a dark night of the soul, he embarked on a journey through his own life and around the world to rediscover God's presence through the diverse bodyof Christ.

    In Thirsting for Living Water, Mantel invites readers to join him on this adventure and open their eyes to their own ...

  • Short-Term Mission: An Ethnography of Christian Travel Narrative and Experience, By Brian M. Howell
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    Short-Term Mission

    An Ethnography of Christian Travel Narrative and Experience

    by Brian M. Howell

    Over the past few decades, short-term mission trips have exploded in popularity. With easy access to affordable air travel, millions of American Christians have journeyed internationally for ministry, service and evangelism. Short-term trips are praised for involving many in global mission but also critiqued for their limitations.Despite the diversity of destinations, certain universal commonalities ...

  • God's Love: Knowing God Through the Psalms, By Ruth Ann Ridley
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    God's Love

    Knowing God Through the Psalms

    LifeGuide Bible Studies

    by Ruth Ann Ridley

    God cares for you in many ways!

    He offers help, calms your fears, guides you and strengthens you.

    In this ten session LifeGuide® Bible Study, Ruth Ann Ridley helps you explore the Psalms, showing how these songs of God's people reveal the character, love and care of God. By reading, studying and praying Psalms--and by applying their teaching to your life--you will discover how God ...

    Number of Studies: 10

  • How to Keep the Pastor You Love, By Jane A. Rubietta
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    How to Keep the Pastor You Love

    by Jane A. Rubietta

    • Who cares for your pastor in times of special need?
    • What can you do to help your pastor's family on a regular basis?
    • Are there steps you can take to ensure your pastor is personally and spiritually nurtured?

    While Paul urges the church to "overwhelm them with appreciation and love" (1 Thessalonians 5:13), research and anecdotal evidence shows that most pastors experience ...

  • Developing Clinicians of Character: A Christian Integrative Approach to Clinical Supervision, By Terri S. Watson
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    Developing Clinicians of Character

    A Christian Integrative Approach to Clinical Supervision

    Christian Association for Psychological Studies Books

    by Terri S. Watson

    ECPA Top Shelf Book Cover Award

    Is there more to clinical supervision than our current theories and methods can provide? Whether we intend them to be or not, our mentoring practices are personally formative for supervisees and supervisors alike. Developing Clinicians of Character grounds our thinking in the historic and contemporary wisdom of virtue ethics and grows ...

  • Refuge from Abuse: Healing and Hope for Abused Christian Women, By Nancy Nason-Clark and Catherine Clark Kroeger
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    Refuge from Abuse

    Healing and Hope for Abused Christian Women

    by Nancy Nason-Clark and Catherine Clark Kroeger

    Abuse is ugly. It is always wrong. It is never part of God?s design for healthy family living. It distorts relationships and shatters dreams. It creates pain and despair. It never produces hope.You know this all too well--that's why you've picked up this book.Nancy Nason-Clark and Catherine Clark Kroeger know the pain of women who have been abused, especially the unique pain of ...

  • Tending Soul, Mind, and Body: The Art and Science of Spiritual Formation, Edited by Gerald L. Hiestand and Todd Wilson Tending Soul, Mind, and Body: The Art and Science of Spiritual Formation, Edited by Gerald L. Hiestand and Todd Wilson
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    Tending Soul, Mind, and Body

    The Art and Science of Spiritual Formation

    Center for Pastor Theologians Series

    Edited by Gerald L. Hiestand and Todd A Wilson

    Throughout his ministry, Jesus consistently demonstrated his concern and love for the whole person: soul, mind, and body.

    That task is carried forward today by pastors and church leaders, who are called to care for people inthe midst of individual circumstances as well as seismic cultural shifts. How might that calling be informed by recent developments in psychology? How ...

  • Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership: Seeking God in the Crucible of Ministry, By Ruth Haley Barton Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership: Seeking God in the Crucible of Ministry, By Ruth Haley Barton
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    Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership

    Seeking God in the Crucible of Ministry

    Transforming Resources

    by Ruth Haley Barton
    Afterword by Leighton Ford
    Foreword by Gary A. Haugen

    Spiritual Practices for Burnt Out Leaders

    "I'm tired of helping others enjoy God—I just want to enjoy God for myself."

    With this painful admission, Ruth Haley Barton invites spiritual leaders into an honest exploration of what happens when they lose track of their souls. Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership weaves together contemporary illustrations ...