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PaperbackSteward Leadership in the Nonprofit Organization
by Kent R. Wilson
Most approaches to nonprofit organizational leadership are borrowed from the for-profit sector. But these models are often inadequate to address the issues nonprofit leaders face. We need a new framework for nonprofit management that is rooted inhistorical precedent and biblical principles yet is also appropriate for the nonprofit context.Nonprofit consultant and researcher Kent Wilson presents ...
PaperbackChildren's Ministry in the Way of Jesus
by David M Csinos and Ivy Beckwith
Foreword by John H. Westerhoff IIIAttract kids to church, the logic often goes, and you get parents in the pews. All that's left, then, is to get the kids out of the way. Here children's ministers David Csinos and Ivy Beckwith draw on research in human development and spiritual formation to show how children become disciples and churches become centers of lifelong discipleship. For too long, the local church has focused primarily ...
PaperbackBecome What You Are
Spiritual Formation According to the Sermon on the Mount
by William W. Klein
If you were sitting today on a hillside listening to Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, how ought you respond? Become What You Are is the insider's guide to Jesus' agenda—the goal of spiritual formation. This goal is a transformed heart, a change at the inner center of our being, that leads to a life that pleases God. Or, as a shorthand, it means becoming like Christ.This unique approach to the ...
PaperbackThe Prophets and the Apostolic Witness
Reading Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel as Christian Scripture
Contributions by Nicholas G. Piotrowski, John W Hilber, Iain M. Duguid, Daniel I. Block, Mark Gignilliat, John N. Oswalt, Dana M Harris, Gary E Yates, Lissa M. Wray Beal, Andrew G Shead, Philip G Ryken, and Alicia Jackson
Edited by Andrew Abernethy, William Russell (Rusty) Osborne, and Paul D. WegnerHow should Christians read prophetic literature? Questions abound both in the academy and the church as to how to engage the prophets, particularly in light of the New Testament. The Gospel writers and the church fathers all readand appealed to the Old Testament, but are we as modern-day readers supposed to take the same approach? The Prophets and the Apostolic Witness ...
PaperbackEconomic 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 ...
PaperbackFoundations for Soul Care
A Christian Psychology Proposal
by Eric L Johnson
In this groundbreaking work of first-order scholarship, Eric Johnson makes a vitally important contribution to the field of Christian counseling. He first presents a detailed overview and appreciative but critical evaluation of the reigning paradigms in the field of Christian counseling, particularly biblical counseling and integration. Building on their respective strengths, he seeks to move beyond ...
PaperbackThe Revelation of God
Contours of Christian Theology
by Peter Jensen
In modern times the Christian faith's claim to possess a unique revelation of God has faced numerous challenges.
A central issue has been the role of the Bible. While some have continued to defend the view that the Bible, inspired by God, isGod's self-revelation in a direct way, others, have argued that God's self-revelation is to be found primarily in divine action or in the person of Jesus ...
PaperbackJonathan Edwards and the Ministry of the Word
A Model of Faith and Thought
by Douglas A. Sweeney
Jonathan Edwards has been recognized as the most influential evangelical theologian of all time. Before his death at the age of fifty-four, he had sparked a new movement of Reformed evangelicals who played a major role in fueling the rise of modern missions, preaching revivals far and wide, and wielding the cutting edge of American theology. He has never gone out of print, and Christians today continue ...
PaperbackPresence-Centered Youth Ministry
Guiding Students into Spiritual Formation
by Mike King
How many programs does it take to change a youth group?That question has bothered youth workers for decades, and the cracks in its logic are beginning to show. In place of the contrived, artificial mechanisms employed so widely in modern youth outreach and discipleship, Mike King proposes a ministry centered in the presence of God.Young people encounter Christ not in the flash and pop of arena ministry, ...
PaperbackSeeing Through Cynicism
A Reconsideration of the Power of Suspicion
by Dick Keyes
We live in a cynical age. Cynicism is in the air we breathe; it is a cultural norm; it is the default setting and lens through which many of us view the world. Why is cynicism so pervasive? What does it promise? How does it work? And what does itdeliver? In this thorough, interdisciplinary exploration of cynicism, Dick Keyes probes the intellectual and cultural underpinnings of cynicism in its modern ...
