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PaperbackAfter Shock
Searching for Honest Faith When Your World Is Shaken
by Kent Annan
In the wake of a historic earthquake in the fragile country of Haiti, Kent Annan considers suffering--from the epic to the everyday--as a problem for faith. Less than two weeks after the release of Kent's book about his work with Haiti Partners, he heard the news.
Friends trapped under the rubble of buildings. Friends sprinting across the city looking for family. Churches--including one Kent ...
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Tara Beth Leach
Tara Beth Leach (MDiv, Northern Seminary) is a pastor, author, and speaker. The senior pastor at Good Shepherd Church (Naperville, Illinois), she has also served communities in the Chicago suburbs as well as Southern California. As the author of Emboldened, Radiant Church, and Forty Days on Being a Six, the cofounder of Propel Ecclesia, and cohost of The Pastor's Table podcast, Tara Beth writes and speaks widely about women in ministry and church leadership. She hastwo beautiful and rambunctious sons and has been married to the love of her life, Jeff, since 2006.
PaperbackThe Steward Leader
Transforming People, Organizations and Communities
by R. Scott Rodin
Coach. Entrepreneur. Mentor. Executive. Servant. Visionary. Everyone has a different idea of what a leader should be. How can any one person be everything? Scott Rodin brings unity and clarity to this confusing, demanding picture of leadership. Heoffers a comprehensive model that brings together a biblical understanding of holistic stewardship with the best in leadership studies.Whether in churches, ...
PaperbackDeep Mentoring
Guiding Others on Their Leadership Journey
by Randy D. Reese and Robert Loane
Foreword by Eugene H Peterson"God is in the business of raising up leaders." —J. Robert (Bobby) ClintonWhen good leaders are needed, when the work is urgent, our immediate reaction is to enlist new leaders. Instead we are called to invest in new leaders.Goodleaders are developed in and through slow, deep mentoring. To think otherwise is to embrace the myth of the quick fix. We proceed, instead, by paying careful ...
PaperbackCulture Care
Reconnecting with Beauty for Our Common Life
by Makoto Fujimura
Foreword by Mark LabbertonOutreach Magazine Resource of the Year
Christianity Today's Book of the Year Award of Merit"Culture is not a territory to be won or lost but a resource we are called to steward with care. Culture is a garden to be cultivated."
Many bemoan the decay of culture. But we all have a responsibility to care for culture, to nurture it ...
PaperbackNailing It
Why Successful Leadership Demands Suffering and Surrender
by Nicole Massie Martin
Foreword by Carey NieuwhofOutreach Resource of the Year
Nailing Outdated Leadership Practices to the Cross
Traditional leadership teachings and styles haven't changed much in years. But the world is changing and so are Christian leaders—women need room for their natural gifts to shine and people of color needed space to elevate the values they bring into their roles. ...
PaperbackTwelve Lies That Hold America Captive
And the Truth That Sets Us Free
by Jonathan P Walton
Foreword by Greg Jao"America is a Christian nation.""All men are created equal.""We are the land of the free and the home of the brave."Except when we're not. These commonly held ideas break down in the light of hard realities, the study of Scripture, and faithful Christian witness. The president is not the Messiah, the Constitution is not the Bible, and the United States is not a city on a hill or ...
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 ...
PaperbackLive in the Light
Radiating the Hope of the Letters of John—A 6-Week Bible Study with Video Access
IVP Bible Study Experience
by Tara Beth Leach
We are in a season of church meltdown.
The apostle John—the beloved disciple and the author of the Gospel by the same name—wrote letters to churches caught in a turbulent season of leadership failures, divisions over interpretation and practice, church splits, and even a powerful leader stirring up dissent. Sound familiar? It seems as though the church is melting under an ...
Number of Studies: 6
HardbackLuke
Volume 3
Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture
Edited by Arthur Just
General Editor Thomas C. OdenFor the church fathers the Gospels did not serve as resources for individual analysis and academic study. They were read and heard and interpreted within the worshiping community. They served as sources for pastoral counsel and admonition for those who were committed to the Way. Although Matthew and John were generally the preferred Gospels, Luke, because of his particular interests and unique contributions, ...
