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  • Between Allah & Jesus: What Christians Can Learn from Muslims, By Peter Kreeft
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    Between Allah & Jesus

    What Christians Can Learn from Muslims

    by Peter Kreeft

    What would happen if Christians and a Muslim at a university talked and disagreed, but really tried to understand each other? What would they learn?That is the intriguing question Peter Kreeft seeks to answer in these imaginative conversations atBoston College. An articulate and engaging Muslim student named 'Isa challenges the Christian students and professors he meets on issues ranging from prayer ...

  • The Art of Lent: A Painting a Day from Ash Wednesday to Easter, By Sister Wendy Beckett
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    The Art of Lent

    A Painting a Day from Ash Wednesday to Easter

    by Sister Wendy Beckett

    A Visual and Spiritual Companion for Lent

    This delightful book describes and interprets a series of forty full-color paintings for each day of Lent. Artists often address subjects that our culture seeks to avoid, and the brilliant and perceptive reflections from nun and art historian Sister Wendy Beckett will help you to read these paintings with a more discerning eye and ...

    Number of Studies: 40

  • The Pursuit of God in the Company of Friends, By Richard C. Lamb Jr.
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    The Pursuit of God in the Company of Friends

    by Richard C. Lamb

    You were not meant to walk alone.Many of us struggle to forge deep relationships with God and other people. Modern society has isolated us as rugged individuals, deceiving us into thinking we can make it through life on our own. Individualism haslikewise shaped the pattern of Christian discipleship, privatizing faith and separating us from fellow believers.But we come to know God best when others ...

  • In a time when so many leaders are faltering, the question of how to remain faithful for the long haul has never been more pressing. Peter Greer and Jill Heisey, authors of How Leaders Lose Their Way, sought to understand what causes leaders to lose their way and what sets apart those who remain steadfast. Their research points to five essential practices that enable leaders to stay grounded, mission true, and faithful for a lifetime.

  • Loving the Church . . . Blessing the Nations: Pursuing the Role of Local Churches in Global Mission, By George Miley
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    Loving the Church . . . Blessing the Nations

    Pursuing the Role of Local Churches in Global Mission

    by George Miley

    Rediscovering the role God designed for the church in mission is a critical issue facing the missions movement today. That role is to glorify God by planting churches among every tongue, tribe, and nation. Planting churches amid unreached peoplesis a complex process. It calls forth every ministry gift and the contribution of every believer. Imagine a businessman, a construction worker, a schoolteacher, ...

  • Faithful Presence: Seven Disciplines That Shape the Church for Mission, By David E. Fitch
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    Faithful Presence

    Seven Disciplines That Shape the Church for Mission

    by David E. Fitch

    • Missio Alliance Essential Reading List of 2016

    In our quest to renew the church, Christians have walked through seeker-friendly, emergent, missional, and other movements to develop new expressions of the body of Christ. Now in the post-Christian world in North America we're asking the question again: Is there a way to be the church that engages the world, not by judgment nor accommodation ...

  • The 1662 Book of Common Prayer: International Edition, Edited by Samuel L. Bray and Drew Nathaniel Keane
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    The 1662 Book of Common Prayer

    International Edition

    Edited by Samuel L Bray and Drew Keane

    A Prayerbook for All Christians and All Nations

    The Book of Common Prayer (1662) is one of the most beloved liturgical texts in the Christian church, and remains a definitive expression of Anglican identitytoday. It is still widely used around the world, in public worship and private devotion, and is revered for both its linguistic and theological ...

  • Bored with God: How Parents, Youth Leaders and Teachers Can Overcome Student Apathy, By Sean Dunn
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    Bored with God

    How Parents, Youth Leaders and Teachers Can Overcome Student Apathy

    by Sean Dunn

    You know that part of the Old Testament where the priest finds a suspicious sore on your arm and shaves a ring around it? A week later the priest takes another look to see if the skin has gotten better or if the sore has spread. If it's spreading,the priest knows you've got a big problem on your hands. Like most diseases, apathy surfaces in observable symptoms that are frustrating to its victims ...

  • Scripture by Heart: Devotional Practices for Memorizing God's Word, By Joshua Choonmin Kang Scripture by Heart: Devotional Practices for Memorizing God's Word, By Joshua Choonmin Kang
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    Scripture by Heart

    Devotional Practices for Memorizing God's Word

    by Joshua Choonmin Kang
    Foreword by Dallas Willard

    Why memorize the Bible?In our information-saturated society, with so many details to take in, the idea of memorizing Scripture can seem overwhelming--like one more task on a checklist. But pastor Joshua Choonmin Kang has discovered what happens when we do spend time memorizing God's Word: we grasp a larger, truer picture of God. We more closely and more often imitate Christ. We worship ...

  • Christ-Shaped Character: Choosing Love, Faith and Hope, By Helen Cepero Christ-Shaped Character: Choosing Love, Faith and Hope, By Helen Cepero
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    Christ-Shaped Character

    Choosing Love, Faith and Hope

    by Helen Cepero

    Honorable Mention for Classic Christian Spirituality, from Byron Borger, Hearts and Minds Bookstore

    "Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love."—1 Corinthians 13:13

    What arethe pathways that lead us to God? This is a book about what happens when we find those pathways. You will discover the values and virtues that grow out ...