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  • The Soul of Hip Hop: Rims, Timbs and a Cultural Theology, By Daniel White Hodge
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    The Soul of Hip Hop

    Rims, Timbs and a Cultural Theology

    by Daniel White Hodge

    What is Hip Hop?

    Hip hop speaks in a voice that is sometimes gruff, sometimes enraged, sometimes despairing, sometimes hopeful.

    Hip hop is the voice of forgotten streets laying claim to the high life of rims and timbs and threads and bling.

    Hip hop speaks in the muddled language of would-be prophets--mocking the architects of the status quo and stumbling in the dark toward a blurred ...

  • Church for the Fatherless: A Ministry Model for Society's Most Pressing Problem, By Mark E. Strong Church for the Fatherless: A Ministry Model for Society's Most Pressing Problem, By Mark E. Strong
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    Church for the Fatherless

    A Ministry Model for Society's Most Pressing Problem

    by Mark E. Strong

    Fatherlessness has reached epidemic levels.Forty percent of children in the U.S. will go to bed tonight in a home without a father. Studies show that people without fathers are at much higher risk for low educational performance, drug abuse, crimeand poverty.Fatherlessness is rampant in our churches as well. When planting his church, Mark Strong realized that fifteen of twenty core leaders, whether ...

  • Spiritual Practices of Jesus: Learning Simplicity, Humility, and Prayer with Luke's Earliest Readers, By Catherine J. Wright
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    Spiritual Practices of Jesus

    Learning Simplicity, Humility, and Prayer with Luke's Earliest Readers

    by Catherine J. Wright

    Luke's Gospel was written to transform. In its original context, readers would have seen a portrait of Jesus as an ideal teacher and king, able to shape his people through exemplary leadership. They would have come to the Gospel expecting to be changed for God's purposes through the imitation of Jesus' lifestyle and adoption of his teaching. When today's readers approach the text ...

  • I Once Was Lost: What Postmodern Skeptics Taught Us About Their Path to Jesus, By Don Everts and Doug Schaupp
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    I Once Was Lost

    What Postmodern Skeptics Taught Us About Their Path to Jesus

    by Don Everts and Doug Schaupp

    How do people come to Jesus in today's postmodern culture? Not by a mechanical, linear process of cookie cutter conversions. Nor by a nebulous spiritual wandering that never culminates in decision and commitment. Over the last decade, Don Everts and Doug Schaupp have listened to the stories of two thousand postmodern people who have come to follow Jesus. While their stories are diverse and varied, ...

  • Giving Church Another Chance: Finding New Meaning in Spiritual Practices, By Todd D. Hunter Giving Church Another Chance: Finding New Meaning in Spiritual Practices, By Todd D. Hunter
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    Giving Church Another Chance

    Finding New Meaning in Spiritual Practices

    by Todd D. Hunter
    Foreword by Scot McKnight

    • 2011 Golden Canon Leadership Book Award winner

    Everybody wants to be spiritual. But nobody wants to be religious. Everybody is looking for a rich spiritual life. But nobody is looking to church.

    As a pastor, Todd Hunter found himself disillusioned, burned out and needing to drop out of traditional forms of church. He experimented with house churches and other options ...