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  • The Danger of Raising Nice Kids: Preparing Our Children to Change Their World, By Timothy Smith
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    The Danger of Raising Nice Kids

    Preparing Our Children to Change Their World

    by Timothy Smith
    Foreword by Tim Kimmel

    Nice is not enough.We are raising a generation of "nice" kids. Nice kids are well behaved and look good on the outside, but they often lack courageous character inside. Offering practical wisdom gleaned from his experience as a parent and family coach, Tim Smith helps you move your kids from simply polite to truly compassionate. He targets nine key qualities children need but often ...

  • Movies Are Prayers: How Films Voice Our Deepest Longings, By Josh Larsen
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    Movies Are Prayers

    How Films Voice Our Deepest Longings

    by Josh Larsen
    Foreword by Matt Zoller Seitz

    "Movies are our way of telling God what we think about this world and our place in it. . . . Movies can be many things: escapist experiences, historical artifacts, business ventures, and artistic expressions, to name a few. I'd like to suggest that they can also be prayers."Movies do more than tell a good story. They are expressions of raw emotion, naked vulnerability, and unbridled ...

  • Freely Sober: Rethinking Alcohol Through the Lens of Faith, By Ericka Andersen
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    Freely Sober

    Rethinking Alcohol Through the Lens of Faith

    by Ericka Andersen

    "Andersen offers important insights on how women’s relationships with alcohol are shifting as they grapple with increased pressures at home and work, and her approach wisely utilizes faith as a recovery tool without positioning it as a cure-all... Women of faith will be empowered." —Publishers Weekly Review, September 2025

    Get Honest about Your Relationship with Alcohol

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  • Socially Awkward Evangelism: Overcoming Fears in Sharing the Gospel, By Mark R. Teasdale
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    Socially Awkward Evangelism

    Overcoming Fears in Sharing the Gospel

    by Mark R. Teasdale

    Move Past Anxiety and Into Confident Witness

    Are fear and anxiety holding you back from sharing your faith? Does the thought of evangelism make you uneasy or leave you concerned about making others uncomfortable? The biggest barrier to evangelism, Mark Teasdale argues, is not lack of training or information—it’s fear.

    To overcome this fear, we must engage not just ...

  • Isaiah and the Worry Pack: Learning to Trust God with All Our Fears, By Ruth Goring
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    Isaiah and the Worry Pack

    Learning to Trust God with All Our Fear and Anxiety

    by Ruth Goring
    Illustrated by Pamela C Rice

    Help Children Discover God’s Peace in Worry

    It's bedtime again, but Isaiah can't sleep. It seems he's got too many things on his mind: things he’s worried about.

    Isaiah is a thoughtful boy who loveshis family—but sometimes, his worries feel too heavy to carry. Thoughts of his family’s safety and his own fears weigh on him like heavy blocks. So, one ...

  • Forsaken: The Trinity and the Cross, and Why It Matters, By Thomas H. McCall
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    Forsaken

    The Trinity and the Cross, and Why It Matters

    by Thomas H. McCall

    "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"

    How should a Christian interpret this passage? What implications does the cross have for the trinitarian theology? Did the Father kill the Son?

    Theologian Thomas McCall presents a trinitarian reading of Christ's darkest moment--the moment of his prayer to his heavenly Father from the cross. McCall revisits the biblical texts ...

  • The Singer Trilogy: The Mythic Retelling of the Story of the New Testament, By Calvin Miller
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    The Singer Trilogy

    The Mythic Retelling of the Story of the New Testament

    by Calvin Miller

    "... I found in a university bookstore a trilogy of books that impacted my life so deeply that—twenty-five years later—I find myself still quoting lines and discussing concepts of truth from them. Literature like The Singer Trilogy will live—like Milton's Paradise Lost and James Weldon Johnson's God's Trombones. The Singer must never be allowed to be out of print. Every generation needs to read ...

  • Steward Leadership in the Nonprofit Organization, By Kent R. Wilson
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    Steward 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 ...

  • Children's Ministry in the Way of Jesus, By David M. Csinos and Ivy Beckwith
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    Children's Ministry in the Way of Jesus

    by David M Csinos and Ivy Beckwith
    Foreword by John H. Westerhoff III

    Attract 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 ...

  • Single, Just Because: A Pilgrimage into Holy Aloneness, By Bridget Gee
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    Single, Just Because

    A Pilgrimage into Holy Aloneness

    by Bridget Patricia Catherine Gee

    "Why are you single?"

    "Just because."

    However we answer that question, what's more important than why we are single is how we live as singles. Regardless of our relationship status, all of us are called to a life of vital discipleship. And walking with God can reshape singleness into a pilgrimage of transformation.

    Pilgrim and ...