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HardbackAttentive Church Leadership
Listening and Leading in a World We've Never Known
by Kevin Graham Ford and Jim Singleton
Foreword by Ed StetzerThe world has changed. The changes around us present daunting challenges to the church, and we minister in places we have never been in before. But there are no one-size-fits-all solutions because every church needs to attend to its specific situation and calling. We need to listen for not only what to do but also what not to do. In a world screaming in a thousand directions for ...
PaperbackReciprocal Church
Becoming a Community Where Faith Flourishes Beyond High School
by Sharon Galgay Ketcham
The church faces an unprecedented loss of rising generations.Young adults who were active and engaged in the local church are more frequently leaving the community behind after high school. What can we do? Responding to these concerning statistics, Sharon Galgay Ketcham reflects theologically on the church community and its role in forming faith. She exposes problems in the way ...
PaperbackPictures at a Theological Exhibition
Scenes of the Church's Worship, Witness and Wisdom
by Kevin J. Vanhoozer
Many Christians are held captive by a picture of the imagination as a purveyor of false images, prone to idolatry. We live in a society fixated on images that have little or no significance. We are surrounded by models of the world that are not intouch with any truth outside of themselves. But we lack the resources to see and imagine things differently.Kevin Vanhoozer calls the church to a more ...
PaperbackIsrael and the Church
The Origins and Effects of Replacement Theology
by Ronald E. Diprose
Modern Israel and its relations with its Arab neighbors has been conspicuously in the daily news ever since World War II. Until that time, the concept of Israel and a continuing Jewish people had been hovering in the distant background of Christian thought and doctrine since the post-apostolic era. In this important work, Dr. Diprose demonstrates the uniqueness of Israel and its special place in ...
PaperbackIntroverts in the Church
Finding Our Place in an Extroverted Culture
by Adam S. McHugh
Foreword by Scot McKnightIntroverts are called and gifted by God. But many churches tend to be extroverted places where introverts are marginalized. Some Christians end up feeling like it's not as faithful to be an introvert.
Adam McHugh shows how introverts can live and minister in ways consistent with their personalities. He explains how introverts and extroverts process information and approach relationships differently ...
PaperbackThe Shape of Christian History
Continuity and Diversity in the Global Church
by Scott W. Sunquist
While understanding history has always been an essential task for God's people, rapid changes within the past two generations of Christianity have challenged many of our assumptions and methods for studying the past. How should thoughtful Christians—and especially historians and missiologists—make sense of global Christianity as an unfolding historical movement?
Scott Sunquist ...
PaperbackLife After Church
God's Call to Disillusioned Christians
by Brian Sanders
Life without church. It's getting easier to imagine.And maybe you already left. A leaver, then. Committed to Jesus, not an institution. Perhaps you've left your church in spirit, remaining in the pew. Outwardly silent. Secretly bored. Ineither case, Brian Sanders has a word for you.Out of his own experience as a leaver, Brian distills the complex problem into two viable options:
- Stay. ...
PaperbackThe African Memory of Mark
Early African Christianity
by Thomas C. Oden
We often regard the author of the Gospel of Mark as an obscure figure about whom we know little. Many would be surprised to learn how much fuller a picture of Mark exists within widespread African tradition, tradition that holds that Mark himselfwas from North Africa, that he founded the church in Alexandria, that he was an eyewitness to the Last Supper and Pentecost, that he was related not only ...
PaperbackTogether for the City
How Collaborative Church Planting Leads to Citywide Movements
by Neil Powell and John James
We need a bigger vision for the city.It's not enough to plant individual churches in isolation from each other. The spiritual need and opportunity of our cities is too big for any one church to meet alone. Pastors Neil Powell andJohn James contend that to truly transform a city, the gospel compels us to create localized, collaborative church planting movements. They share lessons ...
PaperbackWisdom from Babylon
Leadership for the Church in a Secular Age
by Gordon T. Smith
What does it mean to provide leadership for the church in an increasingly secular context? When religion is privatized and secularism reigns in the public square, Christians are often drawn toward either individualist escapism orconstant cultural warfare. But might this context instead offer a fresh invitation for the church to adapt and thrive?
Gordon Smith is passionate ...
