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PaperbackWhere the Cross Meets the Street
What Happens to the Neighborhood When God Is at the Center
by Noel Castellanos
Foreword by John M. Perkins and Wayne GordonMissio Alliance Essential Reading List
The cross means more than we've let it mean.
Proclaiming the gospel and forming the faithful: these are the most practiced disciplines of the evangelical church.As central as these disciplines are, however, they are only part of the story. And as Christian Community Development Association CEO Noel Castellanos has ...
Paperback6 Modern Myths About Christianity & Western Civilization
by Philip J. Sampson
When did you last encounter a myth? Maybe watching a movie, touring a museum or browsing the sci-fi section of your local bookstore? To contemporary men and women, myths seem mere relics of a premodern era--legendary stories of capricious gods, heroic deeds and lost cities. The physical and social anxieties that gave rise to myths have been dealt with more productively in our century by science, ...
PaperbackRedeeming Sex
Naked Conversations About Sexuality and Spirituality
Forge Partnership Books
by Debra Hirsch
Foreword by Gabe LyonsMissio Alliance Essential Reading List
Readers' Choice Award Winner
Seedbed's 10 Notable BooksNothing has exposed the gap between the church and the broader society quite like the cultural argument over sexuality.Relationships, identities, orientations and even seemingly straightforward concepts such as gender have cut battle lines between the church and the world. ...
PaperbackBeyond the Local Church
How Apostolic Movements Can Change the World
by Sam Metcalf
Foreword by Alan Hirsch2016 IVP Readers' Choice Award
Many people have given up on the church. But that doesn't mean that they've given up on God or Christianity. In many cases, it was merely that local church congregations were not the best context for missional people to live out their sense of God's call.
The good news is that God is raising up vibrant movements of Christians ...
PaperbackThe Lord's Supper
Five Views
Spectrum Multiview Book Series
Contributions by Jeffrey Gros, John R. Stephenson, Leanne Van Dyk, Roger E. Olson, and Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen
Edited by Gordon T. SmithLord's Supper. Eucharist. Communion. Sacrament. Ordinance.
While it's the meal that should unite us as followers of Christ, it sometimes appears we can't even agree on what to call it, let alone how we might share a common theological view of its significance. Even if we cannot reach full agreement, how can we better understand one another and this central observance of the ...
PaperbackWorship and the Reality of God
An Evangelical Theology of Real Presence
by John Jefferson Davis
Is God missing from our worship?Obstacles to true worship are not about contemporary or traditional music, electronic gadgetry or seeker sensitivity. Rather it is the habits of mind and heart, conditioned by our surrounding culture, that hinder our faith in the real presence of the transcendent God among his people.Sensing a real need for renewal, John Jefferson Davis offers a theology of worship ...
PaperbackUnceasing Worship
Biblical Perspectives on Worship and the Arts
by Harold M. Best
One of Discerning Reader's Best Books
We are not created to worship. Nor are we created for worship. We are created worshiping.
Too often Christians have only thought of worship in terms of particular musical styles or liturgical formats. But a proper view of worship is far larger than what takes place in churches on Sunday mornings. ...
PaperbackJust Courage
God's Great Expedition for the Restless Christian
by Gary A. Haugen
"There must be more to the Christian life than this--more than church each Sunday and waving to my neighbors and giving some clothes to Goodwill when I go through my closet each spring."These aren't bad things, of course. But they're safeand comfortable and easy. And there's a reason they're not satisfying your desire for something more significant and meaningful--we're created by God for ...
PaperbackSurrender to Love
Discovering the Heart of Christian Spirituality
The Spiritual Journey
by David G. Benner
Foreword by M. Basil PenningtonSurrender to the Only Perfectly Trustworthy Love
In our self-reliant era, most of us recoil from the concept of surrendering to a power or authority outside ourselves. But surrender need not be seen as threatening, especially when the One to whom we surrender is the epitome of goodness and love.
God doesn't want his people to respond to him out of fear or obligation. ...
PaperbackBroken Hallelujahs
Learning to Grieve the Big and Small Losses of Life
by Beth Allen Slevcove
IVP Readers' Choice Award
The losses in our lives are both big and small, and cover a range of experiences. We leave home. We experience physical illness and disabilities. We struggle with vocation and finances. We may longfor a spouse or child. We lose people we love to addiction or illness and death.
All of these losses can build into questions and doubts about faith. ...
