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paperbackWalking Through Deconstruction
How to Be a Companion in a Crisis of Faith
by Ian Harber
Foreword by Gavin OrtlundChristianity Today Book Awards—Apologetics and Evangelism, Award of Merit
The Gospel Coaltion Award of Merit—Christian Living
However you define it, deconstruction is impossible todeny.
"I'm deconstructing my faith." As any pastor can tell you, hearing these words is simply a regular feature of ministry these days. How ...
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paperbackThe Genealogical Adam and Eve
The Surprising Science of Universal Ancestry
by S Joshua Swamidass
Evolutionary science teaches that humans arose as a population, sharing common ancestors with other animals. Most readers of the book of Genesis in the past understood all humans descended from Adam and Eve, a couple specially created by God. These two teachings seem contradictory, but is that necessarily so? In the fractured conversation of human origins, can new insight guide us to solid ground ...
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paperbackThe Pastor as Midwife
Life-Giving Leadership for the Healing of the Church
by Shawna Songer Gaines
Lessons from Midwives for Pastoral Leadership
We find ourselves in a moment in which the church is in great pain. Congregations are dwindling, denominations are fracturing, and church scandals have become all too common. We need a new imagination to capture the hopefulness of God birthing something new in the midst of the pain of the old creation.
In ...
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paperbackSocially 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 ...
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paperbackWhen the Journey Hurts
Finding Meaning in Suffering for Heart, Mind, and Soul
by Kelly M. Kapic, M Elizabeth Lewis Hall, and Jason McMartin
Transform Your Suffering with Tools from Theology, Psychology, and Spiritual Formation
We don’t like pain.
So, we find creative ways to go around it. We try to ignore, minimize, or deny our suffering, but we're stillleft hurting. The twisting and defiling work of sin on this world is overwhelming and shatters our assumptions about ourselves and our place in the world. ...
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paperbackA Woman's Place Is in the Story
Seeing Women in the Biblical Narrative
by Sandra L Glahn
We Misread the Bible When Women Are Left Out
Ignore them, marginalize them, or dismiss them as brief cameos—these have long been common approaches to Christian teaching on the women of the Bible. The result? We miss their significance in the biblical story and, in turn, misunderstand Scripture itself. Scholar Sandra Glahn challenges this pattern, calling readers to recognize ...
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paperbackMaking Room for Leadership
Power, Space and Influence
by MaryKate Morse
Foreword by Leonard SweetYou don't just lead with your voice and your decisions. You lead with your body.The way you take up space in a room, the way you use or don't use your body in group settings, influences others. And all of us hold power to lead inour bodies.Yet, pastor and spiritual director MaryKate Morse contends, most of us are unaware of the ways we do or can use our bodies to influence others. ...
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hardcoverPutting On My Jesus Shirt
Wearing and Sharing God's Love
by Jody Jensen Shaffer
Illustrated by Sara UgolottiSo, chosen by God for this new life of love, dress in the wardrobe God picked out for you: compassion, kindness, humility, quiet strength, discipline. Be even-tempered, content with second place, quick to forgive an offense. Forgive as quickly and completely as the Master forgave you. And regardless of what else you put on, wear love. It's your basic, all-purpose garment. Never be without it. ...
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paperbackResisting Therapy Culture
The Dangers of Pop Psychology and How the Church Can Respond
by Matthew Loftus
Foreword by Alan NobleLet Churches Be Churches and Therapists Be Therapists
We live in an age where "therapy culture" dominates our cultural milieu. Everywhere we look, therapeutic language and psychological concepts are popularized, misapplied,and lose their medical significance. Therapy and psychiatry are good practices, but when people begin to filter everything in life through a therapeutic ...
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caseboundThe Cathedral of Theology
Principles of Christian Dogmatics
Pillars of Christian Dogmatics
by J V Fesko
Series edited by Matthew BarrettLaying the Foundation for a Classical Christian Theology
Good theology requires a firm foundation. But how can we lay a good foundation in our theological work? Moreover, what is theology and how does one do theology?
As the first volume in the Pillars of Christian Dogmatics series, The Cathedral of Theology is a work of prolegomena to establish principles ...
