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  • Just How Married Do You Want to Be?: Practicing Oneness in Marriage, By Jim Sumner and Sarah Sumner
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    Just How Married Do You Want to Be?

    Practicing Oneness in Marriage

    by Jim Sumner and Sarah Sumner

    Men Are from Strip Clubs. Women Are from Seminary. Jim and Sarah Sumner met at church. Jim, a new Christian and former male stripper, impressed Sarah with his desire to grow in his faith and to see people meet the God he had met. Sarah, a Ph.D. in theology and a division leader in evangelism, impressed Jim with her depth of knowledge and heart for discipleship. Their mutual admiration slowly turned ...

  • Language for God in Patristic Tradition: Wrestling with Biblical Anthropomorphism, By Mark Sheridan
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    Language for God in Patristic Tradition

    Wrestling with Biblical Anthropomorphism

    by Mark Sheridan

    Criticism of myth in the Bible is not a modern problem. Its roots go back to the earliest Christian theologians, and before them, to ancient Greek and Jewish thinkers. The dilemma posed by texts that ascribe human characteristics and emotions to the divine is a perennial problem, and we have much to learn from the ancient attempts to address it. Mark Sheridan provides a theological and historical ...

  • The Chosen People: Election, Paul and Second Temple Judaism, By A. Chadwick Thornhill
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    The Chosen People

    Election, Paul and Second Temple Judaism

    by A. Chadwick Thornhill

    One of the central touchstones of Second Temple Judaism is election. The Jews considered themselves a people set apart for God?s special purpose. So it is not surprising that this concept plays such an important role in Pauline theology. In this careful and provocative study, Chad Thornhill considers how Second Temple understandings of election influenced key Pauline texts. Thornhill seeks to establish ...

  • Rescuing the Gospel from the Cowboys: A Native American Expression of the Jesus Way, By Richard Twiss
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    Rescuing the Gospel from the Cowboys

    A Native American Expression of the Jesus Way

    by Richard Twiss

    Missio Alliance Essential Reading List
    One of Seedbed's 10 Notable Books

    The gospel of Jesus has not always been good news for Native Americans.

    The history of North America is marred by atrocities committed against Native peoples. Indigenous cultures were erased in the name of Christianity. As a result, to this day few Native Americans are followers ...

  • Organizational Leadership: Foundations and Practices for Christians, Edited by Jack Burns and John R. Shoup and Donald C. Simmons Jr.
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    Organizational Leadership

    Foundations and Practices for Christians

    Edited by Jack Burns, John R. Shoup, and Donald C. Simmons Jr.

    Kingdom leadership does not begin and end at the church door. Christians are called to conduct leadership in government, commerce, schools, neighborhoods, families, para-church ministries and a myriad other contexts. God has given us many gifts, and our responsibility is to be stewards of those gifts, and use them to do the King?s work. In that context, this comprehensive text explores key ...

  • The Self-Aware Leader: Discovering Your Blind Spots to Reach Your Ministry Potential, By Terry Linhart
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    The Self-Aware Leader

    Discovering Your Blind Spots to Reach Your Ministry Potential

    by Terry Linhart
    Foreword by Carey Nieuwhof

    Parish Clergy - Top Ten Books

    Effective ministry begins here.

    You've studied what you think you need to know before entering a career in ministry. Is there anything that is more important than knowing about hermeneutics, homiletics, theology, exegesis, and everything else you have likely learned in seminary and church ministry so far?

    Yes, there ...

  • Incarnate: The Body of Christ in an Age of Disengagement, By Michael Frost
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    Incarnate

    The Body of Christ in an Age of Disengagement

    Forge Partnership Books

    by Michael Frost

    • 12th Annual Outreach Resource of the Year Recommendation (Missional Church)
    • 2014 Best Book of Missional Theology, from Byron Borger, Hearts and Minds Bookstore

    The story of Christianity is a story of incarnation—God taking on flesh and dwelling among the people he created. God appointing and sending people as his body, his hands and feet. Disciples ...

  • Shades of Light: A Novel, By Sharon Garlough Brown
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    Shades of Light

    A Novel

    by Sharon Garlough Brown

    "I was desperate. . . . I couldn't turn off the dark thoughts, no matter how hard I tried or how much I prayed. And then I spent a whole weekend in bed, and the crying wouldn't stop, and I got really scared. I've had bouts with depression before—it's kind of a cloud I've learned to live with—but this time was different. I felt like I was going under, like I'd never feel hopeful ...

  • Patron Saints for Postmoderns: Ten from the Past Who Speak to Our Future, By Chris R. Armstrong
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    Patron Saints for Postmoderns

    Ten from the Past Who Speak to Our Future

    by Chris R. Armstrong

    Are you feeling discouraged in your efforts to reflect Christ each day in our broken world? Does it feel lonely? Too difficult? Too overwhelming? The saints can help you. Especially the ones whose stories Chris Armstrong tells here, because he's chosen them for the ways they've inspired him and deepened his own faith. A professor of church history, Armstrong provides rich portraits of ten people ...