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paperbackThe Adventure
Putting Energy into Your Walk with God
by Gerald L. Sittser
In this discipleship classic, Jerry Sittser uses memorable stories to illustrate how a simple effort to understand discipleship as an adventure can create a paradigm shift in your understanding of the Christian life.
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The Martin Institute and Dallas Willard Center (MIDWC) created the Annual Book Award Program in 2015 to help emphasize the enduring intellectual legacy of Dallas Willard by recognizing original written work sharing his vision.
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Christianity Today selects books that are most likely to shape evangelical life, thought, and culture. Award winners are selected from a variety of categories including: apologetics/evangelism, Biblical studies, Bible and Devotional, Children, Christian Living/Spiritual Formation, the Church/pastoral leadership, culture and the arts, fiction, history/biography, marriage and family, and missions/the global Church.
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paperbackGod in a Brothel
An Undercover Journey into Sex Trafficking and Rescue
by Daniel Walker
Undercover investigator Daniel Walker recounts how he infiltrated the multi-billion-dollar global sex industry in order to liberate women and children from slavery. The vivid firsthand accounts trace his steps through a diffuse criminal underground stretching from Southeast Asia to Las Vegas, Nevada.
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paperbackBringing Home the Prodigals
by Rob Parsons
Written for anyone who cries for a prodigal to return, whether daughter, son, sister, brother, spouse, or friend.
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paperbackExperiencing Healing Prayer
How God Turns Our Hurts into Wholeness
by Rick Richardson
Foreword by Richard PeaceRick Richardson shows that God can heal your deepest hurts, wounds and areas of sin. And he helps you to receive healing from God through prayer, learned and practiced in community.
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Bill Donahue
Bill Donahue (PhD, University of North Texas) is founder and lead strategist for The Communitas Network, which coaches and equips catalytic leaders to build transformational teams for the purpose of mobilizing missional communities. He also serves as an adjunct teacher at a number of seminaries, training both master's and doctoral students in church leadership and small group ministry. He previously served as executive director of small group ministries for the Willow Creek Association (WCA), where he developed leadership strategies and training events for over 2500 volunteers. He has also worked as an associate pastor in Texas and Pennsylvania, and at Proctor & Gamble and PNC Financial Corporation. He is the author of Leading Life-Changing Small Groups and coauthor of Building a Church of Small Groups, The 7 Deadly Sins of Small Group Ministry, and Walking the Small Group Tightrope (all with Russ Robinson). With Greg Bowman he is the author of Coaching Life-Changing Leaders. He has also written In the Company of Jesus and the Jesus 101 small group study series (with Keri Wyatt Kent).
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Marjean Brooks
Marjean Brooks is a writer based in Birmingham, Alabama. She is a member of St. Peter's Anglican Church, where she met and connected with reverend Glandion Carney and his wife, Marion, eventually being asked to partner with him in writing The Way of Grace, his spiritual story of walking through the devastation of Parkinson's disease. She was honored for her work on this book as Writer of the Year at the Write-to-Publish Conference in 2015. Writing poetry, stories, and articles on faith have been a lifelong interest and pursuit for Brooks, who has published poems, devotionals, and articles in many ministry publications including Briarwood Presbyterian Church, Trinity Counseling, and Wales Goebel Ministry. She has written personal memoir pieces in a monthly column in Senior Living newspaper and she serves on the board of InSpero, an organization that seeks to inspire the creative community in Birmingham. For twenty-five years Brooks has been leading hundreds of women in in-depth Bible study (mostly through Precept Ministries) and uses her writings to supplement the courses. Her hope is to combine her teaching/writing skills and her life experiences with divorce, being a single mom while pursuing a teaching career, re-marrying and gaining three step-children, and caring for elderly parents in a way that can impact a greater audience and illuminate spiritual truth.
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paperbackBecoming Dallas Willard
The Formation of a Philosopher, Teacher, and Christ Follower
by Gary W. Moon
Foreword by Richard J. Foster
Afterword by John OrtbergDallas Willard was a mentor to hundreds of pastors, philosophers, and average churchgoers. In this biography from Gary W. Moon, we read about the development of Willard's personal character, philosophical writing, and spiritual teaching, and how he has inspired some of the most influential books on spirituality of the last generation.
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Peter Heltzel
Peter Heltzel (PhD, Boston University) is Associate Professor of Theology and Director of the Micah Institute at New York Theological Seminary. He is the author of Resurrection City: A Theology of Improvisation and Jesus and Justice: Evangelicals, Race and American Politics. In addition to writing for USA Today, Books & Culture, and Sojourners, Heltzel has published numerous articles in journals, such as Political Theology, Princeton Theological Review, and Scottish Journal of Theology. An ordained minister in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), he serves as Assistant Pastor of Evangelism at Park Avenue Christian Church. Heltzel has a deep commitment to the power of words and music, to social justice, and to a global movement of radical change and collective activism. This passion was honored when he was awarded the 2014 Nelson Mandela Community Activist Award for his ongoing work to make a difference in New York City. Heltzel serves as director of the Micah Institute, which seeks to educate New York City faith leaders on issues of social and economic justice, to equip leaders to serve as change agents for social transformation and movement-building, and to act as a powerful coalition of organizers and advocates transforming New York City. He also serves on the Metro Commission on the Ministry and the Anti-Racism/Pro-Reconciliation Team of the Northeastern Region, Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). Heltzel lives in Harlem with his wife, mezzo-soprano Sarah Heltzel.
