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As Christians, we are called to love the stranger in our midst, but how does that translate to our day and age? How can we understand God's heart for immigrants and refugees today? Hear stories of displaced peoples, grow your thinking on immigration on the global stage, and more with these books from IVP about immigration, refugee crises, and God's heart for displaced peoples here and around the globe.
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paperbackThe Message of Ezekiel
A New Heart and a New Spirit
The Bible Speaks Today Series
by Christopher J. H. Wright
Christopher J. H. Wright masterfully opens our eyes to see and understand the message of Ezekiel. Ezekiel's vision of the glory of God--its departure and return--is first set within Israel's history and then in the culmination of God's promises in Christ. Embedded in the pattern of the strange, the bizarre and the wonderful is a word that still speaks to God's people today.
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paperbackStanding with the Vulnerable
A Curriculum for Transforming Lives and Communities
by Gil Odendaal
The world has needs. But God is greater than those needs, and he works through his people to accomplish healing and transformation. This ten-session curriculum from World Relief is designed to mobilize the church to engage the great causes of our day, stand with the vulnerable and meet the needs of our neighbors as Jesus did.
Number of Studies: 10
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paperbackDoubting
Growing Through the Uncertainties of Faith
by Alister McGrath
Foreword by Ravi ZachariasWe are taught to doubt but commanded to believe. Somehow we think that admitting to doubt is tantamount to insulting God. But doubt is not a sign of spiritual weakness--rather it's an indication of spiritual growing pains, says Alister McGrath. He explores the origin and nature of doubt and the specific doubts that often plague Christians in a postmodern culture.
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paperbackStrangers Next Door
Immigration, Migration and Mission
by J. D. Payne
Christians in the West are living among some of the least-reached people groups in the world and have the unprecedented opportunity to share the gospel with them. Here J. D. Payne introduces the phenomenon of human migration to the West and discusses how the Western church ought to respond.
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paperbackMessy Church
Fresh Ideas for Building a Christ-Centered Community
Messy Church Series
by Lucy Moore and Jane Leadbetter
We like the idea of community, but where do we start? This complete church resource brings together people of all ages and stages of faith, allowing them to experience a creative and fun-filled Christian community. Using creativity, celebration, and hospitality, this fifteen-session tool helps you create a unique, come-as-you-are church experience.
Number of Studies: 15
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Jean Vanier
Jean Vanier (1928–2019) is the founder of L'Arche, an international network of communities where people with and without intellectual disabilities experience life together as fellow human beings who share a mutuality of care and need. Today over 147 L'Arche communities exist in thirty-five countries on five continents. Vanier's books include Living Gently in a Violent World, Life's Great Questions, Community and Growth, Becoming Human, From Brokenness to Community, and Befriending the Stranger. He won the Templeton Prize in 2015.
Read the tribute to Vanier's life and work from Christianity Today.
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paperbackThe Message of Ezekiel
The Bible Speaks Today Series
by Christopher J. H. Wright
Christopher Wright opens our eyes to see and understand the message of Ezekiel. Ezekiel's vision of the glory of God—its departure and return—is set first within Israel's history and then in the culmination of God's promises in Christ. Embedded in the pattern of the strange and the wonderful is a word that still speaks to God's people today.
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paperbackThe Way of Belonging
Reimagining Who We Are and How We Relate
by Sarah E. Westfall
Foreword by Lore Ferguson WilbertWhat if belonging isn't something to attain, but someone to become? Sarah E. Westfall takes our longing to belong as an invitation to embrace and extend God's love. Teaching a posture of welcome in the way of the Father, she guides us toward a deep connection where our humanity draws us closer to people and envelops us in the heart of God.
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paperbackDynamic Diversity
Bridging Class, Age, Race and Gender in the Church
by Bruce Milne
It is time to revisit the central New Testament claim that in Jesus Christ a new quality of human relationship is possible. Bruce Milne builds on this claim to contend that all Christian congregations are called to be centers of reconciliation, where the principal differences separating human beings are overcome through the presence of God's Holy Spirit.
