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  • Praying: Finding Our Way Through Duty to Delight, By J. I. Packer and Carolyn Nystrom
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    Praying

    Finding Our Way Through Duty to Delight

    by J. I. Packer and Carolyn Nystrom

    Have you ever daydreamed when trying to listen to God, or stumbled when speaking to him? In real prayer, head, heart, and hands go together. This book from J. I. Packer and Carolyn Nystrom leads us through different moods of praying, challenging and inspiring us to pray by pointing us to a clearer realization of God and his character.

  • The Way of Belonging: Reimagining Who We Are and How We Relate, By Sarah E. Westfall
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    The Way of Belonging

    Reimagining Who We Are and How We Relate

    by Sarah E. Westfall
    Foreword by Lore Ferguson Wilbert

    What 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.

  • A Subversive Gospel: Flannery O'Connor and the Reimagining of Beauty, Goodness, and Truth, By Michael Mears Bruner
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    A Subversive Gospel

    Flannery O'Connor and the Reimagining of Beauty, Goodness, and Truth

    Studies in Theology and the Arts Series

    by Michael Mears Bruner

    The good news of Jesus Christ is a subversive gospel, and following Jesus is a subversive act. Exploring the theological aesthetic of American author Flannery O'Connor, Michael Bruner argues that her fiction reveals what discipleship to Jesus Christ entails by subverting the traditional understandings of beauty, truth, and goodness.

  • Christian Apologetics: A Comprehensive Case for Biblical Faith, By Douglas Groothuis
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    Christian Apologetics

    A Comprehensive Case for Biblical Faith

    by Douglas Groothuis

    The Christian faith offers people hope. But how can we know that Christianity is true? How can Christians confidently present their beliefs in the face of doubts and competing views? In this second edition of a landmark apologetics text, Douglas Groothuis makes a clear and rigorous case for Christian theism, addressing the most common questions and objections raised regarding Christianity.

  • Contours of the Kuyperian Tradition: A Systematic Introduction, By Craig G. Bartholomew
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    Contours of the Kuyperian Tradition

    A Systematic Introduction

    by Craig G. Bartholomew

    Abraham Kuyper was a remarkable figure in the modern age: pastor, theologian, politician, journalist, and educator. His writings launched what is known as Dutch neo-Calvinism. Widely known but little read, Kuyper is now receiving the global recognition that his influential thought deserves in this introduction by Craig Bartholomew.

  • Called to Be Saints: An Invitation to Christian Maturity, By Gordon T. Smith
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    Called to Be Saints

    An Invitation to Christian Maturity

    by Gordon T. Smith

    Theologies of justification are too numerous to count. In this book, Gordon Smith synthesizes a lifetime of writing on calling, conversion, discernment and spiritual formation in a comprehensive and compelling theology of sanctification. Smith presents holiness in its christological, sapiential, vocational, social and emotional dimensions.

  • Restoring Beauty: The Good, the True, and the Beautiful in the Writings of C.S. Lewis, By Louis Markos
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    Restoring Beauty

    The Good, the True, and the Beautiful in the Writings of C.S. Lewis

    by Louis Markos

    Louis Markos analyzes C. S. Lewis's eleven novels and many nonfiction works showing how the twin concepts of beauty and truth continually led Lewis back to God.

  • Cross-Cultural Partnerships: Navigating the Complexities of Money and Mission, By Mary T. Lederleitner
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    Cross-Cultural Partnerships

    Navigating the Complexities of Money and Mission

    by Mary T. Lederleitner
    Foreword by Duane Elmer

    Cross-cultural specialist Mary Lederleitner brings missiological and financial expertise to explain how global mission efforts can be funded with integrity, mutuality and transparency. Bringing together social science research, biblical principles and on-the-ground examples, she presents best practices for handling funding and finance.

  • Toward a Prophetic Youth Ministry: Theory and Praxis in Urban Context, By Fernando Arzola Jr.
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    Toward a Prophetic Youth Ministry

    Theory and Praxis in Urban Context

    by Fernando Arzola Jr.

    Fernando Arzola Jr. addresses the gap in the literature of youth ministry resources conceived and realized in an urban setting. He brings together three dominant paradigms--traditional, liberal and activist--to create an approach that is informed by Scripture and the contemporary realities of adolescent development in an urban setting.

  • Basic Christian Leadership: Biblical Models of Church, Gospel and Ministry, By John Stott
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    Basic Christian Leadership

    Biblical Models of Church, Gospel and Ministry

    by John Stott

    Leadership today is no easy task. Too often our models of leadership are shaped more by culture than by Christ. John Stott rejects popular models of leadership and holds up instead the servant leadership exemplified by Paul in his ministry to the church in Corinth. Stott reassures us that God is at work even in the midst of human weakness.