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caseboundThe Reluctant Witness
Discovering the Delight of Spiritual Conversations
Lutheran Hour Ministries Resources
by Don Everts
Don Everts grew up assuming that spiritual conversations are always painful and awkward. But his surprising—and sometimes embarrassing—stories affirm what Scripture and the latest research reveal: spiritual conversations can actually be a delight. With original research from the Barna Group on spiritual conversations in the digital age, this book offers fresh insights and best practices for how to become eager conversationalists.
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paperbackWho Moved My Neighborhood?
Leading Congregations Through Gentrification and Economic Change
by Mark E. Strong
Foreword by Harold Calvin RayNeighborhoods are moving. While offering opportunities for some, gentrification can be a vastly different experience for long-time residents and neighborhood churches. As a pastor who led his church through its own moved neighborhood in Portland, Mark Strong gives insight to churches that need to heal from the wounds of gentrification and revamp their mission amidst an uncertain future.
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paperbackA Shared Mercy
Karl Barth on Forgiveness and the Church
New Explorations in Theology
by Jon Coutts
Foreword by John WebsterCombining systematic and pastoral theology, Jon Coutts explores what it means to forgive and reconcile in the context of the Christ-confessing community. Both a constructive practical theology and a critical commentary on Barth's theology in Church Dogmatics, this work explains the place and meaning of interpersonal forgiveness in Christ's ongoing ministry of reconciliation.
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paperbackDisabling Leadership
A Practical Theology for the Broken Body of Christ
by Andrew T. Draper, Jody Michele, and Andrea Mae
Churches must both consider the theology of disability and also become places where people with disabilities lead. Moving beyond paternalistic views of disability, this book encompasses cutting-edge theological ethics as well as practical examples of how church leaders and congregants can foster genuinely inclusive leadership teams.
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paperbackThe Church as Movement
Starting and Sustaining Missional-Incarnational Communities
by JR Woodward and Dan White Jr.
Foreword by Alan HirschJR Woodward and Dan White Jr. have trained church planters all over North America. In this interactive field manual, they help you and your team gain eight key competencies crucial for church planting so that you can create churches that flourish and launch their own sustainable missional and incarnational congregations.
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paperbackApologetic Preaching
Proclaiming Christ to a Postmodern World
by Craig A. Loscalzo
Craig Loscalzo gives down-to-earth advice on how to communicate clearly and compellingly to a world that does not want to hear about morality, sin, evil, judgment or commitment. He gives straightforward explanations of the changes taking place all around us, including brief sample sermons in each chapter.
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paperbackPreaching as Reminding
Stirring Memory in an Age of Forgetfulness
by Jeffrey D. Arthurs
Foreword by John OrtbergWe know of the preacher’s roles as both teacher and proclaimer, but Jeffrey Arthurs adds another assignment: the Lord’s remembrancer. With decades of preaching experience, he explains how to stir the memory of Christ-followers, fanning the flames of faith through vivid language, story, delivery, and ceremony. When knowledge fades and conviction cools, the church needs to be reminded of the great truths of the faith.
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paperbackAshamed No More
A Pastor's Journey Through Sex Addiction
by T. C. Ryan
Foreword by Walter Wangerin Jr.There are some things we just don't talk about. Pastor T. C. Ryan narrates the unsettling story of his lifelong struggle with sexual addiction, one that predated and pervaded his pastoral ministry—one that went on for years in secrecy and isolation. In light of his full experience of exile and healing, Ryan calls the church to a ministry of unsettling grace that is the worthy of the gospel.
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paperbackIntroverts in the Church
Finding Our Place in an Extroverted Culture
by Adam S. McHugh
Foreword by Scot McKnightHave you ever felt out of place as an introvert in an extroverted church culture? With practical illustrations from church and parachurch contexts, McHugh offers ways for introverts to serve, lead, worship, and even evangelize in ways consistent with their personalities. This expanded edition is essential reading for introverted Christians and church leaders alike.
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paperbackFrom Cairo to Christ
How One Muslim's Faith Journey Shows the Way for Others
by Abu Atallah and Kent A. Van Til
"Changing from Islam to Christianity would mess up my life forever." So writes Abu Atallah in this remarkable story of his journey from Islam to the Christian faith, and how he later became an ambassador for Christ with a ministry in the Muslim context. Discover how the good news of Jesus transforms lives in Muslim communities around the world.
