• Becoming a Pastor Theologian: New Possibilities for Church Leadership, Edited by Todd Wilson and Gerald L. Hiestand
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    Becoming a Pastor Theologian

    New Possibilities for Church Leadership

    Center for Pastor Theologians Series

    Edited by Todd Wilson and Gerald L. Hiestand

    The Center for Pastor Theologians (CPT) seeks to overcome the bifurcation that has developed between the roles of pastor and theologian. Based on the first CPT conference in 2015, this volume brings together the reflections of church leaders and academic theologians to consider how these roles might be reconnected once again.

  • Stewards in the Kingdom: A Theology of Life in All Its Fullness, By R. Scott Rodin
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    Stewards in the Kingdom

    A Theology of Life in All Its Fullness

    by R. Scott Rodin

    R. Scott Rodin unpacks a theology of the abundant life, which encompasses our world, life and possessions, and appropriately begins with the very being of the Creator.

  • Getting Sent: A Relational Approach to Support Raising, By Pete Sommer
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    Getting Sent

    A Relational Approach to Support Raising

    by Pete Sommer

    Pete Sommer's handbook offers a biblical perspective on raising support and gives step-by-step instructions on assembling the tools unique to each person's support-raising task.

  • Resilient Ministry: What Pastors Told Us About Surviving and Thriving, By Bob Burns and Tasha D. Chapman and Donald C. Guthrie
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    Resilient Ministry

    What Pastors Told Us About Surviving and Thriving

    by Bob Burns, Tasha D. Chapman, and Donald C. Guthrie

    Why does one well-equipped, well-founded ministry succeed while another fails? Bob Burns, Tasha Chapman and Donald Guthrie undertook a five-year intensive research project on the frontlines of pastoral ministry to answer that question. What they found was nothing less than the DNA of thriving ministry today.

  • Preventing Ministry Failure: A ShepherdCare Guide for Pastors, Ministers and Other Caregivers, By Michael Todd Wilson and Brad Hoffmann
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    Preventing Ministry Failure

    A ShepherdCare Guide for Pastors, Ministers and Other Caregivers

    by Michael Todd Wilson and Brad Hoffmann

    Brad Hoffman and Michael Todd Wilson present this workbook designed to be used by people in vocational ministry, alongside their peers, to safeguard them from burnout, moral failure and spiritual exhaustion.

  • Strangers Next Door: Immigration, Migration and Mission, By J. D. Payne
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    Strangers 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.

  • Disunity in Christ: Uncovering the Hidden Forces that Keep Us Apart, By Christena Cleveland
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    Disunity in Christ

    Uncovering the Hidden Forces that Keep Us Apart

    by Christena Cleveland

    Despite Jesus' prayer that all Christians "be one," divisions have been epidemic in the body of Christ. Though we may think we know why this happens, Christena Cleveland says we probably don't. Learn the hidden reasons behind conflict and divisions, the unseen dynamics at work that tend to separate us from others. Here are the tools we need to build bridges.

  • 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

    The church is to be the hands and feet of Christ in the world, showing and telling the kingdom of God. But this incarnational mission is challenged by numerous "excarnational" forces, pulling us ever inward and selfward. In this prophetic cultural study missiologist Michael Frost helps us find our way back to the mission of God.

  • Troubled Minds: Mental Illness and the Church's Mission, By Amy Simpson
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    Troubled Minds

    Mental Illness and the Church's Mission

    by Amy Simpson
    Foreword by Marshall Shelley

    Reflecting on the confusion, shame and grief brought on by her mother's schizophrenia, Amy Simpson provides a bracing look at the social and physical realities of mental illness. Reminding us that people with mental illness are our neighbors and our brothers and sisters in Christ, she explores new possibilities for the church to minister to this stigmatized group.

  • The Church in Exile: Living in Hope After Christendom, By Lee Beach
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    The Church in Exile

    Living in Hope After Christendom

    by Lee Beach
    Foreword by Walter Brueggemann

    The church in North America today lives in a post-Christian society. Lee Beach helps the people of God today to develop a hopeful and prophetic imagination, a theology responsive to its context, and an exilic identity marked by faithfulness to God's mission in the world.

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