• Grace for the Afflicted: A Clinical and Biblical Perspective on Mental Illness, By Matthew S. Stanford
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    Grace for the Afflicted

    A Clinical and Biblical Perspective on Mental Illness

    by Matthew S. Stanford

    Why has the church struggled in ministering to those with mental illnesses? As both a church leader and a professor of psychology and behavioral sciences, Matthew S. Stanford has written this thoroughly revised and updated resource to educate Christians about mental illness from both biblical and scientific perspectives.

  • Understanding Sexual Abuse: A Guide for Ministry Leaders and Survivors, By Tim Hein
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    Understanding Sexual Abuse

    A Guide for Ministry Leaders and Survivors

    by Tim Hein
    Foreword by Debra Hirsch

    What does the path to healing look like for survivors of sexual abuse? And how can ministry leaders, pastors, and counselors best help them as they walk this difficult road? Drawing on both his own experience and his wife's experience as survivors of childhood sexual abuse, Tim Hein presents clinical data and resources as well as practical guidance and empathy—for both ministry leaders and survivors themselves.

  • The God Conversation: Using Stories and Illustrations to Explain Your Faith, By J. P. Moreland and Tim Muehlhoff
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    The God Conversation

    Using Stories and Illustrations to Explain Your Faith

    by J. P. Moreland and Tim Muehlhoff
    Foreword by Lee Strobel

    Every day it seems more difficult to explain to others what we believe and why. When our arguments fail to persuade them, what then? J. P. Moreland and Tim Muehlhoff say that the best way to win over others is with a good story. In this expanded edition of their classic book, the authors give practical coaching and illustrations to help us communicate our faith more effectively.

  • Disruptive Witness: Speaking Truth in a Distracted Age, By Alan Noble
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    Disruptive Witness

    Speaking Truth in a Distracted Age

    by Alan Noble

    What should Christian witness look like in our contemporary society? In this timely book, Alan Noble looks at our cultural moment, characterized by technological distraction and the growth of secularism, laying out individual, ecclesial, and cultural practices that disrupt our society's deep-rooted assumptions and point beyond them to the transcendent grace and beauty of Jesus.

  • The Next Mile - Leader Guide with CD: A Practical Short-Term Resource with Emphasis on Post-Ministry Follow-Through, By Brian J. Heerwagen
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    The Next Mile - Leader Guide with CD

    A Practical Short-Term Resource with Emphasis on Post-Ministry Follow-Through

    The Next Mile Set

    by Brian J. Heerwagen
    Edited by Dianne Grudda

    This comprehensive tool enables leaders to plan and conduct short-term trips for long-term impact.

  • Drama Team Sketchbook: 12 Scripts that Bring the Gospels to Life, By Alison Siewert
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    Drama Team Sketchbook

    12 Scripts that Bring the Gospels to Life

    by Alison Siewert

    Alison Siewert presents twelve scripts of Gospel stories, from the nativity to the resurrection, that will help those who have ears to hear the Word of God.

  • Living on the Boundaries: Evangelical Women, Feminism and the Theological Academy, By Nicola Hoggard Creegan and Christine D. Pohl
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    Living on the Boundaries

    Evangelical Women, Feminism and the Theological Academy

    by Nicola Hoggard Creegan and Christine D. Pohl

    Nicola Hoggard Creegan and Christine D. Pohl tell their own stories and draw from the experiences of ninety other women scholars to helpfully and hopefully address the boundary between the evangelical world and the concerns of feminism found in the academy.

  • Youth Ministry from the Inside Out: How Who You Are Shapes What You Do, By Mike Higgs
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    Youth Ministry from the Inside Out

    How Who You Are Shapes What You Do

    by Mike Higgs

    Mike Higgs, a youth worker with over two decades of experience, expresses the great need for youth workers to stop focusing on performance and focus instead on following God in his work so that ministry will become less noise and more substance.

  • Breaking the Huddle: How Your Community Can Grow Its Witness, By Don Everts and Doug Schaupp and Val Gordon
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    Breaking the Huddle

    How Your Community Can Grow Its Witness

    by Don Everts, Doug Schaupp, and Val Gordon

    Most Christians are stuck in the huddle, focusing on our own needs and limiting our relationships with outsiders. Don Everts, Doug Schaupp and Val Gordon explain how our churches can become conversion communities, where evangelistic growth becomes the new normal and the whole community itself becomes a winsome, thriving witness to those around it.

  • Gender & Grace: Love, Work  Parenting in a Changing World, By Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen
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    Gender & Grace

    Love, Work Parenting in a Changing World

    by Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen

    From brain structure and role models to the creation drama and the new covenant, Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen helps us to understand more clearly the forces--and the freedoms--that shape our lives.

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