• Missional God, Missional Church: Hope for Re-evangelizing the West, By Ross Hastings
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    Missional God, Missional Church

    Hope for Re-evangelizing the West

    by Ross Hastings

    Building on the works of David Bosch, Lesslie Newbigin and others, Ross Hastings delivers a comprehensive theology of mission founded on the trinitarian doctrine of God and a "defiant optimism" about the possible re-evangelization of the Western world.

  • 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.

  • The Mission of Preaching: Equipping the Community for Faithful Witness, By Patrick W. T. Johnson
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    The Mission of Preaching

    Equipping the Community for Faithful Witness

    by Patrick W. T. Johnson
    Foreword by David J. Lose

    We hear plenty of discussion about missional theology, missional leadership and missional church planting. But what about missional preaching? In this groundbreaking work, Patrick W. T. Johnson develops a new missional homiletic to aid preachers in their witness to the gospel of Jesus Christ in this post-Christendom world.

  • Missional House Churches: Reaching Our Communities with the Gospel, By J. D. Payne
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    Missional House Churches

    Reaching Our Communities with the Gospel

    by J. D. Payne

    Using original interviews with over thirty missional house churches, J. D. Payne examines the influence of the house church movement on local communities throughout the United States.

  • The New Conspirators: Creating the Future One Mustard Seed at a Time, By Tom Sine
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    The New Conspirators

    Creating the Future One Mustard Seed at a Time

    by Tom Sine
    Foreword by Shane Claiborne

    Tom Sine helps you to think critically and creatively about the world--the one that has been inherited and the one being crafted now. The New Conspirators offers encouraging signs that God's people can flourish in and minister to the changing and challenging world around them by living out their faith in small and great ways.

  • To Give or Not to Give: Rethinking Dependency, Restoring Generosity, and Redefining Sustainability, By John Rowell
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    To Give or Not to Give

    Rethinking Dependency, Restoring Generosity, and Redefining Sustainability

    by John Rowell
    Foreword by Peter Kuzmic

    John Rowell sets out a program that will enable affluent churches in the West to give generously across cultures without fear of promoting dependent, hierarchical relationships.

  • Fail: Finding Hope and Grace in the Midst of Ministry Failure, By J.R. Briggs
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    Fail

    Finding Hope and Grace in the Midst of Ministry Failure

    by J.R. Briggs
    Foreword by Eugene H. Peterson

    What do we do when we've failed? J.R. Briggs, founder of the Epic Fail Pastors Conference, explores the landscape of failure, how it devastates us and how it transforms us. Without offering pat answers or quick fixes, he challenges our expectations of success and gives us permission to grieve our losses and receive the grace of healing and restoration.

  • The Resurrection of Ministry: Serving in the Hope of the Risen Lord, By Andrew Purves
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    The Resurrection of Ministry

    Serving in the Hope of the Risen Lord

    by Andrew Purves

    This book by Andrew Purves takes us deep into the practice of ministry showing us the basis of ministry in the hope of Christ's resurrection. Ministry in and with Christ involves moving beyond ministry in the mood of Holy Saturday to ministry in the mood of Easter Sunday. Here Purves shows how we find Christ's real joy and hope in the midst of struggles, difficulties and even suffering as we serve and minister in his name.

  • Ministry by the Book: New Testament Patterns for Pastoral Leadership, By Derek Tidball
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    Ministry by the Book

    New Testament Patterns for Pastoral Leadership

    by Derek Tidball

    Focusing on pastoral leadership within local churches or groups of churches, Derek Tidball provides a comprehensive survey of the variety of ministry models and patterns found in the New Testament with applications for today's ministry.

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