• Strong and Weak: Embracing a Life of Love, Risk and True Flourishing, By Andy Crouch
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    Strong and Weak

    Embracing a Life of Love, Risk and True Flourishing

    The IVP Signature Collection

    by Andy Crouch

    Two common temptations lure us away from abundant living: withdrawing into safety and grasping for power. However, with the characteristic insight, memorable stories, and hopeful realism he is known for, Andy Crouch argues that true flourishing comes when strength and weakness are combined in every human life and community.

  • The Next Worship: Glorifying God in a Diverse World, By Sandra Maria Van Opstal
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    The Next Worship

    Glorifying God in a Diverse World

    The IVP Signature Collection

    by Sandra Maria Van Opstal
    Foreword by Mark Labberton

    How do we help our congregations navigate the journey of worshipping in a multicultural context? Innovative worship leader Sandra Van Opstal gives leaders and churches guidance, providing biblical foundations for multiethnic worship and practical tools for planning services that reflect God's invitation for all peoples to praise him.

  • Ministering to Families in Crisis: The Essential Guide for Nurturing Mental and Emotional Health, Edited byJennifer S. Ripley and James N. Sells and Diane J. Chandler
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    Ministering to Families in Crisis

    The Essential Guide for Nurturing Mental and Emotional Health

    Edited by Jennifer S. Ripley, James N. Sells, and Diane J. Chandler

    When people encounter a crisis, they often turn to ministry leaders, who may feel unprepared to guide them. In this tool kit for pastors, Christian leaders with unique expertise provide evidence-based insights and practical suggestions on challenges affecting marriages, children, and teens, equipping ministers to help families find hope.

  • What Jesus Intended: Finding True Faith in the Rubble of Bad Religion, By Todd D. Hunter
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    What Jesus Intended

    Finding True Faith in the Rubble of Bad Religion

    by Todd D. Hunter
    Foreword by Esau McCaulley

    Many of us feel disoriented and unsteady after an endless string of church scandals. After forty years of ministry, Todd Hunter is no stranger to betrayal and pain in the church. But by unpacking the purposes of Jesus, we can expose twisted, toxic religion for what it is and embrace the healing and goodness we've always longed for.

  • Demystifying Evil: A Biblical and Personal Exploration, By Ingrid Faro
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    Demystifying Evil

    A Biblical and Personal Exploration

    by Ingrid Faro
    Foreword by Heather Davediuk Gingrich

    How can we understand God's work in a world permeated with evil? Narrating her own wrestling with evil as well as engaging in biblical and philosophical analysis, biblical scholar Ingrid Faro explores the many dimensions to evil in a way that is soberly honest, biblically engaged, and theologically nuanced.

  • Untangling Critical Race Theory: What Christians Need to Know and Why It Matters, By Ed Uszynski
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    Untangling Critical Race Theory

    What Christians Need to Know and Why It Matters

    by Ed Uszynski
    Foreword by Preston Sprinkle and Crawford Loritts

    What is Critical Race Theory, and how should Christians engage it? Ed Uszynski carefully unpacks what critical race theorists seek to accomplish and what Christians can learn from them. In this guide, he carefully explores CRT's roots, context, and tenets, revealing common distortions and providing responsible answers to legitimate concerns.

  • Discover Your Gifts Workbook: Twelve Sessions for Exploring Your God-Given Purpose, By Tony Cook and Don Everts
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    Discover Your Gifts Workbook

    Twelve Sessions for Exploring Your God-Given Purpose

    Lutheran Hour Ministries Resources

    by Tony Cook and Don Everts

    Discover your gifts with this practical guide that describes twelve different kinds of gifts and gives examples of how each can be used in church, family, work, and society. By using this workbook alongside the Discover Your Gifts book, you can grow in your understanding and use of your own gifts and become better equipped to recognize and unleash the gifts of others.

    Number of Studies: 12

  • On Getting Out of Bed: The Burden and Gift of Living, By Alan Noble
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    On Getting Out of Bed

    The Burden and Gift of Living

    by Alan Noble

    For most people, sorrow, anxiety, and mental illness are everyday experiences. The burden of living comes down to mundane choices that we each must make—like the daily choice to get out of bed. In this deeply personal essay, Alan Noble considers how carrying on amid great suffering is a powerful witness to the goodness of life, and of God.

  • Don't Blow Up Your Ministry: Defuse the Underlying Issues That Take Pastors Down, By Michael MacKenzie
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    Don't Blow Up Your Ministry

    Defuse the Underlying Issues That Take Pastors Down

    by Michael MacKenzie
    Foreword by Marshall Shelley

    There's a ticking time bomb in your ministry. Is it you? With vivid pictures of both self-destructive patterns and reconstructive grace, counselor Michael MacKenzie helps pastors avert moral failures and repair shipwrecked ministries. Addressing issues like shame, burnout, sexual misconduct, and more, this resource will help you become both the pastor and the person God intends you to be.

  • Walking with God Through the Valley: Recovering the Purpose of Biblical Lament, By May Young
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    Walking with God Through the Valley

    Recovering the Purpose of Biblical Lament

    by May Young

    What does is mean for the church to recover the biblical practice of lament? Drawing deeply from key passages in Scripture, Old Testament scholar May Young offers a guide for readers to gain deep understanding of lament texts and grow a true practice of lament that helps us move through pain and suffering to experience God's renewed hope.

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