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  • The Recovery-Minded Church: Loving and Ministering to People With Addiction, By Jonathan Benz
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    The Recovery-Minded Church

    Loving and Ministering to People With Addiction

    by Jonathan Benz
    With Kristina Robb-Dover

    You want to have vibrant and healthy relationships with those who struggle with addiction in your church and community. But you find yourself wondering how to meet their needs in a wise, helpful and God-honoring way. The Recovery-Minded Church addresses the pressing questions you are facing in ministering to those with addictions. Here you will discover a clinically informed, biblical ...

  • The First Christian Centuries: Perspectives on the Early Church, By Paul McKechnie
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    The First Christian Centuries

    Perspectives on the Early Church

    by Paul McKechnie

    The first three centuries of the early church were a period of struggle, transition and growth. Recent attempts by historians and social scientists to understand this era have produced various and conflicting accounts. Indeed, some have sought to overturn the former consensus regarding which texts provide reliable evidence and how they should be interpreted. In The First Christian Centuries, ...

  • Same-Sex Attraction and the Church: The Surprising Plausibility of the Celibate Life, By Ed Shaw
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    Same-Sex Attraction and the Church

    The Surprising Plausibility of the Celibate Life

    by Ed Shaw
    Foreword by Vaughan Roberts

    • The Gospel Coalition Top Books of 2015 in Christian Living
    • Tim Challies' Top Books of 2015
    • ProdigalThought.net's Top Reads of 2015
    • Leadership Journal's Best Ministry Books of the Year

    When Christians have same-sex attraction, how should the church respond? ...

  • T. F. Torrance as Missional Theologian: The Ascended Christ and the Ministry of the Church, By Joseph H. Sherrard
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    T. F. Torrance as Missional Theologian

    The Ascended Christ and the Ministry of the Church

    New Explorations in Theology

    by Joseph H. Sherrard
    Foreword by Alan Torrance

    Christ has ascended. Yet his work continues.

    Much has been made of a "missional" view of the church in recent theological literature, but largely overlooked in this discussion has been the contribution that T. F. Torrance, the late Church of Scotland minister and theologian, can make to this discussion. Addressing this lacuna, theologian and pastor Joseph Sherrard considers ...

  • A Peculiar People: The Church as Culture in a Post-Christian Society, By Rodney R. Clapp
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    A Peculiar People

    The Church as Culture in a Post-Christian Society

    by Rodney R. Clapp

    • Voted one of Christianity Today's 1997 Books of the Year

    Christians feel increasingly useless, argues Rodney Clapp, not because we have nothing to offer a post-Christian society, but because we are trying to serve as "sponsoring chaplains" to a civilization that no longer sees Christianity as necessary to its existence. In our individualistic, technologically ...

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    Ancient Christian Texts

    Series edited by Thomas C. Oden, Gerald L. Bray, and Michael Glerup

    Ancient Christian Texts (ACT) is a series of new translations, most of which are here presented in English for the first time. The series provides contemporary readers with the resources they need to study for themselves the key writings of the early church. The texts represented in the series are full-length commentaries or sermon series based on biblical books or extended scriptural passages.

    Ancient ...

  • Living Wisely with the Church Fathers, By Christopher A. Hall
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    Living Wisely with the Church Fathers

    by Christopher A. Hall

    The first centuries of Christianity are like a far country. But despite their foreignness, they hold a treasury of wisdom for living. Early Christians struggled and flourished in a culture that was in love with empire and military power, infatuated with sex and entertainment, tolerant of all gods but hostile to the One. And from this crucible of discipleship they extracted lessons of virtue, faithfulness, ...

  • Films for All Seasons: Experiencing the Church Year at the Movies, By Abby Olcese
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    Films for All Seasons

    Experiencing the Church Year at the Movies

    by Abby Olcese
    Foreword by Josh Larsen

    The Spiritual Practice of Watching Movies

    What’s your favorite Christmas movie? Easter movie? Pentecost movie? Casual viewers and movie buffs alike have favorite movies to watch at certain times of the year. But for film critic Abby Olcese, movies with spiritual themes aren't just limited to the holiday season. They’re part of a deep human need to connect our favorite stories ...

  • Skills for Safeguarding: A Guide to Preventing Abuse and Fostering Healing in the Church, By Lisa Compton and Taylor Patterson
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    Skills for Safeguarding

    A Guide to Preventing Abuse and Fostering Healing in the Church

    by Lisa Compton and Taylor Patterson

    The Only Textbook on Safeguarding for Faith-Based Ministries and Seminaries

    Christians are called to care for the vulnerable, but churches have not always led the way in becoming places safe from abuse. Increasingly, organizations and churches are recognizing the importance of the field of safeguarding: training and equipping people to prevent abuse, ...

  • Women in the Church: A Biblical Theology of Women in Ministry, By Stanley J. Grenz and Denise Muir Kjesbo
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    Women in the Church

    A Biblical Theology of Women in Ministry

    by Stanley J. Grenz and Denise Muir Kjesbo

    Studies of key biblical passages on women's roles in the church fill entire bookshelves, if not libraries. But in Women in the Church, Stanley Grenz and Denise Muir Kjesbo offer the first in-depth theological study of this issue--one of the most bitterly contested issues of our day. Carefully considering the biblical, historical and practical concerns surrounding women and the ordained ...