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  • Mission: Living for the Purposes of God, By Scott Nelson
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    Mission

    Living for the Purposes of God

    Forge Guides for Missional Conversation

    by Scott Nelson
    Foreword by Alan Hirsch

    The mission of God has a church. So the church needs to be in sync with the mission of God. This is the guiding philosophy of the Forge Missions Training Network, which has helped church leaders and laypeople alike all over the world to reach their neighbors, their neighborhoods and their communities with the gospel. In these guides you and your friends will be equipped to be missionaries where ...

  • Recovering the Full Mission of God: A Biblical Perspective on Being, Doing and Telling, By Dean Flemming
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    Recovering the Full Mission of God

    A Biblical Perspective on Being, Doing and Telling

    by Dean Flemming

    Is our gospel witness too small? Should the gospel be proclaimed in words only? Or should we preach the gospel in deeds—and when necessary use words? Or are we missing something in playing the witness of words against deeds? If you are concerned about evangelizing the post-Christian West or the world beyond, you have probably debated this issue. And evangelical instincts drive us to Scripture. ...

  • The Church, By Edmund P. Clowney
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    The Church

    Contours of Christian Theology

    by Edmund P. Clowney

    At a time in which the very word church sounds a tone of dull irrelevance, the doctrine of the church has suffered the studied neglect of many Christian leaders. The persistent demands to market, manage and grow the church and to meet the felt needs of churched and unchurched all threaten to quench theological reflection on the abiding nature and mission of the church. But few activities ...

  • Yearning: Living Between How It Is  How It Ought to Be, By M. Craig Barnes
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    Yearning

    Living Between How It Is How It Ought to Be

    by M. Craig Barnes

    Does God want us fulfilled? Popular psychology says we should be fulfilled. Advertisements tease us with dozens of ways we can be fulfilled. Many preachers and book promise Christian fulfillment. But in this surprising (and surprisingly liberating) book, Craig Barnes suggests we weren't created to be whole or complete. With a fresh reading of the early chapters of Genesis, he says that much ...

  • What Does Your Soul Love?: Eight Questions That Reveal God's Work in You, By Gem Fadling and Alan Fadling
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    What Does Your Soul Love?

    Eight Questions That Reveal God's Work in You

    by Gem Fadling and Alan Fadling

    What do you really want? What is your soul clinging to? What is getting in your way?

    In these pages Gem and Alan Fadling outline eight key questions that offer deep insight into how we experience soul change. These questions open the door to spiritual transformation. They help us unpack where we are stuck, where we are in pain, where we are afraid, and much more. They also ...

  • To Be Honest with You: A Journey of Certainty and Skepticism through the Gospel of Luke, By Vince Woltjer and Timothy D. Vandenberg
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    To Be Honest with You

    A Journey of Certainty and Skepticism through the Gospel of Luke

    by Vince Woltjer and Timothy D. Vandenberg

    The postmodern world looms large in the thoughts and reflections of those too old to be without doubt but too young to find comfort in answers found in today's world. What started out as journal entries, the devotions of To Be Honest With You offers a young man's insightful perspectives gained from personal experiences. The devotions have a fresh, voice and way of looking at life that ...

  • Basic Discipleship, By Floyd McClung
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    Basic Discipleship

    by Floyd McClung

    The Basics:

    • Living under Christ's lordship
    • Remaining faithful
    • Finding God's will
    • Turning away from sin
    • Nurturing humility
    • Evangelizing with our whole lives

    The basics begin at the beginning. And that's where Floyd McClung starts. What does it mean for Christ to be Lord of my whole life? Why is that important? How does it happen? ...

  • Apostolicity: The Ecumenical Question in World Christian Perspective, By John G. Flett
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    Apostolicity

    The Ecumenical Question in World Christian Perspective

    Missiological Engagements

    by John G. Flett

    What constitutes the unity of the church over time and across cultures? Can our account of the church's apostolic faith embrace the cultural diversity of world Christianity?

    The ecumenical movement that began in the twentieth century posed the problem of the church's apostolicity in profound new ways. In the attempt to find unity in the midst of the Protestant-Catholic schism, participants ...

  • Divorce and Remarriage: Four Christian Views, Edited by H. Wayne House
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    Divorce and Remarriage

    Four Christian Views

    Spectrum Multiview Book Series

    Edited by H. Wayne House
    Contributions by J. Carl Laney, William A. Heth, Thomas R. Edgar, and Larry Richards

    Divorce. No one likes it, but it doesn't go away. Even among Christians, the divorce rate continues to climb. How should Christians approach this issue? May Christians ever legitimately divorce? If they divorce legitimately, may they remarry?

    Not everyone who appeals to Scripture agrees on how we should understand what it says about divorce and remarriage. In this Spectrum ...