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  • Steve Hayner was healthy and fit and serving as president of Columbia Seminary when he found out he had pancreatic cancer. He and his wife, Sharol, embarked on a journey together with their children that soon included tens of thousands of visits from friends and acquaintances via CaringBridge. The overwhelming response to their posts on this website attested to the surprising and engaging way that they chose to live in the face of death. In the fall of 2015 InterVarsity Press will be releasing a compilation of those posts in the book Joy in the Journey: Finding Abundance in the Shadow of Death by Steve and Sharol Hayner.

  • When IVP author Makoto Fujimura was weighing whether to write a book inspired by Shusaku Endo's 1966 classic novel Silence, a friend introduced him to Martin Scorsese, who had been considering a film about the same book for nearly thirty years. That conversation with Scorsese led Fujimura to move ahead with writing his book and to become a consultant for Scorsese's Silence, which is set for limited release on December 23.

  • What God Thinks When We Fail: Finding Grace and True Success, By Steven C. Roy What God Thinks When We Fail: Finding Grace and True Success, By Steven C. Roy
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    What God Thinks When We Fail

    Finding Grace and True Success

    by Steven C. Roy

    What does God think of us when we fail? Does he think

    • You're a loser.
    • There's no hope for you.
    • What a wimp!
    • You're good for nothing!

    Or does he think something very different? If you've ever lost a job or a relationship, let your friends down, seen your finances collapse, found your ministry crumbling or failed to meet your own ethical standards, ...

  • When I Go to Church, I Belong: Finding My Place in God's Family as a Child with Special Needs, By Elrena Evans When I Go to Church, I Belong: Finding My Place in God's Family as a Child with Special Needs, By Elrena Evans
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    When I Go to Church, I Belong

    Finding My Place in God's Family as a Child with Special Needs

    by Elrena Evans
    Illustrated by Rebecca Evans

    Illumination Award Gold Medal

    Children with disabilities often struggle to fit in, but church can be a place where everyone is welcome and included!When I Go to Church, I Belong follows the story of six children, helping us better understand the experiences and feelings of those with special needs. And it reminds us that even though we have ...

  • Innovation in Mission: Insights into Practical Innovations Creating Kingdom Impact, Edited by James W. Reapsome and Jon Hirst
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    Innovation in Mission

    Insights into Practical Innovations Creating Kingdom Impact

    Edited by James W. Reapsome and Jon Hirst

    As the world around us is changing, our methods also need to adapt in order to fulfill the unchanging vision of reaching the lost. Innovations in Missions provides outstanding opportunities to solve the great challenges of ministry in this new Century. This book is not an all-or-nothing approach to being innovative in ministry. It offers what has worked in other areas and lets the reader ...

  • Stumbling Souls: Is Love Enough?, By Chris Plekenpol
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    Stumbling Souls

    Is Love Enough?

    by Chris Plekenpol

    In Stumbling Souls, former Army Captain and current seminary student, Chris Plekenpol, tells a compelling story of his interactions with a homosexual, HIV-positive, homeless man, James. Chris asks James to move in with him and then Chris and his friends try to get James back on his feet. In reality, James helps Chris get back on his feet by finding out what happens when believers risk living ...

  • Worship and the World to Come: Exploring Christian Hope in Contemporary Worship, By Glenn Packiam
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    Worship and the World to Come

    Exploring Christian Hope in Contemporary Worship

    Dynamics of Christian Worship

    by Glenn Packiam

    Christians sing because we are people of hope.

    Yet our hope is unlike other kinds of hope. We are not optimists; nor are we escapists. Christian hope is uniquely shaped by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead and by the promise of our own future resurrection.

    How is that hope both expressed and experienced in contemporary worship? In this volume in the Dynamics ...

  • Small Group Leaders' Handbook: Developing Transformational Communities, By J. Alex Kirk and Jay Anderson and Myron Crockett and Tina Teng-Henson and Una Lucey-Lee and Janice McWilliams and Sandra Maria Van Opstal
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    Small Group Leaders' Handbook

    Developing Transformational Communities

    by J. Alex Kirk, Jay Anderson, Myron Crockett, Tina Teng-Henson, Una Lucey-Lee, Janice McWilliams, and Sandra Maria Van Opstal

    What do we mean when we talk about small groups? And more importantly: what do we expect to happen when people gather in this way? The small group that wrote this book—made up of current and former campus ministry professionals with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship—sees a small group as: a community that studies the Bible, prays and participates in God's mission together for the purposes of God's ...