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  • Learning to Be: Finding Your Center After the Bottom Falls Out, By Juanita Campbell Rasmus
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    Learning to Be

    Finding Your Center After the Bottom Falls Out

    by Juanita Campbell Rasmus
    Foreword by Tina Knowles Lawson

    Juanita called it "The Crash."

    Her counselor labeled it "a major depressive episode." Others called it a nervous breakdown. On the spiritual front, it was a dark night of the soul.

    This experience landed Juanita, a busy pastor, mother, and community leader, in bed. When everything in her life finally came to a stop, she found that she had to learn to be—with herself ...

  • Skills for Effective Counseling: A Faith-Based Integration, By Elisabeth A. Nesbit Sbanotto and Heather Davediuk Gingrich and Fred C. Gingrich
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    Skills for Effective Counseling

    A Faith-Based Integration

    Christian Association for Psychological Studies Books

    by Elisabeth A. Nesbit Sbanotto, Heather Davediuk Gingrich, and Fred C. Gingrich

    Anyone in a helping profession—including professional counselors, spiritual directors, pastoral counselors, chaplains and others—needs to develop effective communication skills. But learning these skills is like learning a new language: it takes time and practice to communicate effectively, and lack of practice can lead to the loss of one's ability to use this new language. Suitable for both beginning ...

  • The Good and Beautiful Community: Following the Spirit, Extending Grace, Demonstrating Love, By James Bryan Smith
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    The Good and Beautiful Community

    Following the Spirit, Extending Grace, Demonstrating Love

    The Good and Beautiful Series

    by James Bryan Smith

    In this Good and Beautiful Series book, James Bryan Smith helps us know how to live in relationship with others as apprentices of Jesus. "Apprentices of Jesus are not part-time do-gooders," he writes. "They live in continuous contact with the kingdom of God, and are constantly men and women in whom Christ dwells. They do not sometimes tell the truth, sometimes live sacrificially ...

  • Pocket Guide to World Religions, By Winfried Corduan
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    Pocket Guide to World Religions

    The IVP Pocket Reference Series

    by Winfried Corduan

    Have you ever wondered . . .

    • what the red dot on an Indian woman's forehead means?
    • whether all Buddhist monks practice martial arts?
    • if the Emperor of Japan is still considered a god?

    Here is a concise, informative guide for anyone looking for answers to basic questions about the world's varied religions. In short, incisive chapters, Winfried Corduan introduces ...

  • Invitation to a Journey: A Road Map for Spiritual Formation, By M. Robert Mulholland Jr.
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    Invitation to a Journey

    A Road Map for Spiritual Formation

    Transforming Resources

    by M. Robert Mulholland Jr.
    Introduction & Study Guide by Ruth Haley Barton

    M. Robert Mulholland Jr. defines spiritual formation as "the process of being formed in the image of Christ for the sake of others." Compact and solid, this definition encompasses the dynamics of a vital Christian life and counters our culture's tendency to make spirituality a trivial matter or reduce it to a private affair between "me and Jesus."

    In Invitation to a Journey, Mulholland ...

  • Mending the Divides: Creative Love in a Conflicted World, By Jon Huckins and Jer Swigart
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    Mending the Divides

    Creative Love in a Conflicted World

    by Jon Huckins and Jer Swigart
    Foreword by Lynne Hybels

    Christianity Today's 2018 Book of the Year Award of Merit - Mission/The Global Church

    Conflict, hatred, and injustice seem to be the norm rather than the exception in our world, our nation, our communities, our homes. The fractures and fissures run so deep that we're paralyzed by our hopelessness, writing off peace as a far-fetched option for the afterlife. Even ...

  • Ministry in the Image of God: The Trinitarian Shape of Christian Service, By Stephen Seamands
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    Ministry in the Image of God

    The Trinitarian Shape of Christian Service

    by Stephen Seamands

    Christianity Today Book Awards Merit winner

    "As the Father has sent me, so I send you."

    Those of us called to Christian ministry are commissioned and sent by Jesus, just as he himself was called and sent by the Father. Thus we naturally pattern our ministries after Christ's example. But distinctively Christian service involves the Spirit as ...

  • Pursuing God's Will Together: A Discernment Practice for Leadership Groups, By Ruth Haley Barton
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    Pursuing God's Will Together

    A Discernment Practice for Leadership Groups

    Transforming Resources

    by Ruth Haley Barton

    Logos Book of the Year

    Creating Leadership Teams Led by the Spirit

    Meetings can sap our energy, rupture community and thoroughly demoralize us. They can go on forever with no resolution. Or they can rush along without consensus just to "get through the agenda." What if there was another way?

    Church boards and other Christian leadership teams have ...