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  • I Once Was Lost: What Postmodern Skeptics Taught Us About Their Path to Jesus, By Don Everts and Doug Schaupp
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    I Once Was Lost

    What Postmodern Skeptics Taught Us About Their Path to Jesus

    by Don Everts and Doug Schaupp

    How do people come to Jesus in today's postmodern culture? Not by a mechanical, linear process of cookie cutter conversions. Nor by a nebulous spiritual wandering that never culminates in decision and commitment. Over the last decade, Don Everts and Doug Schaupp have listened to the stories of two thousand postmodern people who have come to follow Jesus. While their stories are diverse and varied, ...

  • How to Give Away Your Faith Bible Study, By Paul E. Little
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    How to Give Away Your Faith Bible Study

    IVP Signature Bible Studies

    by Paul E. Little
    With Dale Larsen and Sandy Larsen

    If you want to talk about Jesus but you're not sure what to say—or how to say it—this Bible study guide is for you.

    Six studies, based on Paul Little's classic How to Give Away Your Faith, will deepen your understanding of the essentials of faith and strengthen your confidence as you talk with others about the best news of all.

    As companions to the IVP Signature ...

    Number of Studies: 6

  • Lead Like It Matters to God Study Guide: Eight Sessions on Becoming a Values-Driven Leader, By Richard Stearns
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    Lead Like It Matters to God Study Guide

    Eight Sessions on Becoming a Values-Driven Leader

    by Richard Stearns

    Lead Like It Matters to God by Richard Stearns is about how the values Christian leaders embrace are more important than the success they achieve. This eight-session companion study guide explores seventeen values that will transform your leadership.

    Following the structure of review, reflect, and practice, this dynamic guide also provides discussion starters ...

    Number of Studies: 8

  • The Relational Soul: Moving from False Self to Deep Connection, By Richard Plass and James Cofield
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    The Relational Soul

    Moving from False Self to Deep Connection

    by Richard Plass and James Cofield

    What does loneliness tell us? "Be it chronic or acute, slight or significant, loneliness is proof of our relational design. At the core of our being is this truth—we are designed for and defined by our relationships," former pastors Plass and Cofield write. "We were born with a relentless longing to participate in the lives of others. Fundamentally, we are relational souls." ...

  • Breaking the Huddle: How Your Community Can Grow Its Witness, By Don Everts and Doug Schaupp and Val Gordon
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    Breaking the Huddle

    How Your Community Can Grow Its Witness

    by Don Everts, Doug Schaupp, and Val Gordon

    • 15th Annual Outreach Magazine Resource of the Year - Evangelism

    Most Christians are stuck in the huddle. Even though we believe in outreach, most communities tend to focus on our own needs. That turns us into insular groups without many relationships with outsiders. So evangelism is occasional and conversions are rare. How do we change? In their ...

  • Polycentric Missiology: 21st-Century Mission from Everyone to Everywhere, By Allen Yeh
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    Polycentric Missiology

    21st-Century Mission from Everyone to Everywhere

    by Allen Yeh

    The Edinburgh 1910 World Missionary Conference was the most famous missions conference in modern church history. A century later, five conferences on five continents displayed the landscape of global mission at the dawn of the third millennium: Tokyo 2010, Edinburgh 2010, Cape Town 2010, 2010Boston, and CLADE V (San José, 2012). These five events provide a window into the state of world Christianity ...

  • Slow Church: Cultivating Community in the Patient Way of Jesus, By C. Christopher Smith and John Pattison
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    Slow Church

    Cultivating Community in the Patient Way of Jesus

    by C. Christopher Smith and John Pattison
    Foreword by Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

    Readers' Choice Award Winner

    Best Books About the Church from Byron Borger, Hearts and Minds Bookstore

    Fast food. Fast cars. Fast and furious. Fast forward. Fast . . . church?

    The church is often idealized (or demonized) as the last bastion of a bygone era, dragging our feet as we're pulled into new moralities and new spiritualities. We guard our ...

  • Tempered Resilience Study Guide: 8 Sessions on Becoming an Adaptive Leader, By Tod Bolsinger
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    Tempered Resilience Study Guide

    8 Sessions on Becoming an Adaptive Leader

    by Tod Bolsinger

    Leadership leads to vulnerability that requires the security of relationships to endure.

    Tempered Resilience: How Leaders Are Formed in the Crucible of Change is about forming resilience so leaders can lead through the resistance that always accompanies change. Tod Bolsinger, an organizational and pastoral leader, writes that experiencing resistance leaves us feeling ...

    Number of Studies: 8

  • Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God, By J. I. Packer
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    Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God

    by J. I. Packer
    Foreword by Mark Dever

    J. I. Packer's Classic Resource on Evangelism

    If God is in control of everything, can Christians sit back and not bother to evangelize? Or does active evangelism imply that God is not really sovereign at all?

    J. I. Packer shows in this new edition to the popular IVP Classics how both of these attitudes are false. In Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God, readers ...

  • Prophetic Lament: A Call for Justice in Troubled Times, By Soong-Chan Rah
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    Prophetic Lament

    A Call for Justice in Troubled Times

    by Soong-Chan Rah
    Foreword by Brenda Salter McNeil

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    When Soong-Chan Rah planted an urban church in Cambridge, Massachusetts, his first full sermon series was a six-week exposition of the book of Lamentations. Preaching on an obscure, depressing Old Testament book ...