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  • These books follow the rich tradition of the church in the journey of spiritual formation. For spiritual directors, retreat leaders, and contemplative Christians alike, these books from our Formatio line highlight spiritual disciplines and facilitate deep and formative spiritual growth.

  • Excellence in Leadership: Reaching Goals with Prayer, Courage and Determination, By John White
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    Excellence in Leadership

    Reaching Goals with Prayer, Courage and Determination

    by John White

    • Short deadlines
    • Not enough staff
    • Tight budgets
    • Personal attacks
    • External opposition
    • Internal conflicts
    • A huge task

    Every leader faces these problems. But as Christians, should we solve them by using the secular strategies of best-selling management books? Or is there another way? John White says there is. Nehemiah provides the model ...

  • True Companions Study Guide: Five Sessions on How to Show Up in Your Most Important Relationships, By Kelly Flanagan
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    True Companions Study Guide

    Five Sessions on How to Show Up in Your Most Important Relationships

    by Kelly Flanagan

    How do we cultivate the life-long relationships we are longing for, whether within marriage or friendship?

    In his book True Companions, psychologist Kelly Flanagan shows how each of us can enjoy the deeply satisfying, transformational love of companionship. He shows us how self-knowledge leads the way to growing in love for both God and others. He shows us how understanding ...

    Number of Studies: 5

  • Killing a Messiah: A Novel, By Adam Winn
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    Killing a Messiah

    A Novel

    by Adam Winn

    As Passover approaches, the city of Jerusalem is a political tinderbox. Judah, a resistance leader, plots to overthrow the Roman occupation. Eleazar and his father, the high priest Caiaphas, seek peace in the city at all costs. Pilate, the Roman governor, maneuvers to keep order (and his own hold on power). Caleb, a shopkeeper, is reluctantly caught up in the intrigue. When rumors ...

  • Commentary on Isaiah, By Eusebius of Caesarea
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    Commentary on Isaiah

    Ancient Christian Texts

    by Eusebius of Caesarea
    Translated by Jonathan J. Armstrong
    Edited by Joel C. Elowsky

    Preaching's Preacher's Guide to the Best Bible Reference

    Eusebius of Caesarea (ca. 260--ca. 340), one of the early church's great polymaths, produced significant works as a historian (Ecclesiastical History), geographer (Onomasticon), philologist, exegete (commentaries on the Psalms and Isaiah), apologist (Preparation for and Demonstration ...

  • Holiness: A Biblical, Historical, and Systematic Theology, By Matt Ayars and Christopher T. Bounds and Caleb T. Friedeman
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    Holiness

    A Biblical, Historical, and Systematic Theology

    by Matt Ayars, Christopher T. Bounds, and Caleb T. Friedeman

    Be holy because I am holy. Be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect.

    The Christian life includes many demands, but perhaps none are as challenging or as misunderstood as the biblical command to "be holy" (Leviticus 11:44 and 1 Peter 1:16) or to "be perfect" (Matthew 5:48). How should we understand these charges?

    In this volume, three scholars from the Wesleyan tradition ...

  • Movements That Change the World: Five Keys to Spreading the Gospel, By Steve Addison
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    Movements That Change the World

    Five Keys to Spreading the Gospel

    by Steve Addison
    Foreword by Alan Hirsch and Bob Roberts Jr.

    When Jesus commissioned his followers, he was not just inaugurating the historical church, he was founding a missionary movement.Originally released by Missional Press and now revised and expanded to include a multi-session discussion guide, Steve Addison's Movements That Change the World draws from biblical, historical and contemporary case studies to isolate the essential elements of ...

  • Tell the Truth: The Whole Gospel Wholly by Grace Communicated Truthfully  Lovingly, By Will Metzger
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    Tell the Truth

    The Whole Gospel Wholly by Grace Communicated Truthfully Lovingly

    by Will Metzger

    "Picture a gigantic cruise ship filled with happy people. "It's the S.S. Evangelical Gospel. In the midst of their fun and excitement, passengers have not noticed holes in the ship's side under the water line. Well-meaning leaders are attempting to plug these holes with new methods, technology, social activism and cultural savvy. All these are important, yet the structure of the ship remains ...