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  • The New Parish: How Neighborhood Churches Are Transforming Mission, Discipleship and Community, By Paul Sparks and Tim Soerens and Dwight J. Friesen
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    The New Parish

    How Neighborhood Churches Are Transforming Mission, Discipleship and Community

    by Paul Sparks, Tim Soerens, and Dwight J. Friesen

    Christianity Today Award of Merit

    Readers' Choice Awards Honorable Mention

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

    "When . . . faith communities begin connecting together, in and for the neighborhood, they learn to depend on God for strength to love, forgive and show grace like never before. ...

  • Worth Seeing: Viewing Others Through God's Eyes, By Amy L. Williams
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    Worth Seeing

    Viewing Others Through God's Eyes

    by Amy Lyn Williams

    "We are in the business of seeing others, seeing them the way God sees them, and letting them know they have value."

    Amy L. Williams has spent three decades doing ministry with youth in gangs and prisons. While most of society sees high-risk youth through lenses of fear or disregard, she has come to see them through God's eyes as having tremendous value and potential. Worth ...

  • Want more context as you begin to study Lamentations? This introduction will give you the background you need as you read the Daily Quiet Time Bible Study. We hope you continue to discover the riches of Scripture and draw closer to God as you join the millions who have used this free devotional resource.

  • Kingdom Calling: Vocational Stewardship for the Common Good, By Amy L. Sherman
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    Kingdom Calling

    Vocational Stewardship for the Common Good

    by Amy L. Sherman
    Afterword by Steven Garber
    Foreword by Reggie McNeal

    Christianity Today Book Award winner

    Imagine the scenarios:

    • a CEO successfully negotiates a corporate merger, avoiding hundreds of layoffs in the process
    • an artist completes a mosaic for public display at a bank, showcasing neighborhood heroes
    • a contractor creates a work-release program in cooperation with a local prison, growing the business ...
  • The Gospel in the Marketplace of Ideas: Paul's Mars Hill Experience for Our Pluralistic World, By Paul Copan and Kenneth D. Litwak
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    The Gospel in the Marketplace of Ideas

    Paul's Mars Hill Experience for Our Pluralistic World

    by Paul Copan and Kenneth D. Litwak

    Our world is multicultural, multireligious, multiphilosophical. It ranges from fundamental monotheism to do-it-yourself spirituality to strident atheism. How can Christians engage in communicating across worldviews in this pluralistic and often relativistic society? When Paul visited Athens, he found an equally multicultural and multireligious setting. From Jews to Gentiles, elite to poor, slaves ...

  • The Unhiding of Elijah Campbell: A Novel, By Kelly Flanagan
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    The Unhiding of Elijah Campbell

    A Novel

    by Kelly M Flanagan

    Illumination Book Award

    Nautilus Book Award

    Elijah Campbell is on the verge of losing his writing career, his faith, and his marriage when a recurring childhood nightmare drives him back to hishometown, Bradford's Ferry. There, his encounters with loved ones both past and present shed light on the reason his wife left him—and the meaning ...

  • Rebels and Exiles: A Biblical Theology of Sin and Restoration, By Matthew S. Harmon
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    Rebels and Exiles

    A Biblical Theology of Sin and Restoration

    Essential Studies in Biblical Theology

    by Matthew S. Harmon
    Series edited by Benjamin L. Gladd

    Biblical Foundations Book Awards Finalist

    Deep within the human psyche lies a sense that we were made for something more than this broken world. We all share an experience of exile—of longing for our true home.

    In this ESBT volume, Matthew S. Harmon explores how the theme of sin and exile is developed throughout Scripture. He traces a common pattern ...

  • Renewing Moral Theology: Christian Ethics as Action, Character and Grace, By Daniel A. Westberg
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    Renewing Moral Theology

    Christian Ethics as Action, Character and Grace

    by Daniel A. Westberg

    While ethical issues are being raised with new urgency, Christians are increasingly unfamiliar with the moral grammar of their faith. The need to reengage the deep-down things of the Christian moral tradition has seldom been more urgent. Moral theology has a long history in the Catholic and Anglican traditions. The tradition of theological ethics, influenced by Aristotle by way of Aquinas, offers ...

  • Spiritual Care: A Guide for Caregivers, By Judith Allen Shelly
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    Spiritual Care: A Guide for Caregivers

    by Judith Allen Shelly

    What did I do to deserve cancer?I don't understand it, but I can't seem to pray anymore. Why does God seem so far away?The idea of dying scares me. How can I cope?What do you say to a person in crisis? When illness or tragedy strikes, you may find yourself caring for a family member, friend or neighbor who asks you for answers to some of life's ultimate questions. How ...