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  • Buried Talents: Overcoming Gendered Socialization to Answer God's Call, By Susan Harris Howell
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    Buried Talents

    Overcoming Gendered Socialization to Answer God's Call

    by Susan Harris Howell
    Foreword by Mimi Haddad

    Reader's Choice Award Winner

    If God is calling women to lead, what's holding them back? Susan Harris Howell has spent years helping students investigate this question. In Buried Talents, she makes clear how gender disparity in leadership is directly connected to a larger, less overt issue: gendered socialization. Howell examines gendered messages ...

  • Disunity in Christ: Uncovering the Hidden Forces that Keep Us Apart, By Christena Cleveland
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    Disunity in Christ

    Uncovering the Hidden Forces that Keep Us Apart

    by Christena Cleveland

    Leadership Journal Book Award
    Readers' Choice Awards Honorable Mention

    Despite Jesus' prayer that all Christians "be one," divisions have been epidemic in the body of Christ from the beginning to the present. We cluster in theological groups, gender groups, age groups, ethnic groups, educational and economic groups. We criticize freely those who disagree with ...

  • Knowing the Holy Spirit Through the Old Testament, By Christopher J. H. Wright
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    Knowing the Holy Spirit Through the Old Testament

    Knowing God Through the Old Testament Set

    by Christopher J. H. Wright

    We tend to think of the Holy Spirit as the straggler of the Trinity, a latecomer in God's interaction with the world. But our first introduction to the Holy Spirit is not the drama of Pentecost in the second chapter of Acts. We first meet the Holy Spirit in the second verse of the Bible, hovering there, speaking the world into existence. Christopher Wright begins here and traces the Holy Spirit ...

  • Pioneering Movements: Leadership That Multiplies Disciples and Churches, By Steve Addison
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    Pioneering Movements

    Leadership That Multiplies Disciples and Churches

    by Steve Addison
    Foreword by Dave Ferguson

    God's mission needs movement leaders. Jesus pioneered something completely new in human history—a dynamic missionary movement intent on reaching the world. His mission is as clear and as relevant today as in the days of the early church: to make disciples everywhere, baptizing them and teaching them to obey everything Jesus has commanded. But the potential of the church remains untapped. What does ...

  • The Church in Exile: Living in Hope After Christendom, By Lee Beach
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    The Church in Exile

    Living in Hope After Christendom

    by Lee Beach
    Foreword by Walter Brueggemann

    The people of God throughout history have been a people of exile and diaspora. Whether under the Assyrians, Babylonians, Greeks or Romans, the people chosen by God have had to learn how to be a holy people in alien lands and under foreign rule. For much of its history, however, the Christian church lived with the sense of being at home in the world, with considerable influence and power. That ...

  • Ecclesiastes: Chasing After Meaning, By Bill Syrios and Teresa Syrios
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    Ecclesiastes

    Chasing After Meaning

    LifeGuide Bible Studies

    by Bill Syrios and Teresa Syrios

    Are you tired of pat answers to your hard questions of faith? The writer of Ecclesiastes is not afraid to confront your dilemmas. Like "Where can you find fulfillment?" And "Who is really in control of this world that seems so topsy-turvy?" Or "Is there any value in my work, my struggles, my life?" As you explore this fascinating Old Testament book in this twelve-session LifeGuide® Bible ...

    Number of Studies: 12

  • Restoring the Soul of the University: Unifying Christian Higher Education in a Fragmented Age, By Perry L. Glanzer and Nathan F. Alleman and Todd C. Ream
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    Restoring the Soul of the University

    Unifying Christian Higher Education in a Fragmented Age

    by Perry L. Glanzer, Nathan F. Alleman, and Todd C. Ream

    • Christianity Today's 2018 Book of the Year Award of Merit - Politics/Public Life

    Has the American university gained the whole world but lost its soul? In terms of money, prestige, power, and freedom, American universities appear to have gained the academic world. But at what cost? We live in the age of the fragmented multiversity that ...

  • Want more context as you begin to study 1 Thessalonians? 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.