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  • Spiritual Warfare in Mission, By Mary  Anne Voelkel and Jack Voelkel
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    Spiritual Warfare in Mission

    Urbana Onward

    by Mary Anne Voelkel and Jack Voelkel

    Make no mistake—spiritual warfare is real. As you make your way into intentional mission and ministry, you may find yourself facing various kinds of opposition and resistance. You may experience great discouragement or doubt. Temptations may threaten to derail you. And you may even encounter active attack from spiritual forces of evil. But fear not. Veteran missionaries Jack and Mary Anne Voelkel ...

  • Practical Justice: Living Off-Center in a Self-Centered World, By Kevin Blue
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    Practical Justice

    Living Off-Center in a Self-Centered World

    by Kevin Blue

    You know the world is full of injustice. You know that God calls Christians to work for justice on the earth. But what can you do? Do you have questions like this? You're well-intended, but stuck in the rut of the everyday. You want to make your life matter. But you don't know where to start. You wonder about everything from whether to give a dollar to a beggar to how to participate in the political ...

  • Two Messiahs: The Jesus of Christianity and the Jesus of Islam, By Jeffrey Jay Morton
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    Two Messiahs

    The Jesus of Christianity and the Jesus of Islam

    by Jeffrey Jay Morton

    Muslims love Jesus. When you meet a Muslim, you meet a person who loves Jesus. Muslims will tell you a true Muslim must love Jesus. Jesus is not the sole property of Christians they say--or is he? This story sets the Jesus of Islam, `Isa ibn am-Maryam (Muhammad's seventh century conception of the first century prophet and Messiah), in direct conversation with the first century, historic Jesus ...

  • Pursuing God's Call, By Tom Lin
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    Pursuing God's Call

    Urbana Onward Set

    by Tom Lin

    What happens when God calls you to follow him? Where might Jesus take you? What might it cost? And what kind of surprising blessings could it bring you and the world around you? Through sharing his own personal story, Urbana director Tom Lin shows how pursuing God?s call can take us in unexpected directions. As a success-driven Harvard student, Tom figured he was headed for a lucrative career in ...

  • The Roots of the Reformation: Tradition, Emergence and Rupture, By G. R. Evans
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    The Roots of the Reformation

    Tradition, Emergence and Rupture

    by G. R. Evans

    • 2012 Midwest Publishing Association Crystal Book Award honorable mention
    Renowned historian G. R. Evans revisits the question of what happened at the Reformation. Contravening traditional paradigms of interpretation, Evans charts the controversies and challenges that roiled the era of the Reformation and argues that these are really part of a much longer ...
  • Your Mind's Mission, By Greg Jao
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    Your Mind's Mission

    Urbana Onward

    by Greg Jao

    Your mind has a mission. Sometimes it might seem like Christians just want your body—to serve or go. Or it might seem like they just want your heart—to emote in worship or commit to a cause. But that's not all. God invites us to love him with our minds as well. Being holistic, global Christians means that we need to think well about the world around us. Greg Jao roots our pursuit of the discipleship ...

  • A Theology as Big as the City, By Raymond J. Bakke
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    A Theology as Big as the City

    by Raymond J. Bakke

    "As we look at the world-class cities around our planet, we face five new urban realities: a crack cocaine epidemic, assault weapons, massive numbers of homeless children, HIV/AIDS and (in the U.S.) what Time magazine has called `the browning of America.' The needs of the urban population are greater than ever. . . . As our cities swell with immigrants, I'm reminded that Jesus was born ...

  • Business as Mission: A Comprehensive Guide to Theory and Practice, By C. Neal Johnson
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    Business as Mission

    A Comprehensive Guide to Theory and Practice

    by C. Neal Johnson
    Foreword by Steven Rundle

    Business as mission (BAM) is a mission strategy whose time has come. As global economics become increasingly interconnected, Christian business people and entrepreneurs have unanticipated opportunities to build kingdom-strategic business ventures. But Christian companies and business leaders do not automatically accomplish missional purposes. BAM requires mastery of both the world of business and ...

  • Great Commission Companies: The Emerging Role of Business in Missions, By Steven Rundle and Tom A. Steffen
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    Great Commission Companies

    The Emerging Role of Business in Missions

    by Steven Rundle and Tom A. Steffen

    Business as mission has emerged as a significant new model for mission in the twenty-first century. Today's globalized economy has created strategic opportunities for Christian business enterprises in some of the most unlikely corners of the world. In this landmark book, economist Steve Rundle and missiologist Tom Steffen offer their paradigm for the convergence of business and missions--the Great ...

  • Deepening the Soul for Justice, By Bethany H. Hoang
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    Deepening the Soul for Justice

    Urbana Onward

    by Bethany H. Hoang

    The challenges of global injustice can be overwhelming. The pain is real; the violence dark. Many well-intentioned Christians get burned out. What can you do to stay in the game? Bethany Hoang, director of International Justice Mission's IJM Institute, has seen firsthand how spiritual formation can fuel our response to God's call to justice--from the inside out. Hoang shares spiritual practices ...