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  • Sensible Shoes Leader's Guide, By Sharon Garlough Brown
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    Sensible Shoes Leader's Guide

    by Sharon Garlough Brown

    Sensible Shoes is an unusual novel, blending a fictional story with nonfiction teaching elements. Some readers view it only as a story of four characters on a journey. Others say yes to a deeper level of reading, embracing the opportunity to take a "sacred journey" along with the characters, by opening themselves to the Spirit's work and attending to God's invitations.

    The ...

    Number of Studies: 12

  • Honest Worship: From False Self to True Praise, By Manuel Luz
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    Honest Worship

    From False Self to True Praise

    by Manuel Luz
    Foreword by Rory Noland

    When asked by his son why some churches have smoke machines, worship pastor Manuel Luz found himself responding, "Well, technically, you need smoke machines to see the lasers." But when you take down the smokescreen, what do you have left? Where do we encounter the Holy in the midst of all this? Where can we worship with our full selves—heart, soul, mind, and body—in Spirit and truth? Drawing from ...

  • Love One Another: Becoming the Church Jesus Longs For, By Gerald L. Sittser
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    Love One Another

    Becoming the Church Jesus Longs For

    by Gerald L. Sittser

    Love one another. It's one of the greatest, simplest and most difficult commands Jesus gave. And when it comes to the church, sometimes it seems impossible. How can we achieve unity within the diversity of the body of Christ? Gerald Sittser examines the "one another" statements throughout the New Testament to distill much-needed biblical wisdom for loving each other even in the midst of controversies ...

  • Authority to Heal, By Ken M. Blue
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    Authority to Heal

    by Ken M. Blue

    Have you ever prayed for a sick friend?

    Does God heal today? If so, why are so many people in pain around us? We have all heard stories of miraculous healings. But can we believe them? Why are some people healed and some not? Does God give ordinary Christians the authority to heal?

    As Ken Blue explores these questions he found plenty of answers, but none that satisified him. He wanted ...

  • Making Neighborhoods Whole: A Handbook for Christian Community Development, By Wayne Gordon and John M. Perkins
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    Making Neighborhoods Whole

    A Handbook for Christian Community Development

    by Wayne Gordon and John M. Perkins
    Foreword by Shane Claiborne

    Already with decades of experience speaking prophetically into the charged racial climate of the American south, John Perkins began to see a need for organized thinking and collaborative imagination about how the church engages urban ministry. And so the Christian Community Development Association (CCDA) was born, with Wayne Gordon an immediate and enthusiastic participant. Nearly thirty years ...

  • Old Testament Ethics: A Guided Tour, By John Goldingay
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    Old Testament Ethics: A Guided Tour

    by John Goldingay

    What is ethics? Ethics is not merely about tricky situations or hot topics. Instead, ethics asks questions about what sort of people we are, how we think, what sort of things we do and don't do, and how we ought to live our everyday lives. How might we learn ethics from the Old Testament? Instead of searching for support for our positions or pointing out problems with certain ...

  • Cold Civil War: Overcoming Polarization, Discovering Unity, and Healing the Nation, By Jim Belcher
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    Cold Civil War

    Overcoming Polarization, Discovering Unity, and Healing the Nation

    by Jim Belcher
    Foreword by John D. Wilsey

    America's political landscape is experiencing dangerous polarization and fragmentation, with the extremes pulling the country apart. Voices on the left and right clash over different worldviews, definitions of America, and what it means to be an American citizen. The levels of incivility and hostility lead some to invoke the language of a cold civil war or even a looming civil ...