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  • Whole Life Transformation: Becoming the Change Your Church Needs, By Keith Meyer
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    Whole Life Transformation

    Becoming the Change Your Church Needs

    by Keith Meyer
    Foreword by Dallas Willard

    • 2011 Golden Canon Leadership Book Award winner

    Ministry to others and growing the church were the center of Keith Meyer's life. And yet he was arguing with his wife about how many nights a week he was spending in meetings. His temper was short, and he was exhausted. Keith writes: "I can see that I was pursuing a twisted idea of 'success'--not in the ...

  • Short-Term Mission: An Ethnography of Christian Travel Narrative and Experience, By Brian M. Howell
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    Short-Term Mission

    An Ethnography of Christian Travel Narrative and Experience

    by Brian M. Howell

    Over the past few decades, short-term mission trips have exploded in popularity. With easy access to affordable air travel, millions of American Christians have journeyed internationally for ministry, service and evangelism. Short-term trips are praised for involving many in global mission but also critiqued for their limitations. Despite the diversity of destinations, certain universal commonalities ...

  • Souls in Full Sail: A Christian Spirituality for the Later Years, By Emilie Griffin
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    Souls in Full Sail

    A Christian Spirituality for the Later Years

    by Emilie Griffin

    • 2011 Christianity Today Book Award winner

    "We do not set out to become old. Far from it. We hardly intend even to become middle-aged. Instead we plan to live in some eternal now which will lead on to something better, something more complete than what we had before. . . .

    Sometime in our spiritual travels, as a complete surprise, we notice it has ...

  • A Contemporary Anabaptist Theology: Biblical, Historical, Constructive, By Thomas N. Finger
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    A Contemporary Anabaptist Theology

    Biblical, Historical, Constructive

    by Thomas N. Finger

    In this comprehensive volume Thomas N. Finger takes on the formidable task of making explicit the often implicit theology of the Anabaptist movement and then presenting, for the sake of the welfare of the whole contemporary Christian church, his own constructive theology. In the first part Finger tells the story of the development of Anabaptist thought, helping the reader grasp both the unifying ...

  • Discovering Church Planting: An Introduction to the Whats, Whys, and Hows of Global Church Planting, By J. D. Payne
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    Discovering Church Planting

    An Introduction to the Whats, Whys, and Hows of Global Church Planting

    by J. D. Payne
    Foreword by David J. Hesselgrave

    In Discovering Church Planting, J. D. Payne explores the biblical, historical and missiological principles of global church planting as well as unfolding practical strategies for confronting contemporary challenges to our vital task in reaching a lost world. This comprehensive introduction to church planting shows the reader how to apply effective, international church planting practices ...

  • Liturgical Theology: The Church as Worshiping Community, By Simon  Chan
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    Liturgical Theology

    The Church as Worshiping Community

    by Simon Chan

    Bad worship produces bad theology, and bad theology produces an unhealthy church. In Liturgical Theology, Simon Chan issues a call to evangelicals to develop a mature theology of the church--an ecclesiology that is grounded in the church's identity as a worshiping community. Evangelicals, he argues, are confused about the meaning and purpose of the church in part because they have an inadequate ...

  • Economics in Christian Perspective: Theory, Policy and Life Choices, By Victor V. Claar and Robin J. Klay
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    Economics in Christian Perspective

    Theory, Policy and Life Choices

    by Victor V. Claar and Robin J. Klay

    Unemployment. Environmental damage. Poverty. Economists Victor Claar and Robin Klay critically engage mainstream economic theory and policy recommendations to provide guidance for faithfully and responsibly addressing these and other important economic issues. Affirming that a just and prosperous society depends for its continued success on maintaining the right balance of power among three principal ...

  • 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 ...

  • Tentmaking: The Life and Work of Business as Missions, By Patrick Lai
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    Tentmaking

    The Life and Work of Business as Missions

    by Patrick Lai

    Professional church planter Patrick Lai provides an in-depth reference for tentmakers--business-as-mission practitioners operating in regions of great antagonism to the Christian message. Those who are unfamiliar with the world of tentmaking will find valuable information to introduce them to the concept and to help in getting started. Designed to be a manual, Tentmaking is more than just ...

  • The Voice of Jesus: Discernment, Prayer and the Witness of the Spirit, By Gordon T. Smith
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    The Voice of Jesus

    Discernment, Prayer and the Witness of the Spirit

    by Gordon T. Smith

    A Personal Growth Finalist in the Word Guild Canadian Writing Awards

    "My sheep hear my voice. I know them, and they follow me."

    Jesus takes it for granted that you will hear his voice. But how do you hear it?

    How do you separate it out from the cacophony of other voices you hear everyday, including those of your own desires? Is your experience ...