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  • After the Trip: Unpacking Your Crosscultural Experience, By Cory Trenda
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    After the Trip

    Unpacking Your Crosscultural Experience

    by Cory Trenda
    Foreword by Tim Dearborn

    ECPA Top Shelf Book Cover Award

    Can a one-time crosscultural experience truly be life-changing?

    Veteran trip leader and intercultural guide Cory Trenda says yes—if we let the trip launch a journey of integrating the experience into our ongoing life.

    In After the Trip Trenda provides a unique guide for individuals and teams to make the ...

  • Creating Cultures of Belonging: Cultivating Organizations Where Women and Men Thrive, By Beth Birmingham and Eeva Sallinen Simard
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    Creating Cultures of Belonging

    Cultivating Organizations Where Women and Men Thrive

    by Beth Birmingham and Eeva Sallinen Simard
    Foreword by Myal Greene and Emily Sarmiento

    With increasing interest from donors and board members to see faith-based, missional organizations reflect the diversity of God's kingdom, these organizations desire to have women in positions of leadership. However, this proves difficult when the organizational culture is one that silences and even penalizes the unique giftings that women bring to the table.

    Many organizations ...

  • How to Understand Your Bible, By T. Norton Sterrett and Richard L. Schultz
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    How to Understand Your Bible

    by T. Norton Sterrett and Richard L. Schultz

    Have you ever felt like you can't make sense out of the Bible but wished you could? Then this book is for you. Starting from scratch, Norton Sterrett presents the general rules for reading the Bible's ordinary language and moves on to specific principles that apply to special types of language such as parables, figures of speech, Hebrew poetry and symbols. Richard Schultz has updated T. Norton ...

  • The Sisters' Guide to In-Depth Bible Study, By Victoria L. Johnson
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    The Sisters' Guide to In-Depth Bible Study

    by Victoria L. Johnson

    Do you want to study the Bible on your own but find yourself overwhelmed by complicated, cumbersome study methods? Are you a group leader looking for exciting resources to bring new life to your teaching? Is your time in the Word dry and lifeless, or do you find Scripture hard to understand? Victoria Johnson--a busy speaker, teacher, author and mother--has discovered an easy-to-follow method ...

  • The God Conversation: Using Stories and Illustrations to Explain Your Faith, By J. P. Moreland and Tim Muehlhoff
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    The God Conversation

    Using Stories and Illustrations to Explain Your Faith

    by J. P. Moreland and Tim Muehlhoff
    Foreword by Lee Strobel

    Think of it this way . . . Our beliefs are challenged from many directions. Every day it seems more difficult to explain to our friends, families, and neighbors what we believe and why. When our ideas and arguments fail to persuade them, what then? Is there another approach we can take? Veteran apologists and communicators J. P. Moreland and Tim Muehlhoff say that the best way to win over others ...

  • Small Group Starter Kit, By Jeffrey Arnold
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    Small Group Starter Kit

    LifeGuide Bible Studies

    by Jeffrey Arnold

    Do you want to build significant relationships, grow in your knowledge and understanding of Scripture, and learn how to reach out to others? Do you wonder how to begin? In this easy-to-use LifeGuide® Bible Study guide Jeff Arnold provides you with everything you need for the first meetings of a small group. Getting acquainted, setting expectations, studying Scripture--it's all here in ...

    Number of Studies: 6

  • A Peculiar People: The Church as Culture in a Post-Christian Society, By Rodney R. Clapp
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    A Peculiar People

    The Church as Culture in a Post-Christian Society

    by Rodney R. Clapp

    • Voted one of Christianity Today's 1997 Books of the Year

    Christians feel increasingly useless, argues Rodney Clapp, not because we have nothing to offer a post-Christian society, but because we are trying to serve as "sponsoring chaplains" to a civilization that no longer sees Christianity as necessary to its existence. In our individualistic, technologically ...

  • Disability and the Church: A Vision for Diversity and Inclusion, By Lamar Hardwick
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    Disability and the Church

    A Vision for Diversity and Inclusion

    by Lamar Hardwick
    Foreword by Bill Gaventa

    IVP Readers' Choice Award

    Lamar Hardwick was thirty-six years old when he found out he was on the autism spectrum. While this revelation helped him understand and process his own experience, it also prompted a difficult re-evaluation of who he was as a person. And as a pastor, it started him on a new path of considering the way disabled people are treated ...

  • Messy Easter: Three Complete Sessions and a Treasure Trove of Ideas for Lent, Holy Week, and Easter, By Jane Leadbetter
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    Messy Easter

    Three Complete Sessions and a Treasure Trove of Ideas for Lent, Holy Week, and Easter

    Messy Church Series

    by Jane Leadbetter

    Chocolate bunnies, marshmallow chicks, colored eggs, and baskets are a lot of fun, but is that really what this season is all about? The new resource Messy Easter offers your church a tool to bring together people of all ages and stages of faith for a unique come-as-you-are experience of

    • creativity—allowing space for all to play and create
    • celebration—worshiping ...

    Number of Studies: 3

  • Preaching in an Age of Distraction, By J. Ellsworth Kalas
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    Preaching in an Age of Distraction

    by J. Ellsworth Kalas

    Preaching's Top Books on Preaching

    Let your eyes look straight ahead; fix your gaze directly before you. Give careful thought to the paths for your feet and be steadfast in all your ways. — Proverbs 4:25-26

    Preaching is difficult enough under the best of circumstances. But what are we to do when it seems that all of us—hearers and preachers alike—are ...