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  • Resilient Ministry: What Pastors Told Us About Surviving and Thriving, By Bob Burns and Tasha D. Chapman and Donald C. Guthrie
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    Resilient Ministry

    What Pastors Told Us About Surviving and Thriving

    by Bob Burns, Tasha D. Chapman, and Donald C. Guthrie

    What does it take to have fruitful ministry over the long haul? The stresses of pastoring are well known and can be a match for even the best-prepared, most experienced in ministry--multiple tasks, long hours, taxing responsibilities and, yes, some challenging personalities. Too often the results can be burnout, being run out or just feeling worn out. To find out how pastors can thrive as well ...

  • Daughters of Islam: Building Bridges with Muslim Women, By Miriam Adeney
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    Daughters of Islam

    Building Bridges with Muslim Women

    by Miriam Adeney

    Their clothing is often distinctive. Their values are strongly held. They love their families. They comprise nearly one-tenth of the world's population, and they live everywhere around the globe. These are women of Muslim background. Many still belong to Islam, but some now belong to Christ. In Daughters of Islam Miriam Adeney introduces you to women like Ladan, Khadija and Fatma. You'll ...

  • Freedom from Tyranny of the Urgent, By Charles E. Hummel
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    Freedom from Tyranny of the Urgent

    by Charles E. Hummel

    Winner of the 2004 ECPA Platinum Book Award!

    Is the clock a slavemaster or a tool that serves you?
    Does the quantity of your responsibilities squeeze out the quality of your life?
    Are urgent things so pressing that you don't have "inner time" to sort out what's really important?
    How can you discern what God wants you to do?

    Charles Hummel's ...

  • Warrior Princess: Fighting for Life with Courage and Hope, By Princess Kasune Zulu
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    Warrior Princess

    Fighting for Life with Courage and Hope

    by Princess Kasune Zulu
    With Belinda A. Collins

    Princess Kasune Zulu grew up in an Africa trying to make sense of the mystery illness claiming its people. As a child, she could not know the disease that claimed the lives of her parents and baby sister would go on to infect more than 100 million people. Left alone to care for her siblings, Princess later discovered she herself was HIV positive. But she heard a calling to become an advocate and ...

  • An Introduction to the Theology of Religions: Biblical, Historical & Contemporary Perspectives, By Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen
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    An Introduction to the Theology of Religions

    Biblical, Historical & Contemporary Perspectives

    by Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen

    Early in the nineteenth century Ernst Troeltsch, the great German liberal thinker, published the influential essay "The Place of Christianity Among the World Religions." The question of the relation of Christianity to other religions is every bit as relevant as and perhaps even more urgent today than it was then. Beginning with a consideration of the biblical perspective, Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen ...

  • The Path of Celtic Prayer: An Ancient Way to Everyday Joy, By Calvin Miller
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    The Path of Celtic Prayer

    An Ancient Way to Everyday Joy

    by Calvin Miller

    Discover an ancient way of prayer that leads us to new union with God. "Long ago," Calvin Miller writes, "when the Celts built their own rustic kingdom of God in what would later be the British Isles, their fervor in prayer washed their world in a vital revival." In uncertain and dangerous days of high infant-mortality rates, leprosy and plagues, the Celts breathed candid prayers out of the reality ...

  • John Calvin: A Pilgrim's Life, By Herman J. Selderhuis
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    John Calvin: A Pilgrim's Life

    by Herman J. Selderhuis

    There are many biographies of John Calvin, the theologian--some villifying him and others extolling his virtues--but few that reveal John Calvin, the man. Professor and renowned Reformation historian Herman Selderhuis has written this book to bring Calvin near to the reader, showing him as a man who had an impressive impact on the development of the Western world, but who was first of all a believer ...

  • Christianity versus Fatalistic Religions in the War Against Poverty, By Udo Middelmann
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    Christianity versus Fatalistic Religions in the War Against Poverty

    by Udo Middelmann

    Most literature and many aid efforts concerned with poverty relief and development function on mathematical assumptions. Those who have more should share with those who have less, thus creating equality. Some would add a moral component saying that those having more are morally wrong and must have gained their surplus from outright theft or unfair trade. But on the side of the needy, religious ...

  • Seeing Through Cynicism: A Reconsideration of the Power of Suspicion, By Dick Keyes
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    Seeing Through Cynicism

    A Reconsideration of the Power of Suspicion

    by Dick Keyes

    We live in a cynical age. Cynicism is in the air we breathe; it is a cultural norm; it is the default setting and lens through which many of us view the world. Why is cynicism so pervasive? What does it promise? How does it work? And what does it deliver? In this thorough, interdisciplinary exploration of cynicism, Dick Keyes probes the intellectual and cultural underpinnings of cynicism in its ...

  • Surprised by Jesus: His Agenda for Changing Everything in A.D. 30 and Today, By Tim Stafford
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    Surprised by Jesus

    His Agenda for Changing Everything in A.D. 30 and Today

    by Tim Stafford

    We all know who Jesus is--or think we do. We see children flock to him and gentle wisdom lovingly pour from him. We see the kindest man in the world. But these pictures are deceptively familiar. In the Gospels Jesus says and does many puzzling things--like shriveling a fig tree or telling followers to keep his miracles a secret. He is hard on his opponents, the Pharisees, but also makes extreme ...