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  • The Enneagram Goes to Church: Wisdom for Leadership, Worship, and Congregational Life, By Todd Wilson
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    The Enneagram Goes to Church

    Wisdom for Leadership, Worship, and Congregational Life

    by Todd Wilson

    If I had known the Enneagram earlier in my ministry, I would have been a much better pastor.

    When this thought came to Todd Wilson, he had already served as a pastor in several churches for the better part of fifteen years and was successfully leading a large, historic, and diverse congregation. He'd started out in ministry with a strong education in everything from ...

  • Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope, By Esau McCaulley
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    Reading While Black

    African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope

    by Esau McCaulley

    Outreach Resources of the Year, Christianity Today Book Award, The Gospel Coalition Book Award

    Biblical Interpretation from the Black Church Tradition

    Growing up in the American South, Esau McCaulley knew firsthand the ongoing struggle between despair and hope that marks the lives of some in the African American context. ...

  • 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 ...

  • The Gift of Hard Things: Finding Grace in Unexpected Places, By Mark Yaconelli
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    The Gift of Hard Things

    Finding Grace in Unexpected Places

    by Mark Yaconelli

    • Foreword Reviews' 2016 INDIES Book of the Year Award, Silver Winner in Self-Help

    In many ways society teaches us to try to have everything under our control. If we are honest, we tend to think that this can be true even of our spiritual lives. But Mark Yaconelli eloquently expresses the reality of our situation: "We are small, sensitive creatures with short lifespans, ...

  • 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 ...

  • Evangelism: A Way of Life, By Rebecca Manley Pippert and Ruth E. Siemens
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    Evangelism

    A Way of Life

    LifeGuide Bible Studies

    by Rebecca Manley Pippert and Ruth E. Siemens

    "I don't want to offend people." "I don't know what to say." Most of us can think of at least one hundred reasons not to share the gospel. Evangelism can be intimidating. But it can also be a natural and exciting way of life. These Bible studies will help you discover creative ways to share the gospel in your everyday situations and surroundings. In this twelve-session LifeGuide® ...

    Number of Studies: 12

  • Ending Human Trafficking: A Handbook of Strategies for the Church Today, By Shayne Moore and Sandra Morgan and Kimberly McOwen Yim
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    Ending Human Trafficking

    A Handbook of Strategies for the Church Today

    by Shayne Moore, Sandra Morgan, and Kimberly McOwen Yim
    Foreword by Ambassador John Cotton Richmond

    Author Sandra Morgan awarded Wilberforce Award

    Human trafficking is one of the most pressing social justice issues of our time, and in recent years there has been renewed interest among Christians, as many have been stirred up to take their part in the ongoing battle. This is a wonderful thing—and yet misinformed and misguided efforts can do more harm than ...

  • Enduring Friendship: Sticking Together in an Age of Unfriending, By Bryan C. Loritts
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    Enduring Friendship

    Sticking Together in an Age of Unfriending

    by Bryan C. Loritts
    Foreword by John Mark Comer

    Friendships are difficult.

    Sometimes it can seem as if friends are more work and pain than they're worth, with friendship challenges that we have to endure and struggle through. Life gets in the way of our well-intentioned efforts to connect. Conflicts and differences over serious issues divide us and make us think that we could never be close to a person ever again. In today's ...

  • Raise Your Voice: Why We Stay Silent and How to Speak Up, By Kathy Khang
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    Raise Your Voice

    Why We Stay Silent and How to Speak Up

    by Kathy Khang

    You have a voice. And you have God's permission to use it. In some communities, certain voices are amplified and elevated while others are erased and suppressed. It can be hard to speak up, especially in the ugliness of social media. Power dynamics keep us silent and marginalized, especially when race, ethnicity, and gender are factors. What can we do about it? Activist Kathy Khang roots our voice ...

  • Belonging: Accessibility, Inclusion, and Christian Community, By Deborah Meyer Abbs
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    Belonging

    Accessibility, Inclusion, and Christian Community

    LifeGuide Bible Studies

    by Deborah Meyer Abbs

    God created all of us for relationship with God and each other. Yet most people have felt left out at some point. For those with visible or invisible disabilities, attitudes and systems of ableism can particularly lead to deep hurt and barriers to fully participating in God's kingdom work. We all miss out when any members of the body of Christ are not included.

    In this nine-session ...

    Number of Studies: 9