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  • Pilgrimage of a Soul: Contemplative Spirituality for the Active Life, By Phileena Heuertz
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    Pilgrimage of a Soul

    Contemplative Spirituality for the Active Life

    by Phileena Heuertz Nikole
    Foreword by Shauna Niequist

    You can only go so far for so long before you find the limits of yourself. For Phileena Heuertz that moment arrived, mercifully, around the same time as a sabbatical to mark her twelfth year of service with Word Made Flesh, a ministry to some of the poorest people in the world. With six months' respite from the daily task of serving those who have nothing, Phileena rediscovered the genius of contemplative ...

  • 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 later ...

  • In her book "Nobody's Mother," New Testament scholar Sandra Glahn digs deep into evidence about the ancient Greek goddess Artemis of the Ephesians from both biblical and classical sources in order to bring into focus Paul's teaching in 1 Timothy. Read this interview to learn more about her thoughts on scholarship, mentoring, and the role of story in academic writing.

  • Quiet Time
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    Quiet Time

    by InterVarsity Staff

    We all long for an ever-deepening fellowship with God. But how do we find it? The mystery is not great. Experience shows that those who are close to God have set time aside each day with him.

    Over a million Christians have turned again and again to this classic introduction to daily devotions. Here they have found simple, sound and practical advice on quiet time with their Lord.

  • Inner Healing: A Handbook for Helping Yourself and Others, By Mike T. Flynn and Douglas H. Gregg
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    Inner Healing

    A Handbook for Helping Yourself and Others

    by Mike T. Flynn and Douglas H. Gregg

    This straightforward handbook by Mike Flynn and Doug Gregg shows how God can set a new course for our lives and provides us all the tools necessary to embark on a journey of inner healing. Writing from a biblical perspective which seeks to correctcommon myths and misunderstandings about this vital ministry, Flynn and Gregg's work will be valued both by those who want to help their hurting friends ...

  • A Fragile Stone: The Emotional Life of Simon Peter, By Michael Card
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    A Fragile Stone

    The Emotional Life of Simon Peter

    by Michael Card
    Foreword by Brennan Manning

    • Winner of a Chicago Book Clinic 2004 Design Award

    "The ultimate reason for getting to know Peter is so together we might better know Jesus. For the story of Peter is the story of Jesus. Perhaps, if you and I do our best, the same will be said of us someday"--Michael Card.

    Simon Peter emerges from the pages of the Gospels with greater clarity and definition than any other person ...

  • Christianity and Western Thought: Journey to Postmodernity in the Twentieth Century, By Alan G. Padgett and Steve Wilkens
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    Christianity and Western Thought

    Journey to Postmodernity in the Twentieth Century

    Christianity and Western Thought Series

    by Alan G. Padgett and Steve Wilkens

    Colin Brown's Christianity Western Thought, Volume 1: From the Ancient World to the Age of Enlightenment was widely embraced as a text in philosophy and theology courses around the world. His project was continued with the same spirit, energy and design by Steve Wilkens and Alan Padgett in volume 2, which explores the main intellectual streams of the nineteenth century.This, the third and ...

  • Essential Guide to Becoming a Disciple: Eight Sessions for Mentoring and Discipleship, By Greg Ogden
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    Essential Guide to Becoming a Disciple

    Eight Sessions for Mentoring and Discipleship

    The Essentials Set

    by Greg Ogden

    What exactly does it mean to be a disciple of Jesus? What am I committing myself to if I say I want to follow him? What will be required of me if I identify myself with Jesus?

    These are the questions at the heart of Essential Guide to Becoming a Disciple. Jesus didn’t start a movement that has reached nearly every corner of the globe over the last two thousand ...

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