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hardcoverIsaiah and the Worry Pack
Learning to Trust God with All Our Fear and Anxiety
by Ruth Goring
Illustrated by Pamela C. RiceIt's bedtime again, but Isaiah can't sleep. It seems he's got too many things on his mind: things he’s worried about. So Mom helps Isaiah imagine what it would be like if each of his worries were a block that he could stash in his backpack.
As Isaiah imagines hiking through the woods carrying his worry pack, he discovers the joy and relief of trusting Jesus with everything—especially ...
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paperbackChurchNext
Quantum Changes in How We Do Ministry
by Eddie Gibbs
- A 2001 Christianity Today Book of the Year
What will the church be next? CHANGE IS NOW. Competition from nontraditional and Eastern religions join with the pressures of both modernism and postmodernism to squeeze Christianity. While new church models have sprung up to meet these challenges, they each have strengths and limitations. Eddie Gibbs, a well-known ...
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caseboundSkills for Safeguarding
A Guide to Preventing Abuse and Fostering Healing in the Church
by Lisa Compton and Taylor Patterson
The Only Textbook on Safeguarding for Faith-Based Ministries and Seminaries
Christians are called to care for the vulnerable, but churches have not always led the way in becoming places safe from abuse. Increasingly, organizations and churches are recognizing the importance of the field of safeguarding: training and equipping people to prevent abuse, ...
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paperbackNobody's Mother
Artemis of the Ephesians in Antiquity and the New Testament
by Sandra L. Glahn
How Has Misinterpreting Paul Led to the Silencing of Women?
Some Christians think Paul's reference to "saved through childbearing" in 1 Timothy 2:15 means that women are slated primarily for delivering and raising children. Alternate readings, however, sometimes fail to build on the best historical and textual evidence.
Sandra Glahn thinks that we have misunderstood ...
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hardcoverThe O in Hope
A Poem of Wonder
by Luci Shaw
Illustrated by Ned BustardWhat do an orangutan, an ostrich, an orange, and the ocean all have in common?
They all begin with the letter O!
But other words also have an O—words like mouth or moon or wow,
and even the word hope.Combining a joyful poem from the much-celebrated poet Luci Shaw with playful cut-paper art created by Ned Bustard, The O in Hope helps ...
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paperbackTogether for the City
How Collaborative Church Planting Leads to Citywide Movements
by Neil Powell and John James
Foreword by Timothy KellerWe need a bigger vision for the city. It's not enough to plant individual churches in isolation from each other. The spiritual need and opportunity of our cities is too big for any one church to meet alone. Pastors Neil Powell and John James contend that to truly transform a city, the gospel compels us to create localized, collaborative church planting movements. They share lessons ...
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paperbackThe Jonathan Effect
Helping Kids and Schools Win the Battle Against Poverty
by Mike Tenbusch
America may be called the "land of opportunity," but countless kids and teens are struggling like young Davids in the urban wilderness, attempting to fight the giant of poverty under insurmountable odds. What could make a difference? The presence of a "Jonathan" in their lives to offer them the life-giving support they need to survive and thrive. The church is the best source of these Jonathans, ...
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paperbackEncounter God in the City
Onramps to Personal and Community Transformation
by Randy White
Foreword by Raymond J. BakkeGod is at work in the city. And he invites his people to join him. But the city is not merely a mission field for Christians to target. The city is also the environment where Christians are discipled and lives are forged into the image of Jesus. Urban ministry veteran Randy White shows how God transforms you when you answer God's call to the city. Urban life peels away your sin and self-deception ...
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paperbackTransforming Leadership
Jesus' Way of Creating Vision, Shaping Values Empowering Change
by Leighton Ford
A book for leaders, by leaders, about the greatest leader of them all.
In our rapidly changing and ever more complex world, we suffer a crisis of leadership. Leighton Ford sees the growing dearth of bold leaders--in the marketplace, religion and public life. In this powerful book, Ford calls Christians to be transformational leaders.
Many leaders work within situations; transformational ...
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hardcoverThe Offensive Church
Breaking the Cycle of Ethnic Disunity
by Bryan C. Loritts
Crises around race have put the church in a defensive posture, always reacting to racial conflicts in society. But Jesus wants more. He wants Christians to play offense by discipling people into a new humanity, where we push beyond mere diversity and into a biblical vision for ethnic unity.
Bryan Loritts calls Christians to proactively and intentionally live out the embodied ...
