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  • White Awake: An Honest Look at What It Means to Be White, By Daniel Hill
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    White Awake

    An Honest Look at What It Means to Be White

    by Daniel Hill
    Foreword by Brenda Salter McNeil

    Daniel Hill will never forget the day he heard these words:"Daniel, you may be white, but don't let that lull you into thinking you have no culture. White culture is very real. In fact, when white culture comes in contact with other cultures, it almost always wins. So it would be a really good idea for you to learn about your culture."Confused and unsettled by this encounter, Hill began ...

  • 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 ...

  • The Power of Proximity: Moving Beyond Awareness to Action, By Michelle Ferrigno Warren
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    The Power of Proximity

    Moving Beyond Awareness to Action

    by Michelle Ferrigno Warren
    Foreword by Noel Castellanos

    We can see evidence of injustice all around us, whether in continuing incidents of racial inequality or in the systemic forces that disenfranchise people and perpetuate poverty. It's important to learn about the world's inequities and to be a voice for the voiceless any way we can. But in an age of hashtag and armchair activism, merely raising awareness about injustice is not enough.Michelle Warren ...

  • Raising Sons of Promise: A Guide for Single Mothers of Boys, By Roland C. Warren
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    Raising Sons of Promise

    A Guide for Single Mothers of Boys

    by Roland Warren
    With Heather Creekmore

    Millions of single mothers find themselves in the difficult position of raising boys alone. Many of those boys are at risk of falling behind in school or repeating the patterns of their own absent or neglectful fathers. Single mothers, who are often the only parental influence on their sons, are critical to reversing this troubling trend. But how?

    You might be wounded by the ...

  • The Medieval Mind of C. S. Lewis: How Great Books Shaped a Great Mind, By Jason M. Baxter
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    The Medieval Mind of C. S. Lewis

    How Great Books Shaped a Great Mind

    by Jason M Baxter

    C. S. Lewis had one of the great minds of the twentieth century.

    Many readers know Lewis as an author of fiction and fantasy literature, including the Chronicles of Narnia and the Space Trilogy. Others know him for his booksin apologetics, including Mere Christianity and The Problem of Pain. But few know him for his scholarly work as a professor of medieval ...

  • Forty Days on Being an Eight, By Sandra Maria Van Opstal
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    Forty Days on Being an Eight

    Enneagram Daily Reflections

    by Sandra Maria Van Opstal
    Series edited by Suzanne Stabile

    What is it like to be an Enneagram Eight?

    "Fósforito! The explosion happened so quickly there was no stopping it. My mother called me 'tiny match' when she would see this fire exploding from me." This is how Latina pastor, activist, and worship leader, Sandra Maria Van Opstal, describes her experience as an Eight. There came a point in her life when she saw how her ...

    Number of Studies: 40

  • The Self-Aware Leader: Discovering Your Blind Spots to Reach Your Ministry Potential, By Terry Linhart
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    The Self-Aware Leader

    Discovering Your Blind Spots to Reach Your Ministry Potential

    by Terry Linhart
    Foreword by Carey Nieuwhof

    Parish Clergy - Top Ten Books

    Effective ministry begins here.

    You've studied what you think you need to know before entering a career in ministry. Is there anything that is more important than knowingabout hermeneutics, homiletics, theology, exegesis, and everything else you have likely learned in seminary and church ministry so far?

    Yes, there ...

  • The Vulnerable Pastor: How Human Limitations Empower Our Ministry, By Mandy Smith
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    The Vulnerable Pastor

    How Human Limitations Empower Our Ministry

    by Mandy Smith
    Foreword by David Hansen

    Missio Alliance Essential Reading List

    Hearts Minds Bookstore's Best Books

    ProdigalThought.net's Top Reads

    Englewood Review of Books Best Books

    Leadership Journal's Best Ministry Books of the Year

    Often as pastors we feel like we need to project strength and competency in order ...

  • Honest Worship: From False Self to True Praise, By Manuel Luz
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    Honest Worship

    From False Self to True Praise

    by Manuel Luz
    Foreword by Rory Jon Noland

    When asked by his son why some churches have smoke machines, worship pastor Manuel Luz found himself responding, "Well, technically, you need smoke machines to see the lasers." But when you take down the smokescreen, what do you have left? Where do we encounter the Holy in the midst of all this? Where can we worship with our full selves—heart, soul, mind, and body—in Spirit and truth?Drawing from ...

  • Live the Questions: How Searching Shapes Our Convictions and Commitments, By Jeffrey F. Keuss
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    Live the Questions

    How Searching Shapes Our Convictions and Commitments

    by Jeffrey F. Keuss

    "Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer." —Rainer Maria Rilke

    Life is full of questions: questions about our identity, our relationships, our faith.Sometimes it seems like there are no easy answers. But our questioning can lead us on a journey into greater understanding and purpose.

    Jeffrey ...