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  • Hope for Caregivers: A 42-Day Devotional in Company with Henri J. M. Nouwen, By Henri Nouwen
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    Hope for Caregivers

    A 42-Day Devotional in Company with Henri J. M. Nouwen

    by Henri Nouwen
    Edited by Susan Martins Miller

    Henri Nouwen's timeless wisdom reminds us once again of the transformation that love brings, both when we allow ourselves to give love with abandon and when we allow ourselves to receive love. Caregiving too often is reduced to a list of tasks—doing the things that another individual cannot do independently. In six weeks of daily devotions inspired by the words of Henri Nouwen and ...

  • Tell Her Story: How Women Led, Taught, and Ministered in the Early Church, By Nijay K. Gupta
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    Tell Her Story

    How Women Led, Taught, and Ministered in the Early Church

    by Nijay K. Gupta
    Foreword by Beth Allison Barr

    A Comprehensive Look at Women Who Built the Early Church

    Women were there. For centuries, discussions of early Christianity have focused on male leaders in the church. But there is ample evidence right in the New Testament that women were actively involved in ministry, at the frontier of the gospel mission, and as respected leaders.

    Nijay Gupta calls us to bring these ...

  • Faith-Rooted Organizing: Mobilizing the Church in Service to the World, By Rev. Alexia Salvatierra and Peter Heltzel
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    Faith-Rooted Organizing

    Mobilizing the Church in Service to the World

    by Rev. Alexia Salvatierra and Peter Heltzel

    With so many injustices, small and great, across the world and right at our doorstep, what are people of faith to do? Since the 1930s, organizing movements for social justice in the U.S. have largely been built on assumptions that are secular origin—such as reliance on self-interest and having a common enemy as a motivator for change. But what if Christians were to shape their organizing around ...

  • Healing Spiritual Abuse: How to Break Free from Bad Church Experiences, By Ken M. Blue
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    Healing Spiritual Abuse

    How to Break Free from Bad Church Experiences

    by Ken M. Blue

    Are you a victim of Spiritual Abuse?

    • Are you discouraged from questioning the decisions or teachings church leaders make?
    • If you do little or no volunteer work for the church, do you feel like a second-class Christian?
    • Does your pastor insist on being addressed by a title such as "Dr." or "Pastor"?
    • Do you hear many broad, vague appeals to "surrender fully," "yield ...
  • Transforming Worship: Planning and Leading Sunday Services as If Spiritual Formation Mattered, By Rory Noland
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    Transforming Worship

    Planning and Leading Sunday Services as If Spiritual Formation Mattered

    Transforming Resources

    by Rory Noland
    Foreword by Ruth Haley Barton

    Spiritual formation is the key to the survival of our faith.

    There is an urgent need today for church services that are substantive and purposeful. Stigmatized by scandal, the church in North America and throughout Europe has been branded as useless and irrelevant. To stem the tide of nominal Christianity, we need to get serious about making disciples who can make other disciples.

    Rory ...

  • The Pietist Option: Hope for the Renewal of Christianity, By Christopher Gehrz and Mark Pattie III
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    The Pietist Option

    Hope for the Renewal of Christianity

    by Christopher Gehrz and Mark Pattie III

    Historian Mark Noll has written that historic Pietism "breathed a badly needed vitality" into post-Reformation Europe. Now the time has come for Pietism to revitalize Christianity in post-Christendom America. In The Pietist Option, Christopher Gehrz, a historian of Pietism, and Mark Pattie, a pastor in the Pietist tradition, show how Pietism holds great promise for the church—and the world—today. ...

  • Teaching the Faith, Forming the Faithful: A Biblical Vision for Education in the Church, By Gary A. Parrett and S. Steve Kang
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    Teaching the Faith, Forming the Faithful

    A Biblical Vision for Education in the Church

    by Gary A. Parrett and S. Steve Kang
    Foreword by J. I. Packer

    Why does the church teach? And what should it teach? In recent years, traditional Sunday school and education programs have declined in influence and effectiveness. Education in the church is often sidelined by other competing priorities, and our efforts become haphazard and random. As a result, many Christians have not learned the fundamental doctrinal content of the faith. As a response, a ...

  • Spiritual Mentoring: A Guide for Seeking  Giving Direction, By Keith R. Anderson and Randy D. Reese
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    Spiritual Mentoring

    A Guide for Seeking Giving Direction

    by Keith R. Anderson and Randy D. Reese

    Iron sharpens iron, and one person sharpens . . . another. (Proverbs 27:17) As we seek God together we come to know him more deeply. That's the idea behind Spiritual Mentoring. Spiritual mentoring is an ages-old practice that Keith Anderson and Randy Reese introduce in a way that fits life as we know it today. Spiritual mentoring is not only for pastors or saints. Mentors are ...

  • Growing Healthy Asian American Churches, Edited by Peter Cha and S. Steve Kang and Helen Lee
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    Growing Healthy Asian American Churches

    Edited by Peter Cha, S. Steve Kang, and Helen Lee

    The Asian American church is in transition. Congregations face the challenges of preserving ethnic culture and heritage while contextualizing their ministry to younger generations and the unchurched. Many Asian American church leaders struggle with issues like leadership development, community dynamics and intergenerational conflict. But often Asian American churches lack the resources and support ...