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  • A Guidebook to Prayer: 24 Ways to Walk with God, By MaryKate Morse
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    A Guidebook to Prayer

    24 Ways to Walk with God

    by MaryKate Morse
    Foreword by Joshua Choonmin Kang

    Why is prayer so hard? Many of us have asked that question. We want to pray. We intend to pray. But, as spiritual director and professor MaryKate Morse notes, "We don't pray as consistently or as meaningfully as we might like." And yet prayer offers us such spiritual riches. Prayer

    • draws us to experience love and to be love
    • increases our faith
    • expands our vision of God
    • helps ...
  • Water from a Deep Well: Christian Spirituality from Early Martyrs to Modern Missionaries, By Gerald L. Sittser
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    Water from a Deep Well

    Christian Spirituality from Early Martyrs to Modern Missionaries

    by Gerald L. Sittser
    Foreword by Eugene H. Peterson

    In Rome in A.D. 165, two men named Carpus and Papylus stood before the proconsul of Pergamum, charged with the crime of being Christians. Not even torture could make them deny Christ, so they were burned alive. Is my faithfulness as strong? In the fifth century, Melania the Younger and her husband, Pinian, distributed their enormous wealth to the poor and intentionally practiced the discipline ...

  • Youth Ministry in a Multifaith Society: Forming Christian Identity Among Skeptics, Syncretists and Sincere Believers of Other Faiths, By Len Kageler
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    Youth Ministry in a Multifaith Society

    Forming Christian Identity Among Skeptics, Syncretists and Sincere Believers of Other Faiths

    by Len Kageler
    Foreword by Chap Clark

    In simpler, more homogenous times, youth ministry was a relatively straightforward activity. The church's youth gathered (occasionally inviting their unchurched friends from school), played together, sang together and listened together to a message from a bright, engaging youth minister, selecting from a relatively defined set of topics: "What does it mean to follow Jesus when it comes to _______?" ...

  • The Seven Deadly Virtues: Temptations in Our Pursuit of Goodness, By Todd E. Outcalt
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    The Seven Deadly Virtues

    Temptations in Our Pursuit of Goodness

    by Todd E. Outcalt

    Our virtues can become our vices. Faith. Love. Family. Power. Success. Goodness. Generosity. Who among us wouldn't want to exhibit strength in these areas in our lives? It's hard to imagine this list being similar to the "seven deadly sins" that we strive to avoid, such as greed, lust, and slothfulness. But even so-called virtues can be harmful to our souls if we're not careful ...

  • Contagious Holiness: Jesus' Meals with Sinners, By Craig L. Blomberg
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    Contagious Holiness

    Jesus' Meals with Sinners

    New Studies in Biblical Theology

    by Craig L. Blomberg
    Series edited by D. A. Carson

    Preaching magazine Year's Best Book for Preachers

    One of humanity's most basic and common practices—eating meals—was transformed by Jesus into an occasion of divine encounter. In sharing food and drink with his companions, he invited them to share in the grace of God. He revealed his redemptive mission while eating with sinners, repentant and unrepentant alike.

    Jesus' ...

  • Christianity and Developmental Psychopathology: Foundations and Approaches, Edited by Kelly S. Flanagan and Sarah E. Hall
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    Christianity and Developmental Psychopathology

    Foundations and Approaches

    Christian Association for Psychological Studies Books

    Edited by Kelly S. Flanagan and Sarah E. Hall

    Midwest Publishing Association Award of Excellence

    Since its origin in the early 1980s, the field of developmental psychopathology has become a highly influential framework for approaching the clinical treatment of children. Until now there has been no effort to integrate this framework with a Christian understanding of psychopathology.

    The essays in this volume break ...

  • Breaking the Huddle: How Your Community Can Grow Its Witness, By Don Everts and Doug Schaupp and Val Gordon
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    Breaking the Huddle

    How Your Community Can Grow Its Witness

    by Don Everts, Doug Schaupp, and Val Gordon

    • 15th Annual Outreach Magazine Resource of the Year - Evangelism

    Most Christians are stuck in the huddle. Even though we believe in outreach, most communities tend to focus on our own needs. That turns us into insular groups without many relationships with outsiders. So evangelism is occasional and conversions are rare. How do we change? In their ...

  • Together in Ministry: Women and Men in Flourishing Partnerships, By Rob Dixon
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    Together in Ministry

    Women and Men in Flourishing Partnerships

    by Rob Dixon
    Foreword by Ruth Haley Barton

    Women and men are designed to work together in fulfilling God's mission on earth. Yet God's original intent for equal partnership has been so distorted that churches and organizations continually struggle to foster healthy mixed-gender ministry collaboration. Is it even possible to return to the Genesis ideal of co-laborers in today's contexts?

    Longtime ministry leader Rob ...

  • Spiritual Disciplines Devotional: A Year of Readings, By Valerie E. Hess
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    Spiritual Disciplines Devotional

    A Year of Readings

    by Valerie E. Hess

    Have you been longing to learn more about spiritual disciplines but haven't known where to start? Through brief daily readings and simple ideas on spiritual practices, this book introduces the core disciplines of the Christian faith. Rather than being another burden to an already full schedule, these devotions provide an opportunity to develop holy habits that will lead you into the joyful, rich ...