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  • Free at Last?: The Gospel in the African American Experience, By Carl F. Ellis Jr.
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    Free at Last?

    The Gospel in the African American Experience

    The IVP Signature Collection

    by Carl F. Ellis Jr.
    Foreword by Amisho Baraka

    The words of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech have become enshrined in US history. But after the end of King's generation of leadership, what happened to the African American struggle for freedom? Like the ancient Israelites, the African American community has survived a four-hundred-year collective trauma. What will it take for them to reach the promised land that ...

  • The Shaping of an Effective Leader: Eight Formative Principles of Leadership, By Gayle D. Beebe
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    The Shaping of an Effective Leader

    Eight Formative Principles of Leadership

    by Gayle D. Beebe
    Foreword by Steve Forbes

    Leadership is both an art and a science. We may be tempted to look for a sure-fire formula, but the reality is quite different: effective leaders are exceptional generalists rather than narrow specialists. The best leaders take what the best business experts have to offer, and apply that based on their own abilities, experience and judgment. And these leaders seek real-life mentors and ...

  • LeadershipNext: Changing Leaders in a Changing Culture, By Eddie Gibbs
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    LeadershipNext

    Changing Leaders in a Changing Culture

    by Eddie Gibbs

    • Voted "Best Outreach Leadership Training Finalist" in the Third Annual Year's Best Outreach Resources for 2005

    Our culture is constantly changing, often faster than we can adapt to it. Christian leaders struggle not only to acquire new skills and insights but also to unlearn what they already know. As both the church and the world change, so too must Christian ...

  • Strangers Next Door: Immigration, Migration and Mission, By J. D. Payne
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    Strangers Next Door

    Immigration, Migration and Mission

    by J. D. Payne

    More than ever, North America is being flooded by people from all around the world, many of them here illegally. How should the church respond to these sojourners among us? In Strangers Next Door professor of evangelism and church planting J. D. Payne introduces the phenomenon of migrations of peoples to Western nations and explores how the church should respond in light of the mission ...

  • Worship by Faith Alone: Thomas Cranmer, the Book of Common Prayer, and the Reformation of Liturgy, By Zac Hicks
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    Worship by Faith Alone

    Thomas Cranmer, the Book of Common Prayer, and the Reformation of Liturgy

    Dynamics of Christian Worship

    by Zac Hicks
    Foreword by Ashley Null

    In every age, the church must consider what it means to gather together to worship God.

    If the church is primarily the people who follow the risen Christ, then its worship should be "gospel-centered." But where might the church find an example of such worship for today?

    In this Dynamics of Christian Worship volume, scholar, worship leader, and songwriter Zac Hicks contends ...

  • Entrepreneurial Leadership: Finding Your Calling, Making a Difference, By Richard J. Goossen and R. Paul Stevens
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    Entrepreneurial Leadership

    Finding Your Calling, Making a Difference

    by Richard J. Goossen and R. Paul Stevens

    What does good theology have to do with good entrepreneurship? In this pioneering work, Richard Goossen and R. Paul Stevens have written what many are already declaring to be the essential resource for Christian entrepreneurial leadership, based on exhaustive research, practical experience and decades of teaching marketplace theology. Entrepreneurial Leadership addresses both the "how-come" ...