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  • Sustainable Youth Ministry: Why Most Youth Ministry Doesn't Last and What Your Church Can Do About It, By Mark DeVries
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    Sustainable Youth Ministry

    Why Most Youth Ministry Doesn't Last and What Your Church Can Do About It

    by Mark DeVries

    You're looking for a youth pastor. Again. What goes wrong? Why do youth ministries crumble? And what is the cost to students, parents, volunteers and church staff? Is a sustainable youth ministry possible, even after a youth pastor leaves? Youth ministry expert Mark DeVries knows the answer is yes, because he helps build sustainable youth ministries through his coaching service called Youth Ministry ...

  • Struggling with Evangelicalism: Why I Want to Leave and What It Takes to Stay, By Dan Stringer
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    Struggling with Evangelicalism

    Why I Want to Leave and What It Takes to Stay

    by Dan Stringer
    Foreword by Richard J. Mouw

    When evangelicals make a mess, who cleans it up?

    Many today are discarding the evangelical label, even if they still hold to the historic tenets of evangelicalism. But evangelicalism is a space, not just a brand, and living in that space is complicated.

    As a lifelong evangelical who happens to be a biracial Asian/White millennial, Dan Stringer has felt both included ...

  • A Multitude of All Peoples: Engaging Ancient Christianity's Global Identity, By Vince L. Bantu
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    A Multitude of All Peoples

    Engaging Ancient Christianity's Global Identity

    Missiological Engagements

    by Vince L. Bantu

    Christianity Today Award of Merit

    Christianity is not becoming a global religion. It has always been a global religion. The early Christian movement spread from Jerusalem in every direction, taking on local cultural expression all around the ancient world. So why do so many people see Christianity as a primarily Western, white religion?

    In ...

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    Lutheran Hour Ministries Resources

    The books within Lutheran Hour Ministries Resources are the products of a collaboration between IVP, Lutheran Hour Ministries (LHM), and Barna Group. In 2018 – 2020, LHM partnered with Barna Group—an industry leader for research-based insights about faith and culture, leadership, and vocation, and generational groups—on a critical three-year study of faith in America. This research is the backbone ...

  • The Temple and the Church's Mission: A Biblical Theology of the Dwelling Place of God, By G. K. Beale
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    The Temple and the Church's Mission

    A Biblical Theology of the Dwelling Place of God

    New Studies in Biblical Theology

    by G. K. Beale
    Series edited by D. A. Carson

    "Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth. . . . And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem. . . . And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man." (Revelation 21:1-3, ESV). In this comprehensive study, a New Studies in Biblical Theology volume, G. K. Beale argues that the Old Testament tabernacle and temples were symbolically designed to point to the ...

  • What does it look like to disrupt the church and world as we know it? The Disrupters podcast from IVP, hosted by Kaitlyn Schiess, features stories of positive disruption from both emerging and trusted voices within Christianity. These authors, pastors, scholars, activists, and creators tell their honest stories about the experiences that have challenged their thinking about faith, the church, and their calling in life.

  • The Liturgy of Politics: Spiritual Formation for the Sake of Our Neighbor, By Kaitlyn Schiess
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    The Liturgy of Politics

    Spiritual Formation for the Sake of Our Neighbor

    by Kaitlyn Schiess
    Foreword by Michael Wear

    A generation of young Christians are weary of the political legacy they've inherited and hungry for a better approach.

    They're tired of seeing their faith tied to political battles they didn't start, and they're frustrated by the failures of leaders they thought they could trust. Kaitlyn Schiess grew up in this landscape, and understands it from the inside.

    Spiritual ...

  • Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope, By Esau McCaulley
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    Reading While Black

    African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope

    by Esau McCaulley

    Outreach Resources of the Year, Christianity Today Book Award, The Gospel Coalition Book Award

    Biblical Interpretation from the Black Church Tradition

    Growing up in the American South, Esau McCaulley knew firsthand the ongoing struggle between despair and hope that marks the lives of some in the African American context. ...