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  • Courage and Calling: Embracing Your God-Given Potential, By Gordon T. Smith
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    Courage and Calling

    Embracing Your God-Given Potential

    by Gordon T. Smith

    You have a calling.

    First, God calls us all to know and love him. Second, for each individual there is a specific call—a defining purpose or mission, with implications for all of life.

    In this classic book on vocation, Gordon Smith invites you to discover your calling by listening to God and becoming a coworker with him. Courage and Calling has helped ...

  • A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society, By Eugene H. Peterson
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    A Long Obedience in the Same Direction

    Discipleship in an Instant Society

    The IVP Signature Collection

    by Eugene H. Peterson

    • Over 200,000 Copies Sold

    Since Eugene Peterson wrote this spiritual formation classic more than forty years ago, hundreds of thousands of Christians have been inspired by its call to deeper discipleship. Our society is still obsessed with quick fixes. But Peterson's time-tested prescription for discipleship remains the same—a long obedience in ...

  • Power: Living by the Spirit of God, By Scott Nelson
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    Power

    Living by the Spirit of God

    Forge Guides for Missional Conversation

    by Scott Nelson
    Foreword by Alan Hirsch

    The mission of God has a church. So the church needs to be in sync with the mission of God. This is the guiding philosophy of the Forge Missions Training Network, which has helped church leaders and laypeople alike all over the world to reach their neighbors, their neighborhoods and their communities with the gospel. In these guides you and your friends will be equipped to be missionaries where ...

  • Eldership and the Mission of God: Equipping Teams for Faithful Church Leadership, By J.R. Briggs and Bob Hyatt
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    Eldership and the Mission of God

    Equipping Teams for Faithful Church Leadership

    by J.R. Briggs and Bob Hyatt
    Foreword by Alan Hirsch

    Every church needs leadership. But leadership should not reside in a single pastor. The biblical model for church leadership is found in teams of elders who together guide the community into God's mission. Church leaders J.R. Briggs and Bob Hyatt provide a comprehensive picture of elders as agents of mission for their communities. Healthy eldership structures a church for mission, as elder teams ...

  • Analog Church: Why We Need Real People, Places, and Things in the Digital Age, By Jay Y. Kim
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    Analog Church

    Why We Need Real People, Places, and Things in the Digital Age

    by Jay Y. Kim
    Foreword by Scot McKnight

    Outreach Resource of the Year
    The Gospel Coalition Book Award

    What does it mean to be an analog church in a digital age?

    In recent decades the digital world has taken over our society at nearly every level, and the church has increasingly followed suit—often in ways we're not fully aware of. But as even the culture at large begins to ...

  • Multicultural Ministry Handbook: Connecting Creatively to a Diverse World, Edited by David A. Anderson and Margarita R. Cabellon
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    Multicultural Ministry Handbook

    Connecting Creatively to a Diverse World

    BridgeLeader Books

    Edited by David A. Anderson and Margarita R. Cabellon

    Outreach Magazine Book Award winner

    The world is becoming increasingly diverse. More and more of our neighbors are from a variety of cultures, ethnicities and cultural backgrounds. But most churches are still culturally homogenous and do not represent every tribe and tongue. What can we do to minister more effectively to our multicultural society?

    David Anderson ...

  • Invest in Transformation: Quit Relying on Trust, By Tod Bolsinger
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    Invest in Transformation

    Quit Relying on Trust

    Practicing Change Series

    by Tod Bolsinger
    Illustrated by Mark Demel
    Foreword by Marty Linsky

    There is no transformation without trust, but trust is not transformation. We must learn how to invest trust for transformation.

    Groups that have become skeptical need leadership to refuel a sense of community and continuity if change is going to happen. But trust can be easily hoarded or squandered. This Practicing Change volume from Tod Bolsinger outlines steps to envision ...

  • Soul Care in African American Practice, By Barbara L. Peacock
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    Soul Care in African American Practice

    by Barbara L. Peacock

    Christianity Today Award of Merit

    In the midst of our hectic, overscheduled lives, caring for the soul is imperative.

    Now, more than ever, we need to pause—intentionally—and encounter the Divine.

    Soul care director Barbara Peacock illustrates a journey of prayer, spiritual direction, and soul care from an African American perspective. ...

  • Colossians  Philemon, By Robert W. Wall
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    Colossians Philemon

    The IVP New Testament Commentary Series

    by Robert W. Wall

    To the Colossians, preoccupied with legal codes and intellectual disputes, Paul wrote a letter stressing not only the centrality of Christ but also the need for Christians to live out their faith in genuine community. Paul's antidote to a privatized and intellectualized faith will provide relief to many Christians today. To Philemon, a powerful church leader, Paul wrote a strong personal letter ...

  • Cross and Crescent: Responding to the Challenges of Islam, By Colin Chapman
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    Cross and Crescent

    Responding to the Challenges of Islam

    by Colin Chapman

    Is the Muslim my neighbor? For increasing numbers of Christians, the answer to that question is yes. The crescent, an emblem of the Islamic faith recognized throughout the world, is gaining prominence in the West, bringing with it the collision of worldviews. When the cross meets the crescent, what ought to happen? In the newly revised classic Cross and Crescent, Colin Chapman brings ...