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  • Toward a Prophetic Youth Ministry: Theory and Praxis in Urban Context, By Fernando Arzola Jr.
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    Toward a Prophetic Youth Ministry

    Theory and Praxis in Urban Context

    by Fernando Arzola Jr.

    Youth ministries in an urban context are too often left to their own devices. The resources available to them are overwhelmingly conceived, tested and produced exclusively in the suburbs, and bring little to bear on the realities of urban youth culture. As a consequence, youth ministries in large cities have tended to settle onto one of three paths--a traditional paradigm that jealously guards ...

  • The IVP Atlas of Bible History, By Paul Lawrence
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    The IVP Atlas of Bible History

    Consulting Editor A. R. Millard and John H. Walton
    by Paul Lawrence
    Consulting Editor Heinrich Von Siebenthal

    Open Your Understanding of the World of Scripture

    The story of the Bible is inextricably linked to the land. To understand biblical history, we need to understand how the people, events, and geography interacted to form that ancient world.

    Spanning three thousand years of biblical history, The IVP Atlas of Bible History reveals the many fascinating ways that ...

  • The Decalogue: Living as the People of God, By David L. Baker
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    The Decalogue

    Living as the People of God

    by David L. Baker

    • Evangelical Christian Publishers Association Top Shelf Book Cover Award 2017

    The Ten Commandments, or Decalogue, have long been a pillar of Western law and culture. In more recent times they have been a point of controversy in the public square. But on closer scrutiny the commandments are particularly addressed to the people of God. In the exodus narrative, ...

  • Mack  Leeann's Guide to Short-Term Missions, By J. Mack Stiles and Leeann Stiles
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    Mack Leeann's Guide to Short-Term Missions

    by J. Mack Stiles and Leeann Stiles

    Today the world is as close as an airplane flight. Thousands take advantage of this, going for short visits to other countries to be more involved in God's worldwide mission. How can you prepare for such a trip? What are the hazards to avoid and the opportunities to embrace? Here is field-tested advice you should not leave home without! Mack and Leeann Stiles are veteran leaders of more ...

  • Truth or Consequences: The Promise  Perils of Postmodernism, By Millard J. Erickson
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    Truth or Consequences

    The Promise Perils of Postmodernism

    by Millard J. Erickson

    • A 2002 Christianity Today Book of the Year

    Postmodernism. The term slowly filtered into our vocabularies about three decades ago and now permeates most discussions of the humanities. Those who tout the promises and perils of this twentieth-century intellectual movement have filled many a bookshelf. And in a previous book, Postmodernizing the Faith: ...

  • Sustainable Young Adult Ministry: Making It Work, Making It Last, By Mark DeVries and Scott Pontier
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    Sustainable Young Adult Ministry

    Making It Work, Making It Last

    by Mark DeVries and Scott Pontier

    Young adult ministry scares us. Young adults seem like the elusive Holy Grail demographic in Christian ministry. We often treat them like another species, with an inscrutable culture all their own. To have a thriving ministry to young adults, we're told, we'll need to be up-to-date on all the latest trends. We'll need to change up our worship style. We'll need to make programs. ...

  • 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 ...

  • Want more context as you begin to study 1 Corinthians? This introduction will give you the background you need as you read the Daily Quiet Time Bible Study. We hope you continue to discover the riches of Scripture and draw closer to God as you join the millions who have used this free devotional resource.