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  • Starting Missional Churches: Life with God in the Neighborhood, Edited by Mark Branson and Nicholas Warnes
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    Starting Missional Churches

    Life with God in the Neighborhood

    Edited by Mark Branson and Nicholas Warnes

    All mission is local—the people of God joining the work of God in a particular place. In Starting Missional Churches Mark Lau Branson and Nicholas Warnes introduce us to seven missional churches while examining common challenges regarding their genesis. Using stories, interviews with pastors and a look at common preconceived notions of church planting in the West, this guide brings together ...

  • Creative Church Handbook: Releasing the Power of the Arts in Your Congregation, By J. Scott McElroy
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    Creative Church Handbook

    Releasing the Power of the Arts in Your Congregation

    by J. Scott McElroy

    If the future is creative, is it any wonder that sometimes the church seems stuck in the past? Now is the time for the church to reclaim its role as a center of creativity. Among your members are artists, musicians and other creatives whose gifts can enhance your worship, inform your theology and impact your community. Christian arts advocate J. Scott McElroy gives a comprehensive vision and manual ...

  • Become What You Are: Spiritual Formation According to the Sermon on the Mount, By William W. Klein
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    Become What You Are

    Spiritual Formation According to the Sermon on the Mount

    by William W. Klein

    If you were sitting today on a hillside listening to Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, how ought you respond? Become What You Are is the insider's guide to Jesus' agenda—the goal of spiritual formation. This goal is a transformed heart, a change at the inner center of our being, that leads to a life that pleases God. Or, as a shorthand, it means becoming like Christ. This unique approach to ...

  • Tempered Resilience: How Leaders Are Formed in the Crucible of Change, By Tod Bolsinger
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    Tempered Resilience

    How Leaders Are Formed in the Crucible of Change

    by Tod Bolsinger

    Christian Book Award Finalist

    What type of leadership is needed in a moment that demands adaptive change?

    Tod Bolsinger, author of Canoeing the Mountains, is uniquely positioned to explore the qualities of adaptive leadership in contexts ranging from churches to nonprofit organizations. He deftly examines both the external challenges we face ...

  • Tell the Truth: The Whole Gospel Wholly by Grace Communicated Truthfully  Lovingly, By Will Metzger
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    Tell the Truth

    The Whole Gospel Wholly by Grace Communicated Truthfully Lovingly

    by Will Metzger

    "Picture a gigantic cruise ship filled with happy people. "It's the S.S. Evangelical Gospel. In the midst of their fun and excitement, passengers have not noticed holes in the ship's side under the water line. Well-meaning leaders are attempting to plug these holes with new methods, technology, social activism and cultural savvy. All these are important, yet the structure of the ship remains ...

  • Integrative Psychotherapy: Toward a Comprehensive Christian Approach, By Mark R. McMinn and Clark D. Campbell
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    Integrative Psychotherapy

    Toward a Comprehensive Christian Approach

    Christian Association for Psychological Studies Books

    by Mark R. McMinn and Clark D. Campbell

    Mark McMinn and Clark Campbell present an integrative model of psychotherapy that is grounded in Christian biblical and theological teaching and in a critical and constructive engagement with contemporary psychology. Now in paperback, this foundational work integrates behavioral, cognitive, and interpersonal models of therapy within a Christian theological framework. Not only do the authors integrate ...

  • Room of Marvels: A Story About Heaven that Heals the Heart, By James Bryan Smith
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    Room of Marvels

    A Story About Heaven that Heals the Heart

    by James Bryan Smith
    Foreword by Dallas Willard

    Three deaths in three years. His mother. His best friend. And now, his two-year-old daughter. In this moving story a Christian author goes to a retreat center to grieve and face the hard questions about God that he is asking in the wake of these losses.

    If you have ever felt alone, betrayed, abandoned—if you have found yourself asking God why—this novel may be a source of ...

  • The Soul of Wine: Savoring the Goodness of God, By Gisela H. Kreglinger
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    The Soul of Wine

    Savoring the Goodness of God

    by Gisela H. Kreglinger

    ★ Publishers Weekly starred review

    Wine is a wonderful, lavish, and mysterious gift from God.

    Gisela Kreglinger, the daughter of a vintner and trained as a theologian, invites us to discover wine as part of a more full-bodied Christian spirituality. She shows us how the soulful savoring of wine is God's way of wooing us back into a great love affair. ...

  • Charitable Writing: Cultivating Virtue Through Our Words, By Richard Hughes Gibson and James Edward Beitler III
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    Charitable Writing

    Cultivating Virtue Through Our Words

    by Richard Hughes Gibson and James Edward Beitler III
    Foreword by Anne Ruggles Gere
    Afterword by Alan Jacobs

    ECPA Top Shelf Book Cover Award

    Our written words carry weight.

    Unfortunately, in today's cultural climate, our writing is too often laced with harsh judgments and vitriol rather than careful consideration and generosity. But might the Christian faith transform how we approach the task of writing? How might we love God and our neighbors through our writing?

    This ...

  • The First Thanksgiving: What the Real Story Tells Us About Loving God and Learning from History, By Robert Tracy McKenzie
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    The First Thanksgiving

    What the Real Story Tells Us About Loving God and Learning from History

    by Robert Tracy McKenzie

    Foreword Book of the Year Award Finalist

    The Pilgrims' celebration of the first Thanksgiving is a keystone of America's national and spiritual identity. But is what we've been taught about them or their harvest feast what actually happened? And if not, what difference does it make?

    Through the captivating story of the birth of this quintessentially American ...