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  • Becoming Curious: A Spiritual Practice of Asking Questions, By Casey Tygrett
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    Becoming Curious

    A Spiritual Practice of Asking Questions

    by Casey Tygrett
    Foreword by James Bryan Smith

    Curiosity is essential to growth. A little curiosity moves us deeper into the lives of the people around us. A little curiosity leads to opportunities we never knew existed. A little curiosity helps us understand our own strange emotions. A little curiosity, if focused on Jesus, will make us more like him. Pastor and spiritual director Casey Tygrett loves to ask questions. ...

  • Hopeful Lament: Tending Our Grief Through Spiritual Practices, By Terra McDaniel
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    Hopeful Lament

    Tending Our Grief Through Spiritual Practices

    by Terra McDaniel

    We need to rediscover lament to heal and hope again.

    We've lost the practice of lament. Most people don't know how to process personal or communal mourning and instead struggle to honor their tears, vulnerability, and the full weight of these disillusioning times. But tending our grief might be exactly what we need to reimagine a way forward.

    Tracing her difficult experiences ...

  • In Church as It Is in Heaven: Cultivating a Multiethnic Kingdom Culture, By Jamaal E. Williams and Timothy Paul Jones
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    In Church as It Is in Heaven

    Cultivating a Multiethnic Kingdom Culture

    by Jamaal E. Williams and Timothy Paul Jones

    Christianity Today Award of Merit

    Heaven is multiethnic. Are you ready for that?

    The Bible tells us that the congregation gathered around God's heavenly throne will be "a vast multitude from every nation, tribe, people, and language," all singing the praises of the Lamb. God's intention has always been to delight for all eternity in a redeemed ...

  • Traveling Light: Galatians and the Free Life in Christ, By Eugene H. Peterson
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    Traveling Light

    Galatians and the Free Life in Christ

    by Eugene H. Peterson
    Foreword by Karen Swallow Prior

    We aspire to freedom but often resign ourselves to an existence trapped in uneasiness and dread. Is there any way to shed such heaviness and reignite hope for deliverance?

    In Traveling Light, Eugene H. Peterson urges us to listen to an expert on freedom, Paul, whose letter to the Galatians reminds us of the realities of life in Christ, freely given to all. Peterson ...

  • The Softer Side of Leadership: Essential Soft Skills That Transform Leaders and the People They Lead, By Eugene B. Habecker
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    The Softer Side of Leadership

    Essential Soft Skills That Transform Leaders and the People They Lead

    by Eugene B. Habecker
    With Marylou Habecker

    Many who lead or who aspire to lead rightly champion the importance of hard skills. These are skills that are informed by quantitative measurement and analytical thinking, among others. Knowing the numbers, embracing leadership tasks, and implementing the right strategies are important but no longer enough to be an effective leader. Indeed, the best of the leadership literature consistently emphasizes ...

  • The Crucibles That Shape Us: Navigating the Defining Challenges of Leadership, By Gayle D. Beebe
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    The Crucibles That Shape Us

    Navigating the Defining Challenges of Leadership

    by Gayle D. Beebe
    Foreword by David Brooks

    We often see setbacks and disasters as events that keep us from our best life. But they're really opportunities to grow in leadership.

    The problem of suffering is a spiritual hurdle for many that disorients us and those we lead. Gayle D. Beebe tackles the existential crisis head-on, revealing that, although we are bewildered at first, these situations ultimately prepare us. ...

  • 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 ...

  • Now I Lay Me Down to Fight: A Poet Writes Her Way Through Cancer, By Katy Bowser Hutson
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    Now I Lay Me Down to Fight

    A Poet Writes Her Way Through Cancer

    by Katy Bowser Hutson
    Illustrated by Jodi Hays
    Foreword by Tish Harrison Warren

    In stirring verse and essays, Katy Bowser Hutson chronicles her battle with breast cancer and the complications of faith amid such a fight. Accentuated by the art of Jodi Hays, Katy's words lead us through the realization of cancer, the experience of chemotherapy and a mastectomy, relentless rounds of radiation, the uncertainty of ongoing treatment, and what comes after survival. ...

  • 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

    by Eugene H. Peterson
    Preface by Leif Peterson

    Over 300,000 Copies Sold

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

  • Who Needs Theology?: An Invitation to the Study of God, By Stanley J. Grenz and Roger E. Olson
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    Who Needs Theology?

    An Invitation to the Study of God

    by Stanley J. Grenz and Roger E. Olson

    To many Christians theology is something alien, overly intellectual and wholly unappealing. Even seminary students are known to balk at the prospect of a course on theology. Yet theology—most simply, the knowledge of God—is essential to the life and health of the church.

    In this short introduction, Stanley Grenz and Roger Olson, two theologians who care deeply about the witness of ordinary ...