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  • The Adventure: Putting Energy into Your Walk with God, By Gerald L. Sittser
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    The Adventure

    Putting Energy into Your Walk with God

    by Gerald L. Sittser

    "An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered."--G.K. ChestertonAs even a brief exposure to the New Testament will show, the Christian life is a life of adventure. Every aspect is full of energy and light. Yet too often we stop at one point of interest--evangelism, spiritual disciplines, social justice--and go no further. Interweaving stories from a summer vacation, Jerry Sittser shows ...

  • I Once Was Lost: What Postmodern Skeptics Taught Us About Their Path to Jesus, By Don Everts and Doug Schaupp
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    I Once Was Lost

    What Postmodern Skeptics Taught Us About Their Path to Jesus

    by Don Everts and Doug Schaupp

    How do people come to Jesus in today's postmodern culture? Not by a mechanical, linear process of cookie cutter conversions. Nor by a nebulous spiritual wandering that never culminates in decision and commitment. Over the last decade, Don Everts and Doug Schaupp have listened to the stories of two thousand postmodern people who have come to follow Jesus. While their stories are diverse and varied, ...

  • Walking Through Twilight: A Wife's Illness—A Philosopher's Lament, By Douglas Groothuis
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    Walking Through Twilight

    A Wife's Illness—A Philosopher's Lament

    by Douglas Groothuis
    Foreword by Nicholas Wolterstorff

    How do you continue to find God as dementia pulls your loved one into the darkness?

    Nothing is simple for a person suffering from dementia, and for those they love. When ordinary tasks of communication, such as using a phone, become complex, then difficult, and then impossible, isolation becomes inevitable. Helping becomes excruciating.

    In these pages philosopher Douglas ...

  • Paradoxology: Why Christianity Was Never Meant to Be Simple, By Krish Kandiah
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    Paradoxology

    Why Christianity Was Never Meant to Be Simple

    by Krish Kandiah

    It seems that the God of the Christian faith is full of paradoxes:

    • a compassionate God who sanctions genocide
    • an all-powerful God who allows horrific suffering
    • a God who owns everything yet demands so much from his followers
    • a God who is distant and yet present at the same time

    Many of us have big questions about God that the Christian faith seems to ...

  • Mixed Blessing: Embracing the Fullness of Your Multiethnic Identity, By Chandra Crane
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    Mixed Blessing

    Embracing the Fullness of Your Multiethnic Identity

    by Chandra Crane
    Foreword by Jemar Tisby

    ECPA Top Shelf Book Cover Award

    "So what are you?"

    Chandra Crane knows what it's like to get that question. She has a Thai birth father, a European American mother, and an African American father who adopted her when she was five. With this mixed multiethnic and multicultural background, she has keenly felt the otherness of never quite fitting in. Where ...

  • Reading Buechner: Exploring the Work of a Master Memoirist, Novelist, Theologian, and Preacher, By Jeffrey Munroe
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    Reading Buechner

    Exploring the Work of a Master Memoirist, Novelist, Theologian, and Preacher

    by Jeffrey Munroe
    Foreword by Makoto Fujimura

    Frederick Buechner is one of the most gifted writers of his generation, and his legacy casts a long shadow over Christian letters today. As a memoirist, he opened up an entirely new way to think about the genre. As a novelist, hewas a finalist for the Pulitzer. And as a theologian and preacher, he pioneered the art of making theology accessible for a popular audience.Yet for all ...

  • Meeting God in Scripture: A Hands-On Guide to Lectio Divina, By Jan Johnson
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    Meeting God in Scripture

    A Hands-On Guide to Lectio Divina

    by Jan Johnson

    Dallas Willard Center Book Award Finalist

    Jesus is speaking to us here and now.

    Lectio divina is a practice of Scripture reading that treats the Bible not only as a text to be examined, but also as theliving Word of God spoken anew to us. Experienced Bible teacher Jan Johnson gives us forty Scripture meditations, organized topically, giving ...