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  • It's Not About You--It's About God, By Rebecca Florence Osaigbovo
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    It's Not About You--It's About God

    by Rebecca Florence Osaigbovo

    It can hurt to hear someone tell it like it is. But sometimes you need to get the truth, straight up. And the truth is that it's not about you—it's about God. Maybe you have relied on your own strength for far too long. You haven't been able to count on other people, so you just do your own thing. But God has bigger plans for you. God wants to use you to change the world. Rebecca Osaigbovo, ...

  • Chosen Vessels: Women of Color, Keys to Change, By Rebecca Florence Osaigbovo
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    Chosen Vessels

    Women of Color, Keys to Change

    by Rebecca Florence Osaigbovo
    Foreword by John M. Perkins

    "African American woman." The phrase conjures up a variety of images: Sassy career women. Wise church women. Strong grandmothers. Welfare mothers. But how about "chosen vessels"? Or "keys to change"? Perhaps we need some new images. Women of color have historically been on the bottom of the economic and social ladder. But the paradox of the kingdom of God is that being on the bottom is a plus. ...

  • Jesus and Personality Theory: Exploring the Five-Factor Model, By James R. Beck
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    Jesus and Personality Theory

    Exploring the Five-Factor Model

    by James R. Beck

    In recent years researchers in human personality have come to a rarely achieved near unanimous conclusion: human personality is structured around a very few major traits, probably five in number. These factors, sometimes called the Big Five and represented by the acronym OCEAN, are

    • Openness to experience
    • Conscientiousness
    • Extroversion
    • Agreeableness
    • Neuroticism

    How ...

  • Spiritual Dimensions of Mental Health, By Judith Allen Shelly and Sandra D. John
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    Spiritual Dimensions of Mental Health

    by Judith Allen Shelly and Sandra D. John

    Health--physical, mental, spiritual. All three are closely related. But in modern mental-health care one of them is often neglected. Nurses, social workers and counselors are rarely taught to minister to their client's spiritual needs. In fact, they are sometime told to ignore them altogether. But spiritual needs can play a part in any illness. They may become especially strong when the mind ...

  • Eros Defiled: The Christian and Sexual Sin, By John White
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    Eros Defiled

    The Christian and Sexual Sin

    by John White

    Something happened to love--eros, physical love--when mankind fell. The beauty was marred. The joy was tinged with sadness. Eros was defiled. Today the results of the Fall are evident in premartial sex, extramartial sex, masturbation, homosexuality, and various forms of twisted sex. John White speaks with understanding and compassion about each of these sexual sins. He concludes with a telling ...

  • A Just Forgiveness: Responsible Healing Without Excusing Injustice, By Everett L. Worthington Jr.
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    A Just Forgiveness

    Responsible Healing Without Excusing Injustice

    by Everett L. Worthington Jr.

    When serious injury or wrongdoing takes place, we cry out for justice to be done. At the same time, Christian faith calls for forgiveness and mercy. But forgiveness is often seen as letting people off the hook. Is it truly possible to forgive a betrayal, a rape, a genocide? How can Christians forgive without excusing wrongdoing? Psychologist and leading forgiveness researcher Everett Worthington ...

  • Transcending Mission: The Eclipse of a Modern Tradition, By Michael W. Stroope
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    Transcending Mission

    The Eclipse of a Modern Tradition

    by Michael W. Stroope

    IVP Readers' Choice Award

    Mission, missions, missional, and all its linguistic variations are part of the expanding vocabulary and rhetoric of the contemporary Christian missionary enterprise. Its language and assumptions are deeply ingrained in the thought and speech of the church today. Christianity is a missionary religion and faithful churches are mission-minded. What's ...