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PaperbackWhat Jesus Intended
Finding True Faith in the Rubble of Bad Religion
by Todd D. Hunter
Foreword by Esau McCaulleyHave you lost your footing in church? Or has the church lost its footing?
Many of us feel unsteady, disoriented, even crushed after an endless string of scandals within the walls of a place meant to offer compassion and safety. Others feel forced to draw back or distance ourselves from the church. All the while, our instincts tell us this is not what Jesus wanted for his people. ...
PaperbackFaith-Rooted Organizing
Mobilizing the Church in Service to the World
by Alexia Salvatierra and Peter Heltzel
With so many injustices, small and great, across the world and right at our doorstep, what are people of faith to do? Since the 1930s, organizing movements for social justice in the U.S. have largely been built on assumptions that are secular origin—such as reliance on self-interest and having a common enemy as a motivator for change. But what if Christians were to shape their organizing around ...
PaperbackTruth Is Stranger Than It Used to Be
Biblical Faith in a Postmodern Age
by J. Richard Middleton and Brian J. Walsh
- Voted one of Christianity Today's 1996 Books of the Year
The carnivalesque, pluralistic culture in which we live can be seen as a consequence of the breakdown of modernity (which touted itself as the greatest show on earth"), combined with a recognition of the socially constructed character of reality.
Since the old construction has been discredited and ...
PaperbackAncient & Postmodern Christianity
Paleo-Orthodoxy in the 21st Century: Essays in Honor of Thomas C. Oden
Edited by Kenneth Tanner and Christopher A. Hall
The consensual roots of Christianity found in the common understanding of the faith among the early church fathers is the foundation on which the church can and should build in the twenty-first century. Edited by Kennth Tanner and Christopher A. Hall, the eighteen essays found in this volume span theological and ecclesiastical perspectives that emphasize what the various Christian ...
PaperbackTell Her Story
How Women Led, Taught, and Ministered in the Early Church
by Nijay K. Gupta
Foreword by Beth Allison BarrForeword INDIES Book of the Year Award Finalist
A Comprehensive Look at Women Who Built the Early Church
Women were there. For centuries, discussions of early Christianity have focused on maleleaders in the church. But there is ample evidence right in the New Testament that women were actively involved in ministry, at the frontier of the gospel ...
PaperbackSteward Leadership in the Nonprofit Organization
by Kent R. Wilson
Most approaches to nonprofit organizational leadership are borrowed from the for-profit sector. But these models are often inadequate to address the issues nonprofit leaders face. We need a new framework for nonprofit management that is rooted inhistorical precedent and biblical principles yet is also appropriate for the nonprofit context.Nonprofit consultant and researcher Kent Wilson presents ...
PaperbackChildren's Ministry in the Way of Jesus
by David M Csinos and Ivy Beckwith
Foreword by John H. Westerhoff IIIAttract kids to church, the logic often goes, and you get parents in the pews. All that's left, then, is to get the kids out of the way. Here children's ministers David Csinos and Ivy Beckwith draw on research in human development and spiritual formation to show how children become disciples and churches become centers of lifelong discipleship. For too long, the local church has focused primarily ...
PaperbackBecome 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 the ...
PaperbackFoundations for Soul Care
A Christian Psychology Proposal
by Eric L Johnson
In this groundbreaking work of first-order scholarship, Eric Johnson makes a vitally important contribution to the field of Christian counseling. He first presents a detailed overview and appreciative but critical evaluation of the reigning paradigms in the field of Christian counseling, particularly biblical counseling and integration. Building on their respective strengths, he seeks to move beyond ...
PaperbackJonathan Edwards and the Ministry of the Word
A Model of Faith and Thought
by Douglas A. Sweeney
Jonathan Edwards has been recognized as the most influential evangelical theologian of all time. Before his death at the age of fifty-four, he had sparked a new movement of Reformed evangelicals who played a major role in fueling the rise of modern missions, preaching revivals far and wide, and wielding the cutting edge of American theology. He has never gone out of print, and Christians today continue ...
