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  • Becoming a Just Church: Cultivating Communities of God's Shalom, By Adam L. Gustine
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    Becoming a Just Church

    Cultivating Communities of God's Shalom

    by Adam L. Gustine
    Foreword by Dennis Edwards

    IVP Readers' Choice Award

    Stop outsourcing justice!

    Many local churches don't know what to do about justice. We tend to compartmentalize it as merely a strategy for outreach, and we often outsource it to parachurch justice ministries. While these organizations do good work, individual congregations are left disconnected from God's just purposes in the ...

  • A Little Book for New Preachers: Why and How to Study Homiletics, By Matthew D. Kim
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    A Little Book for New Preachers

    Why and How to Study Homiletics

    Little Books

    by Matthew D. Kim

    One of the central tasks of pastoral ministry is preaching the Word of God.

    Yet those who are called to ministry may feel unprepared, unable, or unwilling to step into this role. Moreover, the discipline of homiletics sometimes gets lost amid the exegetical questions, theological debates, and denominational disputes that overwhelm our attention.

    In this brief introduction ...

  • Messy Easter: Three Complete Sessions and a Treasure Trove of Ideas for Lent, Holy Week, and Easter, By Jane Leadbetter
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    Messy Easter

    Three Complete Sessions and a Treasure Trove of Ideas for Lent, Holy Week, and Easter

    Messy Church Series

    by Jane Leadbetter

    Chocolate bunnies, marshmallow chicks, colored eggs, and baskets are a lot of fun, but is that really what this season is all about? The new resource Messy Easter offers your church a tool to bring together people of all ages and stages of faith for a unique come-as-you-are experience of

    • creativity—allowing space for all to play and create
    • celebration—worshiping ...

    Number of Studies: 3

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    Center for Pastor Theologians Series

    by Gerald L. Hiestand and Todd Wilson

    The Center for Pastor Theologians (CPT) is an evangelical organization dedicated to assisting pastors in the study and written production of biblical and theological scholarship for the ecclesial renewal of theology and the theological renewal of the church. The CPT believes that the contemporary bifurcation between the pastoral calling and theological formation has resulted in the loss of a distinctly ...

  • 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 ...

  • Are you looking for ways to tangibly share God's love and kindness with those in your community and around the world? To connect you with practical ideas for giving and getting involved, we've gathered some ministries near and dear to our authors' hearts that are worthy of your support. We're happy to shine a light on these nonprofits in order to bolster the kingdom work they are doing all over the world.

  • Humility Illuminated: The Biblical Path Back to Christian Character, By Dennis R. Edwards
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    Humility Illuminated

    The Biblical Path Back to Christian Character

    by Dennis R. Edwards
    Foreword by Marlena Graves

    The modern church is immersed in a competitive, polarized, and status-driven society. It's hard to have conversations about important issues when so many are defensive and unwilling to learn. Too often, Christians fall into these same traps. The health and witness of the church urgently depend on recovering an essential biblical virtue: humility.

    New Testament scholar Dennis ...