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hardcoverAs I Recall
Discovering the Place of Memories in Our Spiritual Life
by Casey Tygrett
- Christianity Today's 2020 Book of the Year Award of Merit - Spiritual Formation
What if our memories are like shells we gather on a beach? According to pastor and spiritual director Casey Tygrett, "We—and all those who have come before us—pick up the experience and we sense it: we feel its edges, notice its color, we smell the ...
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paperbackWrite Better
A Lifelong Editor on Craft, Art, and Spirituality
by Andrew T. Le Peau
Christianity Today 2020 Book of the Year Award, Culture and the Arts
Writing is not easy. But it can get better.
In this primer on nonfiction writing, Andrew Le Peau offers insights he has learned as a published author and an editor for over forty years, training, guiding, and cheering on hundreds of writers. Here are skills that writers can ...
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hardcoverThe Journey Toward Wholeness
Enneagram Wisdom for Stress, Balance, and Transformation
by Suzanne Stabile
Going Deeper with Suzanne Stabile and the Enneagram
In everything from health care and politics to technology and economics, we are experiencing feelings of loss, anger, and anxiety. In the Enneagram's wisdom, our number determines how we respond. We automatically move to another number when we're feeling stress and to yet another when we're feeling secure. Such moves may ...
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paperbackThe Journey Toward Wholeness Study Guide
by Suzanne Stabile
"The Enneagram teaches us that there are nine ways of being in the world, and it highlights the nine habitual, predictable ways that we get ourselves into trouble," writes Suzanne Stabile. "Without hearing the stories of how challenging it has been for other people, we end up thinking we are the only ones struggling."
This is why group discussion and shared experience around ...
Number of Studies: 6
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paperbackBe Kind to Yourself
Releasing Frustrations and Embracing Joy
by Cindy Bunch
Foreword by Ruth Haley BartonWhen we experience frustrations in daily life, many of us hold ourselves to blame. Self-criticism is often our default setting. But we can have a more gracious posture toward ourselves. We can practice disciplines of self-kindness.
Editor and spiritual director Cindy Bunch calls us to self-care through greater compassion for ourselves. She helps us pay attention to the frustrations ...
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paperbackDon't Blow Up Your Ministry
Defuse the Underlying Issues That Take Pastors Down
by Michael MacKenzie
Foreword by Marshall ShelleyThere's a ticking time bomb in your ministry. Is it you?
The pressures of pastoring are endless, leading many to burnout and depression, sexual misconduct, or substance abuse. But moral failures can be averted and shipwrecked ministries can be repaired. Counselor Michael MacKenzie, a longtime expert in helping pastors at risk, deals with the issues beneath the issues, such ...
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hardcoverRemember Me
A Novella about Finding Our Way to the Cross
by Sharon Garlough Brown
"'It is finished,' Jesus says. It's a bold declaration for us to make too. What does it mean to say 'It is finished' when so much is unfinished? It means we are people who live hope in two directions, both backward and forward. We long for the kingdom to come in fullness, even as it has already come. And we trust that the One who has begun the good work in us and for us will indeed ...
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paperbackGrace for the Afflicted
A Clinical and Biblical Perspective on Mental Illness
by Matthew S. Stanford
Why has the church struggled in ministering to those with mental illnesses? Each day men and women diagnosed with mental disorders are told they need to pray more and turn from their sin. Mental illness is equated with demonic possession, weak faith, and generational sin. As both a church leader and a professor of psychology and behavioral sciences, Matthew S. Stanford has seen far too many mentally ...
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paperbackGod Behaving Badly
Is the God of the Old Testament Angry, Sexist and Racist?
by David T. Lamb
God has a bad reputation. Many think of God as wrathful and angry, smiting people right and left for no apparent reason. The Old Testament in particular seems at times to portray God as capricious and malevolent, wiping out armies and nations, punishing enemies with extreme prejudice..
But wait. The story is more complicated than that. Alongside troubling passages of God's ...
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hardcoverStrengthening the Soul of Your Leadership
Seeking God in the Crucible of Ministry
Transforming Resources
by Ruth Haley Barton
Afterword by Leighton Ford
Foreword by Gary A. HaugenSpiritual Practices for Burnt Out Leaders
"I'm tired of helping others enjoy God—I just want to enjoy God for myself."
With this painful admission, Ruth Haley Barton invites us to an honest exploration of what happens when spiritual leaders lose track of their souls. Weaving together contemporary illustrations with penetrating insight from the life of Moses, Strengthening ...
