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PaperbackThe God-Shaped Brain
How Changing Your View of God Transforms Your Life
by Timothy R. Jennings
What you believe about God actually changes your brain.Brain research in neuroscience has found that our thoughts and beliefs affect our physical, mental and spiritual health. Mind and body are interrelated, and we are designed for healthy relationships of love and trust. When we understand God as good and loving, we flourish. Unfortunately, many of us have distorted images of God and mostly think ...
PaperbackPolitical Visions & Illusions
A Survey & Christian Critique of Contemporary Ideologies
by David T. Koyzis
Foreword by Richard J. Mouw- Named Best Book (Culture) in the 2004 Word Guild Canadian Writing Awards
The end of the Cold War has brought about more than the triumph of some political ideologies and the disappearance of others. In fact, the collapse of communism has created a vacuum quickly being filled by various alternative visions, ranging from ethnic nationalism to individualistic liberalism.But ...
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Christine Dillon
Christine Dillon works as a church planter in Taiwan with OMF International. She has been a missionary there for the past twelve years, but lived in Asia as a child while her parents were missionaries as well. The prevalent belief system in Dillon's area is ancestor and idol worship with only .8% of the population being christian. Her evangelism approach consists of storying, discipling, and training of locals and other missionaries. Dillon previously published 1-2-1 Discipleship in 2009 (Christian Focus).
PaperbackCharting the Course
Values for Navigating Life in the Marketplace
by Bruce Howard
Why is it that the same economic forces that produce good things for us like penicillin and housing are just as effective at bringing us things like pornography and heroin? How can the same systems of production generate such a wide array of goodand bad outcomes? Markets are morally neutral. But people are not. Markets recognize no moral difference between good and evil. Markets don't inherently ...
PaperbackGrace for the Children
Finding Hope in the Midst of Child and Adolescent Mental Illness
by Matthew S. Stanford
The church's response to child and adolescent mental health disorders has too often been characterized by fear and misinformation rather than grace or wisdom. The result has been families that desperately need practical advice andpastoral care on these disorders, and on the thorny issues that often surround them.
Psychologist Matthew Stanford has written Grace for the ...
PaperbackMinistering in Honor-Shame Cultures
Biblical Foundations and Practical Essentials
by Jayson Georges and Mark D. Baker
Many a Westerner has had a cross-cultural experience of honor and shame. First there are those stuttering moments in the new social landscape. Then after missed cues and social bruises comes the revelation that this culture—indeed much of the world—runs on an honor-shame operating system. When Western individualism and its introspective conscience fails to engage cultural gears, how can we shift ...
PaperbackSeparated by the Border
A Birth Mother, a Foster Mother, and a Migrant Child's 3,000-Mile Journey
by Gena Thomas
Foreword by Michelle Ferrigno WarrenIn 2017 five-year-old Julia traveled with her mother, Guadalupe, from Honduras to the United States. Her harrowing journey took her through Mexico in the cargo section of a tractor trailer. Then she was separated from her mother,who was held hostage by smugglers who exploited her physically and financially. At the United States border, Julia came through the processing center as ...
PaperbackProfessors Who Believe
The Spiritual Journeys of Christian Faculty
Edited by Paul M. Anderson
Often the university is seen as a hothouse of anti-Christian bias. Every other belief system, no matter how exotic, seems to receive more respect and support than historic Christian belief. Yet even in this environment, steadily and certainly, menand women of faith have continued to hold and grow in their confidence in Christ.Here are the stories of twenty-two such Christian faculty, who tell in ...
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Suzanne Stabile
Suzanne Stabile is a highly sought-after speaker, teacher, and internationally recognized Enneagram master teacher, having conducted over five hundred workshops. She is the author of The Path Between Us and she is creator and host of The Enneagram Journey podcast. Along with her husband, Rev. Joseph Stabile, she is cofounder of Life in the Trinity Ministry. Their ministry home, the Micah Center, is located in Dallas, Texas.
