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  • Films for All Seasons: Experiencing the Church Year at the Movies, By Abby Olcese Films for All Seasons: Experiencing the Church Year at the Movies, By Abby Olcese
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    Films for All Seasons

    Experiencing the Church Year at the Movies

    by Abigail Olcese
    Foreword by Josh Larsen

    The Spiritual Practice of Watching Movies

    What’s your favorite Christmas movie? Easter movie? Pentecost movie? Casual viewers and movie buffs alike have favorite movies to watch at certain times of the year. But for film critic Abby Olcese, movies with spiritual themes aren't just limited to the holiday season. They’re part of a deep human need to connect our favorite stories ...

  • Together for the City: How Collaborative Church Planting Leads to Citywide Movements, By Neil Powell and John James Together for the City: How Collaborative Church Planting Leads to Citywide Movements, By Neil Powell and John James
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    Together for the City

    How Collaborative Church Planting Leads to Citywide Movements

    by Neil Powell and John James

    We need a bigger vision for the city.It's not enough to plant individual churches in isolation from each other. The spiritual need and opportunity of our cities is too big for any one church to meet alone. Pastors Neil Powell andJohn James contend that to truly transform a city, the gospel compels us to create localized, collaborative church planting movements. They share lessons ...

  • Free: Spending Your Time and Money on What Matters Most, By Mark Scandrette
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    Free

    Spending Your Time and Money on What Matters Most

    by Mark A. Scandrette
    With Lisa Scandrette
    Foreword by Richard Rohr

    If you already own a copy of Free, use the password found on page 223 in the Group Learning Guide to access eight supplementary videos.Why does chasing the good life make us feel so bad? We dream big and spend our money and time chasing our dreams—only to find ourselves exhausted, deeply in debt and spiritually empty. Mark and Lisa Scandrette realized at the beginning of ...

  • The Attentive Life: Discerning God's Presence in All Things, By Leighton Ford
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    The Attentive Life

    Discerning God's Presence in All Things

    by Leighton Ford

    Your attention, please.That's what God wants, Leighton Ford discovered. It's the path to becoming like Christ.Distractions, fear and busyness were keeping Ford from seeing God's work in and around him. He was missing God. So he began a journey oflonging and looking for God. And it started with paying attention.In these pages, he invites you to journey with him. Using the rich monastic tradition ...

  • A Week in the Life of Rome, By James L. Papandrea
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    A Week in the Life of Rome

    A Week in the Life Series

    by James L Papandrea

    In first-century Rome, following Jesus comes at a tremendous social cost.

    An urbane Roman landowner and merchant is intrigued by the Christian faith—but is he willing to give up his status and lifestyle to join the church? Meanwhile his young client, a catechumen in the church at Rome, is beginning to see just how much his newfound faith will require of him.

    A Week ...

  • Christmas: The Season of Life and Light, By Emily Hunter McGowin
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    Christmas

    The Season of Life and Light

    Fullness of Time

    by Emily Hunter McGowin
    Series edited by Esau McCaulley

    "O wondrous exchange!"

    Of all the seasons of the church calendar, the Christmas season is the one most recognized and celebrated by our society at large. That means it's the season we're most familiar with—but that can also make it harder to see past Christmas's many cultural trappings to its timeless beauty.

    At the first Christmas, God exchanged the glories of divinity ...

  • Taking It to the Streets: Lessons from a Life of Urban Ministry, By Harry Louis Williams II
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    Taking It to the Streets

    Lessons from a Life of Urban Ministry

    by Harry Louis Williams

    17th Annual Outreach Magazine Resource of the Year—Church

    There's an urgent need for Christian ministry in our cities—but we need a guide.

    Known around Oakland, California, as "OG Rev.," Reverend Harry Williams's calling is to the streets: to the hungry, homeless, addicted, incarcerated, and vulnerable. In Taking It to the Streets, ...