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  • A Peculiar People: The Church as Culture in a Post-Christian Society, By Rodney R. Clapp
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    A Peculiar People

    The Church as Culture in a Post-Christian Society

    by Rodney R. Clapp

    • Voted one of Christianity Today's 1997 Books of the Year

    Christians feel increasingly useless, argues Rodney Clapp, not because we have nothing to offer a post-Christian society, but because we are trying to serve as "sponsoring chaplains" to a civilization that no longer sees Christianity as necessary to its existence. In our individualistic, technologically ...

  • The People's Book: The Reformation and the Bible, Edited by Jennifer Powell McNutt and David Lauber
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    The People's Book

    The Reformation and the Bible

    Wheaton Theology Conference Series

    Edited by Jennifer Powell McNutt and David Lauber

    Five hundred years ago, Martin Luther's Ninety-Five Theses caught Europe by storm and initiated the Reformation, which fundamentally transformed both the church and society. Yet by Luther's own estimation, his translation of the Bible into German was his crowning achievement. The Bible played an absolutely vital role in the lives, theology, and practice of the Protestant Reformers. In ...

  • People-Pleasing Pastors: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Approval-Motivated Leadership, By Charles Stone
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    People-Pleasing Pastors

    Avoiding the Pitfalls of Approval-Motivated Leadership

    by Charles Stone
    Foreword by Ed Stetzer

    • 12th Annual Outreach Resource of the Year Recommendation (Leadership)

    Pastors and church leaders often fall into the trap of people-pleasing. Charles Stone?s research on thousands of pastors and ministry leaders demonstrates the dangers of approval-motivated leadership. Bringing together biblical insights and neuroscience findings, Stone shows why we fall ...

  • How Reason Can Lead to God: A Philosopher's Bridge to Faith, By Joshua Rasmussen
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    How Reason Can Lead to God

    A Philosopher's Bridge to Faith

    by Joshua Rasmussen

    Do you seek the truth? Do you value reason, science, and independent thinking? Are you skeptical of beliefs that people maintain merely "on faith," yet you remain interested in the big questions of life? Do you hope there could be a greater purpose to the universe, if only that were realistic? If so, then philosopher Joshua Rasmussen can encourage you in your journey. Beginning ...

  • We the Fallen People: The Founders and the Future of American Democracy, By Robert Tracy McKenzie
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    We the Fallen People

    The Founders and the Future of American Democracy

    by Robert Tracy McKenzie

    Christianity Today Book Award
    The Gospel Coalition Book Awards Honorable Mention
    Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award Finalist

    The success and survival of American democracy have never been guaranteed. Political polarization, presidential eccentricities, the trustworthiness of government, and the prejudices of the voting majority ...

  • Healing Racial Trauma: The Road to Resilience, By Sheila Wise Rowe
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    Healing Racial Trauma

    The Road to Resilience

    by Sheila Wise Rowe
    Foreword by Soong-Chan Rah

    2020 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award - Multicultural

    2021 Christianity Today Book Award - Christian Living/Discipleship Award

    Publishers Weekly starred review

    "People of color have endured traumatic histories and almost daily assaults on our dignity. We have prayed about racism, been in denial, or acted out in anger, but we have not known ...

  • Journey to the Center of the City: Making A Difference in an Urban Neighborhood, By Randy White
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    Journey to the Center of the City

    Making A Difference in an Urban Neighborhood

    by Randy White

    When you get involved with city ministry, you're in for some adventures--and you see God at work! Randy and Tina White, with their two young sons, left suburbia to join believers living in a disadvantaged area of Fresno, California. Through their family's story you will learn more about God's heart for the city, meet some of the people who live there, and discover ways you might make a ...

  • Can Evangelicals Learn from World Religions?: Jesus, Revelation  Religious Traditions, By Gerald R. McDermott
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    Can Evangelicals Learn from World Religions?

    Jesus, Revelation Religious Traditions

    by Gerald R. McDermott

    • A 2001 Christianity Today Award of Merit winner

    "Arguably, the church's greatest challenge in the next century will be the problem of the scandal of particularity. More than ever before, Christians will need to explain why they follow Jesus and not the Buddha or Confucius or Krishna or Muhammed. But if, while relating their faith to the faiths, Christians ...