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caseboundFamily Ministry
A Comprehensive Guide
by Diana R. Garland
North American families are in crisis, and the need for family ministry is more evident than ever. In her many years of ministry, research and teaching, author Diana Garland has found that the strength of Christian families is rooted in their faith and nurtured in their congregations. Garland believes that Christian families gain strength in part because of their communities of faith. Twelve years ...
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hardcoverThe Good and Beautiful God
Falling in Love with the God Jesus Knows
The Good and Beautiful Series
by James Bryan Smith
Train Your Soul to Know the God Jesus Knows
"God wants me to try harder."
"God blesses me when I'm good and punishes me when I'm bad."
"God is angry with me."We all have ideas that we tell ourselves about God and how he works in our lives. Some are true—but many are false. James Bryan Smith believes those thoughts determine not only who we are, but how ...
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paperbackI See You
How Love Opens Our Eyes to Invisible People
by Terence Lester
Foreword by Dave Gibbons- 2020 American Express NGen Leadership Award
We don't care about what we don't see. Countless people are invisible to us. We overlook the poor and homeless, partly because we don't share much space with them. More seriously, we often choose not to see the realities around us. We hold misconceptions about who is deserving or not, or make false ...
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Sandra L. Barnes
Sandra L. Barnes (Ph.D., Georgia State University) is assistant professor of sociology and African American studies at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. Her scholarly work has been published in The Journal of African American Studies, Research in the Sociology of Health Care, Social Problems, Journal of the Interdenominational Theology Center and Journal of Black Studies. She is the author of The Cost of Being Poor (SUNY Press).
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paperbackImprovising Church
Scripture as the Source of Harmony, Rhythm, and Soul
by Mark Glanville
Plenty of books diagnose our post-Christian malaise. Here's a dynamic solution.
The post-Christian cultural turn is creating the conditions for a crisis of confidence in the church and in pastoral ministry. While such changes can be disruptive and disconcerting, our new cultural reality makes the present moment a uniquely exciting time to reimagine churches that bear witness ...
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hardcoverImpossible People
Christian Courage and the Struggle for the Soul of Civilization
by Os Guinness
- ECPA 2017 Christian Book Award Finalist
The church in the West is at a critical moment. While the gospel is exploding throughout the global south, Western civilization faces militant assaults from aggressive secularism and radical Islam. Will the church resist the seductive shaping power of advanced modernity? More than ever, Christians must resist the negative ...
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paperbackImpossible People
Christian Courage and the Struggle for the Soul of Civilization
by Os Guinness
- ECPA 2017 Christian Book Award Finalist
The church in the West is at a critical moment. While the gospel is exploding throughout the global south, Western civilization faces militant assaults from aggressive secularism and radical Islam. Will the church resist the seductive shaping power of advanced modernity? More than ever, Christians must resist the negative ...
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hardcoverZero Hour America
History's Ultimatum over Freedom and the Answer We Must Give
by Os Guinness
America has lost its way. And America will fall—unless.
Revolution? Oligarchy? Or homecoming? Americans are approaching a "zero hour" for the republic and its distinctive view of ordered freedom. America is caught between two revolutions and alternately suppresses and squanders freedom with a prodigal carelessness, with little understanding of the responsibilities that freedom ...
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paperbackThe State of Missiology Today
Global Innovations in Christian Witness
Missiological Engagements
Edited by Charles E. Van Engen
Mission is constantly innovating.
As contexts change, so too does the work of the church. Today, in the face of a rapidly changing world and a growing global church, the task of mission must continue to innovate in unexpected ways. The State of Missiology Today explores the developments and transformations in the study and practice of mission. Looking both backwards—especially over ...
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Linson Daniel
Linson Daniel is associate pastor at METRO Church, located in both Farmers Branch and Frisco, Texas. He is a senior adviser to InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA and the South Asian American ministry adviser at Fuller Theological Seminary's Asian American Center. He is a coauthor of Learning Our Names and lives in Dallas with his wife and two children.
