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  • Our Good Crisis: Overcoming Moral Chaos with the Beatitudes, By Jonathan K. Dodson
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    Our Good Crisis

    Overcoming Moral Chaos with the Beatitudes

    by Jonathan K. Dodson

    We live in an age of crisis. Financial crisis, political crisis, environmental crisis—the list goes on. We're confronted with calamity every time we read the headlines. But behind each of these lurks another kind of crisis, one we find harder to define: a moral crisis—a crisis of goodness. Behind financial crisis is unrestrained greed; behind political crisis is the lust for power. ...

  • Life After Church: God's Call to Disillusioned Christians, By Brian Sanders
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    Life After Church

    God's Call to Disillusioned Christians

    by Brian Sanders

    Life without church. It's getting easier to imagine. And maybe you already left. A leaver, then. Committed to Jesus, not an institution. Perhaps you've left your church in spirit, remaining in the pew. Outwardly silent. Secretly bored. In either case, Brian Sanders has a word for you. Out of his own experience as a leaver, Brian distills the complex problem into two viable options:

    • Stay. ...
  • All Will Be Well: Learning to Trust God's Love, By Lacy Finn Borgo
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    All Will Be Well

    Learning to Trust God's Love

    by Lacy Finn Borgo
    Illustrated by Rebecca Evans

    "Then when you don't see me anymore, I will be where God is," said Mima, "because God loves you and God loves me, 'All will be well, all will be well, everything will be well.'"

    Mima is very sick, and just thinking about it makes Julian very sad and very angry. Julian is worried about Mima and wonders if God can hear her or if God cares. So Mima explains to Julian ...

  • Breaking Old Rhythms: Answering the Call of a Creative God, By Amena Brown
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    Breaking Old Rhythms

    Answering the Call of a Creative God

    by Amena Brown
    Foreword by Dan Kimball

    "When two fighters of equal ability and speed are matched . . . there is a greater advantage to the one who knows how to break the rhythm." -Bruce Lee Rhythm is a blessing. By rhythm we dance, sing, clap, walk and breathe. Beyond the blessing is the Giver of Rhythm, who sometimes calls us past the patterns and habits we have established for ourselves into new understanding, new risk, new faith, ...

  • Missions: God's Heart for the World, By Paul Borthwick
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    Missions

    God's Heart for the World

    LifeGuide Bible Studies

    by Paul Borthwick

    Beginning with Genesis, the Bible is the story of God pursuing his people. In this study guide, you'll explore how God reaches out--through Jesus and through human ambassodors like us. You'll discover that the call to "missions" is not for a select group but is a part of God's call to every Christian. And you'll begin to understand your own part in God's plan. This nine session LifeGuide® ...

    Number of Studies: 9

  • The Crime of Living Cautiously: Hearing God's Call to Adventure, By Luci Shaw
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    The Crime of Living Cautiously

    Hearing God's Call to Adventure

    by Luci Shaw

    Unexpectedly, the moment of opportunity comes to us--the prospect of entering a reality larger than we'd guess. A spacious option opens up before us, an urgent demand that seems to call for special enterprise, life-threatening perils or summons to action. Suddenly we realize that such a chance might never come again. What do you do when faced with such a moment? Do you sometimes get frozen ...

  • Exodus: Learning to Trust God, By James W. Reapsome
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    Exodus

    Learning to Trust God

    LifeGuide Bible Studies

    by James W. Reapsome

    Trust God. Sounds simple, right? Yet, you know it is often very, very difficult to trust God with the things that matter most to you--money, career, marriage, health. As you study the book of Exodus, you'll see that Israel faced similar struggles to trust God completely. In this story of hardship and hope, you'll discover along with Israel that God--and God alone--is worthy of our trust. In this ...

    Number of Studies: 24

  • Living the Christian Year: Time to Inhabit the Story of God, By Bobby Gross
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    Living the Christian Year

    Time to Inhabit the Story of God

    by Bobby Gross

    Infuse your days with meaning. You are part of a larger Story. And the One who began the Story is at work today, in your life, in the midst of your meetings and bills and family activities that make the days rush by and blur together. In these pages Bobby Gross opens to you--and opens you to--the liturgical year, helping you inhabit God's Story every day.

    • Remembering God's work, ...