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  • Parables: The Greatest Stories Ever Told, By John White
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    Parables

    The Greatest Stories Ever Told

    LifeGuide Bible Studies

    by John White

    We all love a good story. But the parables of Jesus are even better than that. They sneak up on us, catching us off guard and toppling our easy assumptions. When the familiar takes an unexpected twist, we find our secret thoughts exposed to the healing light of Jesus. This twelve-session LifeGuide® Bible Study introduces twelve of the greatest stories ever told; how might they change ...

    Number of Studies: 12

  • Health, Healing and the Church's Mission: Biblical Perspectives and Moral Priorities, By Willard M. Swartley
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    Health, Healing and the Church's Mission

    Biblical Perspectives and Moral Priorities

    by Willard M. Swartley

    Does the Christian community have the resources to develop a coherent response to health care challenges today? Accounting for biblical, theological and church-historical streams, Willard Swartley divulges a long tradition of healing and health care inherited by Christians today. Beginning with in-depth studies of Old and New Testament understandings of healing, the book surveys three millennia ...

  • Renewing the City: Reflections on Community Development and Urban Renewal, By Robert D. Lupton
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    Renewing the City

    Reflections on Community Development and Urban Renewal

    by Robert D. Lupton
    Foreword by Raymond J. Bakke

    When an expatriate bureaucrat toured a devastated city, he saw more than ashes and ruins. He envisioned a thriving metropolis where God's people could find safety and community. Likewise, when we consider today's urban challenges, we can be daunted by corruption and despair, or we can see opportunities for rejuvenation, restoration and rebirth. Community developer and urban activist Robert D. Lupton ...

  • Inside Job: Doing the Work Within the Work, By Stephen W. Smith
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    Inside Job

    Doing the Work Within the Work

    by Stephen W. Smith

    Effective leaders work very hard to succeed, but often at the cost of their own souls. They are challenged to keep themselves emotionally and spiritually healthy in order to survive success—to keep their humanity intact. This is the work within the work. Stephen W. Smith helps leaders in the marketplace and in ministry set aside the life-draining values of power, fame, fortune and position and ...

  • Exploring Christology and Atonement: Conversations with John McLeod Campbell, H. R. Mackintosh and T. F. Torrance, By Andrew Purves
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    Exploring Christology and Atonement

    Conversations with John McLeod Campbell, H. R. Mackintosh and T. F. Torrance

    by Andrew Purves

    Andrew Purves, the author of many works in pastoral theology, has spent his life exploring the significance of Jesus Christ for the life of the church. As a professor of historical theology, he has also investigated the significance of patristic and Reformed theology for understanding Christ. In Exploring Christology and Atonement, Purves brings these concerns together. If pastoral theology ...

  • Crazy Enough to Care: Changing Your World Through Compassion, Justice and Racial Reconciliation, By Alvin C. Bibbs, Sr.
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    Crazy Enough to Care

    Changing Your World Through Compassion, Justice and Racial Reconciliation

    by Alvin C. Bibbs, Sr.

    Nothing confronts a person's faith quite like injustice, pain, suffering. We see these things in our world, in our neighborhoods, and we don't know what to do with ourselves. We've got to do something, but where to begin? What to do? How to do it? Crazy Enough to Care will take you and your friends on a journey, uncovering the things that make compassion impractical in contemporary society, ...

  • The Marketplace Annotated Bibliography: A Christian Guide to Books on Work, Business  Vocation, By Pete Hammond and R. Paul Stevens and Todd Svanoe
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    The Marketplace Annotated Bibliography

    A Christian Guide to Books on Work, Business Vocation

    by Pete Hammond, R. Paul Stevens, and Todd Svanoe

    Every workday millions of Christians enter the marketplace. Whether as sales associates or engineers, auto mechanics or executives, Christians are called to serve God in the workplace. But most need help integrating faith and work. How can you be salt and light on the job? Where can you turn for help in developing a biblical and satisfying view of work? The Marketplace Annotated Bibliography ...

  • Your Calling Here and Now: Making Sense of Vocation, By Gordon T. Smith
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    Your Calling Here and Now

    Making Sense of Vocation

    by Gordon T. Smith

    Our vocation is the outworking of how God has made us. It is not a goal on the horizon but a present reality that we are called to discern and explore. However, in the midst of our daily lives, finding meaning can prove both difficult and elusive, and we are often left wondering if we are missing out on God's purpose for our lives.

    Gordon Smith invites us to reflect on our ...

  • Sensible Shoes: A Story about the Spiritual Journey, By Sharon Garlough Brown
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    Sensible Shoes

    A Story about the Spiritual Journey

    Sensible Shoes Series

    by Sharon Garlough Brown

    Over 100,000 Copies Sold Worldwide!

    Four Strangers, One Retreat Center, A Story of Transformation

    Sharon Garlough Brown tells the moving story of four strangers as they embark together on a journey of spiritual formation:

    Hannah, a pastor who doesn't realize how exhausted she is.

    Meg, a widow and recent empty-nester who is haunted by her ...

  • Liturgical Mission: The Work of the People for the Life of the World, By Winfield Bevins
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    Liturgical Mission

    The Work of the People for the Life of the World

    by Winfield Bevins
    Foreword by Justo L. González

    Modern missional movements have often viewed the historic Christian traditions with suspicion. The old traditions may be beautiful, the thinking goes, but they’re too insular, focused primarily on worship and on the interior life of the church, and not looking outward to evangelism and good works.

    In Liturgical Mission, Winfield Bevins argues that the church's liturgy ...