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  • The Possibility of Prayer: Finding Stillness with God in a Restless World, By John Starke
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    The Possibility of Prayer

    Finding Stillness with God in a Restless World

    by John Starke

    The world clamors for efficiency and productivity.

    But the life of prayer is neither efficient nor productive. Instead, as we learn in the psalms, prayer calls us to wait, to watch, to listen, to taste, and to see. These things are not productive by any modern measure—but they are transformative.

    As a pastor in Manhattan, John Starke knows the bustle and busyness of ...

  • The Spirit of Methodism: From the Wesleys to a Global Communion, By Jeffrey W. Barbeau
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    The Spirit of Methodism

    From the Wesleys to a Global Communion

    by Jeffrey W. Barbeau

    "I felt my heart strangely warmed."That was how John Wesley described his transformational experience of God's grace at Aldersgate Street on May 24, 1738, an event that some mark as the beginning of the Methodist Church.Yet the story of Methodism, while clearly shaped by John Wesley's sermons and Charles Wesley's hymns, is much richer and more expansive. In this book, Methodist ...

  • A Short History of Christian Zionism: From the Reformation to the Twenty-First Century, By Donald M. Lewis
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    A Short History of Christian Zionism

    From the Reformation to the Twenty-First Century

    by Donald M. Lewis

    Top World Guild Award Winner

    This book is about an idea—namely, that Scripture mandates a Jewish return to the historical region of Palestine—which in turn morphed into a political movement, rallied around a popularslogan ("A country without a nation for a nation without a country"), and eventually contributed to the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. ...

  • Swing Low, volume 2: An Anthology of Black Christianity in the United States
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    Swing Low, volume 2

    An Anthology of Black Christianity in the United States

    Swing Low Set

    Associate Editor Justin Clark, Yana Conner, and Courtlandt Perkins
    General Editor Walter Robert Strickland

    A Groundbreaking Portrait of African American Christianity

    The history of African American Christianity is one of the determined faith of a people driven to pursue spiritual and social uplift for themselves and others to God's glory. Yet stories of faithful Black Christians have often been forgotten or minimized. The dynamic witness of the Black church in the United States ...

  • Swing Low, volume 2: An Anthology of Black Christianity in the United States
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    Swing Low, volume 2

    An Anthology of Black Christianity in the United States

    Swing Low Set

    Associate Editor Justin Clark, Yana Conner, and Courtlandt Perkins
    General Editor Walter Robert Strickland

    A Groundbreaking Portrait of African American Christianity

    The history of African American Christianity is one of the determined faith of a people driven to pursue spiritual and social uplift for themselves and others to God's glory. Yet stories of faithful Black Christians have often been forgotten or minimized. The dynamic witness of the Black church in the United States ...

  • Swing Low, volume 1: A History of Black Christianity in the United States, By Walter R. Strickland II
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    Swing Low, volume 1

    A History of Black Christianity in the United States

    Swing Low Set

    by Walter Robert Strickland

    Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award Finalist

    A Groundbreaking Portrait of African American Christianity

    The history of African American Christianity is one of the determined faith of a people driven to pursue spiritual and social uplift for themselves and others to God's glory. Yet stories of faithful Black Christians have often been forgotten ...

  • Swing Low, volume 1: A History of Black Christianity in the United States, By Walter R. Strickland II
    Hardback

    Swing Low, volume 1

    A History of Black Christianity in the United States

    Swing Low Set

    by Walter Robert Strickland

    Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award Finalist

    A Groundbreaking Portrait of African American Christianity

    The history of African American Christianity is one of the determined faith of a people driven to pursue spiritual and social uplift for themselves and others to God's glory. Yet stories of faithful Black Christians have often been forgotten ...

  • To Know You More: Cultivating the Heart of the Worship Leader, By Andy Park
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    To Know You More

    Cultivating the Heart of the Worship Leader

    by Andy Park

    • The WorshipMusic.com 2003 Book of the Year

    Andy Park writes, "I've learned through the years that becoming a worship leader involves far more than developing a set of skills--it's all about developing a life in God." Here's your opportunity to sit at the feet of one who has for twenty-five years led contemporary worship services in the United States and Canada. In Park's book you'll ...

  • The Radical Disciple: Some Neglected Aspects of Our Calling, By John Stott
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    The Radical Disciple

    Some Neglected Aspects of Our Calling

    by John Stott

    What is a life of radical discipleship? At the root, it means we let Jesus set the agenda of our lives. We aren't selective. We don't pick and choose what is congenial and stay away from what is costly. No. He is Lord of all of life.

    In the last book by the leading evangelical churchman of the twentieth century, John Stott opens up what it means to truly be a follower of Jesus. In ...