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  • Church ministry is challenging, but the right resources can have a huge impact on the work pastors do day in and day out. This list highlights ten books from IVP written specifically for pastors, taking all types of ministry contexts into consideration. Whether you're a pastor yourself or you want to support the church leaders in your life, these books are the perfect place to start.

  • The Transforming Vision: Shaping a Christian World View, By Brian J. Walsh and J. Richard Middleton
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    The Transforming Vision

    Shaping a Christian World View

    by Brian J. Walsh and J. Richard Middleton

    Science, technology and economic growth motivate our society. Each is carried on with little regard for Christian concerns.

    Brian Walsh and Richard Middleton yearn for change. They long to see Christianity penetrate the structures of society, reforming and remolding our culture. From scholarship in the universities to politics, business and family life, the Christian vision can transform ...

  • Quiet Time
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    Quiet Time

    by InterVarsity Staff

    We all long for an ever-deepening fellowship with God. But how do we find it? The mystery is not great. Experience shows that those who are close to God have set time aside each day with him.

    Over a million Christians have turned again and again to this classic introduction to daily devotions. Here they have found simple, sound and practical advice on quiet time with their Lord.

  • Muslim Evangelism: Contemporary Approaches to Contextualization, By Phil Parshall
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    Muslim Evangelism

    Contemporary Approaches to Contextualization

    by Phil Parshall
    Foreword by Ramsay Harris

    Too long the church has been programmed to accept the inevitabilities of meager results in the efforts toward Muslim evangelization. The reasons for this failure in mission must now be probed and resolved as the world today is coming alive to the presence of the Muslim religious community. Phil Parshall asks the missions world to forsake former presuppositions and to become conscious of God speaking ...

  • The Next Mile - Mile Post Devotional: A Post-Ministry Self-Paced Devotional Guide, By Brian J. Heerwagen
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    The Next Mile - Mile Post Devotional

    A Post-Ministry Self-Paced Devotional Guide

    by Brian J. Heerwagen

    The Next Mile resources are designed to assist local churches and agencies plan and conduct effective ministry. Participants in the short-term mission experience include the goer, sender, local church, goer's family, mentor, host, and those to whom the STMer ministers. The mission experience that is well-planned and carried out will affect the life of each participant in their continuing ...

  • Running into Water: Women Immersed in the Pursuit of God, By Angela Blycker
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    Running into Water

    Women Immersed in the Pursuit of God

    by Angela Blycker

    Running into Water is not just another woman's book; it's an articulate and compelling call to women and mothers from every dialect of life for renewed purpose and hope. We all desperately need water to sustain our physical lives, just as we need God to sustain our spiritual lives. The idea of women immersed in God transformed through the practice of motherhood, is as much as for who ...

  • A Multitude of All Peoples: Engaging Ancient Christianity's Global Identity, By Vince L. Bantu
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    A Multitude of All Peoples

    Engaging Ancient Christianity's Global Identity

    Missiological Engagements

    by Vince L. Bantu

    Christianity Today Award of Merit

    Christianity is not becoming a global religion. It has always been a global religion. The early Christian movement spread from Jerusalem in every direction, taking on local cultural expression all around the ancient world. So why do so many people see Christianity as a primarily Western, white religion?

    In ...

  • Spiritual Rhythms in Community: Being Together in the Presence of God, By Keith Meyer
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    Spiritual Rhythms in Community

    Being Together in the Presence of God

    by Keith Meyer

    • 2012 Midwest Publishing Association Crystal Book Award winner
    Jesus had rhythm. His regular patterns of withdrawing from life to have intimate time with his Father and then embracing and entering into rich relationships with others allowed him to carry out his enormous mission with wisdom, grace and authentic love. In the midst of busy, full lives, ...
  • The Historical Jesus: Five Views, Edited by James K. Beilby and Paul R. Eddy
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    The Historical Jesus

    Five Views

    Spectrum Multiview Book Series

    Edited by James K. Beilby and Paul R. Eddy
    Contributions by Robert M. Price, John Dominic Crossan, Luke Timothy Johnson, James D. G. Dunn, and Darrell L. Bock

    Christianity Today Book Award winner

    The scholarly quest for the historical Jesus has a distinguished pedigree in modern Western religious and historical scholarship, with names such as Strauss, Schweitzer and Bultmann highlighting the story. Since the early 1990s, when the Jesus quest was reawakened for a third run, numerous significant books have ...