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  • Refuge from Abuse: Healing and Hope for Abused Christian Women, By Nancy Nason-Clark and Catherine Clark Kroeger
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    Refuge from Abuse

    Healing and Hope for Abused Christian Women

    by Nancy Nason-Clark and Catherine Clark Kroeger

    Abuse is ugly. It is always wrong. It is never part of God?s design for healthy family living. It distorts relationships and shatters dreams. It creates pain and despair. It never produces hope.You know this all too well--that's why you've picked up this book. Nancy Nason-Clark and Catherine Clark Kroeger know the pain of women who have been abused, especially the unique pain ...

  • Short-Term Mission: An Ethnography of Christian Travel Narrative and Experience, By Brian M. Howell
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    Short-Term Mission

    An Ethnography of Christian Travel Narrative and Experience

    by Brian M. Howell

    Over the past few decades, short-term mission trips have exploded in popularity. With easy access to affordable air travel, millions of American Christians have journeyed internationally for ministry, service and evangelism. Short-term trips are praised for involving many in global mission but also critiqued for their limitations. Despite the diversity of destinations, certain universal commonalities ...

  • 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, ...

  • The Dominance of Evangelicalism: The Age of Spurgeon and Moody, By David W. Bebbington
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    The Dominance of Evangelicalism

    The Age of Spurgeon and Moody

    History of Evangelicalism Series

    by David W. Bebbington

    Preaching magazine's Year's Best Book for Preachers

    The word evangelical is widely used and widely misunderstood. Where did evangelicals come from? How did their influence become so widespread throughout the world?

    This book continues a compelling series of books charting the course of English-speaking evangelicalism over the last three hundred years. ...