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paperbackInside 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 ...
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paperbackBeyond Colorblind
Redeeming Our Ethnic Journey
by Sarah Shin
Outreach Magazine Resource of the Year
Foreword INDIES Award FinalistFor a generation or so, society has tried to be colorblind. People say they don’t see race. But this approach has limitations. In our broken world, ethnicity and racial identity are often points of pain and injustice. We can’t ignore that God created us with our ethnic identities. ...
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paperbackCalled to Be Saints
An Invitation to Christian Maturity
by Gordon T. Smith
Christianity Today Award of Merit
Best Book of Spirituality—Academic, from Byron Borger, Hearts and Minds Bookstore
Evangelicals are known for their emphasis on conversion. But what about life after conversion and beyond justification?
Desperately needed is a comprehensive theology of the Christian life from beginning ...
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paperbackThe Winding Path of Transformation
Finding Yourself Between Glory and Humility
by Jeff Tacklind
Foreword by Cathleen FalsaniJeff Tacklind, pastor of Church by the Sea—a quirky, diverse congregation in Laguna Beach, California—knows from decades of ministry experience that sometimes effective leadership looks like standing in the middle of conflict, holding the tension. In The Winding Path of Transformation, Tacklind describes spiritual transformation as an invitation to paradox. By entering into suffering, ...
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paperbackSeparated by the Border
A Birth Mother, a Foster Mother, and a Migrant Child's 3,000-Mile Journey
by Gena Thomas
Foreword by Michelle Ferrigno WarrenIn 2017 five-year-old Julia traveled with her mother, Guadalupe, from Honduras to the United States. Her harrowing journey took her through Mexico in the cargo section of a tractor trailer. Then she was separated from her mother, who was held hostage by smugglers who exploited her physically and financially. At the United States border, Julia came through the processing center as ...
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paperbackFinding Your Yes
Living a Life That's Open to God's Invitations
by Christine E. Wagoner
Finding your yes is all about living a life of openness to the invitations of God in our lives. Christine Wagoner, a senior leader with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, invites readers to be attentive to the movements of the Spirit and engage with opportunities God gives them. She shares about her own yes moments as well as those of others. And she offers practical tools for moving ...
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paperbackMission 3:16
God's One-Verse Invitation to Love the World
by Paul Borthwick
"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." —John 3:16 Paul Borthwick unpacks the Bible's most famous verse to unveil God's intentional, sacrificial mission for the world. He examines every word in John 3:16 to reveal the underlying motivation for mission, the global scope of God's call, and ...
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paperbackThe Transformation of a Man's Heart
Reflections on the Masculine Journey
Edited by Stephen W. Smith
Life is many things, but it is definitely not a flow chart. We prove it every day. We deeply long for change, but formulas and seminars don't get it done. The good news is, God is at work across the life span, encouraging us and empowering us to overcome the hurdles of our past, the challenges of our present and the fears of our future. The Transformation of a Man's Heart is a book of ...
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product setFullness of Time
A Journey Through the Church Year
An Introduction to the Church Calendar
The church year has been forming the faithful in the Christian story since the church's early days. The Fullness of Time series invites readers to explore the riches of the church year, guided by some of our finest church theologians. Each volume introduces the traditions, prayers, Scriptures, and rituals of a season of the church—not ...
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Award-winning author Ruth Haley Barton has signed a six-book contract with InterVarsity Press. Barton, president of the Transforming Center, a spiritual formation ministry to pastors and Christian leaders, will release Invitation to Transforming Community, the first of six books in the Transforming Church series, in Fall 2014.
