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  • Telling the Gospel Through Story: Evangelism That Keeps Hearers Wanting More, By Christine Dillon
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    Telling the Gospel Through Story

    Evangelism That Keeps Hearers Wanting More

    by Christine Dillon

    Outreach Magazine Resource of the Year

    Everybody loves a good story.

    In an age when prepackaged gospel formulations leave people cold, well-told Bible stories can be used powerfully by God totouch people's hearts and draw them to himself.

    After ministry in both Western and non-Western contexts, church planter Christine Dillon has discovered ...

  • Faithful Presence: Seven Disciplines That Shape the Church for Mission, By David E. Fitch
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    Faithful Presence

    Seven Disciplines That Shape the Church for Mission

    by David E. Fitch

    • Missio Alliance Essential Reading List of 2016

    In our quest to renew the church, Christians have walked through seeker-friendly, emergent, missional, and other movements to develop new expressions of the body of Christ. Now in the post-Christian world in North America we're asking the question again: Is there a way to be the church that engages the world, not by judgment nor accommodation ...

  • Healing Racial Trauma: The Road to Resilience, By Sheila Wise Rowe
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    Healing Racial Trauma

    The Road to Resilience

    by Sheila Wise Rowe
    Foreword by Soong-Chan Rah

    Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award - Multicultural
    Christianity Today Book Award - Christian Living/Discipleship Award
    Publishers Weekly starred review

    "People of color have endured traumatic histories and almost daily assaults on our dignity. We have prayed about racism, been in denial, or acted out in anger, ...

  • The Vulnerable Pastor: How Human Limitations Empower Our Ministry, By Mandy Smith
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    The Vulnerable Pastor

    How Human Limitations Empower Our Ministry

    by Mandy Smith
    Foreword by David Hansen

    Missio Alliance Essential Reading List

    Hearts Minds Bookstore's Best Books

    ProdigalThought.net's Top Reads

    Englewood Review of Books Best Books

    Leadership Journal's Best Ministry Books of the Year

    Often as pastors we feel like we need to project strength and competency in order ...

  • Buried Talents: Overcoming Gendered Socialization to Answer God's Call, By Susan Harris Howell
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    Buried Talents

    Overcoming Gendered Socialization to Answer God's Call

    by Susan Carol Harris Howell
    Foreword by Mimi Haddad

    Reader's Choice Award Winner

    If God is calling women to lead, what's holding them back? Susan Harris Howell has spent years helping students investigate this question. In Buried Talents, she makes clear how gender disparity in leadership is directly connected to a larger, less overt issue: gendered socialization. Howell examines gendered messages ...

  • How Not to Waste a Crisis: Quit Trying Harder, By Tod Bolsinger
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    How Not to Waste a Crisis

    Quit Trying Harder

    Practicing Change Series

    by Tod Bolsinger
    Illustrated by Mark Demel
    Foreword by Marty Linsky

    Christian Book Award® Finalist—Ministry Resources

    Crises are inevitable, but your response to them can shape your legacy.

    In a world where crises seem to be the new normal, leadership that adapts ismore vital than ever. In his new book How Not to Waste a Crisis bestselling Tod Bolsinger offers a refreshing perspective on turning chaos into ...

  • Awaken Your Senses: Exercises for Exploring the Wonder of God, By J. Brent Bill and Beth A. Booram
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    Awaken Your Senses

    Exercises for Exploring the Wonder of God

    by J. Brent Bill and Beth A. Booram

    Perhaps you've been missing out. God has given us five senses and a brain with two sides. Yet we often approach God in one way only: through words that are analyzed and processed logically in our left brain. The right brain, however, is the creative, intuitive center--the place that connects most to our seeing, smelling, touching, tasting and hearing, and that roots experiences in our hearts in ...

  • 1-2 Thessalonians, 1-2 Timothy, Titus, Philemon, Edited by Lee Gatiss and Bradley G. Green
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    1-2 Thessalonians, 1-2 Timothy, Titus, Philemon

    New Testament Volume 12

    Reformation Commentary on Scripture

    Edited by Lee Gatiss and Bradley G. Green

    "Since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep." (1 Thess 4:14).

    The epistles of the New Testament provide unparalleled insight into the realities of the life of the early church, guidance for those called to lead the church, and comfort in the face of pressing theological questions. Among those ...