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  • How We Make Our Kids Angry: Suggestions for Parents Who Want to Change, By Roger Cross
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    How We Make Our Kids Angry

    Suggestions for Parents Who Want to Change

    by Roger Cross

    I remember one of the first times our younger daughter Amber vented her anger at me for something I did. In reality, it was something I didn't do that made her mad. She had asked me to help her with a paper she was writing for a middle school class. The paper required a lot of research, and Amber didn't know how to go about doing the research. "There's nothing to it," I assured her flippantly. ...

  • Deep Church: A Third Way Beyond Emerging and Traditional, By Jim Belcher
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    Deep Church

    A Third Way Beyond Emerging and Traditional

    by Jim Belcher
    Foreword by Richard J. Mouw

    Christianity Today Book Award winner

    Golden Canon Leadership Book Award winner

    Feeling caught between the traditional church and the emerging church? Discover a third way: deep church.

    C. S. Lewis used the phrase "deep church" to describe the body of believers committed to mere Christianity. Unfortunately church in our postmodern ...

  • The Gap Decade: When You're Technically an Adult but Really Don't Feel Like It Yet, By Katie Schnack
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    The Gap Decade

    When You're Technically an Adult but Really Don't Feel Like It Yet

    by Katie Schnack

    "A gap decade isn't a cute whim of a decision to take a pause and travel to Italy for a few months. Nah. A gap decade is a cluster of challenging, transitional years that the universe just dumps in your lap. And my lap. And pretty much everyone's lap. It's that twilight zone between 'young person' and 'full-blown adult' that sort of washes in, bringing with it a bit of chaos, growth, ...

  • Sabbath Keeping: Finding Freedom in the Rhythms of Rest, By Lynne M. Baab
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    Sabbath Keeping

    Finding Freedom in the Rhythms of Rest

    by Lynne M. Baab

    Let's give ourselves an A for effort.

    • We keep our minds so preoccupied with work projects that we act and think on autopilot.
    • We keep our kids so occupied with activities that they need day planners before grade school.
    • We keep our schedules so full with church meetings and housekeeping and even entertaining that down-time sounds like a mortal sin.

    When we ...

  • Soul-Shaping Small Groups: A Refreshing Approach for Exasperated Leaders, By Kim V. Engelmann
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    Soul-Shaping Small Groups

    A Refreshing Approach for Exasperated Leaders

    by Kim V. Engelmann
    Foreword by John Ortberg

    Is your small group boring? (It's okay to be honest.) Do you sometimes have to force yourself to attend the meetings (even the meetings you lead!)? Do you wonder if small groups are doing anything for your spiritual growth? Kim Engelmann, a pastor and small group leader, describes how she felt about one small group she attended: "It is Thursday evening--small group night. I . . . hesitate before ...

  • Spirit Outside the Gate: Decolonial Pneumatologies of the American Global South, By Oscar García-Johnson
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    Spirit Outside the Gate

    Decolonial Pneumatologies of the American Global South

    Missiological Engagements

    by Oscar García-Johnson

    Throughout the history of the Christian church, two narratives have constantly clashed: the imperial logic of Babel that builds towers and borders to seize control, versus the logic of Pentecost that empowers "glocal" missionaries of the kingdom life. To what extent are Westernized Christians today ready for the church of the Pentecost narrative? Are they equipped to do ministry ...