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  • Imaginative Prayer: A Yearlong Guide for Your Child's Spiritual Formation, By Jared Patrick Boyd
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    Imaginative Prayer

    A Yearlong Guide for Your Child's Spiritual Formation

    by Jared Patrick Boyd

    How do we help our kids connect with God?

    Most parents want their kids to learn to love God. But most of us struggle to facilitate real spiritual experiences. It's hard enough to have a meaningful conversation with our kids about spiritual things, let alone help them experience true transformation in the presence of God.

    Jared Patrick Boyd discovered that children's spiritual formation ...

  • Churches, Cultures, and Leadership: A Practical Theology of Congregations and Ethnicities, By Mark Lau Branson and Juan F. Martinez
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    Churches, Cultures, and Leadership

    A Practical Theology of Congregations and Ethnicities

    by Mark Branson and Juan F. Martinez

    We live in a culturally diverse society. As the church continues to heed Christ's call to reflect the multiethnic character of his people, pastors and lay leaders need to gain skills and competencies to serve in multicultural contexts, both inside and beyond their congregations. With this book, Mark Lau Branson and Juan F. Martínez equip leaders to create environments that make ...

  • Signature Sins: Taming Our Wayward Hearts, By Michael Mangis
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    Signature Sins

    Taming Our Wayward Hearts

    by Michael Mangis

    Finally--a safe place to talk about sin.The topic of sin in general has been safe for a while. But here, guided by psychologist Michael Mangis, we get specific by learning to know ourselves and our signature sins--the individual and specific patterns of sin in our life that affect our thoughts, actions and relationships.In these pages, the author empathetically and honestly reflects on ...

  • Souls in Full Sail: A Christian Spirituality for the Later Years, By Emilie Griffin
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    Souls in Full Sail

    A Christian Spirituality for the Later Years

    by Emilie Griffin

    2011 Christianity Today Book Award Winner

    "We do not set out to become old. Far from it. We hardly intend even to become middle-aged. Instead we plan to live in some eternal now which will lead on to something better, something more complete than what we had before. . . .

    Sometime in our spiritual travels, as a complete surprise, we notice it has become winter. ...

  • Abusing Scripture: The Consequences of Misreading the Bible, By Manfred Brauch
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    Abusing Scripture

    The Consequences of Misreading the Bible

    by Manfred Brauch

    Virtually all Christians recognize the centrality of the Bible to their faith. Yet many Christians misquote and misapply Scripture regularly. Often those who are most passionate about the authority of the Bible are at the greatest loss when it comes to understanding its message clearly and applying it faithfully. Professor Manfred Brauch believes this kind of mistaken interpretation and application ...

  • The Winding Path of Transformation: Finding Yourself Between Glory and Humility, By Jeff Tacklind
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    The Winding Path of Transformation

    Finding Yourself Between Glory and Humility

    by Jeff Tacklind
    Foreword by Cathleen Falsani

    Jeff 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, he ...

  • The Power of Group Prayer: How Intercession Transforms Us and the World, By Carolyn Carney
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    The Power of Group Prayer

    How Intercession Transforms Us and the World

    by Carolyn M Carney

    Revival starts when people pray together.

    Christians often dream about the possibility of revival. But revival doesn't come because we wish or plan for it. Revival occurs when groups of people pray together. However, praying together effectively doesn't come easily, and we're often left wondering how to best engage in the work of intercession.

    Carolyn Carney offers a ...

  • Contemporary Art and the Church: A Conversation Between Two Worlds, Edited by W. David O. Taylor and Taylor Worley
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    Contemporary Art and the Church

    A Conversation Between Two Worlds

    Studies in Theology and the Arts Series

    Edited by W. David O. Taylor and Taylor Worley

    The church and the contemporary art world often find themselves in an uneasy relationship in which misunderstanding and mistrust abound.

    On one hand, the leaders of local congregations, seminaries, and other Christian ministries often don't know what to make of works by contemporary artists. Not only are these artists mostly unknown to church leaders, they and their work often ...

  • Consider Your Calling: Six Questions for Discerning Your Vocation, By Gordon T. Smith
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    Consider Your Calling

    Six Questions for Discerning Your Vocation

    by Gordon T. Smith

    What on earth is God doing?

    Who are you?

    What is your stage of life?

    What are your circumstances?

    What is the cross you will have to bear?

    What are you afraid of?

    We ask these six critical questions—and then weask them again—at points of transition in our lives. They all lead us to the one core question: What is the good work to which I am called?

    Gordon ...

  • Surrender to Love: Discovering the Heart of Christian Spirituality, By David G. Benner
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    Surrender to Love

    Discovering the Heart of Christian Spirituality

    The Spiritual Journey

    by David G. Benner
    Foreword by M. Basil Pennington

    Surrender to the Only Perfectly Trustworthy Love

    In our self-reliant era, most of us recoil from the concept of surrendering to a power or authority outside ourselves. But surrender need not be seen as threatening, especially when the One to whom we surrender is the epitome of goodness and love.

    God doesn't want his people to respond to him out of fear or obligation. ...