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PaperbackChurch Forsaken
Practicing Presence in Neglected Neighborhoods
by Jonathan Brooks
Foreword by Amisho Baraka"There are no God-forsaken places, just church-forsaken places." —Jon Fuller, OMF InternationalJonathan Brooks was raised in the Englewood neighborhood on the south side of Chicago. As soon as he was able, he left the community and moved as far away as he could. But through a remarkable turn of events, he reluctantly returned and found himself not only back in Englewood but also ...
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Tom Nelson
Tom Nelson (DMin, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School) is president of Made to Flourish. He has also served as senior pastor of Christ Community Church in Kansas City for over thirty years. A council member for The Gospel Coalition, Tom is the author of several books, including Work Matters and The Economics of Neighborly Love.
PaperbackThe New Parish
How Neighborhood Churches Are Transforming Mission, Discipleship and Community
by Paul Sparks, Tim Soerens, and Dwight J. Friesen
Christianity Today Award of Merit
Readers' Choice Awards Honorable Mention
Best Books About the Church from Byron Borger, Hearts and Minds Bookstore
"When . . . faith communities begin connecting together, in and for the neighborhood, they learn to depend on God for strength to love, forgive and show grace like never before. ...
PaperbackWorth Seeing
Viewing Others Through God's Eyes
by Amy Lyn Williams
"We are in the business of seeing others, seeing them the way God sees them, and letting them know they have value."
Amy L. Williams has spent three decades doing ministry with youth in gangs and prisons. While most of society sees high-risk youth through lenses of fear or disregard, she has come to see them through God's eyes as having tremendous value and potential. Worth ...
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Operation World Set
Transform your prayer life and mobilize your church and community with Operation World Resources, the trusted prayer guide for more than one million Christians. This series offers well-researched, fact-based prayer points to equip believers for informed intercession and effective mission engagement. Built on decades of research and partnerships with Christian leaders worldwide, Operation World Resources is your foundation for prayer and mission strategy.
PaperbackKingdom Calling
Vocational Stewardship for the Common Good
by Amy L. Sherman
Afterword by Steven Garber
Foreword by Reggie McNealChristianity Today Book Award winner
Imagine the scenarios:
- a CEO successfully negotiates a corporate merger, avoiding hundreds of layoffs in the process
- an artist completes a mosaic for public display at a bank, showcasing neighborhood heroes
- a contractor creates a work-release program in cooperation with a local prison, growing the business ...
PaperbackThe Gospel in the Marketplace of Ideas
Paul's Mars Hill Experience for Our Pluralistic World
by Paul Copan and Kenneth D. Litwak
Our world is multicultural, multireligious, multiphilosophical. It ranges from fundamental monotheism to do-it-yourself spirituality to strident atheism. How can Christians engage in communicating across worldviews in this pluralistic and often relativistic society? When Paul visited Athens, he found an equally multicultural and multireligious setting. From Jews to Gentiles, elite to poor, slaves ...
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Neil Powell
Neil Powell is pastor of City Church, Birmingham (UK) and a founder of 2020birmingham. He is chair of the executive committee for City to City Europe.
PaperbackLife After Church
God's Call to Disillusioned Christians
by Brian Sanders
Life without church. It's getting easier to imagine.And maybe you already left. A leaver, then. Committed to Jesus, not an institution. Perhaps you've left your church in spirit, remaining in the pew. Outwardly silent. Secretly bored. Ineither case, Brian Sanders has a word for you.Out of his own experience as a leaver, Brian distills the complex problem into two viable options:
- Stay. ...
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Charles E. Cotherman
Charles E. Cotherman (PhD, University of Virginia) is pastor and planter of Oil City Vineyard Church in Oil City, Pennsylvania. He is the project director of the Project on Rural Ministry at Grove City College and has taught church history at Fuller Seminary and Pittsburgh Theological Seminary.
