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paperbackFamily-Based Youth Ministry
by Mark DeVries
Have you tried all the new youth programs? Have you planned one too many wacky activities? Are you frustrated about the size of the youth group? Here's an approach to ministry that takes youth work seriously.Family-based youth ministry is about adults discipling teens one-on-one and in groups. It is about involving not just the nuclear family but the whole church family--from singles to older adults. ...
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paperbackContextualization in the New Testament
Patterns for Theology and Mission
by Dean Flemming
Winner of a Christianity Today Book Award
Honored as one of the "Fifteen Outstanding Books for Mission Studies" by International Bulletin of Missionary Research
From Cairo to Calcutta, from Cochabamba to Columbus, Christians are engaged in a conversation about how to speak and live the gospel in today's traditional, modern and emergent ...
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paperbackTransforming Discipleship
by Greg Ogden
Many churchgoers complain that their churches lack a coherent plan for discipleship and spiritual growth. In turn, many church leaders lament their lack of resources to build and manage effective programs to help people become fully devoted followers of Christ. In Transforming Discipleship Greg Ogden introduces his vision for discipleship, emphasizing that solutions will not be found in ...
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paperbackHermanas
Deepening Our Identity and Growing Our Influence
by Natalia Kohn Rivera, Noemi Vega Quiñones, and Kristy Garza Robinson
Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Finalist - Multicultural
God calls Latinas to lives of influence. He created his Latina daughters to partner with him, live into the incredible plans he has for eachof us, and walk in his grace and strength to help change this world. But many of us have heard cultural messages that make us doubt our adequacy. We have ...
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Walter C. Wright
Walter C. Wright is the executive director of the Max De Pree Center for Leadership in Pasadena, California. He holds a Ph.D. from Fuller Theological Seminary and was formerly president of Regent College in Vancouver. He is also the author of Relational Leadership.
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paperbackThe Missional Quest
Becoming a Church of the Long Run
Forge Partnership Books
by Lance Ford and Brad Brisco
Foreword by Ed StetzerWhen Christ calls people, he invites them on a journey—a journey taken together in community. We have reached a point in history, however, when we think of the church as a fixed place where isolated individuals show up, consume a Christian message, drink some coffee, and get on with their lives. The times demand, and the gospel proclaims, that we recover our identity as a church that is a people ...
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paperbackThe Lost World of Scripture
Ancient Literary Culture and Biblical Authority
The Lost World Series
by John H. Walton and Brent Sandy
Readers' Choice Awards Honorable Mention
Preaching's Preacher's Guide to the Best Bible Reference
From John H. Walton, author of the bestselling Lost World of Genesis One, and D. Brent Sandy, author of Plowshares and Pruning Hooks, comes a detailed look at the origins of scriptural authority in ancient oral cultures and how ...
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paperbackHealing Spiritual Abuse
How to Break Free from Bad Church Experiences
by Ken M. Blue
Are you a victim of Spiritual Abuse?
- Are you discouraged from questioning the decisions or teachings church leaders make?
- If you do little or no volunteer work for the church, do you feel like a second-class Christian?
- Does your pastor insist on being addressed by a title such as "Dr." or "Pastor"?
- Do you hear many broad, vague appeals to "surrender fully," "yield ...
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Harold M. Best
Best (D.S.M., Union Theological Seminary) was for more than twenty-five years the dean of the Conservatory of Music at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois. An organist and composer, he has been a mentor and model for musicians, artists and churchleaders. He also has served as president of the National Association of Schools of Music and has written extensively on matters of curriculum, culture and educational policy issues. He is the author of Music Through the Eyes of Faith.
