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  • What God Thinks When We Fail: Finding Grace and True Success, By Steven C. Roy
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    What God Thinks When We Fail

    Finding Grace and True Success

    by Steven C. Roy

    What does God think of us when we fail? Does he think

    • You're a loser.
    • There's no hope for you.
    • What a wimp!
    • You're good for nothing!

    Or does he think something very different? If you've ever lost a job or a relationship, let your friends down, seen your finances collapse, found your ministry crumbling or failed to meet your own ethical standards, you ...

  • Prayer and the Knowledge of God: What the Whole Bible Teaches, By Graeme Goldsworthy
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    Prayer and the Knowledge of God

    What the Whole Bible Teaches

    by Graeme Goldsworthy

    ? Is it really possible to talk to God?
    ? Does he listen to us?
    ? How do we know what to say?
    ? Will it make any difference if we pray? Prayer is central to Christian faith and life and such questions are fundamental. While much teaching on prayer adresses practical issues and is experience-oriented, Graeme Goldsworthy's conviction is that good practice comes from a foundation ...

  • Soul Repair: Rebuilding Your Spiritual Life, By Jeff VanVonderen and Dale Ryan and Juanita Ryan
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    Soul Repair

    Rebuilding Your Spiritual Life

    by Jeff VanVonderen, Dale Ryan, and Juanita Ryan

    Do you fear that God is angry with you? Do you wonder if God is really for you? if God really loves you? Deep down many of us believe that we are not good enough, and never will be good enough, to have a meaningful relationship with God. This is because we have been spiritually trained in ways that have left us with distorted and inadequate spiritualities of four different kinds:

    • abusive
    • anorexic
    • addictive
    • codependent

    ...

  • A Just Mission: Laying Down Power and Embracing Mutuality, By Mekdes Haddis
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    A Just Mission

    Laying Down Power and Embracing Mutuality

    by Mekdes Haddis
    Foreword by Latasha Morrison

    Why do American Christians travel overseas to reach people in distant lands, but neglect ministering to people who immigrate from those lands to their home communities?

    Why does Western missions funding depend on narratives that marginalize indigenous leadership?

    Why are diaspora Christians from the Global South not seen as legitimate missionaries to the West?

    Western ...

  • Teams That Thrive: Five Disciplines of Collaborative Church Leadership, By Ryan T. Hartwig and Warren Bird
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    Teams That Thrive

    Five Disciplines of Collaborative Church Leadership

    by Ryan T. Hartwig and Warren Bird
    Foreword by Dave Ferguson

    Readers' Choice Award Winner

    Outreach Magazine's Resources of the Year

    It's increasingly clear that leadership should be shared—for the good of any organization and for the good of the leader. Many churches have begun to share key leadership duties, but don't know how to take their leadership team to the point where it thrives. ...

  • Belonging and Becoming: Creating a Thriving Family Culture, By Mark Scandrette and Lisa Scandrette
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    Belonging and Becoming

    Creating a Thriving Family Culture

    by Mark Scandrette and Lisa Scandrette

    Renew your imagination for what family life can be. Many of us feel overwhelmed about the prospect of raising children in our high-performance, rapid-pace culture. Reflecting on difficulties from our own families of origin can increase our doubt and insecurity about being a good parent. Positive examples of family life can seem few and far between. Mark and Lisa Scandrette understand ...

  • I Forgrace You, By David A. Anderson
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    I Forgrace You

    Doing Good to Those Who Have Hurt You

    BridgeLeader Books

    by David A. Anderson

    Most of us are familiar with the golden rule: "Do unto others as you want them to do unto you." And if people treat us well, we generally do the same in return. But what about when others hurt us? Jesus gives us an even higher calling: "Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you" (Luke 6:27-28). David Anderson shows us how we can ...

  • Picturing the Gospel: Tapping the Power of the Bible's Imagery, By Neil Livingstone
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    Picturing the Gospel

    Tapping the Power of the Bible's Imagery

    by Neil Livingstone
    Foreword by Brian McLaren

    In our image-based culture, people need to visualize something to understand it. This has never been more true about our communication of the gospel. But sometimes our understanding of the gospel gets stuck in a rut, and all we know is a particular outline or one-size-fits-all formula. While we hold to only one gospel, the New Testament uses a wealth of dynamic, compelling images for explaining ...

  • Finding Holy in the Suburbs: Living Faithfully in the Land of Too Much, By Ashley Hales
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    Finding Holy in the Suburbs

    Living Faithfully in the Land of Too Much

    by Ashley Hales
    Foreword by Emily P. Freeman

    Suburban life—including tract homes, strip malls, commuter culture—shapes our desires. More than half of Americans live in the suburbs. Ashley Hales writes that for many Christians, however: "The suburbs are ignored ('Your place doesn't matter, we're all going to heaven anyway'), denigrated and demeaned ('You're selfish if you live in a suburb; you only care about your own safety ...