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  • Charitable Writing: Cultivating Virtue Through Our Words, By Richard Hughes Gibson and James Edward Beitler III
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    Charitable Writing

    Cultivating Virtue Through Our Words

    by Richard Hughes Gibson and James Edward Beitler III
    Foreword by Anne Ruggles Gere
    Afterword by Alan Jacobs

    ECPA Top Shelf Book Cover Award

    Our written words carry weight.

    Unfortunately, in today's cultural climate, our writing is too often laced with harsh judgments and vitriol rather than careful consideration and generosity. But might the Christian faith transform how we approach the task of writing? How might we love God and our neighbors through our writing?

    This ...

  • Honor, Patronage, Kinship, and Purity: Unlocking New Testament Culture, By David A. deSilva
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    Honor, Patronage, Kinship, and Purity

    Unlocking New Testament Culture

    by David A. deSilva

    For contemporary Western readers, it can be easy to miss or misread cultural nuances in the New Testament. To hear the text correctly we must be attuned to its original context. As David deSilva demonstrates, keys to interpretation are found in paying attention to four essential cultural themes: honor and shame, patronage and reciprocity, kinship and family, and purity and pollution.

    Through ...

  • Don't Blow Up Your Ministry: Defuse the Underlying Issues That Take Pastors Down, By Michael MacKenzie
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    Don't Blow Up Your Ministry

    Defuse the Underlying Issues That Take Pastors Down

    by Michael MacKenzie
    Foreword by Marshall Shelley

    There's a ticking time bomb in your ministry. Is it you?

    The pressures of pastoring are endless, leading many to burnout and depression, sexual misconduct, or substance abuse. But moral failures can be averted and shipwrecked ministries can be repaired. Counselor Michael MacKenzie, a longtime expert in helping pastors at risk, deals with the issues beneath the issues, such ...

  • The Politics of Ministry: Navigating Power Dynamics and Negotiating Interests, By Bob Burns and Tasha D. Chapman and Donald C. Guthrie
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    The Politics of Ministry

    Navigating Power Dynamics and Negotiating Interests

    by Bob Burns, Tasha D. Chapman, and Donald C. Guthrie
    Foreword by Steven Garber

    We all need help navigating the politics of ministry. "Politics" is often considered a dirty word. It brings to mind lies and manipulation, accusations and scandals. But at its most basic level, politics is simply the everyday activity of getting things done with other people: understanding their interests, recognizing the power dynamics at play, and learning how to negotiate relationships ...

  • The Lord's Supper: Five Views, Edited by Gordon T. Smith
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    The Lord's Supper

    Five Views

    Spectrum Multiview Book Series

    Edited by Gordon T. Smith
    Contributions by Jeffrey Gros, John R. Stephenson, Leanne Van Dyk, Roger E. Olson, and Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen

    Lord's Supper. Eucharist. Communion. Sacrament. Ordinance.

    While it's the meal that should unite us as followers of Christ, it sometimes appears we can't even agree on what to call it, let alone how we might share a common theological view of its significance. Even if we cannot reach full agreement, how can we better understand one another and this central observance of the ...

  • Living the Christian Year: Time to Inhabit the Story of God, By Bobby Gross
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    Living the Christian Year

    Time to Inhabit the Story of God

    by Bobby Gross

    Infuse your days with meaning. You are part of a larger Story. And the One who began the Story is at work today, in your life, in the midst of your meetings and bills and family activities that make the days rush by and blur together. In these pages Bobby Gross opens to you--and opens you to--the liturgical year, helping you inhabit God's Story every day.