by Neil Powell and John James

We need a bigger vision for the city.It's not enough to plant individual churches in isolation from each other. The spiritual need and opportunity of our cities is too big for any one church to meet alone. Pastors Neil Powell andJohn James contend that to truly transform a city, the gospel compels us to create localized, collaborative church planting movements. They share lessons ...

Together At Home - Resources for Staying Hopeful in Community

Together at Home: Staying Hopeful in Community During the COVID-19 Pandemic

We're all facing disruption right now as the coronavirus and COVID-19 have radically altered our daily lives. But one thing is certain—we're coming together even as we practice social distancing, whether it's in virtual spaces, in our homes, or as a world community. Christian community is just as important now as ever, so use these tips and resources to stay hopeful while we're together at home.

by Lynda J MacGibbon
Foreword by Michael Frost

Top World Guild Awards Best Nonfiction Book of the Year

What if our neighbors were our friends?

When Lynda MacGibbon moved from a small city in eastern Canada to a high-rise apartment in Toronto, she decided to follow Jesus' famous commandment to "love your neighbor" a bit more literally. In the past, she would have looked first for friends at her new ...

by Randy White

When you get involved with city ministry, you're in for some adventures--and you see God at work! Randy and Tina White, with their two young sons, left suburbia to join believers living in a disadvantaged area of Fresno, California. Through theirfamily's story you will learn more about God's heart for the city, meet some of the people who live there, and discover ways you might make a difference ...

by Randy White
Foreword by Raymond J Bakke

God is at work in the city. And he invites his people to join him. But the city is not merely a mission field for Christians to target. The city is also the environment where Christians are discipled and lives are forged into the image of Jesus.Urban ministry veteran Randy White shows how God transforms you when you answer God's call to the city. Urban life peels away your sin and self-deception ...

by Raymond J Bakke

"As we look at the world-class cities around our planet, we face five new urban realities: a crack cocaine epidemic, assault weapons, massive numbers of homeless children, HIV/AIDS and (in the U.S.) what Time magazine has called `the browning of America.' The needs of the urban population are greater than ever. . . . As our cities swell with immigrants, I'm reminded that Jesus was born ...

by Carolyn Weber

When Carolyn Weber moved to Oxford University to study, she didn't expect to find God there. But she did. As she grappled with her newest and most important relationship, she also found that there was another invitation: to thinkbigger about love.

In these pages we follow the journey Weber began in her first memoir, Surprised by Oxford, from her relationship with ...

by Robert Boyd Munger

More than ten million readers have enjoyed Robert Boyd Munger's spiritually challenging meditation on Christian discipleship. Imagining what it would be like to have Jesus come to the home of our hearts, Munger moves room by room considering whatChrist desires for us. In the living room we prepare to meet Christ daily. In the dining room we examine together what appetites should and should not control ...

by Albert Haase OFM
Foreword by M. Robert Mulholland Jr.

"God is at home. It is we who have gone out for a walk."--Meister EckhartIn Coming Home to Your True Self, Albert Haase invites you to return home--and shows you the way to get there. "Home," he writes, "is the sacrament of the present moment. It is only living right now, right here, that we discover our lives and this world awash in the grace of God."Using the story of the prodigal son ...

by Jen Pollock Michel
Foreword by Scott Sauls

To be human is to long for home.Home is our most fundamental human longing. And for many of us homesickness is a nagging place of grief. This book connects that desire and disappointment with the story of the Bible, helping us tosee that there is a homemaking God with wide arms of welcome—and a church commissioned with this same work. "Many of us seem to be recovering the sacred, ...

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Together for the City

How Collaborative Church Planting Leads to Citywide Movements

by Neil Powell and John James