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  • Welcoming the Stranger, By Matthew Soerens and Jenny Yang and Leith Anderson
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    Welcoming the Stranger

    Justice, Compassion & Truth in the Immigration Debate

    by Matthew Soerens, Jenny Yang, and Leith Anderson

    Academy of Parish Clergy Top Ten List

    Immigration is one of the most complicated issues of our time. Voices on all sides argue strongly for action and change. Christians find themselves torn between the desire to uphold laws and the call to minister to the vulnerable.

    In this book World Relief immigration experts Matthew Soerens and Jenny Yang move beyond the rhetoric ...

  • My Vertical Neighborhood: How Strangers Became a Community, By Lynda MacGibbon
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    My Vertical Neighborhood

    How Strangers Became a Community

    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 ...

  • Inalienable: How Marginalized Kingdom Voices Can Help Save the American Church, By Eric Costanzo and Daniel Yang and Matthew Soerens
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    Inalienable

    How Marginalized Kingdom Voices Can Help Save the American Church

    by Eric Costanzo, Daniel Yang, and Matthew Soerens

    Outreach Resource of the Year

    The American church is at a critical crossroads. Our witness has been compromised, our numbers are down, and our reputation has been sullied, due largely to our own faults and fears. The church's ethnocentrism, consumerism, and syncretism have blurred the lines between discipleship and partisanship.

    Pastor Eric Costanzo, ...

  • Engaging with God: A Biblical Theology of Worship, By David G. Peterson
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    Engaging with God

    A Biblical Theology of Worship

    by David G. Peterson
    Foreword by I. Howard Marshall

    Worship is of immense concern in the church and ironically the source of controversy and dispute. Can we get behind the question of what style of worship we should engage in to understand the bedrock foundation for God's people--honoring him as hedesires? Is the dissatisfaction with worship voiced by so many perhaps a result of our having wandered from biblical teaching on the subject?Through careful ...

  • Outreach magazine has named four IVP titles as 2023 Resources of the Year. The honored books include Wandering Toward God by Travis Dickinson; Agents of Flourishing by Amy L. Sherman; Inalienable by Eric Costanzo, Daniel Yang, and Matthew Soerens; and Analog Christian by Jay Y. Kim.

  • Slave of Christ: A New Testament Metaphor for Total Devotion to Christ, By Murray J. Harris
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    Slave of Christ

    A New Testament Metaphor for Total Devotion to Christ

    New Studies in Biblical Theology

    by Murray J. Harris
    Series edited by D. A. Carson

    The New Testament finds many ways to depict the relationship of Christians and their Lord. They are his disciples, sons, daughters and friends. But it is perhaps too little recognized that they are also his slaves.In this New Studies in Biblical Theology volume, Murray J. Harris sets out to uncover what it means to be a slave of Christ. He begins by assessing the nature of actual slavery in the ...

  • A Week in the Life of Rome, By James L. Papandrea
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    A Week in the Life of Rome

    A Week in the Life Series

    by James L Papandrea

    In first-century Rome, following Jesus comes at a tremendous social cost.

    An urbane Roman landowner and merchant is intrigued by the Christian faith—but is he willing to give up his status and lifestyle to join the church? Meanwhile his young client, a catechumen in the church at Rome, is beginning to see just how much his newfound faith will require of him.

    A Week ...

  • Liturgical Mission: The Work of the People for the Life of the World, By Winfield Bevins
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    Liturgical Mission

    The Work of the People for the Life of the World

    by Winfield Bevins
    Foreword by Justo L. González

    Modern missional movements have often viewed the historic Christian traditions with suspicion. The old traditions may be beautiful, the thinking goes, but they’re too insular, focused primarily on worship and on the interior lifeof the church, and not looking outward to evangelism and good works.

    In Liturgical Mission, Winfield Bevins argues that the church's liturgy ...