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paperbackA Model for Marriage
Covenant, Grace, Empowerment and Intimacy
by Jack O. Balswick and Judith K. Balswick
Jack and Judy Balswick offer a vision of marriage that is both profoundly spiritual and thoroughly practical. Drawing insight from Christian theology and from social science research, the Balswicks bring together their years of teaching, writing and being married to each other to produce a book of faith and wisdom for facing the challenge of marriage in the twenty-first century.
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paperbackRelational Leadership
A Biblical Model for Influence and Service
by Walter C. Wright
Foreword by Richard J. Mouw and Eugene H PetersonLeadership. What does it mean? How do I do it? Who is a leader and who is not? Relational Leadership will stimulate your thinking about leadership and management, causing you to both ask questions and find answers. Ultimately, this will enable you to invest yourself in people for the sake of the kingdom. Drawing on leadership theory, his own experience and insights from Jude, Philemon and ...
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paperbackHumble Confidence
A Model for Interfaith Apologetics
by Benno van den Toren and Kang-San Tan
Christianity Today Award of Merit
Today's cosmopolitan, multicultural, and multifaith environments call for new approaches to apologetics. The world still needs the good news of Jesus Christ, but torelate the transcultural gospel to diverse and ever-changing contexts, we must free Christian apologetics from dominant Western habits of mind ill-suited ...
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ebookEzekiel
An Introduction and Commentary
Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries
by John B. Taylor
"For most Bible readers Ezekiel is almost a closed book," writes John Taylor. "Their knowledge of him extends little further than his mysterious vision of God's chariot-throne, with its wheels within wheels, and the vision of the valley of the dry bones.""Otherwise his book is as forbidding in its size as the prophet himself is in the complexity of his make-up," Taylor goes on. "In its structure, ...
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Ezekiel
An Introduction and Commentary
Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries
by John B. Taylor
"For most Bible readers Ezekiel is almost a closed book," writes John Taylor. "Their knowledge of him extends little further than his mysterious vision of God's chariot-throne, with its wheels within wheels, and the vision of the valley of the dry bones.""Otherwise his book is as forbidding in its size as the prophet himself is in the complexity of his make-up," Taylor goes on. "In its structure, ...
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paperbackJesus and Personality Theory
Exploring the Five-Factor Model
by James R Beck
In recent years researchers in human personality have come to a rarely achieved near unanimous conclusion: human personality is structured around a very few major traits, probably five in number. These factors, sometimes called the Big Five and represented by the acronym OCEAN, are
- Openness to experience
- Conscientiousness
- Extroversion
- Agreeableness
- Neuroticism
How ...
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paperbackCounseling Couples in Conflict
A Relational Restoration Model
Christian Association for Psychological Studies Books
by James N. Sells and Mark A. Yarhouse
Most therapeutic approaches, especially those of a cognitive orientation, are not very effective in dealing with high conflict relationships--couples often heading toward divorce by the time they seek help. Counseling Couples in Conflictis a resource for pastors and counselors who want to be ready for these uniquely difficult cases. Utilizing a relational conflict and restoration model ...
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paperbackJonathan Edwards and the Ministry of the Word
A Model of Faith and Thought
by Douglas A. Sweeney
Jonathan Edwards has been recognized as the most influential evangelical theologian of all time. Before his death at the age of fifty-four, he had sparked a new movement of Reformed evangelicals who played a major role in fueling the rise of modern missions, preaching revivals far and wide, and wielding the cutting edge of American theology. He has never gone out of print, and Christians today continue ...
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hardcoverPursuing God's Will Together
A Discernment Practice for Leadership Groups
Transforming Resources
by Ruth Haley Barton
Logos Book of the Year; Leadership Journal Leadership Book Award Winner
Create a Leadership Team Led by the Spirit
Meetings can sap our energy, rupture community, and thoroughly demoralize us. They can go on forever with no resolution. Or they can rush along without consensus just to "get through the agenda." What if there was another way?
Church ...
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paperbackChristian Meditation in Clinical Practice
A Four-Step Model and Workbook for Therapists and Clients
Christian Association for Psychological Studies Books
by Joshua J Knabb
Christians are hungry for a return to their own tradition to cultivate meditation practices that are both psychologically and spiritually fruitful. In recent decades, mindfulness meditation, which originates from the Buddhist tradition, has been embraced in many settings as a method for addressing a plethora of symptoms. What would it look like to turn instead to the Christian faith ...
