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Random House USA Inc Be the Difference Monthly Planner
Book SynopsisIdentify the issues that matter most to you, create a plan of action, and make the impact God wants you to make—locally, nationally, and globally—with this undated, guided twelve-month planner.All too often, the news is filled with heart-wrenching stories of poverty, injustice, inequality, fear, prejudice, divisions, and more. You may want to help fix the brokenness and change the world, but may not know where to start. In Be the Difference Planner, you will find the motivational strategies and organizational tools to identify the issues that matter most to you. Then, using the planner’s practical guides and insightful reflections, you can map out intentional steps to create a meaningful impact, both at home and on a global scale.Special features and tools that will instruct and enable you to be the difference include: overviews of several current issues that have always been on God''s heart and should be
£19.43
Random House USA Inc Shoutin in the Fire
Book SynopsisA stirring meditation of being Black and learning to love in a loveless, anti-Black world“Only once in a lifetime do we come across a writer like Danté Stewart, so young and yet so masterful with the pen. This work is a thing to make dungeons shake and hearts thunder.”—Robert Jones, Jr., New York Times bestselling author of The ProphetsIn Shoutin’ in the Fire, Danté Stewart gives breathtaking language to his reckoning with the legacy of white supremacy—both the kind that hangs over our country and the kind that is internalized on a molecular level. Stewart uses his personal experiences as a vehicle to reclaim and reimagine spiritual virtues like rage, resilience, and remembrance—and explores how these virtues might function as a work of love against an unjust, unloving world.In 2016, Stewart was a rising leader at the predominantly white evangelical church he and his family were attending in Augusta, Georgia. Like many young church leaders, Stewart was thrilled at the prospect of growing his voice and influence within the community, and he was excited to break barriers as the church’s first Black preacher. But when Donald Trump began his campaign, so began the unearthing. Stewart started overhearing talk in the pews—comments ranging from microaggressions to outright hostility toward Black Americans. As this violence began to reveal itself en masse, Stewart quickly found himself isolated amid a people unraveled; this community of faith became the place where he and his family now found themselves most alone. This set Stewart on a journey—first out of the white church and then into a liberating pursuit of faith—by looking to the wisdom of the saints that have come before, including James H. Cone, James Baldwin, and Toni Morrison, and by heeding the paradoxical humility of Jesus himself.This sharply observed journey is an intimate meditation on coming of age in a time of terror. Stewart reveals the profound faith he discovered even after experiencing the violence of the American church: a faith that loves Blackness; speaks truth to pain and trauma; and pursues a truer, realer kind of love than the kind we’re taught, a love that sets us free.
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Multnomah Press Beautiful Union
Book SynopsisA powerful call for Christians to understand sex as a window into God''s story of redemption, and a validating guide to living with authentic love in a changing culture?from the influential pastor and author of The Skeletons in God?s Closet.Beautiful isn?t likely the first word that comes to mind when we think about sex.Our reactions are as varied as our experiences and backgrounds. Perhaps the word brings up past baggage. Perhaps it holds yearning for a dream that has never come true. Maybe we would rather not talk about it. Maybe it?s all we want to talk about. Around us, our culture is divided by this topic. On one side, ?progressive? voices seek to dismantle historic Christian teachings to fit current norms. On the other side, ?conservative? voices can reinforce messages of shame, judgement, and repression.Beautiful Union offers a third way, one that is both true and beautiful. It gives us a provocative, positive look into the deepest Christian understanding of sex . . . and what sex reveals about God, our world, and even ourselves. Through biblical teaching and livable, joyful answers to our tough questions about sexuality, author and pastor Joshua Ryan Butler shows how sex illuminates the structure of creation, the nature of salvation, the abundance of God?s kingdom, and God?s heartbeat for the world.Discover afresh the beautiful invitation of our sexuality . . . as God intended it to be.
£14.39
Multnomah Press Beautiful Union Study Guide
Book SynopsisA practical, illuminating companion guide to Beautiful Union, Joshua Ryan Butler?s positive exploration of how God?s design for sexreveals the good, true, and beautiful in Scripture . . . and all of life.Designed as a companion to that life-changing book, this dynamic study guide is your road map for diving more deeply into the key concepts of Beautiful Union?whether by yourself or with a group.Through seven fast-paced sessions, you?ll encounter thought-provoking questions, be prompted to reflect on powerful concepts, discover what God?s design for sex was always meant to reveal, and consider what it all means for living a joyful, faithful life. These sessions include features such as:? Unpack It: questions to illuminate Beautiful Union with space to record your reflections? Use Your Imagination: exercises to creatively help you see God?s larger invitation for human flourishing? Reflect on It: ways to understand our lives in the expansive story of God that sex points toWith this guide, you?ll experience a bigger, more beautiful vision of God, the gospel, and the Christian vision for sex.
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Westminster/John Knox Press,U.S. Connections A Lectionary Commentary for Preaching
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Thomas Nelson Publishers A Call for Courage
Book SynopsisNo one is born courageous, but everyone hopes courage will come. Here''s how to stand strong. Like many other people of faith, you may be concerned about what the future holds for Christians in America. Every day we wake up in a nation and world that is increasingly hostile to our beliefs and values. Even the basic freedoms that define America--speech and religion--are under attack. The result is that many of us have become fearful, apathetic and detached. The great need of the day is a sweeping revolution of courage in our lives, families and houses of worship. A Call for Courage will spark that revolution in you.Michael Anthony understands how fear can paralyze us, and in this revolutionary new book he shows Christians how to stand up and speak out, mobilizing them to walk by faith, not fear. Drawing from Scripture and deep personal experience, he proves that anyone can learn the secret to putting fear in its place and becoming more co
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Waterbrook Press (A Division of Random House Inc) When Faith Catches Fire Embracing the Spiritual
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Harvest House Publishers,U.S. The Gay Gospel
Book SynopsisIn this updated edition of A Strong Delusion, author and counselor Joe Dallas helps readers understand what pro-gay theology is and how to confront it with a balance between conviction and compassion.Trade Review"More than ever, Christians are challenged to articulate and defend the Bible's position on homosexuality. In The Gay Gospel? Joe Dallas—one of Christianity's most able and articulate spokesmen on human sexuality—codifies the arguments and arms us with clear, concise, and convincing answers. This resource is both compelling and compassionate." —Hank Hanegraaff, President of the Christian Research Institute and host of The Bible Answer Man"The Gay Gospel? is a must read for all who sincerely seek the cleanest explanation yet for the Christian attitude toward homosexuality. I pray that this work will have the impact on all segments of our society that it deserves." —D. James Kennedy, Ph.D., Coral Ridge Ministries"To be caught in the trap of homosexuality is difficult enough, but to be held captive in a strong delusion of a false gospel requires the strong arm of truth. Writing the truth in love, Joe Dallas reveals how to set the captives free." —Janet Parshall, nationally syndicated radio host"A powerful resource for those combating pro-gay theology, whether in their family, church or denomination. A former insider, Dallas used to ardently defend the same arguments he now skillfully demolishes." —Bob Davies, former Executive Director, Exodus International—North America"Joe Dallas' new book, The Gay Gospel?, is a must read for anyone seeking truth regarding pro-gay theology and reaching those bound by same-gender attraction. Once again, Joe has thoroughly and clearly presented biblical truths while offering practical steps and tools to be more effective in evangelizing the gay community. Ultimately, the content of Joe's book cements the fact that the entire issue of homosexuality is really about the Lordship of Jesus Christ and the authority of Scripture." —Pastor Phillip Lee, Executive Director, His Way Out Ministries"As a pastor of a church in the heart of the gay and lesbian community of San Diego, I am very pleased to recommend Joe Dallas' book, The Gay Gospel? Joe does an excellent job of helping us understand what happens when two of our most basic drives are in conflict: the desire for an intimate relationship with God and the desire for an intimate relationship with another. It is necessary to understand not only the way Scripture is adjusted to meet the demand of a biased viewpoint but it is also necessary to understand the motivation behind doing so. Joe helps us come to a compassionate understanding while still holding firm to the Gospel. If you want to engage the people in your congregation who are struggling to balance their spiritual desires with their sexual drives, this book is a must read. If you want to understand the process by which one comes to embrace error in order to accommodate desire, you need to read this book." —Rev. Jack M. Sampier, Senior Pastor of the Calvary Temple Assembly of God
£15.19
Harvest House Publishers,U.S. When Homosexuality Hits Home What to Do When a
Book Synopsis"There's something I need to tell you...I'm gay."These are hard words to hear from a beloved family member. From his many years of helping families answer tough questions about homosexuality, Joe Dallas offers you sound, compassionate, and biblically accurate advice as you take a journey you never anticipated.
£14.99
Baker Publishing Group Compassion Without Compromise
Book SynopsisTwo pastors offer compassionate, biblical answers about homosexuality and practical, real world advice on how to think and talk about this controversial issue with loved ones.
£16.62
Baker Publishing Group Love Acceptance and Forgiveness
Book SynopsisHow can the church be a healing force in the world? In this longtime bestseller, now revised and updated, authors Jerry Cook and Stanley C. Baldwin suggest that it is only when believers admit their own brokenness that they can love, accept, and forgive those who are hurting around them and put out the welcome mat to their community. They offer clear teaching about the church in a hurting world. As veteran leaders who practice these principles, they speak from experience, not theory. Through touching true stories and practical guidelines for connecting with fallen, sinful people, Cook and Baldwin announce the good news. The church is not broken, and it is the broken people who can change the world.
£18.26
Baker Publishing Group 10 Issues That Divide Christians
Book SynopsisOnly by engaging the Scriptures deeply, thinking clearly, and speaking truthfully can we in God's family address our differences and discover the peace that comes with unity of purpose.
£20.65
Baker Publishing Group Doing Church as a Team
Book SynopsisYour church may have many members, but does every member have a purpose? In Doing Church as a Team, Pastor Wayne Cordeiro shows you how to identify the hidden callings of the members in your church so that together you can accomplish anything God has called you to do.
£18.00
Thomas Nelson My Name Is Tani and I Believe in Miracles The Amazing True Story of One Boys Journey from Refugee to Chess Champion
Book SynopsisDo you believe in miracles? Tani Adewumi does. An eight-year-old refugee from Nigeria, Tani shocked the ultra-exclusive chess club community when he won the New York State Chess Championship after only playing the game for a year. But what no one realized is that his story was already full of miracles.
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Thomas Nelson My Name Is Tani . . . and I Believe in Miracles
Book SynopsisDo you believe in miracles? Tani Adewumi does. An eight-year-old refugee from Nigeria, Tani shocked the ultra-exclusive chess club community when he won the New York State Chess Championship after only playing the game for a year. But what no one realized is that his story was already full of miracles.
£12.99
Thomas Nelson Publishers Love Outside the Lines
Book SynopsisJesus' goals of togetherness, oneness, and unity feel further off than ever before. Sparks of opinion have fueled the flame of prejudice, profiling, and hate. Although these seem to be the major problems, Pastor Jimmy Rollins believes they are merely symptoms of hearts that are separated from God.
£14.24
Baker Publishing Group Culture Shock
Book SynopsisCovering topics such as right and wrong, sex, homosexuality, abortion, politics, and the environment, Culture Shock is every engaged believer's must-have guidebook to replacing reactionary hate with revolutionary love.
£16.46
Baker Publishing Group 15 Characteristics of Effective Pastors
Book SynopsisThe church finds itself in a period of great diversification and multiple expressions. In the midst of great change, we have become confused about what really makes for healthy and authentic pastoral leadership. What are the basic and common characteristics necessary for pastors to be effective? How can lay people understand the pastoral call more fully and partner better with pastors for the health of their church? Here Mannoia and Walkemeyer examine the foundations of pastoral effectiveness and bring together nine experienced pastoral leaders to discuss the basic characteristics that exist in effective pastors. Regardless of context or personality, ineffectiveness in pastors and subsequent ill health in churches is often not the result of a lack of calling, but instead is the result of misappropriated efforts to find success. Let''s help those who are called to be good stewards of their call. And let''s help churches have a chance to be healthy under the leadership of effective pasto
£23.00
Baker Publishing Group In Our Backyard Human Trafficking in America and
Book SynopsisHuman trafficking expert Nita Belles combines heart-wrenching stories, startling research, and boots-on-the-ground advice into a powerful, fast-paced primer on the devastating reality of modern-day slavery and what we can do to stop it.
£21.00
Baker Publishing Group The Politics of Discipleship Becoming
Book SynopsisA world renowned theologian shows Christians what faithful political discipleship looks like under the realities of our global, post-everything world.
£29.44
Baker Publishing Group Sex and the iWorld
Book SynopsisA political scientist and pastor offers a positive, holistic vision that helps readers engage the cultural debate on sex and marriage in personal ethics and public policy.
£23.53
Baker Publishing Group Do All Lives Matter
Book SynopsisInner-city pastor Wayne Gordon and Civil Rights legend John M. Perkins help readers understand our current racial crisis, offering them practical, real-world strategies so they can be part of the solution.
£16.09
Baker Publishing Group Practicing the Kings Economy
Book SynopsisA pastor, an urban social activist, and an economics professor and bestselling author invite God's people to experience the joy of following Jesus more fully in how we spend, save, and give.
£23.10
Baker Publishing Group The Cross and Christian Ministry
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Baker Publishing Group The Power of Vision Discover and Apply Gods Plan
Book SynopsisAward-winning author George Barna helps church leaders uncover God's vision for their ministry so they know where they're headed and can minister authentically and authoritatively.
£20.19
Baker Publishing Group How to Break Growth Barriers
Book SynopsisSome churches grow rapidly, only to hit a ceiling. Other churches have experienced declining or static attendance--many of them for decades. Frustrated pastors and church leaders want growth methods that work, but without adding to pastoral fatigue.How to Break Growth Barriers argues that growth comes when effective leadership and lay-empowerment skills work hand in hand. This requires a shift of focus from the shepherd as the primary caregiver to shepherd as developer and coach of many caregivers. The authors show pastors how to communicate a vision for the future and then how to lead the congregation into the paradigms necessary for potentially limitless growth.The strategies found in this book are not only tried and true, and taken from a biblical perspective of a 'harvest' vision. They''re also newly updated to reflect our changing culture, including helpful charts and checklists for self-evaluation.
£22.85
Baker Publishing Group Preaching Jesus Christ Today
Book SynopsisThis book approaches preaching as a theological practice and a spiritual discipline in a way that is engaging, straightforward, and highly usable for busy preachers. Bringing to bear almost three decades of practical experience in the pulpit and the classroom, Annette Brownlee explores six questions to help preachers listen to Scripture, move from text to interpretation for weekly sermon preparation, and understand the theological significance of the sermon. Each chapter explains one of the Six Questions of Sermon Preparation, provides numerous examples and illustrations, and contains theological reflections. The final chapter includes sample sermons, which put the Six Question method into practice.Table of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Listening to Scripture for Preaching: A Discipline in Need of Remediation1. Question One: "What Do I See?" The Preacher as Witness2. Question Two: "Whom Do I See?" The Preacher as Witness to Christ3. Question Three: "What Is Christ's Word to Me?" The Preacher as Confessor4. Question Four: "What Is Christ's Word to Us?" The Preacher as Theologian5. Question Five: "What Is Christ's Word about Us?" The Preacher as Theologian of a Broken Body6. Question Six: "What Does It Look Like?" The Preacher as Witness to Christ in a Disobedient World7. Using the Six Questions: Sermon Form and Sermon ExamplesConclusion: Love as the Hermeneutical CriterionIndex
£22.57
Baker Publishing Group The Worlds of the Preacher
Book SynopsisBuilding on Haddon Robinson''s philosophical approach to preaching, this book brings together accomplished evangelical preachers and teachers to help students and pastors understand the worlds--biblical, cultural, and personal--that influence and impact their preaching. The contributors explore the various inner and outer worlds in which a preacher functions with the goal of helping preachers sharpen their craft. Foreword by Bryan Chapell.Table of ContentsContentsForeword by Bryan ChapellIntroduction: A Tribute to Haddon Robinson Scott M. Gibson1. The Worlds of the Preacher Haddon W. Robinson2. The Preacher and the World of the Old Testament Steven D. Mathewson3. The Preacher and the World of the New Testament Duane Litfin4. The Preacher's Personal World Scott M. Gibson5. The World of Ethnic and Cultural Issues in Preaching Matthew D. Kim6. The Worlds of the Listener Jeffrey Arthurs7. Preaching in This Present World Patricia M. Batten8. The Mission of Preaching in This World Victor D. Anderson9. The World of History and the Task of Preaching Scott Wenig10. Preaching to a Culture Dominated by Images Donald R. SunukjianAfterword: The Worlds of the Preacher Scott M. Gibson
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Johns Hopkins University Press Between Christians and Moriscos Juan de Ribera
Book SynopsisEhler's sophisticated yet accessible study of the pluralist diocese of Valencia is a valuable contribution to the study of Catholic reform, moriscos, Christian-Muslim relations in early modern Spain, and early modern Europe.Trade ReviewWell researched and clearly presented. -- Hilaire Kallendorf American Historical Review 2007 Excellent study. -- James B. Tueller Renaissance Quarterly 2007 Engagingly studies the conflicts in Valencia between local elites and the viceroy and the archbishop, agents of central government. -- Carmen Peraita Year's Work in Modern Language Studies 2008 Between Christians and Moriscos is a carefully researched and highly readable work that shows with impartiality the complexity of Ribera, whose arguments were much used in the theological justification of the expulsion of the Moriscos. -- Grace Magnier Bulletin of Spanish Studies 2008 Between Christians and Moriscos is a fine and welcome contribution to the history of early modern Spain. -- Mary Halavais Journal of Modern History 2008 The book's greatest strength lies... in the highly original and well-crafted insight it provides. -- David Coleman European History Quarterly 2009 Surely, this book is destined to become required reading for all who are interested in early modern history and especially for those who have a special interest in Spain and Catholicism or in the history of Christian-Muslim relations. -- Carlos M. N. Eire Church History 2008 A well-documented, measured, subtle, and dispassionate look at the evolution of one of Spain's longest-tenured and powerful churchmen. -- William A. Christian Jr. Sixteenth Century Journal 2008Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsPrologue: The Formation of a Tridentine Bishop1. Two Flocks, One Shepherd: Christians and Muslims in Valencia2. The Limits of Episcopal Authority: The Pasquinades of 1570–15713. Reform by Other Means: The Colegio de Corpus Christi4. From Moriscos to Moros: Ribera and the Baptized Muslims of Valencia5. Disillusionment and Its Consequences: Ribera, Philip II, and the Valencian Moriscos6. Justifying the Expulsion: Ribera and Philip IIIConclusion: The Ideal Bishop and the End of Spanish IslamNotesBibliographyIndex
£44.00
Moody Press,U.S. When Helping Hurts The Small Group Experience An
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Moody Publishers When A Nation Forgets God 7 Lessons We Must Learn
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£12.72
Moody Publishers On Pastoring A Short Guide to Living Leading and
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£12.25
Moody Publishers Hooked
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£13.99
Moody Publishers What if Jesus Was Serious About Prayer A Visual
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£13.25
Moody Publishers Six Conversations The
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Moody Publishers Business Of Ministry The
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£14.24
Paulist Press International,U.S. The Doubting Disease
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£19.44
Paulist Press International,U.S. Spiritual Direction
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£18.70
Paulist Press International,U.S. Spiritual Director Spiritual Companion Guide to
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£14.99
Paulist Press International,U.S. LGBTQ Catholics
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£999.99
The University Press of Kentucky Hollywood Under Siege Martin Scorsese the
Book SynopsisCombined film study, studio history, and cultural analysis, Hollywood Under Siege closely examines the film that jeopardized and reenergized Martin Scorsese's career and served as flash point for the ongoing ideological conflicts between Hollywood and the religious right.
£48.71
The University Press of Kentucky Sacred Mountains A Christian Ethical Approach to
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£27.00
The Catholic University of America Press Recovering Selfevident Truths Catholic
Book SynopsisPresents a collection of essays exploring ""catholic"" and ""Catholic"" perspectives on American law - catholic in their claims of universal truths, and Catholic in their grounding in the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church.
£37.95
The Catholic University of America Press The Art of Preaching Five Medieval Texts and
Book SynopsisBased on his wide-ranging knowledge of late-medieval Latin sermons from England as well as his editorial experience with medieval Latin texts, Siegfried Wenzel offers critical editions of five instruction manuals on the “art of preaching” dating from 1230 to the fifteenth century. Four of the texts are edited and translated for the first time; the fifth is re-edited from all extant manuscripts.
£63.00
The Catholic University of America Press A Christian Samurai The Trials of Baba Bunk
Book SynopsisAlthough Japanese scholars have acclaimed Baba Bunk (1718–1759) as the most outstanding essayist and public speaker of the Tokugawa period, Western historians have long ignored him. Through a close critical analysis of Baba Bunk’s often humorous, but always biting, satirical essays a new picture of the hidden world of Christianity in eighteenth-century Japan emerges.
£33.20
The Catholic University of America Press Von Balthasar and the Option for the Poor
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Examines the theological commitments in Balthasar’s thought that can be used to correct his otherwise ambivalent and critical views of liberation theology. In doing so, Todd Walatka brings together two schools of thought that are important in contemporary Catholicism and are generally viewed as antithetical . . . a significant contribution.” —Christopher Steck, Georgetown University
£63.00
MP - University Of Minnesota Press Tradition And Belief Religious Writing in Late
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Chalice Press To My Beloveds
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