Resources by Mark Sayers - Olive Tree Bible Software

Reformation Day Sale!

Resources by Mark Sayers

For the Olive Tree Bible App

Non-Anxious Presence: How a Changing and Complex World will Create a Remnant of Renewed Christian Leaders
Sample

Non-Anxious Presence: How a Changing and Complex World will Create a Remnant of Renewed Christian Leaders

by Mark Sayers

Narrated by Matthew Baker

For much of recent history individuals and institutions could plan, execute, and flourish with their visions of a better world. Volatile, complex forces could be addressed and confronted with planning and management. But crisis is a great revealer. It knocks us off our thrones. It uncovers the weaknesses in our strategies and brings to light our myths and… Read more…

Reappearing Church: The Hope for Renewal in the Rise of Our Post-Christian Culture

Reappearing Church: The Hope for Renewal in the Rise of Our Post-Christian Culture

by Mark Sayers

What if the rise of secularism is good news for the church?For decades, we set our hopes on technology, politics, and the appearance of peace. We wanted to believe we were headed somewhere better—that progress was happening. But now as our technology ensnares and isolates us, our politics threaten to tear us apart, and our cultural decline continues… Read more…

$15.99
$14.99
Add to Cart
Disappearing Church: From Cultural Relevance to Gospel Resilience

Disappearing Church: From Cultural Relevance to Gospel Resilience

by Mark Sayers

When church and culture look the same...For the many Christians eager to prove we can be both holy and cool, cultural pressures are too much. We either compartmentalize our faith or drift from it altogether—into a world that’s so alluring.Have you wondered lately:Why does the Western church look so much like the world? Why are so many of my fr… Read more…

$16.99
$13.99
Add to Cart
Facing Leviathan: Leadership, Influence, and Creating in a Cultural Storm

Facing Leviathan: Leadership, Influence, and Creating in a Cultural Storm

by Jon Tyson and Mark Sayers

There are two styles of leadership at war in the world.On one side the mechanical leader casts a vision of heroic action aided by pragmatism, reason, technology, and power.On the other side the organic leader strives to bring forth creativity, defying convention, and relishing life in culture’s margins.This leadership battle is at the heart of our c… Read more…

$16.99
$13.99
Add to Cart
How Kerouac's On the Road Created a Generation of Half-Believers: Adapted from The Road Trip that Changed the World

How Kerouac's On the Road Created a Generation of Half-Believers: Adapted from The Road Trip that Changed the World

by Mark Sayers

The content in this short e-book is excerpted from The Road Trip That Changed the World, by Mark Sayers. The book examines the influence of Jack Kerouac on Western Culture and the Church from a Christian perspective.We live in a culture of the road—restless for adventure, glorifying experience, seeing life as a journey. Dissatisfied with w… Read more…

$3.99
$1.99
Add to Cart
The Road Trip that Changed the World: The Unlikely Theory that will Change How You View Culture, the Church, and, Most Importantly, Yourself

The Road Trip that Changed the World: The Unlikely Theory that will Change How You View Culture, the Church, and, Most Importantly, Yourself

by Mark Sayers

Can’t find no satisfaction? There’s no shortage of prescriptions for restlessness out there: Seek adventure. Live your life. Don’t hold back.Sound familiar?The Road Trip that Changed the World is a book challenging the contemporary conviction that personal freedom and self-fulfillment are the highest good. Like the characters in a Jack K… Read more…

$16.99
$13.99
Add to Cart
Vertical Self: How Biblical Faith Can Help Us Discover Who We Are in An Age of Self Obsession
Sample

Vertical Self: How Biblical Faith Can Help Us Discover Who We Are in An Age of Self Obsession

by Mark Sayers

Narrated by Mark Sayers

It's time for a return to Radical Holiness.Welcome to the 21st century where you can now purchase and exchange personalities, depending on mood and circumstance; where you are told that you can be anyone you want to be, and identity is no longer based in a sense of self but rather in the imagery you choose at that moment. The Bible contains a radically d… Read more…

Vertical Self: How Biblical Faith Can Help Us Discover Who We Are in An Age of Self Obsession

Vertical Self: How Biblical Faith Can Help Us Discover Who We Are in An Age of Self Obsession

by Mark Sayers

It's time for a return to Radical Holiness. Welcome to the 21st century where you can now purchase and exchange personalities, depending on mood and circumstance; where you are told that you can be anyone you want to be, and identity is no longer based in a sense of self but rather in the imagery you choose at that moment. The Bible contains a radically … Read more…

Trouble With Paris: Following Jesus in a World of Plastic Promises

Trouble With Paris: Following Jesus in a World of Plastic Promises

by Mark Sayers

What if you're living in the wrong reality?Doesn't everyone want the good life these days? Our shopping mall world offers us a never-ending array of pleasures to explore. Consumerism promises us a vision of heaven on earth-a reality that's hyper-real. We've all experienced hyperreality: a candy so 'grape-ey' it doesn't taste like … Read more…

Trouble with Paris Participant's Guide

Trouble with Paris Participant's Guide

by Mark Sayers

This DVD-based series helps people examine three different levels of reality: hyperreality-that which the media tells us we should seek; reality-the world we really live in; and God's reality-what we should ultimately be seeking. The Trouble with Paris emerged out of a series of talks that Mark Sayers had developed, originally titled 'How Paris Hilto… Read more…

$5.99
$4.99
Add to Cart