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Ten Time Bombs: Defusing the Most Explosive Pressures Teenagers Face

Ten Time Bombs: Defusing the Most Explosive Pressures Teenagers Face

by Ronald Hutchcraft

You get only one life…Make it one you’ll never regret!Every young person, including you, lives with pressures that really are like ticking time bombs. But you don’t have to be a victim—if you know how to defuse the most explosive pressures young people face. Ten Time Bombs is your personal “Bomb Squad” manual, showing you some very practical ways… Read more…

Friends without Benefits: What Teens Need to Know About a Great Sex LIfe

Friends without Benefits: What Teens Need to Know About a Great Sex LIfe

by Ron Luce

Teens today face a bombardment of the glorification of promiscuous sex from every side. From MTV images and music lyrics to television programs popular with teens, the message communicated is that everyone is doing it and those abstaining from sex are abnormal. Friends with benefits has become too common, almost expected. Seeking to stand up for teens and ex… Read more…

Teaching that Transforms

Teaching that Transforms

by Melick Jr and Shera Melick

Teaching that Transforms aims to improve the ways in which the Bible is taught to adult learners. As grownups today leave the church in droves, academic professors Richard and Shera Melick recognize that it is in part because many who teach adults have little or no exposure to the distinctive characteristics of adult learners, rendering their lessons ineffec… Read more…

AquaChurch 2.0: Piloting Your Church in Today's Fluid Culture

AquaChurch 2.0: Piloting Your Church in Today's Fluid Culture

by Leonard Sweet

We live in a fast-paced, fluid world. A postmodern place where people are drifting, making mid-course corrections in every aspect of life, from careers, to relationships, to beliefs.As church leaders, we must continually reshape our ministries to reach a society adrift. We must move from being adaptive to being proactive, remaining flexible while delivering … Read more…

AND: The Gathered and Scattered Church

AND: The Gathered and Scattered Church

by Hugh Halter and Matt Smay

It's time to stop asking the old questions about how to do church better and instead ask how churches can more effectively participate in and grow God's kingdom. AND helps Christian leaders recognize the best in different church models and see how to incorporate these values into a cohesive church movement.By the numbers, the American church enjoys t… Read more…

Audio, Video, and Media in the Ministry

Audio, Video, and Media in the Ministry

by Clarence Floyd Richmond and Michael Lawson

In a worship service, a great measure of responsibility rests on those who volunteer in the audio, video, and media ministries. When everything is going well, no one notices, but when the microphones don’t work or the projected song lyrics aren't in sync, everyone does. A well-functioning audio, video, and media team can help the congregation enter int… Read more…

AND: The Gathered and Scattered Church
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AND: The Gathered and Scattered Church

by Hugh Halter, Matt Smay, Don/Richard Leslie/Brewer, Don Leslie and Richard Brewer

Narrated by Don/Richard Leslie/Brewer, Don Leslie and Richard Brewer

It's time to stop asking the old questions about how to do church better and instead ask how churches can more effectively participate in and grow God's kingdom. AND helps Christian leaders recognize the best in different church models and see how to incorporate these values into a cohesive church movement.By the numbers, the American church enjoys t… Read more…

Unlearning Protestantism: Sustaining Christian Community in an Unstable Age

Unlearning Protestantism: Sustaining Christian Community in an Unstable Age

by Gerald W. Schlabach

In this clearly written and insightful book, Gerald Schlabach addresses the "Protestant dilemma" in ecclesiology: how to build lasting Christian community in a world of individualism and transience. Schlabach, a former Mennonite who is now Catholic, seeks not to encourage readers to abandon Protestant churches but to relearn some of the virtues tha… Read more…

Church Planting Is for Wimps

Church Planting Is for Wimps

by Mike McKinley and Darrin Patrick

This latest addition to the IXMarks series tells the story of the revitalization of Guilford Baptist Church in northern Virginia. Weaving together scripture and biblical principles with humor and personal anecdotes, author Michael McKinley asserts that a pastor's faithful exposition of God's Word, passion for sharing the gospel, and care in the train… Read more…

Biblical Theology in the Life of the Church (Foreword by Thomas R. Schreiner): A Guide for Ministry

Biblical Theology in the Life of the Church (Foreword by Thomas R. Schreiner): A Guide for Ministry

by Michael Lawrence and Thomas R. Schreiner

Capitol Hill Baptist Church associate pastor Michael Lawrence contributes to the IXMarks series as he centers on the practical importance of biblical theology to ministry. He begins with an examination of a pastor's tools of the trade: exegesis and biblical and systematic theology. The book distinguishes between the power of narr… Read more…

Preaching: The Art of Narrative Exposition

Preaching: The Art of Narrative Exposition

by Calvin Miller

Because they are speaking to a younger society more attuned to lively dialogue and visual images, pastors need a fresh wineskin for a timeless message of redemption. Calvin Miller, who has preached and equipped preachers for decades, offers a volume of helpful insights for pastors to deliver the heart of the gospel via the Jesus-endorsed vessel of compelling… Read more…

Welcome to a Reformed Church

Welcome to a Reformed Church

by Daniel R Hyde

”Who are these guys?” That was the question the teenage Daniel R. Hyde posed to his father when he first encountered “Reformed” believers. With their unique beliefs and practices, these Christians didn’t fit any of the categories in his mind.Not so many years later, Hyde is now Rev. Daniel R. Hyde, a pastor of a Reformed church. Recognizing that ma… Read more…


(Number of titles: 1985)