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Toons That Teach

Toons That Teach

by Steven L. Case and Steven Case

That’s NOT All, Folks!Cartoons feature fun characters, catchy music, and hilarious stories¬¬, but if that’s all you think they’re good for––you’re missing out! Behind the wacky dramas and laugh-out-loud gags, cartoons can teach viewers a little something about life, about themselves, even about God.Author Steven Case explores the world of carto… Read more…

Multicultural Ministry: Finding Your Church's Unique Rhythm

Multicultural Ministry: Finding Your Church's Unique Rhythm

by Bill Hybels and David A. Anderson

David Anderson writes about multicultural leadership not from the perspective of an ivory tower intellectual, but as a hands-on practitioner who loves and believes in the body of Christ. . . . If you believe there is no solution to the race problem, I urge you to reconsider and to learn from someone who is on the frontlines of making multicultural ministry a… Read more…

Deep Justice in a Broken World: Helping Your Kids Serve Others and Right the Wrongs around Them

Deep Justice in a Broken World: Helping Your Kids Serve Others and Right the Wrongs around Them

by Kara E. Powell, Chap Clark and Kara Powell

It doesn’t take a long list of statistics to convince you that our world is broken. Mission trips, service projects, and supporting children through relief organizations are just a few of the ways that many youth workers engage their students in serving the least, the last, and the lost. As good and helpful as these things may be on the surface, that’s w… Read more…

Ten Stupid Things That Keep Churches from Growing: How Leaders Can Overcome Costly Mistakes

Ten Stupid Things That Keep Churches from Growing: How Leaders Can Overcome Costly Mistakes

by Geoff Surratt

Based on interviews with pastors of growing churches, as well as personal experience, this book identifies the most common mistakes pastors make that keep otherwise healthy churches from reaping the harvest God has prepared. Each chapter spotlights a common mistake, gives real-life examples, uses a generous dose of humor, and provides a practical course of a… Read more…

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Glocalization: How Followers of Jesus Engage a Flat World

Glocalization: How Followers of Jesus Engage a Flat World

by Bob RobertsJr.

If you want to know where and how the church is going to grow, think local and global. Think glocal.Glocal is Bob Roberts’ term for the seamless connectedness between the local and global. That connection is affecting the church in ways that never could have been imagined in the first-century church, or even the twentieth-century church. And it’s creatin… Read more…

Postmodern Children's Ministry: Ministry to Children in the 21st Century Church

Postmodern Children's Ministry: Ministry to Children in the 21st Century Church

by Ivy Beckwith

This practical, thought-provoking book presents a new paradigm for children’s ministry in the emerging 21ST century and explores how churches are currently putting that vision into practice. Advocating the need to regard children as full participants in their faith communities, the book provides strategies for building intergenerational community where chi… Read more…

Multi-Site Church Revolution: Being One Church in Many Locations

Multi-Site Church Revolution: Being One Church in Many Locations

by Erwin Raphael McManus, Warren Bird, Geoff Surratt and Greg Ligon

Fueled by a desire to reach people for Christ, a revolution is underway. Churches are growing beyond the limitations of a single service in one building. Expanding the traditional model, they are embracing the concept of one church with more than one site: multiple congregations sharing a common vision, budget, leadership, and board. Drawing from the example… Read more…

Be-With Factor: Mentoring Students in Everyday Life

Be-With Factor: Mentoring Students in Everyday Life

by Bo Boshers and Judson Poling

You want to make a huge, lasting difference in the lives of students, right? The Be-With Factoris a powerful, practical, and sustainable mentoring approach that does just that. It’s patterned after Jesus’ example of being with his disciples in a variety of real-life settings. It’s not another program, but it’s about reaching a generation by focusing … Read more…

Rock Solid Faith

Rock Solid Faith

by Barry Shafer

In Rock Solid Faith, a ten-session study on 2 Timothy will help students find strength in their faith, allowing them to overcome the endless challenges they encounter as they try to follow Jesus.… Read more…

Psychology and Christianity: Five Views

Psychology and Christianity: Five Views

by Stanton L. Jones, Eric L. Johnson, David G. Myers, Robert C. Roberts, P. J. Watson, John H. Coe, Todd W. Hall and David A. Powlison

How are Christians to understand and undertake the discipline of psychology? This question has been of keen interest (and sometimes concern) to Christians because of the importance we place on a correct understanding of human nature. Psychology can sometimes seem disconnected from, if not antithetical to, Christian perspectives on life. How are we to underst… Read more…

The Next Evangelicalism: Freeing the Church from Western Cultural Captivity

The Next Evangelicalism: Freeing the Church from Western Cultural Captivity

by Soong-Chan Rah

2010 Golden Canon Leadership Book Award winnerThe future is now. Philip Jenkins has chronicled how the next Christendom has shifted away from the Western church toward the global South and East. Likewise, changing demographics mean that North American society will accelerate its diversity in terms of race, ethnicity and culture. But evangelicalism has long b… Read more…

A Fragile Stone: The Emotional Life of Simon Peter

A Fragile Stone: The Emotional Life of Simon Peter

by Brennan Manning and Michael Card

Winner of a Chicago Book Clinic Design AwardA Fragile Stone explores the dynamic life of the apostle Peter, revisiting well-known passages and revealing unexpected insights. Author Michael Card sketches out Peter's life, showing how the impetuous fisherman of the Gospels was transformed into the pivotal leader of the early church. "The ultimate reason fo… Read more…


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