The Practices of Christian Preaching: Essentials for Effective Proclamation
By: Jared E. Alcántara
4.06
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
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1. Reading Revelation Responsibly: Uncivil Worship and Witness: Following the Lamb into the New Creation
By: Michael J. Gorman
4.48
Format: 211 pages, Paperback
Reading Revelation Responsibly is for those who are confused by, afraid of, and/or preoccupied with… read more
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"To pray for the coming of the kingdom, the coming of the Lord, is to commit oneself and one’s community to embody the values and practices of that kingdom-now-in whatever circumstances we find oursel…"-Michael J. Gorman, Reading Revelation Responsibly: Uncivil Worship and Witness: Following the Lamb into the New Creation
"According to Revelation, in the church’s worship we should remember and honor the prophets and martyrs, not veterans and fallen warriors; faithful witnesses, not loyal patriots; the One who was slain…"-Michael J. Gorman, Reading Revelation Responsibly: Uncivil Worship and Witness: Following the Lamb into the New Creation
"It has often been said that the most common idols in the West are Power, Sex, and Money; with this I am not in any profound disagreement. However, inasmuch as these idols are connected to a larger vi…"-Michael J. Gorman, Reading Revelation Responsibly: Uncivil Worship and Witness: Following the Lamb into the New Creation
2. From Christ to Pre-Reformation: The Rise and Growth of the Church in Its Cultural, Intellectual, and Political Context (Church History #1)
By: Everett Ferguson
3.87
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
Church History offers a unique contextual view of how the Christian church spread and developed. It… read more
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3. Preaching: Communicating Faith in an Age of Skepticism
By: Timothy J. Keller
4.48
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Pastor, preacher, and New York Times bestselling author of The Prodigal Prophet Timothy Keller shar… read more
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4. Canoeing the Mountains: Christian Leadership in Uncharted Territory
By: Tod Bolsinger
4.25
Format: 351 pages, Paperback
Explorers Lewis and Clark had to adapt. While they had prepared to find a waterway to the Pacific O… read more
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5. Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth
By: Richard J. Foster
3.77
Format: 341 pages, Hardcover
Richard J. Foster's Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growthis hailed by many as the… read more
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6. The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
By: Sebastian Junger
3.50
Format: 31 pages,
"Takes readers into the maelstrom and shows nature's splendid and dangerous havoc at its utmost". O… read more
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7. The Witness of Preaching
By: Thomas G. Long
3.70
Format: 640 pages, Paperback
This thorough and detailed revision of The Witness of Preachingis even clearer and more helpful tha… read more
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8. Confessions
By: Augustine of Hippo , Henry Chadwick , Albert Cook Outler
3.41
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literatur… read more
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9. You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
By: James K.A. Smith
3.63
Format: None pages, Hardcover
You are what you love. But you might not love what you think. In this book, award-winning author Ja… read more
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10. On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness (The Wingfeather Saga, #1)
By: Andrew Peterson
4.33
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
Once, in a cottage above the cliffs on the Dark Sea of Darkness, there lived three children and the… read more
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"Even if hope is just a low ember at night, in the morning you can still start a fire."-Andrew Peterson, On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness (The Wingfeather Saga, #1)
"Esben Igiby was seeping into Janner’s thoughts, and there was no way to seal the leak."-Andrew Peterson, On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness (The Wingfeather Saga, #1)
"But other than the cruel fangs and the constant threat of death and torture, there wasn't much to fear in Skree."-Andrew Peterson, On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness (The Wingfeather Saga, #1)
"There's just something about the way he sings. It makes me think of when it snows outside, and the fire is warm, and Podo is telling us a story while you're cooking, and there's no place I'd rather b…"-Andrew Peterson, On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness (The Wingfeather Saga, #1)
11. Biblical Preaching: The Development and Delivery of Expository Messages
By: Haddon W. Robinson
4.19
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Haddon Robinson's classic, with more than 150,000 in print, is a lesson in the basics. This updated… read more
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12. The Emotionally Healthy Leader: How Transforming Your Inner Life Will Deeply Transform Your Church, Team, and the World
By: Peter Scazzero
3.72
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Do you feel too overwhelmed to enjoy life, unable to sort out the demands on your time? Are you doi… read more
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13. On the Incarnation
By: C.S. Lewis , Athanasius of Alexandria , None
3.29
Format: None pages, Paperback
A universally acknowledged masterpiece of fourth-century patristic theology. As C. S. Lewis observe… read more
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14. How Should We Then Live? The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture
By: Francis A. Schaeffer
3.56
Format: None pages, Paperback
In dit boek, dat ontstaan is naar aanleiding van de gelijknamige televisie serie, neemt de auteur o… read more
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15. Sabbath as Resistance: Saying No to the Culture of Now
By: Walter Brueggemann
3.89
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
Discussions about the Sabbath often center around moralistic laws and arguments over whether a pers… read more
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16. Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
By: Chip Heath , Dan Heath
3.97
Format: 12 pages,
Why is change so difficult and frightening? How do you create change when you have few resources an… read more
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17. The Cross and the Lynching Tree
By: James H. Cone
4.51
Format: 202 pages, Hardcover
The cross and the lynching tree are the two most emotionally charged symbols in the history of the … read more
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"For [Martin Luther] King nonviolence was more than a strategy; it was the way of life defined by love for others—the only way to heal broken humanity."-James H. Cone, The Cross and the Lynching Tree
"The gospel of Jesus is not a rational concept to be explained in a theory of salvation, but a story about God’s presence in Jesus’ solidarity with the oppressed, which led to his death on the cross. …"-James H. Cone, The Cross and the Lynching Tree
"The cross and the lynching tree interpret each other. Both were public spectacles, shameful events, instruments of punishment reserved for the most despised people in society. Any genuine theology an…"-James H. Cone, The Cross and the Lynching Tree
18. The Art of Biblical Narrative
By: Robert Alter
3.07
Format: None pages, Paperback
In what is both a radical approach to the Bible, and a fundamental return to its narrative prose, R… read more
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19. Jesus and the Disinherited
By: Vincent Harding , Howard Thurman
4.57
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
In this classic theological treatise, the acclaimed theologian and religious leader Howard Thurman … read more
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20. Everything Sad Is Untrue
By: Daniel Nayeri
4.32
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls "Da… read more
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"Every story is the sound of a storyteller begging to stay alive."-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue
"I won't tell you about her yet, because sometimes love has to be kept secret. If other people find out, they will attack it."-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue
"Sometimes you just want somebody to look at a thing with you and say, "Yes. That is a thing you're looking at. You haven't lied to yourself."-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue
"Maybe there isn’t just one person designated for everybody. Maybe there’s a lot more to it---maybe you choose and you practice, and that’s what makes the love true."-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue
21. Paul: A Biography
By: N.T. Wright
4.34
Format: 480 pages, ebook
In this definitive biography, renowned Bible scholar, Anglican bishop, and bestselling author N. T.… read more
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22. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
By: Jonathan Haidt
4.46
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in t… read more
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"Socially prescribed perfectionism is closely related to anxiety; people who suffer from anxiety are more prone to it. Being a perfectionist also increases your anxiety because you fear the shame of p…"-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
"Girls in virtual networks are subjected to hundreds of times more social comparison than girls had experienced for all of human evolution. They are exposed to more cruelty and bullying because social…"-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
23. The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
By: Jonathan Haidt
4.24
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
A timely investigation into the campus assault on free speech and what it means for students, educa… read more
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"Virtues become vices when they are carried to an extreme."-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
"Avoiding triggers is a symptom of PTSD, not a treatment for it."-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
"Practice the virtue of "intellectual humility." Intellectual humility is the recognition that our reasoning is so flawed, so prone to bias, that we can rarely be certain that we are right."-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
"The college admissions process nowadays makes it harder for high school students to enjoy school and pursue intrinsic fulfillment. The process "warps the values of students drawn into a competitive f…"-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
24. The Genesis of Gender: A Christian Theory
By: Abigail Rine Favale
4.59
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
The question of gender—who we are as men and women—has never been more pressing, or more misunderst… read more
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25. Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery
By: Mark Charles
4.38
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
You cannot discover lands already inhabited. Injustice has plagued American society for centurie… read more
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"We have embraced the stories of success and exceptionalism rather than engaging the narrative of suffering and oppression."-Mark Charles, Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery
"The fact that America calls what Columbus did 'discovery' reveals the implicit racial bias of the country - that Native Americans are not fully human."-Mark Charles, Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery
"The captivity to individualism in the West leads many to reject the possibility of institutions and systems inflicting social harm that requires a social response."-Mark Charles, Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery
"The myth of redemptive violence allows Americans to see themselves as having superior intellect and value and therefore the ability to handle weapons capable of incredible violence in an appropriate …"-Mark Charles, Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery
26. Effective Bible Teaching
By: James C. Wilhoit
4.00
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
Why does Bible study flourish in some churches and small groups and not in others? In this updated … read more
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"Teaching the Bible involves far more than simply giving out information about the Bible. Bible teaching is ministering to people, liberating them from their inadequate concepts of God, expanding thei…"-James C. Wilhoit, Effective Bible Teaching
27. The Practices of Christian Preaching: Essentials for Effective Proclamation
By: Jared E. Alcántara
4.06
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Leading homiletician Jared Alcántara offers a practice-centered, collaborative, technologically inn… read more
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28. Empowering Leadership: How a Leadership Development Culture Builds Better Leaders Faster
By: Michael Fletcher
4.19
Format: 224 pages, ebook
A major problem in the local church today is lack of leadership. Simply put, we have more needs tha… read more
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29. Spiritual Maturity: Preserving Congregational Health and Balance (Prisms)
By: Frank A. Thomas
3.22
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Like all human bodies, the body of Christ that we call "church" needs to attend to its health or it… read more
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30. Invitation to Biblical Preaching: Proclaiming Truth with Clarity and Relevance (Invitation to Theological Studies Series, 2)
By: Donald R. Sunukjian
4.16
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
Written in a conversational style with profuse examples to illustrate all concepts, Invitation to B… read more
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"...our people probably already know 90 percent of any biblical instruction we plan to give them. The reason they are not yet obeying biblical truth is not because they don't know it but because they …"-Donald R. Sunukjian, Invitation to Biblical Preaching: Proclaiming Truth with Clarity and Relevance (Invitation to Theological Studies Series, 2)
31. Crisis and Renewal: The Era of the Reformations (The Westminster History of Christian Thought)
By: R. Ward Holder
4.00
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
This latest volume in the Westminster History of Christian Thought series introduces readers to the… read more
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