Ever wish you could easily lead others to a relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ but feel inadequate and ill-equipped to accomplish the task?Activate un-complicates the process of reaching out and sharing your faith, leaving you with every confidence that YOU TOO can be an active part of the Great Commission.An excellent balance between theology and personal experience, Activate is an easy read while providing strong meat for serious study. Not only a personal motivator,...

**Paradise is a garden. . .but heaven is a city.From the acclaimed author of Take This Bread and Jesus Freak comes a powerful new account of venturing beyond the borders of religion into the unpredictable territory of faith.**On Ash Wednesday, 2012, Sara Miles and her friends left their church buildings and carried ashes to the buzzing city streets: the crowded dollar stores, beauty shops, hospital waiting rooms, street corners and fast-food joints of her ...

Joey Lankford had what a lot of people want in life: the nice house, the nice family, and the nice salary (not to mention the nice stuff that goes along with it). But a nice life also comes with a big hunger for more. And at about the time he realized it, he discovered how drained, empty, and frustrated he felt from trying to keep up. Who knew the American dream could cost so much?Joey exchanged a comfortable life, running the family business in the Nashville suburbs, to engage in ...

Based on the author’s true life experiences, How Coffee Saved My Life is a funny, tragic, provocative and touching story of a rich, white, North American overachiever who spends a year in Uruguay in hopes of becoming a more responsible and sensitive member of the global community. Throughout the book, vignettes tied to the Spanish language flow from observation to theological analysis.

When Helping Hurts is a paradigm-forming contemporary classic on the subject of poverty alleviation with over 300,000 copies in print. This stand-alone resource applies the principles of that book specifically to short-term missions.Helping Without Hurting in Short-Term Missions: Participant’s Guide aims to train and debrief team members, preparing them to do short-term missions as effectively as possible. To do this, it provides practical examples and guidelines ...

Therefore, brothers, pick out from among you seven men of good repute, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we will appoint to this duty. And the word of God continued to increase, and the number of the disciples ultiplied greatly in Jerusalem, and a great many of the priests became obedient to the faith.

Have you ever discovered a priceless gem in the most strangest of places? The Boaz Prayer is one such priceless gem you will find in the most strangest of places—hidden in the deep, rugged, dark corners of a place called “nowhere.” Like a rose trampled on the ground, like an oasis in the middle of a parched desert, the Boaz prayer found in the book of Ruth adds elegance, grace and romance to an otherwise depressing milieu. This is especially so when you realize that Ruth lived during the d...

Professor Drummond's influence on his contemporaries is not to be measured by the sale of his books, great as that has been. It may be doubted whether any living novelist has had so many readers, and perhaps no living writer has been so eagerly followed and so keenly discussed on the Continent and in America. "The New Evangelism" contains his most important writings: The New Evangelism: and its Relation to Cardinal Doctrines The Method of the New Theology, and some of its Applications Surv...

The second book in the series focuses on participation and practice, anddiscusses a range of ways in which Kingdom-centred mission can beembedded in the actually existing realms of activity and need in marginalplaces. The book explores five different realms of practice, each presentingopportunities for innovative expressions of incarnational attentiveness tomarginalized communities and people. It seeks to inspire prayerful anddiscerning activity th...

The history of God and the human race. The invitation. The preparation. The restoration. The ultimate truth. The reason for Christ. Recognizing Christ. Invitation of Christ. Receiving Christ. Living for eternity. Testimony of witnesses. Historicat, scientific, and sociological evidence. Testimonies of the dying.

Drawing upon two decades of mission experience, Leroy Barber exposes the racial divisions within Christian ministries and offers practical and comprehensive solutions for promoting diversity.Red, Brown, Yellow, Black and White highlights the historic patterns that have created racial discrepancies within missions. It joins the essential canon created by touchstone books like Divided by Faith by Michael Emerson and Christian Smith and the ever-popu...

Stories are a God-designed way to impact hearts.In a world increasingly anti-Christian, how can you communicate in a way that leaves the listeners hungry for more?But many Christians reject stories as just for kids. Christine Dillon has trained thousands of people in storytelling. 10 myths come up over and over again, and they block Christians from using this life-changing ministry tool.MYTH 1: Adults won’t listen to storiesMYTH 2: S...