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  • Reclaiming the ''E'' Word: Waking Up to Our Evangelical Identity

    Reclaiming the ''E'' Word: Waking Up to Our Evangelical Identity

    Includes Free Downloads
    In this third book in the best-selling Reclaiming series, Kelly A. Fryer asks and answers such important questions as: What does the word ''evangelical''...

    9780806680064

    $11.99

  • Moving Beyond Church Growth: An Alternative Vision for Congregations

    Moving Beyond Church Growth: An Alternative Vision for Congregations

    Character development for communities of faith - Mark Olson believes that trying to meet unrealistic expectations for church growth, along with expectations...

    9780806643465

    $18.00

  • A Gospel for All Ages: Teaching and Preaching with the Whole Church

    A Gospel for All Ages: Teaching and Preaching with the Whole Church

    A Gospel for All Ages helps ministry practitioners craft messages to foster faith in people of all ages. It explores several strategies for proclaiming the gospel among intergenerational faith communities, including meaningful conversation, vibrant worship, and experiential education. Reflection questions and practical advice from experts included.

    9781506473949

    $26.00

  • Trauma-Informed Pastoral Care: How to Respond When Things Fall Apart

    Trauma-Informed Pastoral Care: How to Respond When Things Fall Apart

    In Trauma-Informed Pastoral Care, pastoral psychologist Karen A. McClintock offers clergy competence and confidence as they care for trauma victims in their congregations and communities, provides practical skills to lower the risk of secondary trauma, and suggests culturally sensitive models for healing.

    9781506480718

    $22.00

  • The Deepest Belonging: A Story about Discovering Where God Meets Us

    The Deepest Belonging: A Story about Discovering Where God Meets Us

    This book is for all pastors and church leaders, as well as for those disillusioned with Christianity and the church and longing for something more real and honest. The Deepest Belonging is a call not to resist but to embrace our vulnerability. As a move away from religion seeking security, protection, and influence, this story invites individuals and congregations to return bravely to the core of our humanity: our belonging to God and one another.

    9781506470931

    $21.00

  • A Field Guide to Contemporary Worship: How to Begin and Lead Band-Based Worship

    A Field Guide to Contemporary Worship: How to Begin and Lead Band-Based Worship

    This is a must-have guide for anyone thinking about starting a contemporary worship service and an essential reference work for those wondering about the nuts and bolts of instrumentation...

    9780806695907

    $24.99

  • The Evangelizing Church: A Lutheran Contribution

    The Evangelizing Church: A Lutheran Contribution

    In a series of engaging essays and responses, the book explores how evangelism has functioned within Lutheranism...

    9780806651095

    $24.00

  • Christian Assembly: Marks of the Church in a Pluralistic Age

    Christian Assembly: Marks of the Church in a Pluralistic Age

    What is church? What makes the church one? While these questions may seem innocuous, church has become conflicted territory, with internal factions, external...

    9780800636609

    $24.00

  • Turn Your Church Inside Out: Building a Community for Others

    Turn Your Church Inside Out: Building a Community for Others

    A primer for reinvigorating church life Drawing on his experience as pastor of one of the largest and fastest-growing congregations in America, Walt...

    9780806640341

    $16.00

  • New Creation: Elements of a Liturgical Worldview

    New Creation: Elements of a Liturgical Worldview

    Although the twentieth century witnessed a thorough liturgical revival and renewal, the last ten years exploded in diverse and conflicting styles, settings,...

    9780800632359

    $18.00

  • Premarital Guidance

    Premarital Guidance

    Deeply rooted in the traditions of the church, Charles Taylor brings both the resources of faith and the skills of contemporary psychology to bear in the...

    9780800627126

    $23.00

  • The Visual Preacher: Proclaiming an Embodied Word

    The Visual Preacher: Proclaiming an Embodied Word

    In The Visual Preacher: Proclaiming an Embodied Word, Steve Thomason's winsomely illustrated text shows preachers basic principles and visual techniques to create and use images that will make them even more effective communicators than they already are. Preachers need not be skilled artists or technological wizards to apply Thomason's ideas.

    9781506464732

    $19.99

  • Real People, Real Faith: Preaching Biblical Characters

    Real People, Real Faith: Preaching Biblical Characters

    Real People, Real Faith portrays biblical characters as multidimensional human beings who journeyed with God. Cindy Halvorson provides practical tools for creating portraits of real people whose relationship with God is like our own. Being touched by a biblical character's story can help one experience the Divine's love and care for them.

    9781506469669

    $18.99

  • Honest to God Preaching: Talking Sin, Suffering, and Violence

    Honest to God Preaching: Talking Sin, Suffering, and Violence

    Brent A. Strawn focuses on the importance of honesty in preaching, especially around three challenging Old Testament themes: sin, suffering, and violence. He makes the case that preaching honestly about these topics is critical in the church today. Without honesty regarding them, there is no way forward to reconciliation, health, and recovery. He frames this work specifically for working preachers, to help them speak to these thorny themes with depth and clarity.

    9781506461267

    $19.99

  • The Unfolding Gospel: How the Good News Makes Sense of Discipleship, Church, Mission, and Everything Else

    The Unfolding Gospel: How the Good News Makes Sense of Discipleship, Church, Mission, and Everything Else

    Many churches and their leaders are discouraged about the future of the church. John Bowen believes the solution is to be found not in new programs or strategies but in a recovery of theological vision--that of Jesus and his gospel, which transforms every aspect of life. Bowen hopes that church leaders--evangelical and mainline, young and old, emerging and traditional--will have a transformative "Aha!" moment as this gospel hypothesis unfolds. 

    9781506471679

    $21.00

  • Intercultural Church: A Biblical Vision for an Age of Migration

    Intercultural Church: A Biblical Vision for an Age of Migration

    Safwat Marzouk offers a biblical vision for what it means to be an intercultural church. Migration today offers the church an opportunity to renew itself by rediscovering the biblical vision of the church as a diverse community. This vision views cultural, linguistic, racial, and ethnic differences as gifts from God that can enrich the church's worship, deepen its sense of fellowship, and broaden the church's witness to God's reconciling mission in the world.

    9781506433462

    $18.99

  • A Formula for Parish Practice: Using the Formula of Concord in Congregations

    A Formula for Parish Practice: Using the Formula of Concord in Congregations

    The most up-to-date English commentary on the Formula of Concord, A Formula for Parish Practice provides helpful, concise descriptions of key theological debates and a unique weaving of historical and textual commentary with modern Lutheran experience. Covering the entire Formula of Concord the book includes discussion questions at the end of each chapter. 

    9781506427034

    $39.00

  • The Art of Curating Worship: Reshaping the Role of Worship Leader

    The Art of Curating Worship: Reshaping the Role of Worship Leader

    Written by Mark Pierson, one of the pioneers in worship curation, this exciting new book explains why effective worship needs to be seen as an art form made up...

    9781451400847

    $19.00

  • Holy Ground: A Liturgical Cosmology

    Holy Ground: A Liturgical Cosmology

    Now available in paperback, Holy Ground illumines how the central symbols and interactions of Christian liturgy yield a new understanding and experience of the...

    9780800696559

    $27.00

  • Ethical Leadership: The Quest for Character, Civility, and Community

    Ethical Leadership: The Quest for Character, Civility, and Community

    We live in a leadership crisis. "In an age when incompatible worlds collide and when scandals rock formerly stable institutions," says Walter Fluker,...

    9780800663490

    $29.00

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