When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate ...
Brian FikkertChurches and individual Christians typically have faulty assumptions about the causes of poverty, resulting in the use of strategies that do considerable harm to poor people and themselves. When Helping Hurts provides foundational con...
The End of Reason: A Response to the ...
Ravi Zacharias• Is your God real, or just an "imaginary friend"? • How can a loving God exist when there is so much suffering? • Have Christians waged senseless war on other faiths, on the environment, and on each other in the name...
America's Prophet: Moses and the Amer...
Bruce FeilerWhenever the USA has experienced hard times it has turned to the Exodus story for direction, inspiration and hope. The Pilgrims quoted his story. Franklin and Jefferson proposed he appear on the U.S. seal. Washington and Lincoln were ...
Implosion: Can America Recover from I...
Joel C. RosenbergThe United States stands as the wealthiest, most powerful nation on the face of the earth. But now, in the midst of unprecedented and skyrocketing federal debt, severe economic troubles, political uncertainty, declining morality, a we...
When a Nation Forgets God: 7 Lessons ...
Erwin W. LutzerThis excellent book is so important. It clearly and powerfully explains what the parallels are between Germany's fall from grace and the beginning of our own fall. - Eric Metaxas, author of Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, SpyI...
Society and Sanity: Understanding How...
Frank SheedIf there are two words that seem not to fit together they are "society" and "sanity". Spend twenty minutes on the freeway or ten minutes reading the newspaper, or ponder the religious and political conflicts in som...
Why Pro-Life?: Caring for the Unborn ...
Randy AlcornThis completely revised and updated edition of Why Pro-Life? offers factualanswers to the central issues of the abortion debate in a concise, nonabrasiveway. Infused with grace and compassion, and grounded in medicalscience and psycho...
Bread for the Resistance: Forty Devot...
Donna BarberSometimes you get tired, doing this thing we call justice. Making the case, fighting the fight, having to explain again and again why it matters. You feel burned out or disillusioned. Sometimes you just need a word from the Lord. In t...
Renovate: Changing Who You Are by Lov...
Leonce CrumpA distinctive voice describes how individuals and churches can become agents for spiritual and cultural renewal in urban contexts. Not simply a profile of his fast-growing, transcultural church, Crump's book lays out a vision for holi...
Dear Church: A Love Letter from a Bla...
Lenny DuncanLenny Duncan is the unlikeliest of pastors. Formerly incarcerated, he is now a black preacher in the whitest denomination in the United States: the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). Shifting demographics and shrinking con...
Seeing Gray in a World of Black and W...
Adam HamiltonEveryone agrees that America is polarized, with ever-hardening positions held by people less and less willing to listen to one another. No one agrees on what to do about it. One solution that hasn't yet been tried, says Adam Hamilton,...
Insider Outsider: My Journey as a Str...
Bryan LorittsGod boldly proclaims throughout the book of Acts, "There is no ethnic home team when it comes to Christianity." But the minority experience in America today--and throughout history--too often tells a different story.When Pas...
Beautifully Distinct: Conversations w...
Trillia NewbellHow should we listen to, and think in a gospel way about, the ordinary things we come across in modern life? Things we watch, read, eat, and do. There are so many voices saying so many different things that the temptations are to eith...
Defiant: What the Women of Exodus Tea...
Kelley NikondehaThere would be no Moses, no crossing of the Red Sea, no story of breaking the chains of slavery if it weren't for the women in the Exodus narrative. Women on both sides of the Nile exhibited a subversive strength resisting Pharaoh and...
12 Ways Your Phone Is Changing You
Tony ReinkeDo You Control Your Phone—Or Does Your Phone Control You?Within a few years of its unveiling, the smartphone had become part of us, fully integrated into the daily patterns of our lives. Never offline, always within reach, we now wi...
Calm in Chaos: Catholic Wisdom for An...
George William RutlerIn these brilliant essays the renowned writer and churchman Fr. George Rutler addresses our current causes of anxiety and our never-changing, ever-new reasons for hope. His writings on the issues of our day are neither pessimistic nor...
Befriend: Create Belonging in an Age ...
Scott SaulsIs real friendship too risky?We live in a world where real friendship is hard to find. Suspicious of others and insecure about ourselves, we retreat into the safety of our small, self-made worlds. Now more than ever, it's easy to avoi...
Unified: How Our Unlikely Friendship ...
Tim ScottIn a divided country desperate for unity, two sons of South Carolina show how different races, life experiences, and pathways can lead to a deep friendship―even in a state that was rocked to its core by the 2015 Charleston church sh...
Almost Amish: One Woman's Quest for a...
Nancy SleethHave you ever stopped to think, Maybe the Amish are on to something? Look around. We tweet while we drive, we talk while we text, and we surf the Internet until we fall asleep. We are essentially plugged in and available 24 hours a da...
Restoring All Things: God's Audacious...
John StonestreetIt's easy to get discouraged by the headlines. It can often feel as if God has left the building, like we are on our own. We want to believe God's promises to us, and we search for signs of his continuing restoration of the world in w...
Rediscovering Values: On Wall Street,...
Jim WallisTHE RIGHT QUESTIONWHEN WE START with the wrong question, no matter how good an answer we get, it won't give us the results we want. Rather than joining the throngs who are asking, When will this economic crisis be over? Jim Wallis say...
Welcome Homeless: One Man's Journey o...
Alan GrahamHomeless.No other word better describes our modern-day suffering. It reveals one of our deepest and most painful conditions—not having a sense of belonging. However, Alan Graham, founder of Mobile Loaves & Fishes and Community First...
Crazy Church Ladies: The Priceless St...
Gwen AdamsWhat Happens: when ordinary churchgoing women heed the radical call of an extraordinary God? Crazy Church Ladies: is the story of how Gwen Adams turned a bunch of church ladies into crime-fighting machines in their own city to...
Is God anti-gay? (Questions Christian...
Sam AllberryIt's the hot topic of the moment. Christians, the church and the Bible seem to be out of step with modern attitudes towards homosexuality. And there is growing hostility towards those who hold a different view. So is God homophobic? A...
Why Social Justice Is Not Biblical Ju...
Scott David Allen"Highly recommended!" - Wayne Grudem, PhD, Distinguished Research Professor of Theology and Biblical Studies, Phoenix Seminary "I urge you to read and share this book immediately and widely!" - Kelly Monroe Kull...
To Be Made Well: An Invitation to Who...
Amy Julia BeckerHow can we be made well? From hurting bodies and souls to hurting relationships and communities, it’s clear that things are not as they should be. Some of us live with varying degrees of physical pain, and others of us harbor t...
Gracism: The Art of Inclusion (Bridge...
David A. AndersonWe can't ignore color, class, or culture. Instead, we must engage race with a different posture. Responding to ongoing problems of prejudice and injustice, the original seven sayings of the gracist now become eight in this revised and...
The Kerygma: In the Shantytown with t...
Kiko Arguello"This is one of those books that, in its simplicity, is full of substance and depth, and it deserves to be read." Cardinal Antonio Cañizares Llovera, Prefect of the Congregation for Divine WorshipFrancisco ("Kiko"...
Understanding and Loving a Person wit...
Stephen ArterburnThis compassionate and helpful book educates both the mind and heart in the power of addiction and the way to help others find healing. When a family member or friend is addicted to drugs or alcohol the situation can feel hopeless and...
Understanding and Loving a Person wit...
Stephen ArterburnPeople who love or work with someone with ADD often feel conflicted: they want to help, but they don't want to enable. They value the person's creativity, but they are exhausted. Stephen Arterburn and Timothy Smith address ten myths...