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As children, youth, and adults travel on their faith journey, it’s important to mark the milestones along the way and celebrate God’s faithfulness. In Celebrating the Milestones of Faith, you’ll learn why and how to build a milestone. You’ll also get hundreds of practical, creative ideas for celebrating baptism, profession of faith, first communion, and many other faith milestones. Read a sample chapter.
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Bethesda: Come to the Water is a new Bible study that invites women struggling with emotional pain to experience healing and restoration through the love of Jesus and the support of a small group. Read a sample chapter.
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Faith Alive Christian Resources has just released Behind Closed Doors, a book by two psychologists that chronicles the problem of addiction to Internet pornography among Christians, including pastors, describes problems that this type of addiction can create, and provides solutions for how people can break the cycle of addiction.
“I highly recommend the book to those trapped in the destructive cycle of Internet pornography and cybersexual behavior.” —Dave B. Wardell, Ph.D., co-founder of Promise Keepers
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Hidden Joy in a Dark Corner
Wendy Blight
Have you ever felt your life spinning out of control, and you did not know if you would survive another day? Like all you had in this world was ripped away? Have you experienced a physical or emotional pain so deep that nothing could numb the hurt? If you or anyone you know could answer yes to any of these questions, I invite yo
u to listen to my story.
On June 7, 1986, one week after my college graduation, an unknown armed assailant broke into my apartment, held me captive, stripped me bare, stole my perfect life, and walked away never to be seen again. I lived for years cocooned in a prison of fear, despair, and hopelessness. The depth of my pain was beyond comprehension. I desperately searched for answers but could find none. Though surrounded by people, I felt so alone. Finally, I fell on my knees before God. I poured out my tears, anger, and questions to Him.
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Derek Prime & Alistair Begg. On Being a Pastor: Understanding Our Calling and Work. Moody, 2006. 320 pp.
Now in paperback, On Being a Pastor is an essential tool to help pastors fulfill their calling. A pastor’s responsibilities are unique, demanding that he nurture his own spiritual life as well as that of the people in his care. Derek Prime and Alistair Begg provide practical advice for both the spiritual and practical aspects of pastoral ministry. Topics include prayer, devotional habits, preaching, and specific ministry duties.
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Andy Stanley & Lane Jones. Communicating for a Change: Seven Keys to Irresistible Communication. Multnomah, 2006. 208 pp.
When You Talk, Are People Changed?
Whether you speak from the pulpit, podium, or the front of a classroom, you don’t need much more than blank stares and faraway looks to tell you you’re not connecting. Take heart before your audience takes leave! You can convey your message in the powerful, life-changing way it deserves to be told. An insightful, entertaining parable that’s an excellent guide for any speaker, Communicating for a Change takes a simple approach to delivering effectively.
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Paul David Tripp. Instruments in the Redeemer’s Hands: People in Need of Change Helping People in Need of Change. P&R, 2002. 362 pp.
Comprehensive treatment of how God uses people as tools of change in the lives of others, people who themselves are in need of change.
In many ways, the church today has more consumers than committed participants. We see church merely as an event we attend or an organization we belong to, rather than as a calling that shapes our entire life.
Tripp explains how his work follows an “all of my people, all of the time” model. If you followed the Lord for a thousand years, you would still need the ministry of the body of Christ as much as you did the day you first believed. This need will remain until our sanctification is complete in Glory.
Author: CCEF Bio | Faithful Reader Bio | Paul Tripp Ministries | Blog
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Pastors/Church Leaders
A wonderful application of the old Gaelic saying, “God strikes straight blows with crooked sticks.” As inadequate as we are, God is eager to use us to help others change. The more you apply the biblical principles discussed in this book, the more readily you will fit into his mighty hand. — Ken Sande, author of The Peacemaker
Tripp is a careful and skillful physician of the heart. He unites a loving heart with a mind trained to the Scriptures. This book is a great companion for pastors and counselors. It will guide anyone who wants to give real help to others, the saving help that is found in Christ’s redeeming work. — Richard D. Phillips, author of Walking With God
- Adrian Reynolds (03/07) Review
Seminary/Ministerial Students
Laymen/Unknown
- Ricky Alcantar, New Attitude Blog (03/07) Review
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- Recommend by David Powlinson: “What 5 or 10 books should be in every pastor’s library in the discipline that you teach?”
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Mark Dever, et al. Preaching the Cross. Crossway, 2007. 176 pp.
Proclaiming the gospel is without a doubt the most important task of pastoral ministry, yet often other, seemingly more urgent activities obscure it. From time to time all pastors and preachers need to be reminded of the primacy of the gospel.
Preaching the Cross does just this. It is a call to expository, gospel-centered preaching as the center of pastoral ministry. This volume showcases an unprecedented combination of pastors representing a variety of evangelical traditions. Though they differ on some secondary points of church practice, they all enthusiastically celebrate the centrality of the cross of Christ—keeping the main thing the main thing. That message every reader can take away from this book and adopt in his pastoral ministry.
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Excerpts: TOC | Intro & Ch 1 | Browse Inside
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- Tim Challies, Challies.com (04/07) Review
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Dennis E. Johnson. Him We Proclaim: Preaching Christ from All the Scriptures. P&R, 2007. 464 pp.
Him We Proclaim advocates the Christ-centered, redemptive-historical, missiologically-communicated, grace-grounded method of Bible interpretation that the apostles learned from Jesus and practiced in their Gospel proclamation. Moving beyond theory, it shows how apostolic preaching opens up various biblical texts: history, law, wisdom, psalm, prophecy, parable, doctrine, exhortation, and apocalyptic vision.
Dennis Johnson has written a magnificent book that magnifies Christ in all of Scripture. Every preacher and teacher of the Scriptures should read this gem of the book. Johnson convincingly explains and defends the thesis that Christ should be proclaimed from all of Scripture. But he also illustrates with specific examples what it looks like to proclaim Christ in both the Old Testament and the New Testament. This book is exegetically faithful, theologically profound, and practically helpful. I wish I had read a book like this when I started my theological education thirty years ago. —Thomas R. Schreiner
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Professors
- Richard B. Gaffin, Westminister Bookstore Reviews (03/07) Review
- Thomas R. Schreiner, P&R (03/07) Review
Pastors/Church Leaders
- Aaron Menikoff, 9Marks (04/07) Review
Laymen
- Justin Taylor, Between Two Worlds (04/07) Review
- Colin Adams, Unashamed Workman (ND) Review
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R. Scott Clark, ed. Covenant, Justification and Pastoral Ministry: Essays by the Faculty of Westminster Seminary California. P&R, 2007. 480 pp.
The doctrine of justification and covenant theology are two of the most basic and yet most misunderstood doctrines in the contemporary Reformed world. This volume addresses both doctrines carefully, biblically, theologically, and practically. Few books address both covenant theology and justification, and relate these two doctrines to our confessions and virtually no treatments address it from the point of view of the theological departments: Exegetical theology, Systematic Theology, Historical Theology, and Practical Theology. This volume is intended for an academic audience but it is accessible to intelligent laity.
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Last updated 03/28/07
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Timothy S. Laniak. Shepherds After My Own Heart: Pastoral Traditions and Leadership in the Bible. IVP, 2006. 313 pp.
In this excellent study, Laniak draws on a wide range of Old and New Testament texts to develop the biblical theology of “shepherd” imagery, and concludes with some principles and implications for contemporary pastoral ministry. A wonderful resource for pastors, teachers and seminary students, as well as readers interested in the study of biblical imagery.
Author: IVP Bio | GCTS Bio
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Excerpts: TOC | Chapter 1
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- Jason Park, Christian Book Previews, Review
- Justin Buzzard (01/07) Review
- Kelly Liebengood (01/07) Review
- Jonathan Leeman, 9Marks (03/07) Review
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Last updated 04/13/07
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