Jack Hayford

An Emergent Theology for Emerging Churches

Theology

“It is a refreshing thing to witness biblical diligence and intellectual insightfulness become ignited by the flame of Pentecost. Ray Anderson verifies the fact that the truly contemporary church will ultimately transcend the mere 'currency' so passionately sought by leaders whose anxious pursuit centers on being 'up-to-the-minute,' savvy culturally, tuned to the 'hip' or 'cool.' Here's a book on the timelessly contemporary, pointing us toward truth that unlocks the timeless--the eternal dimensions of God's Spirit at work.”

ChurchNext

Church Leadership & Ministry

“Every responsible pastor and church leader must think through the issues this book presents so helpfully. While only the Holy Spirit can keep the church's edge sharp and its salt tangy, I think he may be using Eddie Gibbs to help us keep alert to him. All of us charged with God-ordained mission need to prayerfully think and carefully answer the hour so well defined here.”

Dog Training, Fly Fishing, and Sharing Christ in the 21st Century

Church Leadership & Ministry

“Ted Haggard points us to creative partnership with the Holy Spirit. It is Him— God, the Spirit—who is seeking to mobilize the body of Christ for penetrating ministry into every corner of the marketplace and community. Here’s a tool to help us respond to the present thrust of the Church’s ongoing reformation touching the world through the everyday people in Jesus’ Body.”

Doing Church as a Team

Church Leadership & Ministry

“Very few young leaders have Wayne Cordeiro’s combination of gifts, character, and leadership. I am completely unreserved in recommending his work because I know him well. I trust his vision and values in both a personal and public dimension, and I believe he is being raised up by God as a voice to the larger Body at this pivotal time in the Church.”

Fasting for a Miracle

Christian Living

Foreword

(wrote the foreword)

Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire

Prayer & Spiritual Formation

“Lovingly but forcefully, Jim Cymbala calls us, the Church, to look in the mirror, to repent of all our futile attempts to do the work of the Holy Spirit, and to get back on our knees where we belong. Only then will God supernaturally move to accomplish His plan for our ministries and lives. Jim and Carol Cymbala have to be two of God’s most trusted servants. How like God to perform the miracles that have become the Brooklyn Tabernacle, using a kid who grew up in the neighborhood. Jim Cymbala’s voice is worth everyone hearing. He has a passion and a purity that brings force and clarity to the grand old gospel—bringing it alive with contemporary vitality and beauty.”

How to Multiply Your Church

Church Leadership & Ministry

“Director of Doctoral Studies, Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary Author, Seven Steps to Church Planting and Spin-off Churches The practical wisdom and no-nonsense frankness of Ralph Moore’s leadership style shines throughout this book. He is a twenty-first century church planter who has found how to lead with a mindset and capability consistent with the Holy Spirit’s tactics in the New Testament. I know no more effective current model as a pastoral advocate for and dynamic practitioner of church planting than him.”

Insurgence

Christian Living

“Frank Viola’s pen and voice are consistently both penetrating and trustworthy.”

Intercessory Worship

Prayer & Spiritual Formation

“Dick Eastman’s gift of an intercessor’s passion for—and power in—partnership with God is multiplied over and over to us all by means of the understandable, practical, “believe-I-can-do-this” guidance. Under Jesus’ touch, he teaches us to pray.”

Intimate Friendship with God

Christian Living

Foreword

(wrote the foreword)

Leadership Pain

Church Leadership & Ministry

“to minimize, run from, or deny our pain. However, the experience of pain is the path to becoming truly real about our vulnerability, mortality, frailty, fallibility, vanity, and folly. Honesty is the only way to “grow through it.” Dr. Chand helps us take steps toward the “victory” we will win—steps we especially need to take when we feel like failures. Thanks again, Sam!”

Pastor.

Living Like Jesus

Christian Living

“Ron Sider's own genuineness lends credibility to this comprehensive assessment of a summons to genuine Christianity for today. Here's a practical handbook for the fulfilling yet disciplined lifestyle we can all learn.”

More Than a Theory

Apologetics

“Today, the benefits of the scientific community are sometimes mixed, especially when faith in the Creator is mocked as a concept. In this milieu, I know of no leader standing as a voice with clarity, dignity, and respectability like Hugh Ross. He provides believable and balancing insights that strengthen reasons to believe for any honest, thoughtful hearers. Scholarly insights join to an irenic tone—the truth and the temperament he brings unite to gain a climate that is at once enlightening and engaging.”

Penetrating the Darkness

Theology

“I thank the Father for each of these. Their lives touched mine and have added a touch that will hopefully enrich you as they each did me.”

ReGrace

Christian Living

“Frank Viola’s pen and voice are consistently both penetrating and trustworthy.”

Splitting Heirs

Work, Money & Leadership

“Thanks to Ron Blue and Jeremy White, a deepened perspective on how we handle our 'treasure' is provided. So affluent a culture as ours easily dulls our discernment, making us—and especially our children—prey to the world-spirit of entitlement and selfishness. In Splitting Heirs our senses are sharpened; showing us how to plan our will according to the ultimate Will—the Word of God; calling us to wiser stewardship, judicious parenting, and a God-honoring way to handle what we "can't take with us.”

The Day I Met Jesus

Christian Living

“In The Day I Met Jesus, Frank and Mary demonstrate lucid insight into the balanced, candid, focused, tender, and penetrating manner of our Master—Jesus the Christ. See again the Savior who was God and Man embodied to show and transform us by His unpretentious holiness, empowering authenticity—without scorn or condemnation, transmitting love’s purity, life’s vitality, and hope’s eternity. I commend the authors and this book to you: both will enrich and enlarge your thoughts and your life.”

Pastor.

The Holy Spirit in Mission

Theology

“I applaud Gary Tyra's bridge-building efforts on this most practical and pivotal arena of our joint witness throughout the body of Christ.”

The Holy Spirit Is Not for Sale

Theology

“I know of no more discerning, prophetic voice speaking with clarity and compassion and backed by such integrity of character as Lee Grady’s. Today’s Church needs not only to hear but to heed the wisdom of the warnings set forth in the wisdom of this book.”

The Light That Never Dies

Counseling, Grief & Mental Health

“Bill Hendricks shares a story that helps us see more clearly how, in the face of grief, our best thoughts and finest reasonings will always pale before the light of that hope which shines the Love of God, from His own heart -- the source of that hope!”