Joshua Ryan Butler
Biography
Joshua Ryan Butler has served as pastor of local and global outreach at Imago Dei Community in Portland, Oregon, and as a worship leader. Butler wrote The Skeletons in God's Closet (2014) and The Pursuing God (2016).
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Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“I’m so grateful for thinkers like Chris, helping us to better understand and navigate this new terrain to live faithfully to Jesus.”
Does the Bible Support Same-Sex Marriage?
Marriage, Family & Relationships
“He’s done it again! Preston is my favorite go-to voice when it comes to treating the toughest questions around sexuality with both theological depth and pastoral heart. This book will not only help you understand the top arguments around same-sex marriage, but it will equip you to have these conversations well. Preston brings scholarly rigor that’s easy to read while calling all of us who follow Jesus to be countercultural in both our conviction and our compassion. I’m so grateful that Preston’s leading so many of us in this conversation; once you read this book, you’ll be too.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“I'm so grateful this book exists. Tony Scarcello has impacted my life deeply as a friend, and it's a gift to see his hard-earned wisdom now shared with the world. Love All Our Neighbors avoids pat answers and tired clichés, modeling the life-changing combination of grace and truth—orthodoxy expressed with compassion. It is a faithful and needed guide for the church as we learn to love our LGBTQ+ neighbors well.”
Work, Money & Leadership
“How do you fuel the spark God’s given you to change the world without burning out in the process? Justin is a trusted guide, whose wise insight can help you excel not only in what you are doing but, perhaps more importantly, who you are becoming.”
Christian Living
“We have an epidemic of loneliness. Many of us want to connect but don’t know how. That’s why I’m so grateful for David Kim, who offers biblical wisdom and best practices to build deep and meaningful relationships. One of the things I loved about Made to Belong is its emphasis on how these practices shape the people we become, as David vulnerably shares insights he’s learned the hard way through his own most intimate relationships and years of shepherding spiritual formation in church community.”
Mending the Soul, Second Edition
Counseling, Grief & Mental Health
“Mending the Soul is a game changer. I participated in a MTS small group years ago in which the Mending the Soul book and workbook guided us to work through our experiences in a truly transformative way and to forge deep bonds through the sharing of our stories of suffering. Together we encountered the healing power of Christ. Steven and Celestia Tracy are leading the way in helping us understand the nature of abuse and equipping us with practical ways to move forward in the healing power of Christ.”
Christian Living
“This book reclaims the power of the most underappreciated word in the English language. This is a training manual on how to focus your life and priorities on the things that matter most.”
Prayer & Spiritual Formation
“In a world clamoring for spotlight, status, and success, Marlena helpfully calls us back to the ancient wisdom of the church: that true life is found in dying and true significance in giving yourself away. Jesus is our trailblazer as we embark on this path of the kingdom, whose own way up to exaltation was found through laying down his life for us, and he beckons us to now follow in his stead.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Powerful and accessible, People to Be Loved engages top scholarship from all sides of this conversation in a way that’s easy to read and down-to-earth, respectfully avoiding straw men while exploring Scripture with conviction and grace. Moreover, Preston models a posture for straight Christians to allow the abuse and mistreatment gay people have experienced to break and reshape us, to let their beauty and dignity draw our eyes to Jesus, and to “front love” as we seek to embody the sacrificial love of our King for his world.”
Preaching & Worship
“This is the book I’ve been waiting for! Spirit and Sacrament dismantles dichotomies that pit the good gifts of God against each other and invites us instead to feast on the whole enchilada Jesus has prepared for us—through worship that is (I love Andrew’s new term here) “eucharismatic”: integrating both liturgy and levity, deep roots and ecstatic experience, formative practice and fresh divine power. For what holds both Eucharist and charisma together is, at their center, God’s charis: grace.”
The Way of the Dragon or the Way of the Lamb
Christian Living
“Our culture—and our churches—often associate power and relevance with youth and self-exaltation. Fortunately, Jamin and Kyle have confronted this distortion and many corruptions of power today. You’re invited to join them and discover afresh that as astounding as it may be, the way of the Dragon is ultimately overcome by the way of the Lamb.”
Christian Living
“Americans are experts at avoiding the uncomfortable—be it awkward conversations, conflicted relationships, or lifestyle changes. But Jesus points us to a better way. In this book, McCracken shows us how the greatest glories for disciples of Jesus are often found in the most uncomfortable places his voice calls us and how the real church is not an idealized utopia beyond the fray of history, but rather Jesus powerfully present among his often muddled, messy, and awkward—yes, uncomfortable—bands of followers today.”
Christian Living
“Infertility is painful. In these pages, Matthew Arbo gives biblical insight and wise counsel, offering both comfort and hope for those on this difficult journey. Walking through Infertility goes deeper than the superficial clichés couples often hear, which, though intended to comfort, can hurt. Arbo frames infertility within the biblical narrative, where it is actually quite common and significant—we find we are not alone. Additionally, he helps those navigating some of the complex ethical decisions made possible by modern technology for dealing with infertility—we are not without guidance. Ultimately, he points to our comfort in the community of the church and our hope in the God of life.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Luke Goble has been my favorite conversation partner on faith and politics. At a time when America is divided as ever, I'm so glad this book can now share his insights with the world. Worshiping Politics mines the riches of Christian tradition, in conversation with modern social science, to give us not quick fixes or cheap answers to our intractable political problems, but rather vibrant paradigms and ways of thinking for how followers of Jesus can justly embody our proclamation that he is Lord in the public life of the world.”
Christian Living
“My soul needed this book! If you’re feeling exhausted or overwhelmed, Dominic is a trustworthy guide whose words are true, his prose beautiful, and his vision captivating of the God for whom your heart aches.”
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