Klaus Issler
Biography
Klaus Issler wrote Living into the Life of Jesus and Wasting Time with God, and co-wrote How We Learn with Ron Habermas.
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History & Biography
“I can imagine grandparents (or parents) with grandkids seated on their laps, reading through Robert Pazmino's memoirs for the joy of a shared experience about Pazmino's lessons learned from life. Furthermore, such a shared moment of reading together offers the distinct opportunity for intergenerational conversation about what matters in life, with deep personal sharing from grandparent to grandchild, and vice versa.”
Character Formation in Online Education
Discipleship & Christian Education
“Can character formation and online education really coexist? In this brief, hands-on introductory guide, Joanne Jung demonstrates the realistic opportunities for bringing head and heart together in student learning. Employing a conversational style and laden with the details one wants to know, Jung encourages and empowers college teachers, in turn, to encourage and empower their students within this distinctive educational delivery system. Part Two, focusing on character formation, offers great ideas for going deeper, beyond the important but usual knowledge and competency learning outcomes. Furthermore, bonus features include guidance for first-time online instructors and insights about a robust conception of teaching and the integration of faith and learning that can stimulate veteran professors.”
Prayer & Spiritual Formation
“In Christ-Shaped Character, Helen Cepero, an experienced spiritual director, invites us to journey together and ponder nine life-giving pathways that lead toward being more Christ-shaped. Through her own personal stories of 'aha moments'and dark valleys, Cepero creates an atmosphere of grace and transparency, offering a safe place to honestly reflect on our own inner movements, as if sitting in a welcoming direction session with her, conversing about life and God. Cepero is an insightful guide to help us deepen our love, our faith and our hope.”
Finding Freedom and Grace in a Broken World
Christian Living
“Got a few minutes to stop and think? About what? About our walk with God, our view of ourselves, and our view of life. In his unusual book, Thomas Stallter provides one-to-two-page reflections to ‘encourage us to reboot our faith, modify our values, and reassign the influences of self and culture.’ Wide-ranging topics include fear and anxiety, enjoyment, justice, worship, and unexpected providence. These short and thoughtful prods to new thinking can open up new vistas. Try it out.”
Bible Studies & Devotionals
“What a great title—and what a great book! God delights to meet with his children in Scripture, and if you're ready to try out a different approach, let Jan Johnson, an experienced and trusted Bible teacher, lead the way with this sound and practical guide. You'll have the opportunity to meditate on thematically arranged passages from various sections of the whole Bible. I really appreciated the just-enough background comments that helped illuminate key words or concepts so that I could put aside immediate questions and enter more fully into the passage. The structured framework and thoughtful questions prodded my pondering to allow God's work in my heart. This guidebook offers nourishing soul food for those with little or much experience in Bible meditation, individually or in a group setting.”
Teaching the Faith, Forming the Faithful
Discipleship & Christian Education
“Teaching the Faith, Forming the Faithful is a fairly comprehensive orientation and guidebook for pastors and church leaders regarding the essential educational ministry of the church. The overall organization of the book is clear (aims, essential content of the gospel, participants, and processes and practices) and the last two chapters offer a macroframework for conceptualizing and guiding overall educational ministry practice. The authors' 'pastoral insider' perspective yields useful lists and suggestions that can easily be contextualized in any local church, especially those with a liturgical tradition. The book is biblically grounded throughout and offers a wide range of notes and resources from church history, making it a rich resource for the seminary classroom and on the pastor's shelf.”
Christian Living
“To my own peril I ignored thinking about spiritual warfare for much of my Christian life. Readers of this insightful book can learn, as I have, that following Jesus involves awareness of the enemy of our soul. Gary Tyra provides a welcome orientation to this dark side with sound biblical teaching and encouraging pastoral guidance for endurance training in developing a lifestyle empowered by the Spirit.”
“If you’re looking for that trustworthy and reader-friendly Bible study resource, check out Yost’s wide-ranging recommendations. You’ll find both newer and older books to guide your desire to know God more and live in light of his word. Not only information about commentaries, Bible handbooks, and works on many Christian doctrines, but also suggestions on prayer, daily devotions, biographies, and Christian fiction. Search through titles representing a wide variety of interests and needs.”
Church Leadership & Ministry
“Carrying on the tradition of Cyril Barber’s Minister’s Library, Yost’s much-needed bibliographic resource provides the type of recommendations evangelical pastors, college, and seminary students will want to use to build their own personal library. Readers will find commendations of contemporary scholarship [and] timeless classics—some still out-of-print—an important resource list in its own right.”
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Christian Living
Prayer & Spiritual Formation
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