Leonard Sweet
Biography
Leonard Sweet wrote I Am a Follower, and co-wrote Jesus Manifesto and Jesus Speaks with Frank Viola.
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Preaching & Worship
“Beginners preach from the obscure texts; veterans from the more familiar ones. Louis Simon combines the best of both by making the home shores strange and obscuring the familiar so that it can become fresh again. This book of virtuoso sermons may well be the best cure for claustrophobic Christianity out there. Pick up 'My' Jesus and start anywhere and find out why two distinguished philosophers such as Paul Ricoeur and Charles Courtney would invest their talents in making these masterpieces available to a wider audience.”
“Frederick Buechner is not just a wordsmith but an image-smith—he’s the bridge between Gutenberg and Google.”
A Million Miles in a Thousand Years
Christian Living
“There are some writers who simply don’t have it in them to craft an inelegant sentence. Donald Miller is one of them. A Million Miles in a Thousand Years proves in story form how stories define us even more than our genes do. Read this book for an experience of sheer beauty, or for help in living a well-storied life.”
Church Leadership & Ministry
“In the Himalayan heap of writings about church leadership, A Servant's Manual stands out as a guide that cant actually usher us to the summits.”
Christian Living
“In a world rife with entrenched beliefs and divisive echo chambers, A.J. Swoboda offers a profound perspective on the art of learning and what it means to be apprentices of Jesus, to be his “TAs.” With captivating prose and poignant personal stories, he demonstrates how authentic Christian discipleship demands a radical humility—the willingness to learn from anyone, anywhere, anytime. From scholars and strangers to adversaries and ancient wisdom, Swoboda invites us to embrace the kind of intellectual curiosity that characterizes true followers of Jesus. This isn’t just another book about learning; it’s a call to cultivate the most vital (and often overlooked) virtue of our time—a truly teachable spirit. It’s not just a book you’ll read; it’s one you’ll live.”
Christian Living
“Jay Y. Kim is an ecclesiastical alchemist who shows us how to turn information into knowledge, knowledge into wisdom, and wisdom into truth. Analog Christian is a book no parent can afford to miss.”
Evangelism & Missions
“Rajkumar Dixit sees a 'branded church' less as some shopping list of 'to-do's' or a broadside for new programs than as the choreography for a whole new dance. Just as 'join the dance' was one invitation used by some sixteenth-century reformers to get people to join the Protestant movement, Dixit's book invites us to join the movement of the Spirit today and what God is already doing in the church and in the culture.”
Theology
“An engrossing and enchanting collection filled with surprising sparklers, unsettling firecrackers, and even fireworks that explode in reframed conversations and new horizons of insight.”
Church Leadership & Ministry
“Too often academe and the church live in parallel universes. Tony Blair has written a seminal bridge-study of how new partnerships and fresh perspectives can frame new models of learning and faith formation. If education is 'the next killer app on the Internet,' and continuing education is 'one of the fastest-growing industries of the twenty-first century,' this book has arrived 'just in time.'”
Church Leadership & Ministry
“Mark Strong doesn't just unveil the hidden horrors of fatherlessness--he shows how to turn its hardening of hearts into a gardening of hearts with tips straight from the Father's heart for the fatherless.”
Close Enough to Hear God Breathe
Christian Living
“This book has a heart that beats louder than most any book you’ll ever read. But instead of leaving me breathless, Close Enough to Hear God Breathe left my breath and heart beating together and in sync with voices beyond myself. What higher compliment can you pay an author?”
Theology
Afterword
“By definition, a true masterpiece has no model. These original essays reveal a masterpiece--Larry Shelton's scholarship on the atonement and Larry Shelton himself, who has a matchless gift for falling in, not out, with people.”
Church Leadership & Ministry
“It is much easier to duplicate and replicate than to incarnate, but Kevin Yoho’s engrossing Crayons for the City is a showcase exhibit on how to move from franchise church to artisan church. Yoho’s love for the city and its people beams on every page as he traces the local-color particularities that lead to the universal principles.”
Church Leadership & Ministry
“Places and people who profess to know the Creator best be out to be the most creative places and people around. J. Scott McElroy shows the church how to reclaim its creative calling, and outlines powerful and road-ready strategies in the church's struggle to comprehend and create beauty.”
History & Biography
“A book in a million. Dear Deb takes us over thresholds of truth and transparency rarely crossed.”
Christian Living
“In a world where social media does all it can to reconfigure our brains into consumers of outrage, Bishop Todd Hunter calls us to peace with God, with self, and with others. Slow down, give peace a chance, and watch this wise leader set a new pace for peace. Rev. Canon Dr. Scot McKnight, professor of New Testament, Northern Seminary It’s been said in the past 3,400 years, humans have experienced global peace for just 268 of them. Bishop Todd Hunter addresses many of the reasons why peace has been elusive, where it flows from, and how we can move toward it. AJ Sherrill, lead pastor, Saint Peter’s Church, and author of Being with God Peace is a dovetailing dove that connects spares and splits, heals scars and sores, and nests them into constellations of glowing stars and glorious songs of harmonious difference. This book deserves to sunbathe in every bookshop window and occupy pride of place on every theology shelf.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Rick Lawrence delivers a refreshing antidote to a diluted faith and a dissolving, lukewarm church in his latest book, Editing Jesus, offering a potent shot of the real Jesus for those disillusioned by the feeble state of the church. With humor and insight, he invites us to reconnect with the raw, reality-changing essence of Christ. A must-read for seekers of a deeper, more vibrant faith and a Christianity that leaves a lasting mark on the world.”
Christian Living
“No one closes this book unchanged. It ennobles desires. It releases dreams.”
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