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
“John Lennon’s memorial in Central Park is inscribed with the single word, Imagine. This little book has more big ideas and does more to get the church to ‘imagine’ than most books 5 or 6 times its size. A real gem.”
Church Leadership & Ministry
“Here is a theology of failure to go with Jesus' sacrament of failure ('shake the dust off your feet and move on'). Find out why the best fail the most, and how the 'great cloud of witnesses' in Hebrews 11 is a cumulonimbus cloud haloing a rogues' gallery. Briggs's solution to a failure of nerve—the nerve of failure—deserves wide reading.”
Marriage, Family & Relationships
“We loved, loved, loved this book. What did parents do before seat belts? What did Christian parents do before this book? Alongside the Bible, Faith-Shaped Kids needs to be packed into every family car driving down the King's Highway.”
History & Biography
“Here is that rarity of a book: scholarship of impeccable rigor that’s also a compulsive page-turner. Reading Karen Swallow Prior feels like a privilege.”
Christian Living
“Reggie’s new book vacillates from very good to fabulously good. In fact, this book is so good I don’t want to talk about it here. Read it, and then we’ll talk.”
Christian Living
“Andrew Farley is one of the best young writers yet most mature thinkers in the church today. Read God without Religion to hear the voice of a twenty-first-century Bonhoeffer who shows how to ring in the good times when Jesus (not religion) is the cantus firmus, the enduring melody, of our lives.”
Church Leadership & Ministry
“Here is a book that does more than show us how to think and talk in story. Good Faith Hunting demonstrates the need for the church to become a culture of storytellers, creating stories worth telling. Don't miss how Henry Stewart has reinvented 'testimony time' for the twenty-first century.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“A tough-minded book and clear-sighted look at what it means for Christians to 'overcome evil with good.' If metaphor is metamorphosis, the metaphor of 'gracism' will change how we do church like it's changed how I do life.”
Healing the Divide, Tenth Anniversary Edition
Prayer & Spiritual Formation
Foreword
(wrote the foreword)
Christian Living
“What a promise: there is another world, and it can start now, in this one. Read Heaven Is Now to discover hidden everyday reflections that can awaken your ‘five spiritual senses’ so that you can begin eternity now. This book is heaven-sent.”
Christian Living
“If I could afford to buy only one car right now, it would be the Polestar. If I could buy only one book right now, it would be this one, a gentle masterpiece on the Polestar Light of Christ that orients us forward as it embraces, empowers, and emboldens us through life’s mazes and messes. With courageous vulnerability and unflinching transparency, Frazee has written a great book for this grueling moment. And a great book is not one you review, but respect, revere, and salute.”
Christian Living
Foreword
“Infobesity is a digital detox for the soul. Gabruch deftly dissects our information overload epidemic with surgical precision and a healthy dose of humor. His insights are both filling and fulfilling, leaving you satisfied but not sluggish. So put down your phone, pick up this book, and prepare for a much-needed cleanse of your digital digestive system. Your brain (and your thumb) will thank you.”
Christian Living
“As masterly as a Cézanne canvas or a Stravinsky score, Frank Viola surpasses himself in his best book yet—a work of serene, soaring magnificence. Part novel, part biography, part theology, part Bible study, Frank’s imaginative touch and command of prose haiku leaves the reader resolved more than ever to be a Bethany—God’s favorite place on earth.”
Introducing Evangelical Ecotheology
Theology
“Sometimes you have no idea how much you needed something until it appears. Here is a desperately needed resource for the church where debates about what it means to theologize and ecologize--with the customary cries to apologize, economize, harmonize, decentralize, localize--sound more like sacks of cats than choral evensong.”
Arts & Literature
“Aquinas believed that both poetry and theology worked at the limits of language. Scott L. Barton has dared to bring the best of both to Lectionary Year B because he believes the preacher and the poet can and should be best friends. Use this sparkling resource to experience how the words and images of a poet can breathe fresh life into the preacher’s clay.”
Liturgical Semiotics from Below
Preaching & Worship
“How important is worship? Ask Satan. He’ll give up everything to be worshiped (Matt 4:8–10). How important is semiotics to worship? Ask Kevin Olds in his pioneering and provocative study of liturgical semiotics. Olds shows us how to move from our way of worship, which is too often hurriedly on our way to lunch, to God’s way of worship, which is at the table together with good table manners, sacred table settings, correct table seatings, and engaging table talk.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“As much as you will be amazed and astonished by Terry Crist’s peerless storytelling and his radical rethinking of the familiar, you will be even more amazed and astonished by the fathomless and fulsome love of Jesus. I was sad when the book ended, and will return to it like a pilgrim to a holy site, seeking ongoing inspiration and guidance.”
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