Mark Labberton
Christian Living
“Success is one thing, but wisdom is another. Or so it can seem. Most of us hope for both, even when they seem like rivals. In the case of Terry Looper, success and wisdom have come blessedly together. It wasn’t always so. Why and how did things change for him? I enthusiastically urge you to read Sacred Pace to hear his story and to grasp his answers. Then I urge you to pursue for yourself the fruitfulness that can come from a transformative process of seeking and hearing from God in relation to all of life’s decisions. As Looper so clearly sees, the greatest and surest gift will always be the Giver.”
Church Leadership & Ministry
“As I settled in for a flight, I asked my seatmate about his work. 'I am a church planter,' he said enthusiastically. 'That's interesting to hear,' I responded, and then asked with apparent naiveté, 'So what does it take to plant a church?' 'Two simple things: a good sound system and a dynamic speaker!' This rich volume offers multifaceted wisdom about how much more church planting actually requires than just those two things. I hope my seatmate, and all who read this very helpful book, will see that church planting is about deep sowing and nurturing, about how much God has a passionate purpose in all of it, and about what a faithful adventure and daunting challenge church planting really is!”
Preaching & Worship
“When Amanda Gorman delivered her spoken word at the 2021 inauguration of President Joe Biden, she took her listeners to a place beyond mere prose. As music and poetry can often do, her hearers and viewers were transported, and in measure transformed, because what she gave us sang. All the way to our deepest places of pain and longing, her beautiful, melodic honesty drew us toward hope that lies beyond the prosaic. This miraculous singing is what preaching can manifest. What this very fine book by Noel Snyder underscores is not that music matters per se, but that the spiritual formation of the preacher is what creates the breath from which the singing of the sermon can also rise in the lungs and lives of others. It's not the vocal cords alone but the ruakh offered up from the preacher's soul. May this profound work make more sermons rise and sing better because of it!”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Jesus's life and ministry are an unveiling of reality, which at its core means an exposure to God's merciful and just heart for all the vulnerable. What Tom Crisp beautifully and transformatively conveys here is the way this revelation has cracked open his own experience of this love and, even more, drawn him in communion with others toward those at the cultural margins who, in fact, dwell in the heart of God. This changes everything.”
“Robinson has again taken us down a pathway of spiritual practices that is both grounded in the rich tradition of the church while being urgently valuable to a spiritually thirsty contemporary church. Read, drink deeply, and live and love generously.”
Prayer & Spiritual Formation
“Susan Phillips can write this book because she lives it. For three decades and more, I have observed the choices she makes to cultivate life and this has been the hallmark of her story. This book is a deep and magnanimous invitation to live in such a way that the flourishing for which we are made can become our experience. Let the grounded welcome she extends and encourages lead us through the circus towards life itself.”
Arts & Literature
“Cam Anderson's vision inspires, challenges and encourages me. He is wise about creativity, faithful about imagination and provocative about beauty. We are invited into a deeper humanity and a greater faithfulness to the Artist who made us. I am so grateful for this book and believe many other readers will be too!”
Preaching & Worship
“Breathlessly passionate, carefully studied, humbly dependent, spiritually theological, eagerly convicted, thoughtfully practical, joyfully hopeful: these words describe Darrell Johnson, and they are among the infectious qualities of The Glory of Preaching. By all means, read this book and 'participate in God's transformation of the world.'”
Counseling, Grief & Mental Health
“Angela Gorrell’s moving personal experiences and stories in The Gravity of Joy arise amidst the ordinary, exceptional, and anguishing realities of being human. She is a vulnerable and honest guide, who knows her own and others’ tear-stained cheeks, as she and others receive joy with wonder, not triumph; with humility, not presumption; with presence, not power. This book is a witness to hope that can and does save lives.”
The Hole in Our Gospel 2025 Edition
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“The Hole in Our Gospel is still needed—or needed anew!—because of the relentless American tendency for our lives to be defined primarily by what is personal, individual, internal, and tribal. These are the pervasive forces that create and sustain the ‘hole’ that subverts the whole gospel for the whole person in the whole world. Thank God for the wholistic gospel that Rich Stearns here reaffirms so plainly and urgently.”
Preaching & Worship
Foreword
“What Sandra Van Opstal does so importantly here is to help make the arc of this worship transformation clear and practicable. Out of her life experience and rich ministry background, Sandra does for us here what she has done over the years for many of those she has led as worship teams and as worshipers. This book is a vital gift for a changing church that needs to reflect the God of all the nations.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“The distinct suffering of Palestinian Christians needs to be heard, felt, and lifted up, not least before the minds and hearts of many American evangelicals. The pain some American Christians have added to the lives of Palestinian Christians has further ravaged the dignity and value of our beloved Palestinian brothers and sisters. Munther Isaac's clear, passionate, honest rendering of this ignored and distorted narrative of Palestinian Christians is a powerful antidote.”
Marriage, Family & Relationships
“David Robinson has a metaphorical mind and heart. His poetry combines with biblical, theological, pastoral, and marital wisdom. This book displays all of these gifts, and you will be the richer for reading it.”
The Spiritual Danger of Donald Trump
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Whether you agree or disagree with these voices, I believe their perspectives and arguments are urgently in need of being heard. Listening should always be the first act of a leader, and even more, for a leader seeking to live as a follower of Jesus. What I so appreciate about this collection of essays is the careful way these authors have tried to listen carefully--to Donald Trump, to his supporters and detractors, and to the national and international climate of our day. Beyond that, however, they are all people trying to listen as deeply and wisely to God in Jesus Christ as they can. This is what I believe leads them to conclude that the United States, including especially the church in this nation, faces in Donald Trump not just a political leader with a political vision that some like and some don't, but a personal and spiritual force-field of a far more dangerous and destructive kind. Whether or not you accept these voices, I hear in their perspectives and arguments many things that are urgently in need of being heard. What is at stake is far too important to do otherwise and risks multi-generational damage. Lord, may it not be so.”
Church Leadership & Ministry
“A question much on my mind is this: Will there be church in the twenty-first century that matters? This quite remarkable book argues for what is necessary for the recovery, the re-creation, and the reality of Christian faith to make Jesus visible and evident today. Feast on this, and live into God’s starfish communion and mission. This would be church that matters!”
“This rich collection of essays presents dimensions of a Christian faith that can be hospitable, humble, and capacious. The distinctive voices here manifest the Christ-bearing aroma of Dennis Okholm, in whose honor these reflections have been so deservedly gathered. Nicholas Scott-Blakely does a fine job as editor presenting essays that intensify our hunger for that hospitable wisdom of God, whose friendship is meant to mark all our communion.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Ben McBride is an exemplary leader--wise, courageous, articulate, and motivational. His character can, should, and does show itself in the wide spectrum of emotion and action necessary for a prophetic Black Christian man in America to have a voice of leadership and influence in the church and in the public square.”
NOTE: Only includes books currently in our catalog; not necessarily a complete list.
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