Michael Frost
Biography
Michael Frost wrote The Road to Missional and Exiles, and co-wrote The Shaping of Things to Come with Alan Hirsch.
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Discipleship & Christian Education
“In this brief book, Justin Campbell covers a lot of territory, issuing an appeal for the church to rebalance its priorities of holiness, mission, worship, and community. He sees these priorities not as competing interests, but operating in harmony, each one energizing the others. Drawing on experts in each of these fields of study, Campbell does exactly what his title promises by developing a truly balanced understanding of Christian discipleship.”
Church Leadership & Ministry
“Angie Ward might just have resolved the long debate about the divide between the church and the parachurch. She sees their differences not so much in terms of purpose, personnel, or geography but in terms of specialization. Angie says the church must be missional in its role as a community, servant, and messenger in the world, while parachurches are missional extensions into one or other of those areas. That kind of thinking just might break the logjam in this discussion. Angie Ward's book is a winsome mix of solid ecclesiology, excellent missiology, and a deep love for God's people.”
Church Leadership & Ministry
“A decade ago, Alan Hirsch and I explored the idea that the fivefold leadership matrix was essential to unleashing the missional church. Now JR Woodward goes further by detailing how this matrix of leadership fosters a learning, healing, welcoming, liberating and thriving missional culture. This book is beautifully written and well researched, and it gets at complex issues in a readable and accessible way. This book is a gift to the missional conversation.”
Church Leadership & Ministry
“Jesus was the Great Disrupter; and in this beautiful book, Mark DeYmaz calls the church to embrace the kind of disruptive innovation that will show the world what true justice, peace, and racial reconciliation looks like. Visionary, inspiring, practical, and full of wonderful stories about the church disrupting the status quo.”
Dr.
Christian Living
Foreword
“To hear Barry tell it, living with-God-for-the-world is the key to all human flourishing. . . . In this nexus lies the hope of real, abundant, rich, beautiful human existence. It?s the place that Jesus modeled for us and about which he spoke when he urged us to love God with all our hearts and souls and minds, and to love our neighbors as ourselves. . . . Dwell makes a profound and timely contribution to both missional and pastoral studies.”
Eldership and the Mission of God
Church Leadership & Ministry
“If your church's eldership basically operates like the board of directors of a small religious enterprise, get them to read this book. Quick. J.R. Briggs and Bob Hyatt not only outline the biblical functions of eldership but they do so through the missional prism that the original biblical writers used. For them, eldership is missional insofar as elders are called to not only equip the church for mission but to eliminate as many factors as possible that could derail the missional orientation of the church. Biblical, practical, warm and inspiring.”
Science & Faith
“In case you were under the impression that being a Christian is a solo achievement, Brad Strawn and Warren Brown are here to disabuse you of that misunderstanding. They say it's a mistake to assume that spirituality is ever an individual, internal, and private matter. For them, it is always an embodied, collective, and spatial enterprise. Written in a lively, down-to-earth fashion, this book has monumental implications for our understanding of both spirituality and ecclesiology.”
Church Leadership & Ministry
“Tim Soerens believes that when flourishing networks of churches care about their neighborhoods, seeking the shalom of everyone and everything there, they form the connective tissue that brings hope and healing to our divided society. And when you read how he describes this wonderful task, you'll believe it too. This book is tender and rousing in equal measure.”
Church Leadership & Ministry
“Are missional churches merely traditional churches with some justice projects added on? In Faithful Presence David Fitch says no. Instead, Fitch argues, following the missio Dei and living incarnationally only occurs as we practice faithful presence in the world. And such presence requires disciplines. Faithful Presence is a meaty and delicious book.”
Work, Money & Leadership
“This book is an invitation to embrace the radical way of Jesus, to repent and rejoice, to foster simplicity and generosity, to open our lives to love, and ultimately to be free. The Scandrettes have produced the kind of practical guidebook to simplicity that we could return to again and again over the coming years.”
Christian Living
“In this xenophobic age of open vilification toward outsiders, Krish Kandiah presents us with the provocative idea that God often comes to us as a stranger. This is such an important book, reminding us that xenophobia is not only irrational, it is sinful. God's concern is for the least, the lost, and the left out, and so should ours.”
Christian Living
“Simon Carey Holt hallows the everyday, revealing God’s presence in our homes and neighborhoods, in pubs and offices and sports stadiums, and supplying us with wisdom and practices for sensing God when we wake, when we sleep, when we eat, when we play, and when we work.”
Christian Living
“Ronnie McBrayer uses parables--ancient and new--to reveal the 'thin places' in our world, the places where the partition between heaven and earth is translucent, where the kingdom of God bleeds into this world. . . . To read this book is to be re-commissioned in that great enterprise of being sent into the world, to bear the image of God, and to announce to everyone that his reign is peaceable, just, and beautiful. And near!”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“Ron Clark's new book invites us to abandon the sanitized religion of Christianity that we have practiced for too long. In Jesus Unleashed, he shows how Luke's Gospel presents a Christ who insists that we eschew the static, comfortable, easy forms of religion we have substituted for the cross-shaped, shalom-bringing friendship with sinners that he modeled for us.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“It feels like our world is teeming with little Caesars, each claiming sovereignty over their empires of dust, each appealing to the craven patriotism of their subjects. Their kind of populism bears no resemblance to the values of the reign of King Jesus. Thankfully, Graham Joseph Hill lays bare the stark differences between cheap nationalism and the good and beautiful kingdom of God. This is such a helpful book for our fraught times.”
Christian Living
Foreword
“Lynda MacGibbon might have moved into her apartment building in order to help or serve her neighbors, but what she describes is the beautiful work of allowing neighbors to find and help each other. . . . My Vertical Neighborhood is not so much a manual on how to be an urban missionary as it is a gentle, inspiring memoir about neighborliness itself, and the way God works through us when we submit to the practices of humility, presence, and otherliness.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Be moved by the passionate, heartfelt reflections of a brutally honest, refreshingly real woman who is totally devoted to following Jesus into the hard places and among those often overlooked by the church. Yes, she’s forthright and candid. Yes, she says things that will likely rub you up the wrong way. She’s just trying to be true to Jesus – the radical, brown-skinned, refugee Jesus.”
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