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Author Interview: Susan E. Eenigenburg
In a world where always-connected smart devices and search algorithms educate and entertain, “digital Babylon” is the new context for discipleship. This bookreveals findings from a three-year research study of young Christians whose faith remains resilient even in exile. Barna president David Kinnaman teams up with former executive director of Youth Specialties Mark Matlock unveiling new research that uncovers what’s working, positing five practices that contribute to resilience. Enter the world of resilient young adult Christians and learn how they are sustaining faith.
Sacred Siblings: Valuing One Another for the Great Commission
This book helps us to understand how teams come together with varying expectations of what team life should be. Eenigenburg and Grumelot offer ideas and positive practices of valuing one another. Their observations are based on a survey of 289 missionaries, representing 12 mission agencies, where they glean practices not only to help team members build unity and understanding of each other, but also to enable greater effectiveness in ministry. The book will also help agencies make moves to better prepare for the increasingly single next generation of field workers.
Beyond the Newsletter: Communicating Value to Ministry Partners
Keeping in touch with people who we don’t see regularly takes initiative.
Webinar: Chinese Christianity in an Increasingly Hostile Environment
After decades of relative openness and tolerance, China under President Xi Jinping has adopted a decidedly less tolerant attitude towards religion in general, and Christianity in particular. In this webinar we will talk about what this new restrictive environment looks like on a practical level, not only for local believers, but for foreign Christians as well.
Coaching Millennials in MPD Fundraising
Millennials, like other generations, have come to be known for the qualities which characterize them.
Love the Listener, Then Share the Words?
The clash of cultures between Christianity and Islam weighs heavily in international affairs, but it takes on a very personal character in the life of Abdoulaye Sangho.
Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life
Indistractable is a field guide to focus. The author presents a framework contrasting distraction and traction along with internal and external triggers. Eyal suggests that through an understanding of our distraction triggers we can reduce them. The book gets down to very specific advice about this, including app suggestions and other tricks that he utilizes to increase his focus. Each chapter has a short summary. This is a broad treatment of distraction ranging from work to relationships.
Are You Getting The Blank Stare in Your Support Appointments?
The blank stare. Have you experienced it?
Carpe Diem Redeemed: Seizing the Day, Discerning the Times
Life is short, and it can be as easily wasted as lived to the full. In these fast and superficial times, Os Guinness calls us to consequential living by “seizing the day.” In strong contrast to both Eastern and secularist views of time, he reorients our very notion of history, not as cyclical nor as meaningless, but as linear and purposeful. In the Judeo-Christian tradition, time and history are meaningful, and human beings have agency to live with freedom and consequence in partnership with God. Thus we can seek to serve God’s purpose for our generation, read the times, and discern our call for this moment in history.
Webinar: Commissioned: What Jesus Wants You To Know As You Go
Are you looking for a tool to teach the basics of the Great Commission? Do you need material to do a sermon series or Sunday school, small group series, or maybe just a one-off on the Great Commission? This webinar will help you do just that.
Author Interview: David Kinnaman
In a world where always-connected smart devices and search algorithms educate and entertain, “digital Babylon” is the new context for discipleship. This bookreveals findings from a three-year research study of young Christians whose faith remains resilient even in exile. Barna president David Kinnaman teams up with former executive director of Youth Specialties Mark Matlock unveiling new research that uncovers what’s working, positing five practices that contribute to resilience. Enter the world of resilient young adult Christians and learn how they are sustaining faith.
Faith for Exiles: 5 Ways for a New Generation to Follow Jesus in Digital Babylon
In a world where always-connected smart devices and search algorithms educate and entertain, “digital Babylon” is the new context for discipleship. This bookreveals findings from a three-year research study of young Christians whose faith remains resilient even in exile. Barna president David Kinnaman teams up with former executive director of Youth Specialties Mark Matlock unveiling new research that uncovers what’s working, positing five practices that contribute to resilience. Enter the world of resilient young adult Christians and learn how they are sustaining faith.
Webinar: Measuring Impact
Measuring Impact addresses a question that every Christian ministry is asking (or should be!): how might we best evaluate the effectiveness of our ministry? It’s not an easy question to answer, but there are answers …if we ask the right questions.
The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You
This book is written by the first intern that Facebook hired who has now risen into the upper echelons of the company. The book covers the basics of management, starting from small teams to more complex, multi-team organizations. Zhuo walks through major topics of management such as starting out as a manager, feedback, leading, self-management, meetings, hiring, execution and nurturing organizational culture. Most of the illustrations are drawn from her personal experience.
Purchase the Church Missions Leader Survey Report + Analysis 2019
Missio Nexus is excited to release our 2019 report and analysis of our Church Missions Leader survey. The Church Missions Leader Survey Report and Analysis…
Church Missions Leader Survey Report + Analysis 2019
The Church Missions Leader Survey Report + Analysis 2019 includes: Over 75 pages of content Feedback from 133 Church Missions Leaders 42 unique charts, graphs,…
Webinar: New Ways to Tell the Old Story
The Bible gives us a rich, many-layered story of salvation: an astonishing framework for endless, life-changing discoveries about what it means to see ourselves in Christ.
Dark Clouds, Deep Mercy: Discovering the Grace of Lament
Lament is a neglected dimension of the Christian life for many Christians. This book helps us see the need to recover the practice of honest spiritual struggle that gives permission to vocalize our pain and wrestle with sorrow.
Purchase the CEO Survey Report + Analysis 2019
Missio Nexus is excited to release our 2019 report and analysis of our CEO survey. The 2019 Mission CEO Survey Report includes: Over 75 pages…
Stewardship of Short-Term Missions with an Emphasis on Discipleship
Description: In this webinar we will explore what spiritual direction is and why it is growing in missions and member care. Over the past 15 years, spiritual direction has moved from the fringes within the evangelical world to a recognized practice of soul care. What exactly is spiritual direction? What does training look like? Can we trust this practice? We will also discuss topics such as; how to go about finding a spiritual director and what to expect within a spiritual direction session.
Encountering China: The Evolution of Timothy Richard’s Missionary Thought (1870–1891)
By Andrew T. Kaiser
Always On: Practicing Faith in a New Media Landscape
By Angela Williams Gorrell
For the Life of the World: Theology that Makes a Difference
By Miroslav Volf and Matthew Croasmun
Disabling Mission, Enabling Witness: Exploring Missiology Through the Lens of Disability Studies
By Benjamin T. Conner