A Short Guide to Spiritual Formation: Finding Life in Truth, Goodness, Beauty and Community
A Short Guide to Spiritual Formation is a winsome introduction to spiritual formation. While the book does not dive into spiritual practices in detail, it provides an encouraging posture on this important subject. This book is recommended for disciple-makers who long for more than just programs and desire to connect with the Transcendent One, who loves the world.
Hope for Creation: Missional Responses to Environmental and Human Calamities
It is difficult to visit a news website or browse any social media without seeing some reference to climate change or natural disaster.
Can a Christian Be Cursed? An African Evangelical Response to the Problem of Curses
In a viral video, a young African woman walks into her home wearing a surgical mask, evidently to conceal a rash. Her mother-in-law immediately arises from her sofa and launches into a “back-to-sender” curse-removal prayer punctuated by clapping and staccato invocations of the name “Jesus.”
Theopoetics in Color: Embodied Approaches in Theological Discourse
How do we theologically reflect and talk about God in our lived realities: our bodies, identities, experiences, geographic locations, and particular contexts? This is a crucial question for pastors, teachers, and missionaries who are engaged in incarnational ministry.
Prolegomena to the Study of Islam
Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world, and since 9/11 many mission organizations have refined their focus on Christian witness among Muslims. This renewed interest in missions to Muslims has produced fresh appreciation for classic missiologists and scholars of Islam like Samuel Zwemer and Kenneth Cragg.
The Impact of Short-Term Missions on Long-Term Missional Development
The adrenaline has stopped pumping, the mission trip is over, and the busyness of everyday life presses the mission trip participants back into their former routines. For too many, a mission trip is simply a temporary diversion from ordinary life.
Essentials for People Care and Development: A Collection of Best Practices, Research, Reflections, and Strategies
In their insightful book, Geoff Whiteman and Heather Pubols make a significant contribution to the field of member care by leveraging practical theology to address the unique needs of the mission community.
Great Commission Spirituality: Abiding in Christ, Serving in Obscurity
As servants of Jesus Christ, we missionaries do not just work for him. We also are called to the same loving, family relationship with Jesus to which we invite others. Great Commission Spirituality aims to help us keep sight of that reality amid our labor.
You Will Be My Witnesses: Theology for God’s Church Serving in God’s Mission
Brian DeVries is an American Reformed minister working in South Africa since 2005. He has led three multiethnic church plants, pastors Grace Reformed Church in Pretoria, is the principal of Mukhanyo Theological College, and teaches at Reformed seminaries in the United States.
Fulfilling the Great Commission: Essays in Honor of Daniel L. Akin
“Missions exists because worship doesn’t.” This well-known quote from John Piper echoes throughout this book of essays in honor of Daniel Akin, president of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, North Carolina.