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God is at work in the city. And he invites his people to join him.
But the city is not merely a mission field for Christians to
target. The city is also the environment where Christians are
discipled and lives are forged into the image of Jesus. Urban
ministry veteran Randy White shows how God transforms you when you
answer God's call to the city. Urban life peels away your sin and
self-deception and challenges your unexamined assumptions about
privilege, race, class and power. Experiential discipleship moves
you from abstract theory to hands-on learning and on-the-ground
action, revolutionizing your perspective and making a difference in
local neighborhoods and beyond. Passionate and practical, White's
vivid narratives of experiencing God in the city show you how your
spiritual health is intertwined with the health of the metropolis.
Seek the welfare of the city, and both you and the city will be
transformed.
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Connected Learning
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L Lynn Thigpen; Foreword by Tom Steffen
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ABOUT THE BOOK: The Tommie Scott Story is a true story-a true love
story-but not of the usual variety. This is a story of a
gangbanger, drug dealer, and "hit man" who worked his way through
the juvenile reform system and into a California state prison by
age twenty. It's the story of an angry young criminal with no
remorse and no hope. And it's here-in the depths of hopeless
darkness-that this story begins again. It begins again with a
humble, gray-haired man who was not ashamed to be a servant and to
share the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who
believes. It begins again with a new birth-a spiritual rebirth into
God's family through Jesus Christ. And it continues today with a
repentant and joyful servant-a dedicated soldier for Christ-whose
true story affirms God's Word that says, ..". neither death nor
life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the
future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else
in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God
that is in Christ Jesus our Lord" (Romans 8:38 NIV). "For we are
God's handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which
God prepared in advance for us to do" (Ephesians 2:10 NIV). ****
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Tommie Scott is former gang member and now
born-again believer in Jesus Christ. He is an author, advocate for
at-risk youth, a chaplain for the Las Vegas Community Gang Task
Force, and a dedicated witness and soldier for Christ. Tommie is a
native of Southern California. He grew up in poverty and was
introduced to drugs, alcohol, and gangs as a pre-teen. The juvenile
justice system, and later the California Department of Corrections,
became his home. By God's grace, Tommie was introduced to Jesus
Christ through a faithful Christian prison ministry. Just like
Paul's dramatic conversion on the road to Damascus, God changed
Tommie's heart and life forever during a prison Bible study. Tommie
is now living and doing good works in Christ in Las Vegas, Nevada,
with his wife, Rache't, and their five children.
In her inspiring true story of her walk of faith, Eileen shares
a candid glimpse into a God guided journey as she and Alan, her
husband, transformed by a powerful conversion, left everything
behind and travelled to India with their young family as
missionaries. Here you enter the miraculous faith venture of two
passionate people, prepared to do whatever the Lord says. Led to
witness modern day miracles of healing, and incredible answers to
prayer, Eileen and Alan embarked upon an unforgettable path of
supernatural provision, as they only made their needs known to God.
This book teaches life-changing lessons that will make you useful
to God. The story is told with purpose; weaving together lessons of
faith learnt as they took small steps everyday to grow in faith and
in the joy of the Holy Spirit. You will be challenged to get up and
live your faith.
"Faith Works" offers the compelling testimony of a couples'
salvation and missionary years in India that seeks to challenge
others to learn what it takes to be useful to God.
Meet Jesus and Sam. Evangelist and teacher Brenda Salter McNeil
thinks evangelism that only introduces people to Jesus is
incomplete. The picture is much larger than that, she claims:
Christ's death and resurrection reconcile us to God and to each
other across gender, race and social lines. Jesus' encounter with
the Samaritan woman, introduced here as Brenda's friend Sam, gives
you the full picture of gospel reconciliation--reconciliation to
God and to each other. In her powerful, prophetic way, Brenda
expounds their interaction recorded in John 4 and shares her own
story of coming to Christ and learning to relate to other
Christians. A Credible Witness tells you why both types of
reconciliation are necessary, and moves you to be a person whose
evangelism happens through a right relationship with God and
others. "In today's world," Brenda writes, "we too are called to
embody more than one type of reconciliation. The good news brings
us to God, and it also brings life and healing to a broken, dying
and divided world. Anything less is not the gospel."
Who gets to narrate the world? The late Robert Webber believed this
question to be the most pressing issue of our time. Christianity in
America, he preached, will not survive if Christians are not rooted
in and informed by the uniquely Christian story that is the gospel
of Jesus Christ. This is the burden of Webber's final book, Who
Gets to Narrate the World?: Contending for the Christian Story in
an Age of Rivals. Convinced that American evangelicals are facing
the demise of their entire way of life and faith, Webber challenges
his readers to rise up and engage both the external and internal
challenges confronting them today. This means that Christians must
repent of their cultural accommodation and reclaim the unique
story--the Christian story--that God has given them both to
proclaim and to live.
EVANGELISM MANUAL
This manual exemplifies the most effective methods of
evangelism. It also provides many strategic plans and guidelines
for effective evangelism. All believers, particularly those who
aspire to be in leadership or are currently in ministry should own
this evangelism manual. This manual is a much-needed resource in
the field of evangelistic outreach. It seeks to give practical
training and equipping to those who wish to fulfill the call of the
Great Commission. The manual is useful for teaching, training,
witnessing, follow-up discipleship, launching your own ministry,
and even for acquiring personal knowledge of evangelism.
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Challenged and Changed
(Hardcover)
Lindy Scott, Kim Hernandez; Foreword by Esther Louie
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Ian Stackhouse, Oliver D. Crisp; Foreword by Thomas G. Long
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This book represents the first critical edition and scholarly
annotated translation of a pioneering report on the predicament of
cross-cultural understanding at the dawn of globalization, titled
"A Brief Response on the Controversies over Shangdi, Tianshen and
Linghun" ("Resposta breve sobre as Controversias do Xamty, Tien
Xin, Lim hoen"), which was written in China by the Sicilian Jesuit
missionary Niccolo Longobardo (1565-1654) in the 1620s and
profoundly influenced Enlightenment understandings of Asian
philosophy. The book restores the focus on Longobardo's own
intellectual concerns, while also reproducing and analyzing all the
Chinese-language annotations on the previously unpublished
Portuguese and Latin manuscripts. Moreover, it meticulously
modernizes all romanizations with standard Hanyu pinyin and
identifies, on the basis of archival research, most of Longobardo's
Chinese interlocutors, thus providing new insights into how the
Jesuits networked with Chinese scholars in the late Ming. In this
way, it opens up this seminal text to Sinologists and global
historians exploring Europe's first intellectual exchanges with
China. In addition, the book presents four introductory essays,
written by the editors and two prominent scholars on the Jesuit
China mission. These essays comprehensively reconstruct the
historical and intellectual context of Longobardo's report,
stressing that it cannot be viewed purely as a product of
Sino-European cultural exchange, but also as an outgrowth of both
exegetic debates within Europe and of European experiences across
Asia, especially in Japan. Hence this critical edition will greatly
contribute to a more globalized view of the Jesuit China mission.
The incredible true story of one man's imprisonment for the gospel;
his brokenness, God's faithfulness and his eventual freedom. In
1993, Andrew Brunson was asked to travel to Turkey, the largest
unevangelised country in the world, to serve as a missionary.
Though hesitant because of the daunting and dangerous task that lay
ahead, Andrew and his wife, Norine, believed this was God's plan
for them. What followed was a string of threats and attacks,but
also successes in starting new churches in a place where many
people had never met a Christian. As their work with refugees from
Syria, including Kurds, gained attention and suspicion, Andrew and
Norine acknowledged the threat but accepted the risk, determining
to stay unless God told them to leave. In 2016, they were arrested.
Though the State eventually released Norine, who remained in
Turkey, Andrew was imprisoned. Accused of being a spy and being
among the plotters of the attempted coup, he became a political
pawn whose story soon became known around the world. This is
Andrew's remarkable story of his imprisonment and journey of faith.
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