Giving voice to the real-life stories of Black millennials and younger adults, Sheila Wise Rowe goes beyond their struggles to point towards hope, joy, and healing. Drawing on years of counseling trauma and abuse survivors, she provides stories, reflections, and tools for Black readers of all ages as they journey toward healing from the barriers affecting them, their children, and their communities.
InterVarsity associate regional ministry director Rob Dixon says of this book, "In Buried Talents, psychologist Susan Harris Howell shines a light on the subtle but potent forces of socialization that tend to prevent women from serving in church leadership. This work of illumination is a gift to the church, offering a way out of the confines of gender essentialism and into a world where women and men can truly flourish."
Experienced evangelist and apologist Rick Mattson has collected dozens of easy-to-use images for explaining Christianity. God's amazing design of the world? It's like getting dealt a royal flush over and over again. Why is there evil and suffering in the world? Because it's a broken world, and things are not how they're supposed to be.
Darrell Hall (D.Min., Beeson Divinity School; pastor, preacher, and teacher) presents recent Barna Group research findings that show how different generations communicate differently. Whether with Boomers, Xers, millennials, or Gen Z, you'll discover how to bridge the gaps between speaking and listening so people of all generations can hear clearly.
Terry Wildman (Ojibwe and Yaqui; director of spiritual growth and leadership development for Native InterVarsity) and the First Nations Version Translation Council together offer a great gift to the church. This dynamic equivalence translation captures the simplicity, clarity, and beauty of Native storytellers in English, while remaining faithful to the original language of the New Testament.
In a world of constant change and complexity, how can you ever achieve lasting life transformation? Using the wisdom of the Enneagram, expert teacher Suzanne Stabile shows you how to manage your thinking, feeling, and doing in relation to your Ennagram type, opening a path to reducing fear, improving relationships, and finding wholeness.
The Beatitudes invite you to a new way of life--one of abundance, dignity, truth, and mercy. In this book, Mark Scandrette, adjunct professor at Fuller Theological Seminary with a specialty in practical Christian spirituality, shows how the Beatitudes invite you into nine new postures for a thriving life in Christ.
Contemporary culture tells you to forge your own identity, creating a life of uniqueness or significance. But the Christian gospel says, "you are not your own." Alan Noble (Oklahoma Baptist University) explores how this truth revolutionizes your understanding of self, family, society, and God. Here is a freeing, fulfilling vision of who you are and whose you are.
In this paradigm-shifting book, Susan Maros (Fuller Theological Seminary) helps you see how various dimensions of social location--including race, ethnicity, culture, socioeconomic status, and gender--have shaped your assumptions and experiences with vocation. She refocuses your attention on biblical insights about calling as a lifelong journey.
Historian Robert Tracy McKenzie introduces competing ideas of human nature that shaped the history of American democratic thought, from the Founders (humanity is fallen) to the Jacksonian Era (humanity is inherently good). Here is a conversation with the past that will help you see the present with new insight.