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31 Ways to Be a One-Another Christian (Stuart Scott)
$11.99“This is one of the most helpful books to come along in a long time.”
—Bill Shannon — Pastor of Discipleship Counseling, Grace Community Church, Sun Valley, CaliforniaWith a careful survey of the “one another” commands in Scripture, Stuart Scott and Andrew Jin provide a Word-based understanding of what God intends for Christian relationships—showing not only what they look like, but also how to develop them.
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The Gay Dilemma and Your Church: Reaching out to Those Who Struggle
$5.62Whether it’s a friend, family member, neighbor, or coworker, chances are you know someone who’s gay. You want to respond well, but you’re not sure how. How do you help and encourage other Christians struggling with same-sex attraction? How do you interact with those who have embraced homosexuality as a lifestyle, both in and out of the church?
Through his years of ministry experience, John Freeman offers timely wisdom for engaging with people who experience same-sex attraction, whether in your church or in your community. Using biblically grounded principles, he guides you in having meaningful, productive conversations with people you meet who are struggling in this area.
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The Church: Her Nature, Authority, Purpose, and Worship (Jeffrey Johnson)
$12.00Jeffrey Johnson’s book looks at how to properly approach the many facets of how our Lord designed the church to work. He explores the subjects of membership, worship, discipline, leadership, and our mutual responsibilities one to another.
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How to Build a Healthy Church (Mark Dever)
$17.50How to Build a Healthy Church, a revised and expanded edition of The Deliberate Church, challenges leaders to evaluate their motivations for ministry and provides practical examples of healthy, deliberate leadership.
Written as a companion handbook for Nine Marks of a Healthy Church, it covers important topics including membership, worship, responsible evangelism, and church roles. This is more than a step-by-step plan to mimic; it’s a biblical blueprint for pastors, elders, and anyone committed to the church’s vitality.
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The 15 Descriptions of Love, Applied to All Christian Leaders & Teachers (Alexander Strauch)
$7.50The 15 Descriptions of Love is an exposition of 1 Corinthians 13:1-7, examining the Apostle Paul’s list of fifteen descriptions of love. In this 80-page book, Strauch applies these descriptions to Christians in any kind of a leadership role.
If you lead or teach people — as a Sunday school teacher, youth worker, women’s or men’s ministry leader, Bible study leader, administrator, music director, elder, deacon, pastor, evangelist, or missionary — The 15 Descriptions of Love will help you become more skilled in dealing with people and a more loving leader and teacher.
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Paul’s Vision for the Deacons (Alexander Strauch)
$16.99Views on the roles of deacons vary widely among evangelical Christians. What does Scripture actually teach about deacons and their role in the church? Paul’s Vision for the Deacons is not a revision but a completely new book with a fresh perspective.
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Love or Die: Christ’s Wake-Up Call to the Church (Alexander Strauch)
$11.50In this challenging exposition of Revelation 2:2-6, Strauch examines this alarming rebuke of Jesus Christ to his church. Part I of the book reminds us that “an individual or a church can teach sound doctrine, be faithful to the gospel, be morally upright and hard-working, and yet be lacking love and therefore, be displeasing to Christ.” Love can grow cold while outward religious performance appears acceptable–even praiseworthy.
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Total Church: A Radical Reshaping around Gospel and Community (Tim Chester, Steve Timmis)
$7.99“Church is not a meeting you attend or a place you enter,” write pastors Tim Chester and Steve Timmis. “It’s an identity that is ours in Christ. An identity that shapes the whole of life so that life and mission become ‘total church.’”
With that as their premise, the authors emphasize two overarching principles to govern the practice of church and mission: being gospel-centered and being community-centered.
When these principles take precedence, say the authors, the truth of the Word is upheld, the mission of the gospel is carried out, and the priority of relationships is practiced in radical ways. The church becomes not just another commitment to juggle but a 24/7 lifestyle where programs, big events, and teaching from one person take a backseat to sharing lives, reaching out, and learning about God together.
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Spiritual Disciplines Within the Church (Don Whitney)
$13.50‘You’re worth it.’ ‘You deserve a break today.’ ‘Do something nice for yourself.’ Commonly heard phrases in this society are committed to self-gratification and individual rights. Doing things for other people is a waste of precious time, and asking for help is weak. So how do we build the church described in the Scriptures? In this day and age, how can we be a genuine community based on self-sacrifice and mutual commitment?
In Spiritual Disciplines Within the Church, seminary professor, author, and former pastor Don Whitney shows us how to build a sense of community and be active participants instead of passive attendees. Whitney looks at such frequently asked questions as: Why can’t I get by on my own? Why should I go to church? Why should I give of myself to the church? Why do I need to worship in church? Couldn’t I just worship in nature? Why does it matter whether I become a member of the church?
Committed love must mark the local expression of the body of Christ. By putting spiritual disciplines into practice in the church, congregations can return to the depth of community present in the New Testament church, where they ‘devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.’
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9Marks Healthy Church Study Guides: 10 volumes (Bobby Jamieson, Mark Dever)
$49.99The 9Marks Healthy Church Study Guides series explores the biblical foundations of key aspects of the church, helping Christians live out those realities as members of a local body.
Conveniently packaged and accessibly written, this series offers guided, inductive discussion of Scripture passages; it’s ideal for use in Sunday school, church-wide studies, or small-group contexts. These volumes are dedicated to bringing the most out of church life and membership, uniting around the good news of salvation through Jesus Christ.
The local church is meant to be living, growing, distinct, and God-glorifying. Yet many disagree about what a church really is and what it should look like. This study works through seven biblical aspects of the church and, in so doing, helps participants to discover a big-picture vision of the church.
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Nine Marks of a Healthy Church (Mark Dever)
$14.50You may have read books on this topic before—but not like this one. Instead of an instruction manual for church growth, this classic text offers tried and true principles for assessing the health of your church. Whether you’re a pastor, a leader, or an involved member of your congregation, studying the nine marks of a healthy church will help you cultivate new life and well-being within your own church for God’s glory.
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Nine Marks of a Healthy Church (Mark Dever) Hardback
$24.99You may have read books on this topic before—but not like this one. Instead of an instruction manual for church growth, this classic text offers tried and true principles for assessing the health of your church. Whether you’re a pastor, a leader, or an involved member of your congregation, studying the nine marks of a healthy church will help you cultivate new life and well-being within your own church for God’s glory.
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Twelve Challenges Churches Face (Mark Dever)
$9.00Division. Disobedience. Legalism. These are just a few of the many problems that plague churches today, just as they plagued the Corinthian church in the first century. That’s why, out of his great love and concern for this young church, Paul addressed these issues boldly, offering the Christians at Corinth much-needed admonition, instruction, and encouragement.
If you have ever witnessed a church split or a denominational dispute, you know firsthand that the same sort of struggles impact our churches today. In Twelve Challenges Churches Face, pastor Mark Dever, a leading authority on the subject of church health, tackles this and eleven other major challenges we must fight to overcome.
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Handbook of Church Discipline (Jay Adams)
$9.50This handbook for pastors, elders, and all Christians presents the process of discipline that should operate in the Christian community. Based chiefly on the five steps of corrective discipline found in Matthew 18:15-17. It was written in response to the various concerns that threaten to tear apart marriages, families, friendships, and congregations — concerns that call for a biblical approach to discipline that can heal fractures, restore right relationships, and ensure the health of the church.
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Church and Caesar: A Legal Primer for Church Office-Bearers (Ray Pennings)
$5.00This manual provides an overview of key biblical and legal principles that office-bearers in the church (pastors, elders, deacons) should consider as they work on behalf of the church. Chapters include information on decision-making in the church, reporting to the state, the church as employer, dealing with finances, counseling and abuse issues, discipline, and speaking out publicly.
Setting a big-picture framework, Church and Caesar will help elders and deacons manage the matters before them more informatively and judiciously.
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Trial and Triumph: Stories from Church History (Richard Hannula)
$19.50Christianity is a faith in love with history. God took on human flesh and dwelt among us. The Spirit carried that divine work over the centuries, providing courage and maturity even amid our imperfections. Christians find their true family line not through tribes and ethnic blood but in the bond of faithfulness and shed blood that has united our family for millennia. We too often view Church history as the story of obscure aliens instead of the lives of brothers and sisters, mothers and fathers.
In this collection of 46 brief biographies, Hannula sketches the stirring trials and triumphs of many famous and some lesser known figures in our family of faith–including Augustine, Charlemagne, Anselm, Luther, Bunyan, and C.S. Lewis. Through them we can begin to enjoy the old paths and find rest for our souls.
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Redemption: The Church in Ancient Times (Luke H. Davis)
$10.75The story of the ancient Church is one of a people who were finding their way over many years by the light that God shined forth for them. Today, we are looking back over the centuries with many more years of understanding but we stand on the shoulders of those who braved persecution, death, debate, and mystery on behalf of generations to come.
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Sketches from Church History: An Illustrated Account of 20 Centuries of Christ’s Power (S. M. Houghton)
$19.75The most interesting church history we know of, loaded with fascinating artwork and photos. Many who formerly found church history boring have thoroughly enjoyed this book. Covers from the Apostles to missionary efforts of the 19th century.
This book outlines the thrilling story of the onward march of the Church of Christ from the earliest times to the end of the 19th century. Far from a dry account of long-forgotten events and controversies, this volume is rather a moving and highly illustrated record of those who undertook the adventure of faith before us. Through their courage and steadfastness, they left an example as those who have gone before us, through times of prosperity and times of persecution, which should stimulate, warn and encourage the church in our own age to persevere in the same path, and obtain the same everlasting reward.
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Well Ordered, Living Well (Guy Prentiss Waters)
$8.75Why does church government matter? In this book, Guy Prentiss Waters offers a brief and accessible introduction to Presbyterianism that shows how a well-ordered church fosters Christian lives lived well. In making the case that church government is critical to Christian discipleship, Waters presents an overview of the nature of the church (the body and its member) and its structures of authority (officers, assemblies, and ordination).
He concludes by answering common questions people raise about church government. The book is an ideal resource for explaining the relevance of church government to the ordinary Christian’s life and service.
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The Family Life of a Christian Leader (Ajith Fernando)
$14.50Anyone involved in Christian ministry knows how challenging it is to balance ministry and family responsibilities. Many demands pull leaders in different directions—making it easy to neglect one or the other, often without even realizing it. Writing from decades of counseling and personal ministry experience, Ajith Fernando points Christian leaders back to the most important aspect of their lives: their relationship with God.
He then offers practical guidance for responding to real-life situations in the home, including disciplining children, dealing with disappointment, loving one’s spouse, and pursuing joy. This book presents Christian leaders with a healthy and God-centered understanding of family that leads to a flourishing home.
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