Leonard Sweet: 30 books
Real Church in a Social Network World
From Facebook to Face-to-Face Faith
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
**We need more than status updates—we need relationships.
Learning about God’s Heart from the TGIF (Twitter, Google, iPhone, Facebook) Generation**
The explosion in social networking is perhaps the most visible expression of the human longing to know others and to be known. Is there...
by Leonard Sweet
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The gospel presents a life-changing NUTS wisdom that conflicts with normal ways of making sense of the world. There is the World According to Normal. There is the World According to NUTS . . . where NUTS is an acronym for Never Underestimate the Spirit. The wisdom of Jesus is a NUTS wisdom.—From...
The Well-Played Life
Why Pleasing God Doesn't Have to Be Such Hard Work
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
Do you secretly think that the harder you work, the more God is pleased with you? You can live like that—for a while. But imagine what it might mean instead to unclench your teeth, loosen your grip, and actually experience God’s pleasure in you—not just in everything you are doing for Him? The...
AquaChurch 2.0
Piloting Your Church in Today's Fluid Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
We live in a fast-paced, fluid world. A postmodern place where people are drifting, making mid-course corrections in every aspect of life, from careers, to relationships, to beliefs. As church leaders, we must continually reshape our ministries to reach a society adrift. We must move from being adaptive...
by Leonard Sweet, Michael Horton, Frederica Mathewes-Green
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
What should the church look like today?What should be the focus of its message?How should I present that message?We live in as pivotal and defining an age as the Great Depression or the Sixties–a period whose definition, say some cultural observers, includes a warning of the church’s influence....
The Gospel According to Starbucks
Living with a Grande Passion
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2008
Leonard Sweet shows you how the passion that Starbucks® has for creating an irresistible experience can connect you with God’s stirring introduction to the experience of faith in The Gospel According to Starbucks.
You don’t stand in line at Starbucks***®*** just to buy a cup of coffee....
Viral
How Social Networking Is Poised to Ignite Revival
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
The gospel is nothing without relationship. And no one gets it like the Google Generation.
God came to earth to invite us, personally, into a relationship. And while Christians at times downplay relationships, the social-media generation is completely sold on the idea. In Viral, Leonard Sweet...
The Bad Habits of Jesus
Showing Us the Way to Live Right in a World Gone Wrong
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Did Jesus have bad habits?
In our culture, we have a tendency to describe Jesus in ways that soften his revolutionary edge. Len Sweet uncovers and presents to us the offensive and scandalous Jesus described in the Bible.
Did he disappear when people needed him most? Yes.
Did he refuse to answer...
The Greatest Story Never Told
Revive Us Again
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
God raises up Methodists for such a time as this.
Here is a ditty Len Sweet’s Methodist grandfather used to sing:
A Methodist, a Methodist will I be
A Methodist will I die.
I’ve been baptized...
From Tablet to Table
Where Community Is Found and Identity Is Formed
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Worship Leader magazine has named From Tablet to Table one of the five best books of 2015!
What if the Bible were seen less as a tablet of ink than as a table of food? From Tablet to Table invites readers to explore the importance of The Table in biblical theology, and what it might mean for us to...
by Leonard Sweet
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
The church is heading into a “perfect storm” of cultural forces. Will you sink beneath the waves, or ride the winds of the Spirit?
An array of cultural forces is coming together to present the church with unprecedented challenge and unequaled opportunity. Such “category 5" realities...
Jesus Manifesto
Restoring the Supremacy and Sovereignty of Jesus Christ
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
“So that ineverything He might have the supremacy.”
—Colossians 1:18
Christians have made the gospel about so many things—thingsother than Christ. Religious concepts, ideas, doctrines, strategies, methods,techniques, formulas, "its" and "things" have all eclipsedthe...
Post-Modern Pilgrims
First Century Passion for the 21st Century World
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2000
There is a legend of a Welsh Prince Madoc whose ship became stuck in Chesapeake Bay. After trying unsuccessfully to escape, he had his men row out with the anchor, drop it as far into the sea as they could, and then the ship winched its way forward. The image of the church as a boat and tradition...
Me and We
God's New Social Gospel
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
When Christians answer the clarion call to be missional, too often it is primarily to feel good or to grow in their own faith. But ultimately we remain unsatisfied because, in the end, it’s still about “me”—my church, my faith, my salvation. Then sometimes inspiration dries up. We forget that...