Ivp Books imprint: 542 books
Dead Church Walking
Giving Life to the Church That is Dying to Survive
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2012
Dead Church Walking
Making Disciples Across Cultures
Missional Principles for a Diverse World
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Culture affects how we make disciples. We often unconsciously bring our own cultural assumptions into ministry and mission, not realizing that how we think and operate is not necessarily the best or only way to do things. In today's global environment, disciplemaking requires the cultural humility...
Praying for Your Pastor
How Your Prayer Support Is Their Life Support
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2016
It's tough to be a pastor. Pastors face demands and pressures on every side, from the challenges of church ministry to the realities of spiritual warfare. But you can make a difference. Your prayers provide a lifeline for your pastor's spiritual health and ministry effectiveness. Eddie Byun offers...
Community Is Messy
The Perils and Promise of Small Group Ministry
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2012
Heather Zempel oversees the community life at a multisite church in Washington, D.C., a challenging population with one of the highest relocation rates in the United States. And yet under her leadership, National Community Church has become a model for creative, dynamic, deep small group ministry....
After the Trip
Unpacking Your Crosscultural Experience
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Veteran trip leader and intercultural guide Cory Trenda says yes—if we let the trip launch a journey of integrating the experience into our ongoing life. In After the Trip Trenda provides a unique guide for individuals and teams to make the most of a crosscultural trip after returning home. Readers...
Western Christians in Global Mission
What's the Role of the North American Church?
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2012
The 2014 Christianity Today Book Award of Merit Winner (Missions/Global Affairs) 2014 Outreach Magazine Resource of the Year ("Also Recommended," Global Outreach) The world has changed. A century ago, Christianity was still primarily centered in North America and Europe. By the dawn of the...
Resilient Ministry
What Pastors Told Us About Surviving and Thriving
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2012
What does it take to have fruitful ministry over the long haul? The stresses of pastoring are well known and can be a match for even the best-prepared, most experienced in ministry--multiple tasks, long hours, taxing responsibilities and, yes, some challenging personalities. Too often the results...
Parents of Missionaries
How to Thrive and Stay Connected When Your Children and Grandchildren Serve Cross-Culturally
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2012
Parents of Missionaries
by Randal Rauser
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2012
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Story of Stories
A Guided Tour from Genesis to Revelation
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012
Story of Stories
Prophetic Lament
A Call for Justice in Troubled Times
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2015
RELEVANT's
by Frank D. Macchia
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012
Three Gods, or One, or Three-in-One? Since the word Trinity does not appear in the Bible, many people wonder whether the doctrine is anything more than an intellectual puzzle created by theologians. This book takes readers on a guided tour of the logic leading to understanding God as a Trinity. The...
Broken and Whole
A Leader's Path to Spiritual Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2016
In his nearly four decades of pastoral, parachurch and nonprofit ministry leadership Steve Macchia has come to understand his own brokenness. He writes: "I've experienced great success and a few embarrassing failures. . . . In essence, as much as I like to view myself as a good or even a very...
God Dwells Among Us
Expanding Eden to the Ends of the Earth
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2014
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