Claiming the Courageous Middle

Claiming the Courageous MiddleToday's political and cultural polarization has led to suspicion and animosity in our churches, our workplaces, and even our families. It has also led to a false sense that our options are limited to choosing a side. But there is a better way. Shirley Mullen invites readers to claim the powerful, redemptive potential of the courageous middle. Far from being a place of bland averaging, moral cowardice, wobbling indecisiveness, or lazy indifference, the

and pastors and laity who read serious works of Reformed theology

What do you do when you encounter someone who isn't like you

Christian hope

Bryan Chapell teaches the basics of preparation

this second edition also includes a new section on gender and race as well as new end-of-chapter material connecting each doctrine to a spiritual discipline

The book's insights and practical resources for worship planning will be useful to pastors

ministry leadership contexts

and well over 200 new notes have been added

Wheaton College

It offers a prophetic call to pastors

This book addresses the vital role of public Christian worship in adolescent spiritual formation and shows how important youth ministry and worship ministry are to each other

he maps spiritualities using twenty of the best memoirs from 2015 to 2020 in which "secular mystics" promote their mystical and transformational pathways