Focusing My Gaze by Max Wilkins
Jesus came to give His followers abundant life. It is a life filled with meaning, purpose, wonder, and beauty. Jesus assures us that if we will seek first His kingdom and righteousness, we will not only find those things but all the other things we so desperately seek as well.
Join us in this journey as we see how these four looks have played out in the lives of men and women of faith, from biblical times until today, and how they are still transforming the lives of those who choose to focus their gaze.
Conversion and Discipleship: You Can’t Have One Without The Other by Bill Hull
This work exposes the five main contaminated or “false gospels” that have especially infected the Western church and reveals their dangerous consequences - most specifically that discipleship has become optional to many Christians. In fact, the dominant trait of these gospels is that a person can become a Christian without following Jesus. Hull clarifies that the Biblical Gospel vividly claims and expects that all believers are to be disciples and to make other disciples.
The Discipleship Gospel: What Jesus Preached We Must Follow by Bill Hull and Ben Sobels
Many Christians today, pastors, Bible professors, church leaders, and everyday believers have their own unique understanding of the Gospel. This brief book helps us discover and examine the Gospel that Jesus actually proclaimed and that His disciples also passed along to others. Why is this so crucial? Because the Gospel you believe and proclaim determines the kind of disciple you will make. This text will help us all to align ourselves to the true Biblical Gospel.
DiscipleShift: Five Steps That Help Your Church to Make Disciples Who Make Disciples by Jim Putman & Bobby Harrington with Robert E. Coleman
This book makes us aware of the non-negotiable shifts that must take place in order to develop a discipleship culture in our specific contexts of ministry.
Letters by a Modern Mystic by Frank C. Laubach
Frank Laubach was the only American missionary who had his picture on a U.S. postage stamp. this life changing book is a collection of letters to his father, written when Laubach was a missionary in the Philippines. It’s easy to read, but do it slowly.
Short Term Team Training: Make Helping Help by TMS Global
A manual for short term missions written by missionaries and church leaders, this guide helps to prepare participants for both the cultural preparation as well as discipleship needed for a team to understand all that God wants to do in and through them. This all inclusive guide provides, pre, during, and post trip training into one resource that will walk alongside all aspects of your short-term mission experience.
Love is an Inside Job by Romal Tune
Faith in God plus therapy are the combination that leads to wholeness. Tune’s story of his faith/therapy path to authenticity with God will empower you for your own life journey.
Journey to Transformation: 2022 Lenten Study by Sharma Lewis
Journey to Transformation is an update of United Methodist Bishop Sharma Lewis’ best-selling Lenten study for 2022. Dates have been updated to correspond to each day during Lent, with a devotional for individual or group study.
The Good and Beautiful God by James Bryan Smith
We all have ideas that we tell ourselves about God and how he works in our lives. Some are true--but many are false. James Bryan Smith believes those thoughts determine not only who we are, but how we live. In fact, Smith declares, the most important thing about a person is what they think about God. The path to spiritual transformation begins here.
The Cycle of Grace by Trevor Hudson
Are you soul-weary? Do you struggle to make time for God in the midst of a packed schedule? Or do you sometimes stay so busy doing things for God that you can’t relax and just be ? Jesus faced amazing pressure and overwhelming demands throughout his ministry, but he did not experience the burnout so common today among Christian ministers and laypersons. You can learn the rhythm of living that Jesus demonstrates the Cycle of Grace throughout the Gospels.
Celebration of Discipline by Richard Foster
Hailed by many as the best modern book on Christian spirituality, Celebration of Discipline explores the “classic Disciplines,” or central spiritual practices, of the Christian faith. Along the way, Foster shows that it is only by and through these practices that the true path to spiritual growth can be found.
Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes by E. Richards / B. O’Brien
Biblical scholars Brandon O’Brien and Randy Richards shed light on the ways that Western readers often misunderstand the cultural dynamics of the Bible. They identify nine key areas where modern Westerners have significantly different assumptions about what might be going on in a text. Drawing on their own cross-cultural experience in global mission, O’Brien and Richards show how better self-awareness and understanding of cultural differences in language, time and social mores allow us to see the Bible in fresh and unexpected ways.
The Insanity of God by Nick Ripken
The Insanity of God tells a story—a remarkable and unique story to be sure, yet at heart a very human story—of the Ripkens’ own spiritual and emotional odyssey. The gripping, narrative account of a personal pilgrimage into some of the toughest places on earth, combined with sobering and insightful stories of the remarkable people of faith Nik and Ruth encountered on their journeys, will serve as a powerful course of revelation, growth, and challenge for anyone who wants to know whether God truly is enough.
