Auteur : Alan Frow, ancien de l'église Southlands, Brea, CA
Les cloud by day and the fire by night stand as a sacred billboard, selling us on the promise that God is ever present with His people, even in wilderness seasons—perhaps particularlyin wilderness seasons. As you follow the firecloudthrough the pages of Scripture, you will be drawn into the sacred hope that God’s presence is still undeniably with you and before you.
Author: Donnie Griggs, Lead Elder of One Harbor, NC
We seem to be clearer than ever on what a bad man is. However, many men, young and old, would struggle to answer, "What kind of man do you want to be?" Even those of us who know what we are aiming for are often riddled with shame, aware of our shortcomings and doubtful we will ever be the kinds of men we need to be. If any of this rings true at all for you or a man in your life, this book is aimed at helping lift your head, stir your heart and give you and other men around you a clear and compelling vision for healthy masculinity from youth to old age.
Author: Rigby Wallace, Founding Pastor of Common Ground Church, South Africa
'Humbly Onward' is a reflective leadership memoir that traces the journey of a leader, a church and a movement through seasons of growth, challenge failure and redemption. Written with heartfelt honesty and theological depth, the book explores what it means to lead, serve and follow Jesus over the long haul. Rooted in scripture and shaped by decades of pastoral experience 'Humbly Onwards' offers wisdom for those seeking to live faithfully in changing and complex contexts. It invites readers to reconsider their understanding of success, embrace a deeper dependence on God and find meaning and hope in the slow, lifelong work of becoming more like Christ. The writer's sincere hope is that the book will provide a new beginning for church leaders who have got bruised, stuck or cynical along the way. Beyond that, the book describes what could happen to churches and church movements, when leaders get unstuck, restored and recommissioned.
Author: Matthew J. Hosier, Lead Elder of Gateway Church, Poole, UK
Many Christians long for a deeper, freer, more vibrant life with God, yet find themselves stuck in subtle patterns of spiritual dullness or distraction. In The Gospel for Respectable Sinners, Matthew J. Hosier invites readers to see again with fresh eyes, to rediscover the transforming power of grace, and to let Jesus lovingly diagnose what is really going on in our hearts.
With pastoral warmth and biblical clarity, Hosier shows how the gospel does not merely forgive us but reshapes us, calling us into humility, faith, gratitude, purity, and wholehearted devotion. Along the way, he exposes the quiet, respectable sins that so easily creep into comfortable lives, pride, unbelief, indifference, ingratitude, and worldly ambition, not to shame us, but to lead us into healing and renewal.
This is an honest, hopeful, and deeply practical book for anyone who wants more than a respectable faith, and who longs to experience again the joy, freedom, and life-changing grace of Jesus.
PSALMS FOR A SATURATED SOUL: AN ANCIENT GUIDE TO EMOTIONAL HEALTH
Auteur : Alan Frow, ancien de l'église Southlands, Brea, CA
Maybe, like me, you’re a bundle of paradoxes. On one hand, I bear God’s image. I have a marvelous capacity to cultivate beauty, experience intimacy, invent solutions, make promises, show mercy, resist evil, build culture, and encounter wonder. On my best days, God’s glory is profoundly displayed in my life.
On the other hand, I have this inescapable sense that I don’t reflect God as I should. The mirror of my life gets smudged and tarnished. I have a dreadful capacity to corrupt beauty, shatter intimacy, create problems, break promises, exploit the vulnerable, be tempted by evil, destroy culture, and become jaded with wonder.
Que faire face à la dualité frustrante de nos âmes ?
PASTORING SMALL TOWNS: HELP AND HOPE FOR THOSE MINISTERING IN SMALL PLACES
Small town life is quite different from life in a big city. There is not as much traffic. People recognize each other at the grocery store. Local sporting events carry a different cultural weight, and it may not be out of the ordinary to wait behind a tractor or get used to the smell of a nearby factory. These communities are unique, and pastoring here is an extraordinary task.
THE WISDOM PYRAMID: FEEDING YOUR SOUL IN A POST-TRUTH WORLD
We're facing an information overload.
With the quick tap of a finger we can access an endless stream of addictive information—sports scores, breaking news, political opinions, streaming TV, the latest Instagram posts, and much more. Accessing information has never been easier—but acquiring wisdom is increasingly difficult.
In an effort to help us consume a more balanced, healthy diet of information, Brett McCracken has created the “Wisdom Pyramid.” Inspired by the food pyramid model, the Wisdom Pyramid challenges us to increase our intake of enduring, trustworthy sources (like the Bible) while moderating our consumption of less reliable sources (like the Internet and social media). At a time when so much of our daily media diet is toxic and making us spiritually sick, The Wisdom Pyramid suggests that we become healthy and wise when we reorient our lives around God—the foundation of truth and the eternal source of wisdom.
IF ONLY
Author: Jennie Pollock
Life doesn’t always go the way we hope it will. Whether it’s singleness, childlessness or some other big disappointment, it’s hard to be content when life lets us down.
For many years, author Jennie Pollock has struggled to feel content. With warmth and honesty, she answers common doubts that arise when life doesn't go the way we had hoped: Is God good? Is he enough? Is he worth it?
Broken for Blessing: The underrated potential of a medium-sized multiplying church
Auteur : Alan Frow, ancien de l'église Southlands, Brea, CA
Why write a book about church planting when there are already so many good ones out there?
Because our fixation with large churches means that those under 1,000 in size generally have a vision for growth via addition rather than multiplication—despite being uniquely equipped to do so.
In the West especially, where the megachurch looms large, it is easy for small or medium-sized churches to think, “Maybe one day when I grow up and have lots of resources I'll think of multiplying, but for now, I must grow by addition.” It doesn't have to be this way.
This is the story behind Southlands Church's multiplying journey. It is the story of every small or medium-sized multiplying church. We have never felt that we’ve had enough resources to feed the crowds but we’ve wanted to be involved in Jesus’ feeding miracle. We know that ultimately Jesus, not our churches, is the Bread of Life.
Small Town Jesus: Taking the gospel mission seriously in seemingly unimportant places
Author: Donnie Griggs, Lead Elder of One Harbor Church, Morehead City, NC
Small towns are big mission fields that are almost totally neglected by modern church planters. City ministry has become, for many, the definition of godly ministry. But what about the millions of people around the world who live in small towns? This is not just a book, it is a call to take the gospel everywhere, big or small, because that’s what Jesus told us to do.