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Preaching Mark

Bonnie Bowman Thurston (Author)

An expert guide from Galillee to Jerusalem This new resource examines the major literary units of Mark's Gospel with an eye toward helping the pastor in...

Gospel Sermons for Children: Gospels, Series A

Gospel Sermons for Children introduces sixty new children's sermons featuring gospel messages and interactive activities that help children learn as they...

4D Formation: Exploring Vocation in Community

Drew Tucker (Author)

In 4D Formation: Exploring Vocation in Community, Drew Tucker builds on his definition of vocation as "meaningful, life-giving work for the world" to equip vocational explorers with the confidence and skills to examine, clarify, and affirm their purpose and identity, and ultimately to experience God's presence in and purpose for their lives.

I Can Do No Other: The Church's New Here We Stand Moment

Anna M. Madsen (Author)

Author Anna M. Madsen's book is a fresh and challenging look at the legacy of Martin Luther and the new reformation that is calling people of faith to action today. She makes a compelling case that justice, anchored in justification, is our new Reformation moment, one not inconsistent with Luther's theology, but weighted differently to address the different weighty concerns of our day. A study guide is included to encourage group conversation and action.

Who Is the Church? An Ecclesiology for the Twenty-First Century

Cheryl M. Peterson (Author)

Peterson places the questions of the church's identity and mission into a conversation with the primary ecclesiological paradigms of the past century.

To Mend the World: A New Vision for Youth Ministry

Jason Lief (Author), Kurt Rietema (Author)

To Mend the World: A New Vision for Youth Ministry, based on the premise that the old models of ministry are no longer working, brings together practical theology, Christian ministry, and social entrepreneurship to offer a thoughtful, robust theological perspective and practical insights for youth ministry that will thrive into the future.

Freedom and Imagination: Trusting Christ in an Age of Bad Faith

S. D. Giere (Author)

Freedom and Imagination recovers faith as the theological heart of the human being's participation in the life of God, and imagination as faith's interpretive lens. Three areas of ministry and life are explored through the imagination of faith: biblical interpretation, proclamation, and Christian freedom.

The Assembly: A Spirituality

Gordon W. Lathrop (Author)

Gathering with others constitutes the essential symbol of Christianity. Assembly is the biblical name for this local community. The book calls the church to think anew about gathering and to refresh its practice, articulating a spirituality that engages the assembly's gathering into the triune God and turns it toward the needs of our neighbors.

Free in Deed: The Heart of Lutheran Ethics

Craig L. Nessan (Author)

Free in Deed provides an imaginative and succinct introduction to Lutheran ethics, which the author contends is, finally, neighbor ethics. The gospel of Jesus Christ sets us free to serve neighbors--including all creation--and their well-being. This Lutheran framework provides a distinctive approach for navigating social issues in tumultuous times.

Everyone Must Eat: Food, Sustainability, and Ministry

Mark L. Yackel-Juleen (Author)

Rural contexts are often over-looked, treated as "flyover land." But because everyone must eat, rural communities and their work in food production are important to the whole of society. Mark Yackel-Juleen, the executive director of Shalom Hill Farm, connects issues of food production and environmental sustainability in profound ways to the Bible and theology. He offers actionable tools for rural leaders and ministers to address issues of sustainability and land use in their ministry.

The Unfolding Gospel: How the Good News Makes Sense of Discipleship, Church, Mission, and Everything Else

John P. Bowen (Author), David Fitch (Foreword by)

Many churches and their leaders are discouraged about the future of the church. John Bowen believes the solution is to be found not in new programs or strategies but in a recovery of theological vision--that of Jesus and his gospel, which transforms every aspect of life. Bowen hopes that church leaders--evangelical and mainline, young and old, emerging and traditional--will have a transformative "Aha!" moment as this gospel hypothesis unfolds. 

The Underground Church: Reclaiming the Subversive Way of Jesus

Robin Meyers (Author)

The Underground Church proposes a faithful recapturing of the spirit of the early church with emphasis on what Christians do rather than what they believe. Prominent progressive writer, speaker, and minister Robin Meyers proposes that the best way to recapture the spirit of the early Christian church is to recognize that Jesus-following was subversive in the best sense of the word, because the gospel taken seriously turns the world upside down.

Tough Questions, Honest Answers: Faith and Religion for 21st-Century Explorers

Cameron Harder (Author)

In Tough Questions, Honest Answers, Christian theologian Cameron Harder explores pressing contemporary challenges to religion--from religion itself to modern "big ideas" that often confound thoughtful seekers. Issues addressed include religion and violence, religion and child sexual abuse, mystery and miracle, the compatibility of science and faith, and God's role when bad things happen. Tough Questions, Honest Answers is an excellent conversation starter for inquirers, skeptics, and faithful doubt

Rooted and Renewing: Imagining the Church’s Future in Light of Its New Testament Origins

Troy M. Troftgruben (Author)

As changes in demographics, participation, and leadership continue to roil faith communities in the Western world, questions about the historic roots of church communities have become all the more important. Rooted and Renewing explores everyday realities in the earliest church communities in order to help Christians discover how to be church in today's world. Aimed at church members and leaders alike, the book includes as study guide for with questions for reflection and discussion.

Sticky Learning: How Neuroscience Supports Teaching That's Remembered

Holly J. Inglis (Author), Kathy L. Dawson (Contributor), Rodger Y. Nishioka (Contributor)

Educators are engaging with neuroscientists to reshape classroom practices, content delivery, curriculum design, and physical classroom spaces to enhance students' learning and memory, primarily in elementary and secondary education. Why not in seminary education?

Understanding Bible by Design: Create Courses with Purpose

G. Brooke Lester (Author), Jane S. Webster (Contributor), Christopher M. Jones (Contributor)

This book introduces the reader to Understanding by Design: an approach to course design that is proven time-efficient and grounded in the instructor's most closely-held convictions about her subject matter's "big ideas and essential questions."

Redeeming Fear: A Constructive Theology for Living into Hope

Jason C. Whitehead (Author)

In this book, Whitehead helps us find the roots of hope in the soil of our fears so that we can form lives and communities of hope in the midst of a culture of fear.

Climate Justice: Ethics, Energy, and Public Policy

James B. Martin-Schramm (Author)

Energy issues and climate change have loomed up from issues at the horizon to confront humanity directly and vitally. They are now pressing public-policy...

Ethical Leadership: The Quest for Character, Civility, and Community

Walter Earl Fluker (Author)

We live in a leadership crisis. "In an age when incompatible worlds collide and when scandals rock formerly stable institutions," says Walter Fluker,...

Baptism: A User's Guide

Martin E. Marty (Author)

Read Fortress Press's interview with Martin Marty, only on fortressforum.com! To see baptism as merely a ceremony greatly limits the meanings of Christian...