Book Recommendations

Wright outlines the present confusion about a Christian’s future hope and shows how it is deeply intertwined with how we live today. How a correct understanding of our future hope energizes our present work for justice and healing, showing that what we do now matters for eternity.

An abridged version of Operation World, the leading resource for those seeking to mobilize others to pray more effectively for specific countries. Includes population and people group statistics, updates on church growth, maps on demographic trends, prayer challenges, and specific answers to prayer.

You can’t be spiritually mature while remaining emotionally immature. God awakened Peter Scazzero to a biblical integration of emotional health and the spiritual practice of slowing down and quieting your life for to experience a firsthand relationship with Jesus. It created nothing short of a spiritual revolution in Scazzero, in his church, and now in thousands of other churches.

Poverty is much more than simply a lack of material resources, and it takes much more than donations and handouts to solve it. When Helping Hurts looks ahead. It encourages us to see the dignity in everyone, to empower the materially poor, and to know that we are all uniquely needy—and that God in the gospel is reconciling all things to himself.
Sustainable change comes not from the outside in, but from the inside out.

Equal parts leadership fable and business handbook, this definitive source on teamwork by Patrick Lencioni reveals the five behavioral tendencies that go to the heart of why even the best teams struggle. He offers a powerful model and step-by-step guide for overcoming those dysfunctions and getting every one rowing in the same direction.

Providing an intimate view into a loving Muslim home, Qureshi shares how he developed a passion for Islam before discovering, almost against his will, evidence that Jesus rose from the dead and claimed to be God. Unable to deny the arguments but not wanting to deny his family, Qureshi struggled with an inner turmoil that will challenge Christians, Muslims, and all those who are interested in two of the world’s greatest religions and the quest for truth.

Many a Westerner has experienced the missed cues and social bruises that come with learning that another culture runs on an honor-shame operating system. When Western individualism and its introspective conscience fails to engage cultural gears, how can we shift and navigate this alternate code?
In Jayson Georges and Mark Baker’s Ministering in Honor-Shame Cultures, readers are given assistance in decoding the cultural script of honor and shame, as well as in reading the Bible anew through the lens of honor and shame, often with startling turns.

In this book, you will hear from men and women from West Africa to Indonesia and everywhere in between. You will see how God is at work through answered prayers; dreams and visions; 21st–century technologies such as Internet, satellite television, video and audio tools; and bold Christian witnesses who have often paid the ultimate price for the sake of reaching Muslims for Jesus Christ. Along the way, you will also gain insights into the fascinating background of each of these nine geo–cultural rooms in the House of Islam.