Almost Christian: What the Faith of Our Teenagers Is Telling the American Church
10 best books like Almost Christian: What the Faith of Our Teenagers Is Telling the American Church (Kenda Creasy Dean): The Cost of Discipleship, Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith, Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream, The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical, Jesus Wants to Save Christians: A Manifesto for the Church in Exile, Christianity After Religion: The End of Church and the Birth of a New Spiritual Awakening, Finding Our Way Again: The Return of the Ancient Practices (The Ancient Practices ), Organic Church: Growing Faith Where Life Happens, Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers, A New Kind of Christian: A Tale of Two Friends on a Spiritual Journey
| Author | Dietrich Bonhoeffer |
| ISBN | 0684815001 |
One of the most important theologians of the twentieth century illuminates the relationship between ourselves and the teachings of Jesus in this classic text on ethics, humanism, and civic duty.
What can the call to discipleship, the adherence to the word of Jesus, mean today to the businessman,...
| Author | Barbara Brown Taylor |
| ISBN | 0060872632 |
By now I expected to be a seasoned parish minister, wearing black clergy shirts grown gray from frequent washing. I expected to love the children who hung on my legs after Sunday morning services until they grew up and had children of their own. I even expected to be buried wearing the same red vestments...
Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream
| Author | David Platt |
| ISBN | 1601422210 |
WHAT IS JESUS WORTH TO YOU?
It's easy for American Christians to forget how Jesus said his followers would actually live, what their new lifestyle would actually look like. They would, he said, leave behind security, money, convenience, even family for him. They would abandon everything...
The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical
| Author | Shane Claiborne |
| ISBN | 0310266300 |
Many of us find ourselves caught somewhere between unbelieving activists and inactive believers. We can write a check to feed starving children or hold signs in the streets and feel like we’ve made a difference without ever encountering the faces of the suffering masses. In this book, Shane Claiborne...
There is a church not too far from us that recently added a $25 million addition to their building. Our local newspaper ran a front-page story not too long ago about a study revealing that one in five people in our city lives in poverty. This is a book about those two numbers.Jesus Wants to save Christians...
| Author | Diana Butler Bass |
| ISBN | 0062003739 |
Diana Butler Bass, one of contemporary Christianity’s leading trend-spotters, exposes how the failings of the church today are giving rise to a new “spiritual but not religious” movement. Using evidence from the latest national polls and from her own cutting-edge research, Bass, the visionary...
| Author | Brian D. McLaren |
| ISBN | 0849901146 |
Shines a practical light on the spiritual disciplines that have been in use since the time of Abraham. In a sense, every day of our lives is labor. It is questionable if you can ever be exactly the same person waking up on two consecutive days. How are spiritual sojourners to cope with the constant change?...
Churches have tried all kinds of ways to attract new and younger members - revised vision statements, hipper worship, contemporary music, livelier sermons, bigger and better auditoriums. But there are still so many people who aren't being reached, who don't want to come to church. And the truth is...
Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers
In innumerable discussions and activities dedicated to better understanding and helping teenagers, one aspect of teenage life is curiously overlooked. Very few such efforts pay serious attention to the role of religion and spirituality in the lives of American adolescents. But many teenagers...
A New Kind of Christian: A Tale of Two Friends on a Spiritual Journey
A Leadership Network Publication A New Kind of Christian's conversation between a pastor and his daughter's high school science teacher reveals that wisdom for life's most pressing spiritual questions can come from the most unlikely sources. This stirring fable captures a new spirit of Christianity--where...
The Forgotten Ways: Reactivating the Missional Church
| Author | Alan Hirsch |
| ISBN | 1587431645 |
Alan Hirsch is convinced that the inherited formulas for growing the Body of Christ do not work anymore. And rather than relying on slightly revised solutions from the past, he sees a vision of the future growth of the church coming about by harnessing the power of the early church, which grew from as few...
Under the Overpass: A Journey of Faith on the Streets of America
| Author | Mike Yankoski |
| ISBN | 1590524020 |
Mike Yankoski did more than just wonder. By his own choice, Mike's life went from upper-middle class plush to scum-of-the-earth repulsive overnight. With only a backpack, a sleeping bag and a guitar, Mike and his traveling companion, Sam, set out to experience life on the streets in six different...
The Present Future: Six Tough Questions for the Church
| Author | Reggie McNeal |
| ISBN | 0787965685 |
In this provocative book, author, consultant, and church leadership developer Reggie McNeal debunks these and other old assumptions and provides an overall strategy to help church leaders move forward in an entirely different and much more effective way. McNeal identifies the six most important...
Missional Church: A Vision for the Sending of the Church in North America
| Author | Darrell L. Guder |
| ISBN | 0802843506 |
What would a theology of the Church look like that took seriously the fact that North America is now itself a mission field? This question lies at the foundation of this volume written by an ecumenical team of six noted missiologists—Lois Barrett, Inagrace T. Dietterich, Darrell L. Guder, George...
Sticky Faith, Youth Worker Edition: Practical Ideas to Nurture Long-Term Faith in Teenagers
| Author | Kara E. Powell |
| ISBN | 0310889243 |
Many of the statistics you read about teenagers and faith can be alarming. Recent studies show that 40-50 percent of kids who are connected to a youth group throughout their senior year will fail to stick with their faith in college. As youth workers are pouring their time and energy into the students...
The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God
| Author | Timothy J. Keller |
| ISBN | 0525952470 |
Renowned pastor of New York’s Redeemer Presbyterian Church and author of The Songs of Jesus, Timothy Keller with his wife of 36 years, delivers The Meaning of Marriage, an extraordinarily insightful look at the keys to happiness in marriage that will inspire Christians, skeptics, singles, long-time...
