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Helpful and informative resources for anyone engaged in Christian mission and ministry, whether lay or ordained. Perfect books for ministers, priests, vicars, readers, teachers, Sunday-school assistants and clergy of all descriptions.

Whether you are Anglican, Methodist, Baptist, Protestant, Roman Catholic or Orthodox, you will find something here to help your ministry. Stimulate your congregation with the Gospel and grow God’s kingdom!

• Leading a Church to Maturity in Love: A Theological and Practical Guide to Church Leadership

  by David R. Tomlinson and Stephen Cottrell (foreword) ★★★★★

  Paperback £12.99
  ISBN: 978-1-78959-023-4

  Church leaders frequently encounter tensions and conflict, especially when facing change. Building on extensive experience of leading churches at times of change, David Robert Tomlinson shows how through critical theological reflection and modelling good practice church leaders can facilitate church life that is grounded and transformed by the love of God.

  

• Kingdom Come: Essential theology for the twenty-first century

  by Mark Philps

  Paperback £9.99
  ISBN: 978-1-78959-003-6

  Kingdom Come makes essential theological topics relevant and readable without diluting the Gospel message. Essential reading for anyone in church leadership.

  

• With God we live without God: Reflections and prayers inspired by the writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  by Martin Lind

  Paperback £8.99 £6.99
  ISBN: 978-1-910519-93-6

  30 reflections and prayers that draw inspiration from the theological challenges, thought-provoking statements, and new intellectual constructs that defined Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s own reflections.

  

• Alternative Collects: Prayers to a Disruptive & Compassionate God

  by Graham Turner ★★★★

  Paperback £9.99 £7.99
  ISBN: 978-1-910519-80-6

  These radical prayers break the mould of the “collect” prayers that are so familiar to millions of Christians worldwide. They are the result of the author’s struggle with the blandness and predictability of so many of the church’s traditional prayers. Useful for both personal and liturgical devotion, these prayers will both challenge and nourish.

  

• Mission From Below: Growing a Kingdom Community

  by Dr Janet Hodgson and Stephen Conway (foreword) ★★★★★

  Paperback £14.99
  ISBN: 978-1-910519-77-6

  A radical and controversial challenge to the top-down leadership models that are so widespread in the church, instead making the case for a new model of people-driven servant leadership, guided by the Holy Spirit towards kingdom growth rather than church growth.

  

• Living Prayer: Learning to Pray in Daily Life

  by John Davey

  Paperback £7.99 £5.99
  ISBN: 978-1-910519-61-5

  A gentle introduction to praying in our daily lives. This little companion helps anyone struggling with their prayer life to overcome what can seem like formidable challenges of praying regularly.

  

• Animating Liturgy: The Dynamics of Worship and the Human Community

  by Stephen Platten, Rowan Williams, and Paul F. Bradshaw (foreword) ★★★

  Paperback £16.99 £14.99
  ISBN: 978-1-910519-54-7

  Animating Liturgy invites you to consider the liturgical offering which stands at the heart of the Christian faith.

  

• Follow Me: Living the Sayings of Jesus

  by Ian Black ★★★

  Paperback £8.99 £7.99
  ISBN: 978-1-910519-44-8

  Connecting what Jesus said and how we live today in all its messiness and complexity, "Follow Me" provides practical steps that all of us can take to live the sayings of Jesus.

  

• Parish Nativity Play

  by Kevin Carey

  Paperback £8.00
  ISBN: 978-1-910519-40-0

  Bring the Christmas narrative to life with this Parish Nativity Play. Kevin Carey's moving interpretation is suitable for all acting abilities, ages, and experience levels. It can be performed with props and costumes or simply read aloud.

  

• From Over the Edge: A Christian’s guide to surviving Breakdown & Depression

  by Jon Grogan ★★★★

  Paperback £9.99 £7.99
  ISBN: 978-1-910519-22-6

  An intimate account of struggling with depression and breakdown as a Christian. Jon Grogan shares what helped him to understand and recover from depressive illness.