Avarice is hardly a word we hear every day! It even sounds like it could be the name of a great yacht or a prize-winning race horse or a villa in the mountains of the Andes.While some people may associate ...

Baker Books, 2006, 248 pp, $14.99,www.bakerbooks.comThis is a biting commentary on the modern church from the “emergent” perspective. The authors tackle a wide range of questions. They start out ask...

Integrity Publishers, 2006, 221 pp., $14.99www.integritypublishers.comVeerman provides a guide for parents facing a child who is leaving home. He gives advice as a father who has personally experienced two daug...

Zondervan, 2006, 128 pp., $12.99,www.zondervan.comXXXChurch.com cofounder Craig Gross is back in the “gutter.” In The Dirty Little Secret, Gross confronts his readers with the stories of those trapp...

Green Key Books, 2006, 200 pp., $12.88,www.truefoundations.comMcDowell spends the bulk of The Last Christian Generation reporting studies and statistics that show how the church has failed to build foundation...

NavPress Publishing Group, 2006, 208 pp.,$13.99, www.navpress.comOur youth groups are increasingly populated with fatherless young men, and it is imperative for youth workers to understand the unique difficulti...

Life Journey/Cook Publications,2006, 254 pp., $12.99,www.cookministries.com/lifejourneyThese two authors agree the church is in need of serious change in order to meet the needs of and contribute to the gr...

Brazos Press, 2006, 208 pp., $14.99,www.brazospress.comScharen, the associate director of the Yale Center for Faith and Culture, metaphorically describes Christian tradition as a vast body of music including so...

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“Plugging Into and Unplugging Technology” When I was 13 my dad got his first computer. It was an original Apple computer with the orange screen. I was fascinated by it and begged him to show me...