Brian Mills and Nathan WagnonNavpress, 2012, 199 pp., $12.99Godly young men are scarce these days. There are several books about their absence and prescriptions for what churches should be doing about it. There...

Mark Matlock and Christopher LyonZondervan, 2012, 368 pp., $12.99Mark Matlock and Christopher Lyon have gathered an expert team of contributors to assemble this fantastically diverse reference resource for pare...

Dan KimballZondervan, 2012, 224 pp., $16.99For those of us who have grown up in the church or at least been involved regularly for a while, it is really easy to forget that often our Christian communities suck ...

Rick LawrenceDavid C. Cook, 2012, 272 pp., $14.99Shrewd is not a trait that many of us would say we want to have or for which we want to be known. Cutthroat business guys are shrewd. Used-car salesmen are shrew...

Alan Rudnick Judson Press, 2012, 160 pp., $14.99I love case studies because they ground theory in practice, and The Work of the Associate Pastor is filled with case studies. Alan Rudnick offers an excellen...

Andy StanleyZondervan, 2012, 352 pp., $24.99One might say that Andy Stanley's latest book Deep & Wide is a novel approach to church growth. However, this book is most compelling because it reads as a n...

Tammy DaughtryZondervan, 2011, 240 pp., $14.99Tammy Daughtry has written a remarkable and detailed book for divorced parents and children, Co-Parenting Works! Helping Your Children Thrive After Divorce. While n...

Michael Riera, Ph.D.Ten Speed Press, 2012, 256 pp., $14.99This Third Edition of Michael Riera's wide-ranging book on adolescence, Uncommon Sense for Parents with Teenagers, is filled with heady stuff and i...

"Now when Jesus saw great crowds around him, he gave orders to go over to the other side" (Matthew 8:18). Perhaps it happens to you every February. You look down at your desk and discover that your inbox ...

The BackdropPrayer—you know you need to do it—but let's face it: It's not your best subject. In fact, it's hardly anyone's best subject. Why is that? Maybe it's because results often are not immedia...