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Just because it's ordinary doesn't mean it's not sacred. 🌿

Today in our Understanding the Church Calendar series, we're talking about Ordinary Time. This time in the church calendar isn't just a placeholder—it's a vibrant and essential season in its own right. It focuses on spiritual growth and maturity.

If you want to learn more about the seasons of the church year, check out the Fullness of Time Series.

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Learning to pastor like a midwife helps us embrace what God is doing in our pain and see new life in unlikely places. Like a midwife, a pastor partners with God in the birth of new creation.

Shawna Songer Gaines gives a vision for pastoral leadership shaped by the wisdom of midwives. 'The Pastor as Midwife' is out now wherever books are sold!

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We grieve the recent passing of Lamar Hardwick, beloved author, pastor, teacher, husband, father, and friend. Lamar devoted his life to advocacy and to teaching others about disability, race, and faith.

He's the author of 'Disability and the Church: A Vision for Diversity and Inclusion,' a book that practically and theologically reconsiders the church's responsibilities to the disabled community. We are deeply grateful for his life and work, and our hearts go out to his family and community.

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What would our entrepreneurship look like if we were willing to step out in courage, creativity, and community?

🎙️ In this episode of Hear Women, Dorina Lazo Gilmore-Young sits down with Jessica Honegger, the founder of Noonday Collection and the author of Imperfect Courage, for an authentic conversation about risk, calling, and the powerful ripple effects of empowering women artisans.

Listen now to discover a vision for how the church can better support and learn from women entrepreneurs.

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Today in our Understanding the Church Calendar series: Pentecost! 🔥 We're diving deeper into the meaning behind this feast day, including the liturgical color, Scripture passage, and a fun fact.

What questions do you have about the day of Pentecost? Drop them in the comments below.

If you want to learn more about the seasons of the church year, check out the Fullness of Time Series.

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We don’t like pain.

So, we find creative ways to go around it.

Yet our afflictions present an opportunity to encounter God and allow him to redeem our suffering.

Listen to @jamesbryansmith's conversation with Liz Hall and Kelly Kapic about their book, 'When the Journey Hurts':
https://t.co/fwRnajbBb3

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If you experience depression and anxiety, you're not alone. Many of us carry these often unseen burdens.

If you're struggling, we recommend reaching out to a doctor and your community, yet these books can be helpful supplements. These authors bring deep emotional understanding, expertise, and practical guidance.

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Whether it's ministering to Gen Z, sharing leadership, or understanding minority experiences in a majority culture organization, we're highlighting these three ministry and leadership books by AAPI authors:

📚 What Gen Z Really Wants to Know About God: Seven Questions About Life and Faith by Tanita Tualla Maddox

📚 You Were Never Meant to Lead Alone: The Power of Sharing Leadership by E.K. Strawser

📚 The Minority Experience: Navigating Emotional and Organizational Realities by Adrian Pei

Available wherever books are sold. 📖

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How does the church's often limited understanding of family hold us back from supporting single mothers and children in need?

🎙️ This episode of Hear Women explores Jamie Lam’s call to become a single foster and adoptive mom, as well as the challenges, joys, and surprises she has encountered as she continues to build her family.

Her story of courage, hospitality, and openness to God’s leading shows us how the church can be a village that welcomes children, supports single parents, and reimagines what family can truly look like in God’s kingdom. Listen now!

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They’ve been labeled snowflakes, anxious, and fragile—but Gen Z is asking deeper spiritual questions than many realize.

Tanita Maddox, author of 'What Gen Z Really Wants to Know About God,' joins David Wollen for a conversation:
https://t.co/pCTA0V0X93

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As we remain committed to the historic Christian teachings about marriage and sexuality, American evangelical churches have also harmed a community we have not understood.

'Love All Our Neighbors' embodies another way. One that embraces people and clings to historic witness.

Read more in 'Love All Our Neighbors' by @TonyScarcello. Available now!

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These AAPI academics bring insight, creativity, and careful study to their fields. Read some of our favorite books in apologetics, Christology, biblical theology, and more:

📕 'Did Jesus Really Say He Was God?' by Mikel Del Rosario

📕 'Conspicuous in His Absence' by Chloe Sun

📕 'Naming the Spirit' with contributor Justin Ariel Bailey

📕 'Reading the Bible Around the World' by Kirsten S. Oh

📕 'The Divine Christology of the Apostle Paul' by John J. R. Lee

📕 'God Dwells Among Us' by Mitchell Kim

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"King insists that salvation, real wholeness, is bodily, communal, and ongoing, and she explains how the Lord’s Supper helps to re‑center our identities, calm of our fears, and excite our hopes around union with Christ rather than mere transaction."

Read @mbird12's review of 'Feasting on Hope' by @revhannahking:
https://t.co/d2IL2WCbwA

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God is already participating in our hobbies with us, sharing in the joy they bring.

We often view play as a distraction from life's serious responsibilities, but God uses our hobbies to form us in worship.

'Created to Play' by Brianna Lambert is out now.

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Now available: Confronting Sexism in the Church with Dr. Heather Matthews on Seminary Now.

Examine the history, culture, and ongoing realities of sexism in the church, and consider how to respond with clarity and faithfulness. https://t.co/uBN47rKH0D

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How has Christian spirituality evolved throughout history?

Check out this new series from @johnmarkcomer's Practicing the Way, based on 'Water from a Deep Well' by Gerald L. Sittser:
https://t.co/yBO4gGVnDr

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A bedtime book that helps hearts unwind, hands unclench, and the body prepare for sleep. 😴

In 'The Unwinding Path,' written and illustrated by Betony Coons, kids can trace the labyrinth's path with their fingers. They are invited to slow down and experience God's presence in the world around them.

Out now wherever books are sold!

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How can the church truly support and uplift single mothers, as well as children and families navigating the foster system?

🎙️ This episode of Hear Women welcomes single mom, ministry leader, and foster/adoptive parent Jamie Lam for a disarmingly honest conversation with Tara Beth Leach about single motherhood and what it really means to cultivate family in the body of Christ.

Tune in to learn how you can tangibly lean into God’s call to love and welcome those in need.

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Conversation about heaven has been caught between extremes: "escapist" theology that reduces salvation to the afterlife or hyper-focusing on the here and now and losing sight of the spiritual reality beyond.

'Unseen Existences' by Brian Zahnd leads us to re-embrace the divine mystery of heaven.

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Finding it hard to connect with God in motherhood?

Kathy Tuan-MacLean and Tara Edelschick, authors of 'Moms at the Well' and 'Moms on the Way,' know the experience well.

Join them in this upcoming webinar:
https://t.co/3HLphvBWEW