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[close] Author Rachel Marie Stone reads an excerpt from her new release, "Birthing Hope". Learn more at https://www.ivpress.com/birthing-hope

[close] Diana Shiflett, author of “Spiritual Practices in Community”, digs deep into the Intervarsity Press books that shaped her experiences becoming ordained, as a spiritual director, and ultimately as a follower of Christ.

[close] Packed with helpful exercises for getting a handle on your money story, and designed for healing and generative money conversations with friends, Free gives you a path to financial freedom and spiritual flourishing that awakens your heart and energizes your soul.

[close] New exciting titles for this week are "Spiritual Rhythms for the Enneagram" and "A Little Book for New Historians".

[close] When you've been wandering the desert and it is finally time to establish a new society you are going to needs some rules to live by. But what Moses brings to his people aren't rules so much as they are an invitation into practices for flourishing and we receive that same invitation today.

[close] You have a voice. And you have God's permission to use it. In some communities, certain voices are amplified and elevated while others are erased and suppressed. It can be hard to speak up, especially in the ugliness of social media. Power dynamics keep us silent and marginalized, especially when race, ethnicity, and gender are factors. What can we do about it? Activist Kathy Khang roots our voice and identity in the image of God. Because God created us in our ethnicity and gender, our voice is uniquely expressed through the totality of who we are. We are created to speak, and we can both speak up for ourselves and speak out on behalf of others.

[close] At InterVarsity Press, we are committed to elevating women’s voices in publishing. And it’s not just a trend—it’s been a part of our mission since 1943, when the first book we published was written by a woman. These diverse women are leading voices in the most important conversations happening today and hear why they choose to publish with IVP.

[close] Author Suzanne Stabile talks about the Enneagram and the important work that can be done in our personal lives and our relationships. Suzanne’s latest book from IVP, "The Path Between Us", explores the nine Enneagram types and how they behave and experience relationships, guiding readers into deeper insights about themselves, their types, and others' personalities so that they can have healthier, more life-giving relationships.

[close] Timmy has a few questions about Thanksgiving. Turkey and pumpkin pie are great, but where do all these traditions come from and what were the Pilgrims really like? It won't take long for Timmy to see what really happened after the Pilgrims arrived — or to learn that the whole story is far more important than a good one. An animated short inspired by the book from IVP Academic, "The First Thanksgiving: What the Real Story Tells Us About Loving God and Learning from History," by Robert Tracy McKenzie (2013). For more info, see www.ivpress.com/thanksgiving.

[close] A special treat for Books and Deals subscribers: a discount on the final study guides for Sharon Garlough Brown's Sensible Shoes Study Guide Series! Click on the link in your Books and Deals email to receive the discount and if you're not currently a subscriber getting weekly discounts, sign up here: https://www.ivpress.com/newsletters

[close] Suburban life—including tract homes, strip malls, commuter culture—shapes our desires. Ashley Hales, author of "Finding Holy in the Suburbs," asks: What does it look like to live a full Christian life in the suburbs? Suburbs reflect our good, God-given desire for a place to call home. And suburbs also reflect our own brokenness. This book is an invitation to look deeply into your soul as a suburbanite and discover what it means to live holy there.

[close] The key, says best-selling author Dallas Willard, is to focus not so much on individual actions and decisions as on building our personal relationship with our Creator. In this DVD you and your group can listen in as John Ortberg and Richard Foster dialogue with Dallas Willard on the themes of his beloved classic book, Hearing God. A small group discussion guide is also included, making it easy for group leaders to lead discussion after the video. Read the book together, and then bring Ortberg, Foster and Willard to your next meeting. You might be surprised at what you hear when you really start listening to God in community.

[close] www.ivpress.com/littlebook Whenever we read, think, hear or say anything about God, we are doing theology. Yet theology isn't just a matter of what we think. It affects who we are. In the tradition of Helmut Thielicke's A Little Exercise for Young Theologians, Kelly Kapic offers a concise introduction to the study of theology for newcomers to the field. He highlights the value and importance of theological study and explains its unique nature as a serious discipline. Not only concerned with content and method, Kapic explores the skills, attitudes and spiritual practices needed by those who take up the discipline. This brief, clear and lively primer draws out the relevance of theology for Christian life, worship, mission, witness and more. "Theology is about life," writes Kapic. "It is not a conversation our souls can afford to avoid."

[close] www.ivpress.com/freedom In this highly polarized age, political leaders on all sides debate what it means to be a free people. People confuse freedom with mere consumer choices. Popular movements contend against how government or corporate entities infringe upon individual and collective freedom. Economic crises and social inequities call into question whether our American notion of freedom is real or merely illusory. Cultural observer Os Guinness argues that the American experiment in freedom is at risk. While freedom is perhaps the most defining trait of American society, it is not enough for freedom to be won. It must also be sustained.

[close] Associate publisher Andy LePeau explains that the new LifeGuide in Depth studies from IVP are for anyone who wants to study scripture more deeply through prayer, group and individual studies, charts, discussion questions and more.

[close] Os Guinness, author of A Free People's Suicide, explains that he has written this book for the "Missing Middle". It is for people who are free-thinking, engaged and committed to citizenship.

[close] Mental illness is the sort of thing we don't like to talk about. It doesn't reduce nicely to simple solutions and happy outcomes. So instead, too often we reduce people who are mentally ill to caricatures and ghosts, and simply pretend they don't exist. In Troubled Minds, author Amy Simpson, whose family knows the trauma and bewilderment of mental illness, reminds us that people with mental illness are our neighbors and our brothers and sisters in Christ, and she shows us the path to loving them well and becoming a church that loves God with whole hearts and whole souls, with the strength we have and with minds that are whole as well as minds that are troubled. http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16...

[close] In This Ordinary Adventure Adam and Christine Jeske mine their experience, from riding motorcycles in Africa to dicing celery in Wisconsin, in search of a God who is always present and who is charging every moment with potential. Read along and you'll see your life--your ruts and routines, your frustrations and exhilarations--through different eyes, maybe for the first time. You'll discover the amazing things God is doing in the shadows of even the most ordinary day.

[close] Author Rachel Marie Stone reads an excerpt from her new release, "Birthing Hope". Learn more at https://www.ivpress.com/birthing-hope

[close] Author Rachel Marie Stone reads an excerpt from her new release, "Birthing Hope". Learn more at https://www.ivpress.com/birthing-hope

[close] In Creating a Missional Culture, JR Woodward offers a bold and surprisingly refreshing model for churches--not small adjustments around the periphery of a church's infrastructure but a radical revisioning of how a church ought to look, from its leadership structure to its mobilization of the laity. The end result looks surprisingly like the church that Jesus created and the apostles cultivated: a church not chasing the wind but rather going into the world and making disciples of Jesus.

[close] Author Rachel Marie Stone reads an excerpt from her new release, "Birthing Hope". Learn more at https://www.ivpress.com/birthing-hope

[close] Spoken word poet Amena Brown has made rhythm her life's work. In Breaking Old Rhythms she explores how we discover by rhythm both our God-given limitations and potential, and the ways we limit God's work in our lives. Read this book and be reminded, and encouraged, that while God has rhythm, God is love, and God's love carries us beyond our rhythms into a fuller, more fulfilling life.

[close] Shayne Moore and Kim McOwen Yim, authors of "Refuse to Do Nothing" (InterVarsity Press, 2013), have been called to fight modern-day slavery amidst their otherwise everyday lives. Taking cues from abolitionist movements of the past, sharing statistics and telling their personal stories, they describe how making a difference is not beyond your reach.

[close] Based on their work with diverse churches, colleges, and other organizations, Grace Ji-Sun Kim and Graham Hill offer Christian practices that can bring healing and hope to a broken world. They provide ten ways to transform society, from lament and repentance to relinquishing power, reinforcing agency, and more. Embodying these practices enables us to be the new humanity in Jesus Christ, so the church and world can experience reconciliation, justice, unity, peace, and love. With small group activities, discussion questions, and exercises in each chapter, this book is ideal to read together in community.