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Once you come to know Jesus Christ as your Savior and Lord, what is the next step? If you have been a believer for a while and want to grow further, what is the next step? If you have grown in your faith and want to learn how to help other believers grow in theirs, what is the next step? This book will begin to answer these important questions. In Peter''s second letter to scattered believers, he challenges us to add seven character qualities to our faith that will help us grow to be more like Christ. The Next Step looks at these seven character qualities, along with God''s corresponding attributes, to help us grow in these qualities as we grow in our understanding of God''s character. In every chapter, Johnson introduces readers to prayer, grace, and practical ways to begin reaching out to the people God places in our lives. The Next Step will help you grow in your daily walk with the Lord and will launch you on a lifelong journey of investing in others to help them walk with Christ.I have worked closely in ministry with Stan Johnson for almost twenty years now. He''s the real deal. His life backs up his teaching. In The Next Step, Stan has provided a clear, practical discipleship tool that can be used individually, one-on-one, or in small groups to help you and others develop godly knowledge, character, and ministry skills. Get it, use it yourself, use it with others, and watch the Lord change hearts and lives.--Steven J. Cole, Flagstaff Christian Fellowship, Flagstaff, AZYears ago, as a new university student and new believer, I met Stan Johnson on my very first day of classes. Stan not only befriended me, but also encouraged me in the areas of Bible study, personal devotions, Scripture memory, and service to others. I didn''t realize it at the time, but it was the spiritual foundation I would build my life on. Get this book in the hands of as many people as you can!--Steve Sundin, Strong Tower Ministries, Orange County, CATaking the new Christ follower to that next step of commitment to become a faithful disciple of his Lord can be a daunting task. Among the many challenges we face is finding an effective model and tool that incorporates as many of the spiritual disciplines as possible, such as bible study, personal quiet time, journaling, or worship. Out of his many years of ministry, Stan Johnson has crafted one of the most useful and easy to use discipleship tools I have seen in my over fifty years of pastoral ministry.--Wayne R. Lehsten, Scottsdale Bible Church, Scottsdale, AZStanley P. Johnson is Associate Pastor at Flagstaff Christian Fellowship in Flagstaff, AZ. He graduated from Dallas Theological Seminary in 1981 and has served in churches in California, Wisconsin, and Arizona.

Endorsements:""I think a book should be intelligent, well-crafted, and beautiful. A book is not a message to grasp but an object to love. I love this new book of haiku and images and will be happy to be in its presence, touch it, and feast on it for many years. It is a perfect example of John Keats'' idea of soul-making: transforming the everyday into beautiful and probing reflection. It is what Wallace Stevens called ''a mirror with a voice.''""-- Thomas Moore, author of Care of the Soul and Dark Nights of the Soul""This deeply human dialogue of haiku and commentary follows in the footsteps of Issa and Buson. Rosen and Weishaus express their psychological wisdom with lightness, humor, and a uniquely personal touch. A treasure!""-- Claire Douglas, author of Translate this Darkness and The Woman in the Mirror""An altogether pleasurable book indeed!""--Robert Creeley, author of Life and Death""This book of texts and encounters, of poetic moments and prose commentaries, of interpersonal responses, has the feeling of a work that is both very ancient and utterly contemporary. It enacts what it''s about--a spiritual journey, a creative healing.""--Edward Hirsch, author of Lay Back the Darkness and Wild Gratitude""To have one''s soul evoked by reading, that in itself can be a scared act. To me, since forever, el libro es sancta: a book is blessed--for inside, there can be water glistening to moisten the parched throat, and a thunder of wings that can carry us to a homeplace where exists essential remembrance of ''what truly matters.'' Haiku, to me, is the quintessential story form, one that like a twilight is meant to be walked through with care, so as to see and feel the clarity of things that cannot be seen from a dusky afar. This work you hold in your hands offers that twilight walk, and more.""--Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Ph.D., author of Women Who Run with the Wolves and The Gift of Story

Description:No Man''s Land is a book of poems of searching, longing, and belonging overlaid by the ancient struggle with home, family, and God. These poems are often confessional, persistent, and speak to the interior journey of our lives. They acknowledge the paradox of this journey, which often leaves us empty-handed and with more questions than answers, yet still offer praise and gratitude, however faint.

About the Contributor(s):David Baily Harned (PhD, Yale Graduate School) is a retired professor of religious studies who remains active as a classroom teacher and a scholarly writer. He taught at Williams, Smith, and Allegheny Colleges, and served a five-year term as president at Allegheny College. His longer terms of service were seven years as the Dean of Arts and Sciences at Louisiana State University and ten years as the founding chairman of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia.Elaine H. Harned is David''s wife.

Description:Drawn from three decades of parish ministry experience, Steward of Stories opens the delightfully complex and nuanced world of the congregation to a wider audience beyond, but including, local parish pastors. Each chapter brings together dramatically different stories about ordinary ministry situations organized around a core thematic connection, including pastoral incidents focused on topics like ""Paying Attention,"" ""Marry Me,"" and ""Time to Go."" Linking these together is the interwoven wisdom of an experienced pastor who encourages readers to consider the theological and ministry challenges at stake for us all. Clearly written and highly accessible, these vignettes are meant for lay and clergy audiences alike, especially as they come together in their mutual life in Christian community. These are stories about real people drawn from actual events--accounts that will prompt thoughtful contemplation and conversation among the faithful about saints and sinners in everyday congregations and situations. Each chapter concludes with helpful questions for use in both educational settings and individual study. This book is ideal for personal reflection or group discussion and will stimulate a richer awareness of the challenges and opportunities we all face in the ministries we share.

In this entertaining and informative book, Victor L. Cahn revisits memorable episodes from eleven classic television shows, including The Twilight Zone, Maverick, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Fugitive, The Avengers, and All in the Family. He provides background for each program, details about the creative individuals involved, close readings of the scripts, and reflections on why these series were influential when originally broadcast and why they continue to be enjoyed decades later by "baby boomers," their children, and their grandchildren. With a scholar's insight and a fan's enthusiasm, he offers a unique perspective on an integral part of mid-twentieth-century American culture.

Christ''s Miracles in Poems will inspire its readers through a greater understanding of Christ''s miracles as revealed in the New Testament of the Bible. These poems in rhyme reflect the divine power demonstrated by Jesus Christ.Ronald E. Hignite is a former educator and graduate of East Carolina University who has written several books, including Reflections of the Soul, Visions of the Mind, The Beatitudes in Poems, and The Ten Commandments in Poems. He spent most of his educational career in northeastern North Carolina. He and his wife, Diane, reside in Greenville, NC.

The term Ubuntu articulates an African understanding of our need to connect to one another in order to be complete. Likewise, A Common Mission offers a description of churches that connect with one another through the growing phenomenon of mission partnerships. The word ""common"" indicates something shared among equals. The word ""common"" also suggests something present in all parts of an organism, production, or narrative, such as a common thread. These two aspects of commonality provide an important orientation for contemporary mission. Since 2008, congregational partnerships emerged so quickly and spontaneously that very few researchers originally noticed this groundswell. Partnerships remain present in over 80 percent of United States mega-churches and are prominent in a large number of smaller US churches. This should not be surprising. Mission exists as an expression of the church''s identity, an evangelistic expression that crosses frontiers and goes to the ends of the earth. In our globalized context, however, mission also crosses neighborhood ""frontiers"" to the immigrants within our own communities. Mission expresses its Christian witness as congregations love those separated from the church by ethnicity, language, sexual orientation, religion, or fear.A Common Mission provides a framework of healthy patterns for churches to live into this mission identity. ""Quality literature and research on this topic is still rather sparse. Most of what has been written to date has been of a more popular nature. This volume promises to offer a substantive contribution to the literature that is at once rooted in sound empirical research, but is presented in a readable and useful manner, helpful to local churches and practitioners. David is a fine scholar, has wide experience, and evidences writing skills. I encourage publication of this work and will gladly recommend it.""--Craig Ott, Professor of Mission and Intercultural Studies, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, IL""David Wesley''s book examines one of the newest trends in world mission, where US megachurches form a central base for global partnerships on behalf of witness and service. I am not aware of any other publication that comes close to addressing this topic based on careful research.""--Robert Priest, Professor of Mission and Anthropology, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, IL""The day of local church engagement in mission partnerships has dawned. Wesley''s hands-on research and keen insights into this new paradigm is both greatly needed and timely. Pastors, missiologists, and denominational leaders alike will benefit from this careful study of the future that is now for world mission.""--David A. Busic, General Superintendent, Church of the Nazarene, Oklahoma City, OK""Congregational partnerships may be the largest paradigm shift in how to facilitate mission that we have encountered in a century. Wesley''s work is very important to help congregations successfully develop healthy partnerships and avoid the pitfalls of dependency and other unhealthily relationships. The Church of the Nazarene needs this research to inform and guide us to healthy relationships that accomplish the mission of God.""--Verne Ward III, Nazarene Global Mission Director, Lenexa, KSDavid Wesley is Professor of Intercultural Studies at Nazarene Theological Seminary in Kansas City, MO.

Description:His Real Life is about the young life of the West''s dominant figure, Jesus of Nazareth. Its focus is on his central desire to live a full human life on earth, not only as his parents'' loving child and as a son of the nation of Israel, but to transcend all boundaries in order to live in deepest beauty and widest truth as the universal man. The action unfolds through Jesus'' vivid encounters with individuals of every loved and various kind, through the early years of his child-awe at the creation, his event-packed adolescence, and all the startling physical adventures and soul journeys through which Jesus gradually grasps his identity.This drama of self-discovery peaks on the Jordan at Jesus'' baptism, when, as a man matured by experience and faith, Jesus achieves the awareness of who he is and who, therefore, we all are. As such, Jesus'' struggle for self-clarification is the story of everyone.

Damaged by an attempted abortion, preyed upon by the violence of his parents'' marriage, abused from the age of seven, and shut away in a mental hospital at thirteen, Paul Broadley never ceases to love the landscape he grows up in, which acts as a precursor to his salvation. But there is a serpent in that garden bent on willfully corrupting people--and yet redemption is strewn widely for those able to respond. Longman''s Charity is a novel and theological parable about landscape and childhood, sanity and abuse, truth and redemption. Stigmatized and avoided by his peers, Paul suffers deep psychological trauma as he represses memories of abuse, yet there is a passionate joy in his love of the natural world: the hills, the vale, the glorious fecundity of God''s creation. When he climbs out of that vale onto Bredon Hill for the first time, he is struck by the realization of the beauty and the joy of God''s creation, but also of the evil that infects it. Longman''s Charity is an illustration of the Book of the Psalms and the existence portrayed by the psalm writers: as he grows up, redemption comes through realizing the Truth in Christ""Paul Brazier describes a Dantean personal journey from the living hell of his childhood and adolescence through the purgatory of finding forgiveness for those who wronged him to the paradise of his faith and loving devotion to his wife. Guided by his Virgil, the natural beauty of the world, he comes to see that the world is, indeed, fused with the beauty and grandeur of God. A moving and ultimately uplifting story of the triumph of love over evil.""--Suzanne M. Wolfe, Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, WA""Paul articulates his powerful story in a beautiful profound way. It is a powerful story that compels readers to consider the presence of God in the midst of terrible lifelong circumstances. It was helpful for me as a fellow victim of child abuse and other life circumstances that He suffered (along with the aftereffects of relatives that committed suicide.) Thank you, Paul, for bringing me hope through the presence of Christ as your hope.""--Julie Woodley, Restoring the Heart Ministries, Inc., Setauket, NYAn independent theologian and scholar living in London, P. H. Brazier holds degrees in Fine Art (BA), Education (MPhil), and Systematic Theology (MA and PhD). Paul has published widely in theology and philosophy, including an in-depth, five-volume systematic analysis of C. S. Lewis'' theology, C. S. Lewis: Revelation and the Christ (Wipf & Stock). A retired teacher, the author is the caregiver for his wife Hilary, who has epilepsy.

Echoes of Evil rejoins Deacon Coburn and company in a new adventure that picks up storylines and characters from Days of Purgatory and Shadows of Revenge. Joys and sorrows weave through this mosaic narrative, for the pursuit of justice extracts a great price as gripping scenarios unfold and secrets are confronted in the midst of upheaval. True to his sojourner outlook, the whiskey-sipping philosopher from Conoy Creek always comes to the aid of others at just the right time, embodying a theme of life: We ride upon the rippling currents set in motion for us by the Almighty. We merely lean into eddies we choose. Populated by Old West heroes and outlaws, Echoes of Evil introduces a cunning scoundrel unseen in the saga until now. This third installment continues a life-and-death struggle filled with harrowing turns and supernatural overtones.As Abell weaves this tale, readers will find themselves searching inward to discover the need for forgiveness, hope, grace, and redemption--while facing their humanity and past mistakes head-on. The author masterfully reveals the reality that we are all on a lifelong spiritual journey to find truth and meaning in the midst of the heartaches and trials of this world. He does it with historical accuracy, thrilling subplots, and fascinating characters. Echoes of Evil is not for the faint of heart. While riveted to this narrative, the reader will need to muster the courage to face the truth of the human condition and decide how to respond.--Jud Damon, Director of Athletics, Flagler College, St. Augustine, FLIn Echoes of Evil, the characters are laid bare as they struggle to find the grit, integrity, and faith to continue their journey. This intricately plotted drama sheds light on mysteries that have arisen in the previous installments of the Deacon Coburn series, reinforcing that Abell is a storyteller of rare foresight and scope. There are several welcome additions to the cast of rogues, settlers, lawmen, villains, and vagabonds. This novel is sure to leave readers shocked and thrilled, entertained, and always wanting to know more about these intriguing men and women.--William D. Hastings, author of Behind Prison WallsKen R. Abell resides in New Mexico with his wife Anita. They serve the Overcomers Program at Navajo Brethren in Christ Mission. Among other projects, he is currently writing the fourth installment of this western epic. His work can be found at www.wantedman.org or www.danceswithcorn.com.

Why have so many churches started community gardens over the past decade? Are they simply a fad? Or do community gardens somehow connect more deeply with the mission of the churches that launch them? What can churches and faith-based institutions interested in starting community gardens learn from those that have started their own gardens over the past decade? And what would it mean for a church to put Christ in the center of its community gardening efforts? In order to discern best practices for launching Christ-centered community gardens moving forward, Cultivating Neighborhood begins with a brief survey of the history of community gardens in the United States and builds a constructive theological framework for community gardening grounded in the practice of Christian hospitality. It continues with two case studies of church-sponsored community gardens and one case study of a community garden sponsored by a Christian college, all three of which were created between 2003 and 2011. The results of this research conclude with a new definition of Christ-centered community gardening and an outline of fifteen best practices for launching a Christ-centered community garden.""If every church and school had a garden, how different this world might be! Cultivating Neighborhood reminds us that caring for a garden provides somethving that cannot be purchased at the grocery store: the satisfaction of eating food tended by our own hands. Jesus is the new Adam, and we are invited to tend and protect the garden, this earth. Highly recommended!""--Nancy Sleeth, author of Almost AmishBryan K. Langlands is a church planter, campus minister, and instructor in the Religion Department at Georgetown College in Georgetown, KY. He is the editor of William H. Willimon''s book, A Will to Lead and the Grace to Follow: Letters on Leadership from a Peculiar Prophet (2011).

We all love stories--whether printed, passed down orally from generation to generation, or made into films. We love stories whether they are fictional, true, mythical, or legendary. Stories are part of our human history, and they help us understand being human. But there is one story that underpins all other stories--the story of why we exist. All great human stories must interact with this story.His Story explores this fundamental story by retelling the story of the Bible. His Story tells the Biblical story of how God has opened up a doorway into our universe and how this impacts the metanarrative of all of our lives. If you want to read the overarching story of the Bible in one short book, then His Story is for you. If you want to know the backstory of your life, His Story is for you.His Story is simply written, but doesn''t oversimplify. It is a book for people who might call themselves Christians, but also for all those who are curious about the ultimate story.His Story--the story of why we are here.Stuart Hacking is Chaplain at Immanuel College in Bradford, UK.