Why is the church so important to God? What's really going on in the Bible? How can I make sense of my life?
Finding Ourselves in God's Story invites readers to join a conversation that covers questions about faith. It introduces Christian faith from an Anabaptist perspective and puts readers in touch with two stories that Christians are constantly hearing and telling. First, there is the Bible's story of God working to restore us—and all of creation—to wholeness. The center of this story is Jesus Christ, who lived, died, rose, and still lives—for us. The second story involves our own lives today. How do we connect with God's story? Where is God working in our lives? What will we do with Jesus' invitation to follow him?
This book addresses the pressing questions and concerns that today's youth bring to their faith. Drawing on direct, honest discussions with Mennonite teenagers, young...
500 years of faith. 500 years of service. 500 years of community. 500 years of Anabaptism.
A church begins a nonprofit to assist single mothers in their neighborhood. A baptism takes place in a barrel during a drought in a war-torn country. An urban congregation creates an intentional community of asylum seekers. Published in conjunction with the 500th anniversary of the Anabaptist Christian faith, Faith in Full Color introduces readers to a tapestry of creative expressions of contemporary Anabaptist witness in the world.
This book showcases the intersection of faith and life, showing how congregations, faith communities, and individuals express their faith. Together, these stories written and compiled by Jeanne Zimmerly Jantzi and accompanied by a diverse collection of photos address where we have been and, more importantly, where we are going as Anabaptist Christians: Where do we see God at work in our lives today? How have we seen...
How the Story of Jesus Changes the Way We See Everything
by Andrew Arndt
$19.99 / CAD $27.19
ISBN: 9781513816203
Pub Date: 04/15/2025
Be transformed by the gospel light that gleams among us.
When we refer to the gospel only as the death and resurrection of Jesus and what that assures us for the afterlife, we miss out on the full depth of the gracious good news found in the person of Jesus Christ. As a result, most of our actual lives remain untouched by what the man from Galilee said and did during his life as told in the Gospels.
While the gospel is certainly not less than Jesus’ death and resurrection, it is much more than that—and that more is critical for how we imagine ourselves and the world around us. A Strange and Gracious Light cracks open the gospel story as the imaginative and prophetic spark of congregational life, modeling what it looks like to “think Jesus” and “speak Jesus” in our daily lives. Amid the meaninglessness of consumerism, mass entertainment, and political...
Rediscover the Bible, together. The Bible has sustained Anabaptist faith for 500 years and continues to convict, encourage, and transform us as Anabaptists. The Anabaptist Community Bible invites...
Rediscover the Bible, together. The Bible has sustained Anabaptist faith for 500 years and continues to convict, encourage, and transform us as Anabaptists. The Anabaptist Community Bible invites...
Rediscover the Bible, together. The Bible has sustained Anabaptist faith for 500 years and continues to convict, encourage, and transform us as Anabaptists. The Anabaptist Community Bible invites...
How Jesus Dignifies, Shapes, and Confronts Our Cultural Identities
by J.W. Buck
Foreword by Jamie Sanchez
$19.99 / CAD $27.19
ISBN: 9781513813660
Pub Date: 12/03/2024
Cultural identity matters—to us and to Jesus.
Culture—that nebulous and easily tossed-around term—is all around us. Nothing we think, do, or say is outside of it. For people of faith, experiences around cultural identity can lead to confusion and conflict, hurt and harm, even as we seek to follow Christ together. But the story of God is clear: We are all made in God’s good image, and God’s people are meant to be a diverse community. No matter where you come from and no matter how complex our cultural narratives, the Scriptures point to the One who embodied a particular identity—of a Jewish man in first-century Palestine—in order to shape our own. God dignifies our culture and wants us to shape it to look more like Jesus. Looking to the example of Jesus, author J. W. Buck offers practical insights into how cultural identity fits...
Everyday Favorites to Celebrate Rich, Simple Living
by Jody Bahler
$32.99 / CAD $44.87
ISBN: 9781513814520
Pub Date: 11/05/2024
Simple recipes rooted in a heritage of family, food, and faith
The Homestead Cook celebrates tradition, simplicity, and relationships through classic recipes from a Christian family farmstead. These recipes—from appetizers and beverages to main dishes and desserts—are rich in flavor while using common ingredients to offer simple twists on beloved favorites. If you’re looking for a cookbook that will stick around in your kitchen, this is the one. It’s a cookbook to pore over rather than pick through; to savor rather than sideline. With practical recipes, engaging stories, and beautiful photography, The Homestead Cook is rooted deep in rich heritage. Author Jody Bahler incorporates favorite dishes from her family business, The Homestead, a home-style bakery, deli, and gift shop in Indiana. Many of the dishes have been enjoyed around her family’s dinner table for generations—and now are ready to be shared at yours.
Where can we go when the world refuses to see us in our fullness? When culture reduces us to categories and stereotypes and even our churches make us feel like we don’t fit in? If we’re blessed to have an Auntie—someone who, like Jesus, welcomes us wholly and calls us beloved—then we have glimpsed the liberation and divine affirmation of sacred belonging. Time and again, Aunties have offered a model for undoing, becoming, and embracing our identities and deepest beliefs. Auntie culture, particularly in Black spaces, is immediately recognizable as an embodied experience where nieces, nephews, and “niblings” feel safe, heard, and seen. Whether we are biological or simply beloved kin, Aunties welcome us in. In Love, Auntie, Shantell Hinton Hill—aka Reverend Auntie—offers tender testimonies to a flock of loved ones who have...
Helping Christian Parents Navigate the Identity Conversation
by Christie Penner Worden
Foreword by Meredith Anne Miller
$19.99 / CAD $27.19
ISBN: 9781513814841
Pub Date: 09/10/2024
Your kids are talking about identity. Are you part of the conversation?
Today’s kids and youth are talking about identity—and often very differently from the adults around them. How can we walk well with them through their questions about who they are and how they fit into the family of God? We must begin by telling a better gospel story, with an invitational posture that actually expects us to love God and love others.
In this engaging and disarming book that speaks to readers across the theological spectrum, author and children’s ministry expert Christie Penner Worden invites grownups along to imagine a more Jesus-centered narrative for the sake of kids who are no longer buying what the church is selling, who do not feel safe, and who have not been welcomed into the conversation that adults are having without them. The Me I Was Made...
