Professors, campus ministers, parents, youth pastors and others who are concerned with college students face an immense challenge. How do you help Christian students, during one of the most eventful and intense periods of their lives, learn to connect what they believe about the world with how they live in the world? Drawing on the history of ideas, ethics, sociology and a host of examples from contemporary popular culture, Steven Garber vigorously engages just that question.

The Fabric of Faithfulness: Weaving Together Belief and Behavior During the University Years

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Garber, Steven

Crafts & Hobbies

Intervarsity Pr

Voted one of Christianity Today's 1998 Books of the Year! All kinds of important choices are made during the college years. Young men and women explore what they really believe about the nature of the world and the purpose of life. They choose their work. They build friendships and often choose to marry. They develop goals and adopt habits that may last a lifetime. Yet late modernity is not a welcome environment for emotional, intellectual and spiritual formation. Society is increasingly fragmented. And the educational system itself, fragmented and specialized, may disintegrate more than it integrates. How do parents, professors, campus ministers, youth pastors and others help students, during one of the most eventful and intense periods of life, learn to connect what they believe about the world with how they live in it? Steven Garber vigorously engages just that question in this revised edition that includes a new chapter on what he has learned about lifelong formation in the years since the book first appeared. Drawing on the history of ideas, ethics, sociology and popular culture, he offers must-reading on the critical lifework of making sense of life.

The Fabric of Faithfulness: Weaving Together Belief and Behavior

History

World

<ul>
<li>Foreword Review's 17th Annual INDIEFAB Book of the Year Finalist (Religion)</li>
<li>12th Annual Outreach Resource of the Year (Culture)</li>
<li>2015 Christianity Today Award of Merit (Christian Living)</li>
<li>2014 Leadership Journal Best Books for Church Leaders (The Leader's Outer Life)</li>
<li>2014 Book of the Year from Byron Borger, Hearts and Minds Bookstore</li>
</ul> Is it possible to know the world and still love the world? Of all the questions we ask about our calling, this is the most difficult. From marriages to international relations, the more we know, the harder it is to love. We become cynics or stoics, protecting our hearts from the implications of what we know. But what if the vision of vocation can be recovered―allowing us to step into the wounds of the world and for love?s sake take up our responsibility for the way the world turns out? For decades Steve Garber has come alongside a wide range of people as they seek to make sense of the world and their lives. With him we meet leaders from the Tiananmen Square protest who want a good reason to still care about China. We also meet with many ordinary people in ordinary places who long for their lives to matter: <ul>
<li>Jonathan who learned he would rather build houses than study history</li>
<li>Todd and Maria who adopted creative schedules so they could parent better and practice medicine </li>
<li>D.J. who helped Congress move into the Internet Age </li>
<li>Robin who spends her life on behalf of urban justice</li>
<li>Hans who makes hamburgers the way they are meant to be made</li>
<li>Susan who built a home business of hand-printing stationary using a letterpress </li>
<li>Santiago who works with majority-world nations in need of capital </li>
<li>George who has given years to teaching students to learn things that matter most</li>
<li>Claudius and Deirdre whose openhearted home has always been a place for people</li>
<li>Dan who loves Wyoming, the place, its people and its cows</li>
</ul> Vocation is when we come to know the world in all its joy and pain and still love it. Vocation is following our calling to seek the welfare of the world we live in. And in helping the world to flourish, strangely, mysteriously, we find that we flourish too. Garber offers a book for everyone everywhere―for students, for parents, for those in the arts, in the academy, in public service, in the trades and in commerce―for all who want to discover the virtue of vocation.

Visions of Vocation: Common Grace for the Common Good

Self-Help

Happiness

<ul><li>A 2013 Christianity Today Book Award winner</li></ul> Imagine the scenarios: <ul>
<li>a CEO successfully negotiates a corporate merger, avoiding hundreds of layoffs in the process</li>
<li>an artist completes a mosaic for public display at a bank, showcasing neighborhood heroes</li>
<li>a contractor creates a work-release program in cooperation with a local prison, growing the business and seeing countless former inmates turn their lives around</li>
<li>a high-school principal graduates 20 percent more students than the previous year, and the school's average scores go up by a similar percentage</li>
</ul> Now imagine a parade in the streets for each event. That's the vision of Proverbs 11:10, in which the tsaddiqim―the people who see everything they have as gifts from God to be stewarded for his purposes―pursue their vocation with an eye to the greater good. Amy Sherman, director of the Center on Faith in Communities and scholar of vocational stewardship, uses the tsaddiqim as a springboard to explore how, through our faith-formed calling, we announce the kingdom of God to our everyday world. But cultural trends toward privatism and materialism threaten to dis-integrate our faith and our work. And the church, in ways large and small, has itself capitulated to those trends, while simultaneously elevating the "special calling" of professional ministry and neglecting the vocational formation of laypeople. In the process, we have, in ways large and small, subverted our kingdom mandate. God is on the move, and he calls each of us, from our various halls of power and privilege, to follow him. Here is your chance, keeping this kingdom calling in view, to steward your faith and work toward righteousness. In so doing, you will bless the world, and as you flourish, the world will celebrate.

Kingdom Calling: Vocational Stewardship for the Common Good

Religion & Spirituality

McNeal, Reggie

Sherman, Amy L.

Christian Books & Bibles

We all need help navigating the politics of ministry. "Politics" is often considered a dirty word. It brings to mind lies and manipulation, accusations and scandals. But at its most basic level, politics is simply the everyday activity of getting things done with other people: understanding their interests, recognizing the power dynamics at play, and learning how to negotiate relationships and institutions to achieve a common goal. These realities are as true in ministry settings as anywhere else. In The Politics of Ministry, Bob Burns, Tasha Chapman, and Donald Guthrie combine their long ministry experience with sociological research on the topic. Filled with real-life stories taken from a variety of ministry settings, this book sets out wise principles and practices that help us see more clearly the political dynamics at play in our churches and parachurch ministries. All ministry is political. As servants of Christ's kingdom, we are called to navigate the politics of ministry with grace, wisdom, and charity. This book shows us how the gospel of Jesus changes the way we work with those around us toward our common goal.

The Politics of Ministry: Navigating Power Dynamics and Negotiating Interests

Business & Money

Burns, Bob

Chapman, Tasha D.

Guthrie, Donald C.

Business Culture

We all want to make sense of life, of who we are and why we are, and to know that what we do―day in and day out―matters. But the daily demands―work, eat, sleep, repeat―often lead to a life that feels void of meaning and disjointed from our deepest beliefs about faith, hope, and love. Steven Garber challenges us to move beyond our fragmented sense of reality and began to see all we are and all we do―our work, our play, our relationships, our worship, our loves―as significant to God and to what God is doing in the world. Once we discover that there is no chasm between heaven and earth, and begin to see the truest truths of the universe woven into the very meaning of life, labor, learning and liturgy, we are able to understand the coherence of the work of God and of our lives in the world. This is the seamless life―to recognize the hand of God and the handiwork of God right in the middle of our ordinary lives. To see all of life as sacred. And to understand that it all matters.

The Seamless Life: A Tapestry of Love and Learning, Worship and Work

<ul><li>Over 400,000 Sold</li></ul>For over fifty years The God Who Is There has been a landmark work that has changed the way the church sees the world. Francis Schaeffer's first book presents a wide-ranging analysis of the intellectual and cultural climate of the second half of the twentieth century, from philosophy to art to liberal theology. Arguing that Christians must constantly engage the questions being asked by their own--and the next--generation, he envisions an apologetics and spirituality both grounded in absolute truth and engaging the whole of reality. "If we are unexcited Christians, we should go back and see what is wrong," Schaeffer writes. "We are surrounded by a generation that can find 'no one home' in the universe. . . . In contrast to this, as a Christian I know who I am; and I know the personal God who is there." In every age, this God continues to provide the anchor of truth and the power of love to meet the world's deepest problems. Named by Christianity Today as one of the "Top 50 Books That Have Shaped Evangelicals" (October 2006), this redesigned classic is now available as part of the IVP Signature Collection.

The God Who Is There (The IVP Signature Collection)

SCHAEFFER, Francis A.

Sire, James W.

This study analyzed the cost and effectiveness of California's strategy for reducing emissions from passenger cars and light duty trucks—the vehicles believed to account for almost 40 percent of the gases that are ozone precursors.  The study paid particular attention to the zero-emission vehicle mandate, the most controversial element in the strategy.

California's Ozone Reduction Strategy for Light-Duty Vehicles: Direct Costs, Direct Emmission Effects, and Market Responses (Volume I)

Engineering & Transportation

Dixon, Lloyd S.

Automotive

RAND Corporation

We all want to make sense of life, of who we are and why we are, and to know that what we do―day in and day out―matters. But daily demands often lead to a life that feels void of meaning and disjointed from our deepest beliefs. 
Steven Garber challenges us to move beyond our fragmented sense of reality and begin to see all we are and all we do―our work, play, relationships, worship, and loves―as significant to God. Once we discover that there is no chasm between heaven and earth, we are able to understand the coherence of the work of God and of our lives in the world. This is the seamless life―to see the truest truths of the universe woven into the very meaning of life, labor, learning, and liturgy.

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The Fabric of Faithfulness: Weaving Together Belief and Behavior During the University Years

The Fabric of Faithfulness: Weaving Together Belief and Behavior

Visions of Vocation: Common Grace for the Common Good

Kingdom Calling: Vocational Stewardship for the Common Good

The Politics of Ministry: Navigating Power Dynamics and Negotiating Interests

The Seamless Life: A Tapestry of Love and Learning, Worship and Work

The God Who Is There (The IVP Signature Collection)

California's Ozone Reduction Strategy for Light-Duty Vehicles: Direct Costs, Direct Emmission Effects, and Market Responses (Volume I)

The Seamless Life: A Tapestry of Love and Learning, Worship and Work