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CRM Books
CRM’s staff has been serving leaders for over 25 years and in many different contexts around the world. Along the way our staff have amassed a wealth of learning, understanding and stories from the front-lines of church leadership – some of which is captured in the following books.
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The Day That Changed Forever
Author: Dr. Tim Roehl
Sometimes a story can become so familiar that it begins to lose its power to startle and amaze its audience. It can be tempting for Christians to think they “know” the story of Jesus’ life, death and resurrection while forgetting to be changed by it. But in The Day That Changed Forever, Tim Roehl tells the stories of those events and people, using a combination of rigorous biblical scholarship and what he calls “sanctified imagination.” The unique viewpoints of the people at the cross, imagined by Roehl with compelling realism, bring fresh perspective to the familiar events and awaken in readers a newfound passion for the old, old story.
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Global Mission Handbook: A Guide for Crosscultural Service
Author: Steve Hoke (and Bill Taylor)
Life-long mission leaders, Steve Hoke and Bill Taylor, have created a practical guide for preparing for crosscultural missions. Originally published as SEND ME! Your Journey to the Nations, the Global Mission Handbook is a revised and updated indispensable guide for following God’s call wherever he may lead you. It’s the only handbook on the Christian market to help prospective workers navigate the topography between their “now” and future long-term crosscultural servanthood.
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Mansions of the Heart: Exploring the Seven Stages of Spiritual Growth
Author: R Thomas Ashbrook
Mansions of the Heart provides a practical program for developing a deeper, more authentic relationship with God. Written for anyone who wants to develop a deeper and more meaningful relationship with God, Mansions of the Heart offers a step-by-step guide through a spiritual formation road map based on Teresa of Avila's Seven Mansions. The book will help you discern your place on your spiritual journey and offers church leaders a process for helping church members grow into spiritual maturity.
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Movements That Change the World
Author: Steve Addison
Jesus founded a missionary movement that now spans the globe. As his followers we are called to continue his mission in the power of the Holy Spirit. From biblical, historical, and contemporary case studies, Movements identifies the five recurring characteristics of dynamic missionary movements: white-hot faith, commitment to a cause, contagious relationships, rapid mobilization and adaptive methods. This book is for anyone who wants to follow Jesus and change the world.
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For more information: www.movements.net
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What’s Your God Language?
Myra Perrine
In What's Your God Language? Myra Perrine describes nine types of spiritual temperaments and suggests disciplines and faith expressions that fit best with each unique temperament (or blend of temperaments). Drawing on her doctoral research that built on the work of Gary Thomas and others, Perrine calls readers to stop fighting the way God wired them and to experience a deeper intimacy with Christ by embracing their unique "spiritual circuitry."
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Merchant to Romania
Author: Jeri Little
Following the bloody Romanian revolution, Jeri Little, a young entrepreneur from the white-collar business world of Orange County, California, felt the Lord was calling him to move to Romania to use his business skills in missions. He and his family arrived in Iasi in 1993 to begin the adventure of a lifetime. This is Jeri's amazing account of how the Lord has used CRM to birth a variety of business enterprises in Romania. This revealing narrative is laced with cultural and historical insights as Jeri describes each small step of faith in his journey towards establishing 'businesses as missions' in the former Communist bloc: earning money locally to fund ministries and plant churches in Romania and in neighboring Moldova.
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The Tangible Kingdom
Authors: Hugh Halter, Matt Smay
Written for those who are trying to nurture authentic faith communities and for those who have struggled to retain their faith, The Tangible Kingdom offers theological answers and real-life stories that demonstrate how the best ancient church practices can re-emerge in today's culture, through any church of any size. In this remarkable book, Hugh Halter and Matt Smay "two missional leaders and church planters" outline an innovative model for creating thriving grass-roots faith communities.
As a follow up release CRM is soon releasing “The Tangible Kingdom Primer” – an eight week small group guide to help communities action the stories and learning from the first book.
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For more information: www.tangiblekingdom.com
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Transformissional Coaching: Empowering Leaders in a Changing Ministry World.
Authors: Steve Ogne, Tim Roehl
Each of us can likely identify someone in our lives who played a critical role in our future development and growth – for some of us that person may well have been a coach and/or mentor. TransforMissional coaching is a holistic approach that transforms emerging missional leaders by helping them clarify calling, cultivate character, create community and connect with culture. This book goes well beyond simple coaching formulas and will be very useful to those who are serious about transforming emerging leaders and empowering mission.
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More information: www.steveogne.org, www.acts-crm.org
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Submerge: Living Deep in a Shallow World.
Author: John Hayes
Follow John Hayes (director of InnerCHANGE) as he lives out his faith on some of the toughest streets and poorest ghettos in the world. Learn what real compassion looks like in the trenches. Discover why people of faith cannot ignore the poor and how the St. Francis model of compassion can help alleviate suffering today. Readers will come away with practical ways they can work for justice and find significance in the process.
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