Description: Despite a wealth of literature on the ""missional church"" and ""missional living,"" few resources help Christians and churches think through what it means to be disciples of Jesus Christ and what specific practices help cultivate lives of discipleship. Written from, with, and for the church, Pilgrim Practices: Discipleship for a Missional Church introduces Christian practices from the Letter of James to help guide Christians and churches in their journey of discipleship. This book frames discipleship in a way that has been largely abandoned in modern congregational literature,...

The life of a diehard fan is never over...and so the saga continues. Picking up where Growing Up Wicked left off, the insanity and freedom, only experience in following my favorite band, Insane Clown Posse, seems to go through unfathomable highs and even more decrepit lows. As we, as a family, grow closer together and begin a fight with the FBI, catch up with Checkers in what has come in the last year, as well as meeting some of those around the country living life running with a hatchet. We are not a gang. We are family. WHOOP WHOOP Much clown love fam Enjoy

American Christians, weary of decades of entrenched partisan feuding, are increasingly distancing themselves from politics. Some, however, continue to turn toward the state and public policy to find solutions to the world's problems. The problem is that both responses allow a narrow vision of politics to determine the church's mission and ministries, which often ends up separating its commitment to personal faith from the pursuit of social justice--the King from the kingdom. Christians too easily forget that the church is inherently political, a community defined by its allegiance to a King,...