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Resources

Are you looking for a resource to help you or your team grow?  We recommend a few.

Spiritual Rhythms, Health, & Growth

We recommend these resources as you seek to be spiritually healthy and growing.  Available on Amazon or via link.

Sacred Rhythms: Arranging our lives for spiritual transformation

Author Ruth Haley Barton describes spiritual disciplines in an inviting way, and coaches readers in practicing them as ways to invest in their relationship with Jesus.  

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Emotionally Healthy Spirituality: It's impossible to be spiritually mature while remaining emotionally immature

Author and pastor Peter Scazzero describes the ways his ministry, marriage, and life have changed while he has intentionally worked on his emotional health.    

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Restless Devices: Recovering Personhood, Presence, and Place in the Digital Age

Author Felicia Wu Song is a social scientist who follows Jesus and has found that our culture has developed liturgies of busyness.  She explains the phenomena related to this, as well as how we got here, then challenges us to "experiment" with an alternate liturgy to pull out of our digital existence and back into personhood with God and others.

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Embracing the Collision: Ministry, humanity, mental health, and the faithfulness of God

Author Debbie Lamm Bray is a ministry leader who writes candidly about her experience as a follower of Jesus who believes in miracles and the victory of Jesus - and takes medication to manage depression and anxiety.  She gives readers opportunities to take the lessons she has learned and apply them to themselves and to those they lead and care about.

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Videos/Podcasts

Debbie Lamm Bray was the featured guest at a podcast recording/midweek gathering at Family Life Church in Salem, Oregon in February, 2025 when they discussed mental health.  Hosted by Pastors Jeff Kirkland and Rob Yanike.  

Debbie Lamm Bray preached the morning gatherings at Horizon Community Church in Tualatin, Oregon as part of their series on mental health.  Recorded in February, 2025.

Ministry & Leadership 

Pursuing God's Will Together: A discernment practice for leadership groups
Author Ruth Haley Barton gives practical guidance for how to be led by the Holy Spirit in a collaborative discernment process for Christian leadership teams. 
The Other Half of Church: Christian community, brain science, and overcoming spiritual stagnation
Authors  Jim Wilder and Michel Hendricks deftly combine neuroscience, theology, and practical aspects of pastoral ministry as they describe the way humans change and the implications of this process for church culture and discipleship.
Winter 2025 Book Community title!
"Ministry Without Walls: Biblical evidence for women in leadership"
Author Debbie Lamm Bray puts in context the scripture passages commonly used by those who object to women in leadership, and builds the biblical case for women to participate in all forms of ministry.  Appeared in Influence magazine.  Winner of an Evangelical Press Association award.
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