Invitation to the Jesus Life, by Jan Johnson
Foreword by Dallas Willard

The familiar question, "What would Jesus do?" is by now notorious for failing to lead people into routine, easy obedience to Christ. The question is of little benefit to serious seekers until they link it to the deeper question, "HOW would Jesus do it?" Finding out HOW is the gift that comes to us as we go to what Jan Johnson calls "soul school" with Jesus. There we learn through patient practice with him the inner texture of the experiences involved in becoming and in being one who reliably does what Jesus said and did in the manner he did it.

Jan is a careful student of the biblical texts who knows how to lead us into the experiences that make the Christ-life real in the concrete circumstances where we live. She has written a Holy Living (by 17th century author, Jeremy Taylor) for our time, and anyone who understands and does what she says will find such living, as promised, to be easy and light, full of goodness, grace and strength—regardless of circumstances.

The Gift of Work, by Bill Heatley
Foreword by Dallas Willard

Bill Heatley’s book addresses the fundamental problem of finding appropriate community-in-work for human beings. That community is the resource without which all other resources languish or become dangerous. He addresses that problem at the level where work is done, in a world not really structured around doing what is good and right, but around doing it my way and for my benefit. That is the level of the job.

Intelligent, well-informed, and biblical to the core, this book is intensely focused upon the real-life context of the job: on what really goes on there, and how, for our part, we can turn it into divine work. In this respect the author is telling us how to live a life that is spiritual throughout, full of meaning, strength and joy. He thus stands in the solid tradition of Christian teaching throughout the ages. He does so with the freshness of personal experience and the forcefulness of careful thought. If one will simply do what Bill says, he or she will find the promise, "I am with you always," to be the sure basis of abundance of life, whatever the "job."

Includes the essays "Unto This Last" by John Ruskin, "Business: A Profession" by Louis D. Brandeis, and a transcript of the talk "How God is in Business" by Dr. Willard.

Coming in February:
Christianity Beyond Belief:
Following Jesus for the Sake of Others
By Todd Hunter

Todd Hunter has provided a concrete and practical strategy for 21st Century Christian living and witness. He rethinks central concepts of Christian life in terms of contemporary experience, but ties them solidly to biblical teachings and the history of Christ's people. Best of all, what he says to do is congruent with where the Holy Spirit is moving in our times and can be verified in experience. Put it to the test and you will find that a lot of "Christian stuff" that never worked for you before actually does work. One just has to get to the reality of it, which Hunter does.