Onward is a magazine for news, stories, and updates from the members of the NAB family. It is published multiple times a year. The resources below were included in the summer 2024 edition.
Mission Is the Shape of Water
by Michael Frost
Frost offers a compelling framework for understanding mission by drawing on the rich tapestry of Christian history and revealing how context shapes mission, just as a bottle shapes water. In particular, chapter 2 tackles what it looks like when we seek to be people of peace.
Unoffendable: How Just One Change Can Make All of Life Better
by Brant Hansen
According to Hansen, the idea of our own “righteous anger” is a myth, and, as Dallas Willard says, Christians have not been taught out of it. This book includes concrete ways to adjust your thinking so you learn how to replace perpetual anger with humility, gratitude, and forgiveness.
Cultivating Shalom
by Deborah Judas
Finding peace often seems elusive. Judas, a member of the NAB Missional Initiatives Team, uses the imagery and wisdom of Psalm 23 to uncover new insights on what it means to flourish and experience a deep sense of wholeness, delight, and wonder in all seasons of life.
The Audacity of Peace
by Scot McKnight
In this short book, McKnight sketches a peace ethic that embraces the embodied self-denial of Jesus to the point of the cross, which, through the resurrection, is vindicated by God. Through the power of God’s grace and the indwelling Spirit of God, the participant in the way of Jesus is transformed into a Christoform life.
Emotionally Healthy Spirituality
by Peter Scazzero
Scazzero shares the biblical integration of emotional health and the spiritual practice of slowing down and quieting your life to experience a firsthand relationship with Jesus. He outlines his journey and the signs of emotionally unhealthy spirituality, and he provides seven biblical, reality-tested steps to become emotionally mature.
Life Without Lack
by Dallas Willard
Written with Willard’s characteristic gentle wisdom, this book reveals the secret to enjoying God’s presence and becoming utterly caught up in his abundant generosity. The more we practice living in his presence, the more we experience the peace and freedom from worry that is promised in the psalm.
In Church as It Is in Heaven: Cultivating a Multiethnic Kingdom Culture
by Jamaal E. Williams & Timothy Paul Jones
The Bible describes the congregation around God’s throne as “a vast multitude from every nation, tribe, people, and language.” God’s intention has always been to delight for all eternity in a redeemed community of ethnic diversity. The multiethnic Kingdom is a reality we can enter into today.
PODCAST
Creating Space
“Shepherd Andre Clark on Racial Reconciliation, Church Unity and Listening to One Another”
NAB church planter Scott Lackey, pastor of New Story Church in Buffalo, New York, has a conversation with Shepherd Andre Clark (Shep). Shep has been pastoring New Direction Christian Fellowship for over two decades on the East Side of Buffalo. In this conversation, Shep challenges the church to be a place of unity and racial reconciliation. Shep has a unique ability to combine biblical insight with powerful personal stories that lead to life change.
VIDEOS
2024 Triennial Sessions
During the evening sessions of the 2024 Triennial, Dr. Harry Kelm, Rev. Joseph Thomas, and Dr. Tony and Fabiola Campos talked about peace between us and God, being people of peace in our world, and striving toward peace in the body of Christ. During the morning sessions, April Wahl and Adam Buyer share devotionals about some of the everyday realities of what things looks like.