Books by Dr. Brian C. Stiller

Preaching Parables to Postmoderns

"Brian Stiller welcomes Jesus' parables not as mild moralisms, but risky, brilliant glimpses of God's love and mercy in a world starved for promise. This book is a workshop for preachers, breaking open one parable after another to the truth of God's great surprise in Jesus." David Tiede, President and Professor of New Testament, Luther Seminary

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Jesus and Caesar

Christians in the Public Square

THE CANADIAN WORD GUILD AWARDS HAS NOMINATED 'JESUS AND CAESAR' AS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2004.

"Stiller has rendered all of us a great service in setting out his views on how Christians ought to conduct themselves in the public square in the twenty-first century." --Preston Manning, Past 'Official Leader of the Opposition' in Parliament, and senior Fellow of the Fraser Institute.

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What Happens When I Die?:

A Promise of the Afterlife

Life, as we know it, will end. It's not a thought that tends to occupy us when we're young and in full health and vigor. We take risks, some foolhardy. We live as though we're immortal.

And when we have our own children we are renewed, and life is good.

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When Life Hurts

A Three Fold Path to Healing

WHEN LIFE HURTS is dedicated to helping people who are in pain or crisis. Neither denying pain's existence nor finding easy solutions, Dr. Stiller shares the Three-Fold Path to Healing--Hope, Faith and Love--the keys to healing inner hurts. The emotional journey of WHEN LIFE HURTS will nourish our souls, releasing us from despair and revealing the path to living happy and spiritually content lives.

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From the Tower of Babel to Parliament Hill

How to be a Christian in Canada today

Ingram-- In this insightful and practical book, Canada's most recognized evangelical leader identifies the basis for the country's preservation and provides a blueprint for Christians of all denominations, showing how they can grow both as a people and in their spiritual lives. ". . . a passionate call to Christian political engagement that will guide and challenge the church for years to come".--Faith Today.

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Was Canada Ever Christian

and other essays

Every time I walk from the flame to Centre block on Parliament Hill and look up at the Peace Tower, I'm filled with a sense of history, destiny and goodwill. The majestic buildings, rising from the high bans of the Ottawa river, seem so right and trustworthy. At our country's inception, the Fathers of Confederation chose the term "dominion" from Ps.72: "He shall have dominion also from sea to sea and from river to the ends of the earth." Growing up in this country, it seemed to me that a biblical vision shaped our very soul.

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Quotes from The Issachar Notes

Real football players don't play with blue footballs.

— B. Pascal

Leaders must challenge the process because systems will unconsciously conspire to maintain the status quo and prevent change.

— The Leadership Challenge

People discover and respond to the future as much as they plan it.

— Ronald Heifetz

Some people assume that learning about God's bigness necessitates negative obsession with their own smallness. You might hear them say things like, 'I am not valuable' or 'I have nothing to offer.' Such statements do not honor the nature and authority of God; they demean it.

— Ascent of a Leader, Kurtz and Ketcham

The only thing that matters in art can't be explained.

— Georges Braque, French painter

If you don't have the Vince Lombardi Trophy, everything else is a paperweight.

— Coach Shanahan of the Denver Broncos

Once you've figured out what you want to do, find someone who has done it before... If they share your values and aspirations, and if they freely share their counsel, they can help you through rough patches and celebrate your victories as their own.

— Howard Schultz, Starbucks CEO

No plan of war survives the first exchange of gunfire.

— Carl Von Clausewitz, On War

By providing illusions of grandeur, internal scapegoats, and external enemies, Hitler misdiagnosed Germany's ills and brought his nation to disaster. He exercised leadership no more than a charlatan practices medicine when providing fake remedies.

— Ronald Heifetz, Leadership Without Easy Answers

It's better to burn out than to fade away.

— Neil Young

Greeks taught dualism: separating the spiritual from the material. The church was trapped in this bifurcation of life. It led to a class of priests, who themselves were separated from the people. To Hebrews this was strange: for them the mind and heart, belief and actions were not separated.

— unknown

Wonder is the only launching pad for exploring this fullness, this wholeness, of human life.

— Eugene Peterson

Jesuit heroism is not just a response to a crisis but a consciously chosen approach to life; it is judged not by the scale of the opportunity but by the quality of the response to the opportunity at hand.

— Chris Lowney in Heroic Leadership

To lead is to be transformed. For in leading I am by necessity testing, learning, finding out, and if in process I'm not in a transformation mode, then I get stuck and if I get stuck so do my people and our organization.

— Brian C. Stiller

A restless countercultural instinct to keep challenging the status quo was built into Jesuit heroism.

— Chris Lowney

People discover and respond to the future as much as they plan it.

— Ronald A.Heifetz

You can do everything with bayonets, Sire, except sit on them.

— Talleyrand to Napoleon

Where is the line between loyalty and jealousy?

— Janet Clark

Leadership is taking the way of least resistance.

— Bob Cooley

I need discernment when looking for a new place of ministry or vocation. For in my search, the need may not be so much a call for a geographical cure as much as a call for a cure of a different sort.

— Brian C. Stiller - from my journal

It is not the critic who counts.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, communion without confessional, absolution without personal confession. Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ—living and incarnate.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

A modern assumption is that to have a calling is to experience self-fulfillment in that calling.

— Douglas Shurrman

It is sometimes frightening to observe the success which comes even to the outlaw with a polished technique... but I believe we must reckon with character in the end, for it is as potent a force in world conflict as it is in our own domestic affairs. It strikes the last blow in any battle.

— Philip D. Reed

The opposite of faith is not doubt but certainty.

— Anne Lamont

Evil rolls across the ages, but so does good. Good has its own momentum. Corruption never wholly succeeds... Creation is stronger than sin and grace stronger still. Creation and grace are anvils that have worn out a lot of hammers.

— Cornelius Plantinga, Jr.

For a leader, there is but a grey line that divides hope from hyperbole.

— Brian C. Stiller

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Books by Dr. Brian C. Stiller

Preaching Parables to Postmoderns

Jesus and Caesar

Christians in the Public Square

What Happens When I Die?:

A Promise of the Afterlife

When Life Hurts

A Three Fold Path to Healing

From the Tower of Babel to Parliament Hill

How to be a Christian in Canada today

Was Canada Ever Christian

and other essays

Books by Dr. Brian C. Stiller

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