Faith
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Heart And Soul
$16.99Add to cartDr. Gary Morsch is living proof that ordinary, faithful people can do extraordinary things. This dedicated physician founded a grassroots relief organization that has currently delivered over 100 million dollars worth of medical supplies to the poor in Bosnia, Rwanda, Somalia, and elsewhere. His story in Heart and Soul: Awakening Your Passion to Serve, is sure to challenge and inspire you! Introduction by Tony Campolo.
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After God : The Future Of Religion
$30.00Add to cartHow can religion survive if, as the renowned scholar Don Cupitt claims, God is dead? In “After God” he takes us through the evolution of religious belief from the dawn of the gods to their twilight. Drawing on examples ranging from Plato to Donald Duck, he eloquently steers us back to an understanding of the supernatural world that every child instinctively has.
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In Defense Of Miracles
$44.00Add to cartFourteen expert philosophers, theologians, and apologists refute every objection ever raised to the validity of miracles—from David Hume’s landmark 1748 “Essay on Miracles” to Antony Flew’s current arguments. You’ll get careful, comprehensive insight into fulfilled prophecy, the virgin birth and incarnation of Christ, the empty tomb and post-resurrection appearances, and more.
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Psalms And The Life Of Faith
$29.00Add to cartWalter Brueggemann’s unique gift of joining historical-exegetical insights to penetrating observations about the traumas and joys of contemporary life — both personal and social — is here forcefully displayed. Everyone who is familiar with his work knows the power of his speech about “doxological, polemical, political, subversive, evangelical faith” and about the ways such faith is enacted in the praise of ancient Israel and in the church. Readers of this book will find fresh insight into: the Psalms as prayer and praise the categories of the Psalms the social context in which psalms were prayed and sung the theology of the Psalms the dialogical character of the Psalms justice and injustice in the Psalms the study and “use” of the Psalms in the church praise as an act of basic trust and abandonment the impossible wonders of God’s activity that overturn conventional ways of thinking and acting.
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James : Real Faith For The Real World (Student/Study Guide)
$8.99Add to cart1. Perseverance
James 1:1-18
2. Hearing And Responding
James 1:19-2:26
3. Words That Hurt, Words That Heal
James 3:1-12
4. Two Kinds Of Smart Living
James 3:13-4:12
5. Planning Versus Patience
James 4:13-5:20
48 PagesAdditional Info
Real Christian faith doesn’t remain hidden in the heart: It shows itself through the lives we live. Faith grows as we cultivate perseverance, humility, and patience–key attributes that the book of James commends. James calls us to demonstrate our faith in practical ways in the world around us. Studying James will help you prove the reality of your faith through sound actions, attitudes, and words in your everyday life. -
Jumper Fables : Strange But True Devotions To Jump Start Your Faith
$16.99Add to cartThis book will teach you things you didn’t know you didn’t know! Such as:
*the difference between a dead gopher and a loaf of bread.
*why Ken wore a little set of bronze lips on his letter jacket in high school.
*why Ken’s dog Ralph was a better Christian than Ken was.
*why Ken almost ate his wife’s glasses.
*how to turn a bus driver into an armadillo.And that’s just a little of what you’ll learn in JUMPER FABLES, a most unusual devotional book by Ken Davis and David Lambert. This book is a collection of strange-but-true stories that’ll make you laugh-and leave you thinking about the things that really matter. Such as how to know God’s will, where sex fits into your life, whether death is the worst thing that can happen, how to talk about Christ with your friends, why parents say no, and why we can trust God to do what he says.
JUMPER FABLES was written with teenagers in mind. The authors talk about things that have happened to them and to other people, and then they suggest some Bible verses that’ll help you understand those stories, as well as some things you can do that’ll help you not make the same mistakes yourself.
So-want to jump-start your day? Read a Jumper Fable first thing in the morning. They’re strange-but true!
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Texts Under Negotiation
$19.00Add to cartIn TEXTS UNDER NEGOTIATION, WALTER BRUEGGEMANN issues a passionate call for a bold restructuring of the imagination of faith in our “postmodern” context. He contends that we need not construct a full alternative world, but rather to fund – to provide the pieces, materials, and resources out of which a new world can be imagined. The place of liturgy and proclamation is “a place where people come to receive new materials, or old materials freshly voiced, which will fund, feed, nurture, nourish, legitimate, and authorize a counterimagination of the world.
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Instructions In Faith
$22.00Add to cartThis translation of a very enlightened book includes all the essentials of Calvin’s position, unobscured by the complicated discussions characteristic of Calvin’s later writings. Keeping Calvin’s intentions in mind, Paul Fuhrmann presents an edition that has value for people who have a schaolarly interest in the Reformed tradition and for lay readers who wish to clarify and strengthen their own faith.
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Faiths Freedom : A Classic Spirituality For Contemporary Christians
$19.00Add to cartFaith’s Freedom is a refreshingly personal synthesis of key spiritual concepts written in a truly ecumenical way for the contemporary situation. By avoiding most technical terminology, it formulates for intelligent readers an outlook on God and the world that expresses many foundational insights of classic spirituality in terms understandable to the modern mindset. It translates basic notions like creation, freedom, revelation, sin, and faith into contemporary language, then applies them to prayer, power, possessions, anger, sexuality, evil, and life in the Spirit.
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History Through Eyes Of Faith
$15.99Add to cartIntegrating faith with introductory Western history, this text provides a Christian perspective on the major epochs, issues, and events of Western Civilization. It details the role of the Greeks and Hebrews, Jesus in history, the Renaissance, and more.
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Hopeful Imagination : Prophetic Voices In Exile
$29.00Add to cartBrueggemann, whose strong suit is making the Old Testament relevant to today’s world, probes three major prophetic traditions: Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Second Isaiah to demonstrate how these exhortations and encouragements are similar to what caregivers should counsel in modern situations of exile.
