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Evaluating Ministry : Principles And Processes For Clergy And Congregations
$23.00Add to cartGrounding evaluation in the theological and organizational context of mission (everyone a minister), Hudson describes case studies of four successful evaluation models that include the whole church. She suggests how “whole church” reviews might result in stronger pastoral ministry and new directions for mission. An important resource that will help clergy and laity explore mutual ministry, judicatory executives strengthen congregations, and new pastors get through their first congregational evaluation.
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Once And Future Church
$23.00Add to cartMead takes a broad look at past and present changes in the church, and postulates a future to which those changes are calling us. Denominations, once structured to deliver resources to far-off lands of foreign mission, now encounter the mission field in the layperson’s workplace and the community surrounding the local congregation. Thus, the church is called to reinvention for this new mission frontier. Study guide information follows.
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Personality Type And Religious Leadership
$30.00Add to cartCombining pastoral and behavioral science expertise, the authors spell out ways type and temperament theory illuminate the clergy role. Learn how to use the 16 Myers-Briggs personality types to recognize and affirm your gifts, work with your liabilities, and understand and accept those with whom you minister.
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HarperCollins Concise Guide To World Religions
$19.99Add to cartThe definitive dictionary of the world’s religions, compiled by two of the 20th century’s most distinguished religion scholars.
This highly accessible resource distils Mircea Eliade’s lifework of detailing and comparing humanity’s entire religious heritage, providing fascinating insights into the character and worldview of the 33 principal religions. Including Buddhism, Christianity, Jainism, Judaism, Islam, Shinto, Shamanism, Taoism, South American religions, Baltic and Slavic religions, Confucianism, and the religions of Africa and Oceania, The HarperCollins Concise Guide to World Religions covers all kinds of religious figures, histories, sacred texts, mythologies, and mystical techniques.
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Every Man In The Bible
$24.99Add to cartA comprehensive, fully illustrated exploration of every man mentioned in the Bible. Dr. Larry Richards, award-winning writer and editor, has produced more than 100 books and study Bibles used in churches, schools, and colleges. Dr. Richards resides in Hudson, FL.
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Theology And Contemporary Culture
$120.00Add to cartDrawing from postliberal, revisionary and Latin American liberation theological perspectives, David Kamitsuka offers proposals on theological method and doctrine responsive to the intellectual, pastoral and socio-political challenges of contemporary culture. He recasts inter-movement polemics in order to forge a theological approach which promotes what are often considered to be competing values among these three theological movements: solidarity with the oppressed (liberationist), redescribing the Christian communal sense of scripture (postliberal), and fully critical reflection (revisionist). The author advocates an apologetic strategy entailing coherentist and consensus elements for justifying Christian claims in the pluralistic public realm. He provides a model for reading scripture theologically which addresses the challenges of poststructuralism and a globally diverse Church. Kamitsuka uses rule theory to adjudicate doctrinal disputes on the relationship between salvation and political liberation, and he proposes methodological ‘virtues’ for theological practice rooted in practical judgements concerning the vitality and fidelity of Christian communities.
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Action Tools For Effective Managers
$18.95Add to cartAll day long, managers deal with one challenge or another: complaints from staff, delegating work no one wants to do, jealousy and hurt feelings, performance reviews, even “small” problems like telephone abuse. It’s exhausting! This book gives time-pressed managers succinct, pragmatic tools for taking action instantly on more than 65 common problems. For each problem, the book presents: 1. A brief case study that demonstrates the on-the-job problem in clear, human terms that anyone can relate to 2. Insightful analysis of the case study, explaining the issues that need to be addressed 3. Specific tools that help solve the situation, including step-by-step guidelines, checklists, standard procedures…and lots of practical advice.
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4 Gospels
$94.95Add to cartWhy did the early church opt for four different versions of Jesus’ life, when Tatian or Marcion preferred one consistent harmony? Did Paul really disregard Jesus’ earthly life in his proclamation? After thoroughly examining all first- and second-century documents, Hengel challenges scholarly conventions.
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Behavioral Covenants In Congregations (Workbook)
$26.00Add to cartThis down-to-earth workbook gets to the heart of modern congregational life: how to live creatively together despite differences of age, race, culture, opinion, gender, theological or political position. Alban Senior Consultant Gil Rendle explains how to grow by valuing our differences rather than trying to ignore or blend them. He describes a method of establishing behavioral covenants that includes leadership instruction, training tools, resources (visual models, examples of specific covenants), small-group exercises, plans for meetings and retreats.
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In Between Church
$23.00Add to cartAlban Senior Consultant Mann draws on her lengthy experience in helping congregations deal with the hurdles and anxieties of expansion or contraction in size. Often, congregations experiencing size change do not recognize the need to change culture and form as part of the successful adaptation process. Mann details the adjustments in attitude-as well as practice-that are necessary to support successful size change.
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Leading Change In The Congregation
$31.00Add to cartMany books have been written about leadership and change, but until now none has focused on the kind of change that tears at a community’s very fabric. Alban senior consultant Gil Rendle provides a respectful context for understanding change, especially the experiences and resistances that people feel. Rendle pulls together theory, research, and his work with churches facing change to provide leaders with practical diagnostic models and tools. In a time when change is the norm, this book helps to “lead change” in a spiritual and healthy way.
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Discerning Your Congregations Future
$31.00Add to cartDrawing on extensive consulting experience with congregations, the authors provide a step-by-step guide to congregational planning that grounds strategic planning techniques in a process of spiritual discernment. The result: members will own the vision and be eager to participate in the congregation’s calling, life, and ministry. You and your planning committee learn the theory behind the techniques, along with receiving help for addressing specific situations.
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Costuming Made Easy
$19.95Add to cart1. Materials
2. Theatrical Costumes
3. Christmas Costumes
4. Storybook Costumes
5. Quick And Easy CostumesAdditional Info
A book on how to make theatrical costumes from cast-off clothing by Barb Rogers. Make your own theatrical costumes for less than a day’s rental price and make them your way without conventional sewing using patterns. Included in this book are more than 110 ingenious costume designs with photos and diagrams. Included: Princess, Prince, Clown, Devil, Witch, Medieval Lady, Elves, Peter Pan, Captain Hook, Pinocchio and many more. Also costumes for leading characters in popular shows: Camelot, Oklahoma, Guys and Dolls, King and I, Pirates of Penzance and more -
Restoring Margin To Overloaded Lives
$16.99Add to cartFeeling pressured by life? Work through the issues that overload you using this interactive guide. Based on Dr. Richard Swenson’s best-selling book Margin and its companion book, The Overload Syndrome. For groups or individuals.
WARNING: SYSTEM FAILURE AHEAD.
Do you feel like you’re living at high speed and things just keep going faster and faster?
Are you finding yourself without the time, money, physical or emotional energy to accomplish the tasks of a given week or month?
Then you’re headed for system failure.Whether you’re facing it now, or want to prevent it, this workbook is for you. Use these eleven lessons to understand load and limits, find balance, and maintain priorities. You-or your small group-will find its intermingled questions, exercises, and quotes applicable additions to Dr. Swenson’s helpful teaching. Based on his best-selling book Margin and related title, The Overload Syndrome, this workbook will be a useful tool for preventing negative stress and restoring margin to your overloaded life.
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Keith Parks : Breaking Barriers And Opening Frontiers
$12.25Add to cartPreface
Acknowledgements
Chronology
Chapter 1. Pushing To The Frontier Of Missions
Chapter 2. From The Texas Plains To Indonesia’s Islands
Chapter 3. Missionary On Administrative Assignment
Chapter 4. Double-Edged Crisis For Parks And For Baptists
Chapter 5. Shaping A New Pioneer Outreach
Chapter 6. The Legacy Of Keith ParksAdditional Info
Great movements in the history of Christian missions often have started with few people perceiving their eventual importance. Such was the case when Dr. R. Keith Parks led Baptists to unprecedented engagement of the least-evangelized peoples of Asia and North Africa in the mid-1980s.This biography of Keith Parks introduces one of the premier mission leaders of the twentieth century. Parks has served in Baptist global missions for 45 years, first as missionary, administrator, and president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Foreign Mission Board, and then as Global Missions Coordinator for the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship
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1-2 Peter Jude
$34.99Add to cart8 Chapters
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“Combines scholarly approaches to these neglected books with clear exposition and timely application. Use of Anabaptist sources will appeal to a wide audience: preachers, students, and church folk. We applaud the volume heartily.” – Ralph P. Martin, Distinguished Scholar in Residence, Fuller Theological Seminary..Erland Waltner, Elkhart, Indiana, a seminary professor and church leader, explains how 1 Peter applies Jesus’ teaching on loving the enemy to believers in Asia Minor. Peter empowers them to be communities of hope, not retaliating for abuse they suffer, but bearing witness to their Lord by word, lifestyle, and doing good.
J. Daryl Charles, Taylor University, Upland, Indiana, shows how 2 Peter and Jude are relevant since the church still faces ethical compromises and pastoral dilemmas. The apocalyptic imagery stresses that the concerns of Christian faithfulness and faith are crucial. The church needs such moral exhortation.
“Solid biblical exposition in a reader-friendly format. Offers careful and detailed analysis of these books in clear, accessible language. Quotes Anabaptists working out understandings of faith under intense suffering. Valuable for pastors, Sunday school teachers, and serious students.” – Dorothy Jean Weaver, Professor Of New Testament, Eastern Mennonite Seminary
“This volume redeems 1-2 Peter and Jude for the church today. Waltner shows that 1 Peter is a letter of encouragement to those being persecuted for their faith because they are living by a Christian ethic in their stations in life. Charles sees 2 Peter and Jude as emphasizing right living, orthopraxis.” – David Schroeder, Professor Emeritus, Canadian Mennonite Bible College
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Who Put The Skunk In The Trunk
$14.99Add to cartLawman John Stranger returns to Denver with a marvelous wedding present for Breanna and together they anticipate the ceremony. Then, just weeks before the wedding, John is sent to Phoenix to solve a difficult case for the U.S. Marshal’s office. His work there sets him against a gang of outlaws who are bent on revenge. Now, its uncertain whether the ceremony will take place as planned, or if John and Breanna will find themselves on their way to their honeymoon or a very different place.
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Attending Parishioners Spiritual Growth
$23.00Add to cartIn this clarion call to tend to spiritual growth, Williamsen provides a much-needed resource for clergy. Discover how to assist parishioners in their prayer and spiritual life. Learn how individual spiritual growth can flow back into the congregation’s growth as a community. Explore new ideas and practical approaches to using Christian education, worship, retreats, devotional guides, and church meetings as tools to achieve spiritual growth. Learn about spirituality gender differences; the importance of your own spiritual life; spiritually grounding lay leaders; encouraging spiritual friendships and study groups. For clergy interested in developing spirituality at the individual level; seminary professors who want to help their students explore this aspect of parish ministry; and judicatory executives who wish to encourage their clergy in this area.
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Authority Vested A Print On Demand Title
$31.99Add to cartIn recounting the history of the denomination, TOdd uses the ministry of women as a case study to show how the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod has continually redefined its concept of authority in order to maintain its own historic identity. Based on oral histories and solid archival research, Authority Vested not only explores the internal life of a significant denomination but also offers critical insights for other churches seeking to maintain their Christian distinctives in religiously pluralistic America.
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Faith
$9.99Add to cartYou may have faith, but may also realize that it can mean many things. Is it belief or trust or waiting or moral behavior or something else? Or is it all those things? This resource targets adult learners in their 20’s and 30’s. It challenges you to examine a powerful biblical image that defines and shapes your life, and includes these helpful features: Bible background on the particular image: faith. Articles on group leadership, organizing a study group, using small Break-Out groups, and choosing teaching options. Case studies throughout the text and in the appendix to use as discussion starters or as a bridge to your own experiences. Seven easy-to-lead sessions with clear teaching helps on every page. Options for service projects.
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Prophecy Of Isaiah
$50.00Add to cartAfter over three decades of studying and teaching Isaiah, Alec Motyer presents a wealth of comment and perspective on this book. Although his emphasis is on the grammatical, historical, structural, literary and theological dimensions of the text, Motyer writes with an eye on its meaning for Christians today. Based on the author’s knowledge of the Hebrew text, but utilizing the New International Version, the commentary easily accommodates readers without knowledge of Biblical Hebrew.
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Our God Is Wonderful
$11.99Add to cart1. God’s Wonderful Creation
2. God’s Wonderful Providence
3. God’s Wonderful RedemptionAdditional Info
We should take time to revel in all God’s creation. Everything He made is marvelous beyond description. Everyone owes it to himself or herself to be awestruck by the demensions of the universe, the number of stars, and the precision with which they move. No one should miss the mind-boggling world of potential in the living cell. What a tragedy it would be to go through life hugging the commonplace and missing the beautiful, majoring in the mundane and missing the majestic. So let’s stop and smell the roses and also admire God’s works in the universe.In this thrilling book, a companion volume to his popular The Wonders Of God, the author takes us on a journey through creation, providence, and redemption–proving again that Our God Is Wonderful. The more we spend time with Him, the more we know Him. The more we know Him, the more we will become like Him.
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P Sukei D Zimrah Morning Psalms
$35.00Add to cart“The prayer book is our Jewish diary of the centuries, a collection of prayers composed by generations of those who came before us, as they endeavored to express the meaning of their lives and their relationship to God. The prayer book is the essence of the Jewish soul.”
This stunning work, an empowering entryway to the spiritual revival of our times, enables all of us to claim our connection to the heritage of the traditional Jewish prayer book. It helps rejuvenate Jewish worship in today’s world, and makes its power accessible to all.
This third volume of the series explores the rich content and meaning of the P’sukei D’zimrah, the morning psalms that serve as the introduction to the larger prayer service. The P’sukei D’zimrah sets the tone and prepares the way for the daily transition from secular routine to the sacred act of communal prayer; Vol. 3 helps us to appreciate this “prayer before the prayer” as a profoundly moving spiritual experience in its own right.
Vol. 3-P’sukei D’zimrah (Morning Psalms) features the authentic Hebrew text with a new translation designed to let people know exactly what the prayers say. Introductions tell the reader what to look for in the prayer service, as well as how to truly use the commentaries, to search for-and find-meaning in the prayer book. Commentaries from some of today’s most eminent scholars and teachers from all movements of Judaism examine P’sukei D’zimrah from the perspectives of ancient Rabbis and modern theologians, as well as feminist, halakhic, Talmudic, linguistic, biblical, Chasidic, mystical, and historical perspectives.
Even those not yet familiar with the prayer book can appreciate the spiritual richness of P’sukei D’zimrah. My People’s Prayer Book enables all worshipers, of any denomination, to encounter their own connection to 3,000 years of Jewish experience with the world and with God. -
Instrument In Gods Hand
$16.99Add to cartWould you like to be a powerful instrument in the hand of God? This book will show you how. It will lead you into the discovery of the miraculous through the personal experiences of the celebrated eye surgeon, Dr. Elizabeth Vaughan, from her decision to enter medicine and give her lfie to Chirst, to her exciting work for the Lord in China and around the world today. You won’t want to put this book down as you discover how to be An Instrment of God’s Hand.
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Once And Future Pastor
$25.00Add to cartHobgood examines new pressures on clergy that are emerging in the “post-Christendom era:” financial stresses; the effects of a conflicted and confrontational culture; the needs of an increasing number of people living broken or dependent lives; dysfunctional behavior on the part of pastors and parishioners; questions regarding clergy respect and job satisfaction. How is ministry being affected by these changes? What skills will clergy need as they enter the new century? An invaluable resource thoroughly grounded in research and full of practical observations for clergy, judicatory executives, seminary professors, and long-range planners.
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Embracing Diversity : Leadership In Multicultural Congregations
$20.00Add to cartExplore a variety of approaches congregations have taken to embrace differences; identify leadership issues diversity creates in congregations; and discover programmatic suggestions drawn from the experience of multicultural congregations to address these issues. This book helps readers to understand their own experience with racial and cultural differences and is a guide for gathering diverse people into the life and mission of the congregation
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User Friendly Evaluation
$23.00Add to cartEach congregation must evaluate itself in light of its own mix of gifts, backgrounds, talents, and opportunities. Presenting the best of evaluation theory past and present, Woods shows clergy and lay leaders how to engage in mutual evaluation-not judgment-of ministry, mission, and community as a shared responsibility. The goal is building up the congregation. A special chapter provides commentary from church evaluation experts Roy Oswald (Alban), Paul Light (ABUSA denominational staff), and Jill Hudson (PCUSA judicatory executive) on dilemmas congregations face in evaluation
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Small Groups In The Church
$20.00Add to cartThis planning and leader training handbook offers a distinctive broad-based, small-group approach to building community. From the Jewish havurot to Christian koinonia, you will gain a thorough understanding of community, learn how to plan an effective small-group ministry, how to select and train leaders for all kinds of small groups, and how to start small groups that are a part of and not apart from their congregations. Appendices provide an overview of the sociological, psychological, and biblical theological literature on community and a wealth of presentation and leader training resources.
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Story Of My Life As Told By Jesus Christ
$17.95Add to cartThe story of my life as told by Jesus Christ. Matthew, Mark, Luke and John combined into one complete gospel written in first person singular. Listen to Jesus, the Christ, tell you His own story. In chronological order watch the days, weeks, times, places and festivals pass by. For the firt time–in unbroken order, you are there, as your Lord tells you the story of His life.
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Pastoral Visitation
$19.00Add to cartThis book integrates the theory and practice of pastoral visitation to increase the effectiveness of pastors and trained laity for an intentional, proactive program of pastoral visitation in the local church. In order to increase pastoral visitor’s positive experiences of effectiveness, the author presents basic “how to” information in a straightforward manner characterized by vivid illustrations and case studies. The book provides a theological basis for pastoral visitation.
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Pulse Of Creation
$23.00Add to cartPaul Sponheim here articulates the felt need for transformation – personal, social, cultural, even global conversion – and how the Christian doctrine of creation, making “all things new,” might yet prove a vehicle for the rescue and even betterment of our predicament.
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Making A Good Move
$20.99Add to cartIf you’re thinking of applying for a position in another church, you’ll appreciate the sensible guidance Coyner offers on transitioning from one pastorate to another! Discover how to establish working relationships with church members, move smoothly out of the “honeymoon” phase, and more. A valuable resource for new and seasoned pastors.
Michael Coyner argues that though the early months and years of a new pastorate can be stressful and difficult, they can also be particularly fruitful. These new beginnings can be among the most rewarding times of a pastor’s career, especially if the minister seizes opportunities for establishing and strengthening relationships with church members and plans carefully for the transition out of the initial “honeymoon” period. Drawing on years of experience as a pastor of local congregations as well as extensive work supervising pastors, Coyner provides solid, sensible guidance on making a good move into a successful ministry. Written in consultation with pastors from both “call” and “appointment” systems, this book will be of value to those who are starting a new ministry placement, whether they be fresh out of seminary or long-time seasoned veterans.
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Hidden Book In The Bible
$16.99Add to cartRenowned biblical sleuth and scholar Richard Elliot Friedman reveals the first work of prose literature in the world-a 3000-year-old epic hidden within the books of the Hebrew Bible. Written by a single, masterful author but obscured by ancient editors and lost for millennia, this brilliant epic of love, deception, war, and redemption is a compelling account of humankind’s complex relationship with God. Friedman boldly restores this prose masterpiece-the very heart of the Bible-to the extraordinary form in which it was originally written.
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Gods Plan For Man
$47.00Add to cartGOD’S PLAN FOR MAN
Throughout nearly sixty years of ministry, Finis Jennings Dake passionately pursued the literal truth of Scripture. God’s Plan for Man contains the very heart of his life’s work.
Originally designed as a correspondence course, God’s Plan for Man is equivalent to a three-year Bible college program. As such, it is highly interactive, intended for serious study.
In this comprehensive volume, Dake unfolds the plans and purposes of God from the eternal past to the eternal future, exploring the details of biblical prophecy and the privileges of life in Christ. He systematically discusses the nature of the Bible, principles of biblical interpretation, the Trinity, and much more. Yet God’s Plan for Man isn’t filled with a lot of dry information appealing only to the intellect. Rather, Dake writes with a pastor’s heart. His aim is to encourage faith. The result is a balanced diet that satisfies both heart and mind.
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Life On The Vine
$24.99Add to cartPhilip Kennson here combines rich, theologically grounded reflection on Christian life and practice with stunning cultural analysis. After a probing introductory chapter on the necessity and complexity of cultural analysis, Kenneson takes up each of the fruits of the Spirit listed in Galations 5:22-23. He explores what each fruit means in its biblical context, then investigates how key traits of late modern Western culture inhibit the development and ripening of each fruit.
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Paul
$51.95Add to cartIn this masterly synthesis, den Heyer, the renowned Dutch theologian, seeks to balance the paradoxes that others have discerned in Paul’s complex personality and writings. In a graceful, “effortless” style he summarizes centuries of thinking, then adds his own original touches.
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Conflicts And Challenges In Early Christianity
$36.95Add to cartHagner has put together two highly influential essays on the question of the relationship of Judaism to early Christianity: Hengel’s “Early Christianity As a Jewish-Messianic Universalist Movement” and Barrett’s “Paul: Councils and Controversies.” Fuller Theological Seminary’s New Testament professors then respond.
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Jesus Controversy
$61.00Add to cartThe current controversy over the historical Jesus and his significance for both scholarship and religious belief continues to rage inside and outside the academy. In this volume, three distinguished New Testament scholars debate the historical, textual, and theological problems at the core of the controversy. The three scholars are: John Dominic Crossan, Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at De Paul University, Luke Timothy Johnson, Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins at Emory University, and Werner H. Kelber, Turner Professor of Biblical Studies at Rice University.
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Reclaiming Our Roots 1
$74.95Add to cartReclaiming Our Roots, the most inclusive church history textbook on the market today, pays special attention to such matters as Christanity in the southern hemisphere, Eastern Orthodoxy, the church among miniority cultures in North America, and the role of women in church history. It includes not just names, dates, and events in church history but also sophisticated theological analyses of the issues that have made history, making it usable both as a text for ” history of Christian thought” as well as ” introduction to church history, courses.
Readers are exposed to a variety of credible, scholarly interpretations of issues, events and major figures, and encouraged to make thier own judgments based on the evidence and with the help of suggested primary source readings. Leading questions that open doors for group discussion and individual reflection on the core issues follow each section.
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Through The Wilderness Of Alzheimers
$19.00Add to cartIn telling the story of their journey into Alzheimer’s, the Simpsons offer families accurate, firsthand information about the disease, as well as support and practical help for patients and caregivers. Their dramatic story, told from both of their perspectives, uses journal entries, conversations, letters, and prayers to trace the onset, diagnosis, and treatment of Robert’s condition.
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Conversion In The New Testament A Print On Demand Title
$39.99Add to cartIn order to be effective in evangelism, one must clearly understand the dynamics of conversion. Richard Peace here examines two very different conversion experiences in the New Testament – Paul’s and the twelve disciples’ – and explores their implications for contemporary evangelism.
The unique feature of this book is Peace’s carefully argued proposal that Mark structures his Gospel around the unfolding conversion of the Twelve. By showing how conversion can take place either suddenly or gradually over time, Peace gives good reasons, and suggests practical ways, to replace one-sided evangelism techniques with more holistic methods.
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Saving And Secular Faith
$20.00Add to cartWhat does it mean to live with faith? Beginning from the term “faith” in the New Testament and Thomas Aquinas, eminent theologian Brian Gerrish shows that saving faith, as Martin Luther and John Calvin understood it, was not so much belief as discernment of God’s good will toward them in the word about Christ and therefore their also in their own lives.
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Rhetoric And Ethic
$23.00Add to cartIn this major study, leading feminist biblical critic Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza continues to explore the paradigm shift underway in biblical studies. Focusing on Paul and his interpreters, she questions the apolitical ethos of biblical scholarship and argues for an alternative rooted in a critical understanding of language as a form of power. Only then, she contends, will biblical studies be “a significant partner in the global struggles seeking justice and well-being for all.”
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Teaching Children Bible Basics
$21.99Add to cartHelp the 8- to 10-year-olds in your Sunday school learn to use the Bible! Children gain a working knowledge of the Bible’s structure, organization, and significance. The interactive 30-minute lessons stimulate creativity and critical thinking; each includes a lesson focus, Scripture text, materials list, learning activities, discussion questions, and closing prayer. A practical guide for teachers!
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Sacred In Music
$40.00Add to cartReligion and music are complementary resources for interpreting our lives. Music serves the sacred in ways that can be specified and articulated, yet the connection between them has been sorely neglected in the scholarly study of religion. In The Sacred in Music, Albert Blackwell brings the two subjects together in a celebration of the rich Western musical tradition, both classical and Christian.
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Trinity And Truth
$70.99Add to cartThis book is about the problem of truth: what truth is, and how we can tell whether what we have said is true. Bruce Marshall approaches this problem from the standpoint of Christian theology, and especially that of the doctrine of the Trinity. The book offers a full-scale theological account of what truth is and whether Christians have adequate grounds for regarding their beliefs as true. Unlike most theological discussions of these issues, the book is also extensively engaged with the modern philosophical debate about truth and belief.
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Left Hand Of God
$19.00Add to cartAdolf Holl’s divine biography examines the life of the Holy Spirit in the context of the history of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. Interweaving scholarship with religion, myth, and culture, Holl expertly traces the influence of the Holy Spirit on men and women from all walks of life, over the course of centuries. The result is quite unlike anything written before.
The Holy Spirit inspired a few Galilean fishermen to find the courage to preach a new world religion. The Jews recognized it as the breath of God. Mohammed was inspired by it in the dictation of the Koran. Yet this same spirit has moved individuals to rebel against convention, authority, and even sanity. Through Holl’s freewheeling yet always crystal-clear discourse, we see how the Holy Spirit informs an incredible array of beliefs (including those underlying the rituals of Appalachian snake handlers) and ideas (the works of Freud and James Joyce are among the many discussed).
When the book was published in Germany, Der Spiegel wrote, “Holl has presented a formidable history, linking together the most distant things in a surprising way and leaving the whole as a paradox. He leaves it to the reader to judge the encounter with the Holy Spirit as a manifestation of the divine in the human being–or as a case for the psychiatrist.”
Whatever the reader’s conclusion may be, The Left Hand of God is sure to be hailed as a major religious publishing event.
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Little Maid Of Old Maine
$12.95Add to cartThis is a true story of the brave effort of two girls to bring help to a little settlement on the Maine coast at the time of the War of the Revolution. This event is referred to in history as the “”Lexington of the Seas,”” because it was the first naval battle after the encounter in Lexington, Massachusetts. Readers will be touched by the courage of Rebecca and Anna Weston as they journey through the forest after the powder that was to make possible the conquest of the British.
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Faith The Yes Of The Heart
$18.00Add to cartIn this rich and rewarding theology of spirituality, Grace Brame argues compellingly that “faith is not just a matter of understanding God, but of experiencing the real presence of the holy.” Grounded in Martin Luther’s profound understanding of faith and daring trust, and drawing from the insights of leading spiritual thinkers, Brame boldly maps the terrain of the spiritual journey for modern pilgrims. Here is a book to inspire, to give courage, to open the reader to th possibilities of trusting love.
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Down Up And Over
$29.00Add to cartThe lives of enslaved African Americans, Dwight Hopkins contends, are a foundational source of liberating faith and practice for African Americans today. Down, Up, and Over draws on their religious experience, and the example of their faith and witness, to develop a constructive theology of liberation
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Pilgrim Road
$28.00Add to cartChristian faith and life are not static; in fact, they can be viewed as a journey. Preeminent theologian B.A. Gerrish uses the motif of the journey of Christian life to present the cardinal Christian themes-such as God, faith, sin, forgiveness, evil, and moral action-as well as to address important related contempory questions.
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Between Athens And Jerusalem (Reprinted)
$41.99Add to cartOne of the most creative and consequential collisions in Wester culture involved the encounter of Judaism with Hellenism. In this widely acclaimed study of the Jews who lived in Hellenistic Eqypt, “between Athens and Jerusalem,” John J. Collins examines the literature of Hellenistic Judaism, treating not only the introductory questions of date, authorship, and provenance but also the lager question of Jewish identity in the Greco-Roman world.
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Adam And Eve In 17th Century Thought
$120.00Add to cartThis book offers a fascinating account of the central myth of Western culture – the story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Philip Almond examines the way in which the gaps, hints and illusions within this biblical story were filled out in seventeenth-century English thought. At this time, the Bible formed a fundamental basis for studies in all subjects, and influenced greatly the way that people understood the world. Drawing extensively on primary sources he covers subjects as diverse as theology, history, philosophy, botany, language, anthropology, geology, vegetarianism, and women. He demonstrates the way in which the story of Adam and Eve was the fulcrum around which moved lively discussions on topics such as the place and nature of Paradise, the date of creation, the nature of Adamic language, the origins of the American Indians, agrarian communism, and the necessity and meaning of love, labour and marriage.
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Religious Experience Justification And History
$120.00Add to cartRecently, many philosophers of religion have sought to defend the rationality of religious belief by shifting the burden of proof onto the critic of religious belief. Some have appealed to extraordinary religious experience in making their case. Religious Experience, Justification, and History restores neglected explanatory and historical considerations to the debate. Through a study of William James, it contests the accounts of religious experience offered in recent works. Through reflection on the history of philosophy, it also unravels the philosophical use of the term justification. Matthew Bagger argues that the commitment to supernatural explanations implicit in the religious experiences employed to justify religious belief contradicts the modern ideal of human flourishing.
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Trinity And Truth
$117.00Add to cartThis book is about the problem of truth: what truth is, and how we can tell whether what we have said is true. Bruce Marshall approaches this problem from the standpoint of Christian theology, and especially that of the doctrine of the Trinity. The book offers a full-scale theological account of what truth is and whether Christians have adequate grounds for regarding their beliefs as true. Unlike most theological discussions of these issues, the book is also extensively engaged with the modern philosophical debate about truth and belief.
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Passion For Truth
$35.99Add to cartIVP Print On Demand Title
Is the future of evangelical theology in jeopardy? Leading evangelical scholar McGrath says it’s actually making a strong comeback in academic circles. His fresh and exciting evidence shows you the solid intellectual foundations of evangelicalism, how it interacts with other schools of thought, and its promising future. Must reading for pastors, students, and church leaders.
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Jesus And The Restoration Of Israel
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Acclaimed as one of the most significant works in the quest for the historical Jesus, Wright’s Jesus and the Victory of God reveals a surprising portrait of Christ. In this critical appraisal of Wright’s book, Alister McGrath, Marcus Borg, and other well-known scholars discuss Wright’s views on Jesus’ identity, acts, and sayings. Includes a response from Wright.
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From Irenaeus To Grotius
$73.99Add to cartA masterpiece! This outstanding collection brings together influential pieces from 65 authors in the days when theology and politics were intermingled: Origen, Augustine, Gregory I, Dante, William of Ockham, Luther, Calvin, and Grotius. Introductions, bibliographies, plus outstanding translations.
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Never Call Them Jerks
$26.00Add to cartNo church is immune to the problems that can arise when parishioners behave in difficult ways. Responding to such situations with self-awareness and in a manner true to one’s faith tradition makes the difference between peace and disaster. In this must-read book, Boers shows how a better understanding of difficult behavior can help congregational leaders avoid the trap of labeling such parishioners and exercise self-care when the going gets rough. Foreword by David W. Augsburger, author of Conflict Mediation across Cultures.
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Knowing Christianity
$25.99Add to cartWhile today’s spiritual fads come and go, Packer points you to the enduring, unchanging truth of God. Beginning with the doctrines of the Trinity and the Bible, this classic work offers solid insights into prayer, the importance of fellowship, reality of an afterlife, and more. A rich overview of Christianity for new and mature believers.
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Becoming Adult Becoming Christian
$25.00Add to cartIn this updated reissue of his 1984 classic, James Fowler applies his groundbreaking research on the development of faith to Christianity. In his revised first chapter Fowler locates his approach to the study of human and faith development in relation to the contemporary conversation about identity and selfhood in postmodernity. Fowler invites readers to explore what it means to find and claim vocation: a purpose for one’s life that is part of the purposes of God. Reclaiming covenant and vocation as ideals for responsible, mature, Christian selfhood, Fowler shows how a dynamic understanding of what vocation involves can both inform and transform lives.
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Gods Way Not Ours
$20.00Add to cart1. God Has Spoken
2. Ignorance
3. Going Backwards
4. The Depth Of The Problem
5. The Desolation Of Sin
6. A Glimpse Of Hope
7. Repentance
8. God’s Way, Not Ours
9. God’s Final Word158 Pages
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D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones was well known for his New Testament expositions, but in this book readers are given the rare opportunity to experience his skillful exploration of an Old Testament prophetic text. His expositions of Isaiah 1 provide a summary of Isaiah’s entire message and of God’s way of salvation. Lloyd-Jones lays out the root cause of human trouble and need, the false ways people try to escape from or meet it, and God’s only way of real deliverance.The book’s rich content, rooted in Scripture, is evangelistic as well as prophetic. Preachers and Bible teachers will use God’s Way, Not Ours to help them prepare messages and lessons. It also makes excellent devotional reading, combining careful biblical exposition with timeless application.
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Heart Of Black Preaching
$45.00Add to cartCleophus LaRue argues that the extraordinary character of black preaching derives from a distinctive biblical hermeneutic that views God as involved in practical ways in the lives of African Americans. This hermeneutic, he believes, has remained constant since the days of slavery.
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Not By Might
$18.99Add to cartNurse Natalie Fallon has brought her ailing mother to Denver for her health and starts a job at Denver’s Mile High Hospital, where she meets fellow nurse Breanna Baylor Brockman. In Natalie’s past is a relationship with Rex Rawlins, a young medical student. Two years prior she had ended the relationship when she learned Rex was planning a rural practice. She is determined not to marry a country doctor like her father, who died at age 43 from overwork. But she has never stopped loving Rex, and now, little does she know that Rex is a rural doctor in the surrounding mountains. A serious accident brings them together, but it will take a miracle to give them the promise of a life together
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Longing For Community
$21.99Add to cartUnderstanding the strength and unity of the ummah- the worldwide Muslim community-and its role in an individual’s identity is essential in comprehending the struggles that Muslims undergo as they turn to faith in Jesus Christ. It has been a place of security, acceptance, protection, and identity; turning away from it entails great sacrifice. Where, then, will Muslims who choose to follow Jesus find their longing for community fulfilled: ummah, church, or somewhere in between?
Longing for Community compiles the research and reflection of twenty missiologists, sociologists, anthropologists, and linguists-among them Muslims who have become believers in Jesus Christ- presented at the second Coming to Faith Consultation in February 2010. The contributors explore the multiple levels and hybrid nature of social identity, pointing to the need to free our discussions from single- dimensional scales, which are far from adequate to describe the complex nature of conversion and lived-out faith. Beyond the issue of identity, the contributors offer important lessons from mission history, explore liturgy as an appropriate vehicle for teaching, discuss appropriate means of communication, and point to both the need and contextually appropriate possibilities of greater involvement of women in training and ministry.
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Jesus The Miracle Worker
$50.99Add to cartWas Jesus the Miracle Worker that generations have believed him to be? Or was he merely a master psychologist, a purveyor of paranormal therapy? And what should we make of his stilling the storm or feeding the five thousand? In this comprehensive textbook study, Graham Twelftree evaluates Jesus’ own understanding of the miracles he performed, the historical reliability of the stories, and the way the modern mind views Christ’s miracles. Fascinating!
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Introduction To The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls (Revised)
$20.00Add to cartThe classic introduction to the 20th century’s most important archaeological discovery—thoroughly revised! A leader in Dead Sea Scrolls studies for decades, Vermes chronicles the past and present research; sheds light on the Qumran community; offers you a bird’s-eye view of the documents; and explains their meaning for biblical studies.
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Peter : Learning To Be More Like Jesus (Student/Study Guide)
$12.99Add to cartSimon Peter was a follower like us-he wanted to be like Jesus, but he struggled wtih doubts, and at times he failed. At other times he was used powerfully by God. These studies on his life challenge and motivate us to continue to grow in Christlikeness. This LifeGuide Bible Study in the new revised format features questions for starting group discussions and for meeting God in personal reflection, as well as a new “Now or Later” section in each study. 12 studies for individuals or groups.
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Greco Roman World Of The New Testament Era
$35.99Add to cartJeffers opens the narrative of Scripture and tours everyday Greco-Roman life. Advancing understanding of the New Testament and early Christianity, he treats class and status, family and community, work and leisure, religion and organization, city and country, law and government, death and taxes, and epochal events of Roman history. Includes photos and illustrations.
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Christian Disciplines : 12 Studies For Individuals Or Groups (Student/Study Guid
$12.99Add to cartDepth, strength, wisdom and maturity – we all long to be people with such qualities. We want to strengthen our character and deepen our relationship with Christ. But spiritual depth requires spiritual discipline. This Bible study guide is designed to help us learn how God wants us to live. This revised guide features questions for starting group discussions and for meeting God in personal reflection, together with expanded leader’s notes and a new “Now or Later” section in each study.
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Parables : The Greatest Stories Ever Told (Student/Study Guide)
$12.99Add to cartEveryone loves a good story. But the parables of Jesus are a special kind of story. They sneak up on us, catching us off guard. The familiar suddenly takes an unexpected twist, and we find our secret thoughts exposed in the healing light of Jesus. In this guide John White, author of the bestselling book The Fight, helps us explore twelve of the greatest stories ever told.
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Philippians : Jesus Our Joy (Student/Study Guide)
$12.99Add to cartIt is easy to be happy when things go well. But what would it be like to have a sense of joy that continues even in times of trouble? Such was the deep joy that the apostle Paul experienced-even in prison. His contentment was neither dependent on circumstances nor changed by difficulty. In his brief letter to the Philippians, Paul teaches us how to live joyfully in every situation.
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Mark : Follow Me (Student/Study Guide)
$12.99Add to cartIn the book of Mark we meet Jesus, the man who is King. He shatters our expectations. He comes to serve and not to be served. He eats with sinners rather than royalty. And His crown is made of thorns. This is the one who calls us to follow Him. This is a revised LifeGuide Bible Study with new questions for starting group discussions and for meeting God in personal reflection, expanded leader’s notes, and a “Now or Later” section with each study
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Quiet Time Companion (Revised)
$30.99Add to cartTurn your daily quiet time into life-changing encounters with God’s Word—in only 20 minutes a day! You’ll gain a fresh perspective and deeper understanding with a 2-year overview of the Bible and in-depth studies based on character, topical lifestyle, and Bible themes. The book is conveniently divided into eight 13-week seasons for group use.
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Spiritual Warfare : 9 Studies For Individuals Or Groups (Student/Study Guide)
$12.99Add to cart1. Detecting The Deceiver – 2 Corinthians 11:1-15
2. Facing Temptation – Matthew 4:1-11
3. The Serpent’s Strategy – Genesis 3:1-6
4. The Armor Of God – Ephesians 6:10-20
5. The War Within – James 4:1-10
6. Defeating The Destroyer – Mark 5:1-20
7. Overcoming Our Accuser – Revelation 12:7-12
8. Surviving Satan’s Attacks – Job 1–2
9. Standing Firm – 2 Thessalonians 2:1-17Additional Info
What is spiritual warfare? What does it look life? How does it affect us? The Bible has much to say about the battles we face. These studies will deepen our understanding of our supernatural struggle and direct us to sources of power and hope. This LifeGuide Bible Study in the new revised format features questions for starting group discussions and for meeting God in personal reflection, as well as a new “Now or Later” section in each study. -
Golden Glory : The New Wave Of Signs And Wonders
$18.99Add to cartGod is sending down the miraculous today like never before. In this new book by Ruth Heflin, read about today’s new signs and wonders, now seen throughout the world. Move into greater levels of faith and experience the miraculous for yourself!
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Rapture And The Second Coming Of Christ
$12.99Add to cartAs humanity steps into a new millennium, thoughts turn easily to questions of what the Bible has to say about our future. Will the Lord return soon? When will the rapture take place? Will the church endure the tribulation? Will the Antichrist rule the world?
For years, believers have relied on Finis Dake to provide simple explanations of sound doctrine-especially in matters of Bible prophecy. Those who hunger for such truth will find solid meat in the pages of The Rapture and the Second Coming of Christ.
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Journeying Through Lent With Mark
$6.99Add to cartIn this devotional, meditations for each day between Ash Wednesday and Easter focus on passages from the Gospel of Mark. Reflection questions and a prayer with each reading encourage readers to consider the passage’s meaning for their lives. A study guide is included for six weeks of small-group discussion.
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Religion Of The Earliest Churches
$30.00Add to cartPicking up where he left off in The Historical Jesus: A Comprehensive Guide, Theissen discusses religion as “a cultural sign language that promises a gain in life by corresponding to an ultimate reality”; and presents Christianity as a religion with elements of myth, ritual, ethics, and an emergent symbolic system.
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Paul : The Man And The Myth
$29.00Add to cartWe are left to reconstruct a portrait of Paul with only scraps of what was once a large and imposing canvas-a small collection of letters and a historical narrative written a generation after his death. This reconstruction focuses on important parts of the image that usually fall in the shadows, parts dealing with Paul’s sexual asceticism, his preoccupation with holiness-holy Spirit, holy community, and holy ethos-the evolution of his theology, and his emergence as a legendary figure. Although I have tried to follow the strict rules of historical investigation, of necessity much guesswork is involved in any exploration of Paul’s life. All of these efforts are attempts to deal with the gaps in the text, understood in the broadest sense to include not just Paul’s written words but also the culture, social world, and political realities surrounding them.
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Portraits Of Jesus (Student/Study Guide)
$48.00Add to cartTake a close look at the Savior’s life using an inductive, learning-by-doing approach to studying the Gospel texts! Engaging “What do you think” questions, photographs, and maps will guide your journey as you uncover the literary patterns, theological issues, and interpretive quandaries that still prompt lively debate among New Testament scholars.
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Barthian Revolt In Modern Theology
$46.00Add to cartIn this well-researched history of the rise, development, and near-demise of Karl Barth’s theology, Gary Dorrien carefully analyzes the making of the Barthian revolution and the reasons behind its simultaneously dominating and marginal character. Dorrien discusses Barth’s relationship to his predecessors and his contemporaries, as well as to modern theologians. He argues that Barth’s approach to theology was deeply indebted to his liberal past and was not essentially a form of “neoorthodox” positivism.
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Proverbs : A Life Changing Encounter With Gods Word From The Book Of Prover (Stu
$14.99Add to cartThe book of Proverbs contains a wealth of practical wisdom for everyday living. Its teachings are timeless, and they provide helpful guidelines on almost every aspect of personal conduct imaginable, including: goodness, folly, sin, wealth and poverty, the tongue, pride and humility, justice, vengeance, strife, gluttony, love, lust, laziness, friendships, the family, life, and death.
Christians have a lifelong goal: To become like Christ. This involves change, and change isn’t always easy. But the more you know of God’s purposes for you, the more you can experience His joy and participate in His plan. THE LIFECHANGE SERIES of Bible studies on books of the Bible can help you grow in Christlikeness through a life-changing encounter with God’s Word. You’ll benefit in these important ways:
You’ll gain a firm understanding of the book-its historical context, purpose, structure, and meaning;
You’ll apply its powerful, relevant wisdom to needs and issues you are currently working through; and
You’ll acquire personal study skills and a thirst to return to the book on your own-so you can keep going deeper into its life-transforming truths. -
Hebrews : Life Changing Encounter With Gods Word From The Book Of Hebrews (Stude
$14.99Add to cartThis is a study of HEBREWS a, which reigns unchallenged as the New Testament’s finest commentary on the relationship between Christ and the Old Testament. It contains a chal lenging message to live wholeheartedly for Christ in every situation. In this Bible study participants will learn historical in- sights and word definitions. Also included are discussion questions, asssignments, and a leader’s guide. Format: Workbook Audience: New Christian Number of Lessons: 19 Average Number of Questions: 18 Prep Time: Medium
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Seeking Heart
$12.95Add to cartThe name Fenelon has stood for spiritual depth and insight for 300 years. Seeking Christians throughout the years have turned again and again to his writings for guidance and help in their quest for a deeper walk with Christ.
Here are his works and letters for those who have a seeking heart.
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Preaching In The New Creation
$30.00Add to cartMost preachers have little fondness for apocalyptic texts because of their scathing language, surrealistic plots, and enigmatic symbols. David Jacobsen not only helps preachers move past these barriers, but offers a three-part approach for preaching these texts today.
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Matthew : A Life Changing Encounter With Gods Word From The Book Of Matthew (Stu
$14.99Add to cartWith its emphasis on the fulfillment of Old Testament prophecies, Matthew’s Gospel forms a natural bridge between the Old and New Testaments. While it is directed toward Jewish readers, it has never been limited in its audience. From the visit of the Magi reported at the beginning of this Gospel to the words of the Great Commission at its conclusion, the larger sphere and interests of the Messiah are clear. Throughout Matthew’s Gospel we learn that Jesus is indeed the promised Messiah, come to redeem His people.
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Exodus : A Life Changing Encounter With Gods Word From Through Miraculous D (Stu
$14.99Add to cartLIFECHANGE Bible studies allow the Bible to speak for itself. You’ll see for yourself what it says–not what someone else thinks it says–and develop the skills and desire to dig even deeper into God’s Word.
EXODUS.
Exodus-part 2 in the story of humanity’s redemption-tells how God brought Israel up out of slavery to men, and allowed them to become His servants. And through miraculous deliverance and covenant law, the Redeemer is revealed. The book of Exodus contains many valuable insights for us today, including God’s methods for dealing with rebellion, His shaping of Moses into a servant leader, governing principles for the just treatment of others, and guidelines for pure and wholehearted worship. -
Ephesians : A Life Changing Encounter With Gods Word From The Book Of Ephes (Stu
$12.99Add to cartEPHESIANS. To a young church needing a fuller knowledge of Christ, the Apostle Paul sent a call to Christian maturity. His letter carries priceless truths about your own new identity in Christ, and your special calling in His body.
LIFECHANGE Series. Christians have a lifelong goal- to become like Christ. This involves change, and change isn’t always easy. But the more you know of God’s purposes for you, the more you can experience His joy and participate in His plan.The LIFECHANGE Series of Bible studies on books of the Bible can help you grow in Christlikeness through a life-changing encounter with God’s Word. You’ll benefit in these important ways: 1) You’ll gain a firm understanding of the book-its historical context, purpose, structure, and meaning; 2) You’ll apply its powerful, relevant wisdom to needs and issues you are currently working through; and 3) You’ll acquire personal study skills and a thirst to return to the book on your own-so you can keep going deeper into its life-transforming truths.
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Curious George And The Dump Truck
$5.99Add to cartCurious about the big truck next door, George takes a closer look. He wants to see how it works. Before long he finds that one little lever can mean great big trouble! But George quickly puts his monkey ingenuity to work and finds a surprising solution to his messy mishap.
