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Financial Management For Episcopal Parishes (Revised)
$38.95Add to cart* Written by CPA working exclusively with parishes of various denominations * Updated to reflect changes in tax law * What to do and how to do it for parishes of all sizes * Real-life examples Experience shows that open and transparent churches engender a greater feeling of trust and willingness on the part of the donor. The policies and processes in Financial Management for Episcopal Parishes, which can be implemented by any size church, allow clergy, vestry, and parishioners to establish and document procedures that enable a financially transparent organization. The book defines the roles of the clergy, staff, vestry, and congregation and outlines what needs to be done by them to design and implement a system of checks and balances for financial oversight and stewardship, in order to protect donations and assets. Throughout the book, real-life examples of processes and procedures that did not work (and why) make for enjoyable reading of an otherwise business-like subject. Every reader will recognize some of them in their own church life.
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Racial And Ethnic Health Disparities
$15.99Add to cartWhat effect does racism have on the spiritual component of human existence? How does the spiritual impact of racism contribute to disease? How can both the oppressor and the oppressed heal from racist behaviors and attitudes?
Racial & Ethnic Health Disparities: Building Bridges of Hope through the Holy Spirit explores these questions.
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By Faith Not By Sight
$18.99Add to cartA moving story of hope, faith, persistence and the power of dreams.
A piano prodigy, a nineteen-year-old college grad, a Marshall scholar, and an American Idol finalist. This guy had it made. He could sing.
He could ski blind. What couldn’t he do?
Even if you saw him in concert, you might not believe that Scott MacIntyre is blind, and you’d never guess that at nineteen, he faced a diagnosis that rocked his family and nearly took his life.
So how did he do it? How did he overcome the odds?
This is Scott’s story, but he’d be the first to tell you that it’s not really about him. This is the story of how God used a dedicated family, a selfless acquaintance, hardship, and a host of characters to give him life, faith, determination, and experiences most can only imagine.
Peek behind the scenes to see how he learned to overcome his disability, how he made it in the music industry, how he found the love of his life, and how God taught him that in all things, we can truly achieve our dreams By Faith, Not by Sight.
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It Has Not Yet Appeared What We Shall Be
$49.99Add to cart1. The Problem And Its Setting
2. Literature Review
3. Exegesis Of Pertinent Passages
4. A Reconsideration Of The Imago Dei
5. Implications And Practical ApplicationsAdditional Info
The doctrine of the imago Dei has been criticized for technically excluding people who suffer from severe cognitive disabilities. With such people in mind, Hammond reexamines the doctrine and sets forth a more accurate and inclusive understanding. This work concludes with implications and practical applications to help seminary professors, pastors, and church members include, embrace, and welcome people with severe intellectual disabilities and their families. -
Wind Blows North
$12.99Add to cartThe Wind Blows North is a Christmas novel for readers 8 to 12. It reveals God’s love for all of His children. Feeling “all washed up” in life, retired sea captain Jacob and his faithful dog, Buddy, collect treasures from the sea to sell at the local trinket shop. When Jacob’s daughter and her husband, who are keepers of the lighthouse, decide to go on a trip to see the Christmas lights in the city, they ask Jacob to watch the lighthouse while they’re gone. All goes well for the pair until a bad storm hits. When Buddy gets lost in the storm and Jacob sets out to ?nd him, they come upon a stranded couple with a small child. The young family, who cannot speak English, remind Jacob of the Christmas story. Filled with concern and compassion for the travelers, Jacob helps them along their journey. In doing so, he learns something new about the grace of God.
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Blink
$15.99Add to cartJason has it all-a great family and an exciting, successful career. But in a blink, it’s all gone, and he struggles to find out why.
Mona Foster, the President of the United States, wrestles with Christian theology while trying to lead the country. When people around the world suddenly go missing, she finds herself wondering if what she believes is real or if science has an answer.
Prime Minister Ben-Zion looks for reality in the Hebrew and Christian Bibles. When multitudes suddenly disappear, Ben-Zion starts wondering if the truths he reads in the Bible are true. Marcus Junius is an ambitious, brilliant politician who uses chaos to seize power as millions scramble for answers in the face of tragedy, fear, and inexplicable loss of control. Is their world on the brink of obliteration?
Could this truly be the rapture foretold in the Bible?
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Healing For Our Soul Gardens
$16.99Add to cartOne out of three to four women is sexually abused within her lifetime. Though we are all created to flourish and grow, sexual abuse leaves us broken, in pain, and bound by fear and anxiety. Self-blame and shame keeps the secret hidden.
But no one is too damaged to be restored. There is hope.
Kristin Clouse, a sexual abuse survivor, shares her story, and her professional experience as a licensed mental health counselor, to walk with women through the healing and restoration process. Includes study questions, moments of reflection, and creative activities. For use by individuals, counselors, or in a small group setting.
Understand how the abuse of your past relates to your life issues today.
Discover why your life feels chaotic, out of control, or anxiety driven.
Learn healthy ways to address a negative thought process and shame-led thoughts.
Develop new coping skills.
Restore your self-image to what God designed you to be. -
Portals And Pearls
$19.95Add to cartCould your false beliefs actually become iron bars? Josh Billing once purposed this same line of thinking in a quote that has been morphed down through the decades:
“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.”
Regardless of whatever morphing this quote may have endured, it has merit. The principle aptly applies to what so many of us experience with regard to our fundamental beliefs about God and what we understand to be the requirements God may be demanding of us. But what if what you know about God … just ain’t so?
Portals & Pearls was written to provoke you to reevaluate what you think “gospel truth” actually means. With devotional-designed chapters, Portals and Pearls is formatted and filled with bite-size ruminations that are engaging, entertaining, and inspiring. In her colorful and clever style, Sherri weaves God’s Word into her adventurous personal experiences to empower lives with freedom and transformation.
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Confronting The Enemy
$17.95Add to cartNo one person goes through life without having problems. Even people who say that they have not had difficulties do have problems. They just don’t want to admit it. The struggles that some people go through are more difficult than others, tempting them to turn and run in the other direction. But God challenges us to face our fears head-on and depend on him to get us through them. Confronting the Enemy is a book that educates the reader on how to face Satan in the wake of his daily attacks, giving the person the tools with which to fight the enemy and cope with negative experiences in life. It is tough! It takes a mentally and spiritually strong person to survive emotionally in this life and fight everyday battles. But with God’s help, we win!
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Dreams And Wishes Wishes And Dreams
$13.95Add to cartThe small town of Wilsonville, Alabama, encountered severe economic challenges. The spin-off affected Charlene and next-door neighbor James. Charlene refused to be defeated by challenges in life. Her grit and determination prevailed in extreme circumstances.
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Lovingkindness : Realizing And Practicing Your True Self
$17.00Add to cartLovingkindness–acting with selfless compassion toward others–is a widely recognized virtue that is honored across world religions. But what does it look like in practice? How can we more fully and consistently live this calling, to be a loving presence in the world? This book explores the promise and challenge of living with lovingkindness, a concept with deep ancient roots. It offers a framework of twelve dimensions along which people make choices in daily life. Short chapters explore each of these dimensions of lovingkindness, including opportunities for practice. The structure is suitable for self-study or for use in discussion groups. In truth, lovingkindness is not something that you can achieve or perfect. It is more like a star by which to guide your life journey, a distant goal toward or away from which you move through countless choices that you make each day. This book is about that journey.
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Intimate Partner Violence In The Black Church
$43.00Add to cartIntimate Partner Violence (IPV) or Domestic Violence (DV) continues to be a perennial issue in the Black church and Christendom as a whole. Women in the church continue to experience violence at increased rates, but leadership has been delayed in providing a meaningful response to IPV as families experience the turmoil of abuse. Further, more and more children suffer from the trauma of family violence that perpetuates as males, who witness IPV, have a greater susceptibility of becoming abusers and females, who witness abuse, are put in risk of choosing abusers in relationships. The church must now become the leading change agent in the struggle to reduce and end family violence by addressing the heart of the issue, the pulpit, namely male leaders in the church who abuse their wives and hide behind the scripture text. The church must expose the biblical truth regarding marriage and relationships and embed policy within the by-laws of the church that provide victims and survivors with opportunities for confidential reporting, resources when they are ready to leave, and on-going support for women who desire to transition from abuse to survivorship.
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Imagining The Gospels Cycle B
$13.95Add to cartImagining the Gospels: Cycle B Sermons for Lent and Easter Based on the Gospel Texts is the latest from Rev. Timothy W. Ayers. As a pastor who writes his messages while also writing novels, children’s books, and short dramas, Rev. Ayers found himself working hard to visually create the picture of what was hap-pening in the gospel accounts. Why? These were people lis-tening to Jesus. They would have had emotions about the topics. They would have had little things they recognized when Jesus spoke about lambs, shepherds, and vines. Much like our congregants, there would be nods of recognition toward experiences in their lives. His goal was to get the listener to imagine themselves, with their feelings, and their rea-sons for being in church, to better use their cognitive skills, inside the stories.
At other times, Ayers sought to take them on a week by week journey through the Easter season. He didn’t assume they have a relationship with Christ. He didn’t assume they are vibrant, serving members of the congregation. He only assumed that the listener is seeking something they do not have. He was attempting to take them one step further on a journey from week to week.
At times Rev. Ayers brings humor to the scene in order to lighten the mood of the listener. The body relaxes when we laugh and that helps us to hear the message. Imagining the Gospels hopefully will achieve this.
This book will make life easier for any busy pastor during the Lent and Easter season, by providing a sermon for each and every Sunday, when attendance is likely to be at its highest.
This book has several intended uses:
Sermon ideas
Inspirational reading
Bible study with individuals or groupsSome Sermon Titles Include:
Beginning The Lenten Journey (Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21)
Tearing The Sky To Get To You (Mark 1:9-15)
Did I Say That Out Loud? (Mark 8:31-38, Mark 9:2-9)
The Road To The Passover (John 2:13-22)
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Redemption To Transformation The Journey Of Lent And Easter Cycle B
$13.95Add to cartIf the Lenten journey is traversed successfully, then we can fully enter into the celebratory time of Easter. Yet, even as we observe these events we must acknowledge that the challenges of the Christian life are ever present. We should never forget British writer G.K. Chesterton’s admonition in What’s Wrong with the World (1910), “The Christian life has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.” The Easter season reminds us that despite the triumph of Christ there will always be challenges to our belief. We seemingly cannot believe unless we see; yet we know that faith often is beyond proof and, thus, beyond sight as well. We are also challenged to discover ways of transforming problematic situations and what appears to be defeat into triumph through the grace of God. Additionally, this great season of grace teaches us that we must continually evaluate what we do and keep our eyes fixed on Christ and his mission and message. Finally, as Jesus ascends to the Father, we come to realize that the Lord’s work in not complete and, therefore, each day presents us with the opportunity to do something to complete the master’s work.
The cycle B second lesson sermons of Reverend Richard Gribble’s Redemption to Transformation: The Journey of Lent and Easter represent an understanding of the challenges presented us through this highly significant and very special journey. The church in its wisdom gives us this opportunity annually to review where we are and, after ascertaining our present position, the challenge to move to higher realms that are more consistent with our common Christian call to holiness. It is hoped that these reflections will be helpful to you as together we travel the path from Lent to Easter, and eventually to Christ and eternal life.
Redemption to Transformation: The Journey of Lent and Easter provides a second lesson sermon for every Sunday of cycle B, which will provide the following advantages:To give busy pastors ideas for their sermon creation
To make the day-to-day life of being a pastor easier
To free up time for counseling, visitation, or just your own leisureSome Sermon Titles Include:
Suffering Leads to Victory (1 Peter 3:18-21)
Enduring the Trails of Faith (Romans 4:13-25)
The Cost of Discipleship (Philippians 2:5-11)
Sacrifice Leads to Life (Hebrews 10:16-25)
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My Utmost For His Highest Classic Edition
$7.99Add to cartThe Best-Selling and Most Beloved Devotional Book of All Time!
You’ll find 365 thought-provoking meditations in this classic-language paperback edition of “the golden book of Oswald Chambers.” My Utmost for His Highest will encourage and move you to think more deeply about your relationship with the Lord.
My Utmost for His Highest has sold over 13 million copies worldwide and is considered one of the most popular religious books ever written. These captivating words of wisdom from Oswald Chambers have challenged and inspired readers for more than 80 years.
Oswald Chambers was a teacher and preacher whose messages cut to the heart of the gospel. His wife, Biddy, transcribed his lectures and sermons and compiled them into books, the most popular being My Utmost for His Highest. The title is taken from a thought in one of his sermons: “Shut out every consideration and keep yourself before God for this one thing only-My Utmost for His Highest.”
Chambers was a man completely devoted to Christ, and his life and writings clearly portray that. This daily devotional has inspired countless people to drink deeply from the biblical truths that Chambers so passionately championed.
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I Am : A Novel Approach To The Gospel Of Jesus Christ
$19.95Add to cartThis book is written with the intent of reaching those people who are interested in learning about the Gospel of Jesus Christ, but are not yet comfortable reading from the Bible. It is written in the form of a novel, in a logical chronology, which endeavors to combine the four gospel accounts. Following the feasts of the Jewish calendar and set within the historical context of the time, it includes the author’s own spiritual insights into Jesus’s words and works, inserted into the gospel story.
This book truly contains something for everyone. For the seeker, it provides a good place to start–the accompanying scripture references are intended to direct the reader to the true biblical account. For the novice, this account will go a long way to filling any gaps in understanding the biblical narrative. And the author’s spiritual insights will challenge even the substantial knowledge of the most-learned of Bible scholars. Expect to be entertained, encouraged, and challenged by this novel approach to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Come rediscover God’s spiritual truth, knowing that iron sharpens iron.
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Unbreakable Boy : A Fathers Fear A Sons Courage And A Story Of Unconditiona
$19.99Add to cartThe Unbreakable Boy is the raucously tender story of the life of a teenage boy with a rare brittle-bone disease who joyfully embraces life’s tragedies and triumphs. Now in trade paper.
Meet Austin, an eighteen-year-old whose body is much more fragile than his spirit.
Despite the painful effects of osteogenesis imperfecta–a rare disease that makes bones brittle and prone to break–and the challenges of living with autism, Austin is an overcomer who inspires everyone he meets.
The Unbreakable Boy is the raucously tender story of Austin’s joyful embrace of life’s tragedies and triumphs.
In honest, utterly real storytelling, Scott pulls back the curtain of his life to reveal personal and family struggles, from marital meltdowns to destructive bouts with addiction.
The only thing that keeps Scott buckled into this ride is his growing faith in God and the conviction that he was chosen as Austin’s dad.
With every twist, this father-son saga breathes hope in to all of us who ever feel overwhelmed, wondering if the end of the rope we’re clinging to is fraying in our hands.
Austin’s life is proof positive that the rope may break, but we don’t have to.
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Walking Under An Open Heaven
$17.99Add to cartYou can live so that heaven invades your life. You can live so that seeing angels and conversing with them is natural for you. You can speak to saints from heaven every day as you go for a walk or even when you are just spending time at home. You can regularly meet Jesus in visions. Going to heaven can be commonplace for you.
This book contains the following chapters:
Visions of Jesus
Visions of God
A Prophetic Atmosphere
Visions of Angels
Visions of Saints
Accessing Heaven
Portals in my House
Abundant Money Supply
Open Heaven in my House and
Seven Keys to an Open Heaven.
With his trademark candor and transparency, let Matthew Robert Payne take you on a brief journey of his life. These short chapters describe just some of his many encounters with Jesus, saints, and angels. Each chapter includes questions for you to consider at the end. By the time you finish reading, you will be yearning for similar adventures of your own. Matthew ends the book with a prayer of impartation to encourage you to walk under an open heaven as he does.
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Way Maker And The Scarlet Cord
$26.99Add to cartHer body was weak from giving birth. Her soul was fragile, wishing desperately that she could hold her baby, but she had not even been allowed to see her baby. Under the influence of drugs, she could vaguely remember a baby crying, and then the sound of her baby being whisked away from her. Forever.
No not forever. Hopefully not forever. She must return somehow for her baby.
When thirty-year-old Jezra felt her baby move for the first time, a spark of life also entered her heart. Suddenly, she found mysterious comfort in the words spoken many years ago by her grandfather’s maid. “Your mom had a change of heart, Jezra. She had been offered a considerable amount of money to have a baby for your grandfather. But as she felt the life you brought moving and kicking inside of her, the value of money lost its importance. All she wanted was you… her name was Rahab.”
Jezra and her unborn baby were part of a generational blood pact. Determined not to give her baby into the hands of those commanding dark powers, she runs into a journey of horrifying uncertainty.
In this suspense packed sequel to The Miracle Maker and the Misfits, two women are searching for the love of family which has been stolen from their lives. Rahab has discovered a new blood covenant. For many years she has held on to its scarlet cord of promises, whereby she believes the Way Maker will save her and her family. But how much longer can her faith endure? Can they be saved after all?
Find out in The Way Maker and the Scarlet Cord.
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Confess Your Sins
$18.99Add to cartAn evangelical classic for a new generation of Christian readers
Back in print for the first time in many years, John Stott’s classic treatise on confession discusses a neglected Christian practice. Though the Bible clearly teaches that confession is a necessary part of the redemption story, many Christians are uncertain how and to whom they should confess their sins. Stott offers vital answers in Confess Your Sins: The Way of Reconciliation.
After presenting the necessity of confession, Stott distinguishes between three types of confession-in secret to God, in private to a person whom our sin has injured, and in public in the presence of a Christian congregation. He shows how this threefold distinction is biblically grounded, and he critically examines the practice of confessing to a priest. Offering assurance of forgiveness to Christians, this little book opens the door to fruitful conversation about the practice of confession.
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Book Of Jeremiah
$58.99Add to cartRetrieves rich historical biblical insights for readers of Jeremiah today
In this volume, part of the Bible in Medieval Tradition series, Joy Schroeder provides substantial excerpts from seven noteworthy biblical interpreters who commented on Jeremiah between the ninth and fifteenth centuries.
Following a survey of early and medieval Christian authors and their interpretive approaches, Schroeder offers original translations from medieval commentators writing on twenty-four chapters of Jeremiah, including all chapters present in major western lectionaries. In addition to her clear, readable renderings of texts from authors including Thomas Aquinas, Nicholas of Lyra, and Denis the Carthusian, Schroeder provides an introduction to each author represented, locating him within his historical and theological context. The well-chosen selections in this masterful volume illustrate the rich diversity of medieval approaches to biblical interpretation and offer an intriguing glimpse into the worldview of medieval commentators.
MEDIEVAL AUTHORS REPRESENTED:
Rabanus Maurus
Rupert of Deutz
Albert the Great
Hugh of St. Cher
Thomas Aquinas
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Weekly Prayer Project
$16.99Add to cartThe directive is so simple: Be still. Draw close. Know Me. And yet who hasn’t struggled with the art of quieting your mind and your heart to truly dig deep into the intimacy God offers His beloved? The Weekly Prayer Project allows you that moment of reflection and invites you to write your prayers to the One who knows you best and loves you unconditionally.
This beautiful prayer journal will be a pivotal part of your time with Jesus, as it guides you through weekly prayers and prompts that have the potential to change your life. With thick, uncoated pages meant for writing out your prayers and hand-lettered Scripture and artwork throughout, The Weekly Prayer Project is as lovely as it is inspirational. Enjoy 52 weeks of prompts designed to draw you close to the Lord, and soak in the rich prayers outlined in the pages of The Weekly Prayer Project. Topical sections guide you through such themes as prayers of request, gratitude, lament, and awe of God, and by the end of The Weekly Prayer Project, you will walk away with a much clearer picture of God’s nature and a more intimate relationship with Him.
Engage with the goodness of God as you are, where you are, and see your prayer life become richer, fuller, and more intimate each week with The Weekly Prayer Project as you capture those things you most want to say to God and see the way He changes your life.
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Success From Scratch
$15.99Add to cartDevelop High-Level Awareness and Mental Strategies to Advance into Massive Success!
There is an infinite amount of material out there on how to succeed, how to make money, how to trade stocks, how to grow your business, how to enhance your career, etc. Nowadays, we have no shortage of people teaching others how to be successful. The majority of people who read and take courses on how to material never actually succeed with it. That is a sad fact, because many people could have the beautiful and successful lives they want, but they are missing some key components that would get them results.
Success opportunities may be presenting themselves to you every day, but the problem is they are in a language in which you may not be fluent. The point of this book is to teach you how to become fluent in the language of success and opportunity, so you can step out and receive this new world you can now perceive with full clarity and understanding.
This book covers creating real success from scratch. It does not matter if you are at knowledge scratch, financial scratch, or entry level job scratch. It does not matter if you filed bankruptcy yesterday. In fact, being at scratch is perfectly okay because it has nothing to do with becoming successful. Where you are starting from means nothing, as long as you open your mind to the concepts I will be sharing with you to sculpt the right psychology to produce success and opportunity.
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How To Study The Bible Updated 2nd Edition
$15.99Add to cartThis classic book by Dwight L. Moody brings to light the necessity of studying the Scriptures, presents methods which help stimulate excitement for the Scriptures, and offers tools to help you comprehend the difficult passages in the Scriptures.
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Absolute Surrender Updated Modern English
$15.99Add to cart“My God, I am willing that You would make me willing.”
God waits to bless us in a way beyond what we expect. From the beginning, ear has not heard, neither has the eye seen, what God has prepared for those who wait for Him (Isaiah 64:4). God has prepared unheard of things, things you never can think of, blessings much more wonderful than you can imagine and mightier than you can conceive. They are divine blessings. Oh, come at once and say, “I give myself absolutely to God, to His will, to do only what God wants.” God will enable you to carry out the surrender necessary, if you come to Him with a sincere heart.
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When The Son Of Man Didnt Come
$39.00Add to cartThe delay of the Parousiathe anticipated return of Christis an issue that has troubled theology since the late writings of the New Testament. This volume, arising from the Oxford Postdoctoral Colloquium on Eschatology, offers a constructive proposal on this issue in a truly interdisciplinary manner. Collaboratively written by a cohort of ecumenical scholars in systematics, historical theology, and biblical studies, the project engages in careful, critical biblical exegesis and offers an apophatic and constructive theological account of the deferral and certainty of Christs second coming.
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2 Kingdoms And Two Cities
$49.00Add to cartIntroduction
1. Luther’s “Inward/Outward” Two Kingdoms
2. Niebuhr, Bonhoeffer, And A “Dialectical” Two Kingdoms
3. Lutheran And Catholic Neoconservatism And A “Paradoxical” Two Kingdoms
4. Reformed Two-Kingdoms Theology And A “Parallel” Two Kingdoms
5. Neo-Augustinian Liberalism And An “Eschatological” Two Kingdoms
6. Augustine And A “Christendom” Two Cities
7. Oliver O’Donovan And A Doctrine Of The Two
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Additional Info
The recent emergence of “two kingdoms” and “two cities” approaches to Christian social thinking is shown to have a key-and often unacknowledged-connection to Luther’s reshaping of the Augustinian paradigm. The project works for a better understanding of Luther’s own thought to help understand the convergences and divergences of Christian political theology in the twentieth century and today.In particular, Luther’s two-kingdom thinking issued forth in a strong distinction of law and gospel that was also worked out in twofold pairs of Israel and church, general and special revelation, creation and redemption, and especially the outward and inward life. The work traces this legacy through acceptance and modification by Niebuhr and Bonhoeffer, Lutheran and Catholic neoconservatives, Reformed two-kingdom proponents, Augustinian liberals, and finally Oliver O’Donovan. The conclusion reflects on both the historical narrative and its connection to an account of modern liberalism, as well as a theological reflection on hermeneutical decisions of the “twoness” of Christian theology.
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Old Testament Yahweh Texts In Pauls Christology
$34.99Add to cartThe earliest Christian communities engaged in bold and imaginative rereadings of their Scriptures–none more astounding and potentially inflammatory than of the passages that focus upon the name and nature of Israel’s God. In this volume, David B. Capes tracks the Apostle Paul’s use of Old Testament texts that directly invoke God’s name, Yahweh, for what they can disclose about the earliest Christian beliefs and practices.
Since Paul writes to his churches in Greek and quotes the Old Testament extensively from the Septuagint, Capes focuses upon Old Testament quotations and allusions in which kyrios translates the divine name. He discovers that Paul applies a majority of his quotations of and allusions to Yahweh texts to the Lord Jesus Christ, thus offering to him designations originally reserved for Israel’s God.
Given the high regard that Judaism placed upon both Scripture and the divine name in the first century, the application of Yahweh texts to Jesus bears significant christological weight. These texts reveal that Paul considered Jesus to be more than a man or a divine agent–Paul believed that Christ was in some sense Yahweh Himself. Capes thus unveils Paul’s strategy for the reading of Scripture, which provides a basis for properly interpreting early Christianity’s veneration of Jesus, including prayers and hymns to Christ, the authoritative status attributed to Jesus’ words, and the notions of Christ’s pre-existence, role in creation, and authority as coming eschatological Savior and Judge. How Paul reread his Bible goes hand-in-glove with the differences that developed between Christianity and Judaism.
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Faith : Believing In The God Who Works On Your Behalf
$21.99Add to cartWhy do some people seem to have more faith?
No matter what status a person may have, no one is perfect and no one totally walks by faith. Doubt, worry, overwhelming feelings, and sin are part of the human condition. All of us need to trust God as our source, security, and assurance.
In Faith: Believing in the God Who Works on Your Behalf, Pastor Yonggi Cho shares his experience of miracles and examples of how to understand and grow in faith. As a young man with only weeks to live, Pastor Cho was healed of a terminal illness,
saw the resurrected Jesus, and quickly began telling people who had no hope that God would provide all they needed. Those few listeners grew to hundreds of thousands and became the world s largest church.This book will:
*Provide principles for a strong daily walk
*Teach readers how to depend on the Holy Spirit
*Encourage readers to believe for and trust God s supernatural power
*Share the truth that God can use any believer to accomplish tremendous things for his kingdom
*Offer the hope of restoration, forgiveness, and courage to begin againWith an understanding that all people doubt, Dr. Cho and Dr. Goodall explain how to grow in faith and live in a hope that chooses to believe in spite of our circumstance, occupation, family, finance, or a myriad of other concerns.
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Into All The World
$61.99Add to cartInto All the World–the third volume from editors Mark Harding and Alanna Nobbs on the content and social setting of the New Testament–brings together a team of eminent Australian scholars in ancient history, New Testament, and the early church to take the story of Christianity into the Jewish and Greco- Roman world of the first century.
In thirteen chapters, the contributors discuss all the post-Pauline New Testament writings, devoting attention to both their content and their context. They examine the impact of the growth of the church on both Jews and Gentiles, exploring issues such as the diaspora, minorities, the Book of Acts, and the Fourth Gospel. The book then proceeds to a discussion of the impact of Christianity on the Roman state, including consideration of the book of Revelation and the imperial cult. A final chapter investigates how the church was perceived by Clement of Rome at the end of the first century.
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How To Become A Multicultural Church
$23.99Add to cartMany churches aspire to be more culturally diverse-but they find that they have no idea how to approach that goal practically. This book addresses that problem with ten ways churches can truly engage and welcome other cultures.
In 2014 Douglas Brouwer, a seasoned American pastor, took on the unique challenge of serving a multiethnic, multiracial, multicultural church in one of Europe’s largest cities. In this book Brouwer distills the lessons he has learned from that experience into timely wisdom on issues every multicultural church faces, including language barriers, theological differences, and cultural stereotypes. Honestly recounting his own questions and challenges in multicultural ministry, Brouwer shows how churches everywhere can adjust their attitudes and practices to embrace racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity.
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31 Surprising Reasons To Believe In God
$17.99Add to cartYou Might Be Closer to Faith Than You Ever Imagined
When the existence of God seems anything but certain and eternity feels too far “out there” to be real, the best place to begin your investigation is right where you are, with the things you already accept as true.
This 31-day intellectual journey reveals hints of the divine all around you-in what you believe, what you love, what you have, and what you know. Discover how sports, superheroes, and science all point to some inescapable conclusions about God.
This carefully reasoned yet whimsical approach to a perplexing topic paves the way for respectful dialogue and meaningful discussions between Christians and skeptics.
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Between One Faith And Another
$20.99Add to cartIntroduction
1. What Is Religion? The Problem Of Definition
2. Primitive Religions: The Sense Of The Religious
3. Hinduism: The Claims Of Mystical Experience
4. Buddhism: The Logic Of Nirvana
5. Zen: The Transformation Of Consciousness
6. Confucianism: The Structure Of Social Success
7. Taoism: The Power Of Nature’s Way
8. Judaism: Human Culture Or Divine Revelation?
9. Islam: Is Surrender Fundamentalism Or The Heart Of Religion?
10. Christianity: The Most Believed (and Most Unbelievable) Claim Ever Made
11. Comparative Religions: Can Contradictories Both Be True?
PostscriptAdditional Info
How do we make sense of the world’s different religions? In today’s globalized society, religion is deeply intertwined with every issue we see on the news. But talking about multiple religions can be contentious. Are different faiths compatible somehow? And how can we know whether one religion is more true than another? In this creative thought experiment, Peter Kreeft invites us to encounter dialogues on the world’s great faiths. His characters Thomas Keptic and Bea Lever are students in Professor Fesser’s course on world religions, and the three explore the content and distinctive claims of each. Together they probe the plausibility of major religions, from Hinduism and Buddhism to Christianity and Islam. Along the way they explore how religions might relate to each other and to what extent exclusivism or inclusivism might make sense. Ultimately Kreeft gives us helpful tools for thinking fairly and critically about competing religious beliefs. If the religions are different kinds of music, do they together make harmony or cacophony? Decide for yourself. -
Beginning With God (Expanded)
$16.99Add to cartPreface
1. What’s In A Name?
2. Beginning With God
3. A Name For God
4. The God Who Is
5. Man And Woman: The Image Of God
6. The Bad News About Human Beings
7. Sin: From The Inside Out
8. God In Search Of His People
9. God’s Finished Work
10. New Life In Christ
11. A New Lifestyle
12. God’s Forever Farmily
NotesAdditional Info
In this personal, easy-to-read book, James Sire offers a basic introduction to the foundational beliefs of Christians at all times and in all places. The chapters are organized around a simple scheme: creation, fall, redemption, new life in Christ, life in the church. A first book for seekers and believers wanting to understand the Christian faith. -
Jesus The Eternal Son
$22.99Add to cartAdoptionism-the idea that Jesus is portrayed in the Bible as a human figure who was adopted as God’s son at his baptism or resurrection-has been commonly accepted in much recent scholarship as the earliest explanation of Jesus’s divine status. In this book Michael Bird draws that view into question with a thorough examination of pre-Pauline materials, the Gospel of Mark, and patristic sources.
Engaging critically with Bart Ehrman, James Dunn, and other scholars, Bird demonstrates that a full-fledged adoptionist Christology did not emerge until the late second century. As he delves into passages often used to support the idea of an early adoptionist Christology, including Romans 1:3-4 and portions of the speeches in Acts, Bird persuasively argues that early Christology was in fact incarnational, not adoptionist. He concludes by surveying and critiquing notable examples of adoptionism in modern theology.
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Womens Voices And The Practice Of Preaching
$23.99Add to cartExpert, practical help for women who preach or lead worship
Many women preachers and worship leaders have trouble speaking; they struggle to fully use their physical voices. Maintaining that there is often a disconnect between the woman’s self-understanding as a preacher and her own body, Nancy Lammers Gross presents not only techniques but also a theologically empowering paradigm shift to help women fully embody their God-given preaching vocations.
Grounding her work in the biblical story of Miriam, Gross begins with a discussion of how women are instrumental in the work of God. She then tells stories, including her own, of women’s experiences in losing connection to their bodies and their physical voices. Finally, Gross presents a constructive resolution with exercises for discovering and developing a full-body voice.
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My Utmost For His Highest Updated Edition
$7.99Add to cartMy Utmost for His Highest has been a proven, best-selling devotional for many years. Over the past century, Oswald Chambers’s writings have inspired countless people to drink deeply from the biblical truths that he so passionately championed. His words are simultaneously penetrating and invigorating, and they trigger something in your soul leaving you forever changed. The biblical thoughts and themes that Chambers delivers in this updated-language edition will resonate with you as you seek to grow your faith.
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Encountering God Through Prayer
$16.99Add to cartPrayer that Enters into God’s Presence and Releases Breakthrough!
Many people see prayer as a religious practice, not a fulfilling pleasure. For this reason, many breakthroughs stay locked up in Heaven. God longs to answer our prayers; He is simply listening for prayers that agree with His will.
When your prayers come into alignment with God’s plans…
Margie Fleurant teaches people about prayer that enters into God’s presence, accesses the strategies of Heaven, and releases breakthrough. She emphasizes that prayer is not a religious practice, but a divine encounter between you and God!
In Encountering God Through Prayer, you’ll learn how to:
*Pray from the secret place: draw near to God and discover how breakthrough prayers are born in these intimate encounters
*Stand in your new creation identity: pray with new boldness and faith as you understand your position in Christ
*Rest in the Father’s love: stop striving in prayer and start simply enjoying the Father’s presence
*Practice powerful prayer: learn simple patterns that, when implemented, will help launch you into a more fulfilling prayer lifeNo matter where your prayer life is today, you can have unlimited access to God’s presence and pray Heaven’s solutions into your world!
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Midnight Angel 2nd Edition
$14.95Add to cartA Chance Encounter
Madison Lawrence is tired of her socialite upbringing and wants to escape the confines of her domineering father. A chance encounter with a mysterious German stranger sets her on a path that will bring her more happiness…and danger than she thought possible. Carsten Erlichman can’t forget the woman he nicknames his angel. Madison’s beauty shines both inside and out. Their chance meeting under the stars is the perfect setting. But one delicate kiss and twelve gongs from the clock tower later, Madison is forced to leave, and he fears they’ll never cross paths again. But God has a way of working out the most complex of problems.A Deliberate Accident
Madison collects angel figurines as a means of feeding her most precious memory. Little does she know that her collection will tangle her in a web of lies and danger. When Carsten appears at her office offering a renewed relationship and strong protection, she relishes the opportunity to finally get to know the man who stole her heart one chilly evening in Germany. But Carsten is harboring a secret, and Madison must discover the truth about her father, her faith–and Carsten before the clock strikes midnight again. -
Way Of Hope
$18.00Add to cartMost churches today struggle to answer the same-sex relationship debate that is quickly transforming our culture, our kids, and our churches. As a result, Christians struggle to demonstrate love and grace to those with same-sex attraction. That means that more and more people who are looking for truth and a place where they belong are deciding that the church is either indifferent to their struggle or outright hostile to “people like them.”
There’s a better way–the way of hope. With deep understanding born from her own painful experiences, Melissa Fisher shows that somewhere between the extremes of condemning and condoning is compassion. In this book, she aims to equip the church to make a positive difference in the lives of those hurting from relational or sexual brokenness. Perfect for pastors, parents, siblings, and friends of the ten million people in America who identify as LGBTQ, who long to love them well.
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1 Nation Without Law
$14.99Add to cartDynamic, Practical, Faith-Filled Response to the Evil Rising Around Us
It’s difficult to hear the growing daily reports of evil in our society without a degree of fear. Seen from a human perspective, things appear hopeless. But as we consider the spiritual perspective of those same events, we can–and will–see what purpose those struggles serve in God’s plan.
In these pages, pastor and author Phil Hotsenpiller will help you begin to connect the dots between biblical prophecies about lawlessness with current events. As you begin to see God’s perspective, you will gain a more confident outlook for the future. God is trying to get our attention, show us how to get past our fears, and help us respond with faith to the evil we see all around us. Regardless of what we see on the news, God is still in control. Here are practical, everyday ways we can move forward with hope and determination to make our world a better place until the return of Jesus Christ.
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Praying For Girls (Reprinted)
$16.00Add to cartScripture-Based Prayers for Your Daughter’s Specific Needs
Instead of feeling overwhelmed by concerns for your daughter, enjoy the peace that comes when you pray targeted prayers for her straight from the Bible. No matter your girl’s age, pray confidently about struggles she may be facing now and in the years to come.
Covering five vital areas of a girl’s life–her identity, heart, mind, relationships, and purpose–this easy-to-use book is ideal for anyone who feels intimidated or uncertain about what to pray for the girl they love. Rounding out the book are conversation starters and fun activities to help you guide your daughter into becoming a godly woman.
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Legacy
$21.00Add to cartThe Dramatic Conclusion to Michael Phillips’s Shetland Islands Saga
Loni Ford’s unexpected inheritance of substantial real estate–not to mention a title–in the Shetland Islands has caused more than a stir in the quiet fishing hamlet of Whale’s Reef. How is life ever to be the same with an outsider–and a woman, at that–playing such a pivotal role in the life of this conservative community? But it isn’t just the locals who have deep misgivings about the current situation. Loni herself never imagined this in her wildest dreams.
What Loni is more sure of, however, is that she is falling in love–with Whales Reef, with its hardy people, with its simple, peaceful way of life, and with local chieftain David Tulloch, whose inheritance she has usurped, at least in the eyes of some.
But life in Whales Reef is not without drama. Deep rifts exist between certain lifelong residents, and when one local resident turns up dead, suspicion is cast in the direction of the island’s most prominent family. How Loni and David deal with this challenge will go a long way in determining their future, and that of the quaint island community.
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Egypts Sister
$18.00Add to cartNew York Times Bestselling Author’s Newest Biblical-Era Series
Five decades before the birth of Christ, Chava, daughter of the royal tutor, grows up with Urbi, a princess in Alexandria’s royal palace. When Urbi becomes Queen Cleopatra, Chava vows to be a faithful friend no matter what–but after she and Cleopatra have an argument, she finds herself imprisoned and sold into slavery. Torn from her family, her community, and her elevated place in Alexandrian society, Chava finds herself cast off and alone in Rome. Forced to learn difficult lessons, she struggles to trust a promise HaShem has given her. After experiencing the best and worst of Roman society, Chava must choose between love and honor, between her own desires and God’s will for her life.
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Gift Of Bread
$21.99Add to cartThirty-one chapters, each featuring detailed and easy to follow recipes for breads of every kind, celebrate the many ways we come together around the table. Whether you are a baker who enjoys thoughtful, inspirational writing or a reader who loves a good cookbook, you will find heartfelt stories and inspirations throughout this book. Expert tips, how-tos, and pointers will turn even a novice into a successful baker, and the writing will encourage readers to reach out and share their bounty with others, while thanking God for their daily bread.
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Homebrewed Christianity Guide To Church History
$19.99Add to cart1. Herding Ecclesiastical Cats
2. Who’s In Charge Around Here?
3. Flaming Heretics And Anathemas Galore
4. Mother Of God Or The Devil’s Gateway?
5. Drawn From Immanuel’s Veins
6. “Salt Me Well, Salt Me Well”
7. Life In The Spirit
8. In The World But (Mostly) Not Of ItAdditional Info
Amid the ferment of dissent and the protests of heretics, the church developed most significantly. This guide introduces that history by looking at those periods, all with the trademark Homebrewed Christianity wit.Questions have preoccupied Christian communities throughout history-Who is Jesus? How should we organize ourselves?-and they’ve been debated at councils and fought on battlefields. Focusing on some of the most and least savory characters in church history, this guide provides an overview of Christian responses to those and other formative questions. Plus, it’s a hoot!
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Anything But Simple
$12.99Add to cartLike her grandmother, Lucinda J. Miller wears long dresses and a prayer covering. But she uses a cellphone and posts status updates on Facebook, too. Anything but Simple is the riveting memoir of a young woman’s rich church tradition, lively family life, and longings for a meaningful future within her Mennonite faith. With a roving curiosity and a sometimes saucy tongue, Miller ushers us into her busy life as a young schoolteacher.
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Lord Is My Shepherd
$17.99Add to cartRob Morgan, bestselling author of Then My Soul Sings, explores the rich meaning behind the world’s best-known and most-loved poem-Psalm 23.
The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
He makes me to lie down in green pastures;
He leads me beside the still waters…These are the opening lines to one of the most memorized, inspirational, and comforting passages in the Bible-and one of the greatest poems of all time. In six verses, it provides a microcosm of God’s grace. When anxiety robs us of sleep, our most powerful “tranquilizer” is Psalm 23. It’s a soul-soother. It appears in the middle of a trilogy of psalms dealing with our past, our present, and our future needs.
In The Lord is My Shepherd, Morgan teaches Psalm 23 verse-by-verse, explaining its extraordinary power to change lives and ease our troubles. He shares its fascinating context and colorful background, as well as his own charming, real-life stories of herding sheep. You’ll find encouragement to enjoy the “green pastures” of life while becoming strengthened by the “dark valleys.” Furthermore, Morgan maintains that some of the Bible’s richest truths are summarized in these six simple verses of Psalm 23. In knowing the Good Shepherd, we have total resources for all our internal, external, and eternal needs.
Through this clear explanation of the biblical text and great stories that illustrate the love and care of the shepherd, The Lord is My Shepherd will help you rediscover the joy, inspiration, and peace in the green pastures of this beloved psalm.
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Imaginative Prayer : A Yearlong Guide For Your Childs Spiritual Formation
$26.99Add to cartImaginative Prayer Creedal Poem
Introduction
How To Use This Book
Part I: God’s Love
1. God Loves So Many Things
2. He Loves Me
3. When I Am Lost, He Will Come Looking For Me
4. When I Am Sick, He Wants To Heal Me
5. When I Make Mistakes, He Will Always Have Grace On Me
6. There Is Nothing That Can Separate Me From The Love Of GodReview Week
Part II: Loving Others
7. God Invites Us To Live A Life Of Love
8. Love Looks Like Being Patient And Kind And Not Making A List Of People’s Mistakes
9. Love Looks Like Inviting People Who May Be Left Out
10. Love Looks Like Taking Care Of People When They Need Help
11. We Love Others With The Love That God Pours Into Us
12. People Will Know That We Are Followers Of Jesus Because Of Our Love For Each OtherReview Week
Part III: Forgiveness
13. Forgiveness Means We Can Have Peace With God
14. Forgiveness Means God Welcomes Anyone
15. Forgiveness Means God Takes Away Our Sin
16. Forgiveness Means We Can Forgive The Sins Of Others
17. When We Forgive, We Will Be Forgiven. When We Give, It Will Be Given Unto Us
18. Love And Forgiveness Make Room For ReconciliationReview Week
Part IV: Jesus Is The King
19. Jesus Is The King Who Came To Undo The Power Of Death
20. Jesus Is The King Who Came To Defeat The Power Of Sin
21. Jesus Is The King Who Came To Defeat The Power Of The Accuser
22. Jesus Is A Faithful King, Even When We Don’t Have Faith
23. We Have Life With God Through The Faithfulness Of Jesus The King
24. God Became King Through Love And ForgivenessReview Week
Part V: The Good News Of God
25. God Made Us A Promise, And It Comes To Us Through Jesus
26. The Good News Of God Comes To Us Through The Words Of Jesus
27. The Good News Of God Comes To Us Through The Life Of Jesus
28. The Good News Of God Comes To Us Through The Death Of Jesus
29. The Good News Of God Comes To Us Through The Resurrection Of Jesus
30. We Receive The Promises Of God When We Choose To Follow JesusReview Week
Part XI: The Mission Of God
31. When We Choose To Follow Jesus, We Join The Mission Of God To Bring His Love Into The World
32. The Mission Of God Is To Make Everything In The World Good Again
33. The Mission Of God Is To Bring All Things Under The Reign Of King Jesus
34. The Mission Of God Is To Bring Peace And Reconciliation To Everything
35. The Mission Of God Is To Take Away The Veil That Covers Up The Presence Of God
36. God Is At WoAdditional Info
How do we help our kids connect with God? Most parents want their kids to learn to love God. But most of us struggle to facilitate real spiritual experiences. It’s hard enough to have a meaningful conversation with our kids about spiritual things, let alone help them experience true transformation in the presence of God. Jared Patrick Boyd discovered that children’s spiritual formation is rooted in the imagination. When we lead our children through guided times of imaginative prayer, they can experience a connection with God that transcends mere Bible knowledge or doctrinal content. This unique resource provides six units of weekly guided imaginative prayer, themed around core topics: God’s love, loving others, forgiveness, God as king, the good news of God, and the mission of God. Each unit has six sessions, providing a yearlong experience of spiritual formation for children ages 5-13. Through imaginative prayer you can help your child connect with God. As you do so, you may find yourself connecting more closely with your child, and your own formation as a parent will deepen into greater awareness of God’s work in your lives. -
Wisdom Of God
$17.00Add to cartA.W. Tozer on Living in God’s Wisdom
We were created by God and for God, and the only way to find true joy, peace, and contentment is by understanding and embracing his wisdom. Wisdom is not some highbrow philosophical concept, but rather a highly practical tool for living the best possible life.
The Wisdom of God captures Tozer’s teaching on this topic as a way to understand the well-lived Christian life. God’s wisdom is a part of his character, inseparable from his love and grace, and knowing this wisdom means drawing closer to him. It will change your decisions, attitudes, and relationships, setting you on the path to becoming all God wants you to be.
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Beneath Copper Falls
$17.99Add to cartDana Newell has just moved to Rock Harbor to take a job as a sheriff’s dispatcher and is settling in next door to Bree and Kade Matthews. The abusive relationship she left behind seems a distant memory in this perfect place.
Her first day on the job, Dana receives a call from her friend Allyson who screams “He’s going to kill me too” before the phone goes dead. Dana immediately dispatches a deputy, but it’s too late. Allyson’s death is ruled an accident, but Dana just doesn’t believe it. She knows Allyson-an investigative reporter-was researching a new story. Did someone want to keep her quiet?
Dana continues to look into the accident with the help of Bree and also Allyson’s cousin Boone. Romance quickly blooms between Dana and Boone but the game is much more complex than either of them imagined. When Dana’s ex-fiance locates her, she’s caught in the middle. It’s a game of cat and mouse as she and Boone fight to catch one killer while evading another.
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Abiding Mercy
$16.99Add to cartWith one image, everything Faith thought she knew about herself is turned on its head.
Seventeen-year-old Faith has worked full-time in her parents’ Amish restaurant since she finished 8th grade school. She loves her small Amish district and is ready to take the next step of baptism and joining the church.
But her simple life is soon uprooted when a newspaper runs an old cold-case story about a kidnapped child. The updated computerized image enhancements eerily resemble her, so much so that Faith is suddenly brought into the spotlight, believed to be the missing child.
Presented with an opportunity for a brand-new life, Faith faces an impossible decision: Stay in the world she has only ever known, or return to the life she was born into.
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Writing Desk
$17.99Add to cartTenley Roth’s first book was a literary and commercial success. Now that her second book is due, she’s locked in fear. Can she repeat her earlier success or is she a fraud who merely found a bit of luck?
With pressure mounting from her publisher, Tenley is weighted with writer’s block. But when her estranged mother calls asking Tenley to help her through chemotherapy, she packs up for Florida where she meets handsome furniture designer Jonas Sullivan and discovers the story her heart’s been missing.
Born during the Gilded Age, Birdie Shehorn is the daughter of the old money Knickerbockers. Yet her life is not her own. Under the strict control of her mother, her every move is decided ahead of time, even whom she’ll marry. But Birdie has dreams of her own. She wants to tell stories, write novels, make an impact on the world. When she discovers her mother has literally destroyed her dreams, she must choose between submission and security or forging a brand new way all on her own.
Tenley and Birdie are from two very different worlds. Yet when Tenley discovers Birdie’s manuscript, their lives intersect. Birdie’s words help Tenley find a way home. Tenley brings Birdie’s writing to the world.
Can two women separated by time help fulfill each other’s destiny?
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Lifes Healing Choices Revised And Updated
$18.99Add to cartHappiness and Healing are yours for the choosing.
We ve all been hurt by other people, we ve hurt ourselves, and we ve hurt others. And as a result, every single one of us ends up with some sort of hurt, hang-up, or habit. But the question we all face is, Where do we go from here?Life s Healing Choices offers freedom from our hurts, hang-ups, and habits through eight healing choices that promise true happiness and life transformation. Using the Beatitudes of Jesus as a foundation, Senior Pastor Rick Warren of Saddleback Church and John Baker, who is also a pastor at Saddleback, developed the eight choices shared in this book.
In addition to practical, encouraging biblical teaching, each chapter includes two real-life stories of men and women whose lives have been transformed by living out the eight choices in this book. Through making each of these choices, you too will find God s pathway to wholeness, growth, spiritual maturity, happiness, and healing. You ll find real answers, real hope, and a real future one healing choice at a time. -
Chosen
$17.99Add to cartChosen to be the recipient of a great gift, Glenn Hitch receives a title pointing to the destiny all mankind was originally purposed for. Glenn’s new abilities include the same gift granted to Elisha’s servant in answer to the prophet’s prayer: the ability to see the true reality of the war he was engaged in. The struggle not with flesh and blood, as so many would readily assume, but instead with the spiritual forces that feed on and drive much of the conflict in this life. Glenn must learn to balance the demands of love and the requirements of service that flow from these new abilities. Glenn knows what many deny: there really are angels and demons, and both are involved in people’s lives and decisions. By serving others who doubt that truth, Glenn searches for the answer to the questions that haunt him the most: Why was I chosen, and what does it mean to be chosen?
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Damaged Goods
$17.99Add to cartMajor General Lee Chinh started at the mirror, wondering what she had seen in him. His damaged body should have repelled her, yet she had loved him anyway. But now, Hope had been taken from him, along with the unborn child that had filled his mind with such expectation and anticipated joy. How could he ever be whole again without her? What value or future did the life hold for him now? How could someone who was so damaged ever be reclaimed? Chinh would discover the answer to these questions, half a world away, where a stranger, living in the country he had once considered his enemy, was struggling with her own loss and the mounting confrontation with forces conspiring to destroy her and her family. Confronted with the challenge to serve another, Chinh discovers that his own loss is inexplicably intertwined with that woman’s story. He finds that his battle is not against flesh and blood, but against the spiritual forces of wickedness, which desire to enslave not only him, but others he would learn to love.
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Introduction To Political Science
$49.99Add to cartPreface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Part I:
1. What Is Government? Why Do We Need It? Key Concepts In The Study Of Politics
2. What Is A Christian Government? Should There Be One?
3. Political Ideologies And ValuesPart II: Institutions
4. Structuring Government: Regime Types And Liberal Democracy
5. Structuring Government: Institutions That Make Government Work
6. Political Parties, Elections, And Voting
7. Interest Groups And Other Forms Of Political ParticipationPart III: Policy
8. Funding Government
9. Social Policy
10. Economic PolicyPart IV: Foreign Policy And International Relations
11. Perspectives On International Relations
12. The United Nations, INGOs, And Meeting The Needs Of The Most Vulnerable
13. Church, State, And Shalom
Notes
Illustration Credits
Author Index
Subject IndexAdditional Info
An introductory textbook to the world of political science from a Christian perspective. In concise, accessible prose, Fred Van Geest explores the main ideas, institutions, policies, and perspectives in the study of politics. Designed for beginning students who have no prior knowledge of political life. -
Prophets Manual : A Guide To Sustaining Your Prophetic Gift
$19.99Add to cartSharpen and sustain your prophetic gift, and learn strategies for speaking the Word of God with confidence. There is a prophetic remnant rising up in the earth who want to be called out, trained, and activated in their gift to hear God’s voice and deliver His messages to His people, and they must not grow weary.
Best-selling author John Eckhardt provides encouragement for those who operate in their prophetic gift, to endure and continue to be a mouthpiece for the kingdom of God.
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Reading Ephesians With John Stott (Student/Study Guide)
$16.99Add to cartPaul’s letter to the church in Ephesus is a concise yet comprehensive summary of the good news and its implications. The entire letter is a magnificent combination of Christian doctrine and Christian duty-faith and life-written that we might recognize the hope to which we are called. In this volume, John Stott’s teachings from The Message of Ephesians are offered as brief devotional readings suitable for daily use. Including eleven weekly studies that take us passage by passage through Ephesians, this book allows readers to enjoy the riches of Stott’s writings in a new, easy-to-use format.
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7 Prayers Of Jesus
$14.99Add to cartMillions of Christians believe that prayer is the breath of the soul, on which depends the quality of their spiritual life. The reality, however, is that genuine prayer is something we need to learn repeatedly. We share the helplessness of the disciples who asked Jesus, `Lord, teach us to pray’ (Luke 11:1). This volume focuses on the praying of Jesus Christ in the New Testament. The Seven Prayers of Jesus investigates his prayers in their literary and socio-historical context, and points to their theological significance and relevance for today. Laszlo Gallusz hopes that this work will not only provide a fresh biblical perspective on the prayers of Jesus but also become a source of inspiration for our own prayer lives.
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Storm Group : A Study Guide For Show Yourself A Man
$11.99Add to cartKnowledge is important, but it must lead to action. This guide will help the reader of “Show Yourself a Man” to take the truths discussed in the book and apply them. The guide is designed to take a group of two or more men through a 12 week study of “Show Yourself a Man.”
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Gospel Side Of Elvis
$21.99Add to cartGospel music was a significant part of not only who Elvis became as a man, but as an artist as well. As Elvis mania continues to consume generation after generation throughout the world, fans still crave new insights into the person of Elvis Presley. This book takes a look at his roots and the role of gospel in his foundational years, as well as the comfort, solace, and strength it offered him in the years of his meteoric rise in popularity. THE GOSPEL SIDE OF ELVIS is a rarely explored aspect of this American icon and one that reveals so much about the Elvis so many have yet to discover.
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Message From My Angel 1
$12.99Add to cartWhat if you could learn the name of your angel, receive a picture of your angel’s likeness, and receive a five-minute message from your angel? Would that initial message stir your heart enough to start a dialogue with your angel? This unique Christian book that might be more at home in a New Age bookstore is A Message From My Angel: Book 1.
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I Write For Jesus
$14.99Add to cartButtercup Media
These short stories of love, faith and belief in our Savior Jesus Christ are written for all Christians. Neal once a month reads a story to the congregation of St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Clarendon, Texas, In Turkey, Texas his stories have been shared in monthly bible study groups consisting of many faiths including Baptist, Methodist and Chirch of Christ. Neal shares his readings not only in these churches but also many out of state.
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Spoken Into Being
$14.99Add to cartEveryone is a storyteller, according to Michael Williams, and all of us are on a spiritual journey. Storytelling helps us make sense of our lives, the world around us, and God. When we tell stories, we speak a world into being-just as God did in the creation accounts in the book of Genesis. Spoken into Being is both a guide to telling our own stories and a reminder that we have been spoken into being as part of a much larger story. It is a voyage of discovery for those of us who wish to deepen our experience of God’s presence in our lives.
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Power Of Proximity
$17.99Add to cartIntroduction
Foreword By Noel CastellanosPart I: How Proximity Transforms Us
1. Becoming Proximate
2. Deeper And Higher
3. Embracing BrokennessPart II: Proximity Compels Response
4. Leaning Into Love
5. Race Matters
6. Privilege Needs To Take A SidePart III: Proximity For The Long Haul
7. Fear, Courage, Redemption
8. Solvitur Ambulando
9. Joining The Collective EngagementNotes
Additional Info
We can see evidence of injustice all around us, whether in continuing incidents of racial inequality or in the systemic forces that disenfranchise people and perpetuate poverty. It’s important to learn about the world’s inequities and to be a voice for the voiceless any way we can. But in an age of hashtag and armchair activism, merely raising awareness about injustice is not enough. Michelle Warren knows what is needed. She and her family have chosen to live in communities where they are “proximate to the pain of the poor.” This makes all the difference in facing and overcoming injustice. When we build relationships where we live, we discover the complexities of standing with the vulnerable and the commitment needed for long-term change. Proximity changes our perspective, compels our response, and keeps us committed to the journey of pursuing justice for all. Move beyond awareness and experience the power of proximity. -
Mothers Secret
$16.99Add to cartAn unwed Amish woman yearns for real love and a family. The only thing in her way is the shame she’s been carrying for half of her life.
Thirty-one-year-old Carolyn Lapp has never been married-but she’s been a mother for fifteen years. In a community with strict standards and a long memory, Carolyn knows she might never find a man who will have her and her son, Benjamin.
Carolyn’s family tries to marry her off to a widower with a daughter who needs a mother. A marriage of convenience doesn’t sound so bad, yet despite her loneliness, Carolyn knows what she really wants: a traditional Amish family and a marriage for love.
When Benjamin gets into trouble at an auction, he finds himself beholden to a handsome horse breeder named Joshua Glick. Joshua and Carolyn feel an instant attraction, and soon a romance is budding between them. The trouble is Joshua believes Benjamin is Carolyn’s nephew, not her son.
After years of shame and loneliness, Carolyn suddenly has two men vying for her attention. Can either man give her the family-and the unconditional love-she longs for? Or will her past once again sabotage the future she wants?
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1 For Sorrow
$14.99Add to cartOne for Sorrow relates the story of the loss of 21-year-old Tom to cancer, and how his family lived through the aftermath. When Alan began writing the memoir, he believed it would be about his son’s illness and death. He soon realized, however, that he was recording his own painful journey through the ‘valley of the shadow’, as a father and as someone responsible for ministering to others in similar situations. His core beliefs were challenged and his perspective on life changed.
Now retired, Alan is passionate about the capacity we all have to grow through adversity and, like our crucified God, rise up from pain and death to live and love and laugh again.
Inspired by the classic poem, and beautifully and poignantly written, this memoir is destined to become a classic.
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Long Way Gone
$18.99Add to cart“No matter where you go, no matter whether you succeed or fail, stand or fall, no gone is too far gone. You can always come home.”
At the age of eighteen, musician and songwriter Cooper O’Connor took everything his father held dear and drove 1,200 miles from home to Nashville, his life riding on a six-string guitar and the bold wager that he had talent. But his wager soon proved foolish.
Five years after losing everything, he falls in love with Daley Cross, an angelic voice in need of a song. But just as he realizes his love for Daley, Cooper faces a tragedy that threatens his life as well as his career. With nowhere else to go, he returns home to the remote Colorado mountains, searching for answers about his father and his faith.
When Daley shows up on his street corner twenty years later, he wonders if it’s too late to tell her the truth about his past-and if he is ready to face it himself.
A radical retelling of the prodigal son story, Long Way Gone takes us from tent revivals to the Ryman Auditorium to the tender relationship between a broken man and the father who never stopped calling him home.
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Reading Galatians With John Stott (Student/Study Guide)
$14.99Add to cartFalse teachers had infiltrated the churches in Galatia, attacking Paul’s authority as well as the gospel he preached. So Paul’s letter to the Galatians is not only a defense of his authority as an apostle, but also a celebration of the remarkable grace offered through Jesus Christ. John Stott’s teachings from The Message of Galatians are offered here as brief devotional readings suitable for daily use. Including nine weekly studies that take us passage by passage through Galatians, this book allows readers to enjoy the riches of Stott’s writings in a new, easy-to-use format.
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Clash Of Kingdoms Discovery Guide (Student/Study Guide)
$14.99Add to cartLike the Roman Empire, today’s governments or organizations can become centered on power and believe their messages are the “good news.” As Christians, we’re called to proclaim God’s name in all the earth (1 Chronicles 16:8), but how do we to do that in the midst of false gospels?
In this fifteenth volume of That The World May Know , discover how Paul communicated the Good News of Christ to Philippi, a Roman colony that worshipped false gods. Can you live the message as Paul did while he encouraged the church in Philippi to consider itself a colony of heaven, not Rome? Consider your citizenship-and the message you convey to the world-as Ray Vander Lann takes you deeper into the culture of ancient Philippi.
Experience the Bible in historical context, as you walk in the footsteps of the second missionary tour of the Apostle Paul in Greece-in locations like Philippi, Thessaloniki, and Delphi.
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Recapturing The Wonder
$20.99Add to cartIntroduction
1. Discovering Our Disenchantment Pathway One: Re-Enchanting Our World
2. Modern Displays And The God Who Ends Religion Pathway Two: Experiencing Grace
3. Selfie Sticks, Spectacles, And Sepulchers Pathway Three: Bringing Scripture To Life
4. Seeking A ?Hidden Ground? Pathway Four: Withdrawing With God
5. Abundance And Scarcity Pathway Five: Practicing Abundance
6. Feasts Of Attention Pathway Six: Throwing A Feast
7. The Monastery And The Road Pathway Seven: Writing A Rule Of Life
Epilogue: One Final Wonder
Acknowledgments
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Christians aren’t immune to becoming cynical and critical, especially when it comes to matters of the Christian faith. This book challenges readers to rediscover the magic and wonder of Christianity, and to recognize the ways in which our culture suppresses our enchantment with the Christian faith. -
From Cairo To Christ
$20.99Add to cart16 Chapters
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If I were to become a Christian, it would mean not only changing my religion but changing my whole identity, and bringing shame upon my family. My whole family is Muslim, and my society and culture were Muslim. . . . Changing from Islam to Christianity would mess up my life forever. So writes Abu Atallah, who grew up in Cairo as an ordinary Egyptian Muslim. He was deeply embedded in his family, religion, and country. For a time he was part of the Muslim Brotherhood. But as he came of age, he began to encounter people who followed a different way, who called themselves Christians. And a radically new life became possible-at great cost and risk, yet with great joy. From Cairo to Christ is the remarkable story of how one Muslim man was drawn to the Christian faith, and how he later became an ambassador for Christ with a ministry in the Muslim world. Atallah has personally helped hundreds of Muslims come to Christ. This narrative sheds light on Islamic cultural dynamics and what Westerners should know about Muslim contexts. Despite the challenges facing believers from Muslim backgrounds, God is bringing surprising numbers of Muslims to Christ. Discover how the good news of Jesus transforms lives in Muslim communities around the world. -
Azusa Street Mission And Revival
$16.99Add to cartIn Azusa Street Mission and Revival, Cecil M. Robeck, Jr. brings to bear expertise from decades of focused study in church history to reveal the captivating story of the Apostolic Faith Mission in Los Angeles, which became known as the Azusa Street Mission.
From humble beginnings with few resources, this small uniquely diverse and inclusive congregation led by William J. Seymour ignited a fire that quickly grew into a blaze and spread across the world giving rise to the global Pentecostal movement. Sifting through newspaper reports and other written accounts of the time as well as the mission’s own publications, and through personal interaction with some of those blessed to stand very near to the fire that began at the mission, Cecil M. Robeck, Jr. relates not only the historical significance of the revival but also captures the movement of the Holy Spirit that changed the face of modern Christianity.
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Altar Of His Presence
$16.99Add to cartWhen we hear the word, “altar,” we often associate it with images of death and sacrifice or of surrender and yielding.
Although these associations do have their place, there is a New Covenant revelation of the altar that will usher your relationship with God into new experiential dimensions.
Robert Stone lays out a revelatory blueprint for you to take your intimacy with God to new levels.
You will:
*Receive new revelationof how the biblical concept of the altar is a blueprint for you to experience the Holy Spirit more deeply
*Gain new clarity in following the Holy Spirit’s leading
*Experience deep spiritual fulfillment as you learn to fellowship with God on a more personal level
*Enter into greater depths of worship where you can witness God’s glory more powerfullyThis New Covenant revelation of the altar offers fresh encounters with God’s presence!
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Following Destiny
$16.99Add to cartLexie Logan learned her lessons–or did she?
Spending three months in 1857 Kansas forced her to evaluate her priorities. She has returned to the twenty-first century and now must face the fears that caused her to rebel in the first place.
How can Lexie explain the jagged cut on her arm or the mention of her name in nineteenth-century letters and diaries she sent to her cousin for safe keeping? How can she keep her time-travel experience a secret … or can she? How will her fiance, Lance Garrett, respond when he finds out? What impact will Lexie’s visit to the past have on her future?
Though she made promises, will she keep them? Or will she let her fears to control her actions and rule her destiny?
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Life For God
$14.99Add to cartTo grasp the depth and height of the great I AM and to live life with the end (eternity) in sight is a believer’s most significant accomplishment. Within each of His chosen people, God has placed a desire to know Him, to worship Him, and to live victoriously for Him. He has shown us how to have the right perspective concerning this life and the one to come. And what God starts, He finishes.
Come, let Messianic Rabbi Greg Hershberg open the Torah and give you glimpses of the incredible love and character of our God. Let him point you to the Savior through the offerings of Leviticus and the mournful lament of Psalm 22. Let him guide you through the greatest commandment as you learn to say “no” to yourself, pick up your execution-stake, and follow the great I AM.
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Believers Garden
$10.99Add to cartIt is written, “And ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.” (John 8:32). Believers’ garden is a faith building, spiritual development and mind renewing piece that will enable believers to overcome deceptions and falsehood. Due to traditions, culture and false doctrines that have found themselves in the body of Christ, as well as deceptions and falsehood from the other Religions purposely to tarnish the image of the church and the bible, has caused many believers faith to grow cold. It is also making the church unpleasant for the outsiders to join. For this reason, this book has been written to equip and to build believers mentally and spiritually to defend and to hold on to their faith. It contains vital divine truth needful for the growth and development of every believer. It is a must read book.
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Beyond The Fire
$24.95Add to cartDestry Cotton was not from Amity nor did she care about its rich and colorful past. However, this Christmas her husband insisted they travel to his home, where Destry met her in-laws for the first time. Trapped with the Cottons by a terrible blizzard, Destry not only began to learn about Amity, but Bill Cotton spoke of his own struggle with life and the impact doubt and fear had taken on his family, his friends and his nation. As Bill told of God’s supernatural intervention, Destry began to wonder if the God she professed to believe would actually interact with humans. Was it even possible? Pull up a chair, join Destry and witness how God intervened to rescue a nation and help his people learn to live Beyond the Fire.
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My True Loves Gifts
$11.95Add to cartIf you have ever found the Christmas season to be an emotional and spiritual letdown, My True Love’s Gifts is for you. We are about to discover the real message in “The Twelve Days of Christmas” and experience Christmas from a perspective that is broader and deeper than the traditional nativity scene. We will discover something entirely new, inspiring, and encouraging in the words of a centuries-old lyric. As the amazing scope and extent of the true love’s generosity is discovered, there will be no post-Christmas blues this season.
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Watching The Dragonfly Dance
$17.95Add to cartSince the fall of the USSR, Mongolia has been a veritable open door for Christianity to spread far and wide. Starting in the early 1990s, God set the stage for Mongolia Campus Crusade for Christ (MCCC) to facilitate a message of hope and deliverance for a time such as this … when Zula, a young Mongolian mother and MCCC staff member would forge a lasting friendship with Rhonda, a stateside Christian conciliator and grandmother, through a short-term mission partnership with MCCC.
This story takes you on the journey of God’s design that brought these two women together from completely different countries and cultures and transformed them through heartrending tragedy.
Gratitude has come as I’ve made this journey. I’m thankful that God is using my broken heart to transform me for His purposes and for His glory, and to bring encouragement to the hurting hearts of others who have also experienced loss.
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7 Minutes Late
$28.95Add to cartPhyllis Titus grew up hearing the story of a grandfather she’d never met who booked passage on the Titanic and missed its departure by seven minutes. She’d always wondered how this happened, and what could possibly have kept him from boarding the ship. It was not until 1997, while attending the Memphis opening of “Titanic-The Exhibition,” that her questions were finally answered. That’s when she learned about the purpose for her grandfather’s European trip, the mysterious woman he met while travelling across the Atlantic, their planned rendezvous at the Southampton Dock before returning to the States on Titanic’s maiden voyage, and the reason why he never made it aboard.
In the years since then, Mrs. Titus has shared a condensed version of this story with countless people, including strangers who ask her to explain the meaning of the “7MINSL8” message on her license plates.
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Augustinian Alternative : Religious Skepticism And The Search For A Liberal
$49.00Add to cartIntroduction
1. Political Liberalism And Its Theological Opponents
2. Political Liberalism And The Possibilities Of Augustinian Skepticism
3. The Liberal State: An Augustinian Defense
4. Montaigne And The Notion Of “The Secular”: An Alternative To Radical Orthodoxy
5. Obeying, Believing, And Rebelling: Montaigne’s Theology As Liberal-Christian Politics
6. Contemporary Political Landscapes: Augustine Against Neoliberalism
Conclusion: Augustinian Epistemology And The Prospect Of Christian Liberalism
Bibliography
Index
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This book’s central claim is that a close reading of Augustine’s epistemology can help political theologians develop affirmative accounts of political liberalism. This claim is set in a scholarly context that is profoundly hostile to constructive theological readings of liberal culture. As a corrective to such antagonism, this book suggests that, far from being natural opponents, Christian communities can work fruitfully with political liberals based on common principles. A key component in this argument is the theological reevaluation of the ancient skeptical tradition. While the ancient skeptics are habitually treated by scholars as minor characters in the story of Augustine’s theological development, this volume argues that they played a significant role in shaping both Augustine’s theology and the subsequent character of the Augustinian tradition. By placing Augustine’s reading of the skeptics in dialogue with contemporary culture, this book constructs a viable form of liberal Christian politics that is attentive both to his sin-sensitive account of public life and his eschatological vision of the church. -
Confident Identity : Christian Strategies To Forget Who You Aren’t And Disc
$21.95Add to cartA Christian counselor walks readers through the steps to find emotional healing when they feel insignificant or not good enough. Multiple assessments and exercises help people discover exactly who God made them to be.
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Old Earth Or Evolutionary Creation
$28.99Add to cart11 Chapters
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Old-earth and evolutionary creationists differ on important subjects, but they also share more than one might expect. In this exciting and groundbreaking volume, representatives from Reasons to Believe and BioLogos engage in a charitable, informed debate over key issues on the relation of Christianity and modern science.
