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Knowing God Bible Study (Anniversary)
$12.00Add to cartFaithful. Triune. Beyond comparison. Triumphant over all. These words barely begin to describe the God we serve, yet he invites us to have a relationship with him. What could be more important than knowing this all-surpassing God?
These five easy-to-use Bible studies, based on J. I. Packer’s bestselling classic Knowing God, explore the character and actions of God throughout Scripture. They encourage us to look for God every time we read the Bible and to deepen our understanding, trust, and worship in response.
In honor of the fiftieth anniversary of Knowing God, this edition of the Knowing God Bible Study helps individuals and groups explore and apply biblical truths. Each session features an insightful quotation by Packer matched with a Scripture passage, reflection questions, and application ideas that will equip readers to gain a fuller knowledge of the God we worship. A leader’s guide and list of suggested resources are also included.
Also available: Knowing God Devotional Journal, Knowing God Study Guide, and Knowing God Fiftieth Anniversary Edition.
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Knowing God Study Guide (Student/Study Guide)
$12.99Add to cartOver a million people have found J. I. Packer’s classic Knowing God to be an immense help, and tens of thousands have used this study guide to know God even better.
This twenty-two-session guide takes readers through the essential truths of Packer’s classic. Individuals can stretch their understanding and allow the material to change their lives. Small groups can see God more clearly through rich and transforming discussions.
As part of the fiftieth anniversary of Knowing God, start your adventure with these studies for guided travel through each chapter of the book.
Also available: Knowing God Devotional Journal, Knowing God Bible Study, and Knowing God Fiftieth Anniversary Edition.
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Knowing God
$20.00Add to cartFor half a century, J. I. Packer’s classic has helped Christians around the world discover the wonder, the glory, and the joy of knowing God.
Stemming from Packer’s profound theological knowledge, Knowing God brings together two key facets of the Christian faith–knowing about God and knowing God through a close relationship with Jesus Christ. Written in an engaging and practical tone, this thought-provoking work seeks to renew and enrich our understanding of God. Named by Christianity Today as one of the top fifty books that have shaped evangelicals, Knowing God is now among the iconic books featured in the IVP Signature Collection. A new companion Bible study is also available to help readers explore these biblical themes for themselves.
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Trinity : The Central Mystery Of Christianity
$35.00Add to cartIn the last thirty years, books on the Trinity have abounded. There seems to be a fascination with this mysterious topic, especially among systematic theologians. The topic has been mined for many different interests, from liberation theology to feminist interpretations of the Christian heritage and from neo-Reformation theology to interreligious dialogue. This book has no intention of adding to the plethora of treatises on the Trinity. The main question with which it is concerned is what is really scripturally tenable with regard to the Trinity and what is unwarranted theological construction or even speculation. Through this question, Schwarz tries to discern whether the theological assertions made about the Trinity are in line with the biblical base from which they are derived, or whether they have veered off in a more or less questionable direction. What takes shape here is a story: how the doctrine of the Trinity developed over the subsequent centuries from the traces in Scripture to a centralized dogma at the heart of Christian teaching. We witness in this an evolution from proclamation to controversy to speculation. What are we to make of this doctrine? How do we articulate the biblical faith today?
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Attributes Of God For Kids
$20.00Add to cartA devotional for parents and kids ages 4-11
The Attributes of God For Kids is a rich study of this vital subject, for elementary age children and parents. Based on A.W. Tozer’s classic book The Knowledge of the Holy, this book walks through 10 unique and 11 moral attributes of God. Fun questions, age appropriate readings, and memorization tools allow parents to shape their children’s understanding of God’s character.
This bright and engaging resource includes suggested readings from chapters of The Jesus Storybook Bible and Seeds Family Worship Songs that can be utilized in a children’s ministry or school setting.
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Simply God : Recovering The Classical Trinity
$19.99Add to cartMost contemporary presentations of the Christian God focus on either his ‘oneness’ or his ‘relationality’. These are often assumed to contradict one another, and language about God’s love and relationality often settles into a comforting but ultimately shallow and unreliable gesture towards bland niceness. Peter Sanlon offers a fresh, stimulating examination of the triune God who is love. He guides us through the classical theological tradition of Augustine, Anselm and Aquinas – aiming to help us think and speak more faithfully about God.In Part One, Sanlon introduces the vital concept of ‘simplicity’, without which it is impossible fully to affirm all the Bible teaches about God.Part Two examines the relationality of God’s love in Scripture. The author considers the importance of God’s simplicity for the atonement, and concludes with some reflections on how Christians will be better equipped to engage with contemporary culture if they remain sensitive to both God’s simplicity and his relationality.
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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. -
Bible True Relevant Or A Fairy Tale
$23.99Add to cartThe Bible is constantly condemned as outdated, legalistic and irrelevant, yet it’s widely owned and cherished worldwide. Despite ownership it often lies unread and scarcely believed, even by Christians. The reason – it’s not accepted as the infallible word of God, but worse many reject it as fictitious and immaterial.
This book directly addresses the truth and relevance of the Bible and questions issues such as:
– Was there really a talking snake in the Garden of Eden?
– How could Moses possibly write a factual account of creation 2,500 years after the event?
– Are abortion and homosexuality ok?
– Are Heaven and Hell real places?
– Are God and Allah the same God?
– What is the Trinity?
Robert skilfully demonstrates the answers through direct scripture quotation with little writer’s bias.
Paul tells Timothy; “all scripture is God breathed” and in Genesis we read; “God breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.” If the followers of Jesus inhale the God breathed scriptures their souls will truly abound with life. This book sets out to inspire Christians to believe God at his word.
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Bible True Relevant Or A Fairy Tale
$22.99Add to cartThe Bible is constantly condemned as outdated, legalistic and irrelevant, yet it’s widely owned and cherished worldwide. Despite ownership it often lies unread and scarcely believed, even by Christians. The reason – it’s not accepted as the infallible word of God, but worse many reject it as fictitious and immaterial.
This book directly addresses the truth and relevance of the Bible and questions issues such as:
– Was there really a talking snake in the Garden of Eden?
– How could Moses possibly write a factual account of creation 2,500 years after the event?
– Are abortion and homosexuality ok?
– Are Heaven and Hell real places?
– Are God and Allah the same God?
– What is the Trinity?
Robert skilfully demonstrates the answers through direct scripture quotation with little writer’s bias.
Paul tells Timothy; “all scripture is God breathed” and in Genesis we read; “God breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.” If the followers of Jesus inhale the God breathed scriptures their souls will truly abound with life. This book sets out to inspire Christians to believe God at his word.
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Examination Of Conscience Of The Understanding
$27.00Add to cartSeeking his own utmost depth of comprehensive understanding, the author sets out to prove empirically that God exists. The seed of proof is the Birth Paradox, its florescence a faith grounded in his spirituality disposed soul: As empirically real as his conscious self, as mathematically certain as the probability laws of genetic science, as necessary as that the universe requires a creator for its rational possibility, as immanently intuitive as the Divine Allegory he mirrors.
The Birth Paradox is the contingency of personal conscious existence on the body. Is there any scientific or commonsense belief as certain of itself? And yet, as a practical proposition, it is an utterly impossible conjunction! Personal consciousness is necessary specific to its own experience, a subtly profound tautology! How is it, then, that one’s necessary being can be dependent on a chance body?
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God In The New Testament
$34.99Add to cartWarren Carter addresses how New Testament writings construct their presentation of God using narrative and thematic approaches. Chapters will discuss Matthew’s Gospel, Luke-Acts, John’s Gospel (and letters), Paul, post-Pauline letters, Hebrews, and Revelation. In addition there will be a chapter on the Catholic Epistles. The author uses four questions to show how God is presented:
How is God presented in relation to Israel?
How is God presented in relation to Jesus and the Spirit?
How is God presented in relation to believers/disciples/the church?
How is God presented in relation to “the world” (both material creation and humanity)?
The approach is not to impose these questions, grid-like, on the material but to use them to surface the important factors of each writing’s emphases. -
Love Itself Is Understanding
$49.00Add to cartIntroduction
1. The Ignatian Balthasar
2. Balthasar On Mission
3. Saints, Truth, And Theology
4. Truth And Love
5. “I Am The Truth”
6. The Spirit Of Truth
7. Love Itself Is Understanding
8. Mystical Styles: A Case Study
9. Knowledge, Love, And Mission
Bibliography
IndexAdditional Info
What do the saints have to do with truth? Saints and their concern for holiness are often relegated to the realm of spirituality or kitsch, while the search for truth is reserved for the intellectual elite. Truth and spirituality appear to be utterly separate categories.Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905-1988) set out to reunite truth and holiness by returning the saints to their proper place at the heart of philosophy, theology, and metaphysics. Love Itself Is Understanding is one of the first systematic treatments of Balthasar’s theology of the saints. Matthew Rothaus Moser presents Balthasar as an alternative to Idealist philosophy, a thinker who develops a religious metaphysics in which the saints’ practices of prayer and contemplation are the chief mode of knowing that the truth of Being is divine love. Love Itself Is Understanding casts new light on dominant themes in Balthasar’s thought and invites a renewed vision of the theological and metaphysical significance of the spiritual practices of prayer, obedience, and charity.
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Perfectly Simple Triune God
$49.00Add to cartIntroduction
1. The Simple, Perfect, Triune God
2. Authorities For Thomas’s Traditional Answer
3. Aquinas’s Legacy Among The Reformers
4. The Theodicy Question: Process Theism
5. The Question Of Divine And Human Freedom: Open Theism
6. The Logical Question: Analytic Theology
7. The Cultural And Political Questions
8. The Metaphysical Question
9. Conclusion: A Retrieval Of The Traditional Answer Attending To Its CriticsAdditional Info
A particularly nettlesome question is around the relationship of the confession of God as a simple yet threefold being-the treatises of the one God and the Trinity. Although God as simple and Triune was widely accepted for over a millennium, simplicity has been widely critiqued and rejected by modern theology. The purported error is in conceiving God’s unity prior to the Triune persons, an error begun by Augustine and crystallized in Aquinas.The Perfectly Simple Triune God challenges this critique and reading of Aquinas as a misunderstanding of his doctrine of God. By refusing to begin theology with God’s oneness, who God is collapses into who God is for us, a loss of the biblical and dramatic character of God for us. D. Stephen Long posits that the two treatises were never independent, but inextricably related and entailing one another. Long provides a constructive rereading of Thomas Aquinas, tracing antecedents to Aquinas in the patristic tradition, and readings of him through to the Reformers, taking into account challenges to the classical tradition posed by modern and contemporary theology and philosophy to offer a robust articulation of divine Trinitarian agency for a contemporary age that adheres to broadly considered orthodox and ecumenical parameters.
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Truth Of Who God Is
$19.00Add to cartThe Truth of Who God Is was written for one reason: the Bible insists that we speak and teach our faith.
2 Timothy 4:2-3 and 5: “Preach the word, be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long-suffering and doctrine. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears. ….make full proof of thy ministry.”
2 Timothy 2:15: “Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.”
Romans 8:14 and John 1:12 say that I, a sinner, bound for hell, was given by faith the power to become an adopted son of the one and only living God.
On July 30, 1972, C. Ray Sandefur was spiritually born again of the same eternal spirit that Grandfather Adam died from eternally (Romans 5:12). The power for this blessing of mercy and grace came from John 1:12, 3:3, 16, and 8:32. After being set free from the bondage of this world, he became a servant as his Savior Christ was. He, God in the flesh, washed him with the Word and cleaned up his sinful life. He, God, knelt down and washed His disciples’ dirty feet (John 13:5). He can wash your dirty heart.
Read this book to clearly see and understand the truth from the one and only God of all creation, to understand who he is and how man was made in his image and should therefore respect him.
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Uncontrolling Love Of God
$25.99Add to cartCan we say God is all-controlling if evil is genuine and randomness is real? If God is capable of controlling any situation or person and is both willing and able to stop evil from occurring, how do we make sense of the cruel and unpredictable realities of life? Should we say that suffering is necessary to build character? Are random events of death and destruction really “acts of God”? Some say that God is the cause of everything, which commits them to the view that nothing is truly random and every act of evil is part of God’s master plan. Others say that God is an impersonal force or a distant observer and so not truly involved in worldly events?but this comes at the price of a God who is personally involved in our lives and to whom we can pray. Still others say that God is sovereign but we cannot know how, because God is a mystery. This leaves us without an answer to our questions. Thomas Jay Oord argues that we need a new understanding of providence, one that can account for a world of both awful evil and awe-inspiring goodness. The Uncontrolling Love of God provides a clear and powerful response to one of the perennial challenges to Christian faith.
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Holy Spirit
$15.99Add to cartMuch more than a personal experience, the Holy Spirit is who God is and what God does as the Trinity, whether we feel it or not. It is the birthday of the church as created through the Spirit, giving the church the task of pointing the world to Jesus. This book will help people recognize what an extraordinary thing has happened to them through baptism and their inclusion in the Body of Christ through the Spirit But to do this the authors will challenge some of the presumptions surrounding discussions about the Spirit in terms of how the work of the Spirit is understood as “inspirational.” In other words, this book will help people recover a sense of why the Spirit is the third person of the Trinity and how that reality makes possible our inclusion in the Body of Christ in a manner that challenges some of the individualistic and subjectivist accounts of the Spirit’s work.
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Love Of God
$35.99Add to cartFor God so loved the world . . . We believe these words, but what do they really mean? Does God choose to love, or does God love necessarily? Is God’s love emotional? Does the love of God include desire or enjoyment? Is God’s love conditional? Can God receive love from human beings? Attempts to answer these questions have produced sharply divided pictures of God’s relationship to the world. One widely held position is that of classical theism, which understands God as necessary, self-sufficient, perfect, simple, timeless, immutable and impassible. On this view, God is entirely unaffected by the world and his love is thus unconditional, unilateral and arbitrary. In the twentieth century, process theologians replaced classical theism with an understanding of God as bound up essentially with the world and dependent on it. In this view God necessarily feels all feelings and loves all others, because they are included within himself. In The Love of God, John Peckham offers a comprehensive canonical interpretation of divine love in dialogue with, and at times in contrast to, both classical and process theism. God’s love, he argues, is freely willed, evaluative, emotional and reciprocal, given before but not without conditions. According to Peckham’s reading of Scripture, the God who loves the world is both perfect and passible, both self-sufficient and desirous of reciprocal relationships with each person, so that “whoever believes in him shall not perish, but have eternal life.”
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What Your Body Knows About God
$20.99Add to cartHave you ever had an experience where you felt particularly aware of God? If God is real, and we are created in God’s image, then it makes sense that our minds and bodies would be designed with the perceptive ability to sense and experience God. Scientists are now discovering ways that our bodies are designed to connect with God. Brain research shows that our brain systems are wired to enable us to have spiritual experiences. The spiritual circuits that are used in prayer or worship are also involved in developing compassion for others. Our bodies have actually been created to love God and serve our neighbors. Award-winning journalist Rob Moll chronicles the fascinating ways in which our brains and bodies interact with God and spiritual realities. He reports on neuroscience findings that show how our brains actually change and adapt when engaged in spiritual practices. We live longer, healthier, happier and more fulfilling lives when we cultivate the biological spiritual capacity that puts us in touch with God. God has created our bodies to fulfill the Great Commandment; we are hardwired to commune with God and to have compassion and community with other people. Moll explores the neuroscience of prayer, how liturgy helps us worship, why loving God causes us to love others, and how a life of love and service leads to the abundant life for which we were created. Just as our physical bodies require exercise to stay healthy, so too can spiritual exercises and practices revitalize our awareness of God. Heighten your spiritual senses and discover how you have been designed for physical and spiritual flourishing.
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Gods Light
$4.99Add to cartIn this book, Norvel Hayes teaches on the light of God. Norvel challenges you as a child of God to allow God’s light to shine through you as you minister to others. Jesus’ first action in His ministry was to resist the devil and cause him to flee. We are to follow Jesus’ example in ministry as we resist devils, feed the poor, lay hands on the sick, and pray for people, letting the light of God pour through us upon those who sit in darkness.
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Gods Sovereignty And The Law Of Causality
$21.99Add to cartSound reasoning informs us that finite beings, even those who are considered to be geniuses, are not capable of understanding all there is to know about the infinite omniscient God. In this book, Chapter One recognizes the truth of the proposition that God is the eternal, self-existent cause of everything that exists and everything that happens in the universe. Chapter Two recognizes three divine mysteries: the Trinity of God, the incarnation, and the second coming of Jesus, God the Son. Chapter Three addresses how God’s existence, identity and attributes are knowable by the truth of His inerrant word. Chapter Four recognizes God as the Sovereign Creator of the universe by and from Himself. Chapter Five comprehends that God created the power of evil in the universe. Chapter Six addresses how God imputed the power of evil as sin in mankind. Chapter Seven argues that God’s sovereignty precludes creature free will. Chapter Eight reveals God’s prerogative to condemn some of those He would create. Chapter Nine reveals God’s prerogative to save some of those He would create. Chapter Ten explains how God’s salvation is bestowed, the consequences of post conversion sin and the eternal security of those saved. Chapter Eleven recognizes God’s salvation process, distinguishes God’s grace and mercy and their effects upon mankind. Chapter Twelve extols God’s victory over death and sin, exclaims the blessed assurance of salvation, exhorts those whom God saved to spread the Gospel and exalts the glory of God.
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God Of Unusual
$13.49Add to cartDedication
Preface
Introduction
God Of Miracles
The Greatness Of God
Acknowledging The God Of The Unusual
The Amazing God Of The Unusual
God Of The Unusual
God Of Possibilities
He Has Final Authority
Power In The Word
God Answers Prayer By Fire
Doing Exploits In The God Of The Unusual
About The AuthorAdditional Info
From the Introduction:
….The reasons for writing this book is to showcase the unusualness and greatness of the omnipotent king; the Lion of the tribes of Judah, the reigning king, the Rock of ages, the King of Kings, the Lord of Lords, the Beginning and the Ending……It may interest you to know why I feel so elated in praising and writing about this God of the Unusual. He is a covenant keeping God; whatever He says is settled and not subject to debate and negotiation. There is no one who is amazingly and unusually great as God. -
Quest For The Trinity
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Preface
Introduction
1. ‘The History That God Is’: Studying The Doctrine Of The Trinity In The Twenty-First Century
2. ‘In Your Light, We See Light’: The Trinity In The Bible
3. ‘Always With Him Are His Word And Wisdom’: Early Patristic Developments In The Doctrine Of The Trinity
4. ‘From The Ousia Of The Father’: The Fourth-Century Debates 1
5. ‘The Godhead Is By Nature Simple’: The Fourth-Century Debates 2
6. ‘Understood By A Few Saints And Holy Persons’: The West And Augustine
Interlude: The Harvest Of Patristic Trinitarianism
7. ‘Distinction In The Persons But Unity In The Nature’: The Medieval Doctrine Of The Trinity
8. ‘By The Testimonies Of The Scriptures Or By Manifest Reason’: Anti-Trinitarianism From The Reformation To The Eighteenth Century
9. ‘A Transformation Which Will Go Back To Its Very Beginning’: The Doctrine Of The Trinity Since 1800
Bibliography Of Works Cited
Index Of Biblical Texts Cited
Index Of Technical Terms/Phrases In Latin/Greek
General Index Of Authors And SubjectsAdditional Info
The doctrine of the Trinity was settled in the fourth century, and maintained, with only very minor disagreement or development, by all strands of the church–Western and Eastern, Protestant and Catholic–until the modern period. In the twentieth century, there arose a sense that the doctrine had been neglected and stood in need of recovery. In The Quest for the Trinity, Holmes takes us on a remarkable journey through 2,000 years of the Christian doctrine of God. We witness the churchs discovery of the Trinity from the biblical testimony, its crucial patristic developments, and medieval and Reformation continuity. We are also confronted with the questioning of traditional dogma during the Enlightenment, and asked to consider anew the character of the modern Trinitarian revival. Holmess controversial conclusion is that the explosion of theological work in recent decades claiming to recapture the heart of Christian theology in fact deeply misunderstands and misappropriates the traditional doctrine of the Trinity. Yet his aim is constructive: to grasp the wisdom of the past and, ultimately, to bring a clearer understanding of the meaning of the present. -
God : The Sources Of Christian Theology
$55.00Add to cartAn authoritative examination of important source materials on the development of the Christian doctrine of God
This volume provides an excellent collection of primary source documents from key Christian theologians that show ways in which God has been understood throughout the history of Christian thought. Malcolm surveys the major features which have marked theological understandings of God throughout six distinct periods, including the early church, the medieval era, the Reformation, modernity, the twentieth-century, and the present day. She describes the historical contexts and theological relevance of each of these works, which have helped shape the various ways Christians have come to understand God. This book will be particularly valuable to students of theology by providing significant insights from these important and accessible texts.
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Grace : The Free Unconditional And Limitless Love Of God
$19.99Add to cartGrace is the first in a series of books on ‘serious theology for a popular audience’ which will explore key aspects of their belief in clear, accessible and attractive language. The volumes in this series will mostly have one-word titles, words that are commonly used in church.
Grace – the free, unconditional and limitless love of God – is one of the epic words of the Christian faith and a key part of what is most distinctive about it. It lies at the heart of what is proclaimed in the Gospel, but is not well understood, even by Christians. For centuries, Christians have laboured under two opposing misunderstandings: the Catholic view: We must strive to be good in order to deserve God’s love,or the Protestant view: Humankind is so sinful, we can do no good at all. To set a great imbalance right, this volume explores what grace is; how it flows from an understanding of the Trinity; how it becomes visible in the life of Christ; grace in creation, human freedom and the Church; ways of thinking about grace and living the life of grace.
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Eternal Generation Of The Son
$35.99Add to cartShould all Christians, especially evangelicals, hold on to the doctrine of the eternal generation of the Son? What is lost if we don’t? Theologian Kevin Giles defends the historically orthodox and ecumenical doctrine of the eternal generation of the Son of God. He argues on biblical, historical and theological bases that, given its fundamental meaning, this formulation is indispensable, irreplaceable and faithful to Christian revelation. The book will be especially helpful in the current discussion of this doctrine. It will also be of interest to students, pastors and laypersons who want to delve into the Christian understanding of the identity of the Son of God and serious study of trinitarian theology.
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Forsaken : The Trinity The Cross And Why It Matters
$24.99Add to cartMy God, My God, why have you forsaken me? How should a Christian interpret this passage? What implications does the cross have for the trinitarian theology? Did the Father kill the Son? Theologian Thomas McCall presents a trinitarian reading of Christ’s darkest moment–the moment of his prayer to his heavenly Father from the cross. McCall revisits the biblical texts and surveys the various interpretations of Jesus cry, ranging from early church theologians to the Reformation to contemporary theologians. Along the way, he explains the terms of the scholarly debate and clearly marks out what he believes to be the historically orthodox point of view. By approaching the Son’s cry to the Father as an event in the life of the Triune God, Forsaken calls the church to a new reverence for the cross.
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God Unknown
$26.99Add to cartThe doctrine of the Trinity has the power to resonate with us deeply. Its focus on unity and community speaks with great prophetic challenge to both the world and the church. In God Unknown, Ian Mobsby shows how the Trinity’s divine unity, open-endedness and refusal to be bound by fixed meanings can illuminate our mission, worship and spirituality today. Weaving together Trinitarian theology, cultural exegesis and new monastic spirituality, he issues a timely call to the church to become a more authentic, effective expression of God’s love in an individualist, consumerist culture.
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Names Of God (Student/Study Guide)
$12.99Add to cartGod is called by many names in Scripture–names that highlight specific aspects of his character. This guide by Doug Connelly, focused on eight titles for God from the Old Testament, invites you to know and experience the Lord Almighty in deeper ways. As you do so, you will come to trust him more fully and worship him with fresh awe and reverence.
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Divine Names And The Holy Trinity
$48.00Add to cartFew things are so vital to Christian life yet so mired in controversy as the language we use to name the mystery of the Trinity. By drawing on new developments in biblical studies, Soulen offers a fresh map of Trinitarian language that is simple, yet profound in its implications for theology and practice. He proposes that sacred Scripture gifts us with three patterns of naming the persons of the Trinity: a theo-logical pattern, a christo-logical pattern, and a pneumato-logical pattern. These patterns relate in a Trinitarian way: they are distinct, interconnected, and, above all, equally important. The significance of this thesis resides in its power to map the terrain of Trinitarian discourse in a way that is faithful to scripture, critically respectful of tradition, and fruitfully relevant to a broad range of contemporary concerns.
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Prodigal Spirit
$14.99Add to cartA robust theology of the Holy Spirit can help build strong local churches and transform local communities. Drawing on ancient and contemporary church movements, including Holy Trinity Brompton and the Alpha course, this book suggests an understanding of the Spirit as the one who draws humankind and the whole of creation into the love that exists between the Father and the Son. From that starting point, it works out the implicatons of this for the Christian experience, the church’s evangelism, its communal life, and it transformational role in local communities.
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Which Trinity Whose Monotheism
$33.99Add to cartThe last few decades have witnessed a renaissance of Trinitarian theology. Theologians have worked to recover this doctrine for a proper understanding of the God and for the life of the church. At the same time, analytic philosophers of religion have become keenly interested in the Trinity, engaging in vigorous debates related to it. To this point, however, the work of the two groups has taken place in almost complete isolation from one another. Which Trinity? Whose Monotheism? Seeks to bridge that divide. / Thomas H. McCall compares the work of significant philosophers of religion – Richard Swinburne, Brian Leftow, and others – with that of influential theologians such as Ji 1/2rgen Moltmann, Robert Jenson, and John Zizioulas. He then evaluates several important proposals and offers suggestion for the future of Trinitarian theology. / There are many books on the doctrine of the Trinity, but no other book brings the concerns of analytic philosophers of religion into direct conversation with those of mainstream theologians.
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Whats His Name
$16.49Add to cartWhat’s His Name? explores the names attributed to God in the Bible. Names such as: Elohim, Yahweh, Adonay, El Shadday, El Elyon, Abba Father and Jesus to mention a few. Each name reveals in detail God’s attributes (what He is like) and His divine nature (how He acts). By knowing and understanding His names we discover with indisputable evidence that He is the only true and living God. He is the holy, eternal, all-powerful, all-knowing One, who loves us and is always faithful to us. He is our Creator, our Rock, our Redeemer, our Righteousness, our Provider, our Protector and our Shepherd. He is always present in our midst working in our lives to draw us closer to Himself. Each name unveils personal applications showing us how God interacts with us and how we are to interact with Him. By knowing and understanding His names, we can experience an unwavering trust in Him, a deeper personal relationship with Him and the assurance that He will never forsake those who seek Him.
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Misunderstood God : The Lies Religion Tells Us About God
$19.99Add to cartTHE MISUNDERSTOOD GOD tells the truth about who the Creator is. This book analyzes what religion says about God’s heart and personality and measures it up to what God calls Himself: Love. It simplifies a generation’s tangled perceptions of God by taking a journey through the sixteen aspects of love described in one of the most well-known Bible passages in the world: 1 Corinthians 13, also known as “the love chapter.” So many Christians have been bombarded with confusing teachings and doctrines that their understanding of God resembles a tightly tangled ball of Christmas tree lights. This book takes that twisted mess and replaces it with one soft, warm light of truth that anyone can embrace: God is love.
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Knowledge Of The Holy
$15.99Add to cartInformative and inspiring, The Knowledge of the Holy illuminates God’s attributes–from wisdom, to grace, to mercy–and shows through prayerful and discussion, how we can more fully recognize and appreciate each of these divine aspects. This book will be treasured by anyone committed to the Christian faith. It bears eloquent witness to God’s majesty and shows us new ways to experience and understand the wonder and the power of God’s spirit in our daily lives.
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Philosophy Of Religion (Revised)
$26.99Add to cartWith over 40,000 copies in print since its original publication in 1982, Steve Evans’s Philosophy of Religion has served many generations of students. In this new edition Zach Manis joins Evans in a thorough revamping of arguments and information, while maintaining the qualities of clarity and brevity that made the first edition so appreciated.
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Disturbing Divine Behavior
$29.00Add to cartHow should we understand biblical texts where God is depicted as acting irrationally, violently, or destructively? If we distance ourselves from disturbing portrayals of God, how should we understand the authority of Scripture? How does the often wrathful God portrayed in the Old Testament relate to the God of love proclaimed in the New Testament? Is that contrast even accurate?
Disturbing Divine Behavior addresses these perennially vexing questions for the student of the Bible. Eric A. Seibert calls for an engaged and discerning reading of the Old Testament that distinguishes the particular literary and theological goals achieved through narrative characterizations of God from the rich understanding of the divine to which the Old Testament as a whole points. Providing illuminating reflections on theological reading as well, this book will be a welcome resource for any readers who puzzle over disturbing representations of God in the Bible.
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Gods Empowering Presence (Reprinted)
$65.00Add to cartGod’s Empowering Presence is a fresh and original analysis of all the passages in the Pauline corpus (including Ephesians, Colossians, and the Pastoral Epistles) that concern the Holy Spirit. Through comprehensive lexical, historical, and grammatical study, Fee provides an exegesis of every Spirit text in Paul’s writings. He then investigates the Holy Spirit’s crucial roles in Pauline theology including eschatological fulfillment, divine Person of the Trinity, and evidence for and guarantee of salvation. New, updated cover.
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Biography Of The Holy Trinity And Man
$26.99Add to cartIf you’re like most people you have questions about God that are difficult to find answers for. But, there are answers to some of these and other intriguing, and sometimes troubling, questions about life inside this book in easy-to-understand language. This book is designed to lessen some of the mystery of God. God wants us to know more about Him and His plans for us. God wants us to know about His Son, Christ Jesus, and exactly what He did for us then and what He does for us now. God wants us to know about His power, the Holy Spirit, and what He does. God wants us to understand how we are viewed by Him and how we fit into His overall plans. He wants us to see ourselves, the condition that we have, and the position that we are in. God wants us to understand that there must be a faithful and productive relationship between Him and us if we are to please Him. And we must have a solid understanding of how that relationship itself works. It is extremely important that we know what sin is and how it affects our relationship with Him. He wants and expects us to know all these things. God has never wanted to remain a total mystery to us because we cannot serve Him if He is a total mystery. Therefore, this book explains to the undecided, enlightens the newly converted, and reinforces for those already “born again” the necessity of understanding the relationship between God and themselves. Also, you will come to know that there are choices that must be made that only you can make. But they will not be as difficult to make once you have a better understanding of the relationship between God and man.
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Trinitarian Theology For The Church
$34.99Add to cartTable Of Contents
IntroductionPart One: Scripture: The Bible And The Triune Economy
1.Triune Discourse: Theological Reflections On The Claim That God Speaks, Part 1
Kevin J. Vanhoozer
2.Triune Discourse: Theological Reflections On The Claim That God Speaks, Part 2
Kevin J. Vanhoozer
3. The Gift Of The Father: Looking At Salvation History Upside Down
Edith M. HumphreyPart Two: Community: The Trinity And Society?
4. God Is Love: The Social Trinity And The Mission Of God
John R. Franke
5. The Trinity Is Not Our Social Program: Volf, Gregory Of Nyssa And Barth
Mark Husbands
6. Does The Doctrine Of The Trinity Hold The Key To A Christian Theology Of Religions?
Keith E. Johnson
7. Trinity And Missions: Theological Priority In Missionary Nomenclature
Robert K. Lang?atPart Three: Worship: Church Practices And The Triune Mission
8. The Sacraments And The Embodiment Of Our Trinitarian Faith
Gordon T. Smith
9. Preaching As A Trinitarian Event
Philip W. Butin
10. The Church?s Proclamation As A Participation In God?s Mission
Leanne Van Dyk
11. What To Do With Our Renewed Trinitarian Enthusiasm: Forming Trinitarian Piety And Imagination Through Worship And Catechesis
John D. WitvlietAdditional Info
These select essays, brought together from the 2008 Wheaton College Theology Conference by editors Daniel J. Treier and David Lauber, show both the substance and the importance of the doctrine of the Trinity for our worship, our reading of Scripture and the mission of the church. -
Speaking Of God
$37.99Add to cartD. Stephen Long here addresses a key question in current theological debate: the conditions of the possibility of “God-talk,” along with attending questions about natural theology, fideism, and theological truth-claims. He engages not only the most significant contemporary theologians and philosophers on this score (Denys Turner, Bruce Marshall, John Milbank, Charles Taylor, Fergus Kerr) but also the legacy of twentieth-century theology (Barth, von Balthasar) and the analytic philosophical tradition from Wittgenstein to Davidson. Throughout, Long sustains a careful exegetical engagement with Aquinas, showing that what’s at stake in contemporary theology is just how we inherit St. Thomas.
In joining all of these voices into one conversation, Long does a remarkable job of surveying the current theological scene with respect to issues of language and truth, arguing for the need to deal head-on with classical questions of metaphysics. Central to his project is averting the charge of “fideism” so often laid at the feet of “postliberal” approaches (like Long’s). To that end Long argues for a (chastened) natural theology, while challenging any simple distinction between “natural” and “confessional” theology.
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Case For The Existence Of God
$26.95Add to cartForeword
Robert Kaita
PrefaceIntroduction
The Question Of God’s Existence: The Radical Contingency Of The Universe Points Toward A Necessary Being
Many Generations Of Philosophers Have Made The Mistake Of Assuming Hume And Kant’s Objections Disposed Of The Cosmological Argument
A Universe With An Infinite Past Would Still Require A Necessary Being To Sustain Its Existence
Because The Universe (or Multiverse) Had A Beginning, It Is Contingent And Has A Cause For Its Coming Into Existence
The Philosophy Of Nature Set Forth In This Book Emphasizes The Intelligibility Of The Universe Noted In Einstein’s Statement: “The Most Incomprehensible Thing About The World Is That It Is Comprehensible.” A Significant Issue In Examining The “Something” That Exists Is Why Is It Intelligible?
Evolution Is Not Dispositive Of The Question Of Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing And Why The Universe Is Rational And Intelligible
The Mystery Of Information Challenges A Strict Materialism
The Existence Of God Gives An Absolute That Is Consistent With The Real Existence Of Right And Wrong
Evidential Force Of Religious Experience: If God Is A Person, God Can Be Known To Only A Very Limited Extent By Abstract Reasoning And Is More Fully Known By Personal Acquaintance In An I-Thou Relationship With The Wholly Other
Recorded Experiences Of Encounters With The Divine Bear Witness To A Way Of Knowing Which Includes Kierkegaard’s Kendskab, Buber’s I-Thou, Otto’s Wholly Other, And Marcel’s Mystery
These Nine Witnesses Testify To Another Way Of Knowing That Is Compatible With The Empirical And The Metaphysical Rational Ways Of Knowing, But Is Beyond The Describable And Requires Personal Participation, Commitment, And Personal Transformation
Concluding Reflections And Summary: Theism Requires A Leap Of Faith, But It Is A Leap Into The Light, Not Into The Dark; Theism Explains More Than Atheism, Which Also Requires A Leap Of Faith
Afterword
Armand Nicholi
Appendix A: The New Mathematics Of Algorithmic Information Theory Is Relevant To Theories Concerning The Formation Of The First Living MatterAppendix B: The Limits Of Mathematics And The Limits Of Reason: Why Everyone Will Always Live By Faith Rather Than Certainty
Appendix C: The Evidence From Contemporary Physics Supports The Concepts Of Personal Responsibility And Free Will
Selected Bibliography
Index
About The Author
Additional Info
Some of the brightest scientific minds of our time, from Albert Einstein to Stephen Hawking, have made incredible insights into the earliest origins of the universe, but have failed to ultimately discover why there is something rather than nothing–why we exist. In A Case for the Existence of God, Dean L. Overman examines the latest theories about the origins of the universe and explains why even the most sophisticated science can only take us so far. Ultimately we must make a leap of faith to understand the world, and Overman argues that a leap into theism provides the most satisfying conclusions.Overman explores fundamental questions about why our world exists and how it functions, using principles of logic, physics, and theology. In a time when religion and science are often portrayed as diametrically opposed, A Case for the Existence of God presents a refreshing view of the interplay between science and religion and makes a compelling case for the existence of God and his role in our world.
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Hiking The Trail Of Truth
$19.99Add to cartThe desire to know God is universal- we want to understand our connection. Have you ever hiked the high mountains or explored the deserts of the American southwest? Have you wandered inquisitively through a thick forest, or just sat down beside a rushing stream? Have you pondered the intricate design of a flower or discovered the water canals in a single blade of grass? Have you considered the majesty of the birds or the way of the animals? The greatest Artist in all the universe created each of these things. They know the Artist and can teach you how deeply He cares for you as a human being. You are about to embark on an illuminating journey in the company of author Mark Stephen Taylor. A former California police officer, educated in criminal psychology, geology, and now a Biblical teacher and counselor, Mark offers us unique insights into the profound attributes of God, through His creation. He also enlightens us, with intense honesty, regarding who we are, what we are, and where we’re going. He helps us to understand our purpose in life. Through his own autobiography He hikes us over a diversity of terrain, allowing us to make personal discoveries beyond any expectation. Hiking the Trail of Truth is the adventure of a lifetime. If you have what it takes to endure the journey it will be remarkably well worth your time. Whether you are an artist, a scientist, a doctor, a lawyer, a teacher, a preacher, an executive, an office worker or a laborer of any kind – no matter what your calling in life- you will be both physically and spiritually nourished by this hike. Do you enjoy hiking? Well, what are you waiting for? Come along -let’s do it!
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How To Explain The Trinity
$12.49Add to cartWhen was the last time you heard a sermon at church entitled “How to Explain the Trinity”? For nearly all of us, the answer to that question is “never.” This is what you should expect. I would not try to explain to you how to fix an automobile engine. I don’t KNOW how to fix an automobile engine. Although I KNOW the engine works, I really don’t know “how” it works. Similarly, the Christian knows by a careful study of the scriptures that the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Spirit is God, but yet there is just one God, but doesn’t know how to explain that to you ……… until now! Not only is the Christian doctrine of the Trinity explainable, but it can be CLEARLY SEEN, and it can be UNDERSTOOD …. then you can explain it to your child using a puppet stage.
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Name Of God
$16.99Add to cartThroughout history, God has revealed Himself through many and various Names and Titles. Each of these have some distinctive feature about them. However, there is a Name which is above every Name, and this Name includes or comprehends in itself all the Names and Titles of God. It is the all-comprehensive Redemptive Name of God as revealed in the Triune Name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
This volume endeavors to set forth the glory of the Triune Name of the Triune God. Its biblical insights are provocative, especially in the area of the application of “The Name” in Water Baptism.
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Yhwh Pharaoh And Moses
$39.99Add to cartThe story of the Exodus from Egypt is of fundamental importance, both in the Old Testament and beyond. However, it also contains issues that are theologically problematic for many readers, especially concerning the actions of God. Why does God send a series of devastating plagues on Egypt? How do we understand the hardening of Pharaoh’s heart? What do the answers to these questions say about the character of God?
This study addresses these questions, taking into account the complex interaction of the presuppositions of faith and responsible textual interpretation. The approach is narrative?theological and canonical?paying attention to such factors as speaker, addressee, purpose, and reception, a picture is built up of the different and developing relationships between God, Pharaoh, and Moses. This complex interaction provides a way to read and understand the wider plagues story, including the plagues and hardening of the heart within it.
The picture that emerges is challenging rather than comfortable?a God who is responsive, speaking and acting to confront others to make the appropriate response to him.
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God The Holy Trinity (Reprinted)
$22.00Add to cartContents
Introduction
1. The Doctrine Of The Trinity
2. Out Of The Box
3. Faith And Christian Life In The African American Spirituals
4. The Trinity And Christian Unity
5. The Old Testament Trinity
6. A Puritan Perspective
7. The Trinity And The Challenge Of Islam
8. The Soteriological Importance Of The Divine Perfections
9. Deep Wisdom
Notes
List Of Contributors
IndexAdditional Info
Leading scholars from diverse theological traditions reflect on various theological and practical aspects of the core Christian doctrine of the Trinity. -
How You Can Know For Certain That God Exists
$10.99Add to cartGROUNDBREAKING NEW PROCEDURE proves for CERTAIN that GOD EXISTS. If you DOUBT that GOD IS REAL, then it is CRITICAL for you to read this book. If you DENY that GOD IS REAL, then I DARE YOU to buy this book. Introducing the Sin Method: a simple and practical procedure, which gives you UNDENIABLE PROOF that GOD is real, and the Bible is true. GOD is not a myth. How You Can Know For CERTAIN That GOD EXISTS explains how to apply the Sin Method and REMOVE ALL DOUBT that GOD IS REAL, and the BIBLE IS TRUE. The Sin Method is the formula that has solved the GREAT MYSTERY of how to achieve 100% CERTAINTY of GOD’S existence. * Note: No college degree in Theological Studies required
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Fragrance Of God
$20.99Add to cartIn this literary gem Vigen Guroian chronicles not merely the changing seasons but the course of his own life as he and his family move from Maryland to a new home near the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Leaving the old garden behind and cultivating another garden become an emblem of our journey through life, marked as it is by both bitter losses and sweet new blessings.
While deeply personal, The Fragrance of God vividly unfolds the great biblical themes of the grandeur of God’s creation, the senses as “paths” to experiencing God, and the garden as a “place” of birth, death, and renewal.
Laced throughout with quotations from Guroian’s beloved church fathers and replete with theological reflection, The Fragrance of God will lead readers down a path of deeper insight into the creation and the Creator.
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Humble God : The Basics Of Christian Belief
$17.99Add to cartThe author, a university teacher of theology, has taken his basic introductory course and adapted it for a lay audience. It addresses the questions that every Christian ought to be asking: how did the Bible come together? Why do we believe it to be true? What is faith? How do we know God? What does it mean to belong to the Church? and much more. Drawing on 2000 years of theological writing and insight, this is a fluent guide to Christian faith.
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Names Of God
$16.99Add to cartGod’s names reveal His favor and immeasurable love for you. He is your Healer, Provider, Peacemaker, Conqueror, and much more. By knowing how God expresses His love for you through His names, you can:
*deepen your fellowship with Him
*discover your purpose in life
*find security and peace in His presence
*receive healing for your body
*defeat Satan’s influence in your lifeBy understanding the nature of God, you’ll reap the blessings of His many promises, live out the great plan He has for your life, and have your deepest needs met.
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For God So Loved
$17.99Add to cartForeword
Part One: The New Testament Truth
1. Is It Really True?
2. What About Pain?
3. The Text Of Texts
4. The Divine Sonship
5. The Divine Fatherhood
6. The Supreme Miracle
7. The Fountainhead
8. That Word “Perish”
9. Eternal Life
10. What Is Saving Faith?
Part Two: The Old Testament Type
11. The Decisive Imprimatur
12. Old Testament Typology
13. Away Back To Numbers!
14. The Type Interpreted
15. Four Dual Aspects
16. Life For A Look! Page 178Additional Info
The most loved and memorized verse in the Bible – John 3:16 – is the focus of J. Sidlow Baxter’s in-depth study of the love of God. Dr. Baxter’s exposition focuses on the ten crucial words of the verse in which “the whole written Word of God is comprehended.” They are:
1. God 6. Whosoever
2. Loved 7. Believeth
3. World 8. Perish
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Father And The Son And The Holy Spirit
$15.99Add to cart“The Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit” OR “Oneness-Jesus Only”: This book strives to provide biblically based answers to very important questions. Do we serve a Triune God who is ONE GOD and is seen in the three distinct persons of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, as Jesus Himself taught in Matthew 28:19? Or do we adhere to the teachings of the “Oneness-Jesus Only” doctrines that contradict the directives of Jesus Himself as given by Him to His disciples? This book also focuses on other doctrines within the “Oneness-Jesus Only” teachings that are in direct contradiction to the Word of God. Is water baptism in the Name of Jesus Only required for salvation? Is speaking in tongues a requirement of salvation as taught by Oneness Believers, or is speaking in tongues one of the gifts of the Holy Spirit as we read in 1 Corinthians Chapter 12? Are we saved by grace through faith in Jesus Christ as the Scriptures teach “OR” are we saved through faith and works as set forth by some denominations? Who are we to follow-God or man?
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Grace In A Tree Stump
$19.00Add to cartChristians often assume too sharp a distinction between the Old and New Testaments, argues preacher, author, and teacher J. Ellsworth Kalas. They are too quick to view the Old Testament as a strict book of laws and commandments and the New Testament as a witness to grace. The God of the Old Testament is misperceived as a God of wrath and judgment, while the God of the New Testament is viewed as a God of love and mercy. This book will help laypeople see that grace has always been part of the character of God and that the Old Testament demonstrates that fact in a variety of ways. The character of God has not changed, says Kalas. In exploring various Old Testament texts, he helps us understand this more clearly.
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God And Creation In Christian Theology
$29.00Add to cartHow are God and creatures related? How can one reconcile the sovereignty and power of God with creatures’ capacity to act freely?
Kathryn Tanner’s important and original work seeks an answer in the features and limits of traditional Christian discourse. Her search for a unique kernal or regulative dimension of the Christian doctrine of God-world relations leads her to identify in the tradition an operative “grammar&334; of meaningful theological discourse that not only informs the past but can guide the future.
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Rediscovering The Triune God
$34.00Add to cartTheologian Stanley Grenz here tells the story of trinitarian theology in the last century. He analyzes the remarkable ferment in the discipline and discusses key theologians including Karl Barth, Karl Rahner, Jurgen Moltmann, Wolfhart Pannenberg, Robert Jenson, Elizabeth Johnson, Catherine Mowry LaCugna, Leonardo Boff, John Zizioulas, Hans Urs von Balthasar, and Thomas F. Torrance. In doing so, Grenz examines a variety of trinitarian issues such as God’s inner life versus God’s relationship to creation (immanent and economic trinity), social versus psychological analogies for the relationships within God, the relationship between trinity and Christology, the feminist critique of classical categories, and how God’s trinitarian life figures in evolution, social justice, and spirituality. Grenz’s engaging introduction places the recent ferment in trinitarian thought within a historical framework, while his conclusion sets a future agenda for the doctrine and theology.
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Gods Love : Knowing God Through The Psalms (Student/Study Guide)
$12.99Add to cartThis is the revised edition of the popular LifeGuide Bible study on knowing God through the Psalms. These 10 lessons reveal the character of our loving God. God cares for us in so many ways. He offers help, calms our fears, guides and strengthens us. Find how God brings true satisfaction to our lives.
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Father : A Love Story Untold
$13.49Add to cartFather is a fresh and timely revelation that introduces the Father in the context of modern church life. Samuel Lee passionately expresses the Father’s heartbeat on existing realities in the church. Father demonstrates how every son and daughter can receive and experience the fullness of the Father’s love in our modern day and seemingly fatherless generation. In this book Samuel Lee will bring you back at home where the Father is. Are you ready to come? “The gospel message never changes, but times and seasons change frequently. In this stimulating book, Samuel Lee skillfully guides us along the road to living a godly life in today’s challenging world. Father will lift you to a new level of service to God.” -C. PETER WAGNER, CHANCELLOR, WAGNER LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE “I pray that the Holy Spirit will give you a special revelation of the Father’s love as you meditate on the truths in this special book.” -J. LEE GRADY, SENIOR EDITOR, CHARISMA MAGAZINE “Samuel Lee has once again shared with passion and insight his burden to see God’s kingdom touch the earth and transform lives. May that commitment strengthen all who read this book and make them equally contagious!” -DENNIS T. PEACOCKE, PRESIDENT, STRATEGIC CHRISTIAN SERVICES “Samuel Lee got into the Father’s presence and sat with Him to hear and to see what He sees. Now you too can see by reading Father.” -APOSTLE JOHN P. KELLY PRESIDENT, LEADERSHIP EDUCATION FOR APOSTOLIC DEVELOPMENT (LEAD) AMBASSADOR APOSTLE, INTERNATIONAL COALITION OF APOSTLES (ICA)
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Kingdom Of God
$12.99Add to cartJesus speaks often of “the kingdom of God.”
What is it?
Where is it?
When is it?
Why is it so important?
Understanding and participating in God’s kingdom on earth is central to the Christian life. In this study guide, Gregory Jao leads you through ten Bible studies that explore God’s kindgom–transforming your picture of God, Christianity and your role in the world.
This LifeGuide Bible Study features questions for starting group discussions and for meeting God in personal reflection, together with leader’s notes and a “Now or Later” section in each study
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Is God Real
$16.49Add to cartSanta Claus, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, the Boogey Man, the devil, and God are a few of the oldest American childhood stories. The people and environment around the children, as they develop, are the things that will feed and shape their natural curiosity to determine how much they believe or disbelieve these stories. With the exception of God, every child has probably seen some kind of physical representation of all of the characters listed above. We live in a “seeing is believing” society. Therefore, every American parent has probably experienced his or her children wanting to know the who, what, when, where, and why about God. “Is God real?” Come, “let the truth be told” by going on one man’s lifetime journey to answer that very question. Every atheist and believer who takes this trip from start to finish will come away knowing the absolute truth.
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Father Jesus Christ And Holy Spirit
$13.49Add to cartI give God the glory for what He has inspired in me. Without Him, I could not have done this. One day I decided to do a study on the names and attributes of God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit. I started off doing this for my personal use. As I searched for the names and attributes, more began to be revealed. I was in awe as I saw what the Holy Spirit brought through my study. When I was finished, I realized I had enough to have a book published. The Holy Spirit would often wake me up in the middle of the night to give me the names of God. I believe God has a plan for many to read this book and to search for the names of God as I have with great joy. Most of the information I searched for came from the King James Bible, Nathan Stone, outlines from Marilyn Hickey, teachings from Benny Hinn, the Amplified Bible, the American Standard Bible, and the New International Version Bible. May God bless you as you read this book.
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Forgotten God : Perspectives In Biblical Theology
$50.00Add to cartThis volume provides a comprehensive survey of the unity and diversity behind biblical conceptions of “God”. This is accomplished by respecting the distinctive theology of each canonical book and by placing reflection about God in conversation with major themes of biblical theology (e.g., Christology, pneumatology, anthropology). Four essays examine the Old Testament images of God while ten essays address the way in which God is presented in the New Testament. The volume is rounded off with an essay exploring biblical preaching about God.
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Trinity A Print On Demand Title
$21.99Add to cartThe premier volume in an exciting new series of guides to the core beliefs of the Christian faith, The Trinity provides beginning theology readers with a basic knowledge of the doctrine of God’s triune nature.
Concise, nontechnical, and up-to-date, the book offers a detailed historical and theological description of the doctrine of the Trinity, tracing its development from the first days of Christianity through the medieval and Reformation eras and into the modern age. Special attention is given to early church controversies and church fathers who helped carve out the doctrine of the triune God as well as to its twentieth-century renaissance. The second half of the book contains a detailed, annotated bibliography of all major books written about the Trinity.
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Our God Is Awesome
$19.99Add to cartDo you want to be challenged to deepen your understanding of the characteristics and requirements of Almighty God? The Understanding God Series contains the bulk of Pastor Tony Evans’ compelling and hard-hitting resources on the essentials about God, Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, Spiritual Warfare, and prophecy. Now available in paperback, readers will not want to be without a single book in the series by this popular and powerful speaker and author.
God’s sovereignty inspires our worship. His omnipotence guides our lives. The more we learn about God’s attributes, the more awestruck we become. In his captivating style, Tony Evans explores the characteristics of God and challenges readers to a deeper level of intimacy with the Father.
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Shadow Of The Almighty
$21.99Add to cartThe Shadow of the Almighty introduces readers to the nature of God by exploring the biblical references to God as “Father,” “Son,” and “Holy Spirit.” This fruitful approach offers fresh insight into the meaning of the biblical language used for God, giving readers the background necessary for properly understanding the trinitarian perspective of the New Testament and of the Christian faith.
Divided into four chapters, the book looks at “Father” language in early Judaism, at “Father” language in early Christianity, at “Son” language, and at language designating the Spirit. This thorough review of the traditional God language across the biblical texts shows what the earliest Christians understood by using these terms and, ultimately, what these terms mean for modern faith and practice.
While much of this material is deceptively familiar, the authors’ close examination of how and where the different terms are used reveals some surprising results. It makes clear, for example, that speaking of God in trinitarian terms was not as radical a departure from early Jewish monotheism as many have thought, and it shows that while early Christianity was characterized by disparate ideas, the first Christians nevertheless shared a common understanding of God. Equally engaging findings of the book include the authors’ support for the traditional gendered term “Father” when speaking about God.
Complete with helpful questions at the end of each chapter, The Shadow of the Almighty provides an excellent place to begin a deeper study of God.
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Anatomy Of God
$19.99Add to cart208 Pages
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God is a Spirit, yet, throughout Scripture, He describes Himself in anatomical terms and images we are familiar with. His eyes wink and squint. His mouth whispers, His smile radiates, and He inclines an attentive ear to our cries. God has hands, arms, and fingers that build, shape, give, protect, and deliver. His heart can be broken, and His nostrils flare when He is angry. His face reveals His glory and His favor. This book God is an invitation to see God at work in us, for us, and through us. With appropriate humor and humility, Dr. Kenneth Ulmer introduces us to the Father as we seldom see Him-touchable, emotional, and accessible. He navigates the seemingly unfathomable depths of the person of God with a pastor’s care, a teacher’s skill, and a preacher’s passion, guiding us into deeper, more meaningful communion. This book is for every man or woman who desires to know God, or to know Him better. It is for anyone who questions God’s closeness, or doubts His concern. The Anatomy of God brings us closer to God by bringing God closer to us. -
Character Of God In The Book Of Genesis
$54.00Add to cartW. Lee Humphreys uses recent developments in literary theory along with the Book of Genesis to show how God functions as a “character” in its narrative. Humphreys discusses the coherence and consistency of God as a character and the way in which God’s character develops throughout the narrative. “The Character of God” brings us fresh insight in our reading of Genesis.
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Trustworthiness Of God
$31.50Add to cartWhile few Christian thinkers would question the trustworthiness of God, this topic is key for understanding the divine nature and God’s revelation to the world. The Trustworthiness of God offers a comprehensive look at the theme of God’s faithfulness, exploring the relationship between the doctrines of God and of Scripture from every possible perspective.
Written by a team of international scholars, the book begins by surveying what key biblical texts say about God’s faithfulness. Other chapters look to Jesus as a model of God’s trustworthiness, examine Paul’s writing on the subject, consider the thoughts of the church fathers, and place all of this evidence within the framework of systematic theology. Broad in scope and irenic in design, The Trustworthiness of God will benefit teachers, students, and
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God And The Excluded
$21.00Add to cart1. Theology Of Identity: The Turn To The Self
2. Theology Of Difference: The Turn To The Other
3. Theology And Postmodernity: The Turn To Language And The Text
4. Theology And The Excluded: The Turn To Others
5. Interconnections, Blind Spots, And Unconscious Desires
6. Opening The Floodgates: A New ParadigmAdditional Info
Theology is fracturing along tension lines once hidden by the great modern consensus that reigned from Schleiermacher’s day till our own. Now, all of it is in dispute: its starting point, its self-awareness, its claim to truth, its method and interaction with other disciplines and institutions in church, academy, and society.Rieger offers an enlightening way to understand the chief strands or options in theology today and a valuable proposal for resituating theology around the crucial issue of inclusion. He sees four competing vectors at work in today’s Christian theology: Theology of Identity (liberal theology, represented by Schleiermacher and founded in the self), Theology of Difference (dialectical theology, represented by Barth and founded in the Wholly Other), Theology and the Postmodern (postcritical theology, represented by Lindbeck and founded on the text), and Theology and the Underside (liberation theology, represented by Gutierrez and others and founded in the interests of the other person).
Further, Rieger goes on to propose that each of these is in some way exclusionary and elitist; the mass of humanity and the globe’s most pressing problems do not invade this cathedral, and in some ways the market itself has replaced God. Religious thought can remain viable only when it is grounded in an openness that reaches beyond the global market and postmodern squabbles, critiques its own complicity in the situation, and resituates itself in express commitment to those left out of today’s “gated community.”
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Mighty Acts Of God (Revised)
$32.00Add to cartThis new edition of A.B. Rhodes’s The Mighty Acts Of God is an essential tool for learning more about the Bible. The original volume, which has been well-loved as a guide for Bible study, has been carefully revised by Dr. W. Eugene March of Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary to incorporate the most up-to-date historical and theological research. From the beinnings of creation to final consummation and hope, readers will find the same easily readable quality as in the first edition along with helpful quesitons for either group or individual study.
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God Of Miracles
$21.99Add to cartPart of the debate over God’s existence centers on questions about the possibility and “provability” of miracles. In this groundbreaking work, Dr. C. John Collins provides a thorough exegetical foundation for discussing God’s action in the world within the framework of biblical Christian theology. He begins by presenting and contrasting the options within traditional Christian theism. He then explores the biblical passages that support a classically theistic foundation and relates these results to the philosophical theological, scientific, and apologetic questions that this rises. In so doing, he effectively takes on the God-of-the-gaps position and answers with a persuasive “yes” the crucial question of whether it is intellectually responsible to embrace the biblical view of God’s action in the world.
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Prophets : Gods Truth Tellers (Student/Study Guide)
$9.99Add to cartIn the Old Testament alone we have the writings of at least sixteen prophets. What kind of people were they: eccentric doomsayers or faithful truth tellers? And why were their messages so crucial that God appointed them specifically to speak? More importantly, do they have anything to say to God’s people today? From Elijah to John the Baptist this studyguide will help you listen anew to God’s truth as you look at the lives of thirteen prophets and the major themes of their messages.
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Who Is God (Student/Study Guide)
$9.99Add to cart73 Pages In 12 Chapters
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What is God like? How does he relate to us? Through looking at the many facets of God’s character revealed in the Bible – his power, goodness, holiness, faithfulness, judgment, and wisdom – your view of God will be enlarged and your life will be challenged. -
Friendship : Portraits In Gods Family Album (Student/Study Guide)
$9.99Add to cart1. Abraham, God’s Friend – Genesis 12:1-9: Hebrews 11;8-19; Genesis 13
2. Are You A Friend Of God – John 15:5-17; Selected Passages From Genesis
3. Introducing Ruth, Who Risked Commitment – Ruth 1
4. Unfailing Kindness In God And His People – Ruth 2-4
5. Jonathan And David: Faithful Friends – 1 Samuel 18-19
6. Jonathan And David: Covenant Friends – 1 Samuel 20; 2 Samuel 9; Ecclesiastes 5:2-6
7. Introducing Solomon, Son Of David – 2 Samuel 9; Selected Verses From Solomon’s Writings
8. Solomon’s Folly: Failure To Apply Wisdom – Verses From Proverbs; 1 Kings 9: 1-9; 11:1-13
9. Mary And Elizabeth: Sharing Faith In God – Luke 1:5 -80
10. Jesus, Friend Of Sinners – Matthew 26: 36-56; Luke 5:27-32
11. Barnabas, Son Of Encouragement – Acts 4: 32-36; Luke 5:27-32
12. Barnabaas’s Later Ministry – Acts 11:19-30; 15:25-26; 36-39Additional Info
To be rich in friends is true wealth! These 12 studies for group or private use focus on the treasure of good relationships. Here you will find vivid profiles of friends in the Bible like Jonathan and David Ruth and Naomi, Barnabas, Abraham and Jesus-the preeminent Friend and Brother. Steve and Dee Brestin are veteran Bible study authors with six popular titles in the Fisherman line. -
Images Of Redemption (Student/Study Guide)
$9.99Add to cartThis unique study examines how images in the Old Testament foreshadow God’s redemptive plan fulfilled in the New Testament. Your faith will be enriched as you look at pictures of God’s faithfulness revealed in images such as the Creation, the sign of the covenant, the Passover Lamb, the temple, and others.
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Exodus : God Our Deliver (Student/Study Guide)
$9.99Add to cartHow often have you said, “God, get me out of this!” The Israelites had plenty of opportunities to cry out for God’s deliverance too. The book of Exodus follows the Israelites from slavery in Egypt through their wanderings in the wilderness. Discover how their story is also ours-a story of God’s deliverance of an imperfect people.
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Gods Grace To You
$15.99Add to cartUnderstanding the covenant of grace is at the heart of faith in Christ. In this inspiring book, Charles Spurgeon explores the details of God’s unbreakable contract with you and points out many of its marvelous provisions, including forgiveness of your sins, inner peace, a new nature, freedom from bondage, and entrance into heaven. Often, God’s blessings sit accumulating in His storehouse, just waiting to be claimed, because Christians do not realize they can have their inheritance now. Discover the riches of God’s gracious covenant with you, so you can claim your abundant legacy today!
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Providence Of God
$35.99Add to cartProvidence is the point at which theologians and the broader Christian community find their most intense conversations. Questions about God’s activity in the world today, his guidance of believers, human freedom versus divine will, the place of prayer in the workings of his will, his responsibility for evil-all of these are related to his providence. How we think about these issues is deeply related to our understanding of God and of hwo we should serve and worship him.
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Is God A Delusion
$11.99Add to cartHas science disproved God?
Does religion do more harm than good?
Is faith irrational?
In this book Nicky Gumbel draws on his experience as a barrister and addresses the biggest issue of the age: does God exist? He sifts through the arguments adopted by some prominent atheists and assesses the evidence.A response to Richard Dawkins bestselling book The God Delusion. Based on talks given by Nicky Gumbel. These closely examine the complex claims made by Dawkins. A useful Christian perspective on this popular book.
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Predestination And Free Will
$28.99Add to cartIf God is in control, are people really free? The Basingers present four views on this thought-provoking question: Bruce Reichenbach on God’s self-limited power, John Feinberg on God’s control through foreordination, Clark Pinnock on God’s self-limited knowledge, and Norman Geisler on God’s control by foreknowledge.
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Doctrine Of God
$35.99Add to cartWhat is theology? What is the nature of God? How should we think about the relationships among the persons of the Trinity? In a carefully reasoned style, Gerald Bray distills the essence of these questions and introduces readers to a theological understanding of the personal, trinitarian existence of God. Engaging classical and contemporary theology along the way, Bray also leads us into conversation with the Eastern Orthodox tradition, where he finds valuable insights sadly neglected by evangelical theology. Here is a substantial introduction to the nature and subject of God, and a compelling call for evangelicals to renew their commitment to the solid foundation of a truly trinitarian theology.
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Openness Of God
$25.99Add to cartTHE OPENNESS of GOD presents a careful and full-orbed argument that the God known through Christ desires “responsive relationships” with his creatures. While it rejects process theology, the book asserts that such classical doctrines as God’s immutability, impassibility and foreknowledge demand reconsideration. The authors insist that our understanding of God will be more consistently bibical and more true to the actual devotional lives of Christians if we profess that “God, in grace, grants humans significant freedom” and enters into relationship with a genuine “give and take dymanic.”
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Who Needs Theology
$22.99Add to cartTheology is just for intellectuals, right? Not at all, say Grenz and Olson. In their fascinating book, they invite you to discover what theology is, why every believer is a theologian, and how studying theology can strengthen your Christian commitment and witness. A great book for study groups!
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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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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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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.
