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Templar Revelation : Secret Guardians Of The True Identity Of Christ
$25.99Add to cartTHE MOST CLOSELY GUARDED SECRET OF THE WESTERN WORLD IS ABOUT TO BE REVEALED — AND YOU WILL NEVER SEE CHRISTIANITY IN THE SAME LIGHT AGAIN.
In a remarkable achievement of historical detective work that is destined to become a classic, authors Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince delve into the mysterious world of the Freemasons, the Cathars, the Knights Templar, and the occult to discover the truth behind an underground religion with roots in the first century that survives even today. Chronicling their fascinating quest for truth through time and space, the authors reveal an astonishing new view of the real motives and character of the founder of Christianity, as well as the actual historical — and revelatory — roles of John the Baptist and Mary Magdalene. Painstakingly researched and thoroughly documented, The Templar Revelation presents a secret history, preserved through the centuries but encoded in works of art and even in the great Gothic cathedrals of Europe, whose final chapter could shatter the foundation of the Christian Church.
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Natural Law In Judaism
$120.00Add to cartNatural law is the idea that our basic moral principles apply to every human being, and are accessible to human reason. Most people have assumed that since Judaism seems to consist of a specific historical revelation and a specific tradition, that an idea such as natural law is foreign to it. This book shows that natural law is part of Judaism, and that it is consistent with its specific revelation and tradition. In this book, not only is the history of an idea shown with great accuracy, but the idea of natural law is presented as a way of conveying some of Judaism’s meaning for life today.
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Hearts Rest
$12.95Add to cartAuthor Kathryn Popio suddenly lost her thirteen-year-old son, Macaulay, in 1988. Her chronicled steps toward healing will inspire and uplift others who have lost a child.
Popio writes, “It is my hope in sharing these experiences that they will also help someone else work through to a better resolution of their sorrow.”
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Pastoral Care Of Older Adults
$17.99Add to cartBy the year 2000 more than half of mainline Protestants will be over the age of sixty. Older adults have special needs to which many pastors are not adequately prepared to minister. Pastoral Care of Older Adults addresses such problems, many of which were identified in an extensive survey of clergy. The book provides practical guidance for parish pastors, and other counselors, to deal with such issues as Alzheimer’s disease, the chronically ill, relocation, health crises, grief, depression, anxiety, gender differences, poverty, and the issues faced by the children of older adults.
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Amidah : Traditional Prayers Modern Commentaries
$29.99Add to cart“The prayer book is our Jewish diary of the centuries, a collection of prayers composed by generations of those who came before us, as they endeavored to express the meaning of their lives and their relationship to God. The prayer book is the essence of the Jewish soul.”
My People’s Prayer Book provides diverse and exciting commentaries to the traditional liturgy, written by some of today’s most respected scholars and teachers from all perspectives of the Jewish world. They explore the text from the perspectives of ancient Rabbis and modern theologians, as well as feminist, halakhic, medieval, linguistic, biblical, Chasidic, mystical, and historical perspectives.
This stunning work, an empowering entryway to the spiritual revival of our times, enables all of us to claim our connection to the heritage of the traditional Jewish prayer book. It helps rejuvenate Jewish worship in today’s world, and makes its power accessible to all. The My People’s Prayer Book series belongs on the library shelf of every home, every synagogue-every sanctuary of prayer.
Introductions tell the reader what to look for in the prayer service, as well as how to truly use the commentaries, to search for-and find-meaning in the prayer book. -
Honor And Shame In The Gospel Of Matthew
$50.00Add to cartJerome Neyrey clarifies what praise, honor, and glory meant to Matthew and his audience. He examines the traditional literary forms for bestowing such praise and the conventional grounds for awarding honor and praise in Matthew’s world. Neyrey argues that the evangelist Matthew was trained in conventional ways, and that his writing employs as many of the genres taught in the rhetorical handbooks concerning praise. Analysis from this standpoint, supplemented with cross- cultural studies from countries that border the Mediterranean, gives new insight into the gospel’s meaning and purpose.
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Book Of Revelation
$29.00Add to cartSchussler Fiorenza’s pioneering and widely acclaimed volume, reissued here with a new Epilogue, has served to reorient understanding of the Bible’s most controverted book. Fiorenza makes an impressive attempt in this book to develop a convincing method for understanding the confusion world of the symbols and images of Revelation.
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Gods Godesses And Images Of God
$49.00Add to cartA fascinating look at the religious life of ancient Israel and Canaan. Advancing the study of Hebrew culture, this lavishly illustrated, meticulously researched volume draws on iconographic evidence from 1750 B.C.E. to 333 B.C.E. to reconstruct the political and religious influence of Egypt, Assyria, and Babylon on the development of Yahweh worship.
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Lords Prayer
$19.00Add to cartWhen his disciples wanted to know how to pray, this is the prayer Jesus taught them. But it has become over-familiar due to rote and repetition, keeping many of us from looking at what it’s trying to convey. Barclay goes through it phrase by phrase, bringing out the spiritual depths and literary richness.
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Religion Science And Naturalism
$49.99Add to cartThis book considers the consequences of the natural sciences (physics, biology, neurosciences) for our view of the world. Willem Drees argues that religion and morality are to be understood as rooted in our evolutionary past and neurophysiological constitution. His book takes a more radical naturalist position than most on religion and science. But religion is not dismissed: religious traditions remain important as bodies of wisdom and vision.
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Darkness Of God
$49.99Add to cartFor the medieval mystical tradition, the Christian soul meets God in a “cloud of unknowing,” a divine darkness of ignorance. This meeting with God is beyond all knowing and beyond all experiencing. Mysticisms of the modern period, on the contrary, place “mystical experience” at the center, and contemporary readers are inclined to misunderstand the medieval tradition in “experientialist” terms. Denys Turner argues that the distinctiveness and contemporary relevance of medieval mysticism lies precisely in its rejection of “mystical experience,” and locates the mystical firmly within the grasp of the ordinary and the everyday. The argument covers some central authorities in the period from Augustine to John of the Cross.
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Exodus 1-18
$27.99Add to cartExodus 1-18, by George W. Coats, is Volume IIA of THE FORMS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT LITERATURE, a series that aims to present a form-critical analysis of every book and each unit in the Hebrew Bible. Fundamentally exegetical,the FOTL volumes examine the structure, genre, setting, and intention of the biblical literature in question.They also study the history behind the form-critical discussion of the material, attempt to bring consistency tothe terminology for the genres and formulas of the biblical literature, and expose the exegetical process soas to enable students and pastors to engage in their own analysis and interpretation of the Old Testament texts.
More than twenty-five years in preparation, this present study provides a form-critical analysis of the first eighteen chapters of the book of Exodus. Dividing his discussion between the Exodus and Moses traditions and the wilderness traditions, Coats examines each unit of the text of Exodus in turn, showing how the units’ internal structures reveal the genre and social setting in which the book was written and what that setting and genre mean for proper interpretation. Illuminating to scholars and students alike, this volume will open up a new perspective on this important section of Scriptu
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Liberating The Future
$18.00Add to cartIn this volume, liberation theologians succinctly map the liberation terrain for the new century. Writing from a variety of standpoints (the African American community, feminist stuggles, and social locations in Europe, North America, and Latin America) these thinkers reflect on the vastly changed context of and challenges to liberation.
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Whatever Happened To The Soul
$29.00Add to cartA biologist, geneticist, cognitive researcher, neurospecialist, psychologist, psychiatrist, philosopher, theologian, ethicist, and biblical scholar comment on the failure of modern science to see the soul as distinct from the body and the consequent ramifications for all disciplines.
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God In The Fray
$35.00Add to cartIf there were risks and consequences for the poet-prophet Isaiah, there are certainly also risks and consequences for the writer who today wishes to take the biblical literature seriously. No one – not even his strongest opponents – could accuse Walter Brueggemann of not being capable of a firm persuasion of anything. On the contrary, he has cared not for consequences but has written, boldly and with a passionate conviction that echoes William Blake as well as Isaiah. This book is a tribute to the great writer, Walter Brueggemann.
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Historical Books
$24.99Add to cartThis book introduces neophyte readers to the basic concepts of history and historical writing and provides a simple framework of events and periods that can be used to situate historical data reported in texts or presupposed by them. Standard interpretative methods are accessibly explained and illustrated by consistent reference to 2 Samuel 24. The focus of discussion moves from the narrow level of individual pericope to larger units of meaning. Because the ultimate goal is to expose the claims made on the reader by these biblical texts and to help the reader make sense of those claims, the interpretative spotlight rests on the present interaction of text and reader rather than on the past.
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Freud And The Legacy Of Moses
$96.00Add to cartThis important new title by Richard J. Bernstein presents a detailed examination of Freud’s last book, Moses and Monotheism. Bernstein argues convincingly that this frequently vilified and dismissed book is one of Freud’s most important works. It is in Moses and Monotheism that Freud answers the question that obsessed him: what is the essence of the Jewish people? Bernstein goes on to show how Freud developed a new interpretation of the concept of a religious tradition–an interpretation that is applicable to both Judaism and Christianity.
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Light And Death
$19.99Add to cartBegun in 1994, The Atlanta Study is the first comprehensive investigation of its kind into near-death experiences (NDEs). The study’s name hardly captures what lies behind it: life-and-death dramas played out in operating rooms and hospital beds–and simultaneous events unseen by medical personnel but reported with astonishing clarity and conviction by nearly 50 individuals who returned from death’s door. Now the founder of The Atlanta Study, Dr. Michael Sabom reveals their impact on the people who have experienced them. From both medical and personal perspectives, he shares the electrifying stories of men and women from all walks of life and religious persuasions. He explores the clinical effect of the NDE on survival and healing and discloses surprising findings. He questions some common conclusions about NDEs. And he scrutinizes near-death experiences in the light of what the Bible has to say about death and dying, the realities of light and darkness, and the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
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History And Theology Of New Testament Writings
$44.00Add to cartThis sweeping and authoritative introduction presents in a classic format full and up-to-date information about each individual writing of the New Testament with respect to its: date and author, place of writing, structure, theme and theological aims, important historical and interpretive issues. With its clear outline, judicious writing, and exhaustive American and European bibliographies, Schnelle’s volume will equip readers to form their own judgments about Christianity’s foundational documenst. After providing an overview of the development of the New Testament canon, Schnelle then takes up, in turn, the letters of Paul, the Synoptic Gospels (including Q), Acts, the Deutero-Pauline epistles, the Catholic letters, the Gospel of John, and Revelation.
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Jesus Baptism And Jesus Healing
$34.95Add to cartHow do you describe the spitituality of the historical Jesus without making him a purveyor of general wisdom, marginalizing his Jewishness, or speculating on his inner life? Bruce Chilton shows us how in this fascinating study that draws on his expert knowledge of Jesus’ Jewish milieu to focus on Jesus’ concrete practices of baptism and healing and their significance within the system of purity. Any serious student of Christian origins needs to graple with this book’s thesis.
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Praying With Body And Soul
$13.99Add to cartImaginative and concrete, Jane Vennard leads us into praying through our bodies, through our emotions and relationships, through our work in the world. She invites the reader to livelier, more spontaneous, and varied forms of prayer. Drawing on her teaching experience, she skillfully opens the reader’s eyes to a whole new range of possibilities.
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Triune Creator A Print On Demand Title
$29.99Add to cartThis title covers the content and implications of the Christian Doctrine of Creation, largely in conversation with its history. The opening chapters discuss the origins of the doctrine in the Bible and early theology, bringing out the implications of the main teaching for the modern content. Later chapters engage with the relation beetween the doctrine and the emergence of modern science. The final chapters centre on the related dogmatic themes such as providence and the ethics of creation.
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Harvest Of Righteousness
$21.00Add to cartAimed at helping Christians grow in prayer, Bible reading, and personal worship, this beautifully crafted workbook provides a five-week program for individuals and small groups in the practice of daily worship. Drawing on the rich treasure of spiritual discipline in the Reformed tradition, Rebecca Bradburn Langer has prepared biblical passages, devotional readings, prayers, and helpful exercises for each day.
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Tending The Flock
$40.00Add to cartMany churches are unprepared to face the challanges inherent in family life today. Others, though, have developed innovative and exciting responses. In this book, case studies provide insights and stategies to help develop a practical theological perspective on family ministry. This new perspective represents a fresh and powerful witness to the place of families within contemporary communities of faith.
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Psalms (Student/Study Guide)
$17.00Add to cartThe Psalms speak to the depths of human experience, provoking words and images to express anger, sorrow, lament, thanksgiving, joy, and worshipful praise. They are as relevant today as they were to the ancient peoples who first composed them.
Interpretation Bible Studies (IBS) offers solid biblical content in a creative study format. Forged in the tradition of the celebrated Interpretation commentary series, IBS makes the same depth of biblical insight available in a dynamic, flexible, and user-friendly resource. Designed for adults and older youth, IBS can be used in small groups, in church school classes, in large group presentations, or in personal study.
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Christology
$39.99Add to cartA unique blend of biblical scholarship, the history of doctrine, and current theological inquiry. Schwarz makes a compelling case for a full understanding of the person and work of Christ in thoughtful give-and-take with reductionisms ancient and modern. As the fruit of decades of teaching the subject on two continents, this work will prove to be a durable contribution to the field.
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Exodus (Student/Study Guide)
$17.00Add to cartWeaving together the stories of Moses, the nation of Israel, and the God who rescues and liberates, Exodus becomes a story for our time, a story about seeking and finding a redeeming God in times of separation and sin, hopelessness and oppression.
Interpretation Bible Studies (IBS) offers solid biblical content in a creative study format. Forged in the tradition of the celebrated Interpretation commentary series, IBS makes the same depth of biblical insight available in a dynamic, flexible, and user-friendly resource. Designed for adults and older youth, Interpretation Bible Studies can be used in small groups, in church school classes, in large group presentations, or in personal study.
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Letters Of Paul (Large Type)
$33.00Add to cartThis resource is intended to help people who are reading through Paul’s letters for the first time or are reading them again for a new look. It is designed to give the context of these letters, enabling readers to better interpret them. It is also designed to assist the non-specialist work through these sometimes difficult epistles. This 4th edition contains an expansion of the chapter, “Currents and Crosscurrents”, additions to the bibliography, as well as changes to the language and references in each chapter, bringing up to date this valuable resource.
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Epistemology : Becoming Intellectually Virtous
$21.99Add to cartHow do we know what we know? What have wisdom, prudence and studiousness to do with justifying our beliefs? Jay Wood begins this introduction to epistemology by taking an extended look at the idea of knowing within the context of intelluctual virtues. He then surveys current views of foundationalism, epistemic justification and reliabilism. Finally, he examines the relationship of epistemology to religious belief, and the role of emotions and virtues in proper cognitive functioning.
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Mere Creation
$55.00Add to cartIVP Print On Demand Title
A landmark book challenging naturalistic evolution! When you’re defending creationism, it’s difficult for skeptics to refute the authoritative findings of Michael Behe. Dembski’s cutting-edge research, along with the revelations of 19 other expert academics, presents evidence of an intelligent design that debunks evolution—and strengthens your witness of the Grand Designer to others! -
Planning Blended Worship
$24.99Add to cartPlanning Blended Worship: The Creative Mixture of Old and New is a guide to planning creative worship for congregathat follow the traditional fourfold pattern of worship (gathering, word, table, and dismissal), as well as for those who prefer a free-church, evangelical style or more contemporary or blended approaches to worship. Robert Webber designed this volume to show pastors, music directorand other worship leaders the practical, structural, and theological steps for designing worship services characterized by biblical depth, historical awareness, and contemporarelevance. The author includes charts and forms at the end of each chapter that clearly show how music and other arts can be integrated with liturgical texts.
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Marigolds For Mourning
$14.99Add to cartMarigolds for Mourning, Book #2 in the Thyme Will Tell Mystery series by Audrey Sallsmith. When a popular high school football star collapses into a coma on Homecoming night, evidence indicates a heroin overdose. But did someone else want the boy dead? Before garden designer/part time sleuth Regan Culver and Police Chief Olin can discover the truth and save the boys life, they must make peace with each other in this second intriguing mystery.
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30 Days To Understanding The Christian Life In 15 Minutes A Day (Expanded)
$26.99Add to cartLike the nearly 200,000 readers who have used Dr. Anders’ 30 Days to Understanding the Bible with great success, every Christian will benefit richly from 30 Days to Understanding the Christian Life. In this volume, innovative Christian communicator Max Anders answers the question “What does God expect of Christians?” exploring God’s goals and plans for humankind, as well as His general strategies for those who seek to follow Him.
Dr. Anders’ effective writing and teaching style make some of the most challenging scriptural concepts-such as knowing God’s will, spiritual warfare, and using spiritual gifts-understandable in just 15 minutes a day. New believers will appreciate this concise overview of the Christian life; experienced Christians, Bible study leaders, and teachers will thank Dr. Anders for helping them “mentally organize” their beliefs and articulate the basics of the Christian life to others.
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All Will Be Well
$26.99Add to cartHere are more than 200 prayers for healing from physical and mental illness, healing of relationships, recovery from addiction, healing of communities, healing of society, and healing of the earth. The prayers are from a wide variety of writers from around the world and through the centuries, including Henri Nouwen, Mother Teresa, Ruth Bell Graham, and Martin Luther King Jr. The book includes a general introduction and a topical index.
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Whence Came A Prince
$15.99Add to cartLeana sank into a curtsy, thinking to put their relationship on the proper footing. “I will make myself useful in the kitchen, dear cousin.” Jamie placed his hand under her chin, slowly lifting her face until they were poised a handbreadth apart. “Cousin?” he said, his voice rough with emotion. “Nae, lass. It can never be that way with us.”
By sheer will she stepped away from him. “Nor can it be any other way but this.” A journey of the heart across the Lowlands of Scotland. Haunted by a shameful past and wrestling with an uncertain future, Jamie McKie vows to return to his ancestral home of Glentrool and claim his inheritance-a daring venture that will test the depth of his courage and the strength of his sword.
But who will travel with him, when two women each stake a worthy claim on his affection? Tender, gentle Leana is the mother of his firstborn; her spirited younger sister, Rose, is expecting his second child. Honor and duty prevail as a prodigal hero prepares to fight for all he holds dear.
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His Victorious Indwelling
$18.99Add to cartHave you truly grasped the remarkable heritage that is yours in Christ? Through the years, certain Christians have stood out for their deep insight into the riches we possess in Christ. Oswald Chambers, A. W. Tozer, Hannah Whittal Smith, D. L. Moody, E. M. Bounds . . . these men and women knew the secrets of the abundant spiritual life. Drawing on the meditations and quotes from these and other well-know writers, His Victorious Indwelling explores Christ’s victory and how it can be lived through us. These 366 daily devotions bring together the best writings of such classic authors as John Calvin, Martin Luther, Watchman Nee, Charles Spurgeon, St. Augustine, and John Wesley, as well as contemporary writers such as Corrie ten Boom. These and dozens of others will help you discover the power, liberty, and joy that flow from “Christ in us.”
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Eyes Remade For Wonder
$18.99Add to cartWith incomparable ability to blend scholarship, imagination, psychology, mysticism, history and great writing, Rabbi Kushner offers something unique to both the spiritual seeker and the committed person of faith. With samplings from each of his books and a generous amount of previously unpublished material, “The Lawrence Kushner Reader” explores personal meaning in the sacred that animates each of our lives.
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Death Christ Died (Revised)
$19.99Add to cart1. The Savior In Life And Death
2. The Divine Purpose Of The Atonement
3. The Biblical Extent Of The Atonement
4. Problems With An Unlimited View Of The Atonement
6. Problems With A Limited View Of The Atonement
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This book is a long overdue update of one of the best books written in our generation on the topic of the extent of Christ’s death.In this revised edition, the author has included three new appendixes that examine the issue of limited atonement and sharing the gospel, key biblical passages regarding the topic of “double predestination,” and recent presentations of the limited atonement view.
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Speaking For Ourselves
$19.95Add to cartThere are many powerful women in the Bible, but their descriptions are almost always tantalizingly brief. If they had a chance to tell their own stories in their own voices, what would they have said? Basing her interpretation of these women on extensive research, Katerina Whitley puts herself in their shoes, giving today’s listeners a fuller understanding of each of their stories. The women explored include: the Virgin Mary, Miriam, Mary Magdalene, Elizabeth, and more. Study questions follow each woman’s story.
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Joyful Pilgrimage : My Life In Community
$10.00Add to cartIn the tumultuous aftermath of the First World War, thousands of young Germans defied the social mores of their parents and the constricting influence of the established churches in search of freedom, social equality, nature, and community. Hiking clubs were formed and work camps organized, and hundreds of rural folk schools and communes sprang up across the country. In the 1930s, Nazism swallowed this so-called Youth Movement virtually whole.
A Joyful Pilgrimage is the engaging story of a remnant that survived: the Bruderhof, a 75-year-old community that began when the author and her husband, a well-known writer and lecturer, abandoned their affluent Berlin suburb to start a new life and venture of faith.”
At first glance a memoir, A Joyful Pilgrimage is a radical call to faith and commitment against great odds. It is also a remarkable testimony to the leading of the Spirit, which, as Emmy Arnold writes, can hold together those who believe in the daily miracle of community through thick and thin. “
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Mission Possible : The Wonderful Story Of God And A Wycliffe Translator In
$15.99Add to cartTyndale House Print On Demand Title
The dynamic true story of Bible translator Marilyn Laszlo. Journey through the jungles of Papua New Guinea as she shares her adventures bringing the Word of God to the Sepik Iwam tribe.