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Preaching From The Minor Prophets A Print On Demand Title
$19.99Add to cartDespite the authority and theological richness of the twelve books of the Minor Prophets, these Old Testament writings are perennially neglected by the church and the pulpit. This volume was written to provide clergy with the tools to once again preach from these important texts with confidence and relevancy.
For each of the twelve Minor Prophets, Elizabeth Achtemeier provides a wealth of information useful for preparing a sermon: recommended commentaries, historical context, theological context, and sections dealing with selected texts. These sections include (1) a brief treatment of linguistic and rhetorical features to note, (2) suggested sermon titles designed to arouse the interest of a congregation, and (3) homiletical exposition intended to stimulate preachers as they develop their sermons.
An excellent guide to the books of the Minor Prophets, this volume is unique for its theological depth, presented in clear and simple language for clergy and laity alike.
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Pauls Early Period A Print On Demand Title
$53.99Add to cartA description of the first thirty years of the primitive church is largely a description of the course of Paul’s life and ministry. A full understanding of Paul’s activities and thought is therefore essential for any study of the church or of New Testament theology in general. This thoroughgoing work by Rainer Riesner addresses many of the scholarly questions relating to early Pauline chronology and theology. Conversant with nearly everything of significance written on the subject, this volume will be a valuable aid to the study of Paul and his importance to the early church.
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When God Says Let Me Alone Cycle A
$12.95Add to cartA man who has delivered sermons on every continent, Dr. William Augustus Jones is a superlative preacher and has been cited as “The Dean of New York’s Great Preachers” by the New York Daily News.
The son and grandson of Baptist ministers, Dr. Jones graduated from the University of Kentucky and Crozer Theological Seminary, and earned a doctoral degree from Colgate Rochester Divinity School. He has done special studies at the University of Lagos (Nigeria) and the University of Ghana at Legon. He has served as pastor of Bethany Baptist Church in Brooklyn, New York since September 1962 and led his congregation in the construction of a Neo-Gothic edifice completed in October 1967. Bethany conducts a multi-faceted program with a full-time staff of 27 persons. Included in the outreach ministries is a national radio and television ministry.
Among the many honors he has received is the New York Urban League’s prestigious Frederick Douglass Award. He holds honorary doctorates from Benedict College, Simmons University, Shaw University, and Campbell University. He received an honorary Doctor of Humanities Degree from his alma mater, the University of Kentucky. Recently he was awarded the Doctor of Literature Degree by Evangelical Reformed School of Theology, Toledo. Ohio.
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Cross Resurrection And Ascension Cycle A
$12.95Add to cartThis book of sermons moves from the desert of Ash Wednesday to the cross of Calvary on Good Friday, to the empty tomb on Easter, and finally to Jesus’ return to the Father. Richard Gribble’s preaching style is vibrant and relevant to the person in the pew. The deeply spiritual content is punctuated by poignant story illustrations that illustrate the scriptural text and enlighten the listener.
Preachers will find this book inspiring for their own sermons, while lay readers will discover rich insights to the Bible for their personal study and devotions.
Contents include:
Ash Wednesday: The Journey To Freedom Begins
First Sunday In Lent: Greed Leads To Destruction
Fourth Sunday In Lent: Looking To The Heart
Maundy Thursday: Carrying On The Tradition
Easter Sunday: Our Need To Talk With The Son
Seventh Sunday Of Easter: The Community Of Life
Ascension Sunday: Completing The Master’s Work
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Between Gloom And Glory Cycle A
$12.95Add to cartBetween Gloom And Glory is an example of Old Testament preaching at its most powerful and effective. Each of the 15 sermons contains heart-rending illustrations and each sermon builds to a climax of meaning and emotion.
Titles include:
A Baby Isn’t Quite What We Expected Isaiah 2:1-5
What Do You Want For Christmas — Isaiah 35:1-10
Rejoice! — Isaiah 9:2-7
Whispered Preaching — Isaiah 42:1-9
What Does God Want From Us — Micah 6:1-8
Getting It Right For All The Wrong Reasons — Isaiah 58:3-9a
When Conviction And Culture Collide — Deuteronomy 30:15-20
On Turning On The Lights In The Church Building — Exodus 24:12-18 -
Key To Life
$12.95Add to cart11 Chapters
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I am a child of God. You are a child of God. That’s what “”Our Father”” means. No one is an orphan. We have a Father: He is powerful; He is eternal; He is loving; He is close by; He knows our thoughts; He knows our needs; He can handle any situation, and He will. (from Chapter One)The eleven chapters of this book provide a resource of new insights into the prayer Jesus taught to His disciples. It could be used for a sermon series, for private devotions, or for small study groups.
Chapter titles include:
Who’s In Charge
God Provides Day By Day
Can I Ever Be Forgiven?
Am I A Forgiving Person?
Standing Strong In Time Of Testing
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Meet The Methodists (Revised)
$9.99Add to cartMeet the Methodists clearly and consisely explains the basic beliefs of United Methodists. It shows how these beliefs affect church stewardship, education, Sunday schools, reading and publiching, social and political action, structure, and world mission.
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Reshaping Religious Education
$39.00Add to cartCelebrated religious educators Harris and Moran challenge the religious education community to risk change. They identify a process of creative and imaginative education, moving beyond traditional solutions while incorporating ecumenical and international perspectives.
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Genesis (Student/Study Guide)
$17.00Add to cartThe Bible’s first book contains many well-known stories, some familiar since childhood: creation and the garden of Eden; an ark full of animals adrift in a flood; Abraham and Isaac; the conniving Jacob; and the dreams of Joseph. Now hear these stories again in a new way, and in hearing, discover the knowledge that God created everything in goodness and love. Whether in the heights of paradise or the depths of exile, the human journey is never far from the presence of God. From Eden to Egypt, Genesis affirms God’s love for us all.
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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Calvins First Catechism
$44.00Add to cartJohn Calvin’s first catechism–originally written in French in 1537 and then in Latin in 1538–provides a valuable, clear, and concise introduction to his thought. Now for the first time, readers have available Ford Lewis Battles’ English translation of the 1538 Latin edition and a current discussion of it in the same volume. This commentary on the first catechism also utilizes other sources such as Calvin’s Commentaries and Institutes, as well as the latest Calvin research. This volume is an excellent introduction to Calvin’s theology and will be useful as a text for college and seminary courses as well as church discussion groups.
The Columbia Series in Reformed Theology represents a joint commitment by Columbia Theological Seminary and Westminster John Knox Press to provide theological resources from the Reformed tradition for the church today. This series examines theological and ethical issues that confront church and society in our own particular time and place.
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Concepts Of Person And Christian Ethics
$165.00Add to cartShould “personhood” or its perceived absence determine the allocation of scarce medical resources? This and other issues make the concept and definition of personhood central to current debates over ethics. In a wide-ranging discussion notable for its clarity, Stanley Rudman traces the development of modern ideas about personhood. Arguing against those who define persons by purely moral and rational criteria, he posits an ethic that instead understands personhood in relation to other people, to the environment, and to God.
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Gods Plan For Your Finances
$16.99Add to cartGod has already given you the power to make money in order to provide for your family, achieve your goals, and reach out to the world with the hope of the Gospel. As a believer, it is part of your mission and calling to activate the power to produce wealth in order to help build God’s kingdom. Author Dwight Nichols explains the biblical view of money, practical steps to take in financial planning, and how people can get out of debt.
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Treatise On The Use Of The Tenses In Hebrew And Some Other Syntactical Ques
$39.99Add to cartThe original publication of A Treatise on the Use of the Tenses in Hebrew and Some Other Syntactical Questions (1894) launched S. R. Driver’s career and placed him at the forefront of Hebrew grammar and biblical studies. The reason is simple: this work was the first attempt in English to expound the principles of Hebrew syntax on lines at once philosophical and scientific. All modern study of Hebrew has been founded on the Tenses, and it remains perhaps the most interesting and original book that Drive wrote. Its final edition was hailed as the best single study of the Hebrew verbal system. Even critics conceded it to be an exciting and brilliant work that shaped future discussion of the Hebrew and Semitic verb.
This Biblical Resources Series edition of Driver’s classic work, which adopts the third and final edition of the Tenses (1892), includes Driver’s expanded and improved version of the text as well as a lengthy new introductory essay by W. Randall Garr on the history of the Tenses and its enduring importance as a manual for today’s students of the Hebrew language.
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New Documents Illustrating Early Christianity 6
$43.99Add to cartThis sixth volume of New Documents Illustrating Early Christianity reviews and reproduces a sample of Greek papyri and inscriptions which were first published or reissued in 1980 and 1981. The focus of attention has shifted somewhat from that of previous volumes in the series, with greater emphasis being placed on social history. The sixth volume selects documents illustrating family relations, slavery, the Roman administration and army, medicine and magic.
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They Walked In The Spirit
$31.00Add to cartMany people believe that American Protestantism has been divided into two groups: those concerned with the impact of religion in the public sphere and those concerned with private faith, individual morality and personal evangelism. In his new book, Douglas Strong provides examples of people who built bridges over the apparent chasm between these two groups during the last 150 years, people who were able to develop a deep personal piety while working simultaneously to transform society. Selections from William Goodell, Julia Foote, William Seymour, Charles Stelzle, Vida Scudder, E. Stanley Jones, Clarence Jordan, and Orlando Costas are included.
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Church People In The Struggle
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This comprehensive study represents the first effort by an historian to examine the relationship of the mainstream Protestant Churches to the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s. The focus is on the National Council of Churches, the principal ecumenical organization of the national Protestant religious establishment. Drawing on hitherto little-used and unknown archival resources and extensive interviews with participants, Findlay reveals the widespread participation of the predominantly white churches in the efforts moving toward black freedom that continued throughout the sixties. He documents the churches’ active involvement in the March on Washington in 1963 and the massive lobbying effort to secure passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, their powerful support of the struggle to end legal segregation in Mississippi, and their efforts to respond to the Black Manifesto and the rise of black militancy before and during 1969. Findlay chronicles initial successes, then growing frustration as the national liberal coalition, of which the churches were a part, disintegrated as the events of the 1960s unfolded. For the first time, Findlay’s study makes clear the highly significant role played by liberal religious groups in the turbulent, exciting, moving, and historic events of the 1960s. -
New Documents Illustrating Early Christianity 5
$43.99Add to cartThis fifth volume of New Documents Illustrating Early Christianity is rather different in conception from its predecessors. It focuses on several questions concerning the linguistic analysis of the New Testament, from the particular perspective of the usefulness of the documentary sources for such study. Certain problems canvassed briefly in the previous volumes in the series are here dealt more extensively and notably.
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Friend We Have In Jesus
$20.00Add to cartUnderstanding Jesus as friend reveals the compassion, care, communication, and commitment that are vital to any friendship-qualities that Christians can experience in a faithful relationship with Jesus. Schnackenburg presents engaging portraits of Jesus’s friendships with such biblical figures as John, Paul, Peter, Mary, Martha,and Lazarus.
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Exodus
$36.00Add to cartBooks in the Westminster Bible Companion Series assist laity in their study of the Bible as a guide to Christian faith and practice. Each volume explains the biblical book in its original historical context and explores its significance for faithful living today. These books are ideal for individual study and Bible study classes and groups.
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Missions Of Jesus And The Disciples According To The Fourth Gospel A Print
$33.99Add to cartThis important work explores in depth the relationship between the mission of Jesus and of the disciples as presented in the Gospel of John, and explores the implications of these findings for the contemporary church. Based on a comprehensive semantic field of study that integrates biblical studies, theology, and missiology, this volume represents the first time such an approach has been used for the study of mission in John.
Andreas Kostenberger begins by surveying the state of research on mission in the Fourth Gospel, then covers foundational linguistic, definitional, and literary matters. The following two chapters contain the actual study of the missions of Jesus and the disciples. In discussing the disciples’ mission, special attention is given to the question of how later generations of disciples should be related to Jesus’ original followers.
The volume concludes with a chapter on the implications of Kostenberger’s findings for the Fourth Gospel’s purpose and for the mission of the contemporary church. Kostenberger engages missiological constructs based on the Fourth Gospel, including the so-called “incarnational model” of mission, and concludes that this model is seriously flawed and should be replaced by a “representational model” of mission that views Jesus’ followers as his representatives, who do not share in the theologically unique aspects of his incarnation.
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Hope When Youre Hurting
$19.99Add to cartIn Hope When You’re Hurting, Drs. Larry Crabb and Dan Allender consider four key questions people ask: What’s wrong? Who can help? What will the helper do? And, What can I hope for? In answering these questions, Crabb and Allender shed light on the strengths and weaknesses of different counseling models. They consider the psychological, medical, and spiritual aspects of emotional pain. They examine the role of the church as a vital agent for restoration and growth. And most important, they offer guidance, choices, and hope for people struggling with spiritual and emotional pain.
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Kristin Lavransdatter 1 The Wreath
$16.00Add to cartKristin Lavransdatter interweaves political, social, and religious history with the daily aspects of family life to create a colorful, richly detailed tapestry of Norway during the fourteenth-century. The trilogy, however, is more than a journey into the past. Undset’s own life-her familiarity with Norse sagas and folklore and with a wide range of medieval literature, her experiences as a daughter, wife, and mother, and her deep religious faith-profoundly influenced her writing. Her grasp of the connections between past and present and of human nature itself, combined with the extraordinary quality of her writing, sets her works far above the genre of “historical novels.” This new translation by Tina Nunnally-the first English version since Charles Archer’s translation in the 1920s-captures Undset’s strengths as a stylist. Nunnally, an award-winning translator, retains the natural dialog and lyrical flow of the original Norwegian, with its echoes of Old Norse legends, while deftly avoiding the stilted language and false archaisms of Archer’s translation. In addition, she restores key passages left out of that edition.
Undset’s ability to present a meticulously accurate historical portrait without sacrificing the poetry and narrative drive of masterful storytelling was particularly significant in her homeland. Granted independence in 1905 after five hundred years of foreign domination, Norway was eager to reclaim its national history and culture. Kristin Lavransdatter became a touchstone for Undset’s contemporaries, and continues to be widely read by Norwegians today. In the more than 75 years since it was first published, it has also become a favorite throughout the world.
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Streams In The Desert (Large Type)
$22.99Add to cartFor years, the beloved classic devotional Streams in the Desert has sustained and replenished God’s weary desert travelers. Now, bursting forth like a sparkling-clear river of wisdom, encouragement, and inspiration, this updated edition of Streams in the Desert promises to revive and refresh today’s generations of faithful sojourners, providing daily Scripture passages from the popular, readable New International Version-and modern, easy-to-understand language that beautifully captures the timeless essence of the original devotional.
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Foolishness Of Preaching A Print On Demand Title
$21.99Add to cartWhat is the foundation of good preaching? How should preachers prepare themselves to faithfully and effectively address the church? And, just as importantly, what ought congregants, who come to church to hear a word from God, hope for from their preachers? These are often asked – and often answered – questions. But Robert Farrar Capon tackles them with a freshness and a frankness that make both the questions and the answers new.
In Part 1 of the book, “The Bedrock of Preaching,” Capon discusses how essential it is to have “a passion for the Passion” (to believe passionately in the Good News of salvation in Christ), how to overcome the stumbling blocks to genuinely accepting grace, and how to relinquish a false sense of control over our salvation. This part of the book also has important things to say to those of us who listen to sermons and who look to the pulpit for words of grace and hope that are truly meaningful to our lives today.
In Part 2, “The Practice of Preaching,” Capon concentrates on the mechanics of preaching in anything but a mechanical way. He begins by discussing the ingredients of preaching, emphasizing the importance of not just reading but really hearing the Word in the original Greek and Hebrew, and offers some pointed comments on the Common Lectionary. He then goes on to illustrate how to preach effectively from notes, giving specific, day-by-day suggestions for preparation. He also shows, using the full text of one of his sermons as an example, how to preach from a more fully written manuscript and explains how to move from first notes to final notes for a sermon, again using some of his own notes as an example.
In Capon’s creative hands these instructions are not just a nuts-and-bolts exercise; they are lively, challenging lessons in preaching that, for all their practical advice, never lose touch with the center of preaching and belief – the astonishing grace of Jesus Christ.
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Book Of Miracles (Anniversary)
$16.95Add to cartHere is a book of spiritual adventure.
From the miracle at the Red Sea to the miracle of waking up this morning, this intriguing book introduces young people to a way of spiritual thinking to last a lifetime.
Kushner, whose award-winning books have brought spirituality to life for countless adults, here reveals the essence of Judaism in a way kids can understand and enjoy. Easy to read and imaginatively illustrated by the author, The Book of Miracles helps young people make-and treasure-the connections between religion, spirituality and everyday life.
For parents to read to their children, for children to read to their parents, The Book of Miracles encourages kids’ awareness of their own spirituality, and shows young people how to use Judaism as a foundation on which to build their lives. -
Desert : An Anthology For Lent
$26.95Add to cartThe desert, with its great emptiness and silence, has long been a symbol of solitude. In our Spiritual lives, we sometines seek such isolation as a means of abandoning ourselves completely to God. At other times, solitude comes upon us uninvited and unwelcome, as we find ourselves totally alone and desolate. In facing the silence and the vast expanses of loneliness, we test our courage, deepen our faith, and hear the voice of God anew. This book explores the tradition and relevance of desert spirituality in the life and worship of the church today and offers a collection of pertinent writings in a daily format, by many acient and contemporary authors.
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Religious Mystery And Rational Reflection A Print On Demand Title
$23.99Add to cartHow should philosophy approach what by definition surpasses its competence? Can it do more than describe the religious experience without discussing its object? Can religion make genuine truth claims – especially when so much suffering and evil in the world seem to go against them?
These are some of the basic questions raised in the first part of this collection of essays by Louis Dupre. A philosophical analysis of faith must take account of the unique system of symbols in which it expresses its belief, rituals, and modes of worship. The justification of religious symbols has become a particular problem in an age that tends to separate the objective from the subjective, interpreting the former literally and denying objective reality to the latter. In essays on von Balthasar’s theory of religious form and on the nature of ritual, Dupre attempts to restore the original meaning of religious symbols, while integrating them with the modern emphasis on human creativity.
Only after having secured the intrinsically symbolic nature of the religious act can philosophy discuss the religious experience without running the risk of ending in pure subjectivism. The third part of this work is devoted to the mystical experience as well as to the low-key religious experience characteristic of believers living an a secular culture. In the light of a negative theology (in which this entire work was written), the two appear to have surprisingly much in common.
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Hard Questions Heart Answers
$22.00Add to cartBernice King, the youngest daughter of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Coretta Scott King, is an ordained minister, an attorney, and one of this country’s most admired speakers. As this remarkable collection of her sermons and speeches makes clear, she shares with her father a rare gift for oratory and the wisdom and compassion to inspire others.
The collection begins with words designed to “disturb the comfortable.” Tackling such controversial subjects as our disaffected youth, gun control, and the death penalty, King paints a compelling picture of the spiritual decay and deep-seated racism that infects our society. In the second part of the book, a selection of sermons focusing on “comforting the disturbed,” King’s belief in the power of faith to restore our communities, morally and spiritually, rings forth. The church, she asserts, must return to its helping and healing mission, and each of us, looking into our hearts, must put aside our differences and remember that each human life is precious.
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Praying The Lords Prayer For Spiritual Breakthrough (Reprinted)
$16.00Add to cartTowns reveals the power of prayer in this fascinating look at the Lord’s Prayer. Each chapter examines a line from the prayer, revealing power points for every believer desiring a more dynamic prayer life. Towns says: “What would you say if you were ushered into the throne room of God with only one minute to request everything you needed, but didn’t know how to put it into words? The Lord’s Prayer includes everything you need to ask when you talk to God . . . it is a model prayer that teaches us how to pray.”
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Paul The Jewish Theologian
$24.00Add to cartPaul the Jewish Theologian reveals Saul of Tarsus as a man who, though rejected in the synagogue, never truly left Judaism. Author Young disagrees with long held notions that Hellenism was the context which most influenced Paul’s communication of the Gospel. This skewed notion has led to widely divergent interpretations of Paul’s writings. Only in rightly aligning Paul as rooted in his Jewishness and training as a Pharisee can he be correctly interpreted. Young asserts that Paul’s view of the Torah was always positive, and he separates Jesus’ mission among the Jews from Paul’s call to the Gentiles.
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Martin Luthers Easter Book
$11.99Add to cartThe late Roland Bainton, author of the much-respected Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther, has translated excerpts from Luther’s Easter sermons and included 18 handsome engravings from Luther’s 1562 Bible, depicting real human beings agonizing and exulting over the mysteries of faith.
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Holy Spirit And Spiritual Gifts
$34.00Add to cartQuestions regarding the role of the Holy Spirit and spiritual gifts in the life of the believer and the church today continue to be asked. Professor Max Turner suggests that the place to begin answering such questions is the New Testament. What do the writers of the New Testament say about the work of the Holy Spirit, and how can we understand spiritual gifts for today? Turner looks carefully at the gospels of Luke and John and the writings of Paul and explores how they took over and developed Old Testament and intertestamental notions of the Spirit. Then he asks how looking at ancient witnesses informs our contemporary understanding.
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Human Cloning : Religious Responses
$31.00Add to cartAs cloning looms ahead of us as a possibility for our future, Christians have begun to ask themselves if human cloning equals playing God. Should we clone a human just because we can? In this volume, Cole-Turner gathers twelve highly readable and nontechnical essays debating what could become the defining controversy of the late twentieth century.
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Gospels For All Christians
$28.99Add to cartNot many books on the canonical Gospels are truly groundbreaking, but this one is. The author and his collegues convincingly challenge one of the most deeply rooted assumptions of contemporary scholarship, namely that the Gospels were written out of and for fairly restrictive early communities that enjoyed relatively little contact with the whole church. This book persuasively argues that both in intent and in reality the Gospels were written for “all Christians.”
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Missing Persons And Mistaken Identites
$29.00Add to cartIn these outstanding studies, the author retrieves the indentities of women in ancient Israel through penetrating investigations of Israelite religion, the creation stories in Genesis, harlots and hierodules, and the interpretation and authority of the Bible itself.
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Deeply Woven Roots
$25.00Add to cartImproving the quality of life in your community. Gunderson takes the eight major strengths of congregations and shows how they can be used to fill the gap between what a health care system will pay for and what it won’t in caring for their members. Help your church become a more imaginative, courageous, and effective enabler of healing and well-being in personal and societal life.
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Faith Of Our Foremothers
$38.00Add to cartHere are the stories of twelve women, all religious educators, all of whom transformed the field of religious education, some long before the contemporary feminist movement. Though the women represent different times, interests, and approaches to the discipline, they all shared a commitment to creative and enthusiastic religious education.
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Counseling Troubled Youth
$29.00Add to cartCounseling Troubled Youth Each volume in this series focuses on practical ways to respond to a serious and difficult pastoral concern within clinical and congregational settings. Offering fresh insights from pastoral theology, each volume integrates the most up to date information in psychology and the human sciences. All the authors write out of firsthand counseling experiences as well as the most recent research on their topics. The result is an invaluable series for counselors and pastors who regularly face tough issues as they offer care to clients and congregants. Others in the Series: 4256678, Counseling Depressed Women 425666X, Counseling People with Cancer 4256562, Counseling African American Marriages and Families
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Divine Comforter : The Person And Work Of The Holy Spirit
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Personal, intimate fellowship between the believer and the Spirit is essential for spiritual growth. God’s purpose in redemption is to bring believers into fellowship with Himself. He has therefore given the believer a mind to know Him, a heart to love Him, and a Person to commune with him–the person of the Holy Spirit.
Internationally known author and Bible teacher J. Dwight Pentecost examines the Person and ministry of the Holy Spirit in this thorough yet practical work that seeks to know the Spirit’s work in daily life. “It is my desire, “he writes,” to bring you face-to-face with a Person so that you might enjoy fellowship with Him.”
Some of the subjects discussed in the eighteen chapters of this work include the nature of the Spirit, the filling of the Spirit, the baptism of the Spirit, the Spirit and the inspiration of Scripture, the witness of the Spirit to the world, and gifts of the Spirit.
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Matthew
$40.00Add to cartThe original audience for the Gospel of Matthew included converts from Judaism who wrestled with how to be faithful to Jesus Christ under difficult circumstances in a changing world. The Gospel of Matthew became a first-aid manual for this church in the midst of a struggle.
Thomas Long identifies this first audience and its faith within the social and religious context of the day and clarifies the structure of the Gospel. Providing examples of contemporary relevance, Long helps today’s reader discern the significance of this guide for faithful living in today’s church.
Books in the Westminster Bible Companion series assist laity in their study of the Bible as a guide to Christian faith and practice. Each volume explains the biblical book in its original historical context and explores its significance for faithful living today. These books are ideal for individual study and for Bible study classes and groups.
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Becoming Soul Mates
$19.99Add to cartContents
234 pages in 52 sessions
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Every couple has a restless aching, not just to know God individually but to experience God together. But how do you allow God to fill the soul of your marriage?BECOMING SOUL MATES gives you a road map for cultivating rich spiritual intimacy in your relationship. This unique, insightful devotional for couples helps you dig deep for a strong spiritual foundation-now, in the early years of marriage.
Fifty-two practical, weekly devotions help you and your partner cross the hurdles of marriage to grow closer than you’ve ever imagined. Each session includes discussion questions, a key Scripture, prayer, insights from real-life soul mates like John and Cindy Trent and Norm and Joyce Wright, and an opportunity to share individual needs and prayer requests.
This book will help you grow together as you build a marriage that flourishes in the face of life’s challenges.
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Truly The Community A Print On Demand Title
$31.99Add to cartOriginally published in 1992 as The Hilarity of Community, this edition includes a new title, preface, and entirely new cover design. Truly the Community continues to be one of the best sources for understanding what it means to live together as the church of Christ.
Many writers, both secular and religious, have decried the lack of intimacy and community in our contemporary culture. Few of them, however, offer practical suggestions for counteracting the isolation and alienation felt by so many people today. But Marva Dawn does this–and more–in Truly the Community. Through an intensive study of Romans 12, Dawn offers specific guidance for building vital Christian community life.
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Philosophers Who Believe
$35.99Add to cartKelly James Clark’s 1995 Christianity Today Award winner—now in softcover! A recent issue of Time magazine reported, “In a quiet revolution in thought and arguments . . . God is making a comeback. Most intriguingly, this is happening . . . in the crisp, intellectual circles of academic philosophers.” Who are these Philosophers Who Believe, and why have they embraced Christian belief? This collection of their intellectual and spiritual autobiographies will be welcomed by students, professors, and anyone curious about the connections between philosophy and Christianity.
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Isaiah 13-27
$65.00Add to cartAs in the other volumes of the Continental Commentary series, Isaiah 13-27 analyzes each unit of the text, mindful of the critical elements — literary form, text, Sitz im Leben, and Gattung. A verse-by-verse commentary and text-critical annotations of this new translation complete the volume. Maps are included
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Parables Of Jesus
$20.00Add to cartIn this startlingly original interpretation, Ford explores seven of the longer parables attributed to Jesus. Bypassing the assumption that the superior character represents God and the subordinate one the Christian believer, Ford focuses instead on how persons, long separated by inequality, are called upon to collaborate.
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Bible In Christian North Africa
$34.00Add to cart“Tilley gives us new insight into the Donatist church by focusing attention on the surviving Donatist sources and on the religious dimension of the Donatist controversies. She persuasively shows how Donatist interpretations of scripture correlate with changes in the social setting of their church.”
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Old Testament Stories From The Back Side (Student/Study Guide)
$16.99Add to cartUsing an approach similar to his Parables from the Back Side, Kalas now opens up new possibilities of insight into selected Old Testament stories by entering them through the “back side” through a unique starting point, a creative retelling, a new “lens,” or the eyes of a minor or unsympathetic character. Kalas’ creative approach both clarifies basic teachings and introduces new possibilities of meaning, even for those who are most familiar with the stories. Enriched with contemporary illustrations and personal experiences, this volume will provide new perspectives on Old Testament stories. Study Guide included.
