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Charmed Life : The Spirituality Of Potterworld
$15.00Potter fever has swept the world and shows no signs of abating. the books and the recent movie have attracted millions of followers and fans, all of them eagerly awaiting the next installments. Along with the widespread enjoyment and appreciation of Harry Potter and his friendships, however, criticism of the series has also emerged. The opposition has focused on two issues; the darkness of the novels and their apparent endorsement of witchcraft and the occult. In A Charmed Life, Francis Bridger, a theologian and pastor, argues that far from promoting the dark arts, the Potter books are firmly based in Christian values, and offer valuable insights into our characters, our relationships, our priorities, and our spirituality.
Taking readers on an entertaining tour of Potterworld, Bridger shows that each adventure presents new ways of expressing and exploring key spiritual issues, from the meaning of justice, to the need to confront fears, to the debilitating effects of evil. As Harry and his friends deal with one another, face their enemies, cope with their variously dysfunctional families, and experience the common problems o fgrowing up, Bridger domonstrates, it is their intrinsic human goodness, love, and friendship–not wizardry or magic–that allows them to triumph over evil.
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Violence In Families
$24.98Domestic violence is an often glossed-over danger in families today, and Christian families are not immune. The warning signs can be hidden or disregarded. Reverend Al Miles confronts the issues surrounding family violence, it causes, and possible solutions. He also discusses how all people are affected and can help address the issue. With an honest and down-to-earth tone, this book provides guidance and information for lay people as well as for individuals with the complex nature of domestic violence.
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When God Says War Is Right
$11.99176 pages
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Across the centuries, how have Christians who follow the Prince of Peace responded to the recurring reality of war? And what guidance do they offer for believers today in the midst of global conflict?In When God Says War Is Right, Dr. Darrell Cole offers thorough and highly readable answers. His expert examination focuses on these topics:
*Relating the character of God with the use of force
*Determining when and how Christians ought to fight
*Understanding why Christian virtues are vital when using force
*Using nuclear weapons for deterrence
*Learning lessons from World War II, Vietnam, and the 1991 Gulf War
*Responding to today’s war against terrorismDr. Cole focuses on Romans 13, where Paul commands us to do what is righ” (or good or noble) in regard to our governing authorities, who have legitimate war-making authority. In the case of war, what is right for the Christian? This book answers that essential question. In today’s war-stricken world, Dr. Cole provides timely, trustworthy, and vitally needed guidance for Christians.
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Liberty And Justice For All
$55.00In the century between the Emancipation Proclamation of Abraham Lincoln and the “I Have a Dream” speech by Martin Luther King, Jr., America sought both to rebuff and to redeem the promise of “liberty and justice for all.” The story of slavery and the bloody civil war that abolished it has been told, but the story of the struggle for liberty and justice by and for African Americans in the half-century following the end of Reconstruction has been largely overlooked. In this highly readable narrative, distinguished historian Ronald C. White, Jr. portrays the people, their ideas, and their ongoing struggle for racial reform in the United States from 1877-1925–a vital prelude to the modern civil rights movement and Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Myth Of The American Superhero
$39.99From the Superman of comic books to Hollywood’s big-screen action stars, Americans have long enjoyed a love affair with the “superhero.” In this engaging volume John Shelton Lawrence and Robert Jewett explore the historical and spiritual roots of the superhero myth and its deleterious effect on America’s democratic vision.
Arguing that the superhero is the antidemocratic counterpart of the classical “monomyth” described by Joseph Campbell, the authors show that the American version of the monomyth derives from tales of redemption. In settings where institutions and elected leaders always fail, the American monomyth offers heroes who combine elements of the selfless servant with the lone, zealous crusader who destroys evil. Taking the law into their own hands, these unelected figures assume total power to rid the community of its enemies, thus comprising a distinctively American form of pop fascism.
Drawing widely from books, films, TV programs, video games, and places of superhero worship on the World Wide Web, the authors trace the development of the American superhero during the twentieth century and expose the mythic patterns behind the most successful elements of pop culture. Lawrence and Jewett challenge readers to reconsider the relationship of this myth to traditional religious and social values, and they show how, ultimately, these antidemocratic narratives gain the spiritual loyalties of their audiences, in the process inviting them to join in crusades against evil.
Finally, the authors pose this provocative question: Can we take a holiday from democracy in our lives of fantasy and entertainment while preserving our commitment to democratic institutions and ways of life?
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Struggling With Scripture
$18.00Challenging the traditional meaning of Scripture is not easy, even in the face of issues that call into question those traditional interpretations. In these reflections, Brueggemann says that the Bible, as the live word of the living God, will not submit to the accounts we prefer to give of it. The Bible’s inherent, central evangelical proclamation has greater and more permanent authority than our inescapably provisional interpretations. Placher notes that taking the Bible most seriously means struggling to understand its meaning as well as affirming its truth. And Blount distinguishes what some may claim as a “last word,” which is necessarily a dead word, from the living word that is God’s word to us today.
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Wrath Of Jonah
$56.66Internationally renowned scholar Erhard Gerstenberger here offers a radical departure from traditional treatments. Rather than a systematic approach to theological topics in the Old Testament, Gerstenberger discusses its various theological voices rooted in different social settings within ancient Israel: the family and clan, the village, the tribal group, and the kingdom. Further, he discusses the variety of Israel’s views concerning the divine – polytheism, syncretism, and monotheism. Gerstenberger concludes with his reflections on how contemporary theology is informed by the biblical witness and how it must be contextual and ecumenical in order to be authentic.
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Who Is My Enemy
$19.99Who Is My Enemy? is designed as a popular level introduction to eight current flash-point issues in our culture. The book provides a summary overview designed to enable the reader to respond to the issues as Christ would–not by resorting to privitization of our faith, or abdication, but to engagement that leads to transformation. The book is designed to help Christians understand how the world is thinking in order to begin to develop an appropriate Christian response to each issue. Rather than presenting simplistic either/or answers, the book recognizes that each issue contains elements that biblical Christians can strongly support and also strongly oppose. The hot topics are: pluralism, postmodernism, New Age explosion, evolution, abortion/euthanasia, feminism, homosexuality, therapy idolatry, and materialism. Picture it as an extended newscast reporting on each issue and weaving biblial perspective throughout.
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Tales Of Vandelite
$20.61Welcome to the fantasy kingdom of Vandelite, a realm of adventure, allegory and symbolism. These are the stories of forbidden caverns and perilous pathways. They are the tales of adventurers who pursue the highest treasures of hope, healing, and a higher purpose.
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Earth Habitat : Eco Injustice And The Churchs Response
$35.00This single volume gathers theologians from around the world to address three pressing questions: How can Christianity and Christian churches rethink themselves and their roles in light of the endangered earth? What “earth-honoring” elements does justice- oriented Christianity have to contribute to the common good? And how can communities and churches respond creatively and constructively on a local level to these vast global forces? This volume captures the chief themes and presentations from the October 1998 conference on social justice, ecology, and church entitled “Ecumenical Earth” and held at Union Theological Seminary. Among the 18 contributors to this trailblazing conference are Rasmussen and Hessel, James Cone, Kusumita Pedersen, Brigitte Kahl, Ibrahim M. Abu-Rabi, Steven Rockefeller, Havid Hallman, Ernst Conradie, Peggy Shepard, and Troy Messenger.
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Justice Men Owe Women
$26.66This new Sacred Energies volume shows how the world’s major religious traditions, though largely patriarchal, can also serve as a profound resource for redressing gender injustices. This reassessment must be taken up by men themselves. The heritage of our sacred texts speaks in a male voice and almost always to male advantage. Men therefore owe it to themselves to extricate themselves from this complicity and to ask, as does this book, how our scriptures, founding prophets, and ancestors can be used today to further justice in relations between the genders.
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Gifted By Otherness
$22.95Gay and lesbian Christians are in the awkward position of trying to explain themselves to two mutually hostile audiences. On the one side, the gay-lesbian community is often deeply suspicious of anyone connected with Christianity. On the other side sits the church, which often wishes that gays and lesbians would go away, or at least disappear into the woodwork quietly. But the gay and lesbian community has a unique vocation in today’s church, one of challenging the church to be inclusive of all God’s children–the central message of the Gospel. Based on retreats they have presented to churches and seminaries, authors L. William Countryman and M.R. Ritley explore what it means to affirm, not merely accept, being gay or lesbian, as well as Christian. This pro-active and self-affirming book provides new hope for the lesbigay community, their families and their communities, confidently appropriating and re-telling the biblical story of this unique and gifted minority’s spiritual journey.
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Who Killed Homer
$19.99For over two millennia, familiarity with the literature, art, philosophy, and values of the classical world has been synonymous with education itself. But today classical education is rapidly disappearing from American high school and university curricula, and as a result we are in danger of becoming illiterate about the ideas that created Western civilization.
In Who Killed Homer? acclaimed classicists Victor Davis Hanson and John Heath explain what has been sacrificed, who did it and why. Hanson and Heath argue that if we lose our knowledge of the Greeks, then we lose our understanding of who we are. With straightforward advice and informative readings of the great Greek texts, the authors show how we might still save classics and the Greeks for future generations. Who Killed Homer? is must reading for anyone who agrees that knowledge of classics acquaints us with the beauty and perils of our own culture.
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Genetic Turning Points A Print On Demand Title
$38.99360 Pages
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Human genetic intervention could be considered a microcosm of the larger field of bioethics. According to James Peterson, “it raises almost all the basic issues addressed in a standard bioethics course, from informed consent to the goals of medicine.” Peterson argues that it is imperative to view human genetic intervention from an ethical framework, particularly as the technology in that intervention advances at an exponential rate.Peterson’s goal in Genetic Turning Points was to tie together some of the various questions related to human genetic intervention (better known, perhaps, as genetic manipulation or genetic engineering). He begins with a look at medical technology and moves on to major issues including genetic research, genetic testing, genetic drugs, and genetic surgery (physical manipulation of human genes in the body). The issues are raised in a progressive approach. Genetic research is the foundation for genetic testing and genetic drugs, thus issues related to genetic research are looked at first, and then issues related to genetic testing and drugs. Since genetic surgery techniques are still being perfected, and are not as available as the other technologies, Peterson looks at this vital issue last.
Christians, according to LeRoy Waters, have tended to view human genetics from one of two positions (not usually both): cosmic theology and casuistic analysis. Cosmic theology simply means looking at the grand scheme of God’s plan for humanity; casuistic analysis is that which addresses the questions of practice. Peterson hopes to bring the two positions together in a cogent and effective manner. He feels that one’s understanding of God’s plan for humanity (our purpose) shapes the concrete decisions of life (the practice). Ideally, Christians should be aware of both how purpose shapes practice and how practice questions purpose. Thus, Peterson sees the medical and ethical issues as eminently practical, but defined and shaped by one’s metaphysical beliefs.
Genetic Turning Points is laid out in a progressive manner, but topics can stand on their own. Chapters are generally short and the indexes and cross-references allow one to find a particular topic quickly and easily. Since there are fifteen chapters, the book easily lends itself to undergraduate or postgraduate study (one chapter a week), but is not solely for students. It is also for professionals (doctors, clergy, etc.) and for educated lay people. Its information is timely and it
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Season To Heal
$12.95This is a book for women who struggle to come to grips with the lingering emotional pain of an abortion. It assures readers that their pain is a valid, natural response to abortion, that they can find relief from it, and that healing is a realistic hope.
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Act Of God Active God
$16.66This book raises in a straighforward fashion the faith-related questions that victims/survivors of natural disasters have as a result of their experiences. Is the disaster an “act of God”? Did God cause the disaster? If God is all powerful, why did God allow it to hapen? Dr. Gary Harbaught provides insights and understandings to help persons of faith to struggle with that seeming contradiction. Instead of seeing disasters as “acts of God”, he shows that when disasters occur, God in fact is active: active in and through our questions, confusion, and doubts; active in and through our responses and actions; active in and through the community; and active in and through people of faith.
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Protestant Ethic And The Spirit Of Punishment A Print On Demand Title
$21.99This bold work confronts the spirit of punishment that permeates our culture and its deleterious effects on today’s penal system and society at large. Speaking from years of experience in prison ministry, Richard Snyder sets forth an original theory about the theological roots of our current punitive culture and offers a creative antidote based on a commitment to restorative justice. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Punishment is an eye-opening work with profound implications for contemporary social life.
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Feminist Theory And Christian Theology
$53.33This long-awaited text clearly and comprehensively charts the enormously important area of feminist theory and brings it into fruitful conversation with Christian theology. Jones examines such topics as women’s nature, sanctification and justification, oppression, sin, community, and church. In doing so, she maps various feminist responses to and positions on the issues elucidated, providing a helpful introduction for students.
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Real Family Values
$16.99This rerelease of the popular original edition continues to speak to parents in a society where “family values” no longer seem to exist. If anything, today’s community standards threaten the family. Airwaves and movie theaters are drenched with obscenities; perversion is glorified; divorce is cheap and easy; “safe sex” is promoted instead of abstinence; parental authority is undermined; sex roles are confused. In Real Family Values, parents will learn how to sort through today’s moral confusion, remove it from their homes, and change the world by zeroing in on the part they love most: their families.
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Loving Enemies
$23.25Randy and Joyce Klassen are deeply concerned about the state of the world in which their children and grandchildren will be living. This book is a manual to help strengthen and expand the reality of justice and peace in our world.
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Eros Defiled : The Christian And Sexual Sin
$23.99IVP Print On Demand Title
With tough-minded compassion, seasoned wisdom, and an awareness of sin’s destructiveness, White offers forgiveness and a way out for Christians struggling with premarital and extramarital sex, homosexuality, and masturbation. He concludes with a telling chapter on how your church can help strugglers in a context of love and forgiveness.
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Parents In Pain
$30.99Contents
244 Pages In 13 Chapters Divided Into 3 Parts
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IVP Print On Demand TitleWhen your kids are in trouble, you’re in trouble.
A police car rolls up in front of your house-with your son in it.
A voice on the phone says your daughter is all right but won’t tell you where she is-and then hangs up.
A wallet disappears from your dresser and you’re sure who took it-at least somewhat sure.How do we deal with the guilt, frustration, anger and inadequacy that inevitably grip us when our children are in trouble?
John White offers comfort to parents of children with severe problems-alcoholism, homosexuality, even suicide. With practical suggestions, he helps parents deal with their feelings and decide what to do in tough situations.
A book of comfort and counsel to parents in pain.
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Chris Chrisman Goes To College
$24.99Chris Chrisman, a young Christian, goes to college only to have his world turned upside down. On campus he finds the challenges to his faith-both intellectual and personal-almost more than he can bear. Then he meets Bill Seipel and Bob Wong. Together, the three young men, two of them Christians and the other self-styled atheist forge a common bond in the quest for truth. In the process they confront some of the dominant ideologies of the secular university.
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Meaning Of The Millennium
$24.99Prof Clouse has brought together four proponents of the four major millennial views:each view has had both a long history and a host of Christian adherents through the years. George Ladd presents historic premillennialism. Hoyt writes on dispenstional premillennialism.
Boettner retired theologian discusses the postmillennial view. And finally Hoekema describes the amillennial position. After each essay the other three writers respond from their own perspective. This book is a debate among key Christian scholars on the meaning of the millennium.
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Truth Is Stranger Than It Used To Be
$26.99In this book the authors survey postmodern culture and philosophy, offering lucid explanations of such difficult theories as deconstruction. They are sympathetic to the postmodern critique, yet believe that a gospel stripped of its modernist trappings speaks a radical world of hope and transformation to our chaotic culture. This book is for those who wonder what postmodernism is and how biblical Christians might best respond.
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Millennial Maze
$30.99In THE MILLENIAL MAZE, Stanley J. Grenz provides historical and biblical, as well as theological, perspective on the four positions held by evangelicals–postmillennialism, dispensational premillenialism, historic premillennialism and amillenialism. Assessing the strengths and weaknesses of each position, he seeks to cut a new path through the maze that reaffirms the valid insights of each and sounds a fresh note of hope in an age of shattered illusions.
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Blessed Are The Poor
$35.99Laurie Green considers a number of key biblical texts as well as recent research on poverty in the UK and asks what the Church’s ministry among the poor would need to look like in order to be true to the gospel. The book ends with practical outcomes for pavement-level ministry.
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God And The Victim A Print On Demand Title
$31.99A strong collection of essays that focuses, from a variety of perspectives, on how the Christian community can better minister to crime victims. This book is not made up of armchair reflections, but rather attempts to translate theological reflection into practical application, to make relevant the Bible to the lives of those in need.
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Spiritual Mentoring : A Guide For Seeking And Giving Direction
$20.99As we seek God together we come to know him more deeply. Spiritual-mentoring relationships bring together a mature Christian and a younger Christian who desire to grow in Christ. In their friendship, each learns to follow Christ more closely. Spiritual mentoring is an age-old practice that Keith Anderson and Randy Reese introduce in a way that fits life today. Each chapter of their book draws on the work of a different classical spiritual writer. Augustine, St. John of the Cross, Teresa of Avila and others offer timeless spritual insights from centuries past.
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Perfect 10 : Blessings Of Following Gods Commandments In A Postmodern World
$12.991. God’s Law In A Postmodern Society
2. The First Commandment, Part 1
3. The First Commandment, Part 2
4. The Second Commandment
5. The Third Commandment
6. The Fourth Commandment
7. The Fifth Commandment
8. The Sixth Commandment
9. The Seventh Commandment
10. The Eighth Commandment
11. The Ninth Commandment
12. The Tenth Commandment
13. Culture Shift256 Pages
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1. God’s Law In A Postmodern Society
2. The First Commandment, Part 1
3. The First Commandment, Part 2
4. The Second Commandment
5. The Third Commandment
6. The Fourth Commandment
7. The Fifth Commandment
8. The Sixth Commandment
9. The Seventh Commandment
10. The Eighth Commandment
11. The Ninth Commandment
12. The Tenth Commandment
13. Culture Shift256 Pages
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Millennium Myth : Hope For A Postmodern World
$29.00From a classical historian comes a reasoned analysis of the millennium. Wright argues that to celebrate the forthcoming millennium with integrity does not mean preparing for the world’s end; instead, we must challenge our prevailing cultural story and symbols. He contends that millennium hype is a mask for “postmodernity,” and constructs a practical response.
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How The News Makes Us Dumb
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This eye-opening book is for everyone dissatisfied with the state of the news media, but especially for those who think the news actually does inform them about the real world. Read it, and you may never again know the tyranny of reading the daily newspaper or tuning in to the nightly news.
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Pastoral Care Of Gays Lesbians And Their Families
$33.33Advisory: Some of the views put forth in this book challenge the traditionally accepted teachings on the issue of homosexuality and the Christian faith. Fills a gap in the Creative Pastoral Care and Counseling series, addresses the needs of both gays and lesbians and their families, and involves congregations in the pastoral ministry to gays, lesbians, and their families.
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Community Liberalism And Christian Ethics
$160.00This book is an examination of current issues in the related fields of moral philosophy and Christian theology. It raises the question of whether and to what extent Christian moral presuppositions are distinctive or are held in common with other persons and communities. Attention is devoted to debates in pluralist societies about the relation of moral belief and action to tradition, community and story. A mediating position is advocated whereby recognition is accorded to both the distinctiveness of Christian convictions and their overlap with other moral positions.
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Understanding And Counseling
$47.99Widely regarded as the best of its kind, this compassionate, comprehensive guide is revised and updated for the next generation. Clinebell explores the many causes of addiction and lays out a practical plan for helping the afflicted in the context of family and church, as well as community programs like Alcoholics Anonymous. Includes an new annotated bibliography.
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Way Of The Modern World
$31.50God has nothing to do with the real business of life. In the big picture, he’s irrelevant. This is what Professor Craig Gay calls “practical atheism”—The Way of the (Modern) World—and it’s corroding almost every aspect of our society. So how can a Christian survive in such a godless environment without losing faith? Gay presents a biblical strategy for standing firm, helping you to live a righteous life in the world but not of the world.
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Human Disability And The Service Of God
$35.99Human Disability and the Service of God is an important contribution to the growing literature on religion and disabilities. In this volume major Christian scholars across the biblical, historical, theological, and pastoral fields bring their areas of expertise to bear on the challenge of a holistic ministry that will no longer marginalize persons with disabilities.
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Human Cloning : Religious Responses
$31.00As 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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Freedom From Tyranny Of The Urgent
$18.99Contents
132 Pages In 10 Chapters
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*Is the clock a slavemaster-or a tool that serves you?
*Are urgent things so pressing that you don’t have “inner time” to sort out what’s really important?
*How can you discern what God wants you to do?The author expands on the life-changing perspective that has freed many from the grip of urgent demands that are not really important in the long run. He highlights biblical teaching on the stewardship of time. He gives personal illustrations and practical tips on living wisely.
Find Out How To
*Make The Calendar Your Friend
*Manage Your Life Instead Of Your Time
*Stay Open To God’s Guidance In Small Choices
* Avoid Being Dragged Down By Past Choices
*Develop “Inner Time” For Reflection And PlanningIf you have too much to do and not enough time to do it, this book is for you.
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Soul Survivors : An African American Spirituality
$30.00At the roots of African American Christian life is a powerful force of soul, a dynamic spirituality that provides joy and hope. Soul Survivors asks readers to widen and sharpen the lenses through which they discern black culture and to reaffirm the strong positive features of African American spirituality found in our culture.
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All Gods Children
$30.00Racism is as contemporary a problem as the church burnings on the nightly television news, but it is not a new problem. A century ago, many people used the Bible to defend racist beliefs and practices. Now, Steven McKenzie insists that the Bible’s true message leads Christians away from the evils of racism and narrowness of bigotry to God’s vision of humanity, free from racial division.
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