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Goodbye Is Not Forever
$18.991. Soviet Justice
2. I’m Yours Forever
3. A Picture For Daddy
4. The Battle For Survival
5. War!
6. The German Occupation
7. The Cattle Train
8. Labor Camp
9. Rejection At Hitler Youth Camp
10. Friends Among Enemies
11. War’s End
12. The Hiding Place
13. A New Awareness
14. The Voice Of America
15. Heart To Heart
16. Two Different Worlds
17. A Special Birthday
18. A New Master
19. An Unexpected Call
20. Face To Face
21. Goodbye Is Not Forever!
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Little Amy Never Knew Her Father.One dark night when she was only a baby, the Soviet secret police forcefully arrested Amy’s father…and condemned him to the frigid wastelands of Siberia.
Then as World War II began, the armies of the Third Reich invaded her small Russian Village. Amy, a tender seven-year-old child, was taken by cattle car to a slave labor camp and witnessed firsthand the horrors of Hitler’s Germany.
As the war ends, Amy and her mother make a daring escape, with execution the likely verdict if they are captured. Over the years, Amy wondered about her father. Was he still alive? Would she ever see him again?
A true story, Goodbye Is Not Forever serves as a vivid confirmation of God’s never-ending grace in the lives of His children.
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Cual Camino (Revised) – (Spanish) (Revised)
$14.99This handbook satisfies two needs: that of knowing what false doctrie is so as to remain firmly in the truth, and that of learning to reclaim those who are held captive in darkness by solid arguments and large doses of love.
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Mother Of The Wire Fence
$34.00Is it possible to empathize fully with the victims of the Holocaust? Can those who approach the Holocaust in the aftermath ever know it in a way that does not trivialize its horror? With what language can we speak of such an event without at the same time betraying its meaning? In this powerful book, Karl Plank takes a hard look at these questions as he explores the boundaries that lie between those outside and those inside the experience of the Holocaust.
Mother of the Wire Fence tries to bridge inside and outside as it studies the power of poetry, artifact, memory, and religious symbol to respond to the Holocausts shattering of human connection. This bridge is essential so that we avoid giving a posthumous victory to the oppressors by silencing its victims forever.
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Scripture And Other Artifacts
$55.00This important volume focuses on the contribution of excavated material to the interpretation of biblical texts. Here, both practicing archaelogists and biblical scholars who have been active in fieldwork demonstrate that archaeological data and biblical accounts are complementary in the study of ancient Israel, early Judaism, and Christianity. Thus scriptural and archaeological finds are illuminated by consideration of both.
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Friendship And Finances In Philippi The Letter Of Paul To The Philippians
$37.95This work applies insights from the social sciences and from Greco-Roman rhetoric to Philippians, distilling the benefits of these new disciplines for the study of this letter.
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Churchs Peace Witness A Print On Demand Title
$27.99Should Christians be involved in making war? This ever-present issue gets new attention here within the context of ecumenical discussion. Seven chapters are biblical and historical studies originally prepared for the 1991 Faith and Order Consultation on the Apostolic Faith and the Church’s Peace Witness. Also included are eleven statements on war and peace from different church traditions and the 1991 consultation’s “Summary Statement.”
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Lord Reigns : A Theological Handbook To The Psalms
$32.00Here’s a fresh perspective on Psalms from one of its foremost interpreters. Focusing on the prevalent theme, ”The Lord reigns,” Mays convincingly argues that this declaration is not merely a statement of faith but rather a world view that reality can only be understood in terms of God and his sovereignty. By addressing the importance of the language associated with the reign of God, Mays shows you how to better understand the relationship between God and his creation.
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Clothed With The Sun
$45.00The Bible holds a great treasure of amazing women. They are judges and prophets, caregivers and teachers, prominent matriarchs of large clans or quiet disciples, women who suffered alone or sang joyous praises to God amid the crowds. Their stories come alive in these pages as they are interwoven with the lives of modern women, bound together by common threads of strength and courage in the face of vulnerability and violation. From Eve to Revelation’s woman clothed with the sun–from the first creative impulse to the close of time–female energy has been and will continue to be a river of life and wisdom, of dignity and hope.
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Spiritual Life : The Foundation For Preaching And Teaching
$26.00John Westerhoff offers this resource to help preachers and teachers revitalize their lives and ministries. Noting that the health of our spiritual life is based on our image of God, he asks readers to open their imaginations to new ways of knowing. Recognizing that the spiritual life can be fostered in many ways, he helps readers recognize which types of spiritual formation are most compatible with particular personality types.
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Feminist Theological Ethics
$60.00This reader documents ongoing feminist ethical and theological discussions on a wide range of issues including womanist, mujerista, and ecofeminist. Volume includes contributions from over twenty distinguished women scholars.
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Preaching That Connects
$14.99Master the craft of effective communication that grabs attention and wins hearts. Like everyone else, preachers long to be understood. Unfortunately the rules first learned in seminary, if misapplied, can quickly turn homiletic precision into listening boredom. To capture both hearts and minds, Mark Galli and Craig Larson suggest preachers turn to the lessons of journalism. In Preaching that Connects they show how the same key used to create effective, captivating communication in the media can transform a sermon. Amply illustrated from some of today’s best preachers, Preaching that Connects walks through the entire sermon, from the critical introduction, to the bridge, to the illustrations and final application. Key points include the five key techniques for generating creative ideas, your six options for illustrations, and the ten rules for great story-telling — and why the transition sentence is the hardest sentence you’ll write. Preaching that Connects is for all who seek to hone their craft to communicate the truth of the Gospel effectively.
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Gods Word For Today
$14.99Freshen your devotions with sweet water from an old well! A leader in the Norwegian church’s opposition to the Nazis, Hallesby spent two years in a concentration camp. Best known for his writings on prayer, he also penned these insightful daily meditations brimming with deep wisdom distilled in deceptively simple language.
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When Someone You Love Dies
$8.9948 Chapters
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Why did she have to die?” “What will happen to us now?” We hear questions like these from our children when someone close to them dies. Writing for children ages 8-12 and their parents, William Coleman discusses the fears and questions that young people have when someone they love dies, perhaps a parent, grandparent, sibling, or close friend. He offers advice and support as they struggle to understand death and helps them work through the grieving process.Add to cartin stock within 3-5 days of online purchase
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Divine Immutability : A Critical Reconsideration
$19.00Occasioned by the nineteenth-century kenotic christological controversy, Isaak Dorner’s essay–which is here completely translated into English for the first time–remains one of the most extensive historical, philosophical, and theological treatments of immutability to date. Dorner was initially attracted to kenoticism–that the incarnation as a divine self-divestment implies that God undergoes change–but rejects it in Part One. Part Two is a historical survey of the classical doctrine from the patristic period to Schleiermacher which shows the longstanding connection between divine immutability, God’s goodness, and soteriology. Dorner concluded that this formulation was not mistaken, but extreme and one-sided, making positive relations between God, time, and history implausible. Part Three offers Dorner’s reconstruction.
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Spirituality Of African American People
$29.00Current interest in Afrocentricity is but one moment in the longstanding post-colonial search by African peoples, both on the continent and in the diaspora., for cultural beacons. Pre-eminent black social ethicist Peter Paris here sharpens and focuses that quest on African “spirituality”–that is, the religious and moral values embodied in African experience and pervading traditional African religious worldviews. From extensive comparative research and personal travel, Paris shows how such values were retained and modified in the diaspora, most notably in African American religious and moral thought and its practice. Traditional understandings of God, ancestral spirits, tribal community, family belonging, reciprocity, personal destiny, and agency have not only survived great cultural upheavals but remarkably even been enriched and enlivened. Paris’ pan-African focus, careful scholarship, and his eye for ultimate values in varying cultural milieus combine here to model comparative cultural analysis and to clarify cultural foundations of black ethical life.
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Jews And Christians Speak Of Jesus
$20.00This volume of essays is an example of something new and exciting that is going on in North America, especially between Jews and Christians. For the first time in almost two thousand years, Jews and Christians can sit down as equals around a table and reflect on their profound sameness and deep differences. In a real way, this book represents another step Christians and Jews have taken together on the new road to deeper understanding.
The issues surrounding the Jewish Christian dialogue are legion-the State of Israel, the Holocaust (Shoah), and the Jewishness of Jesus, to mention only a few. Dialogue does not mean proselytizing or conversion; instead, each faith tradition recognizes and respects its own identity. Any notion that Christianity has replaced or superseded the Jewish people in God’s plan of salvation is both inadmissible and repulsive to the dialogue.
One, if not the central, issue facing serious dialogue between Christians and Jews is Jesus of Nazareth. How can both of these faith communities speak about the itinerant Galilean whose origins and early followers were Jewish and whose subsequent followers broke away from Judaism? This volume attempts to address this question.
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Jewish Responses To Early Christians
$23.00Preface
IntroductionPart One: Materials That Report Jewish Reactions To Christians
1.The Pauline And Deutero-Pauline Letters
2.The Synoptic Gospels
3.The Book Of Acts
4.The Gospel Of John
5.Revelation
6.Josephus
7.The Martydom Of Polycarp
8.The Gospel Of Peter
9.The Christian Apologists
10.Jewish And Christian Writers After 150 C.E.Part Two: Major Trends
11.Major Trends Detected
Tolerance
Physical Attacks
Verbal Reactions
ObservationsNotes
Bibliography
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What were Jews saying and doing about the followers of Jesus in the first two centuries? In this provocative and comprehensive study, Claudia Setzer argues persuasively that Jews saw the early followers of Jesus as Jews for some time after the Christians viewed themselves as separate from the larger Jewish communities.This book provides historical context and nuanced exegesis of texts that continue to be “trouble spots” in Jewish-Christian relations. It illuminates the diverse strands of early anti-Judaism while providing the reader with some surprises.
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Westminster Guide To The Books Of The Bible
$56.00This comprehensive introduction to all the books of the Bible, including the Apocrypha, is written in a clear, easy-to-read style and is an ideal learning tool for laity, students, adult study groups, and ministers. The one-volume format is convenient for individual study groups, and this revision reflects the most up-to-date biblical scholarship.
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Getting Your Sex Life Off To A Great Start
$18.991. Dispelling Myths
2. Getting To Know Yourself
3. Getting To Know Each Other
4. Clarifying Expectations
5. Pursuing Biblical Passion
6. Discovering And Enjoying Your Bodies
7. Designing A Successful Honeymoon
8. Preparing For Your First Time
9. Choosing And Using Family-Planning Options
10. Your Wedding Night
11. Keeping Sex For Pleasure
12. Getting Past Disappointments
13. Keeping The Spark Alive241 Pages
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This book will help you prepare, not just for your wedding night, but for a lifetime of exhilarating, fulfilling, and nurturing sexual experiences!*Design a successful honeymoon
*Prepare for your first sexual time together
*Choose and use family planning
*Create a mutually enjoyable wedding night
*Get past disappointments
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Books That Build Character
$20.99Here is a family guide to classic novels, contemporary fiction, myths and legends, science fiction and fantasy, folktales, Bible stories, picture books, biographies, holiday stories, and many other books that celebrate virtues and values.
There are more than 300 titles to choose from, each featuring a dramatic story and memorable characters who explore moral ground and the difference between what is right and what is wrong. These books will capture your child’s imagination, and conscience as well-whether it is Beauty pondering her promise to Beast, mischievous Max in Where the Wild Things Are, the troubled boys of Lord of the Flies, generous Mr. Badger in The Wind in the Willows, or the courageous struggles of such real-life characters as Frederick Douglass and Anne Frank.
With entries arranged by category and reading level, there is something here for all readers-from preschoolers to teenagers-whatever their tastes may be. Each entry features a complete plot summary and publisher information so that you can find the book with ease in your local library or bookstore. It’s not always easy to teach a child the difference between right and wrong, but stories-whether they are based on fantasy or rooted in real life-can speak to children more eloquently than any list of dos or don’ts and can impart moral values as they nurture a child’s imagination.
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Church Dogmatics
$49.00Karl Barth’s monumental work stands as a landmark in Protestant theology—all 10,000 pages of it. Mining the riches of Barth’s thought, Gollwitzer’s concise introduction provides busy scholars with a selection of the most important passages. Includes main themes, extracts, and helpful summaries. An invaluable resource for pastors and students alike.
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Zondervan Compact Bible Dictionary
$18.99This comprehensive reference tool for Bible students and teachers is arranged by topic and provides over 6,000 entries with more than 100,000 Scripture references. It also serves as a Bible dictionary, listing all proper names, places, objects, and events of the Bible along with their brief definition or description.
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Knowledge Of God In Calvins Theology Third Edition A Print On Demand Title (Expa
$31.99After more than forty years, this comprehensive analysis of John Calvin’s theology is still widely accepted and debated today. Displaying an intimate knowledge of Calvin’s theological corpus and the work of contemporary interpreters, Edward Dowey, Jr., explains what knowledge of God means and how it functions in Calvin’s thought.
Dowey beings with a description of the general characteristics of the knowledge of God, then moves to a discussion of the significance of the duplex cognition Domini. The main body of the book examines Calvin’s fundamental distinction between the knowledge of God the Creator and God the Redeemer, and the relation between this twofold knowledge. This third edition also includes a new sixth chapter that discusses the influence of the twofold knowledge on the larger structure of Calvin’s theology.
To the four appendices that interact with critical statements on Calvin’s thought, including “The Barth-Brunner Controversy on Calvin” and “Kostlin’s Criticism of Calvin’s Predestination,” Dowey has also added a significant review of William J. Bouwsma’s book John Calvin: A Sixteenth-Century Portrait. This review, the new preface, and the new chapter bring Dowey’s enduring volume back into conversation with today’s scholarly work and, as Heiko Oberman has said, “lend it a sharp edge of relevance for the foreseeable future.”
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Rhetorical Criticism : Context Method And The Book Of Jonah
$34.00Trible’s work begins with an historical overview of rhetorical criticism, providing the context for discussion of biblical rhetorical criticism. The book of Jonah is the medium for such further exploration of rhetorical criticism within biblical literature, as Trible analyzes its external design and internal structure. Throughout her discussion, Trible employs the same rhetorical tools she introduces and explains within the body of her text. Adding to the didactic value of the text, appendices are included, one of which outlines the structure of Jonah, the other provides a quiz, testing the reader’s ability to single out the rhetorical devices imbedded in Trible’s text. A most welcome tool for those interested in biblical interpretation as well as study of the book of Jonah.
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Resurrection Of Jesus
$20.00What actually happened at the resurrection of Jesus? Gerd Luedemann suggests that this question, considered unanswerable by many, is of critical importance to Christians and that it can be answered more specifically than has been the case in recent studies. Luedemann begins with the oldest list of witnesses to the resurrection and proceeds from there to other texts from Paul and the Gospels to investigate the events of Good Friday, Easter, and Pentecost.
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6 Weeks To A Simpler Lifestyle
$12.99Do you feel overworked and overextended? Does your life feel overloaded? Are you tired of being too busy? Six Weeks to a Simpler Lifestyle moves you gently but deliberately toward a simpler, more satisfying life.
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Reconstructing Chistian Theology
$39.00Just-released anthology of leading contributors to liberating vistas. ”Rarely does it happen,” said Interpretation of the earlier volumes, ”that a dozen or more religionists author books with so much pizzazz. Lively statements of Christian doctrine.”
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Healers Harmed And Harmful
$21.00“At a time when clergy misconduct is broadly reported, Conrad Weiser offers a straightforward, theoretically orthodox, and practical way of both understanding and addressing the issues. Leadership, laity, and clergy would be served well by reading and reflecting on Weiser’s wisdom.”
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Method And Message Of Jesus Teachings (Revised)
$40.00This useful and practical book provides the college student, seminarian, church study group, and interested layperson a much-needed introductory guide on the “how” (method) and the “what” (message) of Jesus teachings. In this revised edition, Stein updates this classic work, adds a new bibliography, and introduces use of the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, bringing this important text to a new generation of students.
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History Of Israelite Religion In The Old Testament Period 2
$60.00This book, the second of two volumes, offers a comprehensive history of Israelite religion. It is a part of the Old Testament Library series.
The Old Testament Library provides fresh and authoritative treatments of important aspects of Old Testament study through commentaries and general surveys. The contributors are scholars of international standing.
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Healing Of Soul Healing Of Body
$16.99A source of solace and a healing resource for those who are facing illness, as well as those who care for them.
For centuries, people have turned to the Book of Psalms for solace, comfort, and catharsis, seeking guidance, meaning, hope, and reassurance-in short, spiritual healing.
This book is intended to help you-struggling with illness or helping someone who is-derive spiritual healing from Psalms. In the late 18th century, Rabbi Nachman of Breslov designated ten of the 150 entries in the Book of Psalms as “healing psalms,” and we present these ten to you, newly translated, for your personal exploration and expression.
“Acknowledging that the Biblical Psalms can be somewhat alien to many people, we asked ten spiritual leaders to provide a bridge, a form of access, to these ancient poems of pain and praise, of humility and hope.”
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Power Faith : Balancing Faith In Words And Work (Student/Study Guide)
$14.99Spirit-filled believers will find new resources for understanding the Bible and applying biblical themes to their day-to-day lives in these interactive study guides.
Written from a Pentecostal/Charismatic viewpoint, these interactive studies offer a thorough and balanced understanding of key themes of the Bible.
By studying the themes of the books, as well as the books themselves, these interactive studies offer groups and individuals a Spirit-filled perspective of the Bible’s message for today.
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Real Mother Goose
$12.99Mother Goose? Run-of-the-mill as it might seem to some, there are more kids than you’d expect growing up these days without the benefit of exposure to wholesome children’s literature. This attractive collection is the “standard” edition that has been delighting millions for 75 years.
Mother Goose is a vital part of childhood. So sit down, take your one- or two-year-old on your lap, and begin Your child will learn much more than the verses: rhyme, rhythm, new words, and the security of your attention.
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Educating Congregations : The Future Of Christian Education
$22.99A leading Christian educator offers a practical guide for revisioning a church’s educational program. After identifying the weaknesses in current education programs, Charles Foster offers an alternative vision that is more cooperative, more attentive to the whole of the congregation’s life, and that helps people critically correlate the Bible and Christian tradition to their own experience.
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New Testament Foundations For Christian Ethics
$25.00Marxsen examines the New Testament to learn from it what can be distinctively Christian about ethics. He describes and assesses the ethics reflected in the teaching of Jesus, the earliest Christian communities, Paul, and the rest of the New Testament.
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Matthew In History
$16.00In this provocative book, Ulrich Luz points the way beyond the limitations of the historical-critical method as it has been practiced during the past two centuries. He demonstrates the richness of the insights that can be gained when the interpreter considers a variety of effects and influences that a text has had in subsequent history, a method of inquiry he calls Wirkungsgeschichte.
This distinctive approach, which Luz so brilliantly exhibits in his multi-volume commentary on Matthew, is here applied to the Sermon on the Mount, Matthew 10, and Matthew 16:18. Insights from the ancient fathers, from Scholastics, from Reformers and Anabaptists, and from many others are adduced to demonstrate the importance of the history of Christian thought for the interpretation of biblical texts.
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New Testament : A Thematic Introduction
$17.00This book reflects J. Christiaan Beker’s experience of more than twenty years of teaching an introductory course in New Testament. In distinction from a history-of-religions ap proach, he aims at allowing the theological thrust of the New Testament to become transparent for today’s readers. The work presupposes the normative and canonical claim of the New Testament for all forms of Christian theology. Beker concentrates on some of the most central issues within the New Testament by surveying sixteen of the twenty-seven book of the New Testament. A chronological sequence is followed, beginning with Paul’s letters. For the student.
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Post Structuralism And The New Testament
$18.00With typical wit and jargon-free clarity, Stephen D. Moore guides us through the maze of concepts and projects that constitute the multidisciplinary phenomenon of post-structrualism. Moore centers on two lengthy exegetical examples-a Derridean reading of John and his interpreters and Foucauldian reading of Paul and his. The book also deals with deconstruction’s relationship to theology and its relationship to biblical scholarship old and new-historical critical, narrative critical, and feminist. All who want to know what the fuss is about will owe Moore a debt of gratitude for this book.
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Mary Magdalene And Many Others
$39.00This extensive study of Mary Magdalene and the “many other women” mentioned in the Gospels sheds light on how Jesus treated women. Ricci is surprised that so much that is known about these women is ignored by scholars who choose to turn the focus away from these loyal followers of Jesus.
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Reclaiming The Bible
$30.00In this series of messages based on scripture, the author demonstrates the vital applications of the Bible for our own times. He illuminates the great words of faith for contemporary use–words like love, grace, and reconciliation. He interprets characters from the Bible, sheding modern light on the events of Jesus’ life. He also addresses social issues such as sexuality and violence, showing that the message of God’s grace is relevant for our time.
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Art Of Biblical History
$19.99The final volume in the acclaimed Foundations of Contemporary Interpretation series, this book deals with these crucial questions: Is the Bible a history book? What do we mean by “history” anyway? In what sense is biblical historicity important for faith? Why is there so much scholarly disagreement over historical issues relating to the Bible?
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What Jesus Would Say
$19.99In What Jesus Would Say, Lee Strobel helps us to see well-known personalities as Jesus might see them. Through many people like Rush Limbaugh, Bill Clinton, Murphy Brown, and Michael Jordan, Strobel introduces us to the God of hope, the God of the second chance. What Jesus Would Say takes on topics like success, sexuality, skepticism, forgiveness, prayer, and leadership with firm, biblically based concepts. In his often surprising look into the lives of famous people, Strobel shares encouraging and inspiring ideas that apply to our own lives as well. What would Jesus say to today’s headline makers . . . and to you?
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You Set My Spirit Free
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John of the Cross (1542-1591) was one of the brightest spiritual lights of the dark and tumultuous 1500s. His teaching led thousands to inner freedom from “the dark night of the soul”-the state of spiritual blindness in which most of us live our days, unaware that God is right beside us, in love, in freeing power. Through great opposition and danger, John taught countless men and women how to find freedom in the Spirit.John’s words and deep understanding of spiritual truth will also help you find a richer experience of God, leading you to:
*a fresh infilling of the love of the Father.
*renewed wonder at the beauty and holiness of Jesus, our Lord and brother.
*the discovery of the Holy Spirit’s presence, helping you daily, with new strength and freedom from within.Treasured and classic writings that have had a profound impact on the church down through the ages.
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I Come Away Stronger A Print On Demand Title
$39.99Millions of Americans are joining small groups. Among the religious, prayer fellowships, accountability groups, house churches, Bible-study groups, and covenant groups are being touted as the wave of the future. But are small groups delivering what they promise? Are members really finding the support, encouragement, and deepening spirituality they seek? Or are the answers ambiguous?
I Come Away Stronger, the complement to Robert Wuthnow’s Sharing the Journey, presents fourteen case studies of small groups – from a women’s Bible study, to a peace fellowship, to a group for senior citizens. What small groups are like nationally and how their members understand spirituality can be gauged from the results of a national survey presented in the appendix.
This survey is given life and flesh in the extended portraits of each of the groups. These portraits are powerful and highly personal because they tell the stories, both collective and personal, of each group, revealing agreement and dissension, closeness and alienation, growth and stagnation. The result is an intimate inside look at the dynamics of small groups.
In a concluding chapter, Wuthnow places the small group movement in the changing context of American religion and society, showing why is has emerged and where it is headed, raising crucial questions that religious leaders and group members need to ponder as the movement continues to grow.
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Emigrants Guide To Oregon And California
$14.95A popular guidebook during the western expansion and a valuable collectible today, The Emigrantsi Guide was first published in 1845. While the book introduced those heading west to the beauty and habitable nature of the Pacific coast, it had considerable shortcomings – it was the guide used by the ill-fated Donner Party. As a corrective, Randolph Marcy published a more accurate guide, The Prairie Traveler (also available from Applewood Books).
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