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PaperbackA Week in the Life of Rome
A Week in the Life Series
by James L Papandrea
In first-century Rome, following Jesus comes at a tremendous social cost.
An urbane Roman landowner and merchant is intrigued by the Christian faith—but is he willing to give up his status and lifestyle to join the church? Meanwhile his young client, a catechumen in the church at Rome, is beginning to see just how much his newfound faith will require of him.
A Week ...
PaperbackTaking It to the Streets
Lessons from a Life of Urban Ministry
by Harry Louis Williams
17th Annual Outreach Magazine Resource of the Year—Church
There's an urgent need for Christian ministry in our cities—but we need a guide.
Known around Oakland, California, as "OG Rev.," Reverend Harry Williams's calling is to the streets: to the hungry, homeless, addicted, incarcerated, and vulnerable. In Taking It to the Streets, ...
EbookSex and the City of God
A Memoir of Love and Longing
by Carolyn Weber
When Carolyn Weber moved to Oxford University to study, she didn't expect to find God there. But she did. As she grappled with her newest and most important relationship, she also found that there was another invitation: to thinkbigger about love.
In these pages we follow the journey Weber began in her first memoir, Surprised by Oxford, from her relationship with ...
EbookA Theology as Big as the City
by Raymond J Bakke
"As we look at the world-class cities around our planet, we face five new urban realities: a crack cocaine epidemic, assault weapons, massive numbers of homeless children, HIV/AIDS and (in the U.S.) what Time magazine has called `the browning of America.' The needs of the urban population are greater than ever. . . . As our cities swell with immigrants, I'm reminded that Jesus was born ...
PaperbackLiturgical Mission
The Work of the People for the Life of the World
by Winfield Bevins
Foreword by Justo L. GonzálezModern missional movements have often viewed the historic Christian traditions with suspicion. The old traditions may be beautiful, the thinking goes, but they’re too insular, focused primarily on worship and on the interior lifeof the church, and not looking outward to evangelism and good works.
In Liturgical Mission, Winfield Bevins argues that the church's liturgy ...
PaperbackThe Lost World of the Israelite Conquest
Covenant, Retribution, and the Fate of the Canaanites
The Lost World Series
by John H. Walton and J. Harvey Walton
Biblical Foundations Award Winner
Holy warfare is the festering wound on the conscience of Bible-believing Christians. Of all the problems the Old Testament poses for our modern age, this is the one we want to avoid in mixedcompany.
But do the so-called holy war texts of the Old Testament portray a divinely inspired genocide? Did Israel slaughter Canaanites at God's ...
PaperbackThe Lost World of Adam and Eve
Genesis 2-3 and the Human Origins Debate
The Lost World Series
by John H. Walton
Contributions by N. T. WrightChristianity Today Biblical Studies Award of Merit
For centuries the story of Adam and Eve has resonated richly through the corridors of art, literature and theology. But for most moderns, taking it at face value is incongruous. And even for many thinking Christians today who want to take seriously the authority of Scripture, insisting on a "literal" understanding ...
PaperbackThe Lost World of the Flood
Mythology, Theology, and the Deluge Debate
The Lost World Series
by John H. Walton and Tremper Longman III
Contributions by Stephen O. Moshier"The flood continued forty days on the earth; and the waters increased, and bore up the ark, and it rose high above the earth . . . and the ark floated on the face of the waters" (Gen 6:17-18 NRSV).
In modern times the Genesis flood account has been probed and analyzed for answers to scientific, apologetic, and historical questions. It is a text that has called forth "flood geology," fueled ...
PaperbackThe Lost World of the Torah
Law as Covenant and Wisdom in Ancient Context
The Lost World Series
by John H. Walton and J. Harvey Walton
Our handling of what we call biblical law veers between controversy and neglect.
On the one hand, controversy arises when Old Testament laws seem either odd beyond comprehension (not eating lobster) or positively reprehensible (executing children). On the other, neglect results when we consider the law obsolete, no longer carrying any normative power (tassels on clothing, ...
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InterVarsity Press author Rev. Peter Heltzel was honored with the 2014 Nelson Mandela Community Activist Award for his ongoing work to make a difference in New York City. The award was presented by the New York City Clergy Roundtable at the Nelson Mandela Tribute & Award Ceremony on Friday, March 7, at First Corinthian Baptist Church in New York.
