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pamphletOne Catholic to Another
IVP Booklets
by Peter Kreeft
Peter Kreeft offers the lively dialog of two Catholics who explore the basics of the Christian faith, including repentance, baptism, salvation, good works, the Bible and the church.
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ebookOur Good Crisis
Overcoming Moral Chaos with the Beatitudes
by Jonathan K. Dodson
We live in an age of crisis.
Financial crisis, political crisis, environmental crisis—the list goes on. We're confronted with calamity every time we read the headlines. But behind each of these lurks another kind of crisis, one we find harder to define: a moral crisis—a crisis of goodness. Behind financial crisis is unrestrained greed; behind political crisis is the lust for ...
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ebookThe Good and Beautiful Community
Following the Spirit, Extending Grace, Demonstrating Love
The Good and Beautiful Series
by James Bryan Smith
In this Good and Beautiful Series book, James Bryan Smith helps us know how to live in relationship with others as apprentices of Jesus. "Apprentices of Jesus are not part-time do-gooders," he writes. "They live in continuous contact with the kingdom of God, and are constantly men and women in whom Christ dwells. They do not sometimes tell the truth, sometimes live sacrificially or sometimes ...
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ebookPublic Intellectuals and the Common Good
Christian Thinking for Human Flourishing
Edited by Todd C. Ream, Jerry A. Pattengale, and Christopher J. Devers
Foreword by George M. MarsdenEvangelical Christians are active across all spheres of intellectual and public life today. But a disconnect remains: the work they produce too often fails to inform their broader communities. In the midst of a divisive culture and a related crisis within evangelicalism, public intellectuals speaking from an evangelical perspective have a critical role to play—within the church ...
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ebookGod Is Great, God Is Good
Why Believing in God Is Reasonable and Responsible
Edited by William Lane Craig and Chad Meister
- 2010 Christianity Today Book Award winner
The days have passed when the goodness of God--indeed, the reality of God itself--could reasonably be called a consensus opinion. God's reputation has come under considerable review in recent days, with some going so far as to say that it's not we who've made a mess of things. Instead whatever it is we call God ...
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ebookBusiness for the Common Good
A Christian Vision for the Marketplace
Christian Worldview Integration Series
by Kenman L. Wong and Scott B. Rae
Is business just a way to make money? Or can the marketplace a venue for service to others?
Scott B. Rae and Kenman L. Wong seek to explore this and other critical business issues from a uniquely Christian perspective, offering up a vision for work and service that is theologically grounded and practically oriented. Among the specific questions they address along the way are these:
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ebookIn Search of the Common Good
Christian Fidelity in a Fractured World
by Jake Meador
Foreword by Timothy KellerECPA Christian Book Award Finalist - Faith and Culture
Christianity Today Book of the Year Award, Politics and Public LifeCommon life in our society is in decline.
Our communities are disintegrating, as the loss of meaningful work and the breakdown of the family leave us anxious and alone—indeed, half of all Americans report daily feelings ...
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ebookThe Good and Beautiful God
Falling in Love with the God Jesus Knows
The Good and Beautiful Series
by James Bryan Smith
Train Your Soul to Know the God Jesus Knows
"God wants me to try harder."
"God blesses me when I'm good and punishes me when I'm bad."
"God is angry with me."We all have ideas that we tell ourselves about God and how he works in our lives. Some are true—but many are false. James Bryan Smith believes those thoughts determine not only who we are, but how ...
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ebookThe Good and Beautiful Life
Putting on the Character of Christ
The Good and Beautiful Series
by James Bryan Smith
Finding the Good Life through the Sermon on the Mount
"I have never met a person whose goal was to ruin his or her life. We all want to be happy, and we want it all of the time."
So begins James Bryan Smith in The Good and Beautiful Life. The problem is, he tells us, we have bought into false notions of happiness and success. These self-centered decisions lead ...
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ebookThe Good and Beautiful You
Discovering the Person Jesus Created You to Be
The Good and Beautiful Series
by James Bryan Smith
Healing Our Toxic Self-Narratives to Experience True Transformation
The Christian faith is not only about belief and practices, it is also about the kind of people that we become. Yet some of the biggest barriers to our transformation come from our toxic self-narratives. These narratives shape the way we see ourselves and the way we interact in the world. God designed us with ...
