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  • Families at the Crossroads: Beyond Tradition  Modern Options, By Rodney R. Clapp
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    Families at the Crossroads

    Beyond Tradition Modern Options

    by Rodney R. Clapp

    "Scant decades ago most Westerners agreed that . . . Lifelong monogamy was ideal . . . Mothers should stay home with children . . . premarital sex was to be discouraged . . . Heterosexuality was the unquestioned norm . . . popular culture should not corrupt children. Today not a single one of these expectations is uncontroversial." So writes Rodney Clapp in assessing the status of the family in ...

  • Married for Life: Growing Together through the Differences and Surprises of Life, By D. Stuart Briscoe and Jill Briscoe
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    Married for Life

    Growing Together through the Differences and Surprises of Life

    by D. Stuart Briscoe and Jill Briscoe

    The old adage of opposites attract is certainly true of Jill and Stuart Briscoe. He is a pragmatic, nuts-and-bolts man; she a visionary, with a heart for people. From the beginning, these two personalities have had much to learn about each other. Married for Life brims with delightfully funny and poignant stories of everything from the first time they met to the heart-to-heart talks of ...

  • Bringing Home the Prodigals, By Rob Parsons
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    Bringing Home the Prodigals

    by Rob Parsons

    Rob Parsons' message is for anyone who cares about prodigals. He urges us to be released from false guilt, to stop judging each other, and to remember that God, the perfect parent, has trouble with his children, too. He challenges the church to recognize the part it has played in creating prodigals and says, when our prodigals do come home, pray that they meet the father first and not the elder ...

  • Esther: An Introduction and Commentary, By Debra Reid
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    Esther

    An Introduction and Commentary

    Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries

    by Debra Reid

    The place: Persia. The time: fifth-century BC. The Jews were threatened with genocide. A decree ordered the extermination of young and old, women and children. The book of Esther describes how this crisis was averted through the bravery of Esther, the wisdom of Mordecai and the unity of the Jewish people. Debra Reid's approachable commentary helps us see even more clearly in the book of Esther the ...