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  • Transforming Power: Biblical Strategies for Making a Difference in Your Community, By Robert Linthicum
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    Transforming Power

    Biblical Strategies for Making a Difference in Your Community

    by Robert Linthicum

    "Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just"--Blaise Pascal. Problems plague the world around us. Many in our churches and communities face injustice, crime, poverty, racism and other daunting evils. But often Christians have not known how to respond effectively. The issues seem bigger than anything the church ...

  • Life Together in Christ: Experiencing Transformation in Community, By Ruth Haley Barton
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    Life Together in Christ

    Experiencing Transformation in Community

    Transforming Resources

    by Ruth Haley Barton

    Best Book of Spiritual Formation, from Byron Borger, Hearts and Minds Bookstore

    Have you joined a church or small group in hopes of experiencing real life change, only to be disappointed?

    Have you sat through inspiring sermons about what is possible when Christians gather together in mutually edifying relationships, only to recognize how cynical you have become after ...

  • The Myth of Certainty: The Reflective Christian  the Risk of Commitment, By Daniel Taylor
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    The Myth of Certainty

    The Reflective Christian the Risk of Commitment

    by Daniel Taylor

    Do you feel equally uncomfortable with closed-minded skepticism and closed-minded Christianity? If so, then The Myth of Certainty is the book for you. Daniel Taylor suggests a path to committed faith that is both consistent with the tradition of Christian orthodoxy and sensitive to the pluralism, relativism and complexity of our time. Taylor makes the case for the reflective, questioning ...

  • Old Testament Theology: Israel's Faith, By John Goldingay
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    Old Testament Theology

    Israel's Faith

    Old Testament Theology Series

    by John Goldingay

    Old Testament Theology: Israel's Faith is the second of John Goldingay's magisterial three-volume Old Testament Theology. The award-winning first volume, Old Testament Theology: Israel's Gospel, followed the story line of the First Testament, developing its narrative theology. This volume finds its point of departure in the Prophets, Psalms and Wisdom literature, where we encounter ...

  • Christian Character, By Andrea Sterk and Peter Scazzero
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    Christian Character

    LifeGuide Bible Studies

    by Andrea Sterk and Peter Scazzero

    Compassion, humility, faith, perseverance. We long for the beauty of Christ to be reflected in our lives. Such character comes only as the Spirit of God transforms us through the Word of God. This twelve-session LifeGuide® Bible Study will help you along your journey toward becoming all that God created you to be. For over three decades LifeGuide Bible Studies have provided solid biblical ...

    Number of Studies: 12

  • Psalms: Prayers of the Heart, By Eugene H. Peterson
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    Psalms

    Prayers of the Heart

    LifeGuide Bible Studies

    by Eugene H. Peterson

    In this twelve-session LifeGuide® Bible Study on Psalms teaches you how to relate to God as you pray your doubt, fears and anger. They show you how to respond to God in praise. Here you find the best place to explore who you are and what God means to you. For over three decades LifeGuide Bible Studies have provided solid biblical content and raised thought-provoking questions—making ...

    Number of Studies: 12

  • Old Testament Ethics: A Guided Tour, By John Goldingay
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    Old Testament Ethics: A Guided Tour

    by John Goldingay

    What is ethics? Ethics is not merely about tricky situations or hot topics. Instead, ethics asks questions about what sort of people we are, how we think, what sort of things we do and don't do, and how we ought to live our everyday lives. How might we learn ethics from the Old Testament? Instead of searching for support for our positions or pointing out problems with certain ...

  • Bread for the Resistance: Forty Devotions for Justice People, By Donna Barber
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    Bread for the Resistance

    Forty Devotions for Justice People

    by Donna Barber

    Sometimes you get tired, doing this thing we call justice. Making the case, fighting the fight, having to explain again and again why it matters. You feel burned out or disillusioned. Sometimes you just need a word from the Lord.

    In these daily devotions, Donna Barber offers life-giving words of renewal and hope for those engaged in the resistance to injustice. When you face ...

    Number of Studies: 40

  • Jeremiah: Demanding Love, By Stephen D. Eyre
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    Jeremiah

    Demanding Love

    LifeGuide Bible Studies

    by Stephen D. Eyre

    It was a dark time for Israel. And Jeremiah was their last chance to turn things around. The ministry to which God called Jeremiah was difficult and painful: proclaim God's demanding love. Yet with this burden, God also gave the prophet a gift--the gift of his presence. In this nine-session LifeGuide® Bible Study, Stephen D. Eyre shows how the example of Jeremiah's rich relationship ...

    Number of Studies: 9

  • The Danger of Raising Nice Kids: Preparing Our Children to Change Their World, By Timothy Smith
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    The Danger of Raising Nice Kids

    Preparing Our Children to Change Their World

    by Timothy Smith
    Foreword by Tim Kimmel

    Nice is not enough. We are raising a generation of "nice" kids. Nice kids are well behaved and look good on the outside, but they often lack courageous character inside. Offering practical wisdom gleaned from his experience as a parent and family coach, Tim Smith helps you move your kids from simply polite to truly compassionate. He targets nine key qualities children need but ...