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paperbackThe Best Things in Life
A Contemporary Socrates Looks at Power, Pleasure, Truth the Good Life
by Peter Kreeft
What are the best things in life?
Questions like that may boggle your mind. But they don't boggle Socrates. The indomitable old Greek brings his unending questions to Desperate State University. With him come the same mind-opening and spirit-stretching challenge that disrupted ancient Athens.
- What is the purpose of education?
- Why do we make love?
- What good is money?
- Can ...
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paperbackThe Journey
A Spiritual Roadmap for Modern Pilgrims
by Peter Kreeft
Open this book and begin an epic human journey--the journey toward truth.
Enjoy a delightful and imaginative allegory of timeless wisdom as you travel along the road of true knowledge. Socrates, the thoroughly reasonable and wise philosopher of Athens, will accompany you much of the way. With sharp questions and canny wit he will coach you past the winsome, the wily and the half-wise spin-doctors ...
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paperbackFaith in the Shadows
Finding Christ in the Midst of Doubt
by Austin Fischer
Foreword by Brian Zahnd"People don't abandon faith because they have doubts. People abandon faith because they think they're not allowed to have doubts." Too often, our honest questions about faith are met with cold confidence and easy answers. But false certitude doesn't result in strong faith—it results in disillusionment, or worse, in a dogmatic, overweening faith unable to see itself or its object ...
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paperbackGrand Central Question
Answering the Critical Concerns of the Major Worldviews
by Abdu H. Murray
All religions and worldviews seek to answer the fundamental questions of human existence: Why am I here? What does it mean to be human? Why is there evil in the world and how do we deal with it? But not every worldview places equal emphasis on each issue. The main worldviews each tend to stress a different central question. Secular humanism focuses on: What is the inherent value of human beings? ...
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paperbackCaring for Sexually Abused Children
A Handbook for Families Churches
by Dr. R. Timothy Kearney
Dealing with the sexual abuse of a child is painful and difficult. When it happens to children within our church families, we all are affected and wonder how to respond.
- What help should we seek?
- What support can we offer?
- What healing is possible?
- What can we do to prevent abuse in the future?
In this warm and hopeful book, R. Timothy Kearney shows ...
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paperbackThe Message of Malachi
The Bible Speaks Today Series
by Peter Adam
The book of Malachi fittingly sits in Christian Bibles as the last book of the Old Testament, which it assumes, summarizes, and applies. Yet it also looks forward to the New Testament with its promises of the coming reign of God.
A striking feature of the book is the people of God's inconsistent faithfulness. God's people neither serve God wholeheartedly nor turn entirely ...
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paperbackPhilippians
N. T. Wright for Everyone Bible Study Guides
by N. T. Wright
With Dale Larsen and Sandy LarsenThings don't always go the way we intend. It's easy to feel discouraged because what we hope for is badly thwarted, or because people make life difficult. Paul, writing to the Philippians from prison, certainly knew what it was like to have plans interrupted. But he maintains robust confidence in God's overruling power, even when everything seems to be going wrong. These eight studies will help ...
Number of Studies: 8
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The Girl in the Orange Dress: Searching for a Father Who Does Not Fail (InterVarsity Press/Likewise) by Margot Starbuck won the Golden Scroll Award for Nonfiction Book of the Year from the Advanced Writers and Speakers Association (AWSA). The Golden Scroll winners were announced at the AWSA's annual banquet held on Sunday, July 10, at the Omni Hotel at CNN Center in Atlanta.
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InterVarsity Press will cosponsor the "Formation in Christlikeness: The Process of Change" conference in Wichita, Kansas, on September 23-24, 2011. The partnership with Renovaré, a foundational presence in spiritual formation for more than twenty years, and the Aprentis Institute for Christian Spiritual Formation is part of IVP's larger vision to advance spiritual formation in the body of Christ through The Apprentice Series and Formatio books.
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paperbackGenesis: The Story We Haven't Heard
by Paul Borgman
Time after time choosing selfishness over selflessness, human beings invariably destroy themselves and wreck their societies. Only God can help, says Genesis. Yet God refuses to coerce. Instead he works with individual men and women who turn around--who stop trying to make a name for themselves and start trying to be a blessing to others. The transformation is slow and arduous. God waits. Captured ...
