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paperbackMuslim Evangelism
Contemporary Approaches to Contextualization
by Phil Parshall
Foreword by Ramsay HarrisToo long the church has been programmed to accept the inevitabilities of meager results in the efforts toward Muslim evangelization. The reasons for this failure in mission must now be probed and resolved as the world today is coming alive to the presence of the Muslim religious community. Phil Parshall asks the missions world to forsake former presuppositions and to become conscious of God speaking ...
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Donald M. Lewis
Donald M. Lewis (DPhil, Oxford) is professor of church history at Regent College, Vancouver, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. His eleven books include the two-volume Blackwell Dictionary of Evangelical Biography, 1730-1860, which he edited, and The Origins of Christian Zionism (Cambridge University Press, 2010).
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Heath A. Thomas
Heath A. Thomas is president and professor of Old Testament at Oklahoma Baptist University. He is an associate fellow of the Kirby Laing Centre for Public Theology in Cambridge, UK. He has written and edited numerous books, including commentaries and monographs on Habakkuk, Lamentations, as well as Holy War in the Bible (edited with Paul Copan and Jeremy Evans). He serves as editor for the Hobbs College Library Series and is an Old Testament editor for the Christian Standard Commentary series.
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It was another successful year for InterVarsity Press at the annual Association of Logos Bookstores convention and awards ceremony. InterVarsity Press won awards in three categories: Author of the Year, Best Book in the category of Christianity and Culture, and Best Book in the category of Spirituality. The awards ceremony took place in Atlanta on June 22 at the start of the International Christian Retail Show (ICRS).
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Mark Lanier, a top US trial lawyer, is most widely known for his courtroom battles with powerhouses such as Vioxx and Toyota. But he will tell you that being a trial lawyer is just his day job. On Saturday, August 2, he took time to focus his attention on his real passion as he spoke to a crowd at the Lanier Theological Library chapel about his new book Christianity on Trial: A Lawyer Examines the Christian Faith.
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Christianity Today selects books that are most likely to shape evangelical life, thought, and culture. Award winners are selected from a variety of categories including: apologetics/evangelism, Biblical studies, Bible and Devotional, Children, Christian Living/Spiritual Formation, the Church/pastoral leadership, culture and the arts, fiction, history/biography, marriage and family, and missions/the global Church.
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paperbackFaith Without Illusions
Following Jesus as a Cynic-Saint
by Andrew Byers
Call it burnout. Call it enlightenment. Call it whatever you like--it's plaguing the contemporary church. Andrew Byers calls it cynicism--the state we all too easily arrive at after passing through disillusionment. Too many saints in the making are having their wings clipped in this painful process. But wait--there's hope. Disillusionment is, at its heart, the dispersal of illusions, pointing us ...
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After nearly nineteen years as the publisher of InterVarsity Press, Bob Fryling has announced that he will be retiring in June 2016. "This has not been a quick or easy decision as I still love IVP and our calling as a leading publisher of thoughtful Christian books," Fryling said. "Neither my passion nor my commitment to IVP has waned but as an entirely personal decision it seems like an appropriate time to allow others the privilege of leading IVP."
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paperbackHow Neighborhoods Make Us Sick
Restoring Health and Wellness to Our Communities
by Veronica Squires and Breanna Lathrop
Our neighborhoods are literally making us sick. Buildings with mold trigger asthma and other respiratory conditions. Geographic lack of access to food and health care increases childhood mortality. Community violence traumatizes residents. Poverty, unemployment, inadequate housing, food insecurity, racial injustice, and oppression cause physical changes in the body, resulting in ...
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paperbackRaise Your Voice
Why We Stay Silent and How to Speak Up
by Kathy Khang
You have a voice. And you have God's permission to use it. In some communities, certain voices are amplified and elevated while others are erased and suppressed. It can be hard to speak up, especially in the ugliness of social media. Power dynamics keep us silent and marginalized, especially when race, ethnicity, and gender are factors. What can we do about it? Activist Kathy Khang roots our voice ...
