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  • Romans 9-16, Edited by Philip D. W. Krey and Peter D. S. Krey
    hardcover

    Romans 9-16

    New Testament Volume 8

    Reformation Commentary on Scripture

    Edited by Philip D. W. Krey and Peter D. S. Krey

    Writing to the early Christians in Rome, the apostle Paul said, "Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect" (Rom 12:2 ESV). Perhaps more than any other New Testament epistle, Paul's letter to the Romans has been the focus of Christian reflection throughout the ...

  • Commentaries on Genesis 1-3, By Severian of Gabala and Bede the Venerable
    hardcover

    Commentaries on Genesis 1-3

    Ancient Christian Texts

    by Severian of Gabala and Bede the Venerable
    Translated by Robert C. Hill and Carmen S. Hardin
    Edited by Michael Glerup

    The church fathers displayed considerable interest in the early chapters of Genesis, and often wrote detailed commentaries or preached series of homilies on the Hexameron--the Six Days of Creation--among them Eustathius of Antioch, Basil the Great, Gregory of Nyssa, Theodore of Mopsuestia, Ambrose, John Chrysostom and Augustine.

    This volume of Ancient Christian Texts offers a first-time English ...

  • A Handbook for Married Couples, By Alice Fryling and Robert A. Fryling
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    A Handbook for Married Couples

    by Alice Fryling and Robert A. Fryling

    Marriage can bring the best of times and the worst of times. But open and honest communication makes all times better. Alice and Bob Fryling offer married couples a chance to enhance their marriages. They help readers learn crucial skills such as how to make decisions together and how to resolve conflict. Then they apply these skills to tough marital issues like sex, spiritual growth, disappointment ...

  • The Art of Holy Week and Easter: Meditations on the Passion and Resurrection of Jesus, By Sister Wendy Beckett
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    The Art of Holy Week and Easter

    Meditations on the Passion and Resurrection of Jesus

    by Sister Wendy Beckett

    Brimming with Sister Wendy Beckett's's irrepressible wisdom and enthusiasm, this little book explores the spiritual riches to be found in some of the world's greatest paintings of the Passion and resurrection of Jesus. Illustrated in full color with thirty famous and lesser-known masterpieces of Western art, The Art of Holy Week and Easter is a chance to hear again the ...

    Number of Studies: 30

  • Commentary on Isaiah, By Eusebius of Caesarea
    hardcover

    Commentary on Isaiah

    Ancient Christian Texts

    by Eusebius of Caesarea
    Translated by Jonathan J. Armstrong
    Edited by Joel C. Elowsky

    Preaching's Preacher's Guide to the Best Bible Reference

    Eusebius of Caesarea (ca. 260--ca. 340), one of the early church's great polymaths, produced significant works as a historian (Ecclesiastical History), geographer (Onomasticon), philologist, exegete (commentaries on the Psalms and Isaiah), apologist (Preparation for and Demonstration ...

  • Hollywood Worldviews: Watching Films with Wisdom and Discernment, By Brian Godawa
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    Hollywood Worldviews

    Watching Films with Wisdom and Discernment

    by Brian Godawa

    Do you watch movies with your eyes open? You buy your tickets and concessions, and you walk into the theater. Celluloid images flash at twenty-four frames per second, and the hypnotic sequence of moving pictures coaxes you to suspend disbelief and be entertained by the implausible. Unfortunately, many often suspend their beliefs as well, succumbing to subtle lessons in how to behave, think and ...

  • Pocket Dictionary of the Reformed Tradition, By Kelly M. Kapic and Wesley Vander Lugt Pocket Dictionary of the Reformed Tradition, By Kelly M. Kapic and Wesley Vander Lugt
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    Pocket Dictionary of the Reformed Tradition

    The IVP Pocket Reference Series

    by Kelly M. Kapic and Wesley Vander Lugt

    Beginning to study Reformed theology is like stepping into a family conversation that has been going on for five hundred years. How do you find your bearings and figure out how to take part in this conversation without embarrassing yourself?

    The Pocket Dictionary of the Reformed Tradition takes on this rich, boisterous and varied tradition in its broad contours, filling you in on ...

  • Jesus and the Rise of Early Christianity: A History of New Testament Times, By Paul Barnett
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    Jesus and the Rise of Early Christianity

    A History of New Testament Times

    by Paul Barnett

    The pathway to understanding the New Testament leads through the vibrant landscape of the first-century Greco-Roman world. The New Testament is rooted in the concrete historical events of that world. In Jesus the Rise of Early Christianity Paul Barnett not only places the New Testament within that world of caesars and Herods, proconsuls and Pharisees, Sadducees and revolutionaries, but ...

  • Language for God in Patristic Tradition: Wrestling with Biblical Anthropomorphism, By Mark Sheridan Language for God in Patristic Tradition: Wrestling with Biblical Anthropomorphism, By Mark Sheridan
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    Language for God in Patristic Tradition

    Wrestling with Biblical Anthropomorphism

    by Mark Sheridan

    Criticism of myth in the Bible is not a modern problem. Its roots go back to the earliest Christian theologians, and before them, to ancient Greek and Jewish thinkers. The dilemma posed by texts that ascribe human characteristics and emotions to the divine is a perennial problem, and we have much to learn from the ancient attempts to address it. Mark Sheridan provides a theological and historical ...

  • Hostile Environment: Understanding and Responding to Anti-Christian Bias, By George Yancey Hostile Environment: Understanding and Responding to Anti-Christian Bias, By George Yancey
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    Hostile Environment

    Understanding and Responding to Anti-Christian Bias

    by George Yancey

    "The only good Christian is a dead Christian." In our heated cultural environment, comments like this are increasingly common. Sometimes Christians are too quick to claim that they are being persecuted. But Christians aren't just being paranoid or alarmist. Anti-Christian hostility is real. Sociologist George Yancey explores the phenomenon of Christianophobia, an intense animosity against Christians ...