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  • Simplify: 106 Ways to Uncomplicate Your Life, By Paul Borthwick
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    Simplify

    106 Ways to Uncomplicate Your Life

    by Paul Borthwick

    The prophet Isaiah urged the people of God living under extreme stress to remember that their strength would be found in quietness and trust. The Psalmist urged worshippers that to be still was key to their worship. Jesus reminded people that sitting in quietness was better than a life of hectic busyness. Even the writer Henry David Thoreau when asked the secret of life, replied, "Simplify, simplify, ...

  • Called to Be Saints: An Invitation to Christian Maturity, By Gordon T. Smith
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    Called to Be Saints

    An Invitation to Christian Maturity

    by Gordon T. Smith

    Christianity Today Award of Merit

    Best Book of Spirituality—Academic, from Byron Borger, Hearts and Minds Bookstore

    Evangelicals are known for their emphasis on conversion. But what about life after conversion and beyond justification?

    Desperately needed is a comprehensive theology of the Christian life from beginning ...

  • Learning Theology with the Church Fathers, By Christopher A. Hall
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    Learning Theology with the Church Fathers

    by Christopher A. Hall

    The early church fathers were great theologians--though they did not think of themselves as such. They were working pastors, involved in the daily life and leadership of their congregations. Yet they were wrestling with many of the great and formative questions of the Christian faith, such as the Trinity, the incarnation, the providence of God and the nature of the church. These beliefs were ...

  • Revisiting Paul's Doctrine of Justification: A Challenge to the New Perspective, By Peter Stuhlmacher
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    Revisiting Paul's Doctrine of Justification

    A Challenge to the New Perspective

    by Peter Stuhlmacher

    Since 1963, substantial objections have been raised against the traditional view of the Pauline doctrine of justification, mainly by New Testament scholars such as Krister Stendahl, E. P. Sanders and James D. G. Dunn. This book evaluates the "New Perspective on Paul" and finds it wanting. With appreciation for the important critique already offered by Donald Hagner, which is included in this volume, ...

  • The Healing Journey for Adult Children of Alcoholics, By Daryl E. Quick
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    The Healing Journey for Adult Children of Alcoholics

    by Daryl E. Quick

    I feel like people leave me abandoned all the time. Sometimes I'm so afraid for what seems like no reason. I just don't seem to have any energy. Why do the same thoughts keep racing through my mind? I usually don't feel happy or sad. If there isn't real excitement, I feel bored. I want to be close to people, but I just never make it. Do you see yourself in this list? Children of alcoholic ...

  • The Journey of Modern Theology: From Reconstruction to Deconstruction, By Roger E. Olson
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    The Journey of Modern Theology

    From Reconstruction to Deconstruction

    by Roger E. Olson

    Modernity has been an age of revolutions—political, scientific, industrial and philosophical. Consequently, it has also been an age of revolutions in theology, as Christians attempt to make sense of their faith in light of the cultural upheavals around them, what Walter Lippman once called the "acids of modernity." Modern theology is the result of this struggle to think responsibly about God within ...

  • The Journey of Modern Theology: From Reconstruction to Deconstruction, By Roger E. Olson
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    The Journey of Modern Theology

    From Reconstruction to Deconstruction

    by Roger E. Olson

    Modernity has been an age of revolutions—political, scientific, industrial and philosophical. Consequently, it has also been an age of revolutions in theology, as Christians attempt to make sense of their faith in light of the cultural upheavals around them, what Walter Lippman once called the "acids of modernity." Modern theology is the result of this struggle to think responsibly about God within ...

  • Ancient & Postmodern Christianity: Paleo-Orthodoxy in the 21st Century: Essays in Honor of Thomas C. Oden, Edited by Kenneth Tanner and Christopher A. Hall
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    Ancient & Postmodern Christianity

    Paleo-Orthodoxy in the 21st Century: Essays in Honor of Thomas C. Oden

    Edited by Kenneth Tanner and Christopher A. Hall

    The consensual roots of Christianity found in the common understanding of the faith among the early church fathers is the foundation on which the church can and should build in the twenty-first century. Edited by Kennth Tanner and Christopher A. Hall, the eighteen essays found in this volume span theological and ecclesiastical perspectives that emphasize what the various Christian traditions hold ...

  • John 13-21, Edited by Christopher Boyd Brown
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    John 13-21

    Reformation Commentary on Scripture

    Edited by Christopher Boyd Brown

    After he had washed the disciples' feet, Jesus said, "Just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another."

    The second half of the Gospel of John, sometimes called the most "theological" of the Gospels, includes John's account of Jesus' final night with his disciples, his betrayal and arrest, his crucifixion, his resurrection, and his appearances to his disciples.

    When ...