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paperbackThe Missional Quest
Becoming a Church of the Long Run
Forge Partnership Books
by Lance Ford and Brad Brisco
Foreword by Ed StetzerWhen Christ calls people, he invites them on a journey—a journey taken together in community. We have reached a point in history, however, when we think of the church as a fixed place where isolated individuals show up, consume a Christian message, drink some coffee, and get on with their lives. The times demand, and the gospel proclaims, that we recover our identity as a church that is a people ...
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paperbackReborn on the Fourth of July
The Challenge of Faith, Patriotism Conscience
by Logan M. Isaac
Foreword by Shane ClaiborneFor decades now, the United States has proudly claimed the mantle of "the world's only superpower" based on military might and the scope of military interventions throughout the world. As a result, whole generations are growing up with the understanding that war is the norm, that perpetual conflict is a way of life. But is it the way of Christ? Logan Mehl-Laituri grew up in a community that celebrated ...
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paperbackHealth, Healing and the Church's Mission
Biblical Perspectives and Moral Priorities
by Willard M. Swartley
Does the Christian community have the resources to develop a coherent response to health care challenges today? Accounting for biblical, theological and church-historical streams, Willard Swartley divulges a long tradition of healing and health care inherited by Christians today. Beginning with in-depth studies of Old and New Testament understandings of healing, the book surveys three millennia ...
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paperbackC. Stacey Woods and the Evangelical Rediscovery of the University
by A. Donald MacLeod
- The Word Guild 2008 Canadian Christian Writing Awards winner
C. Stacey Woods was a moving force in mid-century American evangelicalism. The Australian-born, Brethren-bred Woods came to Canada to head InterVarsity Christian Fellowship at the age of 24. He went on to become as well the first general secretary of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship in the United States. ...
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paperbackThe Transformation of a Man's Heart
Reflections on the Masculine Journey
Edited by Stephen W. Smith
Life is many things, but it is definitely not a flow chart. We prove it every day. We deeply long for change, but formulas and seminars don't get it done. The good news is, God is at work across the life span, encouraging us and empowering us to overcome the hurdles of our past, the challenges of our present and the fears of our future. The Transformation of a Man's Heart is a book of ...
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paperbackA Model for Marriage
Covenant, Grace, Empowerment and Intimacy
by Jack O. Balswick and Judith K. Balswick
Jack and Judy Balswick offer a vision of marriage that is both profoundly spiritual and thoroughly practical. Drawing insight from Christian theology and from social science research, the Balswicks bring together their years of teaching, writing and being married to each other to produce a book of faith and wisdom for facing the challenge of marriage in the twenty-first century.
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paperbackThe Openness of God
A Biblical Challenge to the Traditional Understanding of God
by Clark H. Pinnock, Richard Rice, John Sanders, William Hasker, and David Basinger
Voted one of Christianity Today's Books of the Year
The Openness of God presents a careful and full-orbed argument that the God known through Christ desires "responsive relationship" with his creatures. While it rejects process theology, the book asserts that such classical doctrines as God's immutability, impassibility and foreknowledge demand reconsideration.
The ...
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paperbackJonathan Edwards and the Ministry of the Word
A Model of Faith and Thought
by Douglas A. Sweeney
Jonathan Edwards has been recognized as the most influential evangelical theologian of all time. Before his death at the age of fifty-four, he had sparked a new movement of Reformed evangelicals who played a major role in fueling the rise of modern missions, preaching revivals far and wide, and wielding the cutting edge of American theology. He has never gone out of print, and Christians today continue ...
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paperbackPocket Dictionary of Theological Terms
The IVP Pocket Reference Series
by Stanley J. Grenz, David Guretzki, and Cherith Fee Nordling
Beginning to study theology is like stepping into a conversation that has been going on for two thousand years.
How do you take part in this conversation--or even make sense of it--if you don't understand the vocabulary or know the contributions made by other participants?
The Pocket Dictionary of Theological Terms is the perfect companion to your theological studies. Among ...
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paperbackGender & Grace
Love, Work Parenting in a Changing World
by Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen
- Winner of a 1991 Christianity Today Critics' Choice Award (1st place; contemporary issues).
How are men and women different?
How does being a male or a female affect us at work? What are the roles of husband and wife in marriage and parenting? What does Christianity have to do with any of these things?
Sexual identity lies at the core of the crucial ...
