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  • Can Evangelicals Learn from World Religions?: Jesus, Revelation  Religious Traditions, By Gerald R. McDermott
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    Can Evangelicals Learn from World Religions?

    Jesus, Revelation Religious Traditions

    by Gerald R. McDermott

    • A 2001 Christianity Today Award of Merit winner

    "Arguably, the church's greatest challenge in the next century will be the problem of the scandal of particularity. More than ever before, Christians will need to explain why they follow Jesus and not the Buddha or Confucius or Krishna or Muhammed. But if, while relating their faith to the faiths, Christians ...

  • The Dangerous Act of Worship: Living God's Call to Justice, By Mark Labberton
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    The Dangerous Act of Worship

    Living God's Call to Justice

    by Mark Labberton
    Foreword by John Ortberg

    What's at stake in our worship? Everything. Worship is the dangerous act of waking up to God and God's purposes in the world. But something has gone wrong with our worship. Too often worship has become a place of safety and complacency, a narrowly private experience in which solitary individuals only express their personal adoration. Even when we gather corporately, we often close our eyes to those ...

  • The Lost World of Scripture: Ancient Literary Culture and Biblical Authority, By John H. Walton and Brent Sandy
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    The Lost World of Scripture

    Ancient Literary Culture and Biblical Authority

    The Lost World Series

    by John H. Walton and Brent Sandy

    Readers' Choice Awards Honorable Mention

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

    From John H. Walton, author of the bestselling Lost World of Genesis One, and D. Brent Sandy, author of Plowshares and Pruning Hooks, comes a detailed look at the origins of scriptural authority in ancient oral cultures and how ...

  • An Introduction to Christian Worldview: Pursuing God's Perspective in a Pluralistic World, By Tawa J. Anderson and W. Michael Clark and David K. Naugle
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    An Introduction to Christian Worldview

    Pursuing God's Perspective in a Pluralistic World

    by Tawa J. Anderson, W. Michael Clark, and David K. Naugle

    Everyone has a worldview. A worldview is the lens through which we interpret the cosmos and our lives in it. A worldview answers the big questions of life: What is our nature? What is our world? What is our problem? What is our end? As Anderson, Clark, and Naugle point out, our worldview cannot simply be reduced to a series of rational beliefs. We are creatures of story, and the kinds of stories ...

  • Freeing Congregational Mission: A Practical Vision for Companionship, Cultural Humility, and Co-Development, By B. Hunter Farrell
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    Freeing Congregational Mission

    A Practical Vision for Companionship, Cultural Humility, and Co-Development

    by B. Hunter Farrell
    With S. Balajiedlang Khyllep

    There is a deepening crisis in mission as practiced by North American congregations. Many mission activities are more effective at satisfying church members than making a lasting difference, producing what's too often consumer-oriented "selfie mission." Too much effort is based on colonial-era assumptions of mission launched from a position of power. These practices are not just ...

  • A Meaningful World: How the Arts and Sciences Reveal the Genius of Nature, By Benjamin Wiker and Jonathan Witt
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    A Meaningful World

    How the Arts and Sciences Reveal the Genius of Nature

    by Benjamin Wiker and Jonathan Witt

    Meaningful or meaningless? Purposeful or pointless? When we look at nature, whether at our living earth or into deepest space, what do we find? In stark contrast to contemporary claims that the world is meaningless, Benjamin Wiker and Jonathan Witt reveal a cosmos charged with both meaning and purpose. Their journey begins with Shakespeare and ranges through Euclid's geometry, the fine-tuning ...

  • The Kingdom and the Cross, By James Bryan Smith
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    The Kingdom and the Cross

    Apprentice Resources

    by James Bryan Smith

    We believe a lot of false narratives about the nature of God, things like "God helps those who help themselves"; "God blesses the righteous"; "God might not be out for your good, and you might be missing something." But pastor and professor James Bryan Smith, author of the Apprentice Series, points us to the truth of who God is, revealed by Jesus: A God who loves to help the helpless. A God who ...

  • True Paradox: How Christianity Makes Sense of Our Complex World, By David Skeel
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    True Paradox

    How Christianity Makes Sense of Our Complex World

    Veritas Books

    by David Skeel

    Foreword Review's Annual INDIEFAB Book of the Year Finalist

    How do we explain human consciousness? Where do we get our sense of beauty? Why do we recoil at suffering? Why do we have moral codes that none of us can meet? Why do we yearn for justice, yet seem incapable of establishing it?

    Any philosophy or worldview must make sense of the world as we actually ...

  • Walking the Theological Life: Discovering Method for Theology in the Lives of Biblical Characters, By Timothy Gaines
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    Walking the Theological Life

    Discovering Method for Theology in the Lives of Biblical Characters

    by Timothy Gaines

    Explore how to do theology virtuously through the lives of biblical characters.

    For many who are not initiated into the discipline, theology can feel either overwhelming or just plain boring, especially when theological discourse is disconnected from the lives we live. But for centuries, theology wasn't a disconnected discipline—but an invitation to respond to God from the ...