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  • Love, Honor and Forgive: A Guide for Married Couples, By Bill Farrel and Pam Farrel
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    Love, Honor and Forgive

    A Guide for Married Couples

    by Bill Farrel and Pam Farrel

    How can you stay in love with your spouse? Practice forgiveness.It's that simple. But it's also really difficult. Saying "I'm sorry" and meaning it may be one of the biggest challenges you've ever faced. But your marriage may depend on it.Bill and Pam Farrel write from many years of experience as counselors to engaged and married couples. Over ...

  • The Pastoral Epistles: An Introduction and Commentary, By Osvaldo Padilla The Pastoral Epistles: An Introduction and Commentary, By Osvaldo Padilla
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    The Pastoral Epistles

    An Introduction and Commentary

    Tyndale New Testament Commentaries

    by Osvaldo Padilla
    Series edited by Eckhard J. Schnabel
    Consulting Editor Nicholas Perrin

    In his New Testament letters to Timothy and Titus, the apostle Paul is concerned with church order, defending correct doctrine, and passing on the faith.

    In this introduction and commentary to both letters, Osvaldo Padilla sets them in their distinct context of Paul's later ministry and draws out their pastoral wisdom. With thoughtful exposition he shows how the lessons Paul ...

  • Including the Stranger: Foreigners in the Former Prophets, By David G. Firth Including the Stranger: Foreigners in the Former Prophets, By David G. Firth
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    Including the Stranger

    Foreigners in the Former Prophets

    New Studies in Biblical Theology

    by David G. Firth
    Series edited by D. A. Carson

    Biblical Foundations Award Finalist

    The Old Testament, particularly the Former Prophets (Joshua, Judges, 1-2 Samuel, and 1-2 Kings), has frequently been regarded as having a negative attitude towards foreigners. This has meant that these texts are often employed by those opposed to the Christian faith to attack the Bible—and such views can be echoed by Christians. While the ...

  • Paul and the Giants of Philosophy: Reading the Apostle in Greco-Roman Context, Edited by Joseph R. Dodson and David E. Briones Paul and the Giants of Philosophy: Reading the Apostle in Greco-Roman Context, Edited by Joseph R. Dodson and David E. Briones
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    Paul and the Giants of Philosophy

    Reading the Apostle in Greco-Roman Context

    Foreword by John M. G. Barclay
    Edited by Joseph R. Dodson and David E. Briones

    Biblical Foundations Award Finalist

    What forces shaped the intellectual world of the apostle Paul? How familiar was he with the great philosophers of his age, and to what extent was he influenced by them? When he quoted Greco-Roman sources, what was his aim?

    Pauline scholars wrestle with such questions in journal articles and technical monographs, but ...

  • Learning from Henri Nouwen and Vincent van Gogh: A Portrait of the Compassionate Life, By Carol A. Berry Learning from Henri Nouwen and Vincent van Gogh: A Portrait of the Compassionate Life, By Carol A. Berry
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    Learning from Henri Nouwen and Vincent van Gogh

    A Portrait of the Compassionate Life

    by Carol A. Berry
    Foreword by Sue Mosteller CSJ

    Carol Berry and her husband met and befriended Henri Nouwen when she sat in his course on compassion at Yale Divinity School in the 1970s. At the request of Henri Nouwen's literary estate, she has written this book, which includes unpublished material recorded from Nouwen's lectures.

    As an art educator, Berry is uniquely situated to develop Nouwen's work on Vincent van Gogh and to add her ...

  • Blessed Are the Nones: Mixed-Faith Marriage and My Search for Spiritual Community, By Stina Kielsmeier-Cook Blessed Are the Nones: Mixed-Faith Marriage and My Search for Spiritual Community, By Stina Kielsmeier-Cook
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    Blessed Are the Nones

    Mixed-Faith Marriage and My Search for Spiritual Community

    by Stina Kielsmeier-Cook

    Can the Christian life be lived alone?

    When her husband left Christianity several years into their marriage, Stina Kielsmeier-Cook was left "spiritually single"—struggling to live the Christian life on her own, taking her kids to church by herself, and wrestling with her own questions and doubts.

    In this memoir, Kielsmeier-Cook tells the story of her mixed-faith marriage ...

  • The Morals of the Story: Good News About a Good God, By David Baggett and Marybeth Baggett
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    The Morals of the Story

    Good News About a Good God

    by David Baggett and Marybeth Baggett

    Christianity Today 2019 Book of the Year Award of Merit, Apologetics/Evangelism

    What arguments best support the existence of God?

    For centuries the moral argument—that objective morality points to the existence of God—has been a powerful apologetic tool.

    In this volume, David and Marybeth Baggett offer a dramatic, robust, and even playful version ...

  • Innovation in Mission: Insights into Practical Innovations Creating Kingdom Impact, Edited by James W. Reapsome and Jon Hirst
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    Innovation in Mission

    Insights into Practical Innovations Creating Kingdom Impact

    Edited by James W. Reapsome and Jon Hirst

    As the world around us is changing, our methods also need to adapt in order to fulfill the unchanging vision of reaching the lost. Innovations in Missions provides outstanding opportunities to solve the great challenges of ministry in this new Century. This book is not an all-or-nothing approach to being innovative in ministry. It offers what has worked in other areas and lets the reader ...

  • Understanding Postmodernism: A Christian Perspective, By Stewart E. Kelly Understanding Postmodernism: A Christian Perspective, By Stewart E. Kelly
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    Understanding Postmodernism

    A Christian Perspective

    by Stewart E. Kelly
    With James K. Dew Jr.

    Postmodernity has matured. But the challenge of navigating our contemporary culture remains. In order for Christians to make wise decisions, we first need to understand the many facets of our postmodern context.If René Descartes is often identified as the first truly modern philosopher in light of his confidence in human reason, then postmodernism has taken Descartes to the woodshed. Stewart Kelly ...

  • Evangelical, Sacramental, and Pentecostal: Why the Church Should Be All Three, By Gordon T. Smith Evangelical, Sacramental, and Pentecostal: Why the Church Should Be All Three, By Gordon T. Smith
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    Evangelical, Sacramental, and Pentecostal

    Why the Church Should Be All Three

    by Gordon T. Smith

    Evangelical. Sacramental. Pentecostal.Christian communities tend to identify with one of these labels over the other two. Evangelical churches emphasize the importance of Scripture and preaching. Sacramental churches emphasize the importance of the eucharistic table. And pentecostal churches emphasize the immediate presence and power of the Holy Spirit. But must we choose between them? Could the ...