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Gary A. Haugen
Gary A. Haugen is CEO and founder of International Justice Mission (IJM), a global human rights agency based in Washington, DC. Before founding IJM in 1997, Haugen was a human rights attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice. He is also the author of The Locust Effect, Terrify No More, and Just Courage.
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paperbackThe Power of the 72
Ordinary Disciples in Extraordinary Evangelism
by John Teter
They were not professionals. They were not celebrities. We don't even know their names. We know very little about them, except that they were everyday people who were drawn to Jesus. When Jesus asked them to join him in his mission, they stepped up, answered the call, and went out in his name. And amazing things happened as a result. They were the 72. Pastor and evangelist John Teter explains ...
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paperbackThe Message of the Song of Songs
The Bible Speaks Today Series
by Tom Gledhill
At first reading, the Song of Songs appears to be an unabashed celebration of physical attraction, mutual love, and sexual consummation between a man and a woman. Tom Gledhill maintains that the Song of Songs is in fact just that—a literary, poetic exploration of human love that strongly affirms loyalty, beauty, and sexuality. Yet in God's story, these things are not ends in themselves. ...
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pamphletOne Catholic to Another
IVP Booklets
by Peter Kreeft
Peter Kreeft offers the lively dialog of two Catholics who explore the basics of the Christian faith, including repentance, baptism, salvation, good works, the Bible and the church.
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ebookOur Good Crisis
Overcoming Moral Chaos with the Beatitudes
by Jonathan K. Dodson
We live in an age of crisis.
Financial crisis, political crisis, environmental crisis—the list goes on. We're confronted with calamity every time we read the headlines. But behind each of these lurks another kind of crisis, one we find harder to define: a moral crisis—a crisis of goodness. Behind financial crisis is unrestrained greed; behind political crisis is the lust for ...
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ebookPublic Intellectuals and the Common Good
Christian Thinking for Human Flourishing
Edited by Todd C. Ream, Jerry A. Pattengale, and Christopher J. Devers
Foreword by George M. MarsdenEvangelical Christians are active across all spheres of intellectual and public life today. But a disconnect remains: the work they produce too often fails to inform their broader communities. In the midst of a divisive culture and a related crisis within evangelicalism, public intellectuals speaking from an evangelical perspective have a critical role to play—within the church ...
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ebookGod Is Great, God Is Good
Why Believing in God Is Reasonable and Responsible
Edited by William Lane Craig and Chad Meister
- 2010 Christianity Today Book Award winner
The days have passed when the goodness of God--indeed, the reality of God itself--could reasonably be called a consensus opinion. God's reputation has come under considerable review in recent days, with some going so far as to say that it's not we who've made a mess of things. Instead whatever it is we call God ...
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ebookBusiness for the Common Good
A Christian Vision for the Marketplace
Christian Worldview Integration Series
by Kenman L. Wong and Scott B. Rae
Is business just a way to make money? Or can the marketplace a venue for service to others?
Scott B. Rae and Kenman L. Wong seek to explore this and other critical business issues from a uniquely Christian perspective, offering up a vision for work and service that is theologically grounded and practically oriented. Among the specific questions they address along the way are these:
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ebookIn Search of the Common Good
Christian Fidelity in a Fractured World
by Jake Meador
Foreword by Timothy KellerECPA Christian Book Award Finalist - Faith and Culture
Christianity Today Book of the Year Award, Politics and Public LifeCommon life in our society is in decline.
Our communities are disintegrating, as the loss of meaningful work and the breakdown of the family leave us anxious and alone—indeed, half of all Americans report daily feelings ...
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ebookGood News About Injustice
A Witness of Courage in a Hurting World
The IVP Signature Collection
by Gary A. Haugen
Foreword by John StottThe good news about injustice is that God is against it.
God is in the business of using the unlikely to bring about justice and mercy. In Good News About Injustice, Gary Haugen offers stories of courageous Christians who have stood up for justice in the face of human trafficking, forced prostitution, racial and religious persecution, and torture. Throughout he provides ...
