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  • Theology Remixed: Christianity as Story, Game, Language, Culture, By Adam C. English
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    Theology Remixed

    Christianity as Story, Game, Language, Culture

    by Adam C. English

    Jesus didn't give his followers a fixed set of statements defining everything they needed to know about the kingdom of God in a neat package. Rather he told stories, made comparisons, drew contrasts. He talked of a mustard seed, of yeast and of a hidden treasure to communicate some of the most important truths of the faith. Jesus didn't fall back on parables because he lacked the right words. Parables ...

  • Liturgical Theology: The Church as Worshiping Community, By Simon  Chan
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    Liturgical Theology

    The Church as Worshiping Community

    by Simon Chan

    Bad worship produces bad theology, and bad theology produces an unhealthy church. In Liturgical Theology, Simon Chan issues a call to evangelicals to develop a mature theology of the church--an ecclesiology that is grounded in the church's identity as a worshiping community. Evangelicals, he argues, are confused about the meaning and purpose of the church in part because they have an inadequate ...

  • A Spacious Life: Trading Hustle and Hurry for the Goodness of Limits, By Ashley Hales
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    A Spacious Life

    Trading Hustle and Hurry for the Goodness of Limits

    by Ashley Hales

    We're told that freedom and opportunity are our ticket to the good life. Get out there and follow your dreams! Be the hero of your own story! Find your happiness! Live your best life! It seems that limitless possibilities await anyone with vision and willingness to hustle their way through life.

    The thing is, instead of resulting in a sense of accomplishment, this ...

  • Theology of Mission: A Believers Church Perspective, By John Howard Yoder
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    Theology of Mission

    A Believers Church Perspective

    by John Howard Yoder
    Edited by Gayle Gerber Koontz and Andy Alexis-Baker

    • 2014 Best Texts of Missiology, from Byron Borger, Hearts and Minds Bookstore
    John Howard Yoder, author of The Politics of Jesus (1972), was best known for his writing and teaching on Christian pacifism. The material in Theology of Mission shows he was a profound missiologist as well. Working from a believers or free church perspective, Yoder ...
  • Life in the Spirit: Spiritual Formation in Theological Perspective, Edited by Jeffrey P. Greenman and George Kalantzis
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    Life in the Spirit

    Spiritual Formation in Theological Perspective

    Wheaton Theology Conference Series

    Edited by Jeffrey P. Greenman and George Kalantzis

    This volume, edited by Jeffrey P. Greenman and George Kalantzis, marks another compilation from the Wheaton Theology Conference. 2009's event produced the wealth of work represented here exploring the theological foundations for a faithful approach to the church practices that contribute to spiritual formation, that is, to our sanctification in the power of the Holy Spirit. Including essays from ...

  • The Life of the Body: Physical Well-Being and Spiritual Formation, By Valerie E. Hess and Lane M. Arnold
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    The Life of the Body

    Physical Well-Being and Spiritual Formation

    by Valerie E. Hess and Lane M. Arnold

    What does exercise have to do with our souls? How do our sleeping habits relate to being conformed to the likeness of Christ? What do our bodies have to do with spiritual formation? Valerie Hess has taken up these questions with her spiritual formation graduate students. And Lane Arnold has processed them with others as a spiritual director. They have discovered that the life of our bodies has ...

  • Salvation to the Ends of the Earth: A Biblical Theology of Mission, By Andreas J. Köstenberger
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    Salvation to the Ends of the Earth

    A Biblical Theology of Mission

    New Studies in Biblical Theology

    by Andreas J. Köstenberger
    With T. Desmond Alexander
    Series edited by D. A. Carson

    Few biblical topics are as important as mission. Mission is linked inextricably to humanity's sinfulness and need for redemption and to God's provision of salvation in the person and work of Jesus Christ. This good news of salvation must be made known. The saving mission of Jesus constitutes the foundation for Christian mission, and the Christian gospel is its message.

    This ...

  • The Good and Beautiful Life: Putting on the Character of Christ, By James Bryan Smith
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    The Good and Beautiful Life

    Putting on the Character of Christ

    The Good and Beautiful Series

    by James Bryan Smith

    Finding the Good Life through the Sermon on the Mount

    "I have never met a person whose goal was to ruin his or her life. We all want to be happy, and we want it all of the time."

    So begins James Bryan Smith in The Good and Beautiful Life. The problem is, he tells us, we have bought into false notions of happiness and success. These self-centered decisions lead ...