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paperbackTending Soul, Mind, and Body
The Art and Science of Spiritual Formation
Center for Pastor Theologians Series
Edited by Gerald L. Hiestand and Todd Wilson
Throughout his ministry, Jesus consistently demonstrated his concern and love for the whole person: soul, mind, and body.
That task is carried forward today by pastors and church leaders, who are called to care for people in the midst of individual circumstances as well as seismic cultural shifts. How might that calling be informed by recent developments in psychology? How ...
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hardcoverIn Search of Ancient Roots
The Christian Past and the Evangelical Identity Crisis
by Kenneth J. Stewart
- 15th Annual Outreach Magazine Resource of the Year - Also Recommended in Theology
- 2017 The Gospel Coalition Book Award
- Jesus Creed Book of the Year 2017, Church History
Protestant evangelicalism is in crisis. Today it is increasingly difficult for Protestants to identify what counts as distinctively Protestant, much less what ...
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paperbackThe Message of Mark
The Bible Speaks Today Series
by Donald English
The fast-paced vitality of Mark's narrative wins the hearts of today's readers on its own terms. Yet while at first glance Mark appears to be a simple account of Jesus' ministry, a serious study raises all kinds of questions: Why doesn't Jesus make his true identity more obvious to the crowds? Why do his disciples find it so difficult to understand? Why is Jesus' work met with such ...
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paperbackThe Reformation and the Irrepressible Word of God
Interpretation, Theology, and Practice
Edited by Scott M. Manetsch
According to Scripture, the Word of God is "living and active" (Heb 4:12). That affirmation was embraced by the Protestant Reformers, whose understanding of the Christian faith and the church was transformed by their encounter with Scripture. It is also true of the essays found in this volume, which brings together the reflections of church historians and theologians originally delivered at Trinity ...
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paperbackCrazy Enough to Care
Changing Your World Through Compassion, Justice and Racial Reconciliation
by Alvin C. Bibbs, Sr.
Nothing confronts a person's faith quite like injustice, pain, suffering. We see these things in our world, in our neighborhoods, and we don't know what to do with ourselves. We've got to do something, but where to begin? What to do? How to do it? Crazy Enough to Care will take you and your friends on a journey, uncovering the things that make compassion impractical in contemporary society, ...
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Beau Crosetto
Beau Crosetto loves helping people connect to and share Jesus right where they are. He serves as the director for starting new Greek InterVarsity chapters on college campuses in Greater Los Angeles. He is the founder of the missional blog Release the APE and has a MA in evangelism and leadership from Wheaton College. Beau has partnered in planting the church Vineyard Underground in Los Angeles.
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paperbackThe Spirit, Ethics, and Eternal Life
Paul's Vision for the Christian Life in Galatians
by Jarvis J. Williams
What should the Christian life look like? What vision does Scripture cast for living as a follower of Christ?
The New Testament scholar Jarvis Williams considers how Paul's letter to the Galatians can inform our understanding of the Christian life here and now as well as into eternity. What emerges from this careful study is a multifaceted vision of God's saving action in ...
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Dominique DuBois Gilliard
Dominique DuBois Gilliard is the director of racial righteousness and reconciliation for the Love Mercy Do Justice (LMDJ) initiative of the Evangelical Covenant Church (ECC). He serves on the boards of directors for the Christian Community Development Association and Evangelicals for Justice. In 2015, he was selected as one of the ECC’s “40 Under 40” leaders to watch, and the Huffington Post named him one of the “Black Christian Leaders Changing the World.” An ordained minister, Gilliard has served in pastoral ministry in Atlanta, Chicago, and Oakland. He was executive pastor of New Hope Covenant Church in Oakland, California and also served in Oakland as the associate pastor of Convergence Covenant Church. He was also the campus minister at North Park University and the racial righteousness director for ECC’s ministry initiatives in the Pacific Southwest Conference. With articles published in the CCDA Theology Journal, The Covenant Quarterly, and Sojourners, Gilliard has also blogged for Christianity Today, Faith & Leadership, Red Letter Christians, Do Justice, and The Junia Project. He earned a bachelor’s degree in African American Studies from Georgia State University and a master’s degree in history from East Tennessee State University, with an emphasis on race, gender, and class in the United States. He also earned an MDiv from North Park Seminary, where he served as an adjunct professor teaching Christian ethics, theology, and reconciliation.
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Stuart McAllister
Stuart McAllister is a speaker and writer. Since becoming a Christian in his home country of Scotland in 1977, he has traveled the globe, first smuggling Bibles and Christian resources to churches behind the Iron Curtain. Throughout almost forty-five years of ministry, he has spoken to students, business professionals, and government and community leaders. He has been a frequent contributor to many publications including writing chapters for the books Beyond Opinion and Global Missiology for the 21st Century.
