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paperbackThe Canon of Scripture
by F. F. Bruce
- Winner of two 1990 Christianity Today Awards: Readers' Choice (1st place; theology doctrine) and Critics' Choice (1st place; theology doctrine).
- A 1989 ECPA Gold Medallion Award winner
How did the books of the Bible come to be recognized as Holy Scripture? Who decided what shape the canon should take? What criteria influenced these decisions? After nearly ...
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caseboundLeading Through Resistance
Quit Pushing Back
Practicing Change Series
by Tod Bolsinger
Illustrated by Mark Demel
Foreword by Marty Linsky"People don't resist change. They resist loss." —Marty Linsky and Ronald Heifetz
When facing losses, even the best teammates can start pushing back. As teams wrestle with uncertainty, leaders need to chart a steady course. Join Tod Bolsinger as he teaches unexpected skills for engaging resistance and moving the mission forward.
In this essential Christian leadership ...
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caseboundThe Mission Always Wins
Quit Appeasing Stakeholders
Practicing Change Series
by Tod Bolsinger
Illustrated by Mark Demel
Foreword by Marty LinskyIt's time to further the mission. Not the boss, not the team, not the stakeholders—the mission.
Change requires tough decisions. But when the focus is blurred, how can we stay on track? We need clarity and agreement on the real task at hand—our genuine mission. This Practicing Change volume from Tod Bolsinger guides us through naming competing values and realigning the driving ...
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paperbackHumble Confidence
A Model for Interfaith Apologetics
by Benno van den Toren and Kang-San Tan
Christianity Today Award of Merit
Today's cosmopolitan, multicultural, and multifaith environments call for new approaches to apologetics. The world still needs the good news of Jesus Christ, but to relate the transcultural gospel to diverse and ever-changing contexts, we must free Christian apologetics from dominant Western habits of mind ill-suited ...
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paperbackGood and Beautiful Journal
The Good and Beautiful Series
by James Bryan Smith
James Bryan Smith believes the gospel is about change in our lives today, not just our eternal destiny.
In the Good and Beautiful Series, he offers a transformative approach to discipleship by placing the focus on who God is, what it means to be a Christian, and what it means to live in community as a part of God's kingdom. In the introduction to this journal Smith describes ...
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paperbackHeart. Soul. Mind. Strength.
A Narrative History of InterVarsity Press, 1947-2022
by Andrew T. Le Peau and Linda Doll
Edited by Albert Y. Hsu
Foreword by Jeff Crosby and Robert A. Fryling"Some publishers tell you what to believe. Other publishers tell you what you already believe. But InterVarsity Press helps you believe."
J. I. Packer
The history of evangelicalism cannot be understood apart from the authors and books that shaped it. Over the past century, leading figures such as pastor-scholar John Stott, apologist James W. Sire, evangelist ...
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product setTransforming Resources
In partnership with the Transforming Center, these Transforming Resources® are tools to guide leaders and their communities in experiencing spiritual transformation. Led by Ruth Haley Barton, the Transforming Center has been strengthening the souls of pastors, Christian leaders, and the congregations and organizations ...
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paperbackThe Greco-Roman World of the New Testament Era
Exploring the Background of Early Christianity
by James S. Jeffers
What was life like for first-century Christians?
Imagine a modest-sized Roman home of a well-to-do Christian household wedged into a thickly settled quarter of Corinth. In the lingering light of a summer evening, men, women and children, merchants, working poor and slaves, a mix of races and backgrounds have assembled in the dimly lit main room are are spilling into the central courtyard. ...
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paperbackRomans
An Introduction and Commentary
by F. F. Bruce
Paul's epistle to the Romans changed the lives of many great Christian thinkers, including Augustine, Martin Luther, John Wesley and Karl Barth. However, while Romans has been among the most influential books of the New Testament, it has also been the subject of some of the church's most heated debates. What is justification by faith? What is the relationship between law and grace? What is God's ...
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paperbackPerhaps
Reclaiming the Space Between Doubt and Dogmatism
by Joshua M. McNall
The Christian life requires faith. That means that believers are sometimes faced with uncertainty. But is all uncertainty bad?
Theologian Joshua McNall encourages readers to reclaim the little word "perhaps" as a sacred space between the warring extremes of unchecked doubt and zealous dogmatism. To say "perhaps" on certain contested topics means exercising a hopeful ...
