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  • Praying: Finding Our Way Through Duty to Delight, By J. I. Packer and Carolyn Nystrom
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    Praying

    Finding Our Way Through Duty to Delight

    by J. I. Packer and Carolyn Nystrom

    Merit Award, World Guild Christian Living Book

    Praying is an action that is of the essence of Christian existence. It involves our beliefs, emotions, values, hopes and fears, certainties and uncertainties, knowledge and ignorance.

    As J. I. Packer and Carolyn Nystrom explain, "Our aim is not just to clarify Christian understanding but to foster Christian ...

  • Little Prayers for Ordinary Days, By Tish Harrison Warren and Flo Paris Oakes and Katy Bowser Hutson
    hardcover

    Little Prayers for Ordinary Days

    by Tish Harrison Warren, Flo Paris Oakes, and Katy Bowser Hutson
    Illustrated by Liita Forsyth

    From the moment we awake in the morning until we go back to bed, every day is filled with ordinary moments that allow us to connect with God.

    Little Prayers for Ordinary Days is a collection of short prayers for children to pray in the midst of their day: on the way to school, after seeing a friend, when noticing a bird in the tree, or looking at the stars, or during ...

  • Interpreting Isaiah: Issues and Approaches, Edited by David G. Firth and H. G. M. Williamson
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    Interpreting Isaiah

    Issues and Approaches

    Edited by David G. Firth and H. G. M. Williamson

    Ever since the first century, Christians have regarded Isaiah as a high point in the Old Testament prophetic literature. Its themes of messiah and suffering servant, deliverance from exile and new creation--to name a few--have been viewed as reaching particular fulfillment in the gospel. Then too, the impact of Isaiah on the church's language of worship and hymnology, and on the Western tradition ...

  • The Paul Quest: The Renewed Search for the Jew of Tarsus, By Ben Witherington III
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    The Paul Quest

    The Renewed Search for the Jew of Tarsus

    by Ben Witherington III

    • A Christianity Today 1999 Book of the Year

    Who was the real Paul?

    Some of Paul's contemporaries seem to have asked the same question. For some he was Paul the tentmaker. For others he was Paul the heretic, Paul the peripatetic philosopher, Paul the would-be apostle, Paul the prophet, or Paul the founder of Christian communities and missionary hero. ...