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paperbackScripture and Cosmology
Reading the Bible Between the Ancient World and Modern Science
by Kyle Greenwood
Christians often claim to hold a biblical worldview. But what about a biblical cosmos view? From the beginning of Genesis we encounter a vaulted dome above the earth, a "firmament," like the ceiling of a planetarium. Elsewhere we read of the earth sitting on pillars. What does the dome of heaven have to do with deep space? Even when the biblical language is clearly poetic, it seems to be funded ...
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paperbackLay Me in God's Good Earth
A Christian Approach to Death and Burial
by Kent Burreson and Beth Hoeltke
ECPA Top Shelf Book Cover Award
A Christian case for natural burial
The promises of the Christian gospel are never more precious or more beautiful than in the context of death and burial. And yet current burial practices in Western society are archaic and impersonal. They fail to confront us with the reality of death, and they make it harder to process ...
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paperbackCan You Just Sit with Me?
Healthy Grieving for the Losses of Life
by Natasha Smith
"Why are you still sad about that?"
It takes time and space to grieve well, but often our culture doesn't afford us these things. Drawing from her own experience with grief, Natasha Smith invites us into a reflection on whatit means to grieve and how to cling to hope even in our darkest moments. Instead of providing quick-fix solutions, this book creates space for us to take ...
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paperbackWait with Me
Meeting God in Loneliness
by Jason Gaboury
"To be human is to be lonely." When his seventy-something spiritual director Friar Ugo spoke these words in a voice cracking with age, Jason Gaboury felt a deep sense of their truth. To the observer, Jason, a campus minister, active church member, and father with a young family, might not have seemed lonely. But it's how he felt. He has wrestled with loneliness ever since he can ...
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paperbackNow I Lay Me Down to Fight
A Poet Writes Her Way Through Cancer
by Katy Bowser Hutson
Illustrated by Jodi Hays
Foreword by Tish Harrison WarrenIn stirring verse and essays, Katy Bowser Hutson chronicles her battle with breast cancer and the complications of faith amid such a fight. Accentuated by the art of Jodi Hays, Katy's words lead us through the realization of cancer, the experience of chemotherapy and a mastectomy, relentless rounds of radiation, the uncertainty of ongoing treatment, and what comes after survival. ...
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paperbackThe Lost World of the Flood
Mythology, Theology, and the Deluge Debate
The Lost World Series
by John H. Walton and Tremper Longman III
Contributions by Stephen O. Moshier"The flood continued forty days on the earth; and the waters increased, and bore up the ark, and it rose high above the earth . . . and the ark floated on the face of the waters" (Gen 6:17-18 NRSV).
In modern times the Genesis flood account has been probed and analyzed for answers to scientific, apologetic, and historical questions. It is a text that has called forth "flood geology," fueled ...
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paperbackYou Found Me
New Research on How Unchurched Nones, Millennials, and Irreligious Are Surprisingly Open to Christian Faith
by Rick Richardson
Foreword by Ed StetzerOutreach Magazine Resource of the Year
Many bemoan the decline of the church. We hear a steady stream of reports about how droves of people, especially younger generations, are abandoning Christianity. But new research shows that unchurched Americans are surprisingly more receptive and open to the Christian faith than is commonly assumed.
Researcher ...
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paperbackBlood From a Stone
A Memoir of How Wine Brought Me Back from the Dead
by Adam S. McHugh
Men's Journal Best Wine Books 2023 and André Simon Food and Drink Book Award Longlist
"This is the story of how wine brought me back from the dead."
Thus begins Adam McHugh's transition through the ending of one career—as a hospice chaplain and grief counselor—into the discovery of a new life in wine among the grapevines of the Santa Ynez Valley of California.
"This ...
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paperbackThe Lost World of the Torah
Law as Covenant and Wisdom in Ancient Context
The Lost World Series
by John H. Walton and J. Harvey Walton
Our handling of what we call biblical law veers between controversy and neglect.
On the one hand, controversy arises when Old Testament laws seem either odd beyond comprehension (not eating lobster) or positively reprehensible (executing children). On the other, neglect results when we consider the law obsolete, no longer carrying any normative power (tassels on clothing, ...
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Outreach magazine has honored IVP's You Found Me and Taking It to the Streets as Outreach Resources of the Year, with three additional books from IVP making the short list for the Also Recommended resource in its category.
