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  • A Week in the Life of a Greco-Roman Woman, By Holly Beers
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    A Week in the Life of a Greco-Roman Woman

    A Week in the Life Series

    by Holly Beers

    In first-century Ephesus, life is not easy for women.

    A young wife meets her daily struggles with equanimity and courage. She holds poverty and hunger at bay, fights to keep her child healthy and strong, and navigates the unpredictability of her husband's temperament. But into the midst of her daily fears and worries, a new hope appears: a teaching that challenges her society's ...

  • Serving God in Today's Cities: Facing the Challenges of Urbanization, By Patrick Johnstone
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    Serving God in Today's Cities

    Facing the Challenges of Urbanization

    Operation World Resources

    by Patrick Johnstone
    With Dean Merrill
    Foreword by Ed Stetzer

    Welcome to the world's first urban century. How will you respond?For the first time ever, more people now live in cities than outside them. Cities offer both big headaches and vast opportunities, and agencies that once focused onrural work are increasingly turning their attention to urban centers. Join veteran researcher and missiologist Patrick Johnstone as he explores the fastest ...

  • The Greco-Roman World of the New Testament Era: Exploring the Background of Early Christianity, By James S. Jeffers
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    The 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. ...

  • Twelve Lies That Hold America Captive: And the Truth That Sets Us Free, By Jonathan P. Walton
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    Twelve Lies That Hold America Captive

    And the Truth That Sets Us Free

    by Jonathan P Walton
    Foreword by Greg Jao

    "America is a Christian nation.""All men are created equal.""We are the land of the free and the home of the brave."Except when we're not. These commonly held ideas break down in the light of hard realities, the study of Scripture, and faithful Christian witness. The president is not the Messiah, the Constitution is not the Bible, and the United States is not a city on a hill or ...

  • The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible's Grand Narrative, By Christopher J. H. Wright
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    The Mission of God

    Unlocking the Bible's Grand Narrative

    by Christopher J. H. Wright

    Tackle Key Questions from the Past Two Decades in this Fully Updated Edition

    Engage with the latest scholarship on the biblical theology of mission and missional hermeneutics with Christopher J. H. Wright's classic text—nowfully revised and updated!

    Most Christians would agree that the Bible provides a basis for mission. But Christopher Wright boldly maintains that there ...

  • Grand Central Question: Answering the Critical Concerns of the Major Worldviews, By Abdu H. Murray Grand Central Question: Answering the Critical Concerns of the Major Worldviews, By Abdu H. Murray
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    Grand Central Question

    Answering the Critical Concerns of the Major Worldviews

    by Abdu H. Murray

    All religions and worldviews seek to answer the fundamental questions of human existence: Why am I here? What does it mean to be human? Why is there evil in the world and how do we deal with it? But not every worldview places equal emphasis on each issue. The main worldviews each tend to stress a different central question.Secular humanism focuses on: What is the inherent value of human beings?Pantheism ...

  • Together for the City: How Collaborative Church Planting Leads to Citywide Movements, By Neil Powell and John James Together for the City: How Collaborative Church Planting Leads to Citywide Movements, By Neil Powell and John James
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    Together for the City

    How Collaborative Church Planting Leads to Citywide Movements

    by Neil Powell and John James

    We need a bigger vision for the city.It's not enough to plant individual churches in isolation from each other. The spiritual need and opportunity of our cities is too big for any one church to meet alone. Pastors Neil Powell andJohn James contend that to truly transform a city, the gospel compels us to create localized, collaborative church planting movements. They share lessons ...

  • Free: Spending Your Time and Money on What Matters Most, By Mark Scandrette
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    Free

    Spending Your Time and Money on What Matters Most

    by Mark A. Scandrette
    With Lisa Scandrette
    Foreword by Richard Rohr

    If you already own a copy of Free, use the password found on page 223 in the Group Learning Guide to access eight supplementary videos.Why does chasing the good life make us feel so bad? We dream big and spend our money and time chasing our dreams—only to find ourselves exhausted, deeply in debt and spiritually empty. Mark and Lisa Scandrette realized at the beginning of ...