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Want more context as you begin to study Lamentations? This introduction will give you the background you need as you read the Daily Quiet Time Bible Study. We hope you continue to discover the riches of Scripture and draw closer to God as you join the millions who have used this free devotional resource.
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As Christians, our work and faith are integrated seamlessly in our lives. What if we all found a way to see our vocation as way of advancing God's work? In this conversation, IVP authors Barry Rowan, Gayle Beebe, Jeff Haanen, Joanna Meyer, Ross Chapman, and Ryan Tafilowski share their insights about bringing faith and work together for the glory of God.
PaperbackLetters of John
Embracing Certainty in Times of Insecurity
John Stott Bible Studies
by John Stott
With Dale Larsen and Sandy LarsenWe live in times of insecurity.
New nations are coming to birth. Social and political patterns are evolving. Violence, terrorism, and war threaten the very foundations of civilization. These external insecurities are reflected in the internal world of the mind and of the spirit. There is widespread distrust of Christian faith and a preference for agnosticism or free thought. ...
Number of Studies: 10
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If you serve in church ministry, you may be focused on a particular geographical context, an age range, or a specific type of outreach work. See books on children's & youth ministry, church & neighborhood, church planting, college & young adult ministry, evangelism, inclusive ministry, non-profit organizations, or urban ministry.
PaperbackAlways Reforming
Explorations in Systematic Theology
Edited by A. T. B. McGowan
The Reformed churches of the sixteenth century affirmed the need to be semper reformanda--always reforming.
But in the ensuing centuries, some have taken this conviction as a mandate to abandon the departure from received orthodoxy, while others have progressed toward a rigid confessionalism that cements the Reformation itself as a final codification of truth.
Between these ...
PaperbackTransforming Worship
Planning and Leading Sunday Services as If Spiritual Formation Mattered
Transforming Resources
by Rory Jon Noland
Foreword by Ruth Haley BartonSpiritual formation is the key to the survival of our faith.
There is an urgent need today for church services that are substantive and purposeful. Stigmatized by scandal, the church in North America and throughout Europe has been branded as useless and irrelevant. To stem the tide of nominal Christianity, we need to get serious about making disciples who can make other disciples.
Rory ...
PaperbackTaking Pascal's Wager
Faith, Evidence and the Abundant Life
by Michael Rota
WORLD Magazine’s Best Books of 2016 Short List
Christianity Today's 2017 Book of the Year Award of Merit—Apologetics/Evangelism
Since we can't know with absolute certainty that God exists, each of us ina sense makes a bet. If we believe in God and are right, the benefits include eternal life. If we are wrong, the downside is limited. ...
HardbackThe Path of Christianity
The First Thousand Years
by John Anthony McGuckin
John Anthony McGuckin, one of the world's leading scholars of ancient Christianity, has synthesized a lifetime of work to produce the most comprehensive and accessible history of the Christian movement during its first thousand years. The Pathof Christianity takes readers on a journey from the period immediately after the composition of the Gospels, through the building of the earliest ...
PaperbackJohn
A Commentary on the New Testament
The IVP New Testament Commentary Series
by Rodney A. Whitacre
The Gospel of John declares its purpose clearly--"these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and thay by believing you may have life in his name." Thus it fulfills a dual function, encouraging believers and providing them with evidences for proclaiming that Jesus is God's Messiah, the divine, incarnate Son of God.Christians today, as in the first century, can ...
