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  • My Vertical Neighborhood: How Strangers Became a Community, By Lynda MacGibbon
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    My Vertical Neighborhood

    How Strangers Became a Community

    by Lynda MacGibbon
    Foreword by Michael Frost

    Top World Guild Awards Best Nonfiction Book of the Year

    What if our neighbors were our friends?

    When Lynda MacGibbon moved from a small city in eastern Canada to a high-rise apartment in Toronto, she decided to follow Jesus' famous commandment to "love your neighbor" a bit more literally. In the past, she would have looked first for friends at her new ...

  • Jesus Behaving Badly: The Puzzling Paradoxes of the Man from Galilee, By Mark L. Strauss
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    Jesus Behaving Badly

    The Puzzling Paradoxes of the Man from Galilee

    by Mark L. Strauss

    Everybody likes Jesus. Don't they? We overlook that Jesus was

    • Judgmental—preaching hellfire far more than the apostle Paul
    • Uncompromising—telling people to hate their families
    • Chauvinistic—excluding women from leadership
    • Racist—insulting people from other ethnic groups
    • Anti-environmental—cursing a fig tree and affirming animal sacrifice
    • Angry—overturning ...
  • The Beautiful Community: Unity, Diversity, and the Church at Its Best, By Irwyn L. Ince Jr.
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    The Beautiful Community

    Unity, Diversity, and the Church at Its Best

    by Irwyn L. Ince Jr.
    Foreword by Timothy Keller

    Outreach Resource of the Year
    The Gospel Coalition Book Award

    The church is at its best when it pursues the biblical value of unity in diversity.

    Our world has been torn asunder by racial, ethnic, and ideological differences. It is seen in our politics, felt in our families, and ingrained in our theology. Sadly, the church has often reinforced ...

  • Conformed to the Image of His Son: Reconsidering Paul's Theology of Glory in Romans, By Haley Goranson Jacob
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    Conformed to the Image of His Son

    Reconsidering Paul's Theology of Glory in Romans

    by Haley Goranson Jacob
    Foreword by N. T. Wright

    With its soaring affirmations and profound statements of salvation in Christ, Romans 8 is a high point in Pauline theology. But what does Paul mean when in 8:29 he speaks of being "conformed to the image of his Son"? Remarkably, there has been little scholarly attention awarded to this Pauline statement of the goal of salvation. And yet in Christian piety, preaching, and theology, this is a treasured ...

  • The Feasts of Repentance: From Luke-Acts to Systematic and Pastoral Theology, By Michael J. Ovey
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    The Feasts of Repentance

    From Luke-Acts to Systematic and Pastoral Theology

    New Studies in Biblical Theology

    by Michael J. Ovey
    Series edited by D. A. Carson

    In gospel proclamation today, the critical New Testament element of repentance can be far too often ignored, minimalized, or dismissed. Yet John the Baptist, Jesus himself, and those he commissioned to spread his gospel all spoke of the urgent need to repent. Michael Ovey was convinced that a gospel without repentance quickly distorts our view of God, ourselves, and each other by undermining grace ...

  • The Paradox of Sonship: Christology in the Epistle to the Hebrews, By R. B. Jamieson
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    The Paradox of Sonship

    Christology in the Epistle to the Hebrews

    Studies in Christian Doctrine and Scripture

    by R. B. Jamieson

    Biblical Foundations Book Awards Runner Up and Finalist

    What does the epistle to the Hebrews mean when it calls Jesus "Son"? Is "Son" a title that denotes his eternal existence as one person of the Trinity? Or is it a title Jesus receives upon his installation on heaven's throne after his resurrection and ascension?

    In this Studies in Christian Doctrine ...

  • The Lord's Prayer, By Douglas Connelly
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    The Lord's Prayer

    LifeGuide Bible Studies

    by Douglas Connelly

    When the disciples asked Jesus to teach them to pray, he gave them what is now known as "the Lord's Prayer." What is the Lord's Prayer to you? Is it a formal prayer that you repeat only during Sunday morning worship? Has it become so familiar that you hardly think about its meaning? If so, you are missing out on a rich resource for your spiritual life. In this eight-session LifeGuide® ...

    Number of Studies: 8

  • Being Human: The Nature of Spiritual Experience, By Ranald Macaulay and Jerram Barrs
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    Being Human

    The Nature of Spiritual Experience

    by Ranald Macaulay and Jerram Barrs

    Who is right about what it means to be human? The Greeks envisioned an ideal humanity. Their ethereal sculptures depict a transcendent, spiritual model. But today many scientists view human beings as mere machines. And some believe we will be able to make machines with human-like intelligence in the near future. The biblical view of humanity is different from both of these. For the writers of ...

  • Movies Are Prayers: How Films Voice Our Deepest Longings, By Josh Larsen
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    Movies Are Prayers

    How Films Voice Our Deepest Longings

    by Josh Larsen
    Foreword by Matt Zoller Seitz

    "Movies are our way of telling God what we think about this world and our place in it. . . . Movies can be many things: escapist experiences, historical artifacts, business ventures, and artistic expressions, to name a few. I'd like to suggest that they can also be prayers." Movies do more than tell a good story. They are expressions of raw emotion, naked vulnerability, and unbridled ...

  • Couples of the Old Testament, By Dale Larsen and Sandy Larsen
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    Couples of the Old Testament

    LifeGuide Bible Studies

    by Dale Larsen and Sandy Larsen

    The Old Testament tells the stories of fascinating men and women in relationship: couples who live with chronic disappointment, couples who overcome all obstacles to be together, in-laws who can't stand each other, a wife who risks death if she walks in on her husband unannounced, and a husband who takes back his wife when she becomes a prostitute. There are arranged marriages, fiercely loving marriages, ...

    Number of Studies: 9