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paperbackDisunity in Christ
Uncovering the Hidden Forces that Keep Us Apart
by Christena Cleveland
Leadership Journal Book Award
Readers' Choice Awards Honorable MentionDespite Jesus' prayer that all Christians "be one," divisions have been epidemic in the body of Christ from the beginning to the present. We cluster in theological groups, gender groups, age groups, ethnic groups, educational and economic groups. We criticize freely those who disagree with ...
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hardcoverKnowing God Through the Old Testament
Three Volumes in One
by Christopher J.H. Wright
Combining three volumes into one, Knowing God Through the Old Testament brings together three of Christopher J. H. Wright's best loved books: Knowing God the Father Through the Old Testament, Knowing Jesus Through the Old Testament, and Knowing the Holy Spirit Through the Old Testament. Knowing God the Father Through the Old Testament explores images ...
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paperbackThe Dust of Death
The Sixties Counterculture and How It Changed America Forever
The IVP Signature Collection
by Os Guinness
In 1968, at the climax of the sixties, Os Guinness visited the United States for the first time. There he was struck by an impression he'd already felt in England and elsewhere: beneath all the idealism and struggle for freedom was a growing disillusionment and loss of meaning. "Underneath the efforts of a generation," he wrote, "lay dust." Even more troubling, Christians seemed ...
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paperbackHeart. Soul. Mind. Strength.
A Narrative History of InterVarsity Press, 1947-2022
by Andrew T. Le Peau and Linda Doll
Edited by Albert Y. Hsu
Foreword by Jeff Crosby and Robert A. Fryling"Some publishers tell you what to believe. Other publishers tell you what you already believe. But InterVarsity Press helps you believe."
J. I. Packer
The history of evangelicalism cannot be understood apart from the authors and books that shaped it. Over the past century, leading figures such as pastor-scholar John Stott, apologist James W. Sire, evangelist ...
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paperbackAwakening to Justice
Faithful Voices from the Abolitionist Past
by The Dialogue on Race and Faith Project, Jemar Tisby, Christopher P. Momany, Sègbégnon Mathieu Gnonhossou, David D. Daniels III, R. Matthew Sigler, Douglas M. Strong, Diane Leclerc, Esther Chung-Kim, Albert G. Miller, and Estrelda Y. Alexander
"O where are the sympathies of Christians for the slave and where are their exertions for their liberation? . . . It seems as if the church were asleep."
David Ingraham, 1839
In 2015, the historian Chris Momany helped discover a manuscript that had been forgotten in a storage closet at Adrian College in Michigan. He identified it as the journal of a ...
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paperbackThe Last Romantic
C. S. Lewis, English Literature, and Modern Theology
Hansen Lectureship Series
by Jeffrey W. Barbeau
Three Essays on C. S. Lewis and Romanticism
Many readers have heard C. S. Lewis's logical arguments for the Christian faith. Yet throughout his wide-ranging study and writing, Lewis often began with experience, intuition, and religious feeling rather than dogmatic assertions. The most profound questions of Lewis's own life, argues theologian and literary critic Jeffrey Barbeau, ...
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paperbackDivorce and Remarriage
Four Christian Views
Spectrum Multiview Book Series
Edited by H. Wayne House
Contributions by J. Carl Laney, William A. Heth, Thomas R. Edgar, and Larry RichardsDivorce. No one likes it, but it doesn't go away. Even among Christians, the divorce rate continues to climb. How should Christians approach this issue? May Christians ever legitimately divorce? If they divorce legitimately, may they remarry?
Not everyone who appeals to Scripture agrees on how we should understand what it says about divorce and remarriage. In this Spectrum ...
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paperbackEvangelism Outside the Box
New Ways to Help People Experience the Good News
by Rick Richardson
It used to be that providing clear evidence for the resurrection of Jesus or the reliability of the Bible was a pretty effective way to reach people with the Good News. But today, many folks think all truth is relative, even our historical and scientific data about Christianity. So how can we reach them? We need new ways of telling people the old, old story. We need to look again at our usual mental ...
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paperbackWater from a Deep Well
Christian Spirituality from Early Martyrs to Modern Missionaries
by Gerald L. Sittser
Foreword by Eugene H. PetersonIn Rome in A.D. 165, two men named Carpus and Papylus stood before the proconsul of Pergamum, charged with the crime of being Christians. Not even torture could make them deny Christ, so they were burned alive. Is my faithfulness as strong? In the fifth century, Melania the Younger and her husband, Pinian, distributed their enormous wealth to the poor and intentionally practiced the discipline ...
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paperbackPolitics for the Greatest Good
The Case for Prudence in the Public Square
by Clarke Forsythe
With a level-headed voice, leading policy strategist Clarke Forsythe speaks clearly into the fray of political striving. Here he campaigns for a recovery of a rich understanding of the virtue of prudence, and for its application by policymakers and citizens to contemporary public policy. As Forsythe explains, prudence, in its classical sense, is the ability to apply wisdom to right action. In ...
