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  • Sensible Shoes Leader's Guide, By Sharon Garlough Brown
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    Sensible Shoes Leader's Guide

    by Sharon Garlough Brown

    Sensible Shoes is an unusual novel, blending a fictional story with nonfiction teaching elements. Some readers view it only as a story of four characters on a journey. Others say yes to a deeper level of reading, embracing the opportunity to take a "sacred journey" along with the characters, by opening themselves to the Spirit's work and attending to God's invitations.

    The ...

    Number of Studies: 12

  • Fail: Finding Hope and Grace in the Midst of Ministry Failure, By J.R. Briggs
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    Fail

    Finding Hope and Grace in the Midst of Ministry Failure

    by J.R. Briggs
    Foreword by Eugene H. Peterson

    Best Books About the Church from Byron Borger, Hearts and Minds Bookstore

    "I thought God had called me to plant this church. Why did we have to shut our doors after only three years?"

    "I was at my breaking point. Then I got the news that our nine-year-old daughter had leukemia. I would have quit ministry forever, but I had no other employable skills."

    "False accusations ...

  • Small Things with Great Love: Adventures in Loving Your Neighbor, By Margot Starbuck
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    Small Things with Great Love

    Adventures in Loving Your Neighbor

    by Margot Starbuck
    Foreword by Tony Campolo

    Midwest Publishing Association Crystal Book Award honorable mention

    Margot Starbuck is back with as much passion and energy as ever. In thirty brief chapters, she invites you to choose the adventure that fits who you are in authentically loving those around you.

    Yes, she knows: just the thought of adding something more to your life sounds exhausting. But here's ...

  • Virtuous Minds: Intellectual Character Development, By Philip E. Dow
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    Virtuous Minds

    Intellectual Character Development

    by Philip E. Dow

    Templeton Foundation Character Project's Character Essay and Book Prize Competition award winner

    What does it mean to love God with all of our minds?

    Our culture today is in a state of crisis where intellectual virtue is concerned. Dishonesty, cheating, arrogance, laziness, cowardice--such vices are rampant in society, even among the world's most prominent leaders. ...

  • The Girl in the Orange Dress: Searching for a Father Who Does Not Fail, By Margot Starbuck
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    The Girl in the Orange Dress

    Searching for a Father Who Does Not Fail

    by Margot Starbuck

    "Chosen." "Special." Those are the words Margot Starbuck used to describe herself as a child adopted into a loving family. And when her adoptive parents divorced, her dad moved east, and her mom and dad each got remarried, she told herself that she was extra loved, since she had more than two parents and people in different times zones who cared about her. But the word she really believed about ...

  • Church, State and Public Justice: Five Views, Edited by P. C. Kemeny
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    Church, State and Public Justice

    Five Views

    Spectrum Multiview Book Series

    Edited by P. C. Kemeny
    Contributions by Clarke E. Cochran, Derek H. Davis, Corwin E. Smidt, Ronald J. Sider, and J. Philip Wogaman

    Abortion. Physician-assisted suicide. Same-sex marriages. Embryonic stem-cell research. Poverty. Crime. What is a faithful Christian response?

    The God of the Bible is unquestionably a God of justice. Yet Christians have had their differences as to how human government and the church should bring about a just social order. Although Christians share many deep and significant ...

  • Interpreting Old Testament Wisdom Literature, Edited by David G. Firth and Lindsay Wilson
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    Interpreting Old Testament Wisdom Literature

    Edited by David G. Firth and Lindsay Wilson

    In popular perception, Wisdom literature is a "self-help" or "philosophy" section of the Old Testament library—the odd and interesting bits of canonical mortar between History and Prophets. Themes that are prominent elsewhere in the Old Testament receive only scant attention in the wisdom books. Proverbs, Job, and Ecclesiastes focus on everyday life rather than on God's special dealings with the ...

  • Colossians, 1-2 Thessalonians, 1-2 Timothy, Titus, Philemon, Edited by Peter J. Gorday
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    Colossians, 1-2 Thessalonians, 1-2 Timothy, Titus, Philemon

    Volume 9

    Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture

    Edited by Peter J. Gorday
    General Editor Thomas C. Oden

    Christianity Today Book of the Year

    For the early church fathers, certain passages in the shorter letters of St. Paul proved particularly important in doctrinal disputes and practical church matters. Pivotal in controversies with the Arians and the Gnostics, the most commented-on christological text in these letters was Colossians 1:15-20, where Jesus ...

  • Colossians, 1-2 Thessalonians, 1-2 Timothy, Titus, Philemon, Edited by Peter J. Gorday
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    Colossians, 1-2 Thessalonians, 1-2 Timothy, Titus, Philemon

    Volume 9

    Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture

    Edited by Peter J. Gorday
    General Editor Thomas C. Oden

    Christianity Today Book of the Year

    For the early church fathers, certain passages in the shorter letters of St. Paul proved particularly important in doctrinal disputes and practical church matters. Pivotal in controversies with the Arians and the Gnostics, the most commented-on christological text in these letters was Colossians 1:15-20, where Jesus ...

  • The Genealogical Adam and Eve: The Surprising Science of Universal Ancestry, By S. Joshua Swamidass
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    The Genealogical Adam and Eve

    The Surprising Science of Universal Ancestry

    by S. Joshua Swamidass

    Evolutionary science teaches that humans arose as a population, sharing common ancestors with other animals. Most readers of the book of Genesis in the past understood all humans descended from Adam and Eve, a couple specially created by God. These two teachings seem contradictory, but is that necessarily so? In the fractured conversation of human origins, can new insight guide us to solid ground ...