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  • Broken and Whole: A Leader's Path to Spiritual Transformation, By Stephen A. Macchia
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    Broken and Whole

    A Leader's Path to Spiritual Transformation

    by Stephen A. Macchia

    In his nearly four decades of pastoral, parachurch and nonprofit ministry leadership Steve Macchia has come to understand his own brokenness. He writes: "I've experienced great success and a few embarrassing failures. . . . In essence, as much as I like to view myself as a good or even a very good leader, I'm more truthfully a blessed and broken leader, one who is daily in need of being . . . redeemed ...

  • Finding God in the Verbs: Crafting a Fresh Language of Prayer, By Jennie Isbell and J. Brent Bill
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    Finding God in the Verbs

    Crafting a Fresh Language of Prayer

    by Jennie Isbell and J. Brent Bill

    Do you long for deeper communion with God? Spiritual director Jennie Isbell and Quaker minister Brent Bill know how easy it is to lapse into repetitious refrains of prayer: "Our hearts told us that we had lapsed into easy God speak. We weren't reaching deep into our spirits and drawing out living words of praise, confession, concern, intercession and longing. We were tired of speaking in clipped ...

  • New Testament Introduction, By Donald Guthrie
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    New Testament Introduction

    by Donald Guthrie

    Donald Guthrie's New Testament Introduction has established itself as the benchmark evangelical introduction to the New Testament since its first publication in 1971 and its revised edition decades later. With the most updated version now available in paperback, this widely acclaimed reference work provides a fixed point for surveying the terrain of the New Testament and its interpreters. ...

  • Do We Need the New Testament?: Letting the Old Testament Speak for Itself, By John Goldingay
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    Do We Need the New Testament?

    Letting the Old Testament Speak for Itself

    by John Goldingay

    Do we need the Old Testament? That's a familiar question, often asked. But as an Old Testament scholar, John Goldingay turns that question on its head: Do we need the New Testament? What's new about the New Testament? After all, the Old Testament was the only Bible Jesus and the disciples knew. Jesus affirmed it as the Word of God. Do we need anything more? And what happens when we begin to look ...

  • 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

    Most Christians would agree that the Bible provides a basis for mission. But Christopher Wright boldly maintains that there is a missional basis for the Bible! The entire Bible is generated by and all about God's mission. In order to understand the Bible, we need a missional hermeneutic, an interpretive perspective in tune with this great missional theme. We need to see how the familiar bits and ...

  • Quest for the King, By John White
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    Quest for the King

    The Archives of Anthropos

    by John White

    It was supposed to be a big celebration. John McFarland (uncle to Wesley, Kurt, Lisa and Mary) and his long lost Eleanor were getting married. But a typhoon kept nearly every one of their friends and family from attending the wedding ceremony in Hong Kong. And by the time everyone did arrive for the reception at a downtown hotel, John and Eleanor had disappeared without a trace! While their parents ...

  • Pictures at a Theological Exhibition: Scenes of the Church's Worship, Witness and Wisdom, By Kevin J. Vanhoozer
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    Pictures at a Theological Exhibition

    Scenes of the Church's Worship, Witness and Wisdom

    by Kevin J. Vanhoozer

    Many Christians are held captive by a picture of the imagination as a purveyor of false images, prone to idolatry. We live in a society fixated on images that have little or no significance. We are surrounded by models of the world that are not in touch with any truth outside of themselves. But we lack the resources to see and imagine things differently. Kevin Vanhoozer calls the church to a more ...

  • Letters and Homilies for Hellenized Christians: A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary on 1-2 Peter, By Ben Witherington III
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    Letters and Homilies for Hellenized Christians

    A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary on 1-2 Peter

    Letters and Homilies Series

    by Ben Witherington III

    Letters and Homilies for Hellenized Christians, Volume 2 is the one of two volumes extending Ben Witherington's innovative socio-rhetorical analysis of New Testament books to the latter-Pauline and non-Pauline corpora. By dividing the volumes according to the socioreligious contexts for which they were written, Witherington sheds fresh light on the documents, their provenance, character ...

  • Courage and Calling: Embracing Your God-Given Potential, By Gordon T. Smith
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    Courage and Calling

    Embracing Your God-Given Potential

    by Gordon T. Smith

    God calls us first to himself, to know and follow him, and also to a specific life purpose, a particular reason for being. This second call or "vocation" has implications not only for our work or occupation, but also includes our giftedness, our weaknesses, our life in community and what we do day to day. In this book Gordon Smith invites you to discover your vocation by listening to God and becoming ...

  • Persevering Power: Encouragement for When You're Oppressed by Life, By Bruce D. Strom
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    Persevering Power

    Encouragement for When You're Oppressed by Life

    by Bruce D. Strom
    Foreword by Eugene Cho

    Life is filled with challenges. We might be weary and overwhelmed by the world around us. Whether we are facing personal struggles or working against unjust circumstances, it can feel like the odds are against us. Does God care? How can we carry on?

    There is hope for us because God is a God of justice who cares for people in distress. Bruce Strom shows how those facing difficulties ...