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  • From Pandemic to Renewal: Practices for a World Shaken by Crisis, By Chris Rice From Pandemic to Renewal: Practices for a World Shaken by Crisis, By Chris Rice
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    From Pandemic to Renewal

    Practices for a World Shaken by Crisis

    by Chris Rice

    The pandemic changed the world on a global scale. Not only was it devastating in terms of loss of life, it also revealed deep layers of anxiety and brokenness throughout society. Mental exhaustion, economic disparities, and escalating divisions now mark our times.

    But award-winning author Chris Rice sees the challenges of our day as a historic opportunity for renewal and fresh ...

  • What Are Christians For?: Life Together at the End of the World, By Jake Meador What Are Christians For?: Life Together at the End of the World, By Jake Meador
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    What Are Christians For?

    Life Together at the End of the World

    by Jake Meador
    Foreword by Karen Swallow Prior

    What does a Christian political witness look like in our day?

    Politics ought to be defined by fidelity to the common good of all the members of society. But our modern Western politics are defined by a determination to bendthe natural world and human life to its own political and economic ends. This wholesale rejection of the natural order is behind the dominant revolutions ...

  • Worship in an Age of Anxiety: How Churches Can Create Space for Healing, By J. Michael Jordan Worship in an Age of Anxiety: How Churches Can Create Space for Healing, By J. Michael Jordan
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    Worship in an Age of Anxiety

    How Churches Can Create Space for Healing

    Dynamics of Christian Worship

    by John Michael Jordan

    The history of the theology of worship is riddled with examples of clergy and worship leaders who have sought to manipulate their parishioners' anxiety in order to spur repentance and turn people toward God. Even if such ends may be desirable—at what cost?

    In Worship in an Age of Anxiety, Jordan challenges this utilitarian approach, offering a critical assessment ...

  • The Person in Psychology and Christianity: A Faith-Based Critique of Five Theories of Social Development, By Marjorie Lindner Gunnoe The Person in Psychology and Christianity: A Faith-Based Critique of Five Theories of Social Development, By Marjorie Lindner Gunnoe
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    The Person in Psychology and Christianity

    A Faith-Based Critique of Five Theories of Social Development

    Christian Association for Psychological Studies Books

    by Marjorie Lindner Gunnoe

    Integral to a Christian worldview and to psychology are foundational questions about personhood: What characteristics are essential? What is our purpose? Do we naturally incline toward good or bad? Are we accountable for self and responsible for others?In The Person in Psychology and Christianity, developmental psychologist Marjorie Gunnoe demonstrates how the integration ...

  • Blood From a Stone: A Memoir of How Wine Brought Me Back from the Dead, By Adam S. McHugh Blood From a Stone: A Memoir of How Wine Brought Me Back from the Dead, By Adam S. McHugh
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    Blood from a Stone

    A Memoir of How Wine Brought Me Back from the Dead

    by Adam S. McHugh

    Men's Journal Best Wine Books 2023 and André Simon Food and Drink Book Award Longlist

    "This is the story of how wine brought me back from the dead."

    Thus begins Adam McHugh's transition through the ending of one career—as a hospice chaplain and grief counselor—into the discovery of a new life in wine among the grapevines of the Santa Ynez Valley of California.

    "This ...

  • The Message of Psalms 1–72, By Michael Wilcock The Message of Psalms 1–72, By Michael Wilcock
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    The Message of Psalms 1–72

    The Bible Speaks Today Series

    by Michael Wilcock

    The book of Psalms is a favorite of Christians, even though we frequently read it in portions and pieces, hopscotching through the familiar and avoiding the odd, the unpleasant, and the difficult. But though the individual psalmsarose from an assortment of times, experiences, and settings, the book is composed in a deliberate pattern, not as a random anthology. The meaning of the ...

  • The Message of Psalms 73–150, By Michael Wilcock The Message of Psalms 73–150, By Michael Wilcock
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    The Message of Psalms 73–150

    The Bible Speaks Today Series

    by Michael Wilcock

    The book of Psalms is a favorite of Christians, even though we frequently read it in portions and pieces, hopscotching through the familiar and avoiding the odd, the unpleasant, and the difficult. But though the individual psalmsarose from an assortment of times, experiences, and settings, the book is composed in a deliberate pattern, not as a random anthology. The meaning of the ...

  • Christmas: The Season of Life and Light, By Emily Hunter McGowin Christmas: The Season of Life and Light, By Emily Hunter McGowin
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    Christmas

    The Season of Life and Light

    Fullness of Time

    by Emily Hunter McGowin
    Series edited by Esau McCaulley

    "O wondrous exchange!"

    Of all the seasons of the church calendar, the Christmas season is the one most recognized and celebrated by our society at large. That means it's the season we're most familiar with—but that can also make it harder to see past Christmas's many cultural trappings to its timeless beauty.

    At the first Christmas, God exchanged the glories of divinity ...

  • Integrative Psychotherapy: Toward a Comprehensive Christian Approach, By Mark R. McMinn and Clark D. Campbell Integrative Psychotherapy: Toward a Comprehensive Christian Approach, By Mark R. McMinn and Clark D. Campbell
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    Integrative Psychotherapy

    Toward a Comprehensive Christian Approach

    Christian Association for Psychological Studies Books

    by Mark R. McMinn and Clark D. Campbell

    Integrating Models of Therapy with a Theological Framework

    In Integrative Psychotherapy, Mark McMinn and Clark Campbell present an integrative model of psychotherapy that is grounded in Christian biblical and theological teaching and in a critical and constructive engagement with contemporary psychology.

    This foundational work integrates behavioral, cognitive, ...

  • Ephesians, By Walter L. Liefeld
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    Ephesians

    A Commentary on the New Testament

    The IVP New Testament Commentary Series

    by Walter L. Liefeld

    "More than any other book of the Bible, Ephesians displays the great purpose and plan of God for the church," Walter Liefeld writes. "It provides a perspective that is unique: God's--and the believer's--view from the 'heavenly realms.'"For those who long to delve into the mind and purposes of God, few books are more helpful than Paul's letter to the Ephesians. Here the apostle paints in broad strokes ...