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  • Reforming Mercy Ministry: A Practical Guide to Loving Your Neighbor, By Ted Rivera
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    Reforming Mercy Ministry

    A Practical Guide to Loving Your Neighbor

    by Ted Rivera

    "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul and all your mind and all your strength." This, Jesus tells us, is the greatest commandment. Implicit in it is the message that propels us out to the ends of the earth, news as simple as it is good: God so loves the world that he gave his only Son as a sacrifice for our sins, and he invites us into a saving relationship with ...

  • The Good and Beautiful God: Falling in Love with the God Jesus Knows, By James Bryan Smith
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    The Good and Beautiful God

    Falling in Love with the God Jesus Knows

    The Good and Beautiful Series

    by James Bryan Smith

    Train Your Soul to Know the God Jesus Knows

    "God wants me to try harder."
    "God blesses me when I'm good and punishes me when I'm bad."
    "God is angry with me."

    We all have ideas that we tell ourselves about God and how he works in our lives. Some are true—but many are false. James Bryan Smith believes those thoughts determine not only who we are, but how ...

  • Good News About Injustice: A Witness of Courage in a Hurting World, By Gary A. Haugen
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    Good News About Injustice

    A Witness of Courage in a Hurting World

    The IVP Signature Collection

    by Gary A. Haugen
    Foreword by John Stott

    The good news about injustice is that God is against it.

    God is in the business of using the unlikely to bring about justice and mercy. In Good News About Injustice, Gary Haugen offers stories of courageous Christians who have stood up for justice in the face of human trafficking, forced prostitution, racial and religious persecution, and torture. Throughout he provides ...

  • Sealed with an Oath: Covenant in God's Unfolding Purpose, By Paul R. Williamson
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    Sealed with an Oath

    Covenant in God's Unfolding Purpose

    New Studies in Biblical Theology

    by Paul R. Williamson
    Series edited by D. A. Carson

    Paul R. Williamson looks at the role of the covenant concept in Scripture and the meaning of this terminology. He then sets the idea of covenant in the context of God's universal purpose, and traces the idea through Noah and the patriarchs, the nation of Israel and the kingship of David. Lastly, he shows how the new covenant is anticipated in the Old Testament and fulfilled in the New. In this ...

  • Worth Seeing: Viewing Others Through God's Eyes, By Amy L. Williams
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    Worth Seeing

    Viewing Others Through God's Eyes

    by Amy L. Williams

    "We are in the business of seeing others, seeing them the way God sees them, and letting them know they have value."

    Amy L. Williams has spent three decades doing ministry with youth in gangs and prisons. While most of society sees high-risk youth through lenses of fear or disregard, she has come to see them through God's eyes as having tremendous value and potential. Worth ...

  • 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 ...

  • Slave of Christ: A New Testament Metaphor for Total Devotion to Christ, By Murray J. Harris
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    Slave of Christ

    A New Testament Metaphor for Total Devotion to Christ

    New Studies in Biblical Theology

    by Murray J. Harris
    Series edited by D. A. Carson

    The New Testament finds many ways to depict the relationship of Christians and their Lord. They are his disciples, sons, daughters and friends. But it is perhaps too little recognized that they are also his slaves. In this New Studies in Biblical Theology volume, Murray J. Harris sets out to uncover what it means to be a slave of Christ. He begins by assessing the nature of actual slavery in the ...

  • Women & Identity, By Adele Ahlberg Calhoun and Tracey D. Bianchi
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    Women & Identity

    LifeGuide Bible Studies

    by Adele Ahlberg Calhoun and Tracey D. Bianchi

    We live only a small fraction of the lives God has for us. Our lives get smaller and smaller, circling around the minute-by-minute disappointments and demands of the present moment while God whispers softly or even hollers for us to harness our whole hearts. Written by experienced spiritual leaders Adele Ahlberg Calhoun and Tracey Bianchi, the nine sessions LifeGuide® Bible Study follow ...

    Number of Studies: 9

  • Identity and Idolatry: The Image of God and Its Inversion, By Richard Lints
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    Identity and Idolatry

    The Image of God and Its Inversion

    New Studies in Biblical Theology

    by Richard Lints
    Series edited by D. A. Carson

    One of Desiring God's Top 15 Books

    "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them." (Genesis 1:27)

    Genesis 1:26-27 has served as the locus of most theological anthropologies in the central Christian tradition. However, Richard Lints observes that too rarely have these verses been understood as conceptually interwoven ...

  • What Is Jesus Doing?: God's Activity in the Life and Work of the Church, Edited by Edwin Chr. van Driel
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    What Is Jesus Doing?

    God's Activity in the Life and Work of the Church

    Edited by Edwin Chr. van Driel

    Jesus is present here and now, Christians have always affirmed. But how are we to understand his present activity in a challenging, post-Christian context? In what ways is he at work in our congregational worship, pastoral care, preaching—and even our board meetings?

    At a time when many feel uncertain about the future of the church, What Is Jesus Doing? brings together ...