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  • The Best Things in Life: A Contemporary Socrates Looks at Power, Pleasure, Truth  the Good Life, By Peter Kreeft
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    The Best Things in Life

    A Contemporary Socrates Looks at Power, Pleasure, Truth the Good Life

    by Peter Kreeft

    What are the best things in life?

    Questions like that may boggle your mind. But they don't boggle Socrates. The indomitable old Greek brings his unending questions to Desperate State University. With him come the same mind-opening and spirit-stretching challenge that disrupted ancient Athens.

    • What is the purpose of education?
    • Why do we make love?
    • What good is money?
    • Can ...
  • Paul's
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    Paul's "Works of the Law" in the Perspective of Second-Century Reception

    by Matthew J Thomas
    Foreword by Alister McGrath

    Jesus Creed Book of the Year 2018

    Biblical Foundations Book Awards Finalist

    What did Paul mean by "works of the law"?

    Paul writes that we are justified by faith apart from "works of the law," a disputed term that represents a fault line between "old" and "new" perspectives on Paul. Was the apostle reacting against ...

  • Stewards of Eden: What Scripture Says About the Environment and Why It Matters, By Sandra L. Richter
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    Stewards of Eden

    What Scripture Says About the Environment and Why It Matters

    by Sandra L. Richter

    ECPA Top Shelf Book Cover Award

    Biblical Foundations Book Award Winner

    Sandra L. Richter cares about the Bible. She also cares about creation.

    An expert in ancient Israelite society and economy as well as biblical theology, she walks readers through passages familiar and not-so-familiar, showing how significant environmental theology ...

  • The Prophets and the Apostolic Witness: Reading Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel as Christian Scripture, Edited by Andrew T. Abernethy and William R. Osborne and Paul D. Wegner
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    The Prophets and the Apostolic Witness

    Reading Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel as Christian Scripture

    Contributions by Nicholas G. Piotrowski, John W Hilber, Iain M. Duguid, Daniel I. Block, Mark Gignilliat, John N. Oswalt, Dana M Harris, Gary E Yates, Lissa M. Wray Beal, Andrew G Shead, Philip G Ryken, and Alicia Jackson
    Edited by Andrew Abernethy, William Russell (Rusty) Osborne, and Paul D. Wegner

    How should Christians read prophetic literature? Questions abound both in the academy and the church as to how to engage the prophets, particularly in light of the New Testament. The Gospel writers and the church fathers all readand appealed to the Old Testament, but are we as modern-day readers supposed to take the same approach? The Prophets and the Apostolic Witness ...

  • Economic Parables: The Monetary Teachings of Jesus Christ, By David Cowan
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    Economic Parables

    The Monetary Teachings of Jesus Christ

    by David Cowan

    Ever wondered how to pay the next bill? Felt the world is unfair in economic rewards? Been indecisive about investing wisely? These types of fiscal questions are addressed from a Christian viewpoint in Economic Parables.

    Using his vast experience in the financial world as well as church ministry, the author invites you to listen directly to the words of Jesus and reflect on a number ...

  • The Revelation of God, By Peter Jensen
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    The Revelation of God

    Contours of Christian Theology

    by Peter Jensen

    In modern times the Christian faith's claim to possess a unique revelation of God has faced numerous challenges.

    A central issue has been the role of the Bible. While some have continued to defend the view that the Bible, inspired by God, isGod's self-revelation in a direct way, others, have argued that God's self-revelation is to be found primarily in divine action or in the person of Jesus ...

  • Presence-Centered Youth Ministry: Guiding Students into Spiritual Formation, By Mike King
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    Presence-Centered Youth Ministry

    Guiding Students into Spiritual Formation

    by Mike King

    How many programs does it take to change a youth group?That question has bothered youth workers for decades, and the cracks in its logic are beginning to show. In place of the contrived, artificial mechanisms employed so widely in modern youth outreach and discipleship, Mike King proposes a ministry centered in the presence of God.Young people encounter Christ not in the flash and pop of arena ministry, ...

  • The Anxiety Field Guide: Healthy Habits for Long-Term Healing, By Jason Cusick
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    The Anxiety Field Guide

    Healthy Habits for Long-Term Healing

    by Jason Cusick

    Anxiety is one of the most pressing mental health issues of our day.

    Millions of people in our society suffer from anxiety, often unbeknownst to those around them. The pressures of modern life seem specially designed to cause anxiety, and anxiety is on the rise in recent years.

    The good news is that anxiety is very treatable. Pastor Jason Cusick tells the story of his ...