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  • Para subir hay que bajar: Olvidándote de ti mismo, llegas a ser tú mismo, By Marlena Graves
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    Para subir hay que bajar

    Olvidándote de ti mismo, llegas a ser tú mismo

    by Marlena Graves
    Translated by Ruth Goring

    “Ahora, con la ayuda de Dios, seré yo mismo.”

    Estas palabras del filósofo danés Søren Kierkegaard impactan profundamente a Marlena Graves, una escritora, profesora y activista puertorriqueña. En estas páginas ella describe el proceso de vaciarse a sí misma que le permite subir hacia Dios y convertirse en la verdadera yo a que Dios la llama. Haciendo uso de las profundas tradiciones ...

  • "This is an incredible honor and really such a grace to be in this room with so many people who love our Lord and who treat words as holy things," said IVP author Carolyn Weber as she accepted the Grace Irwin Prize, Canada's largest literary prize for Christian writers, for her memoir Surprised by Oxford. Her book Holy Is the Day (IVP Crescendo) was also one of the top four books in the running for the Word Awards Grace Irwin Prize for best Christian writing across Canada.

  • Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes: Cultural Studies in the Gospels, By Kenneth E. Bailey
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    Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes

    Cultural Studies in the Gospels

    by Kenneth E. Bailey

    Understand the Life of Jesus in Cultural Context

    Discover a deeper, richer understanding of the life and teachings of Jesus with Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes by renowned scholar Kenneth Bailey. This book invites readers to see Jesus through the lens of his historical and cultural context, lifting away the layers of Western interpretation that have shaped modern ...

  • Judaism Before Jesus: The Events & Ideas That Shaped the New Testament World, By Anthony J. Tomasino
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    Judaism Before Jesus

    The Events & Ideas That Shaped the New Testament World

    by Anthony J. Tomasino

    Turning the page from Malachi to Matthew, we skip a lot of history.

    In fact, it is something like missing several key episodes in an ongoing television saga. The setting and main plot line are familiar, but new characters have appeared andmore recent events and developments are assumed.

    Did anyone record the episodes we missed?

    Fortunately a few did. Their reception wasn't always ...

  • Always Reforming: Explorations in Systematic Theology, Edited by A. T. B. McGowan
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    Always Reforming

    Explorations in Systematic Theology

    Edited by A. T. B. McGowan

    The Reformed churches of the sixteenth century affirmed the need to be semper reformanda--always reforming.

    But in the ensuing centuries, some have taken this conviction as a mandate to abandon the departure from received orthodoxy, while others have progressed toward a rigid confessionalism that cements the Reformation itself as a final codification of truth.

    Between these ...

  • Transforming Worship: Planning and Leading Sunday Services as If Spiritual Formation Mattered, By Rory Noland
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    Transforming Worship

    Planning and Leading Sunday Services as If Spiritual Formation Mattered

    Transforming Resources

    by Rory Jon Noland
    Foreword by Ruth Haley Barton

    Spiritual formation is the key to the survival of our faith.

    There is an urgent need today for church services that are substantive and purposeful. Stigmatized by scandal, the church in North America and throughout Europe has been branded as useless and irrelevant. To stem the tide of nominal Christianity, we need to get serious about making disciples who can make other disciples.

    Rory ...

  • Taking Pascal's Wager: Faith, Evidence and the Abundant Life, By Michael Rota
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    Taking Pascal's Wager

    Faith, Evidence and the Abundant Life

    by Michael Rota

    WORLD Magazine’s Best Books of 2016 Short List

    Christianity Today's 2017 Book of the Year Award of Merit—Apologetics/Evangelism

    Since we can't know with absolute certainty that God exists, each of us ina sense makes a bet. If we believe in God and are right, the benefits include eternal life. If we are wrong, the downside is limited. ...