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  • The Acts of the Risen Lord Jesus: Luke's Account of God's Unfolding Plan, By Alan J. Thompson The Acts of the Risen Lord Jesus: Luke's Account of God's Unfolding Plan, By Alan J. Thompson
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    The Acts of the Risen Lord Jesus

    Luke's Account of God's Unfolding Plan

    New Studies in Biblical Theology

    by Alan J. Thompson
    Series edited by D. A. Carson

    When the book of Acts is mentioned, a cluster of issues spring to mind, including speaking in tongues and baptism with the Holy Spirit, church government and practice, and missionary methods and strategies. At the popular level, Acts is more often mined for answers to contemporary debates than heard for its natural inflections. Instead of using Acts as a prooftext, this New Studies in Biblical ...

  • The Ninefold Path of Jesus: Hidden Wisdom of the Beatitudes, By Mark Scandrette The Ninefold Path of Jesus: Hidden Wisdom of the Beatitudes, By Mark Scandrette
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    The Ninefold Path of Jesus

    Hidden Wisdom of the Beatitudes

    by Mark Scandrette

    What if we lived in a world of abundance?

    In the Beatitudes, Jesus offers nine sayings that move us beyond our first instincts and instead embrace the deeper reality of the kingdom of God. They name the illusions and false beliefs that have kept us chained and imprisoned. We've learned to live from a mentality of anxiety and greed, but what if a world of abundance with solace ...

  • Jesus' Final Week, Edited by Cindy Bunch Jesus' Final Week, Edited by Cindy Bunch
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    Jesus' Final Week

    LifeGuide Bible Studies

    Edited by Cindy Bunch

    The events that took place during Jesus' final week on earth—Palm Sunday, the Last Supper, the trial, Jesus' death and his resurrection—are foundational to your salvation and your Christian life. As these Bible studies allow you to focus more closely on these amazing events, you'll gain new understanding about who Jesus is and how he loves you. This eight-session LifeGuide® Bible Stud ...

    Number of Studies: 8

  • Questions Jesus Asks, By Dale Larsen and Sandy Larsen Questions Jesus Asks, By Dale Larsen and Sandy Larsen
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    Questions Jesus Asks

    LifeGuide Bible Studies

    by Dale Larsen and Sandy Larsen

    "What do you want?" "Do you see this woman?" "Why do you call me, 'Lord, Lord,' and do not do what I say?" These are just some of the many questions that Jesus asked throughout the Gospels. Jesus invites us to inquire, reflect, and discuss. This nine-session LifeGuide® Bible Study is designed to help us dig into some of the questions that shape our view of Jesus ...

    Number of Studies: 9

  • Children's Ministry in the Way of Jesus, By David M. Csinos and Ivy Beckwith Children's Ministry in the Way of Jesus, By David M. Csinos and Ivy Beckwith
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    Children's Ministry in the Way of Jesus

    by David M. Csinos and Ivy Beckwith
    Foreword by John H. Westerhoff III

    Attract kids to church, the logic often goes, and you get parents in the pews. All that's left, then, is to get the kids out of the way. Here children's ministers David Csinos and Ivy Beckwith draw on research in human development and spiritual formation to show how children become disciples and churches become centers of lifelong discipleship. For too long, the local church has focused primarily ...

  • The Jesus Paul Knew, By James W. Reapsome The Jesus Paul Knew, By James W. Reapsome
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    The Jesus Paul Knew

    LifeGuide Bible Studies

    by James W. Reapsome

    “For to me, to live is Christ,” (Philippians 1:21). Many of us may have thought more about Paul's foundational theology than about how Paul learned more about Jesus and what it meant to obey him in the everyday tests of his faith. This ten-session LifeGuide® Bible Study guide leads us through the growth in the apostle Paul's knowledge of Jesus and how it changed his ...

  • Jesus Is Lord, Caesar Is Not: Evaluating Empire in New Testament Studies, Edited by Scot McKnight and Joseph B. Modica Jesus Is Lord, Caesar Is Not: Evaluating Empire in New Testament Studies, Edited by Scot McKnight and Joseph B. Modica
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    Jesus Is Lord, Caesar Is Not

    Evaluating Empire in New Testament Studies

    Edited by Scot McKnight and Joseph B. Modica
    Foreword by Andy Crouch

    The New Testament is immersed in the often hostile world of the Roman Empire, but its relationship to that world is complex. What is meant by Jesus' call to "render unto Caesar" his due, when Luke subversively heralds the arrival of a Savior and Lord who is not Caesar, but Christ? Is there tension between Peter's command to "honor the emperor" and John's apocalyptic denouncement of Rome as "Babylon ...

  • Jesus, Paul and the People of God: A Theological Dialogue with N. T. Wright, Edited by Nicholas Perrin and Richard B. Hays Jesus, Paul and the People of God: A Theological Dialogue with N. T. Wright, Edited by Nicholas Perrin and Richard B. Hays
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    Jesus, Paul and the People of God

    A Theological Dialogue with N. T. Wright

    Wheaton Theology Conference Series

    Edited by Nicholas Perrin and Richard B. Hays

    At the 2010 Wheaton Theology Conference, leading New Testament scholar N. T. Wright and nine other prominent biblical scholars and theologians gathered to consider Wright's prolific body of work. Compiled from their presentations, this volume includes Tom Wright's two main addresses, one on the state of scholarship regarding Jesus and the other on the state of scholarship regarding the apostle Paul. ...

  • Practicing the Way of Jesus: Life Together in the Kingdom of Love, By Mark Scandrette Practicing the Way of Jesus: Life Together in the Kingdom of Love, By Mark Scandrette
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    Practicing the Way of Jesus

    Life Together in the Kingdom of Love

    by Mark Scandrette

    Take a casual survey of how people practice their faith, and you might reasonably conclude that Jesus spent his life going door to door offering private lessons, complete with chalkboard and pop quizzes. We think about God in the comfort of our own minds, in isolation from one another; meanwhile the world waits for a people to practice the way of Jesus together. Mark Scandrette contends that Jesus ...

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