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  • Swing Low, volume 1: A History of Black Christianity in the United States, By Walter R. Strickland II
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    Swing Low, volume 1

    A History of Black Christianity in the United States

    Swing Low Set

    by Walter Robert Strickland

    Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award Finalist

    A Groundbreaking Portrait of African American Christianity

    The history of African American Christianity is one of the determined faith of a people driven to pursue spiritual and social uplift for themselves and others to God's glory. Yet stories of faithful Black Christians have often been forgotten ...

  • Acts 1–12: Part 1: God's Power in Jerusalem and Judea, By Phyllis J. Le Peau
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    Acts 1–12

    Part 1: God's Power in Jerusalem and Judea

    LifeGuide Bible Studies

    by Phyllis J. Le Peau

    Do you ever feel powerless?

    The people of the early church discovered what true power looks like. Jesus transformed their lives—and they changed the world!

    Acts is the extraordinary record of what these early Christiandisciples did. The power that you see in action in this book is the same power that can transform your life. As Phyllis J. Le Peau leads you through the ...

    Number of Studies: 12

  • Colossians, 1-2 Thessalonians, 1-2 Timothy, Titus, Philemon, Edited by Peter J. Gorday
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    Colossians, 1-2 Thessalonians, 1-2 Timothy, Titus, Philemon

    Volume 9

    Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture

    Edited by Peter J. Gorday
    General Editor Thomas C. Oden

    Christianity Today Book of the Year

    For the early church fathers, certain passages in the shorter letters of St. Paul proved particularly important in doctrinal disputes and practical church matters. Pivotal in controversies with the Arians and the Gnostics, the most commented-on christological text in these letters was Colossians 1:15-20, where Jesus ...

  • 1 Corinthians: An Introduction and Commentary, By Thomas R. Schreiner
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    1 Corinthians

    An Introduction and Commentary

    Tyndale New Testament Commentaries

    by Thomas R. Schreiner
    Series edited by Eckhard J. Schnabel
    Consulting Editor Nicholas Perrin

    The cosmopolitan city of Corinth was the site of one of the apostle Paul's greatest evangelistic successes. However, the church he founded was full of contention, ranging from questions about leadership to incest. Some Christians were taking fellow believers to court. There were issues concerning marriage, celibacy, food offered to idols, public worship, and spiritual gifts. In response, Paul offered ...

  • 2 Chronicles: An Introduction and Commentary, By Martin J. Selman
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    2 Chronicles

    An Introduction and Commentary

    Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries

    by Martin J. Selman

    The Chronicler wrote as a pastoral theologian. The congregation he addressed was an Israel separated from its former days of blessing by a season of judgment. The books of 1 and 2 Chronicles bring a divine word of healing and reaffirm the hope ofrestoration to a nation that needed to regain its footing in God's promises and to reshape its life before God.The Chronicler expounds the Bible as he knows ...

  • Colossians, 1-2 Thessalonians, 1-2 Timothy, Titus, Philemon, Edited by Peter J. Gorday
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    Colossians, 1-2 Thessalonians, 1-2 Timothy, Titus, Philemon

    Volume 9

    Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture

    Edited by Peter J. Gorday
    General Editor Thomas C. Oden

    Christianity Today Book of the Year

    For the early church fathers, certain passages in the shorter letters of St. Paul proved particularly important in doctrinal disputes and practical church matters. Pivotal in controversies with the Arians and the Gnostics, the most commented-on christological text in these letters was Colossians 1:15-20, where Jesus ...

  • 1-2 Corinthians, Edited by Gerald L. Bray
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    1-2 Corinthians

    Volume 7

    Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture

    Edited by Gerald Bray
    General Editor Thomas C. Oden

    In Paul's letters to the Corinthian church, the pastoral issues of a first-century Christian community stand out in bold relief. And as the apostle responds to these challenges, the fathers lean over his shoulder, marveling and commenting on his pastoral wisdom.Best known among these patristic commentators is Chrysostom, whose seventy-seven homilies on the two Corinthian epistles ...

  • Paul Through Mediterranean Eyes: Cultural Studies in 1 Corinthians, By Kenneth E. Bailey
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    Paul Through Mediterranean Eyes

    Cultural Studies in 1 Corinthians

    by Kenneth E. Bailey

    Christianity Today Book Award winner

    Paul was a Hebrew of the Hebrews, steeped in the learning of his people.

    But he was also a Roman citizen who widely traveled the Mediterranean basin, andwas very knowledgeable of the dominant Greek and Roman culture of his day. These two mighty rivers of influence converge in Paul's first letter to the Corinthians.

    With ...

  • 1 & 2 Peter and Jude, By N. T. Wright
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    1 & 2 Peter and Jude

    N. T. Wright for Everyone Bible Study Guides

    by N. T. Wright
    With Dale Larsen and Sandy Larsen

    How does a Christian behave when surrounded by a hostile world that doesn't understand who we are or why we do what we do? In three letters, Peter and Jude provide some answers: Abandon the old pagan ways. Learn the new habit of love. Put on the mental armor that will make you strong to face suffering that may come.

    These nine studies from Tom Wright show you the wisdom of their words for ...

    Number of Studies: 9