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  • Subversive Mission: Serving as Outsiders in a World of Need, By Craig Greenfield
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    Subversive Mission

    Serving as Outsiders in a World of Need

    by Craig Warren Greenfield

    For many, missions is the story of heroes, martyrs, and the advance of the gospel. For others, it's the story of colonialism and missionary disasters. So how do we respond to God's call to love our neighbors as a new era emerges?

    Subversive mission is submission—to God and local leaders. Subversive mission offers a new way forward for outsiders called to crosscultural ministry ...

  • Tempered Resilience: How Leaders Are Formed in the Crucible of Change, By Tod Bolsinger
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    Tempered Resilience

    How Leaders Are Formed in the Crucible of Change

    by Tod Bolsinger

    Christian Book Award Finalist

    The Kind of Leadership that Lasts in Times of Change

    What type of leadership is needed in a moment that demands adaptive change?

    Tod Bolsinger, leadership expert and author of Canoeing the Mountains, is uniquely positioned to explore the qualities of adaptive leadership in contexts ranging from ...

  • Liturgical Mission: The Work of the People for the Life of the World, By Winfield Bevins
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    Liturgical Mission

    The Work of the People for the Life of the World

    by Winfield Bevins
    Foreword by Justo L. González

    Modern missional movements have often viewed the historic Christian traditions with suspicion. The old traditions may be beautiful, the thinking goes, but they’re too insular, focused primarily on worship and on the interior lifeof the church, and not looking outward to evangelism and good works.

    In Liturgical Mission, Winfield Bevins argues that the church's liturgy ...

  • Genesis 1-11, Edited by Andrew Louth
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    Genesis 1-11

    Volume 1

    Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture

    Edited by Andrew Louth
    General Editor Thomas C. Oden

    The rich tapestry of the creation narrative in the early chapters of Genesis proved irresistible to the thoughtful, reflective minds of the church fathers. Within them they found the beginning threads from which to weave a theology of creation, Fall, and redemption. Following their mentor the apostle Paul, they explored the profound significance of Adam as a type of Christ, the ...

  • The 1662 Book of Common Prayer—Service Book: International Edition, Edited by Samuel L. Bray and Drew Nathaniel Keane
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    The 1662 Book of Common Prayer—Service Book

    International Edition

    Edited by Samuel L Bray and Drew Keane

    IVP Academic's popular edition of the classic 1662 Book of Common Prayer, now available as a beautiful Service Book for use in public worship.

    The Service Book of the The 1662 Book of Common Prayer: International Edition contains all the services a minister would use in corporate worship. The liturgies present the unaltered text from the International Edition, set ...

  • A Week in the Life of a Greco-Roman Woman, By Holly Beers
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    A Week in the Life of a Greco-Roman Woman

    A Week in the Life Series

    by Holly Beers

    In first-century Ephesus, life is not easy for women.

    A young wife meets her daily struggles with equanimity and courage. She holds poverty and hunger at bay, fights to keep her child healthy and strong, and navigates the unpredictability of her husband's temperament. But into the midst of her daily fears and worries, a new hope appears: a teaching that challenges her society's ...