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  • God's Rivals: Why Has God Allowed Different Religions? Insights from the Bible and the Early Church, By Gerald R. McDermott
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    God's Rivals

    Why Has God Allowed Different Religions? Insights from the Bible and the Early Church

    by Gerald R. McDermott

    In the providence of God, why are there other religions? Was the God of the Bible wise in allowing for them? Can they serve any purpose? Gerald R. McDermott explores reflection on teaching from the Old and New Testaments and from a number of key teachers from the early church to suggest an answer to this perplexing but intriguing question. In the end McDermott provides considerable insight into ...

  • Spiritual Practices of Jesus: Learning Simplicity, Humility, and Prayer with Luke's Earliest Readers, By Catherine J. Wright
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    Spiritual Practices of Jesus

    Learning Simplicity, Humility, and Prayer with Luke's Earliest Readers

    by Catherine J. Wright

    Luke's Gospel was written to transform. In its original context, readers would have seen a portrait of Jesus as an ideal teacher and king, able to shape his people through exemplary leadership. They would have come to the Gospel expecting to be changed for God's purposes through the imitation of Jesus' lifestyle and adoption of his teaching. When today's readers approach the text ...

  • Western Christians in Global Mission: What's the Role of the North American Church?, By Paul Borthwick
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    Western Christians in Global Mission

    What's the Role of the North American Church?

    by Paul Borthwick
    Foreword by Femi B. Adeleye

    Christianity Today Book Award of Merit Winner

    Outreach Magazine Resource of the Year

    The world has changed.

    A century ago, Christianity was still primarily centered in North America and Europe. By the dawn of the twenty-first century, Christianity had become a truly global faith, with Christians in Asia, Africa ...

  • God Talk: Cautions for Those Who Hear God's Voice, By Ruth A. Tucker
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    God Talk

    Cautions for Those Who Hear God's Voice

    by Ruth A. Tucker

    Does God speak? The answer seems clear. Books abound on the topic of hearing God's voice. And many believers testify to God's conversational guidance in their life: "God told me to help you." "I knew it was God speaking to me." Our culture reinforces the idea that speaking--constant speaking--is good and natural and essential. In those rare moments during a day when talking ceases or when we're ...

  • Forgotten Girls: Stories of Hope and Courage, By Kay Marshall Strom and Michele Rickett
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    Forgotten Girls

    Stories of Hope and Courage

    by Kay Marshall Strom and Michele Rickett
    Foreword by Lynne Hybels

    Readers' Choice Award Winner

    Think of the little girls you know: your daughter, a niece, a friend's child.

    Then think about this: little girls are tossed away every day.

    All over the world, women and girls face troubles such as starvation, displacement, illiteracy, sexual exploitation and abuse. In fact, statistics show that the world's most oppressed people are ...

  • The Other Side of the Wall: A Palestinian Christian Narrative of Lament and Hope, By Munther Isaac The Other Side of the Wall: A Palestinian Christian Narrative of Lament and Hope, By Munther Isaac
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    The Other Side of the Wall

    A Palestinian Christian Narrative of Lament and Hope

    by Munther Isaac

    A Palestinian Pastor's Invitation to Lament and Hope

    Christians have lived in Palestine since the earliest days of the Jesus movement. The Palestinian church predates Islam. Yet Palestinian Christians find themselves marginalized and ostracized. In the heated tensions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the voices of Palestinian Christians are often unheard and ignored.

    This ...

  • The Message of Numbers: Journey to the Promised Land, By Raymond Brown
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    The Message of Numbers

    Journey to the Promised Land

    The Bible Speaks Today Series

    by Raymond Brown

    What does it mean to be pilgrims in a confusing world? What vision of the good life drives us? In this Bible Speaks Today volume, Raymond Brown explores how the book of Numbers offers a picture of a better life. He shows how its message is eminently suited to our world today, a world without firm spiritual and moral foundations. Numbers pictures life as an accompanied journey, ...