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  • Learning to Be: Finding Your Center After the Bottom Falls Out, By Juanita Campbell Rasmus
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    Learning to Be

    Finding Your Center After the Bottom Falls Out

    by Juanita Campbell Rasmus
    Foreword by Tina Knowles Lawson

    Juanita called it "The Crash."

    Her counselor labeled it "a major depressive episode." Others called it a nervous breakdown. On the spiritual front, it was a dark night of the soul.

    This experience landed Juanita, a busy pastor, mother, and community leader, in bed. When everything in her life finally came to a stop, she found that she had to learn to be—with herself ...

  • Praying: Finding Our Way Through Duty to Delight, By J. I. Packer and Carolyn Nystrom
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    Praying

    Finding Our Way Through Duty to Delight

    by J. I. Packer and Carolyn Nystrom

    Merit Award, World Guild Christian Living Book

    Praying is an action that is of the essence of Christian existence. It involves our beliefs, emotions, values, hopes and fears, certainties and uncertainties, knowledge and ignorance.

    As J. I. Packer and Carolyn Nystrom explain, "Our aim is not just to clarify Christian understanding but to foster Christian ...

  • Biblical Theology: The God of the Christian Scriptures, By John Goldingay
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    Biblical Theology

    The God of the Christian Scriptures

    by John Goldingay

    Imagine someone who has spent a lifetime listening deeply and attentively to the full range of Scripture's testimony. Stepping back, they now describe what they have seen and heard. What emerges is a theological cathedral, laid out on the great vectors of Scripture and fitted with biblically sourced materials. This is what John Goldingay has done. Well known for his three-volume Old Testament ...

  • Paul and the Law: Keeping the Commandments of God, By Brian S. Rosner
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    Paul and the Law

    Keeping the Commandments of God

    New Studies in Biblical Theology

    by Brian S. Rosner
    Series edited by D. A. Carson

    Preaching's Preacher's Guide to the Best Bible Reference

    "For neither circumcision counts for anything nor uncircumcision, but keeping the commandments of God" (1 Cor 7:19).

    The apostle Paul's relationship to the Law of Moses is notoriously complex and much studied. Difficulties begin with questions of definition (of the extent of Paul's corpus and the meanings ...

  • Dwell: Life with God for the World, By Barry D. Jones
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    Dwell

    Life with God for the World

    by Barry D. Jones
    Foreword by Michael Frost

    Popular notions of Christian spirituality today tend to focus on getting us out of the world or getting the world out of us. Many are looking to spirituality as a means of disengaging from this life—to experience the transcendent or discover personal wholeness. On the other hand, much of popular Christian thought seems to be about avoiding the corruption of the world by being pious and following ...

  • Justification: God's Plan  Paul's Vision, By N. T. Wright
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    Justification

    God's Plan Paul's Vision

    by N. T. Wright

    Biblical Foundations Book Award

    Few issues are more central to the Christian faith than the nature, scope and means of salvation. Many have thought it to be largely a transaction that gets one to heaven. In this riveting book, N. T. Wright explains that God's salvation is radically more than this. At the heart of much vigorous debate on this topic is the term the apostle ...

  • Spiritual Practices in Community: Drawing Groups into the Heart of God, By Diana Shiflett
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    Spiritual Practices in Community

    Drawing Groups into the Heart of God

    by Diana Shiflett

    Diana Shiflett has been leading groups of all descriptions in spiritual practices for many years, and she understands the difficulties involved: the potential for awkwardness and self-doubt, the nagging question of whether anyone's getting anything out of this at all. But more than that, she understands the value of spiritual practices: their deep roots in the history and worship of God's people, ...

  • The 30-Minute Bible: God's Story for Everyone, By Craig G. Bartholomew and Paige P. Vanosky
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    The 30-Minute Bible

    God's Story for Everyone

    by Craig G. Bartholomew and Paige P. Vanosky
    Illustrated by Martin Erspamer

    We know about the Bible. We may know some Bible stories, or maybe we've even read large portions for ourselves. But what it's really all about? How do all the different pieces fit together?

    Without a sense of the big story the Bible is telling, we'll miss out on the good news God has for us. In The 30-Minute Bible, experienced Bible teachers Craig Bartholomew ...

    Number of Studies: 30