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  • The Nazarene: Forty Devotions on the Lyrical Life of Jesus, By Michael Card
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    The Nazarene

    Forty Devotions on the Lyrical Life of Jesus

    by Michael Card

    Jesus' life is a song that still resonates down through the ages. His deeds and words speak with beauty and mystery, both comforting and confounding us. Who is this man?

    Over the course of his career, singer-songwriter Michael Card has explored the depths of Scripture by bringing together biblical study and the power of the imagination. Now he sheds light on the life of Jesus ...

    Number of Studies: 40

  • The Wonders of Creation: Learning Stewardship from Narnia and Middle-Earth, By Kristen Page
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    The Wonders of Creation

    Learning Stewardship from Narnia and Middle-Earth

    Hansen Lectureship Series

    by Kristen Page
    Contributions by Christina Bieber Lake, Noah J. Toly, and Emily Hunter McGowin

    When an author of fiction employs the imagination and sets characters in a new location, they are in a sense creating a world. Might such fictional worlds give us a deeper appreciation for our own?

    Many readers have found themselves, like the Pevensie children, transported by C. S. Lewis into Narnia, and they have traveled from Lantern Waste to Cair Paravel and the edge of ...

  • A Chronicle of Grief: Finding Life After Traumatic Loss, By Mel Lawrenz
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    A Chronicle of Grief

    Finding Life After Traumatic Loss

    by Mel Lawrenz

    Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award

    "Eva not breathing. Pray."

    That text message was Mel Lawrenz's entry into the harsh reality of losing his thirty-year-old daughter. Things would never be the same. How could he and his family cope with this devastating loss?

    In this narrative of grief, Pastor Mel Lawrenz chronicles how his family ...

  • On Getting Out of Bed: The Burden and Gift of Living, By Alan Noble
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    On Getting Out of Bed

    The Burden and Gift of Living

    by Alan Noble

    Christianity Today Award of Merit

    Meditations on Why Life is Worth Living

    We aren't always honest about how difficult normal human life is.

    For the majority of people, sorrow, despair, anxiety, and mental illness are everyday experiences. While we have made tremendous advancements in therapy and psychiatry, the burden of living still comes down ...

  • Truth Is Stranger Than It Used to Be: Biblical Faith in a Postmodern Age, By J. Richard Middleton and Brian J. Walsh
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    Truth Is Stranger Than It Used to Be

    Biblical Faith in a Postmodern Age

    by J. Richard Middleton and Brian J. Walsh

    • Voted one of Christianity Today's 1996 Books of the Year

    The carnivalesque, pluralistic culture in hich we live can be seen as a consequence of the breakdown of modernity (which touted itself as the "greatest show on earth"), combined with a recognition of the socially constructed character of reality.

    Since the old construction has ...

  • John 13-21: Part 2: The Way to True Life, By Douglas Connelly
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    John 13-21

    Part 2: The Way to True Life

    LifeGuide Bible Studies

    by Douglas Connelly

    We all long for a full, rich, satisfying life. But how do we fill up the empty places in our souls? How can we quench our thirst for something deeper, more lasting, more meaningful?

    In this thirteen-session LifeGuide® Bible Study on the second half of John, Douglas Connelly urges you to take a fresh look at Jesus. Here is the opportunity to establish—or renew—your ...

    Number of Studies: 13

  • Questions of Context: Reading a Century of German Mission Theology, By John G. Flett and Henning Wrogemann
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    Questions of Context

    Reading a Century of German Mission Theology

    Missiological Engagements

    by John G. Flett and Henning Wrogemann

    The gospel is for every tribe, tongue, and nation (Revelation 7:9), but there is no single biblical or theological model for the relationship between the gospel and these diverse cultures. Indeed, every suggested approach carries its own range of philosophical and theological commitments that all too often remain unexamined. Contextualization is fraught with challenges—yet wrestling ...

  • Becoming a Just Church: Cultivating Communities of God's Shalom, By Adam L. Gustine
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    Becoming a Just Church

    Cultivating Communities of God's Shalom

    by Adam L. Gustine
    Foreword by Dennis Edwards

    IVP Readers' Choice Award

    Stop outsourcing justice!

    Many local churches don't know what to do about justice. We tend to compartmentalize it as merely a strategy for outreach, and we often outsource it to parachurch justice ministries. While these organizations do good work, individual congregations are left disconnected from God's just purposes in the ...

  • The Battle of Beginnings: Why Neither Side Is Winning the Creation-Evolution Debate, By Del Ratzsch
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    The Battle of Beginnings

    Why Neither Side Is Winning the Creation-Evolution Debate

    by Del Ratzsch

    • Voted one of Christianity Today's 1997 Books of the Year

    Creation versus evolution. The debate is growing louder and hotter--whether in lecture halls or in between the pages of bestselling books. But neither side seems to be winning. Why?

    In The Battle of Beginnings Del Ratzsch examines the history of the debate and critiques the entrenched ...