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  • Cultivating the Fruit of the Spirit: Growing in Christlikeness, By Christopher J. H. Wright
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    Cultivating the Fruit of the Spirit

    Growing in Christlikeness

    by Christopher J. H. Wright

    How should Christians live? On the one hand, some very legalistic Christians stress the importance of keeping all the rules—that you must do this and never do that if you want to prove you are really a Christian. On the other hand, there are those who reject the whole idea of rules or traditions in the church and see the point of the Christian faith as setting us free from the ...

    Number of Studies: 9

  • When Your World Ends: God's Creative Process for Rebuilding a Life, By Dawn Sanders
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    When Your World Ends

    God's Creative Process for Rebuilding a Life

    by Dawn Mann Sanders
    Foreword by Ms. Carol Kent

    How do you rebuild your life after it falls apart?

    Catastrophic events often feel like the end of the world. When we feel like we have nothing left, we sometimes wish for our own end too. Yet God keeps waking us up every morning—a sign that God wants us to keep living when our world ends. We must find our way to the new life that awaits us on the other side of loss. But how?

    Dawn ...

  • Basic Christian: The Inside Story of John Stott, By Roger Steer
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    Basic Christian

    The Inside Story of John Stott

    by Roger Steer
    Foreword by David Neff
    Featuring John Stott

    Did you know. . . . . . John Stott's father stood strongly against his desire to be ordained in the Church of England and his pacifist leanings during World War II? . . . John Stott once got lost following birds in the Amazon rainforest? . . . John Stott once dressed up as a street urchin, fashioned a "strong Cockney accent" and lived under a bridge near the Thames in London in order to see ...

  • Incomplete Commentary on Matthew (Opus imperfectum), Edited by Thomas C. Oden
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    Incomplete Commentary on Matthew (Opus imperfectum)

    Ancient Christian Texts

    Translated by James A. Kellerman
    Edited by Thomas C. Oden

    In the translator's introduction to this volume, James Kellerman relates the following story:

    As Thomas Aquinas was approaching Paris, a fellow traveler pointed out the lovely buildings gracing that city. Aquinas was impressed, to be sure, but he sighed and stated that he would rather have the complete Incomplete Commentary on Matthew than to be mayor of Paris itself.

    Thomas's ...

  • Incomplete Commentary on Matthew (Opus imperfectum), Edited by Thomas C. Oden
    hardcover

    Incomplete Commentary on Matthew (Opus imperfectum)

    Ancient Christian Texts

    Translated by James A. Kellerman
    Edited by Thomas C. Oden

    In the translator's introduction to this volume, James Kellerman relates the following story:

    As Thomas Aquinas was approaching Paris, a fellow traveler pointed out the lovely buildings gracing that city. Aquinas was impressed, to be sure, but he sighed and stated that he would rather have the complete Incomplete Commentary on Matthew than to be mayor of Paris itself.

    Thomas's ...

  • Becoming Dallas Willard: The Formation of a Philosopher, Teacher, and Christ Follower, By Gary W. Moon
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    Becoming Dallas Willard

    The Formation of a Philosopher, Teacher, and Christ Follower

    by Gary W. Moon
    Foreword by Richard J. Foster
    Afterword by John Ortberg

    • ECPA 2019 Christian Book Award Finalist
    • 2018 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award Finalists - Biography

    Dallas Willard was a personal mentor and inspiration to hundreds of pastors, philosophers, and average churchgoers. His presence and ideas rippled through the lives of many prominent leaders and authors, such as John Ortberg, ...

  • InterVarsity Press is honored to be partnering with the DuPage County (IL) Monarch Project as a result of recent work done to their property’s landscaping. Continuing in their commitment to care for the environment, IVP replaced much of their landscaping with milkweeds and butterfly-friendly native plants and was recognized as an official monarch waystation in the county.

  • Commentary on the Gospel of John, By Theodore of Mopsuestia
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    Commentary on the Gospel of John

    Ancient Christian Texts

    by Theodore of Mopsuestia
    Translated by Marco Conti
    Edited by Joel C. Elowsky
    Series edited by Thomas C. Oden and Gerald L. Bray

    Theodore of Mopsuestia, born in Antioch (c. 350) and a disciple of Diodore of Tarsus, serves as one of the most important exemplars of Antiochene exegesis of his generation. Committed to literal, linguistic, grammatical and historical interpretation, he eschewed allegorical explanations that could not be supported from the text, though he was not averse to typological interpretations of Old Testament ...

  • Pilgrimage of a Soul: Contemplative Spirituality for the Active Life, By Phileena Heuertz
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    Pilgrimage of a Soul

    Contemplative Spirituality for the Active Life

    by Phileena Heuertz
    Foreword by Shauna Niequist

    You can only go so far for so long before you find the limits of yourself. For Phileena Heuertz that moment arrived, mercifully, around the same time as a sabbatical to mark her twelfth year of service with an international organization working with some of the most vulnerable people in the world. Activists often see contemplation as a luxury, the sort of thing necessarily set aside in the quest ...