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  • "Here Are Your Gods": Faithful Discipleship in Idolatrous Times, By Christopher J. H. Wright
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    "Here Are Your Gods"

    Faithful Discipleship in Idolatrous Times

    by Christopher J. H. Wright

    ECPA Top Shelf Book Cover Award

    When the Israelites exclaimed, "Here are your gods!" at the sight of the golden calf, they were attempting to hold on to the God of their history while fashioning idols for their own purposes. In today's Western world, plenty of shiny false gods still hold power—idols of prosperity, nationalism, and self-interest. Christians ...

  • Making All Things New: God's Dream for Global Justice, By R. York Moore Making All Things New: God's Dream for Global Justice, By R. York Moore
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    Making All Things New

    God's Dream for Global Justice

    by R. York Moore

    Often this world seems like a nightmare. Human trafficking, young girls trapped in brothels, child soldiers forced to become killers, unchecked plagues and diseases, economic injustice and the oppression of the poor. Millions around the world aretrapped in this nightmare, and we may feel helpless to do anything about it.But God has a dream. York Moore paints a vivid picture of how the dream of God ...

  • The Lost World of the Torah: Law as Covenant and Wisdom in Ancient Context, By John H. Walton and J. Harvey Walton The Lost World of the Torah: Law as Covenant and Wisdom in Ancient Context, By John H. Walton and J. Harvey Walton
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    The Lost World of the Torah

    Law as Covenant and Wisdom in Ancient Context

    The Lost World Series

    by John H. Walton and J. Harvey Walton

    Our handling of what we call biblical law veers between controversy and neglect.

    On the one hand, controversy arises when Old Testament laws seem either odd beyond comprehension (not eating lobster) or positively reprehensible (executing children). On the other, neglect results when we consider the law obsolete, no longer carrying any normative power (tassels on clothing, ...

  • Ezekiel: An Introduction and Commentary, By John B. Taylor Ezekiel: An Introduction and Commentary, By John B. Taylor
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    Ezekiel

    An Introduction and Commentary

    Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries

    by John B. Taylor

    "For most Bible readers Ezekiel is almost a closed book," writes John Taylor. "Their knowledge of him extends little further than his mysterious vision of God's chariot-throne, with its wheels within wheels, and the vision of the valley of the dry bones.""Otherwise his book is as forbidding in its size as the prophet himself is in the complexity of his make-up," Taylor goes on. "In its structure, ...