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paperbackThe Decalogue
Living as the People of God
by David L. Baker
- Evangelical Christian Publishers Association Top Shelf Book Cover Award 2017
The Ten Commandments, or Decalogue, have long been a pillar of Western law and culture. In more recent times they have been a point of controversy in the public square. But on closer scrutiny the commandments are particularly addressed to the people of God. In the exodus narrative, ...
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Ruth Goring
Ruth Goring is a poet, an author, and an artist. Ruth has a passion for spiritual formation for children, using age-appropriate images and language to illustrate the love of God and practices that form their hearts to follow him and trust him more. She is also the author of Adriana's Angels and Picturing God.
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paperbackPraying
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 ...
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hardcoverBiblical 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 ...
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paperbackPaul and the Law
Keeping the Commandments of God
New Studies in Biblical Theology
by Brian S. Rosner
Series edited by D. A. CarsonPreaching'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 ...
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paperbackJustification
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 ...
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Joshua Rasmussen
Joshua Rasmussen (PhD, Notre Dame) is associate professor of philosophy at Azusa Pacific University. He is the author of How Reason Can Lead to God, Defending the Correspondence Theory of Truth, and The Bridge of Reason, coauthor of Necessary Existence and Is God the Best Explanation of Things?: A Dialogue, and coeditor of A New Theist Response to the New Atheists.
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paperbackSpiritual 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, ...
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paperbackThe 30-Minute Bible
God's Story for Everyone
by Craig G. Bartholomew and Paige P. Vanosky
Illustrated by Martin ErspamerWe 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
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paperbackThe Drama of Ephesians
Participating in the Triumph of God
by Timothy G. Gombis
Ephesians has long been a favorite New Testament book among Christians. Its exalted language and soaring metaphors inspire devotion and worship. But too often the expositor's scrutiny has reduced this letter to a string of theological ideas and practical topics. Timothy Gombis has rediscovered Ephesians as a deeply dramatic text that follows the narrative arc of the triumph of God in Christ. Here ...
