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  • Resting Place: A Personal Guide to Spiritual Retreats, By Jane A. Rubietta
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    Resting Place

    A Personal Guide to Spiritual Retreats

    by Jane A. Rubietta

    A personal retreat.We've never needed it more. We run from one place to the next--from meetings and appointments to our kid's soccer practice, from class to work to choir rehearsal, from the grocery store to small group--and then drop into bed later than we hoped, exhausted and dreading the morning. We want to slow down but don't know how and don't really believe that we can. And often, the idea ...

  • God and the Problem of Evil: Five Views, Edited by Chad Meister and James K. Dew Jr.
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    God and the Problem of Evil

    Five Views

    Spectrum Multiview Book Series

    Edited by Chad Meister and James K. Dew Jr.

    Evil abounds. And so do the attempts to understand God in the face of such evil.

    The problem of evil is a constant challenge to faith in God. How can we believe in a loving and powerful God given the existence of so much suffering in the world? Philosophers and theologians have addressed this problem countless times over the centuries. New explanations have been proposed in ...

  • Thriving with Stone Age Minds: Evolutionary Psychology, Christian Faith, and the Quest for Human Flourishing, By Justin L. Barrett
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    Thriving with Stone Age Minds

    Evolutionary Psychology, Christian Faith, and the Quest for Human Flourishing

    BioLogos Books on Science and Christianity

    by Justin L. Barrett
    With Pamela Ebstyne King

    What does God's creation of humanity through the process of evolution mean for human flourishing? The emerging field of evolutionary psychology remains controversial, perhaps especially among Christians. Yet according to Justin Barrett and Pamela Ebstyne King it can be a powerful tool for understanding human nature and our distinctively human purpose.

    Thriving with Stone ...

  • Spirit Outside the Gate: Decolonial Pneumatologies of the American Global South, By Oscar García-Johnson
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    Spirit Outside the Gate

    Decolonial Pneumatologies of the American Global South

    Missiological Engagements

    by Oscar García-Johnson

    Throughout the history of the Christian church, two narratives have constantly clashed: the imperial logic of Babel that builds towers and borders to seize control, versus the logic of Pentecost that empowers "glocal" missionaries of the kingdom life. To what extent are Westernized Christians today ready for the church of the Pentecost narrative? Are they equipped to do ministry ...

  • Piercing Leviathan: God's Defeat of Evil in the Book of Job, By Eric Ortlund
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    Piercing Leviathan

    God's Defeat of Evil in the Book of Job

    New Studies in Biblical Theology

    by Eric Ortlund
    Series edited by D. A. Carson

    Biblical Foundations Book Awards Finalist

    One of the most challenging passages in the Old Testament book of Job comes in the Lord's second speech (40–41). The characters and the reader have waited a long time for the Lord to speak—only to read what is traditionally interpreted as a long description of a hippopotamus and crocodile (Behemoth and Leviathan). ...

  • Providence & Prayer: How Does God Work in the World?, By Terrance L. Tiessen
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    Providence & Prayer

    How Does God Work in the World?

    by Terrance L. Tiessen

    • Recipient of an Honourable Mention in the 2001 God Uses Ink Contest

    "Lord, please give me a parking space!"

    That prayer sounds right on your third time around the block, frustrated and late for an appointment. But is it consistent with how God works in the world?

    Does prayer change God's mind or only our feelings? Does God do things because we ask him to? Or ...

  • Anxious: Choosing Faith in a World of Worry, By Amy Simpson
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    Anxious

    Choosing Faith in a World of Worry

    by Amy Simpson

    Advanced Writers and Speakers Association's Golden Scroll Merit Award

    12th Annual Outreach Resource of the Year Recommendation

    Our culture is frantic with worry. We stress over circumstances we can't control, we talk about what's keeping us up at night and we wring our hands over the fate of disadvantaged people all over the world, almost as ...