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  • Christianity on Trial: A Lawyer Examines the Christian Faith, By W. Mark Lanier
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    Christianity on Trial

    A Lawyer Examines the Christian Faith

    by W. Mark Lanier

    Does the Christian faith hold up under scrutiny? What does science tell us about the plausibility of a god? Can we trust the alleged eyewitness testimony of the life, death and resurrection of Jesus?These questions are worth investigating in orderto find an answer solidified in fact and evidence. Mark Lanier, one of America's top trial lawyers, uses his experienced legal eye to examine the plausibility ...

  • Acts, By William J. Larkin Jr.
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    Acts

    A Commentary on the New Testament

    The IVP New Testament Commentary Series

    by William J. Larkin

    If ever there was a hostile environment for the gospel, it was the strife-torn, ethnically diverse backwater of the Roman Empire known as Palestine following the ascension of Jesus. But the gospel thrived--beginning from Jerusalem and spreading throughout Judea, Samaria and the rest of the known world.In Acts, the sequel to his Gospel, Luke tells how the Holy Spirit transformed a ragtag band of ...

  • From Research to Teaching: A Guide to Beginning Your Classroom Career, By Michael Kibbe From Research to Teaching: A Guide to Beginning Your Classroom Career, By Michael Kibbe
    Ebook

    From Research to Teaching

    A Guide to Beginning Your Classroom Career

    by Michael Kibbe
    Foreword by Gary M. Burge

    It's a long way from the research carrel to the classroom. No matter your personality, your prior experience, or the specifics of your situation, the transition from graduate studies to teaching involves a set of challenges for which no one is ever fully prepared. In this practical guide Michael Kibbe, author of From Topic to Thesis, provides a helpful companion for the ...

  • Run with the Horses: The Quest for Life at Its Best, By Eugene H. Peterson Run with the Horses: The Quest for Life at Its Best, By Eugene H. Peterson
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    Run with the Horses

    The Quest for Life at Its Best

    by Eugene H Peterson
    Preface by Eric E Peterson

    In Jeremiah 12:5 God says to the prophet, "If you have raced with men on foot and they have worn you out, how can you compete with horses? If you stumble in safe country, how will you manage in the thickets by the Jordan?"We all long to live life at its best—to fuse freedom and spontaneity with purpose and meaning. Why then do we often find our lives so humdrum, so unadventuresome, so routine? Or ...

  • Tyranny of the Urgent, By Charles E. Hummel Tyranny of the Urgent, By Charles E. Hummel
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    Tyranny of the Urgent

    IVP Booklets

    by Charles E. Hummel

    With over one million copies in print, this classic from Charles E. Hummel has transformed the minds and hearts of generations of Christians. Its simplicity and depth is a foundational resource for all who have felt overwhelmed by the responsibilities of each day, week, month and year.Hummel starts with Jesus' own model of work and ministry, a model that is at once unrushed and focused. From there ...

  • A Bird's-Eye View of Luke and Acts: Context, Story, and Themes, By Michael Bird A Bird's-Eye View of Luke and Acts: Context, Story, and Themes, By Michael Bird
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    A Bird's-Eye View of Luke and Acts

    Context, Story, and Themes

    by Michael Bird

    What do the books of Luke and Acts teach us about God, Jesus, and the early church? How do these two books relate to each other? And what do they mean for us today?

    In this accessible and compelling introduction, Michael Bird draws us into the wide-ranging narrative of Luke-Acts to discover how Luke frames the life of Jesus and of the first disciples who set out from Jerusalem ...

  • Ten: Words of Life for an Addicted, Compulsive, Cynical, Divided and Worn-Out Culture, By Sean Gladding Ten: Words of Life for an Addicted, Compulsive, Cynical, Divided and Worn-Out Culture, By Sean Gladding
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    Ten

    Words of Life for an Addicted, Compulsive, Cynical, Divided and Worn-Out Culture

    by Sean Gladding

    To most people living in today's world, the Ten Commandments represent archaic rules dictated by a taskmaster God, meant for a society long gone. Many see them as irrelevant, even unattainable, today. But what if we're not that different from those who gathered around Moses as he handed down God's Ten Words to his people? What if they were never meant to be a set of rules, but instead a promise ...