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paperbackPocket Handbook of Christian Apologetics
The IVP Pocket Reference Series
by Peter Kreeft and Ronald K. Tacelli
"Be ready to give a reason for the hope that is in you," wrote the apostle Peter.
That is what apologetics is all about.
Here is a concise, informative guide for anyone looking for answers to questions of faith and reason. Peter Kreeft and Ronald K. Tacelli have condensed their popular Handbook of Christian Apologetics, summarizing the foremost arguments for major Christian ...
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paperbackThe Person in Psychology and Christianity
A Faith-Based Critique of Five Theories of Social Development
Christian Association for Psychological Studies Books
by Marjorie Lindner Gunnoe
Integral to a Christian worldview and to psychology are foundational questions about personhood: What characteristics are essential? What is our purpose? Do we naturally incline toward good or bad? Are we accountable for self and responsible for others? In The Person in Psychology and Christianity, developmental psychologist Marjorie Gunnoe demonstrates how the integration ...
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paperbackKingdom Calling
Vocational Stewardship for the Common Good
by Amy L. Sherman
Foreword by Reggie McNeal
Afterword by Steven GarberChristianity Today Book Award winner
Imagine the scenarios:
- a CEO successfully negotiates a corporate merger, avoiding hundreds of layoffs in the process
- an artist completes a mosaic for public display at a bank, showcasing neighborhood heroes
- a contractor creates a work-release program in cooperation with a local prison, growing the business ...
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hardcoverGod and Soul Care
The Therapeutic Resources of the Christian Faith
by Eric L. Johnson
Christianity, at its heart, is a therapeutic faith—a theocentric form of soul care. God's therapeutic agenda begins in the perfect triune communion of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit who created human beings to flourish by participating in his glory. But they are now alienated from God and subject to different forms of psychopathology—sin, suffering, and biopsychosocial damage. So ...
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paperbackWorship by Faith Alone
Thomas Cranmer, the Book of Common Prayer, and the Reformation of Liturgy
Dynamics of Christian Worship
by Zac Hicks
Foreword by Ashley NullIn every age, the church must consider what it means to gather together to worship God.
If the church is primarily the people who follow the risen Christ, then its worship should be "gospel-centered." But where might the church find an example of such worship for today?
In this Dynamics of Christian Worship volume, scholar, worship leader, and songwriter Zac Hicks contends ...
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paperbackPocket Dictionary of the Reformed Tradition
The IVP Pocket Reference Series
by Kelly M. Kapic and Wesley Vander Lugt
Beginning to study Reformed theology is like stepping into a family conversation that has been going on for five hundred years. How do you find your bearings and figure out how to take part in this conversation without embarrassing yourself?
The Pocket Dictionary of the Reformed Tradition takes on this rich, boisterous and varied tradition in its broad contours, filling you in on ...
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paperbackPursuing an Earthy Spirituality
C. S. Lewis and Incarnational Faith
by Gary S. Selby
"Red beef and strong beer" was how C. S. Lewis described his education under one of his early tutors. It was, in other words, a substantial education that engaged deeply with the intellectual tradition and challenged him to grow. Gary Selby sees Lewis's expression as an indication of the kind of transformation that is both possible and necessary for the Christian faith, and he ...
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paperbackCreation and Doxology
The Beginning and End of God's Good World
Center for Pastor Theologians Series
Edited by Gerald L. Hiestand and Todd Wilson
The doctrine of creation is crucial to the Christian faith, but it has often been maligned, misinterpreted, or ignored.
Some, such as pagan philosophers and Gnostics, have tended to denigrate the goodness of the material world. More recently, new questions have emerged regarding human origins in light of the Darwinian account of evolution. What does it mean today to both affirm ...
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paperbackHurting Yet Whole
Reconciling Body and Spirit in Chronic Pain and Illness
by Liuan Huska
What if the things we most fear about our bodies—our vulnerability to illness and pain—are exactly the places where God meets us most fully?
As Liuan Huska went through years of chronic pain, she wondered why God seemed absent and questioned some of the common assumptions about healing. What do we do when our bodies don't work the way they should? What is healing, when one ...
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paperbackScience, Creation and the Bible
Reconciling Rival Theories of Origins
by Richard F. Carlson and Tremper Longman III
Many Christians are torn between their belief in the Bible and the conclusions of science. This is especially the case concerning the creation narratives of Scripture and the rather different stories that science tells. Physicist Richard Carlson and biblical scholar Tremper Longman address the longstanding problem of how to relate scientific description of the beginnings of the universe with the ...
