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  • 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 ...

  • The Message of Colossians & Philemon, By Dick Lucas
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    The Message of Colossians & Philemon

    The Bible Speaks Today Series

    by Dick Lucas

    Even healthy churches are never completely immune to the intellectual and spiritual pressures of their time. The church in Colossae was no exception. False teaching shaped by the spirit of the age was rising within the community, suggesting that a fuller knowledge and freedom was available beyond what ordinary Christians had experienced. Paul’s response was adamant: all God's fullness ...

  • Together in Prayer: Coming to God in Community, By Andrew R. Wheeler
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    Together in Prayer

    Coming to God in Community

    by Andrew R. Wheeler

    "Lord, teach us to pray," every small group, from Jesus' to yours, has asked. Prayer is intimidating--what do you say to the God of the universe? How do you listen to Someone you can't see? Add other voices to the mix and prayer becomes downright scary--one more opportunity to feel like an idiot in front of your small group, or one more opportunity to highlight the differences between you. And yet ...

  • A Little Book for New Philosophers: Why and How to Study Philosophy, By Paul Copan
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    A Little Book for New Philosophers

    Why and How to Study Philosophy

    Little Books

    by Paul Copan

    What's the point of studying philosophy when we have theology? Is philosophy anything more than a preparation for apologetics? Often called "theology's handmaid," philosophy has sometimes suffered from an inferiority complex in the church. Many Christians see little point in it at all. But as Paul Copan contends, it is possible to affirm theology's preeminence without diminishing the value and ...

  • The Message of 1 & 2 Thessalonians, By John Stott
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    The Message of 1 & 2 Thessalonians

    The Bible Speaks Today Series

    by John Stott

    The gospel shapes the church and the church spreads the gospel. In his heartfelt letters to the Thessalonians, the apostle Paul calls believers again and again to these essential truths. To encourage and correct the young church in Thessalonica, Paul addresses many issues that are still of vital importance today, such as Christian community, church leadership, moral living, evangelism, ...

  • Doing Theology with the Reformers, By Gerald L. Bray
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    Doing Theology with the Reformers

    by Gerald L. Bray

    The Reformation was a time of tremendous upheaval, renewal, and vitality in the life of the church. The challenge to maintain and develop faithful Christian belief and practice in the midst of great disruption was reflected in the theology of the sixteenth century. In this volume, which serves as a companion to IVP Academic's Reformation Commentary on Scripture, theologian and church historian ...

  • The Passion of the King of Glory, By Russ Ramsey
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    The Passion of the King of Glory

    Retelling the Story Series

    by Russ Ramsey

    "His was a ministry of incarnation—touching the infected, dining with sinners, defending the defenseless. The sick needed a physician, and the Physician had come." Enter into the greatest story ever told. In this carefully researched retelling of the story of Jesus, pastor Russ Ramsey invites us to rediscover our wonder at Jesus' sinless life, brutal death, and glorious resurrection. Featuring ...

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  • Inside Job: Doing the Work Within the Work, By Stephen W. Smith
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    Inside Job

    Doing the Work Within the Work

    by Stephen W. Smith

    Effective leaders work very hard to succeed, but often at the cost of their own souls. They are challenged to keep themselves emotionally and spiritually healthy in order to survive success—to keep their humanity intact. This is the work within the work. Stephen W. Smith helps leaders in the marketplace and in ministry set aside the life-draining values of power, fame, fortune and position and ...

  • Still Evangelical?: Insiders Reconsider Political, Social, and Theological Meaning, Edited by Mark Labberton
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    Still Evangelical?

    Insiders Reconsider Political, Social, and Theological Meaning

    Edited by Mark Labberton
    Contributions by Shane Claiborne, Jim Daly, Mark Galli, Lisa Sharon Harper, Tom Lin, Karen Swallow Prior, Soong-Chan Rah, Robert Chao Romero, Sandra Maria Van Opstal, Allen Yeh, and Mark S. Young

    • 2018 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award Finalists -Religion

    Evangelicalism in America has cracked, split on the shoals of the 2016 presidential election and its aftermath, leaving many wondering if they want to be in or out of the evangelical tribe. The contentiousness brought to the fore surrounds what it means to affirm and demonstrate evangelical Christian ...