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paperbackDisability and the Way of Jesus
Holistic Healing in the Gospels and the Church
by Bethany McKinney Fox
Foreword by John Swinton2019 IVP Readers' Choice Award
What does healing mean for people with disabilities?
The Gospels are filled with accounts of Jesus offering physical healing. But even as churches today seek to follow the way of Jesus, people with disabilities all too often experience the very opposite of healing and life-giving community: exclusion, judgment, ...
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paperbackFeathers of Hope
A Novel
Shades of Light Series
by Sharon Garlough Brown
"We fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen." (2 Corinthians 4:18) In a season of loss and change, Wren Crawford and her great-aunt, Katherine Rhodes, share the journey as companions in sorrow and hope. As Katherine prepares to retire as the director of the New Hope Retreat Center, she faces both personal and professional challenges—especially after the arrival of ...
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paperbackListening to Sexual Minorities
A Study of Faith and Sexual Identity on Christian College Campuses
Christian Association for Psychological Studies Books
by Mark A. Yarhouse, Janet B. Dean, Michael D Lastoria, and Stephen P. Stratton
Students arrive on campus with various boxes of belongings to unpack, some heavy, some tidy, some more valuable, some more private. For many students, two of these boxes could be labeled "My Faith" and "My Sexuality"—and these two can be among themost cumbersome to handle. How to balance the two without having to set one down? How to hold them both closely, both securely, but still move forward ...
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paperbackA Change of Heart
A Personal and Theological Memoir
by Thomas C. Oden
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How did one of the twentieth century's most celebrated liberals have such a dramaticchange of heart?
After growing up in the heart of rural Methodism in Oklahoma, Thomas Oden found Marx, Nietzsche and Freud storming into his imagination. ...
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paperbackLiving the Christian Year
Time to Inhabit the Story of God
by Bobby Gross
Infuse your days with meaning.You are part of a larger Story. And the One who began the Story is at work today, in your life, in the midst of your meetings and bills and family activities that make the days rush by and blur together. In these pages Bobby Gross opens to you--and opens you to--the liturgical year, helping you inhabit God's Story every day.
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paperbackDying to Live
The Paradox of the Crucified Life
by Clive Calver
Many Christians acknowledge that they love Jesus but are disillusioned about their spiritual condition. They come to Christ to drink from the well of his new life, yet find that their thirst remains. Why has the Christian life not met their expectations for spiritual growth and how can they satisfy this craving for their Christian walk to have a deeper impact?Do you desperately yearn for a deeper ...
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paperbackCalling on the Name of the Lord
A Biblical Theology of Prayer
New Studies in Biblical Theology
by Gary Millar
Series edited by D. A. CarsonPreaching's 10 New Books Every Preacher Should Read
"At that time people began to call upon the name of the LORD" (Genesis 4:26 ESV).
From this first mention of prayer in the Bible, right through to the end, when the church prays "Come, Lord Jesus!" (Revelation 22:20), prayer is intimately linked with the gospel—God's promised and provided solution to the problem ...
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hardcover1-2 Samuel, 1-2 Kings, 1-2 Chronicles
Old Testament Volume 5
Reformation Commentary on Scripture
Edited by Derek Cooper and Martin J. Lohrmann
"Then David said to the Philistine, 'You come to me with a sword and with a spear and with a javelin, but I come to you in the name of the LORD of hosts.'" (1 Samuel 17:45) Reflecting upon David's victory over Goliath, Reformation translator, theologian and commentator William Tyndale compared it to Christ's victory over sin and death: "When David had killed Goliath the giant, glad tidings came ...
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paperbackNow and Not Yet
Theology and Mission in Ezra–Nehemiah
New Studies in Biblical Theology
by Dean R Ulrich
Series edited by D. A. CarsonFor various reasons, the books of Ezra and Nehemiah have suffered comparative neglect in Old Testament scholarship. However, as Dean Ulrich demonstrates, Ezra–Nehemiah as a literary unit is part of the Christian Bible that tells God's grand story of saving activity. It focuses not so much on how to be an effective leader but on how to be a godly participant in God's story. God may ...
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hardcoverThe Twelve Prophets
Volume 14
Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture
Edited by Alberto Ferreiro
General Editor Thomas C. Oden"And beginning with Moses and all the prophets, [the risen Jesus] interpreted to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself" (Lk 24:27).
The church fathers mined the Old Testament throughout for prophetic utterances regarding the Messiah, but few books yielded as much messianic ore as the Twelve Prophets, sometimes known as the Minor Prophets because of the relative ...
