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paperbackChurchNext
Quantum Changes in How We Do Ministry
by Eddie Gibbs
- A 2001 Christianity Today Book of the Year
What will the church be next? CHANGE IS NOW. Competition from nontraditional and Eastern religions join with the pressures of both modernism and postmodernism to squeeze Christianity. While new church models have sprung up to meet these challenges, they each have strengths and limitations. Eddie Gibbs, a well-known ...
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paperbackLiving Your Legacy
An Action-Packed Guide for the Later Years
by Sandy Larsen and Dale Larsen
No matter what stage of life we find ourselves in, we may wonder if what we've done with our time on earth bears any significance. But this question becomes especially important when our expectations for lifelong achievement and ability in later years come face to face with a reality that may not meet those lifelong hopes. It's common to ask, "Who am I now? How should I invest these years? Must ...
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paperbackUrban Ministry
The Kingdom, the City the People of God
by Harvie M. Conn and Manuel Ortiz
No. 3 in the Academy of Parish Clergy Top Ten Books of the Year
The city presents serious challenges that cry out for answers: poverty, racism, human exploitation and government corruption. How can the church move ahead in the midst of these demands with the gospel of hope?
Here, in one comprehensive volume, Harvie Conn and Manuel Ortiz, two noted scholars and proven ...
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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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paperbackSacramental Life
Spiritual Formation Through the Book of Common Prayer
by David A. deSilva
What happens when old meets new? As David deSilva has experienced the ancient wisdom of the Book of Common Prayer, he's been formed spiritually in deep and lasting ways. In these pages, he offers you a brand new way to use the Book of Common Prayer, that you too might experience new growth, new intimacy with God and a new lens through which to view the world. Focusing on the four sacramental rites ...
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paperbackAccording to Plan
The Unfolding Revelation of God in the Bible
by Graeme Goldsworthy
The massive diversity and complexity of the Bible can make it a daunting project for anyone to tackle. Getting a grasp on the unity of the Bible, its central message from Genesis to Revelation, helps immensely in understanding the meaning of any one book or passage. That is the goal of this book by Graeme Goldsworthy.
- How do the Old and New Testaments fit together?
- What is the ...
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caseboundThe IVP Atlas of Bible History
Consulting Editor A. R. Millard and John H. Walton
by Paul Lawrence
Consulting Editor Heinrich Von SiebenthalOpen Your Understanding of the World of Scripture
The story of the Bible is inextricably linked to the land. To understand biblical history, we need to understand how the people, events, and geography interacted to form that ancient world.
Spanning three thousand years of biblical history, The IVP Atlas of Bible History reveals the many fascinating ways that ...
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paperbackThe Universe Next Door
A Basic Worldview Catalog
by James W. Sire
Foreword by Jim HooverYour Trusted Introduction to the Worldviews That Shape the Western World
For more than forty years, The Universe Next Door has set the standard for a clear, readable introduction to worldviews. Using his widely influential model of eight basic worldview questions, James Sire examines prominent worldviews that have shaped the Western world:
- theism
- deism
- naturalism
- Marxism
- nihilism
- existentialism
- Eastern ...
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ebookRevelation
An Introduction and Commentary
Tyndale New Testament Commentaries
by Ian Paul
Series edited by Eckhard J. Schnabel and Nicholas PerrinThe Book of Revelation is a remarkable text. A fascinating piece of Scripture as well as an extraordinary piece of literature, its interpretation has affected our theology, art and worship, and even international politics. Yet it is widely neglected in the church and almost entirely avoided from the pulpit. In this Tyndale Commentary, Ian Paul takes a disciplined approach to the text, paying careful ...
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paperbackHow Wide the Divide?
A Mormon an Evangelical in Conversation
by Craig L. Blomberg and Stephen E. Robinson
- Voted one of Christianity Today's 1998 Books of the Year
Mormons and evangelicals don't often get along very well, at least not once they begin to discuss their religious beliefs. They often set about trying to convert one another, considering the faith the other holds as defective in some critical way. Unfortunately, much of what they say about one ...
