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  • The Greco-Roman World of the New Testament Era: Exploring the Background of Early Christianity, By James S. Jeffers
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    The Greco-Roman World of the New Testament Era

    Exploring the Background of Early Christianity

    by James S. Jeffers

    What was life like for first-century Christians?

    Imagine a modest-sized Roman home of a well-to-do Christian household wedged into a thickly settled quarter of Corinth. In the lingering light of a summer evening, men, women and children, merchants, working poor and slaves, a mix of races and backgrounds have assembled in the dimly lit main room are are spilling into the central courtyard. ...

  • Salvation Belongs to Our God: Celebrating the Bible's Central Story, By Christopher J. H. Wright
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    Salvation Belongs to Our God

    Celebrating the Bible's Central Story

    Christian Doctrine in Global Perspective

    by Christopher J. H. Wright

    A great multitude that no one could count . . . cried out in a loud voice: "Salvation belongs to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb."Every phrase in Revelation 7:10 resonates with significant themes in the Old and New Testaments. Christopher Wright views the story of God's salvation through the lens of this verse to show the great breadth of God's saving work: the character ...

  • What About Those Who Have Never Heard?: Three Views on the Destiny of the Unevangelized, Edited by Gabriel J. Fackre and Ronald H. Nash and John Sanders
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    What About Those Who Have Never Heard?

    Three Views on the Destiny of the Unevangelized

    Spectrum Multiview Book Series

    Edited by Gabriel J. Fackre, Ronald H. Nash, and John Sanders

    Voted one of Christianity Today's Books of the Year

    What is the fate of those who die never hearing the gospel? Do Hindus, Jews, agnostics and others who do not profess faith in Christ really suffer damnation after death? These and similar questions have long been contemplated by people from every religious persuasion and every walk of life. But in ...

  • Twelve Lies That Hold America Captive: And the Truth That Sets Us Free, By Jonathan P. Walton
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    Twelve Lies That Hold America Captive

    And the Truth That Sets Us Free

    by Jonathan P Walton
    Foreword by Greg Jao

    "America is a Christian nation.""All men are created equal.""We are the land of the free and the home of the brave."Except when we're not. These commonly held ideas break down in the light of hard realities, the study of Scripture, and faithful Christian witness. The president is not the Messiah, the Constitution is not the Bible, and the United States is not a city on a hill or ...

  • Divorce and Remarriage: Four Christian Views, Edited by H. Wayne House
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    Divorce and Remarriage

    Four Christian Views

    Spectrum Multiview Book Series

    Contributions by J. Carl Laney, William A. Heth, Thomas R. Edgar, and Larry Richards
    Edited by H. Wayne House

    Divorce. No one likes it, but it doesn't go away. Even among Christians, the divorce rate continues to climb. How should Christians approach this issue? May Christians ever legitimately divorce? If they divorce legitimately, may they remarry?

    Not everyone who appeals to Scripture agrees on how we should understand what it says about divorce and remarriage. In this Spectrum ...

  • Redeeming Creation: The Biblical Basis for Environmental Stewardship, By Fred H. Van Dyke and David C. Mahan and Joseph K. Sheldon and Raymond H. Brand
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    Redeeming Creation

    The Biblical Basis for Environmental Stewardship

    by Fred H. Van Dyke, David C. Mahan, Joseph K. Sheldon, and Raymond H. Brand

    "Preeeeep." The sound of the peepers, tiny frogs an inch or two long, penetrated the dusk. Beneath the jack pines at the edge of a small pond in the northern Michigan woods, the males were calling their mates. A professor and a group of ecology students sat speechless as closer and closer, louder and louder, more and more peepers joined in chorus.There was just light enough to see them, crawling ...

  • Traveling Light: Galatians and the Free Life in Christ, By Eugene H. Peterson
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    Traveling Light

    Galatians and the Free Life in Christ

    by Eugene H Peterson
    Foreword by Karen Swallow Prior

    We aspire to freedom but often resign ourselves to an existence trapped in uneasiness and dread. Is there any way to shed such heaviness and reignite hope for deliverance?

    In Traveling Light, Eugene H. Peterson urges us to listen to an expert on freedom, Paul, whose letter to the Galatians reminds us of the realities of life in Christ, freely given to all. Peterson ...