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paperbackDivorce and Remarriage in the Church
Biblical Solutions for Pastoral Realities
by David Instone-Brewer
Will God allow me to divorce my abusive husband? Would it be a sin if I remarried? Divorce and remarriage are major pastoral issues facing every church. Yet when we turn to Scripture for guidance, we often hear conflicting messages about its teachings. David Instone-Brewer shows how, when properly understood, the New Testament provides faithful, realistic and wise guidance of crucial importance ...
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caseboundOur Church Speaks
An Illustrated Devotional of Saints from Every Era and Place
by Ben Lansing and D. J. Marotta
Surrounded by a Cloud of Witnesses
Do you ever feel like you're alone in your struggles to live out the Christian faith? Do you ever read the Bible yet still wonder what it looks like to follow Jesus in the complexity and difficulty of our time?
The stories of great men and women throughout the history of the church can help us form a bridge between the teaching of Scripture ...
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paperbackLearning Theology with the Church Fathers
by Christopher A. Hall
The early church fathers were great theologians--though they did not think of themselves as such. They were working pastors, involved in the daily life and leadership of their congregations. Yet they were wrestling with many of the great and formative questions of the Christian faith, such as the Trinity, the incarnation, the providence of God and the nature of the church. These beliefs were ...
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paperbackLeading Across Cultures
Effective Ministry and Mission in the Global Church
by James E. Plueddemann
The worldwide church is more interconnected than ever before, with missionaries going from everywhere to everywhere. Africans work with Australians in India. Koreans plant churches in London and Los Angeles. But globalization also creates challenges for crosscultural tension and misunderstandings, as different cultures have conflicting assumptions about leadership values and styles. Missiologist ...
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paperbackHealth, Healing and the Church's Mission
Biblical Perspectives and Moral Priorities
by Willard M. Swartley
Does the Christian community have the resources to develop a coherent response to health care challenges today? Accounting for biblical, theological and church-historical streams, Willard Swartley divulges a long tradition of healing and health care inherited by Christians today. Beginning with in-depth studies of Old and New Testament understandings of healing, the book surveys three millennia ...
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paperbackFaithful Disobedience
Writings on Church and State from a Chinese House Church Movement
by Wang Yi
Edited by Hannah Nation and J. D. Tseng
Foreword by Ian JohnsonReader's Choice Award Winner
Throughout China's rapidly growing cities, a new wave of unregistered house churches is growing. They are developing rich theological perspectives that are both uniquely Chinese and rooted in the historical doctrines of the faith. To understand how they have endured despite government pressure and cultural marginalization, we must ...
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boxed itemsAncient Christian Commentary on Scripture
Edited by Thomas C. Oden
Volumes in the Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture (ACCS) offer you the opportunity to study for yourself key writings of the early church fathers. Arranged canonically and employing the RSV, each volume allows the living voices of the church in its formative centuries to speak as they engage the sacred page of Scripture. This thirty-volume series—now in paperback for the first time—includes ...
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paperbackCreative Church Handbook
Releasing the Power of the Arts in Your Congregation
by J. Scott McElroy
If the future is creative, is it any wonder that sometimes the church seems stuck in the past? Now is the time for the church to reclaim its role as a center of creativity. Among your members are artists, musicians and other creatives whose gifts can enhance your worship, inform your theology and impact your community. Christian arts advocate J. Scott McElroy gives a comprehensive vision and manual ...
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paperbackChurch, State and Public Justice
Five Views
Spectrum Multiview Book Series
Edited by P. C. Kemeny
Contributions by Clarke E. Cochran, Derek H. Davis, Corwin E. Smidt, Ronald J. Sider, and J. Philip WogamanAbortion. Physician-assisted suicide. Same-sex marriages. Embryonic stem-cell research. Poverty. Crime. What is a faithful Christian response?
The God of the Bible is unquestionably a God of justice. Yet Christians have had their differences as to how human government and the church should bring about a just social order. Although Christians share many deep and significant ...
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paperbackConfronting Sexism in the Church
How We Got Here and What We Can Do About It
by Heather Matthews
Foreword by Scot McKnightHow to Fight Sexism in the Church
Despite the real progress that has been made in recent years, women continue to be silenced, wounded, and relegated to the sidelines in our churches. Many churches—even churches that outwardly affirm and platform women—remain unaware of the patterns and cultures at play that set up unseen barriers for women.
This is a book for Christians ...
