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  • Muslim Evangelism: Contemporary Approaches to Contextualization, By Phil Parshall
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    Muslim Evangelism

    Contemporary Approaches to Contextualization

    by Phil Parshall
    Foreword by Ramsay Harris

    Too long the church has been programmed to accept the inevitabilities of meager results in the efforts toward Muslim evangelization. The reasons for this failure in mission must now be probed and resolved as the world today is coming alive to the presence of the Muslim religious community. Phil Parshall asks the missions world to forsake former presuppositions and to become conscious of God speaking ...

  • Community: Living as the People of God, By Scott Nelson
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    Community

    Living as the People of God

    Forge Guides for Missional Conversation

    by Scott Nelson
    Foreword by Alan Hirsch

    The mission of God has a church. So the church needs to be in sync with the mission of God. This is the guiding philosophy of the Forge Missions Training Network, which has helped church leaders and laypeople alike all over the world to reach their neighbors, their neighborhoods and their communities with the gospel. In these guides you and your friends will be equipped to be missionaries where ...

  • Children's Ministry in the Way of Jesus, By David M. Csinos and Ivy Beckwith
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    Children's Ministry in the Way of Jesus

    by David M. Csinos and Ivy Beckwith
    Foreword by John H. Westerhoff III

    Attract kids to church, the logic often goes, and you get parents in the pews. All that's left, then, is to get the kids out of the way. Here children's ministers David Csinos and Ivy Beckwith draw on research in human development and spiritual formation to show how children become disciples and churches become centers of lifelong discipleship. For too long, the local church has focused primarily ...

  • Imitating God in Christ: Recapturing a Biblical Pattern, By Jason B. Hood
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    Imitating God in Christ

    Recapturing a Biblical Pattern

    by Jason B. Hood

    Should we imitate Jesus? Some Christians answer with a cheerful "Yes," seeing it as the sum of the Christian life. Others believe we should rely on the work of Christ alone, throwing off any hint of the moralism or "works righteousness" they associate with imitating Jesus. Jason Hood takes us on a tour of what the Bible has to say about imitating Jesus. He draws our attention to what Paul told ...

  • God Dwells Among Us: A Biblical Theology of the Temple, By G. K. Beale and Mitchell Kim
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    God Dwells Among Us

    A Biblical Theology of the Temple

    Essential Studies in Biblical Theology

    by G. K. Beale and Mitchell Kim
    Series edited by Benjamin L. Gladd

    The temple has always been a source of rich scholarship and theological reflection, but what does it mean for the church's ongoing mission in the world? G. K. Beale and Mitchell Kim examine temple theology throughout Scripture, exploring how this theme relates to Christian life and witness today. From Eden to the new Jerusalem, they argue, we are God's temple on the earth, the firstfruits ...

  • Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep, By Tish Harrison Warren
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    Prayer in the Night

    For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep

    by Tish Harrison Warren

    ECPA Christian Book of the Year, Christianity Today Book of the Year

    An Honest, Prayerful Approach to the Difficulty of Ordinary Life

    How can we trust God in the dark?

    Tish Harrison Warren, author of Liturgy of the Ordinary, explores themes of human vulnerability, suffering, and God's seeming absence. When she ...

  • A Supreme Love: The Music of Jazz and the Hope of the Gospel, By William Edgar
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    A Supreme Love

    The Music of Jazz and the Hope of the Gospel

    by William Edgar
    Foreword by Carl Ellis and Karen Ellis

    The Gospel Coaltion Award of Distinction—Arts and Culture

    ECPA Top Shelf Award Winner

    For practitioners and fans, jazz expresses the deepest meanings of life. Its rich history and its distinctive elements like improvisation and syncopation unite to create an unrepeatable and inexpressible aesthetic experience. But for others, jazz is ...

  • Getting Sent: A Relational Approach to Support Raising, By Pete Sommer
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    Getting Sent

    A Relational Approach to Support Raising

    by Pete Sommer

    Most of us would rather have a root canal than ask for money. Raising support is one of the most difficult challenges facing Christians in ministry. Fears of rejection, concerns about biblical validity, feelings of not being deserving, anxiety about limited resources can all block us from obtaining the means to fulfill our calling. This book both affirms that God uses the Christian community to ...

  • Acts, Edited by Francis Martin
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    Acts

    Volume 5

    Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture

    Edited by Francis Martin
    General Editor Thomas C. Oden

    The Acts of the Apostles—or more in keeping with the author's intent, the Acts of the Ascended Lord—is part two of Luke's story of "all that Jesus began to do and teach." In it he recounts the expansion of the church as its witness spread from Jerusalem to all of Judea and Samaria and to the ends of the earth. While at least forty early church authors commented on Acts, the works ...

  • Romans, Edited by Gerald Bray
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    Romans

    Volume 6

    Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture

    Edited by Gerald Bray
    General Editor Thomas C. Oden

    Christianity Today Book of the Year

    St. Paul's Letter to the Romans has long been considered the theological high-water mark of the New Testament. It was no less regarded by the ancient church, and patristic interpreters have left us an abundance of valuable comment on Romans.

    This Ancient Christian Commentary on Romans collects the best and most representative ...