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  • Hope Ain't a Hustle: Persevering by Faith in a Wearying World, By Irwyn L. Ince Jr.
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    Hope Ain't a Hustle

    Persevering by Faith in a Wearying World--Wisdom from the Book of Hebrews

    by Irwyn Ince
    Foreword by Christina Edmondson

    "This wonderful book is a pastoral, homiletical gift to those in need of encouragement. Diagnosing the problem of our era as a failure of hope, Irwyn Ince shares the fruit of his profound meditations, study, and preaching of the book of Hebrews. This is the kind of strong medicine needed to restore hope in a generation that has been disappointed by apathy, injustice, and scandal. He shows us that ...

  • Marriage at the Crossroads: Couples in Conversation About Discipleship, Gender Roles, Decision Making and Intimacy, By Aída Besançon Spencer and William David Spencer and Steven Tracy and Celestia Tracy
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    Marriage at the Crossroads

    Couples in Conversation About Discipleship, Gender Roles, Decision Making and Intimacy

    by Aída Besançon Spencer, William David Spencer, Steven Tracy, and Celestia Tracy

    Have you ever wondered how egalitarian and complementarian marriages play out differently on a day-to-day level?In this unique book Aída and William Spencer and Steve and Celestia Tracy, two couples from the differing perspectives of egalitarianism and soft complementarianism, share a constructive dialogue about marriage in practice. They cover a variety of topics like marriage discipleship, headship ...

  • Pocket Dictionary of Theological Terms, By Stanley J. Grenz and David Guretzki and Cherith Fee Nordling
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    Pocket Dictionary of Theological Terms

    The IVP Pocket Reference Series

    by Stanley J. Grenz, David Guretzki, and Cherith Fee Nordling

    Beginning to study theology is like stepping into a conversation that has been going on for two thousand years.

    How do you take part in this conversation--or even make sense of it--if you don't understand the vocabulary or know the contributions made by other participants?

    The Pocket Dictionary of Theological Terms is the perfect companion to your theological studies. Among ...

  • Why Good Arguments Often Fail: Making a More Persuasive Case for Christ, By James W. Sire
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    Why Good Arguments Often Fail

    Making a More Persuasive Case for Christ

    by James W. Sire

    You gave it your best shot. You made the best case you knew how, and your friend still wasn't persuaded to follow Christ. Why is it that solid, rational arguments for the Christian faith often fail?For over fifty years James Sire, noted author andpublic defender of the Christian faith, has asked himself that question. Sometimes, of course, the arguments themselves just aren't that good. How can ...

  • A Week in the Life of a Slave, By John Byron
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    A Week in the Life of a Slave

    A Week in the Life Series

    by John Byron

    "I appeal to you for my son Onesimus, who became my son while I was in chains. Formerly he was useless to you, but now he has become useful both to you and to me."

    These words, written by the apostle Paul to a first-century Christian named Philemon, are tantalizingly brief. Indeed, Paul's epistle to Philemon is one of the shortest books in the entire Bible. While it's direct ...

  • The Myth of Certainty: The Reflective Christian  the Risk of Commitment, By Daniel Taylor
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    The Myth of Certainty

    The Reflective Christian & the Risk of Commitment

    by Daniel Taylor

    Do you feel equally uncomfortable with closed-minded skepticism and closed-minded Christianity?If so, then The Myth of Certainty is the book for you. Daniel Taylor suggests a path to committed faith that is both consistent with the tradition of Christian orthodoxy and sensitive to the pluralism, relativism and complexity of our time.

    Taylor makes the case for the reflective, questioning ...

  • Mixed Blessing: Embracing the Fullness of Your Multiethnic Identity, By Chandra Crane
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    Mixed Blessing

    Embracing the Fullness of Your Multiethnic Identity

    by Chandra Crane
    Foreword by Jemar Tisby

    ECPA Top Shelf Book Cover Award

    "So what are you?"

    Chandra Crane knows what it's like to get that question. She has a Thai birth father, a European American mother, and an African American father who adopted her when she was five. With this mixed multiethnic and multicultural background, she has keenly felt the otherness of never quite fitting in. Where ...

  • Kneeling with Giants: Learning to Pray with History's Best Teachers, By Gary Neal Hansen
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    Kneeling with Giants

    Learning to Pray with History's Best Teachers

    by Gary Neal Hansen

    Christian Resources Together Devotional Book of the Year

    Do you sometimes find yourself searching for a way to approach God or wondering how to get out of a devotional slump? Do you long for spiritual guides you cantrust?

    This guide to prayer is rooted in centuries of Christian tradition. In each chapter you'll meet a figure from church history, such as St. ...

  • Luke, Edited by Brian Chung and Bryan Ye-Chung
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    Luke

    Alabaster Guided Meditations

    Contributions by Jan Johnson
    Edited by Brian Chung and Bryan Chung

    Come and experience the Scriptures in a fresh and life-giving way.

    "Having carefully investigated everything from the beginning, I also have decided to write an accurate account for you, most honorable Theophilus, so you can be certain of the truth of everything you were taught." —Luke 1:3-4

    In this collaboration between Alabaster Co. and IVP, the full text of the Gospel ...

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