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  • Kingdom Apprenticeship: Dallas Willard's Formational Theology and Missional Vision, By Keas Keasler
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    Kingdom Apprenticeship

    Dallas Willard's Formational Theology and Missional Vision

    by Keas Keasler

    A Groundbreaking Analysis of Dallas Willard's Theology of Spiritual Formation

    Dallas Willard’s formational theology begins with the claim that the aim of God in human history is the formation of a community of loving persons apprenticed to Jesus—and ends with the promise that such apprenticeship prepares us to share in God’s governance of the cosmos.

    This apprenticeship ...

  • The Last Things, By David Höhne
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    The Last Things

    Contours of Christian Theology

    by David Höhne

    There is no shortage of books on eschatology—the study of the last things and the end-times. Many arise out of incoherent or superficial readings of the Bible that detract from the "once and for all" achievements of God through the death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus. Others fail to consider the manner in which God reveals himself through the Lord Jesus and by the power of his Spirit. Too many ...

  • Face to Face with God: A Biblical Theology of Christ as Priest and Mediator, By T. Desmond Alexander
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    Face to Face with God

    A Biblical Theology of Christ as Priest and Mediator

    Essential Studies in Biblical Theology

    by T. Desmond Alexander
    Series edited by Benjamin L. Gladd

    How can sinful humans approach a holy God? In the book of Hebrews, Jesus Christ is celebrated as the great high priest who represents his people before the Father. Jesus' roles as priest and mediator are central to his identity and bring to completion themes woven throughout Scripture.

    In this fifth ESBT volume, T. Desmond Alexander considers the often-neglected themes of ...

  • Death Before the Fall: Biblical Literalism and the Problem of Animal Suffering, By Ronald E. Osborn
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    Death Before the Fall

    Biblical Literalism and the Problem of Animal Suffering

    by Ronald E. Osborn
    Foreword by John H. Walton

    ECPA Top Shelf Book Cover Award

    Did animals have predatory natures before the fall? Did God punish innocent animals with a curse because of human sin? Is it possible for theistic evolution to be compatible with the Bible, even though animal death before the fall would contradict the teaching that death began after the first sin?

    In this eloquent and provocative "open ...

  • True Story: A Christianity Worth Believing In, By James Choung
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    True Story

    A Christianity Worth Believing In

    The IVP Signature Collection

    by James Choung

    There must be more to the Christian story.In this engaging narrative, James Choung weaves the tale of a search for a Christianity worth believing in. Disillusioned believer Caleb and hostile skeptic Anna wrestle with the plausibility of the Christian story in a world of pain and suffering. They ask each other tough questions about what Jesus really came to do and what Christianity ...

  • The Message of Joel, Micah & Habakkuk, By David Prior
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    The Message of Joel, Micah & Habakkuk

    The Bible Speaks Today Series

    by David Prior

    Where is God in times of disaster? How can God allow suffering? What are God's people to do about moral decay in society? People throughout the ages have pondered these questions, and three of the Bible's minor prophets—Joel, Micah, and Habakkuk—offer special insight on these perennial problems.

    David Prior's passage-by-passage exposition of these three books provides careful ...

  • The God Who Is There, By Francis A. Schaeffer
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    The God Who Is There

    The IVP Signature Collection

    by Francis A. Schaeffer
    Foreword by James W. Sire and Steven Garber

    • Over 400,000 Sold

    For over fifty years The God Who Is There has been a landmark work that has changed the way the church sees the world. Francis Schaeffer's first book presents a wide-ranging analysis of the intellectual and cultural climate of the second half of the twentieth century, from philosophy to art to liberal theology. Arguing that Christians ...

  • The Wisdom of Pixar: An Animated Look at Virtue, By Robert Velarde
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    The Wisdom of Pixar

    An Animated Look at Virtue

    by Robert Velarde

    Kids and adults alike love Pixar's movies. We come out of the theater not just entertained or amused, but inspired. Everybody agrees: Pixar makes fun, clean, terrific movies. But what makes these movies so appealing is not merely amazing CGI animation, clever humor or fantastic imagination. These movies are not just great. Pixar's movies are good.Robert Velarde unpacks the movies of Pixar ...