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  • Genesis, By Derek Kidner
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    Genesis

    Kidner Classic Commentaries

    by Derek Kidner

    There are few parts of Scripture over which so many battles—theological, scientific, historical, and literary—have been fought as the book of Genesis. In this classic work, Derek Kidner not only provides a verse-by-verse exegetical commentary butalso lucidly handles the tough issues that Genesis raises. Focusing on the study of Genesis on its own terms, as "a living whole," he highlights the theological ...

  • Faith on the Edge: Daring to Follow Jesus, By Kevin Blue and Amy L. Brooke and Robbie F. Castleman and Bobby Gross and Jon Tran
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    Faith on the Edge

    Daring to Follow Jesus

    by Kevin Blue, Amy L. Brooke, Robbie F. Castleman, Bobby Gross, and Jon Tran
    Edited by Paul Tokunaga

    Do you want to live for Jesus but struggle with what that means day by day? The deep desire of our hearts to be close to God is so easily sidetracked by daily realities. This book is designed to cover the areas of faith and life that you most wantto bring together under God's leadership:

    • decision-making
    • dating and relationships
    • racial reconciliation
    • suffering ...
  • Nourishing Narratives: The Power of Story to Shape Our Faith, By Jennifer L. Holberg
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    Nourishing Narratives

    The Power of Story to Shape Our Faith

    by Jennifer Louise Holberg

    Humans are story-shaped creatures.

    We make sense of our world, pattern our lives, and reflect on what is ultimately significant through language and the words that compose our stories. But how does this relate to the narrative of the Bible and the story that God is writing through history?

    In Nourishing Narratives, writer and professor Jennifer Holberg engages ...

  • , By Gerald L. Sittser
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    Water from a Deep Well

    Christian Spirituality from Early Martyrs to Modern Missionaries

    by Gerald L. Sittser
    Afterword by John Mark Comer
    Foreword by Eugene H Peterson

    "[This book] is a treasure. The first time I read it, I remember closing the final page and thinking to myself, I wish I could make every single Christian on earth read this book. … John Chrysostom, Evagrius the Solitary, Julian of Norwich, Martin Luther, Dorothy Day, Dietrich Bonhoeffer—these saints and sages live on in me. And they can live on in you, too. They can enlarge and enrich ...

  • Strong and Weak: Embracing a Life of Love, Risk and True Flourishing, By Andy Crouch
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    Strong and Weak

    Embracing a Life of Love, Risk and True Flourishing

    by Andy Crouch

    Flourishing people are strong and weak.Two common temptations lure us away from abundant living—withdrawing into safety or grasping for power. True flourishing, says Andy Crouch, travels down an unexpected path—being both strong and weak.We see this unlikely mixture in the best leaders—people who use their authority for the benefit of others, while also showing extraordinary willingness to face ...

  • The Message of Ruth: The Wings of Refuge, By David J. Atkinson
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    The Message of Ruth

    The Wings of Refuge

    The Bible Speaks Today Series

    by David J. Atkinson

    The book of Ruth tells the story of ordinary people facing ordinary events. We meet Naomi, who went through famine and bereavement but eventually won peace and security. We meet Ruth, a foreign woman from Moab who chose faithfulness to her mother-in-law, Naomi, and to Naomi's God. And we meet Boaz, who by marrying Ruth fitted into God's purposes for history. Both King David and ...

  • Enough for Today: Forty Reflections for Surviving the Wilderness, By Donna Barber
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    Enough for Today

    Forty Reflections for Surviving the Wilderness

    by Donna Barber

    Find Strength in the Wilderness

    When life feels like a wilderness—a place of uncertainty, exhaustion, and spiritual stumbling—what do you hold on to?

    For many of us the past few years have been clouded by plagues ofillness and dying, anger and violence, disillusionment and loss. And numerous pharaohs, from the church house to the courthouse to the White House, appear ...

  • The Freedom of Surrender: Forty Devotions for a Joyful Life in Christ, By Mary DeMuth
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    The Freedom of Surrender

    Forty Devotions for a Joyful Life in Christ

    by Mary DeMuth

    Find joy and freedom in surrender

    Letting go is hard.

    To surrender is to let go of what we tightly grip, the good and the bad. It’s a relinquishing of control, a recognition that God alone can meet our deepest needs. It’s a holy pause that entrusts each hope, each worry, and each pressing concern to the One whose love for us is beyond measure. And in this surrender, ...