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  • Restless Devices: Recovering Personhood, Presence, and Place in the Digital Age, By Felicia Wu Song
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    Restless Devices

    Recovering Personhood, Presence, and Place in the Digital Age

    by Felicia Wu Song

    We're being formed by our devices. Today's digital technologies are designed to captivate our attention and encroach on our boundaries, shaping how we relate to time and space, to ourselves and others, even to God. Our natural longing for relationship makes us vulnerable to the "industrializing" effects of social media. While we enjoy the benefits of digital tech, many of us feel ...

  • Jeremiah, Lamentations, Edited by Dean O. Wenthe
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    Jeremiah, Lamentations

    Volume 12

    Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture

    Edited by Dean O. Wenthe
    General Editor Thomas C. Oden

    Jeremiah, the weeping prophet, prophesied for four decades under the last five kings of Judah—from 627 to 587 B.C. His mission: a call to repentance. Among the apostolic fathers, Jeremiah was rarely cited, but several later authors give prominent attention to him, including Origen, Theodoret of Cyr, and Jerome, who wrote individual commentaries on Jeremiah, and Cyril of Alexandria ...

  • God Behaving Badly: Is the God of the Old Testament Angry, Sexist and Racist?, By David T. Lamb
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    God Behaving Badly

    Is the God of the Old Testament Angry, Sexist and Racist?

    by David T. Lamb

    God has a bad reputation. Many think of God as wrathful and angry, smiting people right and left for no apparent reason. The Old Testament in particular seems at times to portray God as capricious and malevolent, wiping out armiesand nations, punishing enemies with extreme prejudice.

    But wait. The story is more complicated than that. Alongside troubling passages of God's punishment ...

  • Pocket Dictionary of the Reformed Tradition, By Kelly M. Kapic and Wesley Vander Lugt
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    Pocket Dictionary of the Reformed Tradition

    The IVP Pocket Reference Series

    by Kelly M. Kapic and Wesley Vander Lugt

    Beginning to study Reformed theology is like stepping into a family conversation that has been going on for five hundred years. How do you find your bearings and figure out how to take part in this conversation without embarrassing yourself?

    The Pocket Dictionary of the Reformed Tradition takes on this rich, boisterous and varied tradition in its broad contours, filling you in on ...

  • Freedom from Tyranny of the Urgent, By Charles E. Hummel
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    Freedom from Tyranny of the Urgent

    by Charles E. Hummel

    Winner of the 2004 ECPA Platinum Book Award!

    Is the clock a slavemaster or a tool that serves you?
    Does the quantity of your responsibilities squeeze out the quality of your life?
    Are urgent things so pressing that you don't have "inner time" to sort out what's really important?
    How can you discern what God wants you to do?

    Charles Hummel's classic ...

  • Evangelical Theological Method: Five Views, Edited by Stanley E. Porter and Steven M. Studebaker
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    Evangelical Theological Method

    Five Views

    Spectrum Multiview Book Series

    Edited by Stanley E. Porter and Steven M. Studebaker

    How should one approach the task of theology? The question of methodology is increasingly one of interest among theologians, who recognize that the very manner in which we approach theology informs both the questions we ask and the conclusions we reach.

    This volume in IVP's Spectrum Multiview series brings together five evangelical theologians with distinctly different approaches ...

  • The Message of Obadiah, Nahum & Zephaniah, By Gordon Bridger
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    The Message of Obadiah, Nahum & Zephaniah

    The Bible Speaks Today Series

    by Gordon Bridger

    Among the books of the Bible, Obadiah, Nahum, and Zephaniah are rarely read or preached. Gordon Bridger moves against this trend, encouraging the study and application of these Old Testament prophets.

    Important biblical themes are found at the heart of these books: God's personal, sovereign, righteous, and loving character; facing up to sin and judgment; responding in repentance ...