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  • Christianity on Trial: A Lawyer Examines the Christian Faith, By W. Mark Lanier
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    Christianity on Trial

    A Lawyer Examines the Christian Faith

    by W. Mark Lanier

    Does the Christian faith hold up under scrutiny? What does science tell us about the plausibility of a god? Can we trust the alleged eyewitness testimony of the life, death and resurrection of Jesus?These questions are worth investigating in orderto find an answer solidified in fact and evidence. Mark Lanier, one of America's top trial lawyers, uses his experienced legal eye to examine the plausibility ...

  • Old-Earth or Evolutionary Creation?: Discussing Origins with Reasons to Believe and BioLogos, Edited by Kenneth Keathley and J. B. Stump and Joe Aguirre
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    Old-Earth or Evolutionary Creation?

    Discussing Origins with Reasons to Believe and BioLogos

    BioLogos Books on Science and Christianity

    Edited by Kenneth Keathley, J. B. Stump, and Joe Aguirre

    Jesus Creed Book of the Year 2017, Science and Faith

    Christians confess that God created the heavens and the earth. But they are divided over how God created and whether the Bible gives us a scientifically accurate accountof the process of creation.

    Representatives of two prominent positions—old-earth creation (Reasons to Believe) and evolutionary creation (BioLogos)—have ...

  • Life in the Son: Exploring Participation and Union with Christ in John's Gospel and Letters, By Clive Bowsher
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    Life in the Son

    Exploring Participation and Union with Christ in John's Gospel and Letters

    New Studies in Biblical Theology

    by Clive Bowsher
    Series edited by D. A. Carson

    The New Testament writers use spatial language and imagery to portray our relationship with God, speaking both about God or Christ in us and us in them. Believers are also described as possessing and participating in divine qualities such as life and glory. Both aspects are prominent in John's Gospel and letters. However, outside the Pauline writings, union with Christ has hardly ...

  • Growing Older & Wiser, By Dale Larsen and Sandy Larsen
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    Growing Older & Wiser

    LifeGuide Bible Studies

    by Dale Larsen and Sandy Larsen

    God Has a Purpose for You as You Grow Older

    You can't change the fact that you are getting older, and, indeed, you may not want to! Age brings many gifts and opportunities for continued growth. In this nine-session LifeGuide® Bible Study, Dale and Sandy Larsen help you discover the Bible's perspective on aging. Through studying passages from books of the Bible including James, ...

    Number of Studies: 9

  • Attentive Church Leadership: Listening and Leading in a World We've Never Known, By Kevin G.Ford and Jim Singleton
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    Attentive Church Leadership

    Listening and Leading in a World We've Never Known

    by Kevin Graham Ford and Jim Singleton
    Foreword by Ed Stetzer

    The world has changed. The changes around us present daunting challenges to the church, and we minister in places we have never been in before. But there are no one-size-fits-all solutions because every church needs to attend to its specific situation and calling. We need to listen for not only what to do but also what not to do. In a world screaming in a thousand directions for ...

  • Renovation of the Church: What Happens When a Seeker Church Discovers Spiritual Formation, By Kent Carlson and Mike Lueken
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    Renovation of the Church

    What Happens When a Seeker Church Discovers Spiritual Formation

    by Kent Carlson and Mike Lueken
    Foreword by Dallas Willard

    Christianity Today Book Award winner

    Leadership Journal Top Book of the Year

    Copastors Kent Carlson and Mike Lueken tell the story of how God took their thriving, consumer-oriented church and transformed it into a modest congregation of unformed believers committed to the growth of the spirit--even when it meant a decline in numbers.

    As ...

  • Nehemiah: The Courage to Face Opposition, By Don A. Fields
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    Nehemiah

    The Courage to Face Opposition

    LifeGuide Bible Studies

    by Don A. Fields

    Nehemiah was a leader of Israel. He faced opposition and difficulty from every side—even from his own people. Yet he stood against all his enemies, trusting only in God.

    As Don Fields leads you through twelve sessions LifeGuide®Bible Study to dig into the Old Testament story of Nehemiah, you will discover how this leader's courage and faith can inspire you as you struggle to live a life pleasing ...

    Number of Studies: 12

  • The Good and Beautiful Community: Following the Spirit, Extending Grace, Demonstrating Love, By James Bryan Smith
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    The Good and Beautiful Community

    Following the Spirit, Extending Grace, Demonstrating Love

    The Good and Beautiful Series

    by James Bryan Smith

    In this Good and Beautiful Series book, James Bryan Smith helps us know how to live in relationship with others as apprentices of Jesus. "Apprentices of Jesus are not part-time do-gooders," he writes. "They live in continuous contact with the kingdom of God, and are constantly men and women in whom Christ dwells. They do not sometimes tell the truth, sometimes live sacrificially ...

  • Recalibrate Your Life: Navigating Transitions with Purpose and Hope, By Kenneth Boa and Jenny Abel
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    Recalibrate Your Life

    Navigating Transitions with Purpose and Hope

    by Kenneth Boa and Jenny M Abel

    As we make our way through life, we find ourselves in times of transition where we need to reassess who we are and what we do.

    Living well doesn't happen automatically for followers of Christ—it happens when we have plannedahead by reviewing and recalibrating our lives on a regular basis, and when we transition from one stage of life to the next. Times of transition, especially ...

  • The Missional Quest: Becoming a Church of the Long Run, By Lance Ford and Brad Brisco
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    The Missional Quest

    Becoming a Church of the Long Run

    Forge Partnership Books

    by Lance Ford and Brad Brisco
    Foreword by Ed Stetzer

    When Christ calls people, he invites them on a journey—a journey taken together in community. We have reached a point in history, however, when we think of the church as a fixed place where isolated individuals show up, consume a Christian message, drink some coffee, and get on with their lives. The times demand, and the gospel proclaims, that we recover our identity as a church that is a people ...