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  • 1 Chronicles: An Introduction and Commentary, By Martin J. Selman
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    1 Chronicles

    An Introduction and Commentary

    Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries

    by Martin J. Selman

    The Chronicler wrote as a pastoral theologian. The congregation he addressed was an Israel separated from its former days of blessing by a season of judgment. The books of 1 and 2 Chronicles bring a divine word of healing and reaffirm the hope ofrestoration to a nation that needed to regain its footing in God's promises and to reshape its life before God.

    The Chronicler expounds the Bible ...

  • The Message of Isaiah, By Barry G. Webb
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    The Message of Isaiah

    The Bible Speaks Today Series

    by Barry G. Webb

    The book of Isaiah is outstanding in its brilliance of style, poetic power, and foretaste of the hope of the gospel. It tells how God himself has provided the highway to holiness for those who have been redeemed. These are imagesthat evoke the exodus from Egypt and foreshadow Christ's achievement at the cross. There is joy even in Isaiah's portrayal of judgment—rebuilding within ...

  • Great Commission, Great Compassion: Following Jesus and Loving the World, By Paul Borthwick
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    Great Commission, Great Compassion

    Following Jesus and Loving the World

    by Paul Borthwick
    Foreword by Christopher J. H. Wright

    Go and do. Jesus commands it, and the world needs it. Word and deed go together. One without the other is not enough. We follow Jesus into all the world, and we follow his example in all we do.

    Mission mobilizer Paul Borthwick shows how proclamation and demonstration of the gospel go hand in hand. God gives us the Great Commission, Matthew 28's call to go wherever Jesus sends us, making disciples ...

  • Church, State and Public Justice: Five Views, Edited by P. C. Kemeny
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    Church, State and Public Justice

    Five Views

    Spectrum Multiview Book Series

    Contributions by Clarke E. Cochran, Derek H. Davis, Corwin E. Smidt, Ronald J. Sider, and J. Philip Wogaman
    Edited by Paul C Kemeny

    Abortion. Physician-assisted suicide. Same-sex marriages. Embryonic stem-cell research. Poverty. Crime. What is a faithful Christian response?

    The God of the Bible is unquestionably a God of justice. Yet Christians have hadtheir differences as to how human government and the church should bring about a just social order. Although Christians share many deep and significant ...

  • What Is Beauty?: An Introduction to Art and Aesthetics, By Dennis P. Bray
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    What Is Beauty?

    An Introduction to Art and Aesthetics

    Questions in Christian Philosophy

    by Dennis P Bray
    Series edited by James K. Dew Jr. and W. Paul Franks

    Does beauty really exist? What is the nature and value of art? What makes someone an artist? What is the artist's place in the church?

    Dennis Bray explores these questions and more in What Is Beauty?, an introductory textbook on art and aesthetics from a Christian perspective. This volume of the Questions in Christian Philosophy series provides one of the ...

  • Now I Lay Me Down to Fight: A Poet Writes Her Way Through Cancer, By Katy Bowser Hutson
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    Now I Lay Me Down to Fight

    A Poet Writes Her Way Through Cancer

    by Katy Bowser Hutson
    Illustrated by Jodi Hays
    Foreword by Tish Harrison Warren

    In stirring verse and essays, Katy Bowser Hutson chronicles her battle with breast cancer and the complications of faith amid such a fight. Accentuated by the art of Jodi Hays, Katy's words lead us through the realization of cancer, the experience of chemotherapy and a mastectomy, relentless rounds of radiation, the uncertainty of ongoing treatment, and what comes after survival. ...

  • World Religions in Seven Sentences: A Small Introduction to a Vast Topic, By Douglas Groothuis
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    World Religions in Seven Sentences

    A Small Introduction to a Vast Topic

    Introductions in Seven Sentences

    by Douglas Groothuis

    Understanding the beliefs and practices of other faiths is essential not just to the task of interreligious dialogue, but also to grasping one's own faith.

    In this brief volume in IVP Academic's Introductions in Seven Sentences, philosopher Douglas Groothuis creatively uses a single sentence representing each of several world religions as a way to open readers to their depth ...