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PaperbackProvidence & Prayer
How Does God Work in the World?
by Terrance L. Tiessen
- Recipient of an Honourable Mention in the 2001 God Uses Ink Contest
"Lord, please give me a parking space!"
That prayer sounds right on your third time around the block, frustrated and late for an appointment. But is it consistent with how God works in the world?
Does prayer change God's mind or only our feelings? Does God do things because we ask him to? Or ...
HardbackLead Like It Matters to God
Values-Driven Leadership in a Success-Driven World
by Richard E Stearns
Outcomes Conference Book of the Year
Christian Book Award FinalistRichard Stearns is a leader who has been tested as a CEO in both secular companies and also as the head of one of the world’s largest Christian ministries. After stints as CEO of Parker Brothers and then Lenox, Stearns accepted the invitation to leave his corporate career to become ...
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InterVarsity Press was honored to have two titles make the shortlist for WORLD Magazine's 2019 Books of the Year.
PaperbackHonor, Patronage, Kinship, and Purity
Unlocking New Testament Culture
by David A. deSilva
For contemporary Western readers, it can be easy to miss or misread cultural nuances in the New Testament. To hear the text correctly we must be attuned to its original context. As David deSilva demonstrates, keys to interpretation are found in paying attention to four essential cultural themes: honor and shame, patronage and reciprocity, kinship and family, and purity and pollution.
Through ...
PaperbackSeeing Through Cynicism
A Reconsideration of the Power of Suspicion
by Dick Keyes
We live in a cynical age. Cynicism is in the air we breathe; it is a cultural norm; it is the default setting and lens through which many of us view the world. Why is cynicism so pervasive? What does it promise? How does it work? And what does itdeliver? In this thorough, interdisciplinary exploration of cynicism, Dick Keyes probes the intellectual and cultural underpinnings of cynicism in its modern ...
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The Academy of Parish Clergy, Inc. has chosen Reading the Bible Around the World: A Student's Guide to Global Hermeneutics as one of its Top Five Reference Books as part of its Book of the Year Awards.
PaperbackEmbrace
God's Radical Shalom for a Divided World
by Leroy Barber
The walls between us seem impenetrable.We live in an age of strife and division. Factors such as race, class, values and lifestyles keep us from connecting with others in meaningful ways. It's easy to avoid or ignore those who make us uncomfortable and those we simply do not like, but God's call to the church is to do just the opposite.Leroy Barber has spent decades pursuing reconciliation and justice ...
PaperbackThe Power of Group Prayer
How Intercession Transforms Us and the World
by Carolyn M Carney
Revival starts when people pray together.
Christians often dream about the possibility of revival. But revival doesn't come because we wish or plan for it. Revival occurs when groups of people pray together. However, praying together effectively doesn't come easily, and we're often left wondering how to best engage in the work of intercession.
Carolyn Carney offers a ...
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With nearly fifty thousand books representing nine hundred titles, InterVarsity Press will soon be hosting the largest missions bookstore in the world at the twenty-fifth Urbana Student Missions Conference.
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With more than thirty-four thousand books representing more than seven hundred titles, InterVarsity Press (IVP) will soon be hosting the largest missions bookstore in the world at the twenty-sixth Urbana Student Missions Conference.
