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  • A Just Passion: A Six-Week Lenten Journey, Edited by Cindy Bunch
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    A Just Passion

    A Six-Week Lenten Journey

    Contributions by Ruth Haley Barton, Sheila Wise Rowe, Tish Harrison Warren, and Terry Wildman

    A Collection of Lenten Devotions from IVP Authors

    Injustice is rampant around us. It is also present within us. To better confront oppression in the world, we must own that reality and look to Christ our liberator. Lent is the opportune time for this as we contemplate his suffering together.

    With selections from a diverse range of IVP books, A Just Passion has ...

    Number of Studies: 38

  • The Worship Maze: Finding a Style to Fit Your Church, By Paul Basden
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    The Worship Maze

    Finding a Style to Fit Your Church

    by Paul A Basden

    Worship has become a problem.It is the center of the Christian life, but like so much else in our kaleidoscopic late-modern world, worship has gotten complicated. Confusing. And even controversial. Church leaders and laypeople have joined the debate over "traditional," "contemporary" and a growing array of other worship styles.Pastor (and professor) Paul Basden believes worship should be the occasion ...

  • New Testament Christological Hymns: Exploring Texts, Contexts, and Significance, By Matthew E. Gordley
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    New Testament Christological Hymns

    Exploring Texts, Contexts, and Significance

    by Matthew E. Gordley

    We know that the earliest Christians sang hymns. Paul encourages believers to sing "psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs." And at the dawn of the second century the Roman official Pliny names a feature of Christian worship as "singing alternately a hymn to Christ as to God." But are some of these early Christian hymns preserved for us in the New Testament? Are they right before our eyes?New Testament ...

  • Placemaking and the Arts: Cultivating the Christian Life, By Jennifer Allen Craft
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    Placemaking and the Arts

    Cultivating the Christian Life

    Studies in Theology and the Arts Series

    by Jennifer Allen Craft

    We are, each one of us, situated in a particular place.

    As embodied creatures, as members of local communities and churches, as people who live in a specific location in the world, we all experience the importance of place.But what role does place play in the Christian life and how might our theology of place be cultivated?

    In this Studies in Theology and the Arts volume, ...

  • Evangelistic Preaching That Connects: Guidance in Shaping Fresh and Appealing Sermons, By Craig A. Loscalzo
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    Evangelistic Preaching That Connects

    Guidance in Shaping Fresh and Appealing Sermons

    by Craig A. Loscalzo

    "One problem with evangelistic sermons is that they look and sound like evangelistic sermons."So says Craig Loscalzo, respected preacher and teacher of preachers. He believes in the gospel and its unique power, but knows that today's pastors no longer proclaim the gospel in a more or less "Christian" culture. Our pluralistic setting means that the evangelistic sermons of yesterday--which ...

  • The Message of Psalms 1–72, By Michael Wilcock
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    The Message of Psalms 1–72

    The Bible Speaks Today Series

    by Michael Wilcock

    The book of Psalms is a favorite of Christians, even though we frequently read it in portions and pieces, hopscotching through the familiar and avoiding the odd, the unpleasant, and the difficult. But though the individual psalmsarose from an assortment of times, experiences, and settings, the book is composed in a deliberate pattern, not as a random anthology. The meaning of the ...

  • The Message of Psalms 73–150, By Michael Wilcock
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    The Message of Psalms 73–150

    The Bible Speaks Today Series

    by Michael Wilcock

    The book of Psalms is a favorite of Christians, even though we frequently read it in portions and pieces, hopscotching through the familiar and avoiding the odd, the unpleasant, and the difficult. But though the individual psalmsarose from an assortment of times, experiences, and settings, the book is composed in a deliberate pattern, not as a random anthology. The meaning of the ...