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  • The Beauty of God: Theology and the Arts, Edited by Daniel J. Treier and Mark Husbands and Roger Lundin
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    The Beauty of God

    Theology and the Arts

    Wheaton Theology Conference Series

    Edited by Daniel J. Treier, Mark Husbands, and Roger Lundin

    God. Beauty. Art. Theology.Editors Mark Husbands, Roger Lundin and Daniel J. Treier present ten essays from the 2006 Wheaton Theology Conference that explore a Christian approach to beauty and the arts. Theology has much to contribute in providinga place for the arts in the Christian life, and the arts have much to contribute to the quality of Christian life, worship and witness.The 2006 Wheaton ...

  • 1 Peter, By I. Howard Marshall
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    1 Peter

    A Commentary on the New Testament

    The IVP New Testament Commentary Series

    by I. Howard Marshall

    • Recipient of a Christianity Today 1992 Critics' Choice Award

    As a young church in a hostile environment, Peter's first readers found in his letter encouragement, not just for facing suffering, but for living responsibly in the world as faithful disciples of Jesus Christ. Christians today will also find in Peter's letter a wealth of practical counsel on how to conduct themselves ...

  • Demystifying Evil: A Biblical and Personal Exploration, By Ingrid Faro
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    Demystifying Evil

    A Biblical and Personal Exploration

    by Ingrid Faro
    Foreword by Heather Davediuk Gingrich

    The evil that afflicts our lives often leaves us confused and directionless, wounded and powerless. How should we respond to evil's power to assault us? How can we understand God's work in a world that seems all too often to be permeated with evil?

    Narrating her own wrestling with evil as well as engaging in biblical and philosophical analysis, biblical scholar Ingrid Faro ...

  • Living Wisely with the Church Fathers, By Christopher A. Hall
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    Living Wisely with the Church Fathers

    by Christopher A. Hall

    The first centuries of Christianity are like a far country. But despite their foreignness, they hold a treasury of wisdom for living. Early Christians struggled and flourished in a culture that was in love with empire and military power, infatuated with sex and entertainment, tolerant of all gods but hostile to the One. And from this crucible of discipleship they extracted lessons of virtue, faithfulness, ...

  • Spirituality of Gratitude: The Unexpected Blessings of Thankfulness, By Joshua Choonmin Kang
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    Spirituality of Gratitude

    The Unexpected Blessings of Thankfulness

    by Joshua Choonmin Kang

    2015 Readers' Choice Award Winner

    "Deep gratitude springs up from within," writes pastor and bestselling Korean author Joshua Choonmin Kang. "To become truly grateful is incredibly difficult, but the difficulty of the process makes the results all the more lovely."God invites us to enter into this world of thankfulness at every moment in our lives, even in the hard times—perhaps ...

  • Carpe Diem Redeemed: Seizing the Day, Discerning the Times, By Os Guinness
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    Carpe Diem Redeemed

    Seizing the Day, Discerning the Times

    by Os Guinness

    You only live once—if then. Life is short, and it can be as easily wasted as lived to the full. In our harried modern world, how do we make the most of the time we have?

    In these fast and superficial times, Os Guinness calls us to consequential living. As a contrast to both Eastern and secularist views of time, he restructures our very notion of history as linear ...

  • The Seamless Life: A Tapestry of Love and Learning, Worship and Work, By Steven Garber
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    The Seamless Life

    A Tapestry of Love and Learning, Worship and Work

    by Steven Garber

    We all want to make sense of life, of who we are and why we are, and to know that what we do—day in and day out—matters. But daily demands often lead to a life that feels void of meaning and disjointed from our deepest beliefs.

    Steven Garber challenges us to move beyond our fragmented sense of reality and begin to see all we are and all we do—our work, play, ...