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  • The Offensive Church: Breaking the Cycle of Ethnic Disunity, By Bryan C. Loritts
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    The Offensive Church

    Breaking the Cycle of Ethnic Disunity

    by Bryan Loritts

    ECPA Top Shelf Book Cover Award

    Crises around race have put the church in a defensive posture, always reacting to racial conflicts in society. But Jesus wants more. He wants Christians to play offense by discipling people into a new humanity, where we push beyond mere diversity and into a biblical vision for ethnic unity.

    Bryan Loritts calls Christians ...

  • Philippians, By N. T. Wright
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    Philippians

    N. T. Wright for Everyone Bible Study Guides

    by N. T. Wright
    With Dale Larsen and Sandy Larsen

    Things don't always go the way we intend. It's easy to feel discouraged because what we hope for is badly thwarted, or because people make life difficult. Paul, writing to the Philippians from prison, certainly knew what it was like to have plansinterrupted. But he maintains robust confidence in God's overruling power, even when everything seems to be going wrong. These eight studies will help us ...

    Number of Studies: 8

  • Renewal Worship: A Theology of Pentecostal Doxology, By Steven Félix-Jäger
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    Renewal Worship

    A Theology of Pentecostal Doxology

    Dynamics of Christian Worship

    by Steven Félix-Jäger

    At its best, all Christian worship is led by the Holy Spirit. But is there a distinctive theology of Pentecostal worship?

    The Pentecostal church or the renewal movement is among the fastest-growing parts of the body of Christ around the world, which makes understanding its theology and practice critical for the future of the church.

    In this volume in IVP Academic's Dynamics ...

  • Recapturing an Enchanted World: Ritual and Sacrament in the Free Church Tradition, By John D. Rempel
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    Recapturing an Enchanted World

    Ritual and Sacrament in the Free Church Tradition

    Dynamics of Christian Worship

    by John D. Rempel
    Foreword by Gordon T. Smith

    How might our worship recapture and reflect the enchanted world of God's nearness in Jesus Christ?

    In this first volume in IVP Academic's Dynamics of Christian Worship series, John D. Rempel offers a vision for this kind oftransformative worship. A theologian and minister in the Mennonite Church, Rempel considers the role of the sacraments and ritual within the Free Church ...

  • Worship and the World to Come: Exploring Christian Hope in Contemporary Worship, By Glenn Packiam
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    Worship and the World to Come

    Exploring Christian Hope in Contemporary Worship

    Dynamics of Christian Worship

    by Glenn Packiam

    Christians sing because we are people of hope.

    Yet our hope is unlike other kinds of hope. We are not optimists; nor are we escapists. Christian hope is uniquely shaped by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead andby the promise of our own future resurrection.

    How is that hope both expressed and experienced in contemporary worship? In this volume in the Dynamics ...

  • Worship by Faith Alone: Thomas Cranmer, the Book of Common Prayer, and the Reformation of Liturgy, By Zac Hicks
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    Worship by Faith Alone

    Thomas Cranmer, the Book of Common Prayer, and the Reformation of Liturgy

    Dynamics of Christian Worship

    by Zachary M Hicks
    Foreword by John Ashley Null

    In every age, the church must consider what it means to gather together to worship God.

    If the church is primarily the people who follow the risen Christ, then its worship should be "gospel-centered." But where might the church find an example of such worship for today?

    In this Dynamics of Christian Worship volume, scholar, worship leader, and songwriter Zac Hicks contends ...

  • Learning Theology with the Church Fathers, By Christopher A. Hall
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    Learning Theology with the Church Fathers

    by Christopher A. Hall

    The early church fathers were great theologians--though they did not think of themselves as such. They were working pastors, involved in the daily life and leadership of their congregations. Yet they were wrestling with many of the great and formative questions of the Christian faith, such as the Trinity, the incarnation, the providence of God and the nature of the church. These beliefs were defined ...

  • 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 ...