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  • The Meaning of Singleness: Retrieving an Eschatological Vision for the Contemporary Church, By Danielle Treweek
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    The Meaning of Singleness

    Retrieving an Eschatological Vision for the Contemporary Church

    by Danielle Elizabeth Treweek
    Foreword by Kutter Dan Callaway

    2024 Australian Christian Book of the Year

    Is Christian singleness a burden to be endured or a God-ordained vocation? Might singleness here and now give the church a glimpse of God's heavenly promises?

    Dani Treweek offers biblical, historical, cultural, and theological reflections to retrieve a theology of singleness for the church today. Drawing upon ...

  • The Cultivated Life: From Ceaseless Striving to Receiving Joy, By Susan S. Phillips
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    The Cultivated Life

    From Ceaseless Striving to Receiving Joy

    by Susan S. Phillips
    Foreword by Eugene H Peterson

    Dallas Willard Center Book and Research Award Finalist

    Hearts Minds Bookstore's Best Books of 2015, Spirituality and the Devotional Life

    "This is a book written specifically for those of us who are assigned the task of developing an imagination for living the Christian faith with insight and skill in and for a society that is disconnected from the biblical ...

  • Faith Like a Child: Embracing Our Lives as Children of God, By Lacy Finn Borgo
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    Faith Like a Child

    Embracing Our Lives as Children of God

    by Lacy Finn Borgo

    Embrace the invitation of childlike faith. A well-known challenge of Jesus to his followers is to become like little children. But it's often difficult to remember the natural patterns of our childhood selves that enabled us to live freely in God's wonder-filled presence. Is childlike faith simply an unquestioning faith, or is it being present with ourselves in a way that invites ...

  • Invitation to Solitude and Silence: Experiencing God's Transforming Presence, By Ruth Haley Barton
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    Invitation to Solitude and Silence

    Experiencing God's Transforming Presence

    Transforming Resources

    by Ruth Haley Barton
    Foreword by Dallas Willard

    Christianity Today Book Award

    "If you would really like to know the 'rest appropriate for the people of God' (Heb 4:9), then make the decision to leave all outcomes to God and enter the practice of solitude and silence with Ruth Barton as your guide. As you do so, call upon Jesus to be with you, and trust him for that." – Dallas Willard, from the foreword ...

  • The Next Mile - Mile Post Devotional: A Post-Ministry Self-Paced Devotional Guide, By Brian J. Heerwagen
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    The Next Mile - Mile Post Devotional

    A Post-Ministry Self-Paced Devotional Guide

    by Brian J. Heerwagen

    The Next Mile resources are designed to assist local churches and agencies plan and conduct effective ministry. Participants in the short-term mission experience include the goer, sender, local church, goer's family, mentor, host, and those to whom the STMer ministers.The mission experience that is well-planned and carried out will affect the life of each participant in their continuing ...

  • Pocket Dictionary of Church History, By Nathan P. Feldmeth
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    Pocket Dictionary of Church History

    The IVP Pocket Reference Series

    by Nathan P. Feldmeth

    Studying church history is like learning your genealogy, with ample helpings of family recipes, scandalous disputes, inspiring heroes, quirky uncles and scrapbooks of photos thrown in. Someone needs to point out what's important and remind you ofthe facts as you learn to tell the story on your own.

    The Pocket Dictionary of Church History is designed to help students identify the people, ...

  • Pocket Dictionary of Ethics: Over 300 Terms  Ideas Clearly  Concisely Defined, By Stanley J. Grenz and Jay T. Smith
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    Pocket Dictionary of Ethics

    Over 300 Terms Ideas Clearly Concisely Defined

    The IVP Pocket Reference Series

    by Stanley J. Grenz and Jay T. Smith

    Ethics is as old as the city-state and as new as cyberspace. Guided by the wagon tracks of moral tradition, it nevertheless rides the cutting edge of science and technology. Increasingly it is moving into the corner offices of law, business, medicine, science and technology.

    But few of us arrive in our first ethics class--or take our seat on an ethics committee--with a grip on the range of ...

  • Pocket History of the Church, By D. Jeffrey Bingham
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    Pocket History of the Church

    The IVP Pocket Reference Series

    by D. Jeffrey Bingham

    The story of Christianity is a fascinating tale. Here we find drama, vision and expansion along with failure, setbacks and tragedy. Yet during the past two thousand years the power of Jesus is felt throughout the interplay of human actors and theforces of world events.

    How can you grasp the story played out on such a gigantic stage? This book is an ideal place to start. D. Jeffrey Bingham ...

  • Lectures on the Psalms, By Didymus the Blind
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    Lectures on the Psalms

    Ancient Christian Texts

    by Didymus the Blind
    Edited and Translated by Jonathan Douglas Hicks

    "The Lord shepherds me, and nothing will be lacking for me. In a place of tender grass, there he causes me to encamp."

    In his reading of Psalm 23, early Christian theologian Didymus the Blind perceived the comfort that is provided only by Christ, the good shepherd: "The disciples of Christ who have become perfect in his instruction . . . do not simply hear a voice, ...

  • Philippians: An Introduction and Commentary, By Jeannine K. Brown
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    Philippians

    An Introduction and Commentary

    Tyndale New Testament Commentaries

    by Jeannine Brown
    Series edited by Eckhard J. Schnabel
    Consulting Editor Nicholas Perrin

    The letter to the Philippians illuminates a warm relationship between the apostle Paul and the Philippian believers. Despite difficult situations being experienced on both sides, Paul finds ample reason to celebrate what God in Christ has done and is doing in the believers' lives.

    Jeannine K. Brown's commentary on Philippians explores the themes of this epistle and how its ...