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EbookHonor, Patronage, Kinship, & 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 ...
EbookFinding Messiah
A Journey into the Jewishness of the Gospel
by Jennifer M Rosner
Foreword by Richard J. MouwJesus was Jewish, and his Jewish identity informed every aspect of his work, words, and witness. He came as the Messiah of Israel, God's covenant people, and he spoke the language of God's faithfulness to this people. So why doesit seem that Judaism has little to do with our Christian discipleship today?
Jennifer Rosner, a scholar of Jewish-Christian relations, takes us on ...
EbookTurning Donors into Partners
Principles for Fundraising You'll Actually Enjoy
by Bradley Lee Layland
Foreword by Tom LinFundraising can be one of the most stressful parts of ministry. Budget needs are daunting, prospects seem limited, and the cycle is unending. How do we get off of the treadmill of crisis-driven fundraising to more sustainable ministry funding?
Professional fundraiser Brad Layland revolutionizes fundraising and transforms it into a relational process where donors truly become ...
EbookThe 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 ...
EbookThe Riches of Your Grace
Living in the Book of Common Prayer
by Julie Lane-Gay
Word Guild Award Winner—Christian Living—Personal Growth
ECPA Top Shelf Book Cover Award
An Invitation into God's Grace
As we race to work in the morning, have coffee with a friend, or fall into bed exhausted, we want to feel God's presence, to sink into his grace. Yet too often he feels aloof, absent. Our prayers feel trivial. ...
EbookTogether in Ministry
Women and Men in Flourishing Partnerships
by Rob Dixon
Foreword by Ruth Haley BartonWomen and men are designed to work together in fulfilling God's mission on earth. Yet God's original intent for equal partnership has been so distorted that churches and organizations continually struggle to foster healthy mixed-gender ministry collaboration. Is it even possible to return to the Genesis ideal of co-laborers in today's contexts?
Longtime ministry leader Rob ...
EbookDiscovering Your Leadership Style
The Power of Chemistry, Strategy and Spirituality
by David T. Olson
God can use your unique gifts, passions and personality to help you become a better leader. While personality inventories can help you understand your temperament, the model designed by leading church planter David Olson is designed to form fruitful Christian leadership.Olson's model reveals how three factors—spirituality, chemistry and strategy—work together. The free online inventory that is a ...
EbookTransformed into the Same Image
Constructive Investigations into the Doctrine of Deification
Foreword by Michael J Gorman
Contributions by Shu-chen Hsu Hsiung, Carl Mosser, Brian Siu Kit Chiu, Benjamin C Blackwell, Alister McGrath, Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen, Nathan Betz, Mark Gorman, Leslie Ann jervis, Kimbell Kornu, James Salladin, Jahdiel Nehemias Perez, Jacob Chengwei Feng, and Chao-Chun Liu
Edited by Paul Copan and Michael Martin Chester ReardonThe doctrine of deification or theosis has been gaining interest among scholars for some time. Yet most publications on the topic have focused on Orthodox and Roman Catholic traditions and have subsumed the discussion under the category of soteriology. If "being transformed into the same image" (2 Corinthians 3:18) is truly essential to the Christian life, a fuller understanding ...
EbookAn Explorer's Guide to John Calvin
Explorer's Guides
by Yudha Thianto
Creation is the theater of God's glory. Scripture is like a pair of glasses that clarifies our vision of God. Justification is the hinge on which religion turns.
These and other affirmations are often associated with John Calvin, the 16th-century French Protestant Reformer best known for his ministry in Geneva and his authorship of the Institutes of the Christian Religion. ...
PaperbackGrow Your Christian Life
by InterVarsity Staff
Let's face it. Being a Christian isn't easy. The world sure isn't out to help you. Sometimes neither are friends or family. Money, job, studies, bills, career, fun and the future all compete for your time and energy. If God is going to have a sayin all this, you're going to need all the help you can get.That's where this book comes in. It provides you with a 30-minute daily workout with God. Along ...
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