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  • The Gospel and Pluralism Today: Reassessing Lesslie Newbigin in the 21st Century, Edited by Scott W. Sunquist and Amos Yong
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    The Gospel and Pluralism Today

    Reassessing Lesslie Newbigin in the 21st Century

    Missiological Engagements

    Edited by Scott W. Sunquist and Amos Yong

    Hearts Minds Bookstore's Best Books of 2015, Theology

    Toward the end of the twentieth century, Lesslie Newbigin offered a penetrating analysis of the challenges of pluralism that confronted a Western culture and society reeling from the dissolution of Christendom. His enormous influence has been felt ever since. Newbigin (1909-1998) was a longtime Church of Scotland missionary ...

  • Contextualization in the New Testament: Patterns for Theology and Mission, By Dean Flemming
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    Contextualization in the New Testament

    Patterns for Theology and Mission

    by Dean Flemming

    Winner of a Christianity Today Book Award

    Honored as one of the "Fifteen Outstanding Books for Mission Studies" by International Bulletin of Missionary Research

    From Cairo to Calcutta, from Cochabamba to Columbus, Christians are engaged in a conversation about how to speak and live the gospel in today's traditional, modern and emergent ...

  • Organizational Leadership: Foundations and Practices for Christians, Edited by Jack Burns and John R. Shoup and Donald C. Simmons Jr.
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    Organizational Leadership

    Foundations and Practices for Christians

    Edited by Jack Burns, John R. Shoup, and Donald C. Simmons Jr.

    Kingdom leadership does not begin and end at the church door. Christians are called to conduct leadership in government, commerce, schools, neighborhoods, families, para-church ministries and a myriad other contexts. God has given us many gifts,and our responsibility is to be stewards of those gifts, and use them to do the King?s work. In that context, this comprehensive text explores key facets ...

  • Courage and Calling: Embracing Your God-Given Potential, By Gordon T. Smith
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    Courage and Calling

    Embracing Your God-Given Potential

    by Gordon T. Smith

    You have a calling.

    First, God calls us all to know and love him. Second, for each individual there is a specific call—a defining purpose or mission, with implications for all of life.

    In this classic book onvocation, Gordon Smith invites you to discover your calling by listening to God and becoming a coworker with him. Courage and Calling has helped ...

  • The Shape of Practical Theology: Empowering Ministry with Theological Praxis, By Ray S. Anderson
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    The Shape of Practical Theology

    Empowering Ministry with Theological Praxis

    by Ray S. Anderson

    Too often in the life of the church, theological reflection and the practical matters of leading and serving have been considered independently. The result has been the impoverishment of both Christian faith and Christian practice. In this groundbreaking book Ray Anderson reflects theologically and practically on preaching, worship, ethics, social justice, therapy, family, homosexuality, ...

  • Acts, Edited by Francis Martin
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    Acts

    Volume 5

    Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture

    Edited by Francis Martin
    General Editor Thomas C. Oden

    The Acts of the Apostles—or more in keeping with the author's intent, the Acts of the Ascended Lord—is part two of Luke's story of "all that Jesus began to do and teach." In it he recounts the expansion of the church as its witness spread from Jerusalem to all of Judea and Samaria and to the ends of the earth.

    While at least forty early church authors commented on Acts, the ...

  • The Message of John's Letters, By David Jackman
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    The Message of John's Letters

    The Bible Speaks Today Series

    by David Jackman

    Immorality inundating the Christian community and gradually eroding the foundations of Christian living. The truth of God incarnate, the atonement, and the bodily resurrection of Christ under attack—even from within the church. These were the problems that faced the Christians of John's day. In a society that scorned the gospel and sneered at godly living, John encouraged Christians ...

  • Creating the Canon: Composition, Controversy, and the Authority of the New Testament, By Benjamin P. Laird
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    Creating the Canon

    Composition, Controversy, and the Authority of the New Testament

    by Benjamin Paul Laird

    ECPA Top Shelf Book Cover Award

    Unraveling the Origins of the New Testament Canon

    Despite the profound influence of the New Testament, a variety of questions related to its background and history remain common. Contemporary readers often find the subject of the canon’s origin and formation to be complicated and confusing, while scholars continue to struggle ...

  • The Trinity in the Book of Revelation: Seeing Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in John's Apocalypse, By Brandon D. Smith
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    The Trinity in the Book of Revelation

    Seeing Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in John's Apocalypse

    Studies in Christian Doctrine and Scripture

    by Brandon Dean Smith
    Foreword by Lewis Ayres
    Series edited by Kevin J. Vanhoozer and Daniel J. Treier

    How should we read the book of Revelation?

    Interpreting Scripture faithfully is a challenge with regard to any text and for any reader of the Bible. But perhaps no text confronts and confuses readers as much as the book ofRevelation. With its vivid imagery and rich prophetic language, John's Apocalypse provokes and stirs our imaginations. Some have viewed it primarily as ...

  • Singles at the Crossroads: A Fresh Perspective on Christian Singleness, By Albert Y. Hsu
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    Singles at the Crossroads

    A Fresh Perspective on Christian Singleness

    by Albert Y. Hsu

    • One of the 1998 Academy of Parish Clergy Top Ten Books of the Year

    Nearly half of adults today are unmarried. But most churches emphasize marriage and family, leaving many Christian singles feeling marginalized or alienated. Though they look to Jesus and Paul as role models, many suspect they would be more acceptable to the church--and God--if they settled down and got married.Albert ...