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PaperbackThe Next Worship
Glorifying God in a Diverse World
The IVP Signature Collection
by Sandra Maria Van Opstal
Foreword by Mark LabbertonChristianity Today's Book of the Year Award of Merit
What happens when a diverse church glorifies the global God?
We live in a time of unprecedented intercultural exchange, where our communities welcome people from around the world. Music and media from every culture are easily accessible, and our worship is infused with a rich variety of musical ...
PaperbackBreaking the Idols of Your Heart
How to Navigate the Temptations of Life
by Dan B. Allender and Tremper Longman III
We all want to know our lives matter.So did the Teacher in Ecclesiastes. He invested time and energy in every activity he could think of that might bring meaning and purpose to his life but found only disappointment, frustration, hopelessness.In our thirst for significance we, like the Teacher, give our lives--our time, talents, strength, heart--to anything we think will give us worth and purpose: ...
PaperbackCreated and Creating
A Biblical Theology of Culture
by William Edgar
The gospel of Jesus Christ is always situated within a particular cultural context. But how should Christians approach the complex relationship between our faith and our surrounding culture?Should we simply retreat from culture? Should we embraceour cultural practices and mindset? How important is it for us to be engaged in our culture? And how might we do that with discernment and faithfulness? ...
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InterVarsity Press has signed James Bryan Smith, author of the bestselling The Good and Beautiful God, to a fifth book project. Scheduled for a spring 2013 release, Hidden in Christ draws on the rich themes of Colossians 3, unpacking the transforming principles of Christ's love.
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HardbackGenesis 1-11
Old Testament Volume 1
Reformation Commentary on Scripture
Edited by John L. Thompson
The first chapters of Genesis are the bedrock of the Jewish and Christian traditions. In these inaugural pages of the canon, the creation of the world, the fall of the human creature, the promise of redemption and the beginning of salvation history are found. Interwoven in the text are memorable stories of the ancient biblical patriarchs and matriarchs.Throughout the history of commentary, interpreters ...
PaperbackAn Introduction to Ecclesiology
Historical, Global, and Interreligious Perspectives
by Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen
What is the church? Why are there so many different expressions of church throughout time and space, and what ties them all together?
Ecclesiology—the doctrine of the church—has risen to the center of theological interest inrecent decades. In this text, theologian Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen provides a wide-ranging survey of the rich field of ecclesiology in the midst of rapid developments ...
PaperbackKingdom Apprenticeship
Dallas Willard's Formational Theology and Missional Vision
by Keas Keasler
A Groundbreaking Analysis of Dallas Willard's Theology of Spiritual Formation
Dallas Willard’s formational theology begins with the claim that the aim of God in human history is the formation of a community of loving persons apprenticed to Jesus—and ends with the promise that such apprenticeship prepares us to share in God’s governance of the cosmos.
This apprenticeship ...
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Tamara Park
Now back in the United States, Tamara Park is pastor of community at Warehouse 242, a church in urban Charlotte, North Carolina.
PaperbackGod and Time
Four Views
Spectrum Multiview Book Series
Contributions by Paul Helm, William Lane Craig, Alan G Padgett, and Nicholas Wolterstorff
Edited by Gregory E. GanssleThe eternal God has created the universe. And that universe is time-bound. How can we best understand God's relationship with our time-bound universe? For example, does God experience each moment of time in succession or are all times present to God?
How we think of God and time has implications for our understanding of the nature of time, the creation of the universe, God's ...
