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  • Participating in Abundant Life: Holistic Salvation for a Secular Age, By Mark R. Teasdale
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    Participating in Abundant Life

    Holistic Salvation for a Secular Age

    by Mark R. Teasdale
    Foreword by Alan Hirsch and Mark Nelson

    Our world is hungry for salvation, but we don't always know how to talk about it. Christians agree that God cares about people's lives both in this world and into eternity. But the ways we describe salvation often separate the spiritual from the material. Many groups emphasize one at the expense of the other, limiting the picture of what God has to offer.Mark Teasdale works to bridge ...

  • Creative Church Handbook: Releasing the Power of the Arts in Your Congregation, By J. Scott McElroy
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    Creative Church Handbook

    Releasing the Power of the Arts in Your Congregation

    by J. Scott McElroy

    If the future is creative, is it any wonder that sometimes the church seems stuck in the past?

    Now is the time for the church to reclaim its role as a center of creativity. Among your members are artists, musicians and other creatives whose gifts can enhance your worship, inform your theology and impact your community. Christian arts advocate J. Scott McElroy gives a comprehensive vision and ...

  • Engaging with God: A Biblical Theology of Worship, By David G. Peterson
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    Engaging with God

    A Biblical Theology of Worship

    by David G. Peterson
    Foreword by I. Howard Marshall

    Worship is of immense concern in the church and ironically the source of controversy and dispute. Can we get behind the question of what style of worship we should engage in to understand the bedrock foundation for God's people--honoring him as hedesires? Is the dissatisfaction with worship voiced by so many perhaps a result of our having wandered from biblical teaching on the subject?Through careful ...

  • The Return of the Kingdom: A Biblical Theology of God's Reign, By Stephen G. Dempster
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    The Return of the Kingdom

    A Biblical Theology of God's Reign

    Essential Studies in Biblical Theology

    by Stephen G. Dempster
    Series edited by Benjamin L. Gladd

    Word Guild Award Winner—Biblical Studies

    The biblical story begins and ends with God as king. Human beings rebel, however, rather than fulfilling their royal calling to rule creation on behalf of their Sovereign—and the world became enslaved to the rule of a dark, serpentine lord.

    In this volume of IVP Academic's Essential Studies in Biblical Theology, ...

  • The Doctrine of Creation: A Constructive Kuyperian Approach, By Bruce Riley Ashford and Craig G. Bartholomew
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    The Doctrine of Creation

    A Constructive Kuyperian Approach

    by Bruce Riley Ashford and Craig G. Bartholomew

    Christianity Today Book Award
    ECPA Top Shelf Book Cover Award

    Apart from the doctrine of God, no doctrine is as comprehensive as that of creation. It is woven throughout the entire fabric of Christian theology. It goes to the deepest roots of reality and leaves no area of life untouched. Across the centuries, however, the doctrine of creation ...

  • The Life and Witness of Peter, By Larry R. Helyer
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    The Life and Witness of Peter

    by Larry R. Helyer

    Who was Peter and what was his true stature in the early church? For Protestants at least, Peter seems caught between two caricatures: the rustic fisherman of Galilee and the author of two lesser New Testament letters. And in both cases he is overshadowed by Paul.

    In The Life and Witness of Peter, Larry Helyer seeks to reinstate this neglected and underestimated apostle to his rightful ...

  • When Your World Ends: God's Creative Process for Rebuilding a Life, By Dawn Mann Sanders
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    When Your World Ends

    God's Creative Process for Rebuilding a Life

    Foreword by Carol Kent
    Read by Dawn Sanders

    How do you rebuild your life after it falls apart?

    Catastrophic events often feel like the end of the world. When we feel like we have nothing left, we sometimes wish for our own end too. Yet God keeps waking us up every morning—a sign that God wants us to keep living when our world ends. We must find our way to the new life that awaits us on the other side of loss. But how?

    Dawn ...

  • The Devoted Life: An Invitation to the Puritan Classics, Edited by Kelly M. Kapic and Randall C. Gleason
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    The Devoted Life

    An Invitation to the Puritan Classics

    Edited by Kelly M. Kapic and Randall C. Gleason

    The Puritans are frequently maligned but seldom understood. Far from the dour malcontents they are often portrayed to be, most Puritans were wholesomely engaged in life. This book is designed to introduce you to a wide range of influential Puritanwriters and a representative work for each that pushes through stereotypes to the heart and soul of these Christian pastors and theologians. With a clear ...

  • The Old Testament in Seven Sentences: A Small Introduction to a Vast Topic, By Christopher J. H. Wright
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    The Old Testament in Seven Sentences

    A Small Introduction to a Vast Topic

    Introductions in Seven Sentences

    by Christopher J. H. Wright

    Some people find the Old Testament to be confusing, out of date, and essentially replaced by the New Testament. They are missing out. The Old Testament offers us a grand narrative that reveals God's work, God's purposes, and God's wisdom.Christopher J. H. Wright fits the pieces together and shows us the coherent whole. Using seven key sentences drawn straight from the Old Testament, ...