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  • Habits of Hope: Educational Practices for a Weary World, Edited by Todd C. Ream and Jerry Pattengale and Christopher J. Devers
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    Habits of Hope

    Educational Practices for a Weary World

    Foreword by Amos Yong
    Edited by Todd C. Ream, Jerry Pattengale, and Christopher J. Devers

    In the world of education, disorientation and uncertainty has been increasing for several decades, with the Covid-19 pandemic only exacerbating preexisting challenges. Christians called to academic vocations need authentic hope tosustain them in their work—and they need to be able to share that hope with a weary world.

    Habits of Hope explores a Christian understanding ...

  • Starting Missional Churches: Life with God in the Neighborhood, Edited by Mark Branson and Nicholas Warnes
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    Starting Missional Churches

    Life with God in the Neighborhood

    Edited by Mark Branson and Nicholas Warnes

    All mission is local—the people of God joining the work of God in a particular place. In Starting Missional Churches Mark Lau Branson and Nicholas Warnes introduce us to seven missional churches while examining common challenges regardingtheir genesis. Using stories, interviews with pastors and a look at common preconceived notions of church planting in the West, this guide brings together ...

  • Forming Resilient Children: The Role of Spiritual Formation for Healthy Development, By Holly Catterton Allen
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    Forming Resilient Children

    The Role of Spiritual Formation for Healthy Development

    by Holly Catterton Allen
    Foreword by Catherine Stonehouse

    Many children today are growing up in the midst of adversity, whether brought on by family difficulties or larger societal crises. All children need to be able to deal with stress, cope with challenges, and persevere through disappointments. While we cannot protect children from all hardships, we can promote healthy development that fosters resilience.

    In this interdisciplinary ...

  • Integrative Psychotherapy: Toward a Comprehensive Christian Approach, By Mark R. McMinn and Clark D. Campbell
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    Integrative Psychotherapy

    Toward a Comprehensive Christian Approach

    Christian Association for Psychological Studies Books

    by Mark R. McMinn and Clark D. Campbell

    Integrating Models of Therapy with a Theological Framework

    In Integrative Psychotherapy, Mark McMinn and Clark Campbell present an integrative model of psychotherapy that is grounded in Christian biblical and theological teaching and in a critical and constructive engagement with contemporary psychology.

    This foundational work integrates behavioral, cognitive, ...

  • The Challenge of Jesus: Rediscovering Who Jesus Was and Is, By N. T. Wright
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    The Challenge of Jesus

    Rediscovering Who Jesus Was and Is

    The IVP Signature Collection

    by N. T. Wright

    In the midst of many well-publicized and controversial books on Jesus, N. T. Wright's lectures and writings have been widely recognized for providing a fresh, provocative, and credible portrait. Originally published in 1999 and with a new introduction in 2015, The Challenge of Jesus presents an accessible introduction to the "quest for the historical Jesus" and why it matters ...

  • Creator: A Theological Interpretation of Genesis 1, By Peter J. Leithart
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    Creator

    A Theological Interpretation of Genesis 1

    by Peter J. Leithart

    ECPA Top Shelf Book Cover Award

    The Christian claim that the triune God is the creator of the universe is both exegetically grounded and theologically rich.

    Yet discussions about God's work of creation are often overwhelmed by questions such as the age of the earth and the relationship between divine creation and evolution. Without completely ignoring ...

  • Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between Science  Theology, By William A. Dembski
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    Intelligent Design

    The Bridge Between Science & Theology

    by William A. Dembski
    Foreword by Michael J. Behe

    • Voted a 2000 Book of the Year by Christianity Today

    The Intelligent Design movement is three things:

    • a scientific research program for investigating intelligent causes
    • an intellectual movement that challenges naturalistic evolutionary theories
    • a way of understanding divine action

    Although the fast-growing movement has gained considerable ...

  • Living into the Life of Jesus: The Formation of Christian Character, By Klaus Issler
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    Living into the Life of Jesus

    The Formation of Christian Character

    by Klaus Issler
    Foreword by Calvin Miller

    Why does merely understanding and trying hard to follow the example of Jesus often yield little progress--and even less joy and peace? In this foundational work of Christian formation, Klaus Issler derives insights from the life of Jesus in the Gospels to uncover the dynamics of becoming Christlike. You will discover how you can forge much deeper connections with Jesus so that his life begins to ...

  • Dictionary of the Old Testament: Pentateuch: A Compendium of Contemporary Biblical Scholarship, Edited by T. Desmond Alexander and David W. Baker
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    Dictionary of the Old Testament: Pentateuch

    A Compendium of Contemporary Biblical Scholarship

    The IVP Bible Dictionary Series

    Edited by T. Desmond Alexander and David W. Baker

    Logos Book Award Winner
    ECPA Gold Medallion Finalist

    The first five books of the Old Testament lay the foundation on which the rest of Scripture stands.

    Its great themes, epochal events and towering figures set down vectors on which the biblical story is played out. The very shape of the rest of the Old Testament would collapse were the Penteteuch ...

  • We Believe in the Holy Spirit, Edited by Joel C. Elowsky
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    We Believe in the Holy Spirit

    Ancient Christian Doctrine Series

    Edited by Joel C. Elowsky
    General Editor Thomas C. Oden

    "The Spirit blows where it pleases," Jesus said to Nicodemus. "You hear its sound but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit."

    The Spirit, like the wind, is hard to pin down. Any discussion of the Spirit is fraught with the difficulty of speaking about something or someone who defies definition and who purposely ...