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  • One Body, One Spirit: Principles of Successful Multiracial Churches, By George Yancey
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    One Body, One Spirit

    Principles of Successful Multiracial Churches

    by George Yancey
    Foreword by Michael O. Emerson

    When the church began, an amazing diversity of people from different geographic, cultural and linguistic backgrounds gathered together to confess a common faith in Jesus Christ. The apostle Paul cast a vision of one body where Jew and Gentile would worship together in unity. The Revelation to John likewise foreshadows an eternal future where all nations will join together at the throne of the Lamb.Sadly, ...

  • Evangelicalism & the Stone-Campbell Movement, Edited by William R. Baker
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    Evangelicalism & the Stone-Campbell Movement

    Foreword by Mark A. Noll
    Edited by William R. Baker

    The Stone-Campbell Movement, also known as the Restoration Movement, arose on the frontiers of early nineteenth-century America. Like-minded Methodists, Baptists and Presbyterians abandoned denominational labels in order to be "Christians only." They called followers to join in Christian unity and restore the ideals of the New Testament church, holding authoritative no book but the Bible and believing ...

  • Shaping the Spiritual Life of Students: A Guide for Youth Workers, Pastors, Teachers  Campus Ministers, By Richard R. Dunn
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    Shaping the Spiritual Life of Students

    A Guide for Youth Workers, Pastors, Teachers Campus Ministers

    by Richard R. Dunn

    Alberto is an energetic, people-pleasing eighth grader. He seems to have it all--from the junior high varsity team to his family's beautiful new home to leadership in his youth group. But he feels pressured by team members who mock his Christianity and rejected by his dad whose work requires more and more travel. His young spiritual life is in a precarious place.Last year, as a high ...

  • Commentaries on Genesis 1-3, By Severian of Gabala and Bede the Venerable
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    Commentaries on Genesis 1-3

    Ancient Christian Texts

    by Bede the Venerable and Severian of Gabala
    Edited by Michael Glerup
    Translated by Carmen S. Hardin and Robert C. Hill

    The church fathers displayed considerable interest in the early chapters of Genesis, and often wrote detailed commentaries or preached series of homilies on the Hexameron--the Six Days of Creation--among them Eustathius of Antioch, Basil the Great, Gregory of Nyssa, Theodore of Mopsuestia, Ambrose, John Chrysostom and Augustine.

    This volume of Ancient Christian Texts offers a first-time English ...

  • Homilies on Numbers, By Origen
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    Homilies on Numbers

    Ancient Christian Texts

    by Origen
    Edited by Christopher A. Hall
    Translated by Thomas P. Scheck

    Origen of Alexandria (185-254), one of the most prolific authors of antiquity and arguably the most important and influential pre-Nicene Christian theologian, was a man of deep learning and holiness of life. Regrettably, many of his works are no longer extant, in part due to the condemnation of his ideas by the Fifth Ecumenical Council in 553. The condemnation, however, took little account of his ...

  • Commentaries on the Twelve Prophets: Volume 1, By Jerome
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    Commentaries on the Twelve Prophets

    Volume 1

    Ancient Christian Texts

    by Jerome
    Edited by Thomas P. Scheck

    Jerome (c. 347-419/20), one of the West's four doctors of the church, was recognized early on as one of the church's foremost translators, commentators and advocates of Christian asceticism. Skilled in Hebrew and Greek in addition to his native Latin, he was thoroughly familiar with Jewish traditions and brought them to bear on his understanding of the Old Testament. Beginning in 379, Jerome used ...

  • Psalms 51-150, Edited by Quentin F. Wesselschmidt
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    Psalms 51-150

    Volume 8

    Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture

    Edited by Quentin F. Wesselschmidt
    General Editor Thomas C. Oden

    The Psalms have long served a vital role in the individual and corporate lives of Christians, expressing the full range of human emotions, including some that we are ashamed to admit. The Psalms reverberate with joy, groan in pain, whimper with sadness, grumble in disappointment, and rage with anger.

    The church fathers employed the Psalms widely. In liturgy they used them ...

  • Heart. Soul. Mind. Strength.: A Narrative History of InterVarsity Press, 1947-2022, By Andrew T. Le Peau and Linda Doll
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    Heart. Soul. Mind. Strength.

    A Narrative History of InterVarsity Press, 1947-2022

    by Andrew T. Le Peau and Linda Doll
    Foreword by Jeffrey J Crosby and Robert A. Fryling
    Edited by Albert Y. Hsu

    "Some publishers tell you what to believe. Other publishers tell you what you already believe. But InterVarsity Press helps you believe."

    J. I. Packer

    The history of evangelicalism cannot be understoodapart from the authors and books that shaped it. Over the past century, leading figures such as pastor-scholar John Stott, apologist James W. Sire, evangelist ...

  • We the Fallen People: The Founders and the Future of American Democracy, By Robert Tracy McKenzie
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    We the Fallen People

    The Founders and the Future of American Democracy

    by Robert Tracy McKenzie

    Christianity Today Book Award
    The Gospel Coalition Book Awards Honorable Mention
    Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award Finalist

    The success and survival of American democracy have never been guaranteed. Political polarization, presidential eccentricities, the trustworthiness of government, and the prejudices of the voting majority ...

  • Awakening to Justice: Faithful Voices from the Abolitionist Past, By The Dialogue on Race and Faith Project and Jemar Tisby and Christopher P. Momany and Sègbégnon Mathieu Gnonhossou and David D. Daniels III and R. Matthew Sigler and Douglas M. Strong and Diane Leclerc and Esther Chung-Kim and Albert G. Miller and Estrelda Y. Alexander
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    Awakening to Justice

    Faithful Voices from the Abolitionist Past

    by The Dialogue on Race and Faith, Seattle Pacific University , Albert George Miller, Estrelda Y. Alexander, Jemar Tisby, Christopher Momany, Sègbègnon Mathieu Gnonhossou, David Daniels, R. Matthew Sigler, Douglas M. Strong, Diane Kathleen Leclerc, and Esther Chung-Kim

    "O where are the sympathies of Christians for the slave and where are their exertions for their liberation? . . . It seems as if the church were asleep."

    David Ingraham, 1839

    In 2015, the historian Chris Momany helped discover a manuscript that had been forgotten in a storage closet at Adrian College in Michigan. He identified it as the journal of a ...