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PaperbackDefeating Pharisaism
Recovering Jesus' Disciple-Making Method
by Gary Tyra
Pharisaism (legalism, dogmatism, separatism, judgmentalism, etc.) is alive and well and a destructive force in too many evangelical churches. This plague hinders effective outreach, burns out professional and lay leaders and has contributed to themass alienation of tens of thousands of young people from evangelical churches to the point where they have no church affiliation at all or they associate ...
PaperbackSlow Church
Cultivating Community in the Patient Way of Jesus
by C. Christopher Smith and John Pattison
Foreword by Jonathan Wilson-HartgroveReaders' Choice Award Winner
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Fast food. Fast cars. Fast and furious. Fast forward. Fast . . . church?
The church is oftenidealized (or demonized) as the last bastion of a bygone era, dragging our feet as we're pulled into new moralities and new spiritualities. We guard our ...
PaperbackLuke: Historian & Theologian
by I. Howard Marshall
Apart from the apostle Paul, Luke is arguably the most influential force in the canon of the New Testament. His Gospel and Acts occupy almost a third of the New Testament, and together their narrative voice carries us over a span of more than sixty years, from the birth of Jesus to the imprisonment of Paul in Rome.It is difficult to imagine our understanding of the New Testament period without Luke's ...
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PaperbackThe Earliest Christologies
Five Images of Christ in the Postapostolic Age
by James L Papandrea
The second century was a religious and cultural crucible for early Christian Christology. Was Christ a man, temporarily inhabited by the divine? Was he a spirit, only apparently cloaked in flesh? Or was he the Logos, truly incarnate? Between varieties of adoptionism on the one hand and brands of gnosticism on the other, the church's understanding took shape.In this clear and concise introduction, ...
HardbackThe Cross of Christ
by John Stott
Foreword by Alister McGrath"I could never myself believe in God, if it were not for the cross. . . . In the real world of pain, how could one worship a God who was immune to it?" With compelling honesty John Stott confronts readers with the centrality of the cross in God's redemption of our pain-filled world.
Can we see triumph in tragedy, victory in shame? Why should an object of Roman distaste and ...
PaperbackMark: The Gospel of Passion
The Biblical Imagination Series
by Michael Card
"He who has ears to hear, let him hear." Michael Card gives new meaning to these familiar words of Jesus in a new collection of songs inspired by the Gospel of Mark. Rendering the urgency of Mark's account into music, Card confronts us with the passionate appeal of God to humanity through the voice of Jesus.Flowing with the rich, melodic sound and thoughtful lyrics you've come to expect from Card, ...
PaperbackThe Messiah Comes to Middle-Earth
Images of Christ's Threefold Office in The Lord of the Rings
Hansen Series
by Philip G Ryken
"... Ryken shows how profoundly Tolkien's imagination was shaped by Jesus Christ himself, revealing the rich theological insights we can receive from the great tales if we are attentive to them. This book is a treat, filled with surprises." – Tim Keller
How can we grasp the significance of what Jesus Christ did for us? Might literature help us as we seek to understand ...
PaperbackMinistering in Patronage Cultures
Biblical Models and Missional Implications
by Jayson Georges
Patronage governs many relationships in Majority World cultures. But regrettably, Western theologians and missionaries rarely notice this prominent cultural reality. Patronage—a reciprocal relationship between social unequals—is acentral part of global cultures and the biblical story of God's mission.
Misunderstanding patronage creates problems not only for Westerners ministering ...
