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  • Learning Humility: A Year of Searching for a Vanishing Virtue, By Richard J. Foster
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    Learning Humility

    A Year of Searching for a Vanishing Virtue

    by Richard J. Foster

    Outreach Resource of the Year, Spiritual Growth

    In a society where raging narcissism dominates the moral landscape, the virtue of humility is often dismissed as irrelevant. Not only is humility vanishing from contemporary culture, but we are also witnessing how destructive a lack of humility has become among our churches and ministry leaders. And yet, Richard ...

  • Redeeming Creation: The Biblical Basis for Environmental Stewardship, By Fred H. Van Dyke and David C. Mahan and Joseph K. Sheldon and Raymond H. Brand
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    Redeeming Creation

    The Biblical Basis for Environmental Stewardship

    by Fred H. Van Dyke, David C. Mahan, Joseph K. Sheldon, and Raymond H. Brand

    "Preeeeep." The sound of the peepers, tiny frogs an inch or two long, penetrated the dusk. Beneath the jack pines at the edge of a small pond in the northern Michigan woods, the males were calling their mates. A professor and a group of ecology students sat speechless as closer and closer, louder and louder, more and more peepers joined in chorus.There was just light enough to see them, crawling ...

  • Shaped by Suffering: How Temporary Hardships Prepare Us for Our Eternal Home, By Kenneth Boa
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    Shaped by Suffering

    How Temporary Hardships Prepare Us for Our Eternal Home

    by Kenneth Boa
    With Jenny M Abel

    "The God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast." 1 Peter 5:10Suffering comes to us all. It may be disease or debilitation, pain or persecution. Our difficulties may be invisible to others or impossible to hide. Sometimes we suffer because of our Christian ...

  • The Message of Hosea, By Derek Kidner
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    The Message of Hosea

    The Bible Speaks Today Series

    by Derek Kidner

    Why would God ask one of his prophets to marry a prostitute? Because he wanted to teach Hosea, the nation of Israel, and all of us today a lesson we will not forget, a lesson that is painful yet joyous.

    Hosea's somber portrait of the human condition is our lesson in pain. All of us have been unfaithful, forsaking God and his ways. Yet Hosea's clear illustration of God's love ...

  • Refuse to Do Nothing: Finding Your Power to Abolish Modern-Day Slavery, By Shayne Moore and Kimberly McOwen Yim
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    Refuse to Do Nothing

    Finding Your Power to Abolish Modern-Day Slavery

    by Shayne Moore and Kimberly McOwen Yim
    Foreword by Elisa Morgan

    2014 Outreach Magazine Resource of the Year

    Slavery didn't end in 1833, when William Wilberforce's decades-long campaign finally resulted in the Slavery Abolition Act. It didn't end in 1863, when Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. It didn't end in 1949, when the United Nations declared trafficking "incompatible with the dignity and worth of the ...

  • The Message of Isaiah, By Barry G. Webb
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    The Message of Isaiah

    The Bible Speaks Today Series

    by Barry G. Webb

    The book of Isaiah is outstanding in its brilliance of style, poetic power, and foretaste of the hope of the gospel. It tells how God himself has provided the highway to holiness for those who have been redeemed. These are imagesthat evoke the exodus from Egypt and foreshadow Christ's achievement at the cross. There is joy even in Isaiah's portrayal of judgment—rebuilding within ...

  • Ephesians, By N. T. Wright
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    Ephesians

    N. T. Wright for Everyone Bible Study Guides

    by N. T. Wright
    With Lin Johnson

    Have you noticed how sometimes you have a story in the back of your mind that keeps coming up, even when you're talking about something else? In Ephesians, throughout its worship, prayers and instructions for living, Paul can't contain his joy andamazement at the larger story of God's plan to save us in Jesus the Messiah. These eleven studies from Tom Wright will help us see the significance of ...

    Number of Studies: 11

  • Exploring the Old Testament: A Guide to the Historical Books, By Philip E. Satterthwaite and J. Gordon McConville
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    Exploring the Old Testament

    A Guide to the Historical Books

    Exploring the Bible Series

    by Philip E. Satterthwaite and J. Gordon McConville

    The historical books, from Joshua to Ezra and Nehemiah, form the narrative backbone of the Old Testament. Without them the Pentateuch would stop cold and the Prophets would hang in suspension. Even the Psalms and Wisdom literature would lose someof their luster for lack of a setting. Without these historical books the New Testament would be resolving an incomplete narrative, answering a question ...

  • Forgiveness: Making Peace with the Past, By Douglas Connelly
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    Forgiveness

    Making Peace with the Past

    LifeGuide Bible Studies

    by Douglas Connelly

    Forgiveness is a door. It's the way to peace and joy. But it's a small door, and it can't be entered without stooping—or kneeling. And sometimes it is very hard to find.

    When we hurt the people we love, how do we go about restoring the relationship?

    When we suffer the pain of betrayal or injury or rejection from someone else, how do we deal with the anger and resentment we feel?

    In ...

    Number of Studies: 8

  • Singleness: A Life Grounded in Love, By Ruth Goring
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    Singleness

    A Life Grounded in Love

    LifeGuide Bible Studies

    by Ruth Goring

    Is being single a great adventure?

    Or is being single lonely and frustrating?

    What is God's "word" for your life in singleness?

    In this ten session LifeGuide® Bible Study, Ruth Goring leads you to explore these questions. You will learn to listen deeply to God, identify the gifts your life offers, cope effectively with temptation, make space for relationships, and grow ...

    Number of Studies: 10