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  • In Defense of Miracles: A Comprehensive Case for God's Action in History, Edited by R. Douglas Geivett and Gary R. Habermas
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    In Defense of Miracles

    A Comprehensive Case for God's Action in History

    Edited by R. Douglas Geivett and Gary R. Habermas

    Rumors of deception have surrounded claims of Jesus' resurrection ever since the soldiers appointed to guard his tomb made their report to the Jewish authorities. But no one has led the philosophic charge against miracles quite as influentially as David Hume with his 1748 essay "Of Miracles." Refined, revised, restated, his arguments still affect philosophic discussions of miracles today.

    During ...

  • Down-to-Earth Spirituality: Encountering God in the Ordinary, Boring Stuff of Life, By R. Paul Stevens
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    Down-to-Earth Spirituality

    Encountering God in the Ordinary, Boring Stuff of Life

    by R. Paul Stevens
    Foreword by Charles Ringma

    Most books on spirituality focus on disciplines like prayer and Bible study. But this can mislead us into thinking that God can only be experienced when we are doing something "spiritual." Apart from private devotional times or church on Sundays, God may seem distant and even irrelevant to our daily lives.R. Paul Stevens has a radically different view of Christian spirituality. True spirituality, ...

  • Embracing the Body: Finding God in Our Flesh and Bone, By Tara M. Owens
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    Embracing the Body

    Finding God in Our Flesh and Bone

    by Tara M. Owens

    • Foreword Reviews' 18th Annual INDIEFAB Book of the Year for Body, Mind and Spirit
    • 2015 Readers' Choice Awards Honorable Mention

    Our bodies teach us about God, and God communicates to us through our bodies. Our bodies are more good than we can possibly imagine them to be. And yet at times we may struggle with feelings of shame and guilt or even pride in ...

  • Spiritual Conversations with Children: Listening to God Together, By Lacy Finn Borgo
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    Spiritual Conversations with Children

    Listening to God Together

    by Lacy Finn Borgo

    We are born into this world with a natural longing to connect to God and other human beings. When children have a listening companion who hears, acknowledges, and encourages their early experiences with God, it creates a spiritualfootprint that shapes their lives. How can we increase our capacity to engage children in spiritual conversations?

    In this book Lacy Finn Borgo draws ...

  • The Temple and the Church's Mission: A Biblical Theology of the Dwelling Place of God, By G. K. Beale
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    The Temple and the Church's Mission

    A Biblical Theology of the Dwelling Place of God

    New Studies in Biblical Theology

    by G. K. Beale
    Series edited by D. A. Carson

    "Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth. . . . And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem. . . . And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man." (Revelation 21:1-3, ESV).In this comprehensive study, a New Studies in Biblical Theology volume, G. K. Beale argues that the Old Testament tabernacle and temples were symbolically designed to point to the end-time ...

  • Just Courage: God's Great Expedition for the Restless Christian, By Gary A. Haugen
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    Just Courage

    God's Great Expedition for the Restless Christian

    by Gary A. Haugen

    "There must be more to the Christian life than this--more than church each Sunday and waving to my neighbors and giving some clothes to Goodwill when I go through my closet each spring."These aren't bad things, of course. But they're safeand comfortable and easy. And there's a reason they're not satisfying your desire for something more significant and meaningful--we're created by God for ...

  • Light of the Word: How Knowing the History of the Bible Illuminates Our Faith, By Susan C. Lim
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    Light of the Word

    How Knowing the History of the Bible Illuminates Our Faith

    by Susan Chongmi Lim

    While Christians generally acknowledge that the Bible is God's Word, many of us lack robust confidence in the reality of its trustworthiness. We may not be sure if we really believe what we read. But the more we understand how Scripture came to be, the more we discover its power and truth.

    Historian Susan Lim unpacks how the history of the Bible bolsters our faith and anchors ...

  • The Gift of Being Yourself: The Sacred Call to Self-Discovery, By David G. Benner
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    The Gift of Being Yourself

    The Sacred Call to Self-Discovery

    The Spiritual Journey

    by David G. Benner
    Foreword by M. Basil Pennington

    Embark on the Spiritual Journey of Knowing Your True Self

    "Grant, Lord, that I may know myself that I may know thee." —Augustine

    Much is said in Christian circles about knowing God. But what if thereis also value in knowing yourself? Christians throughout the ages have agreed that there cannot be deep knowledge of God without deep knowledge ...

  • Foretaste of the Future: Reading Revelation in Light of God's Mission, By Dean Flemming
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    Foretaste of the Future

    Reading Revelation in Light of God's Mission

    by Dean Flemming

    For many Christians, the book of Revelation inspires confusion and fear. It's seen as a coded screenplay for the end times, or it's just too strange to understand. The problem, Dean Flemming contends, is that when we read Revelation as focused on the future, we miss what it says about what God is doing in the world now.

    Revelation is one of the richest texts in Scripture ...

  • Creation and Doxology: The Beginning and End of God's Good World, Edited by Gerald L. Hiestand and Todd Wilson
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    Creation and Doxology

    The Beginning and End of God's Good World

    Center for Pastor Theologians Series

    Edited by Gerald L. Hiestand and Todd A Wilson

    The doctrine of creation is crucial to the Christian faith, but it has often been maligned, misinterpreted, or ignored.

    Some, such as pagan philosophers and Gnostics, have tended to denigrate the goodness of the material world. More recently, new questions have emerged regarding human origins in light of the Darwinian account of evolution. What does it mean today to both affirm ...