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  • Renaissance: The Power of the Gospel However Dark the Times, By Os Guinness
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    Renaissance

    The Power of the Gospel However Dark the Times

    by Os Guinness

    Logos Bookstores' Best Book in Christianity and Culture

    Honorable Mention, Best Book of the Year from Byron Borger, Hearts and Minds Bookstore

    We live in dark times. Christians wonder: Are the best days of the Christian faith behind us? Has modernity made Christian thought irrelevant and impotent? Is society beyond all hope of redemption and renewal?

    In ...

  • God at War: The Bible and Spiritual Conflict, By Gregory A. Boyd
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    God at War

    The Bible and Spiritual Conflict

    by Gregory A. Boyd

    In this bold and compelling work, Gregory Boyd undertakes to reframe the central issues of Christian theodicy. By Boyd's estimate, theologians still draw too heavily on Augustine's response to the problem of evil, attributing pain and suffering to the mysterious "good" purposes of God.Accordingly, modern Christians are inclined not to expect evil and so are baffled but resigned when it occurs. New ...

  • Invitation to Solitude and Silence: Experiencing God's Transforming Presence, By Ruth Haley Barton
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    Invitation to Solitude and Silence

    Experiencing God's Transforming Presence

    Transforming Resources

    by Ruth Haley Barton
    Foreword by Dallas Willard

    Christianity Today Book Award

    "If you would really like to know the 'rest appropriate for the people of God' (Heb 4:9), then make the decision to leave all outcomes to God and enter the practice of solitude and silence with Ruth Barton as your guide. As you do so, call upon Jesus to be with you, and trust him for that." – Dallas Willard, from the foreword ...

  • Shaping the Journey of Emerging Adults: Life-Giving Rhythms for Spiritual Transformation, By Richard R. Dunn and Jana L. Sundene
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    Shaping the Journey of Emerging Adults

    Life-Giving Rhythms for Spiritual Transformation

    by Richard R. Dunn and Jana L. Sundene

    Between adolescence and adulthood is a new stage of life: emerging adulthood.Those in their twenties and early thirties find themselves in transition. This "provisional adulthood" is a time of identity exploration and instability in whichone's vocation, purpose, relationships and spirituality are all being renegotiated. Many emerging adults lose sight of God and experience significant confusion ...

  • Pocket Dictionary of the Reformed Tradition, By Kelly M. Kapic and Wesley Vander Lugt
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    Pocket Dictionary of the Reformed Tradition

    The IVP Pocket Reference Series

    by Kelly M. Kapic and Wesley Vander Lugt

    Beginning to study Reformed theology is like stepping into a family conversation that has been going on for five hundred years. How do you find your bearings and figure out how to take part in this conversation without embarrassing yourself?

    The Pocket Dictionary of the Reformed Tradition takes on this rich, boisterous and varied tradition in its broad contours, filling you in on ...

  • Commentary on John, By Cyril of Alexandria
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    Commentary on John

    Ancient Christian Texts

    by Cyril of Alexandria
    Edited by Joel C. Elowsky
    Translated by David R. Maxwell

    Cyril of Alexandria (ca. 378-444), one of the most brilliant representatives of the Alexandrian theological tradition, is best known for championing the term Theotokos (God-bearer) in opposition to Nestorius of Constantinople. Cyril's great Commentary on John, offered here in the Ancient Christian Text series in two volumes, predates the Nestorian controversy, however, and focuses its theological ...

  • Commentary on John, By Cyril of Alexandria
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    Commentary on John

    Ancient Christian Texts

    by Cyril of Alexandria
    Edited by Joel C. Elowsky
    Translated by David R. Maxwell

    Cyril of Alexandria (ca. 378-444), one of the most brilliant representatives of the Alexandrian theological tradition, is best known for championing the term Theotokos (God-bearer) in opposition to Nestorius of Constantinople. Cyril's great Commentary on John, offered here in the Ancient Christian Texts series in two volumes, predates the Nestorian controversy and focuses its theological ...

  • Commentaries on Job, Hosea, Joel, and Amos, By Julian of Eclanum
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    Commentaries on Job, Hosea, Joel, and Amos

    Ancient Christian Texts

    by Julian of Eclanum
    Edited and Translated by Thomas P. Scheck

    "Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind . . . "

    Julian of Eclanum (c. 386–455) was the bishop of Eclanum, located in modern-day Italy. In this volume in IVP's Ancient Christian Texts series, Thomas Scheck provides anew translation of Julian's commentaries on the biblical books of Job and those of three Minor Prophets: Hosea, Joel, and Amos. Here, readers will gain ...

  • Lectures on the Psalms, By Didymus the Blind
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    Lectures on the Psalms

    Ancient Christian Texts

    by Didymus the Blind
    Edited and Translated by Jonathan Douglas Hicks

    "The Lord shepherds me, and nothing will be lacking for me. In a place of tender grass, there he causes me to encamp."

    In his reading of Psalm 23, early Christian theologian Didymus the Blind perceived the comfort that is provided only by Christ, the good shepherd: "The disciples of Christ who have become perfect in his instruction . . . do not simply hear a voice, ...

  • The Message of Psalms 1–72, By Michael Wilcock
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    The Message of Psalms 1–72

    The Bible Speaks Today Series

    by Michael Wilcock

    The book of Psalms is a favorite of Christians, even though we frequently read it in portions and pieces, hopscotching through the familiar and avoiding the odd, the unpleasant, and the difficult. But though the individual psalmsarose from an assortment of times, experiences, and settings, the book is composed in a deliberate pattern, not as a random anthology. The meaning of the ...