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  • A1187
    audiobook

    Foretaste of the Future

    Reading Revelation in Light of God's Mission

    by Dean Flemming
    Read by Craig Davis

    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 ...

  • Humility Illuminated: The Biblical Path Back to Christian Character, By Dennis R. Edwards
    paperback

    Humility Illuminated

    The Biblical Path Back to Christian Character

    by Dennis R Edwards
    Foreword by Marlena Graves

    The modern church is immersed in a competitive, polarized, and status-driven society. It's hard to have conversations about important issues when so many are defensive and unwilling to learn. Too often, Christians fall into thesesame traps. The health and witness of the church urgently depend on recovering an essential biblical virtue: humility.

    New Testament scholar Dennis ...

  • Diverse Worship: African-American, Caribbean and Hispanic Perspectives, By Pedrito U. Maynard-Reid
    paperback

    Diverse Worship

    African-American, Caribbean and Hispanic Perspectives

    by Pedrito U. Maynard-Reid

    Let the nations sing.What are the universal constants of Christian worship? What are the unique elements that arise out of diverse local contexts? How do we appropriately respect and honor both the constancy and the diversity?In Diverse Worship Pedrito U. Maynard-Reid explores the multiethnic dimensions of worship by looking at three specific cultural contexts--African-American, Caribbean ...

  • Defending Black Faith: Answers to Tough Questions About African-American Christianity, By Craig S. Keener and Glenn Usry
    paperback

    Defending Black Faith

    Answers to Tough Questions About African-American Christianity

    by Craig S. Keener and Glenn Usry

    Craig Keener and Glenn Usry's highly acclaimed Black Man's Religion showed in impressive detail that Christianity and Afrocentricity can go together. Now they turn to specific, nitty-gritty questions put to the black church by non-Christians:

    • Is everything good in Christianity plagiarized from traditional African religions?
    • Isn't it intolerant to say Christ is the only ...
  • Black Man's Religion: Can Christianity Be Afrocentric?, By Glenn Usry and Craig S. Keener
    paperback

    Black Man's Religion

    Can Christianity Be Afrocentric?

    by Glenn Usry and Craig S. Keener

    Some say Christianity is white man's religion. . . .And it is true that there is a long and ugly history of abuse of African-Americans at the hands of Anglo Christians. Afrocentric interpretations of history often point to slavery, lynchings and the like as proof that Christianity is inherently antiblack.But Craig Keener and Glen Usry contend that Christianity can be Afrocentric. In this massively ...

  • The Unbiased Self: The Psychology of Overcoming Cognitive Bias, By Erin Devers
    paperback

    The Unbiased Self

    The Psychology of Overcoming Cognitive Bias

    by Erin Elizabeth Devers

    A Christian Perspective on Overcoming Cognitive Bias

    So much human behavior can be explained by two motives: we want to be right, and we want to feel good about ourselves. But the tension between these two motives makes us especially vulnerable to bias—and bias distorts our view of the world and of ourselves and can keep us from doing even what we know is right.

    In The ...

  • The New Testament in Color: A Multiethnic Bible Commentary
    hardcover

    The New Testament in Color

    A Multiethnic Bible Commentary

    Contributions by Lisa M. Bowens, Jordan J. Cruz Ryan, Jarvis J Williams, Gene L. Green, Eric Clark Redmond, M Sydney Park, Dennis R Edwards, Marcus Stephen Jerkins, Madison Pierce, Christin Joy Fort, Ekaputra Tupamahu, Rodolfo Galvan Estrada, Mateus de Campos, Daniel Ishmael Morrison, Julie Newberry Douce, T. Christopher Hoklotubbe, Daniel Zacharias, Michael Gorman, Kay Higuera Smith, Diane Chen, and Miguel Echevarría
    Associate Editor Janette H. Ok, Osvaldo Padilla, and Amy Peeler
    General Editor Esau McCaulley

    Christianity Today Book Award—Biblical Studies

    Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award Honorable Mention

    SOLA Network's Asian American Book Awards Honorable Mention

    In a first-of-its-kind volume, The New Testament in Color offers biblical commentary that is:

    • Multiethnic
    • Diverse
    • Contextual
    • Informative
    • Reflective
    • Prophetic
    • Inspiring

    “I ...