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  • Playing God: Redeeming the Gift of Power, By Andy Crouch
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    Playing God

    Redeeming the Gift of Power

    by Andy Crouch

    Midwest Publishing Association Award of Excellence

    Outreach Magazine Resource of the Year

    ForeWord Book of the Year Award Honorable Mention

    Power corrupts—as we've seen time and time again. People too often abuse their power and play god in the lives of others. Shady politicians, corrupt executives and ego-filled ...

  • Living the Christian Year: Time to Inhabit the Story of God, By Bobby Gross
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    Living the Christian Year

    Time to Inhabit the Story of God

    by Bobby Gross

    Infuse your days with meaning.You are part of a larger Story. And the One who began the Story is at work today, in your life, in the midst of your meetings and bills and family activities that make the days rush by and blur together. In these pages Bobby Gross opens to you--and opens you to--the liturgical year, helping you inhabit God's Story every day.

    • Remembering God's work, ...
  • The Love of God: A Canonical Model, By John C. Peckham
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    The Love of God

    A Canonical Model

    by John C. Peckham

    Readers' Choice Award Winner

    "For God so loved the world . . ."

    We believe these words, but what do they really mean? Does God choose to love, or does God love necessarily? Is God's love emotional? Does the love of God include desire or enjoyment? Is God's love conditional? Can God receive love from human beings?

    Attempts to answer these questions ...

  • What About Those Who Have Never Heard?: Three Views on the Destiny of the Unevangelized, Edited by Gabriel J. Fackre and Ronald H. Nash and John Sanders
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    What About Those Who Have Never Heard?

    Three Views on the Destiny of the Unevangelized

    Spectrum Multiview Book Series

    Edited by Gabriel J. Fackre, Ronald H. Nash, and John Sanders

    Voted one of Christianity Today's Books of the Year

    What is the fate of those who die never hearing the gospel? Do Hindus, Jews, agnostics and others who do not profess faith in Christ really suffer damnation after death? These and similar questions have long been contemplated by people from every religious persuasion and every walk of life. But in ...

  • Modern Art and the Life of a Culture: The Religious Impulses of Modernism, By Jonathan A. Anderson and William A. Dyrness
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    Modern Art and the Life of a Culture

    The Religious Impulses of Modernism

    Studies in Theology and the Arts Series

    by Jonathan A. Anderson and William A. Dyrness

    Christianity Today Book of the Year Award of Merit - Culture and the Arts

    For many Christians, engaging with modern art raises several questions: Is the Christian faith at odds with modern art? Doesmodernism contain religious themes? What is the place of Christian artists in the landscape of modern art?

    Nearly fifty years ago, Dutch art historian ...

  • Misquoting Truth: A Guide to the Fallacies of Bart Ehrman's
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    Misquoting Truth

    A Guide to the Fallacies of Bart Ehrman's "Misquoting Jesus"

    by Timothy Paul Jones

    "What good does it do to say that the words [of the Bible] are inspired by God if most people have absolutely no access to these words, but only to more or less clumsy renderings of these words into a language? . . . How does it help us to say that the Bible is the inerrant word of God if in fact we don't have the words that God inerrantly inspired? . . . We have only error-ridden copies, and ...

  • Calling on the Name of the Lord: A Biblical Theology of Prayer, By Gary Millar
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    Calling on the Name of the Lord

    A Biblical Theology of Prayer

    New Studies in Biblical Theology

    by Gary Millar
    Series edited by D. A. Carson

    Preaching's 10 New Books Every Preacher Should Read

    "At that time people began to call upon the name of the LORD" (Genesis 4:26 ESV).

    From this first mention of prayer in the Bible, right through to the end, when the church prays "Come, Lord Jesus!" (Revelation 22:20), prayer is intimately linked with the gospel—God's promised and provided solution to the problem ...

  • Justification: God's Plan  Paul's Vision, By N. T. Wright
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    Justification

    God's Plan Paul's Vision

    by N. T. Wright

    Biblical Foundations Book Award

    Few issues are more central to the Christian faith than the nature, scope and means of salvation. Many have thought it to be largely a transaction that gets one to heaven. In this riveting book, N. T. Wright explains that God's salvation is radically more than this.At the heart of much vigorous debate on this topic is the term the apostle Paul ...

  • Including the Stranger: Foreigners in the Former Prophets, By David G. Firth
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    Including the Stranger

    Foreigners in the Former Prophets

    New Studies in Biblical Theology

    by David G. Firth
    Series edited by D. A. Carson

    Biblical Foundations Award Finalist

    The Old Testament, particularly the Former Prophets (Joshua, Judges, 1-2 Samuel, and 1-2 Kings), has frequently been regarded as having a negative attitude towards foreigners. This has meant that these texts are often employed by those opposed to the Christian faith to attack the Bible—and such views can be echoed by Christians. While the ...

  • The God Who Makes Himself Known: The Missionary Heart of the Book of Exodus, By W. Ross Blackburn
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    The God Who Makes Himself Known

    The Missionary Heart of the Book of Exodus

    New Studies in Biblical Theology

    by W. Ross Blackburn
    Series edited by D. A. Carson

    The Lord's commitment to make himself known throughout the nations is the overarching missionary theme of the Bible and the central theological concern of Exodus.Countering scholarly tendencies to fragment the text over theological difficulties, Ross Blackburn contends that Exodus should be read as a unified whole, and that an appreciation of its missionary theme in its canonical context is of great ...