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paperbackBreaking the Idols of Your Heart
How to Navigate the Temptations of Life
by Dan B. Allender and Tremper Longman III
We all want to know our lives matter.So did the Teacher in Ecclesiastes. He invested time and energy in every activity he could think of that might bring meaning and purpose to his life but found only disappointment, frustration, hopelessness.In our thirst for significance we, like the Teacher, give our lives--our time, talents, strength, heart--to anything we think will give us worth and purpose: ...
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paperbackFrom Bubble to Bridge
Educating Christians for a Multifaith World
by Marion H. Larson and Sara L. H. Shady
Foreword by Eboo PatelUnderstanding our religious neighbors is more important than ever—but also more challenging.
In a world of deep religious strife and increasing pluralism it can seem safer to remain inside the "bubble" of our faith community. Christian college campuses in particular provide a strong social bubble that reinforces one's faith identity in distinction from the wider society. Many ...
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paperbackNew Testament Theology and Ethics
New Testament Theology and Ethics
by Ben Witherington III
All too often, argues Ben Witherington, the theology of the New Testament has been divorced from its ethics, leaving as isolated abstractions what are fully integrated, dynamic elements within the New Testament itself. As Witherington stresses, "behavior affects and reinforces or undoes belief."Previously published as The Indelible Image, Volume 2, Witherington offers the second of a two-volume ...
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paperbackNew Testament Theology and Ethics
New Testament Theology and Ethics
by Ben Witherington III
All too often, argues Ben Witherington, the theology of the New Testament has been divorced from its ethics, leaving as isolated abstractions what are fully integrated, dynamic elements within the New Testament itself. As Witherington stresses, "behavior affects and reinforces or undoes belief."Previously published as The Indelible Image, Volume 1, Witherington offers the first of a two-volume ...
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paperbackThe Path of Celtic Prayer
An Ancient Way to Everyday Joy
by Calvin Miller
Discover an ancient way of prayer that leads us to new union with God."Long ago," Calvin Miller writes, "when the Celts built their own rustic kingdom of God in what would later be the British Isles, their fervor in prayer washed their world in a vital revival." In uncertain and dangerous days of high infant-mortality rates, leprosy and plagues, the Celts breathed candid prayers out of the reality ...
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paperbackScars Across Humanity
Understanding and Overcoming Violence Against Women
by Elaine Storkey
Christianity Today 2019 Book of the Year Award, Politics and Public Life
Across the globe, acts of violence against women produce more deaths, disability, and mutilation than cancer, malaria, and traffic accidents combined.
The truth is that violence on such a scale could not exist were it not structured in some way into the very fabric of societies and cultures ...
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InterVarsity Press (IVP) is pleased to announce that Refuge Reimagined has been recognized as a finalist in the annual Australian Christian Book of the Year Awards.
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paperbackCreating Cultures of Belonging
Cultivating Organizations Where Women and Men Thrive
by Beth Birmingham and Eeva Sallinen Simard
Foreword by Emily SarmientoWith increasing interest from donors and board members to see faith-based, missional organizations reflect the diversity of God's kingdom, these organizations desire to have women in positions of leadership. However, this proves difficult when the organizational culture is one that silences and even penalizes the unique giftings that women bring to the table.
Many organizations ...
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Tamara Park
Now back in the United States, Tamara Park is pastor of community at Warehouse 242, a church in urban Charlotte, North Carolina.
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