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PaperbackA Week in the Life of Rome
A Week in the Life Series
by James L Papandrea
In first-century Rome, following Jesus comes at a tremendous social cost.
An urbane Roman landowner and merchant is intrigued by the Christian faith—but is he willing to give up his status and lifestyle to join the church? Meanwhile his young client, a catechumen in the church at Rome, is beginning to see just how much his newfound faith will require of him.
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PaperbackPleasing God
LifeGuide Bible Studies
by Jack Kuhatschek
Like children performing for our parents in a backyard play, we long to receive the applause, the approval, the divine "well done" of our heavenly Father. This nine-session LifeGuide® Bible Study is about how we can please God--not by following legalistic rules but by putting our trust in Christ. As we grow in our relationship with him, we see how godly character flows from a clear conscience ...
Number of Studies: 9
PaperbackBored with God
How Parents, Youth Leaders and Teachers Can Overcome Student Apathy
by Sean Dunn
You know that part of the Old Testament where the priest finds a suspicious sore on your arm and shaves a ring around it? A week later the priest takes another look to see if the skin has gotten better or if the sore has spread. If it's spreading,the priest knows you've got a big problem on your hands. Like most diseases, apathy surfaces in observable symptoms that are frustrating to its victims ...
PaperbackYouth Ministry from the Inside Out
How Who You Are Shapes What You Do
by Mike Higgs
Flash! Ping! Whiz! Pop! Boom! Bang! Crash!Such are the sights and sounds of modern youth ministry. We look for the bigger, the louder, the brighter. And we work long and hard to make our ministry the biggest, the loudest, the brightest.But look out and listen up: God is not caught up in sound and fury. And he doesn't want to see youth workers disengage--letting the momentum define their purpose. ...
PaperbackPaul Behaving Badly
Was the Apostle a Racist, Chauvinist Jerk?
by E. Randolph Richards and Brandon J. O'Brien
The apostle Paul was kind of a jerk.He was arrogant and stubborn. He called his opponents derogatory, racist names. He legitimized slavery and silenced women. He was a moralistic, homophobic killjoy who imposed his narrow religious views on others. Or was he?Randolph Richards and Brandon O'Brien explore the complicated persona and teachings of the apostle Paul. Unpacking his personal ...
PaperbackThe Mestizo Augustine
A Theologian Between Two Cultures
by Justo L. González
Few thinkers have been as influential as Augustine of Hippo. His writings, such as Confessions and City of God, have left an indelible mark on Western Christianity. He has become so synonymous with Christianity in the West that we easily forget he was a man of two cultures: African and Greco-Roman. The mixture of African Christianity and Greco-Roman rhetoric and philosophy gave ...
PaperbackWitness Essentials
Evangelism that Makes Disciples
The Essentials Set
by Daniel Meyer
We know the radical difference the gospel of Jesus Christ makes, and we want others to see and enjoy its benefits. In fact, we don't want them to just pray a prayer and move on to the next interesting thing. We want them to sink their roots deeplyinto the grace of God.
So often, though, we feel that we are inadequate to this important task--that we don't know enough or that we will offend ...
Number of Studies: 12
PaperbackFaith in the Shadows
Finding Christ in the Midst of Doubt
by Austin Fischer
Foreword by Brian Zahnd"People don't abandon faith because they have doubts. People abandon faith because they think they're not allowed to have doubts."Too often, our honest questions about faith are met with cold confidence and easy answers. But falsecertitude doesn't result in strong faith—it results in disillusionment, or worse, in a dogmatic, overweening faith unable to see itself or its object clearly.Even ...
PaperbackThe Galileo Connection
by Charles E. Hummel
The church disagreed with Galileo. That set off a controversy that rages on today. The passion remains but the issues have changed and the arguments have become more complex. Do miracles conflict with scientific laws? How did the universe begin? Does the creation story in Genesis conflict with evolution?Hummel sets these controversies in historical perspective by telling the fascinating stories ...
PaperbackTen
Words of Life for an Addicted, Compulsive, Cynical, Divided and Worn-Out Culture
by Sean Gladding
To most people living in today's world, the Ten Commandments represent archaic rules dictated by a taskmaster God, meant for a society long gone. Many see them as irrelevant, even unattainable, today. But what if we're not that different from those who gathered around Moses as he handed down God's Ten Words to his people? What if they were never meant to be a set of rules, but instead a ...
