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  • Still Bored in a Culture of Entertainment: Rediscovering Passion  Wonder, By Richard Winter
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    Still Bored in a Culture of Entertainment

    Rediscovering Passion Wonder

    by Richard Winter

    Though we have hundreds of entertainment options today--video games, the Internet, CD and MP3 players, home entertainment centers, sporting events, megamalls, movie theaters, and even robotic toys--Western culture is battling an insidious disease. It's an epidemic of boredom.Intrigued by this "deadness of soul," Richard Winter uses the latest historical, physiological and psychological research ...

  • Economic Parables: The Monetary Teachings of Jesus Christ, By David Cowan
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    Economic Parables

    The Monetary Teachings of Jesus Christ

    by David Cowan

    Ever wondered how to pay the next bill? Felt the world is unfair in economic rewards? Been indecisive about investing wisely? These types of fiscal questions are addressed from a Christian viewpoint in Economic Parables.

    Using his vast experience in the financial world as well as church ministry, the author invites you to listen directly to the words of Jesus and reflect on a number ...

  • The Path of Christianity: The First Thousand Years, By John Anthony McGuckin
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    The Path of Christianity

    The First Thousand Years

    by John Anthony McGuckin

    John Anthony McGuckin, one of the world's leading scholars of ancient Christianity, has synthesized a lifetime of work to produce the most comprehensive and accessible history of the Christian movement during its first thousand years. The Pathof Christianity takes readers on a journey from the period immediately after the composition of the Gospels, through the building of the earliest ...

  • Interpreting Old Testament Wisdom Literature, Edited by David G. Firth and Lindsay Wilson
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    Interpreting Old Testament Wisdom Literature

    Edited by David G. Firth and Lindsay Wilson

    In popular perception, Wisdom literature is a "self-help" or "philosophy" section of the Old Testament library—the odd and interesting bits of canonical mortar between History and Prophets. Themes that are prominent elsewhere in the Old Testament receive only scant attention in the wisdom books. Proverbs, Job, and Ecclesiastes focus on everyday life rather than on God's special dealings with the ...

  • The Decalogue: Living as the People of God, By David L. Baker
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    The Decalogue

    Living as the People of God

    by David L. Baker

    Evangelical Christian Publishers Association Top Shelf Book Cover Award 2017

    The Ten Commandments, or Decalogue, have long been a pillar of Western law and culture. In more recent times they have been apoint of controversy in the public square. But on closer scrutiny the commandments are particularly addressed to the people of God. In the exodus narrative, their revelation ...

  • Dictionary of Biblical Imagery, Edited by Leland Ryken and James C. Wilhoit and Tremper Longman III
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    Dictionary of Biblical Imagery

    Edited by Leland Ryken, James C. Wilhoit, and Tremper Longman III

    Christianity Today Book of the Year

    Explore the Rich Visual Language of the Bible

    Every reader of the Bible has encountered the powerful, comforting and sometimes puzzling imagery of Scripture. These concrete pictures like milk and honey, mountains and valleys, and covenants and feasts have hidden force and have struck sharp and lasting impressions ...