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EbookLife's Big Questions
Six Major Themes Traced Through the Bible
by Vaughan Roberts
How can the sixty-six books of the Bible have a single message for us today? What unites the vastly different accounts of God's work in the world? How do the various genres of the Bible work together? Vaughan Roberts believes that the Bible tellsa single story for all time. He draws out the Bible's message of Jesus Christ and God's redemption through him in six big questions:
- Who rules ...
EbookThe Kingdom and the Cross
Apprentice Resources
by James Bryan Smith
We believe a lot of false narratives about the nature of God, things like "God helps those who help themselves"; "God blesses the righteous"; "God might not be out for your good, and you might be missing something." But pastor and professor James Bryan Smith, author of the Apprentice Series, points us to the truth of who God is, revealed by Jesus: A God who loves to help the helpless. A God who ...
EbookJoin the Resistance
Step into the Good Work of Kingdom Justice
by Michelle Ferrigno Warren
Afterword by Dominique DuBois Gilliard
Foreword by Latasha MorrisonAn awakening has been happening across our society. People increasingly recognize how long-standing, systemic issues have prevented many from flourishing. But often Christians are not sure how best to engage. Does it help to marchand hold signs? What can we do to contribute and not further complicate things?
Faith-rooted justice advocate and activist Michelle Ferrigno Warren ...
EbookHabits of Hope
Educational Practices for a Weary World
Foreword by Amos Yong
Edited by Todd C. Ream, Jerry Pattengale, and Christopher J. DeversIn the world of education, disorientation and uncertainty has been increasing for several decades, with the Covid-19 pandemic only exacerbating preexisting challenges. Christians called to academic vocations need authentic hope tosustain them in their work—and they need to be able to share that hope with a weary world.
Habits of Hope explores a Christian understanding ...
EbookExploring Christology and Atonement
Conversations with John McLeod Campbell, H. R. Mackintosh and T. F. Torrance
by Andrew Purves
Andrew Purves, the author of many works in pastoral theology, has spent his life exploring the significance of Jesus Christ for the life of the church. As a professor of historical theology, he has also investigated the significance of patristic and Reformed theology for understanding Christ. In Exploring Christology and Atonement, Purves brings these concerns together. If pastoral theology ...
EbookStarting Missional Churches
Life with God in the Neighborhood
Edited by Mark Branson and Nicholas Warnes
All mission is local—the people of God joining the work of God in a particular place. In Starting Missional Churches Mark Lau Branson and Nicholas Warnes introduce us to seven missional churches while examining common challenges regardingtheir genesis. Using stories, interviews with pastors and a look at common preconceived notions of church planting in the West, this guide brings together ...
PaperbackThe Soul Tells a Story
Engaging Creativity with Spirituality in the Writing Life
by Vinita Hampton Wright
"Encouraging and inspiring. . . . Think Julia Cameron meets Madeleine L'Engle. This book is a marvelous resource." —Publishers Weekly Starred Review
There is a reason artists tend to feel a sense of the sacred in their work. It's the same reason those on the path of spiritual formation find that creative exercises lead them into a deeper, more authentic ...
EbookThe Everlasting People
G. K. Chesterton and the First Nations
Hansen Series
by Matthew John Milliner
Foreword by Casey Church
Contributions by Capt David Iglesias, David Hooker, and Amy PeelerFirst Things Book of the Year Award
"This book is filled with contemplative insights, soul-searching questions, and generous footnotes for further reading. It is my hope that books like this will create cultural bridges that will foster further conciliatory opportunities." – Terry M. Wildman, lead translator and general editor of the First Nations Version ...
EbookLiving into the Life of Jesus
The Formation of Christian Character
by Klaus Issler
Foreword by Calvin MillerWhy does merely understanding and trying hard to follow the example of Jesus often yield little progress--and even less joy and peace? In this foundational work of Christian formation, Klaus Issler derives insights from the life of Jesus in the Gospels to uncover the dynamics of becoming Christlike. You will discover how you can forge much deeper connections with Jesus so that his life begins to ...
EbookDictionary of the Old Testament: Pentateuch
A Compendium of Contemporary Biblical Scholarship
The IVP Bible Dictionary Series
Edited by T. Desmond Alexander and David W. Baker
Logos Book Award Winner
ECPA Gold Medallion FinalistThe first five books of the Old Testament lay the foundation on which the rest of Scripture stands.
Its great themes, epochal events and towering figures set down vectors on which the biblical story is played out. The very shape of the rest of the Old Testament would collapse were the Penteteuch ...
