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PaperbackAuthentic Human Sexuality
An Integrated Christian Approach
by Judith K. Balswick and Jack O. Balswick
Sex pervades our culture, going far beyond the confines of the bedroom and spilling over into the workplace, the church and the media. Yet despite all the attention and even obsession devoted to sex, human sexuality remains confusing and even foreboding. What, after all, is authentic human sexuality?That is the question Judith and Jack Balswick set out to answer in this wide-ranging and probing ...
PaperbackHomosexuality
The Use of Scientific Research in the Church's Moral Debate
by Stanton L. Jones and Mark A. Yarhouse
How prevalent is homosexuality? What causes it? Is it a psychopathology? Can it be changed?
Questions like these often accompany discussions of homosexual behavior. For answers we naturally look to scientific studies. But what does the scientific research actually show? More important, what place should this research have in shaping the church's response?
Stanton Jones and Mark Yarhouse ...
PaperbackReconciling All Things
A Christian Vision for Justice, Peace and Healing
Resources for Reconciliation
by Emmanuel Katongole and Chris Rice
Christianity Today Book Award winner
Our world is broken and cries out for reconciliation.
But mere conflict resolution and peacemaking are not enough. What makes real reconciliation possible?How is it that some people are able to forgive the most horrendous of evils? And what role does God play in these stories? Does reconciliation make any ...
PaperbackPower Women
Stories of Motherhood, Faith, and the Academy
Edited by Nancy Wang Yuen and Deshonna Harsch
IVP Readers' Choice Award
"The dominant narrative we hear as professor mothers is that motherhood and academia are incompatible."
Two challenging vocations, each filled with complexities and daily ups and downs. Yet more and more women are answering the call to both the academy and motherhood. A growing body of literature addresses parent-professors, ...
PaperbackTrue Story
A Christianity Worth Believing In
The IVP Signature Collection
by James Choung
There must be more to the Christian story.In this engaging narrative, James Choung weaves the tale of a search for a Christianity worth believing in. Disillusioned believer Caleb and hostile skeptic Anna wrestle with the plausibility of the Christian story in a world of pain and suffering. They ask each other tough questions about what Jesus really came to do and what Christianity ...
PaperbackThe Message of Joel, Micah & Habakkuk
The Bible Speaks Today Series
by David Prior
Where is God in times of disaster? How can God allow suffering? What are God's people to do about moral decay in society? People throughout the ages have pondered these questions, and three of the Bible's minor prophets—Joel, Micah, and Habakkuk—offer special insight on these perennial problems.
David Prior's passage-by-passage exposition of these three books provides careful ...
PaperbackDiscipleship as Holy Collaboration
Helping Others Follow Jesus in Real Life
by Yolanda Michelle Solomon
Foreword by Ekemini UwanDiscover Practical, Life-Giving Discipleship for Every Christian
If we're honest, many of us have fears, hesitations, and roadblocks to discipling others. In Discipleship as Holy Collaboration, Yolanda Solomon, director of discipleship at Epiphany Church in Brooklyn, New York, provides a practical guide to becoming disciples of Jesus who then go on to disciple others. ...
PaperbackTheology as Discipleship
by Keith L. Johnson
First Things' Year in Books
For many people, the word "theology" evokes something dry, academic, irrelevant and disconnected from the everyday concerns of life. We surely would not say that about God, so why is our talk about God any different?
In this engaging and accessible introduction, Keith Johnson takes a fresh look at theology. He presents ...
HardbackAn Introduction to Christian Worldview
Pursuing God's Perspective in a Pluralistic World
by Tawa J Anderson, W. Michael Clark, and David K. Naugle
Everyone has a worldview. A worldview is the lens through which we interpret the cosmos and our lives in it. A worldview answers the big questions of life: What is our nature? What is our world? What is our problem? What is our end?As Anderson, Clark, and Naugle point out, our worldview cannot simply be reduced to a series of rational beliefs. We are creatures of story, and the kinds of stories ...
PaperbackChrysostom's Devil
Demons, the Will, and Virtue in Patristic Soteriology
New Explorations in Theology
by Samantha L Miller
For many Christians today, the notion that demons should play a role in our faith—or that they even exist—may seem dubious. But that was certainly not the case for John Chrysostom, the "golden-tongued" early church preacher and theologian who became the bishop of Constantinople near the end of the fourth century. Indeed, references to demons and the devil permeate his rhetoric. ...
