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  • Old Testament Ethics: A Guided Tour, By John Goldingay
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    Old Testament Ethics: A Guided Tour

    by John Goldingay

    What is ethics?Ethics is not merely about tricky situations or hot topics. Instead, ethics asks questions about what sort of people we are, how we think, what sort of things we do and don't do, and how we ought to live our everyday lives.How might we learn ethics from the Old Testament? Instead of searching for support for our positions or pointing out problems with certain passages, ...

  • Political Visions & Illusions: A Survey & Christian Critique of Contemporary Ideologies, By David T. Koyzis
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    Political Visions & Illusions

    A Survey & Christian Critique of Contemporary Ideologies

    by David T. Koyzis
    Foreword by Richard J. Mouw

    • Named Best Book (Culture) in the 2004 Word Guild Canadian Writing Awards

    The end of the Cold War has brought about more than the triumph of some political ideologies and the disappearance of others. In fact, the collapse of communism has created a vacuum quickly being filled by various alternative visions, ranging from ethnic nationalism to individualistic liberalism.

    But ...

  • Together for the City: How Collaborative Church Planting Leads to Citywide Movements, By Neil Powell and John James
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    Together for the City

    How Collaborative Church Planting Leads to Citywide Movements

    by Neil Powell and John James

    We need a bigger vision for the city.It's not enough to plant individual churches in isolation from each other. The spiritual need and opportunity of our cities is too big for any one church to meet alone. Pastors Neil Powell andJohn James contend that to truly transform a city, the gospel compels us to create localized, collaborative church planting movements. They share lessons ...

  • Rescuing the Gospel from the Cowboys: A Native American Expression of the Jesus Way, By Richard Twiss
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    Rescuing the Gospel from the Cowboys

    A Native American Expression of the Jesus Way

    by Richard Twiss

    Missio Alliance Essential Reading List
    One of Seedbed's 10 Notable Books

    The gospel of Jesus has not always been good news for Native Americans.

    The history of North America is marred by atrocities committed against Native peoples. Indigenous cultures were erased in the name of Christianity. As a result, to this day few Native Americans are followers ...

  • A Short History of Christian Zionism: From the Reformation to the Twenty-First Century, By Donald M. Lewis
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    A Short History of Christian Zionism

    From the Reformation to the Twenty-First Century

    by Donald M. Lewis

    Top World Guild Award Winner

    This book is about an idea—namely, that Scripture mandates a Jewish return to the historical region of Palestine—which in turn morphed into a political movement, rallied around a popularslogan ("A country without a nation for a nation without a country"), and eventually contributed to the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. ...

  • The Earth Will Be Filled: A Biblical Theology of the Glory of God, By Donnie Berry
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    The Earth Will Be Filled

    A Biblical Theology of the Glory of God

    Essential Studies in Biblical Theology

    by Donnie Berry
    Series edited by L. Michael Morales

    Discover the Beauty, Depth, and Awe-Inspiring Magnitude of God’s Glory

    The glory of God is a central theme that runs throughout Scripture. But what is God’s glory? And what does it mean to glorify God? These are perhaps themost important questions we could ever ask. To answer them, it is crucial to see how God’s glory is at the heart of the gospel and of the entire story of ...