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PaperbackGod, Freedom and Human Dignity
Embracing a God-Centered Identity in a Me-Centered Culture
by Ron Highfield
Does God's all-encompassing will restrict our freedom? Does God's ownership and mastery over us diminish our dignity? The fear that God is a threat to our freedom and dignity goes far back in Western thought. Such suspicion remains with us todayin our so-called secular society. In such a context any talk of God tends to provoke responses that range from defiance to subservience to indifference. ...
EbookWorth Doing
Fallenness, Finitude, and Work in the Real World
by W. David Buschart and Ryan Tafilowski
Foreword by Kelly M. KapicReimagine Your Theology of Faith and Work
Conversations about faith and work often miss an important truth: limitations are not a problem; they’re a key part of what it means to be human. Work has always been part of humanity’s purpose, but we’re no longer in the perfect Garden of Eden, nor are we in the future new heavens and new earth. To truly address the challenges of ...
PaperbackPopcultured
Thinking Christianly About Style, Media and Entertainment
by Steve Turner
There's no avoiding popular culture—we've been enculturated into it. What does it mean to be faithful Christians in a pop culture world? How do we think Christianly about celebrity and leisure? Some Christians try to abstain from "worldly" pursuits, while others consume culture indiscriminately, assuming it has little effect on them. But if Christ is Lord of all of life, then there ought to be Christian ...
PaperbackApologetic Preaching
Proclaiming Christ to a Postmodern World
by Craig A. Loscalzo
How can we preach when traditional approaches no longer work?While dealing with apologetic issues about relativism and faith was once reserved for non-Christians, today even regular churchgoers have questions that need to be addressed. But not only do they have questions, they often seem to have a totally different mindset of skepticism and doubt that resists authoritative presentations ...
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Robert Tracy McKenzie
Robert Tracy McKenzie (PhD, Vanderbilt University) is Arthur F. Holmes Chair of Faith and Learning and professor of history at Wheaton College. His books include Lincolnites and Rebels, A Little Book for New Historians, and The First Thanksgiving: What the Real Story Tells Us About Loving God and Learning from History.
PaperbackBloody, Brutal, and Barbaric?
Wrestling with Troubling War Texts
by William J. Webb and Gordon K. Oeste
Word Guild Award Shortlist — Biblical Studies
Word Guild Best Book Cover Award
Association of University Presses Design Show — Book, Jacket, and CoversChristians cannot ignore the intersection of religionand violence, whether contemporary or ancient. In our own Scriptures, war texts that appear to approve of genocidal killings and war rape—forcibly ...
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Ned Bustard, author and illustrator of Saint Nicholas the Giftgiver and Saint Patrick the Forgiver, will release his third saint book with IVP Kids on January 16. Just in time for Valentine's Day, Bustard's latest book is titled Saint Valentine the Kindhearted: The History and Legends of God's Brave and Loving Servant.
PaperbackHumility Illuminated
The Biblical Path Back to Christian Character
by Dennis R Edwards
Foreword by Marlena GravesThe modern church is immersed in a competitive, polarized, and status-driven society. It's hard to have conversations about important issues when so many are defensive and unwilling to learn. Too often, Christians fall into thesesame traps. The health and witness of the church urgently depend on recovering an essential biblical virtue: humility.
New Testament scholar Dennis ...
PaperbackA Pastoral Rule for Today
Reviving an Ancient Practice
by John P. Burgess, Jerry Andrews, and Joseph D. Small
The pastoral office has always been a difficult calling. Today, the pastor is often asked to fulfill multiple roles: preacher, teacher, therapist, administrator, CEO. How can pastors thrive amid such demands?What is needed is a contemporary pastoral rule: a pattern for ministry that both encourages pastors and enables them to focus on what is most important in their pastoral task.This ...
