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  • A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society, By Eugene H. Peterson
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    A Long Obedience in the Same Direction

    Discipleship in an Instant Society

    by Eugene H Peterson
    Preface by Leif Peterson

    Over 300,000 Copies Sold

    Pursue Deeper Faithfulness with Eugene Peterson's Classic Work on Discipleship

    Since Eugene Peterson first wrote this spiritual formation classic more than forty years ago, hundreds of thousands of Christians have been inspired by its call to deeper discipleship.

    As a society, we are still obsessed with the immediate, ...

  • The First Thanksgiving: What the Real Story Tells Us About Loving God and Learning from History, By Robert Tracy McKenzie
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    The First Thanksgiving

    What the Real Story Tells Us About Loving God and Learning from History

    by Robert Tracy McKenzie

    Foreword Book of the Year Award Finalist

    The Pilgrims' celebration of the first Thanksgiving is a keystone of America's national and spiritual identity. But is what we've been taught about them or their harvest feast what actually happened? And if not, what difference does it make?

    Through the captivating story of the birth of this quintessentially American ...

  • Revelation: The Triumph of Christ, By John Stott
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    Revelation

    The Triumph of Christ

    John Stott Bible Studies

    by John Stott
    With Dale Larsen and Sandy Larsen

    Study Scripture with John Stott

    Readers' reactions to the book of Revelation are remarkably varied. Some Christians are obsessed with it, viewing it as a kind of secret history of the world and seeking the key to decipher it. Other Christians go to the opposite extreme of neglect. They are mystified and even intimidated by the unfamiliar, so they ignore the book or give up ...

    Number of Studies: 12

  • John 11-21: Volume 4B, Edited by Joel C. Elowsky
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    John 11-21

    Volume 4B

    Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture

    Edited by Joel C. Elowsky
    General Editor Thomas C. Oden

    The Gospel of John was beloved by the early church, much as it is today, for its spiritual insight and clear declaration of Jesus' divinity. Clement of Alexandria indeed declared it the "spiritual Gospel." Early disputers with heretics such as Cerinthus and the Ebionites drew upon the Gospel of John to refute their heretical notions and uphold the full deity of Christ. This Gospel more than any ...

  • Seeing Jesus in East Harlem: What Happens When Churches Show Up and Stay Put, By José Humphreys
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    Seeing Jesus in East Harlem

    What Happens When Churches Show Up and Stay Put

    by José Humphreys

    IVP Readers' Choice Award

    We are all located in different places. And the way we grow as disciples and lead others in spiritual growth depends on our contexts.

    Pastor José Humphreys recognizes how deeply our faith is tied to our particular stories in our particular places. Grounded in his own deep faith and wisdom, he writes out of his experiences as a Puerto Rican pastor ...

  • When the Journey Hurts: Finding Meaning in Suffering for Heart, Mind, and Soul, By Kelly M. Kapic and M Elizabeth Lewis Hall and Jason McMartin
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    When the Journey Hurts

    Finding Meaning in Suffering for Heart, Mind, and Soul

    by Kelly M. Kapic, M Elizabeth Lewis Hall, and Jason McMartin

    Transform Your Suffering with Tools from Theology, Psychology, and Spiritual Formation

    We don’t like pain.

    So, we find creative ways to go around it. We try to ignore, minimize, or deny our suffering, but we're stillleft hurting. The twisting and defiling work of sin on this world is overwhelming and shatters our assumptions about ourselves and our place in the world. ...

  • Just Discipleship: Biblical Justice in an Unjust World, By Michael J. Rhodes
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    Just Discipleship

    Biblical Justice in an Unjust World

    by Michael Jemison Rhodes
    Foreword by Brent A. Strawn

    Christianity Today Book Award Finalist—Politics & Public Life

    Many Christians and churches are rediscovering that God cares deeply about justice, but opinions abound as to what an approach to biblical justice might look like in contemporary society. What exactly does the Bible mean by justice, and what does it have to do with poverty, ...

  • Slave of Christ: A New Testament Metaphor for Total Devotion to Christ, By Murray J. Harris
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    Slave of Christ

    A New Testament Metaphor for Total Devotion to Christ

    New Studies in Biblical Theology

    by Murray J. Harris
    Series edited by D. A. Carson

    The New Testament finds many ways to depict the relationship of Christians and their Lord. They are his disciples, sons, daughters and friends. But it is perhaps too little recognized that they are also his slaves.In this New Studies in Biblical Theology volume, Murray J. Harris sets out to uncover what it means to be a slave of Christ. He begins by assessing the nature of actual slavery in the ...