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EbookProverbs
Learning to Live Wisely
LifeGuide Bible Studies
by William Mouser
Where do you turn when you need to replace a fuse, cook dinner, eradicate ants, or soothe your child's upset stomach? If you are like many others, you have a shelf full of "how-to" books to supplement your own knowledge and experience.
Now it's time to add Proverbs to that shelf! Proverbs is the Bible's own how-to manual. The wisdom contained in its practical and simple instructions will help ...
Number of Studies: 10
EbookPrayer in the Night
For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep
by Tish Harrison Warren
ECPA Christian Book of the Year; Christianity Today Book of the Year
An Honest, Prayerful Approach to the Difficulty of Ordinary Life
How can we trust God in the dark?
Tish Harrison Warren, author of Liturgy of the Ordinary, explores themes of human vulnerability, suffering, and God's seeming absence. When she ...
EbookThe Enneagram Goes to Church
Wisdom for Leadership, Worship, and Congregational Life
by Todd A Wilson
If I had known the Enneagram earlier in my ministry, I would have been a much better pastor.
When this thought came to Todd Wilson, he had already served as a pastor in several churches for the better part of fifteen years and was successfully leading a large, historic, and diverse congregation. He'd started out in ministry with a strong education in everything from ...
EbookBible Matters
Making Sense of Scripture
by Tim Chester
The Bible is God's Word.The Bible teaches us how we should live.The Bible is something we should read every day.The Bible is something we should enjoy reading.
Most of us agree with these statements. At least in theory. But what's our reality?Sometimes reading the Bible is a delight. But if we’re honest, many times reading the Bible feels like hard work and we read out of a sense ...
EbookMaking All Things New
God's Dream for Global Justice
by R. York Moore
Often this world seems like a nightmare. Human trafficking, young girls trapped in brothels, child soldiers forced to become killers, unchecked plagues and diseases, economic injustice and the oppression of the poor. Millions around the world aretrapped in this nightmare, and we may feel helpless to do anything about it.But God has a dream. York Moore paints a vivid picture of how the dream of God ...
EbookKeeping Place
Reflections on the Meaning of Home
by Jen Pollock Michel
Foreword by Scott SaulsTo be human is to long for home.Home is our most fundamental human longing. And for many of us homesickness is a nagging place of grief. This book connects that desire and disappointment with the story of the Bible, helping us tosee that there is a homemaking God with wide arms of welcome—and a church commissioned with this same work. "Many of us seem to be recovering the sacred, ...
EbookHow Do We Reason?
An Introduction to Logic
Questions in Christian Philosophy
by Forrest E. Baird
Series edited by James K. Dew Jr. and W. Paul FranksHow do we think? What does a faithful use of logic look like?
Without even pausing to think about it, we exercise our capacity for rational thought. But how exactly does logic work? What makes some arguments valid and othersnot?
In this Questions in Christian Philosophy volume, philosopher Forrest Baird offers an introduction to logic. He considers the basic building ...
EbookPriscilla
The Life of an Early Christian
by Ben Witherington III
Who was Priscilla?
Readers of the Bible may know her as the wife of Aquila, Paul's coworker, or someone who explained baptism to Apollos. Biblical references to Priscilla spark questions: Why is she mentioned before her husband? Does the mention of her instruction of Apollos mean that women taught in the church? What is her story?
Ben Witherington addresses these questions ...
EbookFinding Favour in the Sight of God
A Theology of Wisdom Literature
New Studies in Biblical Theology
by Richard P Belcher
Series edited by D. A. CarsonThere has been an explosion of interest in wisdom literature, and many studies are now available. There is every opportunity for people to "get wisdom, get insight" (Prov. 4:5). However, in today's world it seems the practical sensibilities that come from wisdom are found in very few places. Wisdom literature is needed now more than ever. By walking in the way of wisdom, we will "find favour and ...
EbookMariner
A Theological Voyage with Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Studies in Theology and the Arts Series
by Malcolm Guite
Instead of the cross, the Albatross
About my neck was hung.Samuel Taylor Coleridge's famous poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" is often regarded as having heralded the beginning of the Romantic era in British literature. The poem narrates the story of a sailor who has returned home from a long voyage having suffered great loss, yet survived.
In this ...
