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EbookDistorted Images of God
Restoring Our Vision
LifeGuide Bible Studies
by Dale Ryan and Juanita Ryan
Though we say God is loving, trustworthy and all-powerful, our actions and thoughts reveal the subtle and not-so-subtle lies we're believing: that God is impossible to please, manipulative, and likely to abandon us.
Written with compassion and conviction, this eight-session LifeGuide® Bible Study brings to light our distorted thinking and points us to the truth of who ...
Number of Studies: 8
PaperbackCulture Making
Recovering Our Creative Calling
by Andy Crouch
Afterword by Tish Harrison WarrenChristianity Today Book Award winner
Publishers Weekly's best booksThe only way to change culture is to create culture.
Most of the time, we just consume or copy culture. But that is not enough. We must also do more than condemn or critique it. The only way to change it is to create it.
For too long, Christians have had ...
EbookWe Believe in One God
Ancient Christian Doctrine Series
Edited by Gerald Bray
"We believe in one God, the Father." The opening clause of the Nicene Creed can be summed up in a single word—monotheism. In the early centuries of the church, this striking doctrine stood starkly against a cultural background of multiple deities and spiritual powers. While it clearly builds on its Jewish heritage, calling God "Father" anticipates the Father-Son relationship ...
PaperbackBasic Christianity Bible Study
IVP Signature Bible Studies
by John Stott
With Dale Larsen and Sandy LarsenGod himself is seeking you. Through his Son, Jesus Christ, God offers you his love. How can you know God's love? How can you trust Jesus? These six studies, based on John Stott's bestselling book Basic Christianity, explore who Christ is and what he has done for us.
As companions to the IVP Signature Collection, IVP Signature Bible Studies help individuals and groups ...
Number of Studies: 6
PaperbackSpiritual Friendship
by Mindy Caliguire
"Mindy Caliguire knows and cares about the deep things of the soul. She's been there. And she can be a wise guide here for you," says John Ortberg, author of The Life You've Always Wanted.We are tired. Many of us long for sources of nurture for our weary souls. But we don't know where to turn. We've tried various Christian plans for growth, yet sometimes these programs leave us even more ...
Number of Studies: 20
HardbackThe Cross of Christ
by John Stott
Foreword by Alister McGrath"I could never myself believe in God, if it were not for the cross. . . . In the real world of pain, how could one worship a God who was immune to it?" With compelling honesty John Stott confronts readers with the centrality of the cross in God's redemption of our pain-filled world.
Can we see triumph in tragedy, victory in shame? Why should an object of Roman distaste and ...
PaperbackWorship
His Love Endures Forever
LifeGuide Bible Studies
by Sundee Tucker Frazier
Why do we worship?
Do we do it simply because it's part of a church service, or does it spring from a heart of genuine praise?
The Bible gives us a clear picture of what worship is—and isn't—about. Sundee Tucker Frazier helps you diginto the Bible, learning how to worship with your whole life and taking you to the heart of the matter—the character of the God who loves you.
This ...
Number of Studies: 8
EbookGod Dwells Among Us
A Biblical Theology of the Temple
Essential Studies in Biblical Theology
by G. K. Beale and Mitchell Kim
Foreword by Mary Dorinda Beale
Series edited by Benjamin L. GladdThe temple has always been a source of rich scholarship and theological reflection, but what does it mean for the church's ongoing mission in the world? G. K. Beale and Mitchell Kim examine temple theology throughout Scripture, exploring how this theme relates to Christian life and witness today. From Eden to the new Jerusalem, they argue, we are God's temple on the earth, the firstfruits ...
EbookLanguage for God in Patristic Tradition
Wrestling with Biblical Anthropomorphism
by Mark Sheridan
Criticism of myth in the Bible is not a modern problem. Its roots go back to the earliest Christian theologians, and before them, to ancient Greek and Jewish thinkers. The dilemma posed by texts that ascribe human characteristics and emotions to the divine is a perennial problem, and we have much to learn from the ancient attempts to address it.
Mark Sheridan provides a theological and historical ...
PaperbackPracticing the Way of Jesus
Life Together in the Kingdom of Love
by Mark A. Scandrette
Take a casual survey of how people practice their faith, and you might reasonably conclude that Jesus spent his life going door to door offering private lessons, complete with chalkboard and pop quizzes. We think about God in the comfort of our own minds, in isolation from one another; meanwhile the world waits for a people to practice the way of Jesus together.Mark Scandrette contends that Jesus ...
