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  • The Liturgy of Creation: Understanding Calendars in Old Testament Context, By Michael LeFebvre
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    The Liturgy of Creation

    Understanding Calendars in Old Testament Context

    by Michael LeFebvre
    Foreword by C. John Collins

    Biblical Foundations Award Finalist

    Holidays today are often established by legislation, and calendars are published on paper and smart phones. But how were holidays chosen and taught in biblical Israel? And what might these holidays have to do with the creation narrative?In this book, Michael LeFebvre considers the calendars of the Pentateuch with their basis ...

  • Becoming the Answer to Our Prayers: Prayer for Ordinary Radicals, By Shane Claiborne and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
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    Becoming the Answer to Our Prayers

    Prayer for Ordinary Radicals

    by Shane Claiborne and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

    "Prayer is not so much about convincing God to do what we want God to do as it is about convincing ourselves to do what God wants us to do." —from the IntroductionActivists Shane Claiborne and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove show how prayer and action must go together. Their exposition of key Bible passages provides concrete examples of how a life of prayer fuels social engagement and the work of justice. ...

  • The Theological Turn in Youth Ministry, By Andrew Root and Kenda Creasy Dean
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    The Theological Turn in Youth Ministry

    by Andrew Root and Kenda Creasy Dean

    Christianity Today Book Award of Merit winner

    What haunts your youth group? So often we avoid talking about doubts and fears because we feel inadequately equipped to address them in any meaningful way. Thecrisis of existence can't be answered with pat Sunday school formulas or a few Bible verses, let alone another relay race.

    The questions our youth ...

  • I've Been Wondering: Conversations with Young Theologians, By Richard B. Steele
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    I've Been Wondering

    Conversations with Young Theologians

    by Richard B. Steele

    College and seminary students rarely have a voice in theological discussions. True, there are many books written for them. Introductions to the Bible, surveys of church history, anthologies of theological classics, overviews of Christian doctrine,and dictionaries of the various theological sub-disciplines abound. But it is one thing for professional theologians to answer the questions they think ...

  • The Wisdom of Proverbs, Job and Ecclesiastes, By Derek Kidner
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    The Wisdom of Proverbs, Job and Ecclesiastes

    by Derek Kidner

    "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom."In the Wisdom literature of the Bible we first hear the cool voice of a teacher calling us to think--to think hard and humbly. "How long will fools hate knowledge?" cries Wisdom in the book of Proverbs. Then in Job comes the anguished voice of the questioner, earnest enough to seek answers, honest enough to doubt easy ones. In Ecclesiastes the chastened ...

  • The Revelation to John: A Commentary on the Greek Text of the Apocalypse, By Stephen S. Smalley
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    The Revelation to John

    A Commentary on the Greek Text of the Apocalypse

    by Stephen S. Smalley

    The Revelation to John by Stephen Smalley is a magisterial interpretation of John's Apocalypse as a grand drama, which can only be properly understood in light of John's Gospel and letters and in the context of the Johannine community. Assuch, it offers the reader a significantly different approach to this enigmatic text than that offered by most contemporary commentaries. Working directly ...

  • The Acts of the Apostles: A Newly Discovered Commentary, By J. B. Lightfoot
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    The Acts of the Apostles

    A Newly Discovered Commentary

    The Lightfoot Legacy Set

    by J. B. Lightfoot
    Edited by Ben Witherington III and Todd D. Still
    Assisted by Jeanette M. Pifer

    Preaching's Survey of Bibles and Bible Reference

    Biblical Foundations Award Winner

    InterVarsity Press is proud to present The Lightfoot Legacy, a three-volume set of previously unpublished material from J. B. Lightfoot, one of the great biblical scholars of the modern era.

    In the spring of 2013, Ben Witherington III discovered hundreds ...