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  • Consider Your Calling: Six Questions for Discerning Your Vocation, By Gordon T. Smith
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    Consider Your Calling

    Six Questions for Discerning Your Vocation

    by Gordon T. Smith

    What on earth is God doing?

    Who are you?

    What is your stage of life?

    What are your circumstances?

    What is the cross you will have to bear?

    What are you afraid of?

    We ask these six critical questions—and then weask them again—at points of transition in our lives. They all lead us to the one core question: What is the good work to which I am called?

    Gordon ...

  • Bearing God's Name: Why Sinai Still Matters, By Carmen Joy Imes
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    Bearing God's Name

    Why Sinai Still Matters

    by Carmen Joy Imes
    Foreword by Christopher J. H. Wright

    Have We Misunderstood the Ten Commandments?

    Have you ever wondered what the Old Testament—especially the Old Testament law—has to do with your Christian life? You are not alone. Some Christian leaders believe we should castoff the Old Testament now that we have the New. Carmen Joy Imes disagrees.

    In this warm, accessible volume, Imes takes readers back to Sinai, the ...

  • Johannine Theology: The Gospel, the Epistles and the Apocalypse, By Paul A. Rainbow Johannine Theology: The Gospel, the Epistles and the Apocalypse, By Paul A. Rainbow
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    Johannine Theology

    The Gospel, the Epistles and the Apocalypse

    by Paul A. Rainbow

    In this magisterial synthesis, Paul A. Rainbow presents the most complete account of the theology of the Johannine corpus available today. Both critical and comprehensive, this volume includes all the books of the New Testament ascribed to John: the Gospel, the three epistles and the book of Revelation.

    While not proclaiming a definitive position on the question of authorship, ...

  • Biblical Theology: The God of the Christian Scriptures, By John Goldingay Biblical Theology: The God of the Christian Scriptures, By John Goldingay
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    Biblical Theology

    The God of the Christian Scriptures

    by John Goldingay

    Imagine someone who has spent a lifetime listening deeply and attentively to the full range of Scripture's testimony. Stepping back, they now describe what they have seen and heard. What emerges is a theological cathedral, laid out on the great vectors of Scripture and fitted with biblically sourced materials.This is what John Goldingay has done. Well known for his three-volume Old Testament ...

  • Theology as Retrieval: Receiving the Past, Renewing the Church, By W. David Buschart and Kent Eilers Theology as Retrieval: Receiving the Past, Renewing the Church, By W. David Buschart and Kent Eilers
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    Theology as Retrieval

    Receiving the Past, Renewing the Church

    by W. David Buschart and Kent Eilers

    "Tradition is the living faith of the dead." —Jaroslav Pelikan The movement to retrieve the Christian past is a mode of theological discernment, a cultivated habit of thought. It views the doctrines, practices and resonant realities of the Christian tradition as deep wells for a thirsty age. This movement across the church looks back in order to move forward.David Buschart and Kent Eilers survey ...

  • Empowered Church Leadership: Ministry in the Spirit According to Paul, By Brian J. Dodd
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    Empowered Church Leadership

    Ministry in the Spirit According to Paul

    by Brian J. Dodd

    You've seen or heard the promises:

    • Proven leadership strategies.
    • Grow your church by 30 percent.
    • Increase your budget through sound marketing principles.

    The lure of success can be seductive, and the adoptionof secular standards or methods to achieve it may seem a small but necessary price to pay. Brian J. Dodd, however, holds out a different model for us, ...

  • Judaism Before Jesus: The Events & Ideas That Shaped the New Testament World, By Anthony J. Tomasino
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    Judaism Before Jesus

    The Events & Ideas That Shaped the New Testament World

    by Anthony J. Tomasino

    Turning the page from Malachi to Matthew, we skip a lot of history.

    In fact, it is something like missing several key episodes in an ongoing television saga. The setting and main plot line are familiar, but new characters have appeared andmore recent events and developments are assumed.

    Did anyone record the episodes we missed?

    Fortunately a few did. Their reception wasn't always ...