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  • The IVP Atlas of Bible History, By Paul Lawrence
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    The IVP Atlas of Bible History

    by Paul Lawrence
    Consulting Editor A. R. Millard, John H. Walton, and Heinrich Von Siebenthal

    Open Your Understanding of the World of Scripture

    The story of the Bible is inextricably linked to the land. To understand biblical history, we need to understand how the people, events, and geography interacted to form thatancient world.

    Spanning three thousand years of biblical history, The IVP Atlas of Bible History reveals the many fascinating ways that ...

  • How to Inherit the Earth: Submitting Ourselves to a Servant Savior, By Scott A. Bessenecker
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    How to Inherit the Earth

    Submitting Ourselves to a Servant Savior

    by Scott A. Bessenecker

    Ambition isn't bad; it just does bad things.In a culture that too often prizes leadership uncritically and unreflectively, a faith that calls us to take up crosses, lay down lives and otherwise submit ourselves to something outside ourselves simply sounds like a bad idea. Nevertheless, this is the faith that we find Jesus talking about.Scott Bessenecker has learned from new friar communities, from ...

  • How Much Does God Foreknow?: A Comprehensive Biblical Study, By Steven C. Roy
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    How Much Does God Foreknow?

    A Comprehensive Biblical Study

    by Steven C. Roy

    Does the Bible teach that God's foreknowledge is exhaustive and infallible?Does Scripture affirm that God foreknows the free decisions of human beings?Current debates over the extent of God's foreknowledge, argues Steven C. Roy, have not given sufficient consideration to the complete biblical revelation. Seeking to correct this imbalance, Roy provides in-depth studies of dozens of key passages in ...

  • InterVarsity Press author Ed Gilbreath, executive director of communications with the Evangelical Covenant Church and editor at large for Christianity Today, was featured as a part of "The Power of Words"—North Central College's (Naperville, Ill.) week of events commemorating Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Gilbreath addressed a crowd of more than 120 students, faculty and local residents Monday evening on the topics presented in his new book Birmingham Revolution: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Epic Challenge to the Church.

  • Story-Shaped Worship: Following Patterns from the Bible and History, By Robbie F. Castleman
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    Story-Shaped Worship

    Following Patterns from the Bible and History

    by Robbie F. Castleman

    What is the right way to worship?Right worship does not require a return to the identical forms found in the early church or later in Rome or after that in Westminster. What it calls for is a faithful response today to the God of our salvation inlight of those biblically ordered and historically informed patterns.In this study Robbie Castleman uncovers the fundamental shape of worship. What she ...

  • Revelation: An Introduction and Commentary, By Ian Paul Revelation: An Introduction and Commentary, By Ian Paul
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    Revelation

    An Introduction and Commentary

    Tyndale New Testament Commentaries

    by Ian Paul
    Series edited by Eckhard J. Schnabel
    Consulting Editor Nicholas Perrin

    The Book of Revelation is a remarkable text. A fascinating piece of Scripture as well as an extraordinary piece of literature, its interpretation has affected our theology, art and worship, and even international politics. Yet it is widely neglected in the church and almost entirely avoided from the pulpit.In this Tyndale Commentary, Ian Paul takes a disciplined approach to the text, paying careful ...

  • Tell the Truth: The Whole Gospel Wholly by Grace Communicated Truthfully  Lovingly, By Will Metzger
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    Tell the Truth

    The Whole Gospel Wholly by Grace Communicated Truthfully Lovingly

    by Will Metzger

    "Picture a gigantic cruise ship filled with happy people."It's the S.S. Evangelical Gospel. In the midst of their fun and excitement, passengers have not noticed holes in the ship's side under the water line. Well-meaning leaders are attempting to plug these holes with new methods, technology, social activism and cultural savvy. All these are important, yet the structure of the ship remains ...

  • The Historical Reliability of the Gospels, By Craig L. Blomberg
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    The Historical Reliability of the Gospels

    by Craig L. Blomberg

    For over twenty years, Craig Blomberg's The Historical Reliability of the Gospels has provided a useful antidote to many of the toxic effects of skeptical criticism of the Gospels. Offering a calm, balanced overview of the history of Gospel criticism, especially that of the late twentieth century, Blomberg introduces readers to the methods employed by New Testament scholars and shows both ...

  • Doctrine Twisting: How Core Biblical Truths Are Distorted, By H. Wayne House and Gordon A. Carle
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    Doctrine Twisting

    How Core Biblical Truths Are Distorted

    by H. Wayne House and Gordon A. Carle

    In essentials unity. In nonessentials liberty. In all things charity.Almost daily Christians are bombarded by strange new teachings about Jesus. The worldwide proliferation of new religious movements has created confusion in the church.

    • Are there core beliefs at the heart of the Christian faith?
    • If so, what are they?
    • And how should Christians relate to those ...
  • Exodus: An Introduction and Commentary, By R. Alan Cole
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    Exodus

    An Introduction and Commentary

    Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries

    by R. Alan Cole

    Exodus, Cole says, is "the centre of the Old Testament." It recounts the supreme Old Testament example of the saving acts of God, narrates the instituting of Passover and enshrines the giving of God's law. It portrays Moses, the prototype of all Israel's prophets, and Aaron, the first high priest.The book of Exodus is especially important to Christians because Christ fulfilled its great themes: ...