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  • Forty Days on Being a Four, By Christine Yi Suh
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    Forty Days on Being a Four

    Enneagram Daily Reflections

    by Christine Yi Suh
    Series edited by Suzanne Stabile

    "How are you feeling?"

    Christine Yi Suh says that this has always been a hard question. She writes: "The more accurate question for a Four may be, 'What aren't you feeling?' I can grab my prevailing emotion and tell you how I'm doing from that emotion's point of view (joy, elation, sadness, grief, confusion—you name it!). I live and breathe a kaleidoscope of living, feeling, ...

    Number of Studies: 40

  • A Community Called Taize: A Story of Prayer, Worship and Reconciliation, By Jason Brian Santos
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    A Community Called Taize

    A Story of Prayer, Worship and Reconciliation

    by Jason Brian Santos
    Foreword by Desmond Tutu

    Taizé--the word is strangely familiar to many throughout the contemporary church. Familiar, perhaps, because the chanted prayers of Taizé are well practiced in churches throughout the world. Strangely, however, because so little is knownabout Taizé--from its historic beginnings to how the word itself is pronounced.

    The worship of the Taizé community, as it turns out, is best understood ...

  • The Voice of Jesus: Discernment, Prayer and the Witness of the Spirit, By Gordon T. Smith
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    The Voice of Jesus

    Discernment, Prayer and the Witness of the Spirit

    by Gordon T. Smith

    A Personal Growth Finalist in the Word Guild Canadian Writing Awards

    "My sheep hear my voice. I know them, and they follow me."

    Jesus takes it for granted that you will hear his voice. But howdo you hear it?

    How do you separate it out from the cacophony of other voices you hear everyday, including those of your own desires? Is your experience ...

  • The Gift of Being Yourself: The Sacred Call to Self-Discovery, By David G. Benner
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    The Gift of Being Yourself

    The Sacred Call to Self-Discovery

    The Spiritual Journey

    by David G. Benner
    Foreword by M. Basil Pennington

    Embark on the Spiritual Journey of Knowing Your True Self

    "Grant, Lord, that I may know myself that I may know thee." —Augustine

    Much is said in Christian circles about knowing God. But what if thereis also value in knowing yourself? Christians throughout the ages have agreed that there cannot be deep knowledge of God without deep knowledge ...

  • Christianity and Literature: Philosophical Foundations and Critical Practice, By David Lyle Jeffrey and Gregory Maillet
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    Christianity and Literature

    Philosophical Foundations and Critical Practice

    Christian Worldview Integration Series

    by David Lyle Jeffrey and Gregory Maillet

    "What has Jesus Christ to do with English literature?" ask David Lyle Jeffrey and Gregory Maillet in this insightful survey.

    First and foremost, they reply, many of the world's best authors of literature in English were formed--for better orworse--by the Christian tradition. Then too, many of the most recognized aesthetic literary forms derive from biblical exemplars. And finally, many great ...

  • Never Beyond Hope: How God Touches and Uses Imperfect People, By J. I. Packer and Carolyn Nystrom
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    Never Beyond Hope

    How God Touches and Uses Imperfect People

    by J. I. Packer and Carolyn Nystrom

    Do you ever get discouraged by your spiritual weaknesses?From the life and death of Samson to Peter's denial of Jesus, the Bible is filled with stories of people like you who wanted to serve God--but frequently failed. And yet God still used these men and women! At times, through God's power, their points of weakness became even their greatest strength.In Never Beyond Hope J. I. ...

  • Genesis: An Introduction and Commentary, By Andrew E. Steinmann
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    Genesis

    An Introduction and Commentary

    Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries

    by Andrew Steinmann
    Series edited by David G. Firth
    Consulting Editor Tremper Longman III

    Genesis--the Bible's account of human origins and the harbinger of human destiny--is a book teeming with critical problems. Who wrote it? When? Does the account of creation square with modern science? What about Adam and Eve? Derek Kidner not onlyprovides a running exegetical commentary, but lucidly handles the tough issues that Genesis raises. His clear prose and theological insight will expand ...

  • The Gospel of the Son of God: An Introduction to Matthew, By David R. Bauer
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    The Gospel of the Son of God

    An Introduction to Matthew

    by David R. Bauer

    From beginning to end, the very structure of the Gospel of Matthew emphasizes that Jesus is the Son of God.

    At climactic points Jesus is so identified—by Peter, by a Roman centurion, by Jesus himself, and by God the Father.With The Gospel of the Son of God, David Bauer provides a comprehensive introduction to this Gospel that has been so foundational to the Christian ...

  • 2 Corinthians, Edited by Scott M. Manetsch
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    2 Corinthians

    New Testament Volume 9B

    Reformation Commentary on Scripture

    Edited by Scott M. Manetsch

    "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come."

    When the Reformers of the sixteenth century turned to this biblical text, originally written by Paul to the first-century church in Corinth, they found truths that apply to Christians regardless of their historical context. For example, Reformed theologian Wolfgang ...

  • The Message of John's Letters, By David Jackman
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    The Message of John's Letters

    The Bible Speaks Today Series

    by David Jackman

    Immorality inundating the Christian community and gradually eroding the foundations of Christian living. The truth of God incarnate, the atonement, and the bodily resurrection of Christ under attack—even from within the church. These were the problems that faced the Christians of John's day. In a society that scorned the gospel and sneered at godly living, John encouraged Christians ...