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  • Living in Christ's Presence: Final Words on Heaven and the Kingdom of God, By Dallas Willard
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    Living in Christ's Presence

    Final Words on Heaven and the Kingdom of God

    by Dallas Willard

    • Logos Bookstores' 2014 Best Book in Spirituality
    • 2014 Readers' Choice Award Winner
    • 2014 Leadership Journal Best Books for Church Leaders (The Leader's Inner Life)
    • A Special Award of Merit, from Byron Borger, Hearts and Minds Bookstore

    In these pages Dallas Willard explores what it means to live well now in light of God's kingdom. He reflects on the ...

  • Soul Care in African American Practice, By Barbara L. Peacock
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    Soul Care in African American Practice

    by Barbara Peacock

    Christianity Today Award of Merit

    In the midst of our hectic, overscheduled lives, caring for the soul is imperative.

    Now, more than ever, we need to pause—intentionally—and encounter the Divine.

    Soul care director Barbara Peacock illustrates a journey of prayer, spiritual direction, and soul care from an African American perspective. ...

  • Latin Commentaries on Revelation, By Victorinus of Petovium and Apringius of Beja and Caesarius of Arles and Bede the Venerable
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    Latin Commentaries on Revelation

    Ancient Christian Texts

    by Victorinus of Petovium, Apringius of Beja, Caesarius of Arles, and Bede the Venerable
    Series edited by Thomas C. Oden and Gerald Bray
    Edited and Translated by William C. Weinrich

    Interest in the book of Revelation in the Western tradition is stronger and earlier than that in the East. The earliest full commentary on the Apocalypse is that of Victorinus of Petovium written in the mid to late third century by the earliest exegete to write in Latin. Victorinus interpreted Revelation in millennialist terms, a mode of interpretation already evident in works by Irenaeus, as well ...

  • Black Fire: One Hundred Years of African American Pentecostalism, By Estrelda Y. Alexander
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    Black Fire

    by Estrelda Y. Alexander

    Estrelda Alexander was raised in an urban, black, working-class, oneness Pentecostal congregation in the 1950s and 1960s, but she knew little of her heritage and thought that all Christians worshiped and believed as she did. Much later she discovered that many Christians not only knew little of her heritage but considered it strange. Even today, most North Americans remain ignorant of black Pentecostalism.Black ...

  • Mothers, Children, and the Body Politic: Ancient Christianity and the Recovery of Human Dignity, By Nadya Williams
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    Mothers, Children, and the Body Politic

    Ancient Christianity and the Recovery of Human Dignity

    by Nadya Williams

    How we talk about human life matters.

    In western post-Christian society, humans are thought of less like precious image bearers and more like commodities. The canary in the coal mine of this ideological shift is often womenand children, which manifests itself in the seemingly built-in disdain towards motherhood and children for their lack of production of economically valuable ...

  • Swing Low, volume 1: A History of Black Christianity in the United States, By Walter R. Strickland II
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    Swing Low, volume 1

    A History of Black Christianity in the United States

    Swing Low Set

    by Walter Robert Strickland

    Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award Finalist

    A Groundbreaking Portrait of African American Christianity

    The history of African American Christianity is one of the determined faith of a people driven to pursue spiritual and social uplift for themselves and others to God's glory. Yet stories of faithful Black Christians have often been forgotten ...

  • Swing Low, volume 1: A History of Black Christianity in the United States, By Walter R. Strickland II
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    Swing Low, volume 1

    A History of Black Christianity in the United States

    Swing Low Set

    by Walter Robert Strickland

    Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award Finalist

    A Groundbreaking Portrait of African American Christianity

    The history of African American Christianity is one of the determined faith of a people driven to pursue spiritual and social uplift for themselves and others to God's glory. Yet stories of faithful Black Christians have often been forgotten ...

  • Reading the Sermon on the Mount with John Stott: 8 Weeks for Individuals or Groups, By John Stott
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    Reading the Sermon on the Mount with John Stott

    8 Weeks for Individuals or Groups

    Reading the Bible with John Stott Series

    by John Stott
    With Douglas Connelly

    The Sermon on the Mount is Jesus' most inspiring and challenging description of the Christian counterculture. John Stott's teaching on this timeless text shows how its value system, ethical standard, religious devotion and network of relationshipsclearly distinguish it from both the nominal church and the secular world.

    In this volume Stott's The Message of the Sermon on the Mount ...

    Number of Studies: 8

  • The Religion of American Greatness: What’s Wrong with Christian Nationalism, By Paul D. Miller
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    The Religion of American Greatness

    What’s Wrong with Christian Nationalism

    by Paul David Miller
    Foreword by David French

    Long before it featured dramatically in the 2016 presidential election, Christian nationalism had sunk deep roots in the United States. From America's beginning, Christians have often merged their religious faith with national identity. But what is Christian nationalism? How is it different from patriotism? Is it an honest quirk, or something more threatening?

    Paul D. Miller, ...

  • Global Christianity and Islam: Exploring History, Politics, and Beliefs, By Wafik W. Wahba
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    Global Christianity and Islam

    Exploring History, Politics, and Beliefs

    by Wafik W. Wahba

    Outreach Resource of the Year

    A Comprehensive Overview of Christianity and Islam

    Together, the adherents of Christianity and Islam make up over half of the world's population, and their numbers are expected to keep growing. The influence of these two faiths—and their relations with each other—is seen in politics, economics, and social interactions. ...