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EbookBuilding Your Volunteer Team
A 30-Day Change Project for Youth Ministry
by Mark DeVries and Nate Stratman
Do you find yourself again and again wondering what it would take to get some new volunteers onboard for your ministry? And yet does it seem that you are never able to focus your energy on recruitment? Maybe you find yourself saying things like: It?s just easier for me to do it myself."At one level, of course, this is true. Almost always, it is easier to "do it ourselves." We avoid the ...
EbookInterpreting Old Testament Wisdom Literature
Edited by David G. Firth and Lindsay Wilson
In popular perception, Wisdom literature is a "self-help" or "philosophy" section of the Old Testament library—the odd and interesting bits of canonical mortar between History and Prophets. Themes that are prominent elsewhere in the Old Testament receive only scant attention in the wisdom books. Proverbs, Job, and Ecclesiastes focus on everyday life rather than on God's special dealings with the ...
EbookHow I Changed My Mind About Evolution
Evangelicals Reflect on Faith and Science
BioLogos Books on Science and Christianity
Foreword by Deborah Haarsma
Edited by Kathryn Applegate and J. B. StumpPerhaps no topic appears as potentially threatening to evangelicals as evolution. The very idea seems to exclude God from the creation the book of Genesis celebrates. Yet many evangelicals have come to accept the conclusions of science while stillholding to a vigorous belief in God and the Bible. How did they make this journey? How did they come to embrace both evolution and faith?
Here are ...
EbookEarly Christian Readings of Genesis One
Patristic Exegesis and Literal Interpretation
BioLogos Books on Science and Christianity
by Craig D. Allert
Do the writings of the church fathers support a literalist interpretation of Genesis 1? Young earth creationists have maintained that they do. And it is sensible to look to the Fathers as a check against our modern biases.
But before enlisting the Fathers as ammunition in our contemporary Christian debates over creation and evolution, some cautions are in order. Are we correctly representing ...
EbookUnderstanding Scientific Theories of Origins
Cosmology, Geology, and Biology in Christian Perspective
BioLogos Books on Science and Christianity
by Robert C. Bishop, Larry L. Funck, Stephen O. Moshier, John H. Walton, and Raymond J. Lewis
The question of origins remains a stumbling block for many. But just as the Psalmist gained insight into God's character through the observation of nature, modern scientific study can deepen and enrich our vision of the Creator and our place in his creation. In this often contentious field Bishop, Funck, Lewis, Moshier, and Walton serve as our able guides. Based on over two decades of teaching origins ...
EbookIsaiah 40-66
Part 2: Finding Hope
LifeGuide Bible Studies
by Howard Peskett
Do you look around you and see nothing but trouble?
Or are you experiencing firsthand a time of suffering?
Do you wonder how any good can come out of the world you live in?
In the Old Testament book of Isaiah, you'll discover that trouble and suffering are nothing new to God's people. But the prophet Isaiah raises a loud cry for revival in this midst of a rotting society. Isaiah ...
Number of Studies: 11
EbookHope Ain't a Hustle
Persevering by Faith in a Wearying World--Wisdom from the Book of Hebrews
by Irwyn Ince
Foreword by Christina Edmondson"This wonderful book is a pastoral, homiletical gift to those in need of encouragement. Diagnosing the problem of our era as a failure of hope, Irwyn Ince shares the fruit of his profound meditations, study, and preaching of the book of Hebrews. This is the kind of strong medicine needed to restore hope in a generation that has been disappointed by apathy, injustice, and scandal. He shows us that ...
EbookThe Samaritan Woman's Story
Reconsidering John 4 After #ChurchToo
by Caryn Ann Reeder
Reader's Choice Award Winner
Most Christians have heard a familiar description of the Samaritan woman in John 4: she was a sinner, an adulteress, even a prostitute. Throughout church history, the woman at the well has been seen narrowly in terms of her gender and marital history. What are we missing in the story? And what difference does our interpretation ...
EbookWe the Fallen People
The Founders and the Future of American Democracy
by Robert Tracy McKenzie
Christianity Today Book Award
The Gospel Coalition Book Awards Honorable Mention
Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award FinalistThe success and survival of American democracy have never been guaranteed. Political polarization, presidential eccentricities, the trustworthiness of government, and the prejudices of the voting majority ...
EbookFeathers of Hope
A Novel
Shades of Light Series
by Sharon Garlough Brown
"We fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen." (2 Corinthians 4:18) In a season of loss and change, Wren Crawford and her great-aunt, Katherine Rhodes, share the journey as companions in sorrow and hope. As Katherine prepares to retire as the director of the New Hope Retreat Center, she faces both personal and professional challenges—especially after the arrival of ...
