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"The bits and pieces people have written for this book represent a beautiful multicolored, multilayered mosaic of lessons they have learned about living life together through their a...więcej »
From Gethsemane to Pentecost is an eight-week Bible study for small groups or individuals. Drawing from the study of history, archaeology, literary studies, and the original languages, this in-dept...więcej »
Power. Politicians crave it. Money buys it. And some people will do anything to get it.
In a world where New Agers rely on crystals and channeling to tap into spiritual power, the Christian is rem...więcej »
The verse, Joshua 24:15, ""as for me and my house we will serve the Lord,"" has been the desire and declaration of ministry couples for centuries. Yet the heartache of many ministers and their spou...więcej »
Taking as his starting-point Jesus' saying in Matt 8:22, ""Let the dead bury the dead,"" Professor Hengel subjects Jesus' discipleship sayings to a rigorous historical scrutiny. The sharp break wit...więcej »
The epistle of James is often poorly understood. Beyond questions of authorship and dating, its contents are troubling. Its powerful accusations of sin seem to overshadow the Gospel. For this reaso...więcej »
For over 15 years, and with several significant works, Hugh Williamson contributed to the movement to recapture the importance of the biblical books of Chronicles, Ezra and Nehemiah. The most impor...więcej »
Why are so many people drifting away from today's churches? John Killinger suggests that part of the problem is that they have personally outpaced the thinking and understanding of the church so th...więcej »
Virtues are in, but the work of Bill Bennett and others says little about specifically Christian virtues. Jonathan Wilson now recounts the recent rise of virtue ethics and provides a compelling Chr...więcej »
Why Call It God? contends that God is the order of the universe, including ""divine intangibles"" such as love, justice, beauty, and compassion, which correctly give us faith that our lives have pu...więcej »
Throughout its history, the Soviet Union was one of the most closed places in the world to missionary work. As perestroika came in the late 1980s and the Soviet Union fell in 1991, a spiritual vacu...więcej »
It's Time presents a series of short stories highlighting an important but neglected aspect of life. Serious illness and aging are dependable harbingers of life's end. For each of us, there comes a...więcej »
In this revolutionary work, John Dominic Crossan reveals that the Passion and Resurrection Narratives in the four canonical Gospels are radical revisions of an earlier Gospel account. He argues bol...więcej »
This text provides a novel approach to a critical issue--the potential of pain. Initially, the potential of pain is explored by way of paradise lost, as an explanation of why things are as we exper...więcej »