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Fall 2012 IVP Academic New Title Announcement
The Fall 2012 NTA features Kelly Kapic's "A Little Book for New Theologians", the next volume in the Reformation Commentary on Scripture "Genesis 1-11" as well as new editions of some of our classic academic texts.
Category:Brochures/CatalogsReads:32Uploaded:05 / 17 / 2012ShareAdd to collectionIVP Book Club Digest - June 11th, 2012
This month's features are Give Them Christ by Stephen Seamands and Exposing Myths About Christianity by Jeffery Burton Russell. Alternative selections include Forsaken, The Roots of the Reformation and the newest in our Spectrum Series, Biblical Hermeneutics: Five Views.
Category:Brochures/CatalogsReads:50Uploaded:05 / 16 / 2012ShareAdd to collectionNoticing God by Richard Peace
Where is God? How do we encounter God? How do we know it is God we encounter and not some figment of our imagination? Is it possible to know God in some sort of relational way? Richard Peace believes it is. But it requires a certain level of awareness, a certain discipline of the heart. Peace calls it the "spiritual discipline of noticing God." In this book he unpacks what it means to make a conscious practice noticing God in daily life. He explores the various ways people experience and recognize God's presence, including mystical encounters, ordinary daily life, within our hearts, through other people, through Scripture, nature and the church. Throughout he returns to the question of discernment, helping you understand how you can know that it is indeed God you are meeting in each of these places, not just some fanciful figment of the imagination. God is deeply present in our world, and you can actually encounter him. Here's how.
Category:Religion & SpiritualityReads:64Uploaded:05 / 11 / 2012ShareAdd to collectionLetters to a Future Church: Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
Jonathan writes to the church of North America with a plea for stability. In an age where we can be more and more connected while getting further and further apart, he asks for us to see fulfill a complete gospel through community.
Category:Religion & SpiritualityReads:114Uploaded:04 / 24 / 2012ShareAdd to collectionReborn on the Fourth of July by Logan Mehl-Laituri
For decades now, the United States has proudly claimed the mantle of "the world's only superpower" based on military might and the scope of military interventions throughout the world. As a result, whole generations are growing up with the understanding that war is the norm, that perpetual conflict is a way of life. But is it the way of Christ? Logan Mehl-Laituri grew up in a community that celebrated military service. His faith reinforced his love of country and his sense that that love was best expressed by fighting its battles. Then he went to war, and then he was born again. In Reborn on the Fourth of July you'll learn through Logan's story the real cost of war to military personnel, the real challenges to Christians that are raised by military service on and even off the battlefield, and the real questions that each of us must wrestle with as we hold in tension our love of country with God's love for the world.
Category:Religion & SpiritualityReads:46Uploaded:04 / 23 / 2012ShareAdd to collectionPursuing God's Will Together by Ruth Haley Barton
Meetings can sap our energy, rupture community and thoroughly demoralize us. They can go on forever with no resolution. Or they can rush along without consensus just to "get through the agenda." What if there was another way? Church boards and other Christian leadership teams have long relied on models adapted from the business world. Ruth Haley Barton, president of the Transforming Center, helps teams transition to a much more suitable model--the spiritual community that discerns God's will together. In these pages you will discover personal and group practices that will lead you into a new way of experiencing community and listening to God together.
Category:Religion & SpiritualityReads:241Uploaded:04 / 23 / 2012ShareAdd to collectionGo and Do by Don Everts
We are not meant to live safe, happy, successful Christian lives. Jesus calls us to something more. Don't settle for a life that will soon be forgotten. Mission is not just something for "them," somewhere over "there." Mission is for us, here and now. Don Everts invites you to get caught up in God's mission in this world. He shows what it means to be a missional Christian, to have eyes that see, hands that serve and feet that go. Bringing together personal evangelism, urban witness and global crosscultural mission, Everts shows how you can live your life on mission--whoever you are, whatever you do, wherever you go. Get a glimpse of the vision. See what Jesus is doing. And go and do likewise.
Category:Religion & SpiritualityReads:84Uploaded:04 / 23 / 2012ShareAdd to collectionExposing Myths About Christianity by Jeffrey Burton Russell
Renowned historian, Jeffrey Burton Russell, famous for his studies of medieval history, turns to the serious questions that confront Christianity in contemporary culture. Russell examines a wide array of common mispercerptions, characterizations, stereotypes, caricatures and outright myths about Christianity that circulate heavily within today’s society, and are even believed by many Christians. In a succinct and engaging manner, Russell discusses these errors and provides thoughtful, even-handed, carefully researched and sharp-witted responses. The author sets the record straight against the New Atheists and other cultural critics who charge Christianity with being outdated, destructive, superstitious, unenlightened, racist, colonialist, based on fabrication, and other significant false accusations.
Category:Religion & SpiritualityReads:179Uploaded:04 / 23 / 2012ShareAdd to collectionThe Eternal Generation of the Son by Kevin Giles
Should all Christians, especially evangelicals, hold on to the doctrine of the eternal generation of the Son? What is lost if we don't? Theologian Kevin Giles defends the historically orthodox and ecumenical doctrine of the eternal generation of the Son of God. He argues on biblical, historical and theological bases that, given its fundamental meaning, this formulation is indispensable, irreplaceable and faithful to Christian revelation. The book will be especially helpful in the current discussion of this doctrine. It will also be of interest to students, pastors and laypersons who want to delve into the Christian understanding of the identity of the Son of God and serious study of trinitarian theology.
Category:Religion & SpiritualityReads:230Uploaded:04 / 23 / 2012ShareAdd to collectionDiscovering Lectio Divina by James C. Wilhoit and Evan B. Howard
Saints of the past can't seem to say enough about their ecstatic experiences with the words of Scripture. The writer of Psalm 19, for example, can hardly contain himself as he exclaims that God's words and ways have revived his soul, made him wise, brought joy to his heart, given him clarity and correct perspective on his life, and warned him of danger. Why should our experiences of the Bible today fall short of this standard? What are we missing? Spiritual formation experts James Wilhoit and Evan Howard argue that our ancestors in the faith responded to the special nature of Scripture with special habits of reading. In this step-by-step introduction to the practice of lectio divina, you will learn what it means to read your way into a new and life-changing intimacy with God.
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