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The Kingdom of God and the Glory of the Cross

AWiebe — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 18:26:19 +0000

The kingdom of God is more than just the rule and reign of God over all things. It undergirds the entire framework of Scripture, serving as the backdrop against which all other themes play out. Surveying the entirety of both the Old and New Testaments, scholar and professor Patrick Schreiner presents a definition and framework [...]

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Divine Blessing and the Fulness of Life in the Presence of God

AWiebe — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 18:20:03 +0000

In Divine Blessing and the Fullness of Life in the Presence of God, William Osborne traces the theme of blessing throughout Scripture as he guides readers into a deeper understanding of how God's gracious benevolence impacts the everyday lives of Christians.

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Marriage and the Mystery of the Gospel

AWiebe — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 18:09:27 +0000

Marriage reveals something of eternal significance. From the beginning, God designed marriage to convey a greater reality the passionate, unfailing, redeeming love of God for sinners, the eternal romance between Christ and his bride. In this volume, Ray Ortlund traces marriage throughout Scripture from the first marriage in the garden of Eden to the ultimate [...]

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Redemptive Reversals and the Ironic Overturning of Human Wisdom

AWiebe — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 17:47:52 +0000

The Bible teems with ironic situations in which the Lord overturns worldly wisdom, doing the unexpected. Beale explicates ways in which this pattern is exhibited in judgment and salvation finding its greatest expression in Jesus' triumph over death by way of the cross, in which what seems weak and foolish demonstrates God's surpassing power and [...]

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Early Christian Lives

shipping — Thu, 26 May 2022 03:02:15 +0000

Written between the mid-fourth and late sixth centuries to commemorate and glorify the achievements of early Christian saints, these six biographies depict men who devoted themselves to solitude, poverty and prayer. Athanasius records Antony's extreme seclusion in the Egyptian desert, despite temptation by the devil and visits from his followers. Jerome also shows those who [...]

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Early Christian Writings: The Apostolic Fathers

shipping — Fri, 20 May 2022 19:41:41 +0000

The writings in this volume cast a glimmer of light upon the emerging traditions and organization of the infant church, during an otherwise little-known period of its development. A selection of letters and small-scale theological treatises from a group known as the Apostolic Fathers, several of whom were probably disciples of the Apostles, they provide [...]

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The City of God

AWiebe — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 18:21:38 +0000

Few books have impacted the West as deeply as The City of God. Saint Augustine blazed trails not only in the realms of politics and philosophy, but in the life of the heart, exploring the relationship between a loving God and a shattered world. Thomas Aquinas, Charlemagne, John Calvin, Hannah Arendt, and Pope Benedict XVI alike [...]

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Easter: The Greatest News

CEBAdmin — Mon, 28 Jun 2021 20:43:21 +0000

From the Publisher: We don’t like to think about death. It’s morbid and uncomfortable because if we’re honest, deep down, many of us are fearful about what will happen when our time comes. But what if there was one who could take us through the door marked death with confidence? The story of Easter contains [...]

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My Mate’s Gone Mad

CEBAdmin — Mon, 28 Jun 2021 20:32:54 +0000

From the Publisher: Who exactly was Jesus and what exactly is Christianity? Mad? Irrelevant? Untrue? Graham Daniels tackles these questions head on and answers them in a succinct, easy to read way using John’s Gospel as its basis. Drawing on the author’s own story of discovering the Christian faith, My Mate’s Gone Mad humorously and gently reveals [...]

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Prophetic from the Center

CEBAdmin — Fri, 18 Jun 2021 01:55:20 +0000

From the Publisher: “It is easy to sound prophetic from the margins; what we urgently need is to be prophetic from the center.” Despite its centrality to the Christian faith, it’s easy to overlook the gospel and instead speak out on more peripheral issues. This is a far cry from the New Testament emphasis on [...]

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Holiness

CEBAdmin — Mon, 24 May 2021 21:22:41 +0000

From the Publisher: An affordable new edition of J C Ryle’s classic work. J. C Ryle wrote this timeless classic on holiness over a hundred years ago, yet how poignant his words still are for us today. Sadly, we all know how easy it is to appear godly in public, while behind closed doors to [...]

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A Grief Observed

CEBAdmin — Tue, 18 May 2021 18:08:41 +0000

A classic work on grief, A Grief Observed is C.S. Lewis’s honest reflection on the fundamental issues of life, death, and faith in the midst of loss. Written after his wife’s tragic death as a way of surviving the “mad midnight moments,” A Grief Observed an unflinchingly truthful account of how loss can lead even a stalwart believer to [...]

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