Setting Up Stones


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This fast-paced, interactive release offers practical ideas and directions for how to be an effective spiritual parent. Biblical principles are explained and illustrated concisely for today's busy parent.




The Plurality Principle


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Building and Sustaining a Thriving Leadership Culture Essential to every healthy church is a biblical model of leadership. In the New Testament, church leadership is built around a team of elders working together, each bringing his own unique skills and gifts to the cause of shepherding the flock God entrusted to them. However, in many churches today the principle of plurality in leadership is often misunderstood, mistakenly applied, or completely ignored. Dave Harvey encourages church leaders to prioritize plurality for the surprising ways that it helps churches to flourish. This book not only builds a compelling case for churches to adopt and maintain biblical elder pluralities guided by solid leadership but also supplies practical tools to help elders work together for transformation. Download the free study guide.




Go & See


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We all want to impact the world around us, but too many of us struggle to realize visions tucked into our hearts and minds. Feelings of doubt, loneliness, and insignificance are all too common. What is holding us back? Jaclyn M. Loween, Christian education director at New Testament Church in Alexandria, Minnesota, urges you to uncover the gifts you have been given in this guide to understanding your God-designed mission. Learn how to: • look to the Bible to find inspiring truths to motivate you; • appreciate the role that God’s eternal purposes play in your daily life; • invite the Holy Spirit to lead you on your journey; • understand the gifts and story that God has given you. The stories and step-by-step activities provided in each lesson are rooted in Biblical teachings and highlight the importance of relationships and community. Get a better understanding of your personal history, natural and spiritual gifts, and why you must invest in the lives of those around you to fulfill your purpose.




That the World May Know


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By weaving together the Bible's historical, cultural, religious, and geographical contexts, host Ray Vander Laan reveals keen insights into the Scriptures' significance to modern believers. This set focuses on Jesus' teaching ministry showing that the key to impacting our culture is understanding how Jesus impacted His.




New Bible Commentary


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Modern critical essays discuss each book of the Old and New Testament.




Cutting for Stone


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Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon. Orphaned by their mother’s death and their father’s disappearance and bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution. Moving from Addis Ababa to New York City and back again, Cutting for Stone is an unforgettable story of love and betrayal, medicine and ordinary miracles—and two brothers whose fates are forever intertwined.




The David Story: A Translation with Commentary of 1 and 2 Samuel


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"A masterpiece of contemporary Bible translation and commentary."—Los Angeles Times Book Review, Best Books of 1999 Acclaimed for its masterful new translation and insightful commentary, The David Story is a fresh, vivid rendition of one of the great works in Western literature. Robert Alter's brilliant translation gives us David, the beautiful, musical hero who slays Goliath and, through his struggles with Saul, advances to the kingship of Israel. But this David is also fully human: an ambitious, calculating man who navigates his life's course with a flawed moral vision. The consequences for him, his family, and his nation are tragic and bloody. Historical personage and full-blooded imagining, David is the creation of a literary artist comparable to the Shakespeare of the history plays.




ESV


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Combining the best and most recent evangelical Christian scholarship with the highly regarded ESV text, the ESV Study Bible is the most comprehensive study Bible ever published.




Stones of Remembrance


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When times get difficult--and they will--we all have a choice. We can either dwell on the crashing waves or turn our focus to the solid rock on which we stand. In this bedrock book of faith and assurance, Lois Evans draws the reader's attention to those points in life when God has shown His enduring faithfulness, creating "memory stones" that will serve as a lifelong anchor of hope amid the rushing floodwaters of life.




Stones, Tablets, and Scrolls


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A constant re-evaluation of the new archaeological and textual material unearthed and edited in recent decades is a recurrent duty of ancient and modern scholars. Since the overwhelming amount of available data and the complexity of new methodologies can be competently handled only by specialized scholars, such a re-evaluation is no longer possible for a single scholar. For this reason, archaeologists, cuneiform and biblical scholars as well as classicists joined forces at an international conference in Rome in May 2017 to share their accumulated knowledge. The results of the proceedings are presented here in the oral stage along with the Assyrian, Babylonian, Persian, and Greco-Roman periods.