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Girl Talk (Redesign): Mother-Daughter Conversations on Biblical Womanhood

Girl Talk (Redesign): Mother-Daughter Conversations on Biblical Womanhood

by Carolyn Mahaney, C. J. Mahaney and Nicole Mahaney Whitacre

Mothers and daughters have a lot to talk about. That's how God designed it. A mother is her daughter's first role model, teacher, and friend, and she carries the responsibility of passing on to her daughter a legacy of biblical womanhood. Join mother-daughter team Carolyn Mahaney and Nicole Whitacre as… Read more…

Gospel According to the Apostles: The Roll of Works in a Life of Faith

Gospel According to the Apostles: The Roll of Works in a Life of Faith

by John F. MacArthur

The apostles understood the Gospel as they learned from and personally lived alongside Jesus, and these lessons became the heart of their message to an unsaved world. But what does their perspective mean for modern Christians, and how can we read the Bible through their unique lens today? Following the release of his bestselling book The Gospe… Read more…

Grace in a Tree Stump: Old Testament Stories of God's Love

Grace in a Tree Stump: Old Testament Stories of God's Love

by J. Ellsworth Kalas

Christians often assume too sharp a distinction between the Old and New Testaments, argues preacher, author, and teacher J. Ellsworth Kalas. They are too quick to view the Old Testament as a strict book of laws and commandments and the New Testament as a witness to grace. The God of the Old Testament is misperceived as a God of wrath and judgment, while the … Read more…

Can I Get a Witness?: Reading Revelation through African American Culture

Can I Get a Witness?: Reading Revelation through African American Culture

by Brian K. Blount

In this accessible and provocative study, Brian Blount reads the book of Revelation through the lens of African American culture, drawing correspondences between Revelation's context and the long-standing suffering of African Americans. Applying the African American social, political, and religious experience as an interpretive cipher for the book's … Read more…

Useless Beauty: Ecclesiastes through the Lens of Contemporary Film

Useless Beauty: Ecclesiastes through the Lens of Contemporary Film

by Robert K. Johnston

How should Christians relate to the difficult and contradictory messages of modern movies? In Useless Beauty, Robert K. Johnston presents the bold position that films can be our "eyeglasses and hearing aids" in understanding the Book of Ecclesiastes. Taking up movies such as American Beauty, Magnolia, and About Schmidt, he addresses such biblical issues as l… Read more…

The Conversations of Jesus: Learning from His Encounters

The Conversations of Jesus: Learning from His Encounters

by Simon J. Kistemaker

Through Scripture and spoken word, Jesus continues to attract millions of followers today. In many ways, those who seek Christ now differ little from those whose stories we learn in the Gospels: Peter, Nicodemus, Mary, the Samaritan leper, even Judas.Professor Simon J. Kistemaker has spent his professional life studying the words and actions of those who spe… Read more…

Understanding Paul: The Early Christian Worldview of the Letter to the Romans

Understanding Paul: The Early Christian Worldview of the Letter to the Romans

by Stephen Westerholm

Two thousand years later, Paul attracts more attention than any other figure from antiquity besides one," writes Stephen Westerholm. Why the fascination with the apostle Paul? Westerholm explains that Paul remains such a compelling figure because he was "a man completely captivated by a particular way of looking at life." Using the themes of the Epistle to t… Read more…

Getting the Gospels: Understanding the New Testament Accounts of Jesus' Life

Getting the Gospels: Understanding the New Testament Accounts of Jesus' Life

by Steven L. Bridge

On March 23, 1998, director James Cameron made an indelible mark on Academy Award history. It wasn't because his film, Titanic, captured so many Oscars. Nor was it because of the movie's unprecedented box-office success. Rather, Cameron will forever be remembered in Hollywood's annals because, upon accepting his award for Best Director, he enthus… Read more…

Short Introduction to Hermeneutics

Short Introduction to Hermeneutics

by David Jasper

Hermeneutics defines the rules used to search out the meaning of Scripture. Throughout church history, interpreters have approached biblical interpretation in different ways, using different tools and methods. This book conveniently and accessibly surveys major biblical interpreters and approaches to hermeneutics from the patristic period to the present days… Read more…

Doce hombres comunes y corrientes: Cómo el Maestro formó a sus discípulos para la grandeza, y lo que Él quiere hacer contigo

Doce hombres comunes y corrientes: Cómo el Maestro formó a sus discípulos para la grandeza, y lo que Él quiere hacer contigo

by John F. MacArthur

Contrariamente a la creencia popular, no tenemos que ser perfectos para hacer la obra de Dios.John MacArthur examina los doce hombres que Cristo eligió como sus discípulos y nos ayuda a descubrir cómo nosotros podemos transformar nuestras propias imperfecciones en herramientas útiles para impactar a otros. Sin ir más lejos, las debilidades de los doce d… Read more…

Hard to Believe Workbook: The High Cost and Infinite Value of Following Jesus

Hard to Believe Workbook: The High Cost and Infinite Value of Following Jesus

by John F. MacArthur

There is no user-friendly, seeker-sensitive Gospel. There is only the truth. Let John MacArthur personally guide you deeper into the biblical truths of Hard to Believe?truths that triumph over the world's false view of Christianity. In this workbook, pastor, teacher, and best-selling author John MacArthur takes you step by step through each main idea of … Read more…


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