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3D CoachWith more than 60 million athletes involved in sports in America, it is estimated that one coach will impact more people in one year than the average person does in a lifetime. Today's coach could be one of the greatest authoritative figures in the...
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Heart of the AmishEveryone has been hurt. Everyone experiences conflict, great and small. Everyone has someone to forgive. But sometimes we just can't bring ourselves to forgive someone who has wronged us or we don't take the need to forgive seriously--not like the Amish do. Forgiving others...
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A Million Little Ways: Uncover the Art You Were Made to LiveThe majority of us would not necessarily define ourselves as artists. We're parents, students, businesspeople, friends. We're working hard, trying to make ends meet, and often longing for a little more--more time, more love, more security, more of a sense that there is more...
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Wide Welcome: How the Unsettling Presence of Newcomers Can Save the ChurchIn Wide Welcome, Jessicah Krey Duckworth presents the stark differences between the established congregation, which cares for current members and congregational identity, and the disestablished one, intentionally equipped to facilitate the encounter between new and established members.The disestablished congregations, she says, gains purpose and...
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Israel's Poetry of Resistance: Africana Perspectives on Early Hebrew VerseNoting that Israel's earliest responses to earth-shaking changes were cast in the powerfully expressive language of poetry, Hugh R. Page Jr. argues that the careful collection and preservation of these traditionsnow found in every part of the Hebrew Biblewas an act of resistance, a...
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Blessed Are the Consumers: Climate Change and the Practice of RestraintIn a world bent on consumption, it is imperative that people of religious faith realize the significant role they play in advocating for the earth, and a more humane life for all. Sallie McFague argues that the root of restraint lies in the ancient...
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A New Climate for Theology: God, the World, and Global WarmingClimate change promises monumental changes to human and other planetary life in the next generations. Yet government, business, and individuals have been largely in denial of the possibility that global warming may put our species on the road to extinction. Further, says Sallie McFague,...
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Who Is the Church? An Ecclesiology for the Twenty-First CenturyMany congregations today are beset by fears, whether over loss of members and money, or of irrelevancy in an increasingly pluralistic society. To counter this, many congregations focus on strategy and purposewhat churches "do"but Cheryl Peterson submits that mainline churches need to focus instead...
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Thinking Theologically: The Preacher as TheologianPreachers are not simple representatives of a particular theological world. Each preacher manifests characteristics that arise from that person's particular approach to life, theology, and preaching. Rather than teaching how one can preach theology or deal with particular theological issues from the pulpit, Ronald...
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2 Corinthians 8 and 9: A Commentary on Two Administrative Letters of the Apostle PaulThe series Hermenia] is designed to be critical and historical commentary to the Bible without arbitrary limits in size or scope. It will utilize the full range of philological and historical tools, including textual criticism (often slighted in modern commentaries), the methods of the...
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Crossing the DivideOver the last two decades, traditional formulations of the idea of atonement have come under heavy attack from feminist theologians and others. They argue that the traditional view valorizes suffering and encourages people to acquiesce in needless self-sacrificing, that it is unseemly to think...
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Sources and Contexts of The Book of ConcordBorn in controversy and raised in university settings, the Lutheran reform movement was embroiled immediately, publicly, and perennially in theological disputes and political battles. While controversies during Martin Luther's lifetime centered on disagreements with Rome and Geneva, present and later differences emerged over interpreting...
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Ancient Israel: The Old Testament in Its Social ContextThis volume brings together essays by an international group of biblical scholars on Old Testament topics, employing social-scientific methods: anthropology, macro-sociology, social psychology, and so forth.Author: Philip Francis EslerPublisher: Augsburg Fortress PublishingPublished: 11/01/2005Pages: 440Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.84lbsSize: 9.28h x 6.44w x 1.27dISBN: 9780800637675Review Citation(s):...
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Strategies for Brief Pastoral CounselingMore and more professionals in ministry realized the benefits of brief pastoral counselingtypically three sessionsfor addressing the real-life dilemmas of their congregants. In this very helpful resource, eleven leaders in pastoral counselingboth established leaders and new thinkers in the fieldoffer a convincing rationale.Based on...
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The Spirituality of African PeoplesCurrent interest in Afrocentricity is but one moment in the longstanding post-colonial search by African peoples, both on the continent and in the diaspora, for cultural beacons.Preeminent black social ethicist Peter Paris here sharpens and focuses that quest on African spiritualitythat is, the religious...
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Walking Between the TimesTwo times govern Paul's thought world: the death and resurrection of Jesus, marking the origin of the believer's life; and Christ's return or parousia, culminating God's purposes with this world. Between these two times Paul is concerned about how believers behave-how they walk. J....
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Theology for SkepticsHere one of the most widely read theologians of our time returns to the most basic question of all: God. Yet she does so with a twist. Soelle's work invites the reader on a personal quest for a new, world-embracing notion of God, one...
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The Covenant of the Torch: A Forgotten Encounter in the History of the Exodus and Wilderness Journey (Book 2)The Covenant of the Torch made with Abraham is the most significant among all the covenants in the Bible. Why? It's the most detailed yet condensed summary of God's divine administration for redemption that outlines the work of restoration of His godly people and...
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The Heart of Dogen's ShobogenzoThe Heart of Dogen's Shobogenzo provides exhaustively annotated translations of the difficult core essays of Shobogenzo, the masterwork of Japanese Zen master Dogen Kigen, the founder of Soto Zen. This book is centered around those essays that generations have regarded as containing the essence...
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Crucified with Christ: Meditations on the Passion, Mystical Death, and the Medieval Invention of PsychotherapyCrucified with Christ offers a fascinating study of the psychoanalytic character of medieval meditation. Most meditation practitioners imagined themselves in the place of an eyewitness to the passion; however, some, including Bernard of Clairvaux, Francis of Assisi, and Bonaventure, introduced meditation from the perspective...
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