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Statistics And Faith
$26.99Bringing Integrity to the Stories Numbers Tell
When we tell stories with numbers, we depend on the field of statistics-but how do we know that those stories are true? Almost everything in life is connected to data, and that data can help us make sense of truth in a world that feels increasingly challenging to navigate as Christians.
But in a world where we are told to “do our own research,” it can be nearly impossible to know whether we’re just gravitating toward stories that confirm our own untested biases, or whether we’re analyzing the data in a way that is illuminating truth.
Exploring a range of contemporary topics, professor of statistics Jason Wilson shows both non-experts and experts alike that statistics has something to say when it relates to the polarizing issues that we face today. Exploring topics such as gambling, Covid, and media bias, Wilson shows that the ways we collect, organize, analyze, and interpret data have something to say in conversation with the Christian faith.
In Statistics and Faith, you’ll find:
*examinations of contemporary issues using statistical concepts, tools, and theories;
*case studies from history that show how statistics can be used in ways that are helpful or harmful;
*application chapters based on over fifteen years of research; and
*reflection questions to help you explore how to do statistics with integrity.
This book is ideal for professors seeking to help students explore the history and application of statistics from a Christian worldview as well as for Christians who are curious about how we understand truth through numbers. It serves as an ideal supplementary text for statistics courses and other disciplines that incorporate statistical methods, and it offers an insightful perspective on how statistics in conversation with Christian faith can speak to today’s polarizing issues, empowering readers to discern truth through data in a noisy world.
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Created To Play
$18.99What If You Saw Your Hobbies as a Form of Worship?
Maybe you’re an athlete or collector, a chef or film critic, a painter or video gamer. Your hobbies aren’t arbitrary passions. The same God who formed your muscles and nervous system also formed the specific ways you love to play. He understands the delight you feel in your garden or your excitement as you open up a new board game. And he calls it good.
We often view play as a distraction from life’s serious responsibilities, but in Created to Play, Brianna Lambert reveals the ways God blesses your hobbies and uses them to form and pull you into worship. Lambert explores ten different titles you may inhabit in your play: Beholder, Curator, Maker, Herald, Restorer, Connecter, Nourisher, Mover, Caretaker, and Historian.
This book helps you view your hobbies as opportunities not just for individual expression but also for communal enjoyment. With winsome practicality and theological reflection, Lambert draws you to glory in the God who loves and teaches you through play.
With Created to Play, you will:
*Explore how hobbies shape your spiritual formation, offering a fresh perspective on the theology of hobbies and leisure.
*Identify yourself among ten unique roles we take on through hobbies, uncovering how play shapes your identity in Christ.
*Learn to embrace rest and joy through hobbies, reenvisioning leisure as life-giving rather than wasteful.
*Challenge your guilt around play by learning how hobbies can form you spiritually, draw you into worship, and help you reflect God’s character.
You can experience how God is already participating in your hobbies with you, sharing in the joy they bring. If you are seeking a biblical perspective on your hobbies or struggling to enjoy leisure amid the demands of a busy life, this book can help you reclaim play as a vital part of spiritual formation.
Play isn’t about what you get or achieve but about who you become in the process.
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Christ And Covenant In Global Politics
$29.99A New Perspective for Biblical Justice in International Relations
Practicing a Christian vision of justice as a citizen in one’s own country is difficult enough. Add on the challenge of establishing and living out a Christian ethic among states, where there may be few established norms and shared values, and you have the gargantuan task of doing international relations.
Does Christianity have anything to say about global justice for modern nation-states? Can we look to the biblical vision for help with the complex problems of a globalized world? Robert Joustra answers with a resounding yes.
Christ and Covenant in Global Politics casts a compelling vision for a Christian approach to international relations that seeks to transform global politics from systems driven by fear to covenantal global community based in shared loves, drawing on Augustine’s understanding of rightly ordered loves and a contemporary Christian notion of covenantal pluralism. This groundbreaking textbook is designed for professors and students of international relations, offering a unique, faith-driven approach to global politics.
In Christ and Covenant in Global Politics, Joustra
*introduces international relations through a distinctly Christian lens;
*demonstrates how the Christian worldview can positively shape international politics;
*equips students to thoughtfully engage with pluralism and multiculturalism in international politics; and
*moves beyond discussions of biblical justice within states toward discussions of biblical justice between and among states.
Christ and Covenant in Global Politics is a first-of-its-kind work that provides a comprehensive introduction to the state of international relations theory today as well as a constructive account of a truly Christian vision for global politics. Joustra provides a systematic treatment of introductory political theology of world politics, then applies that foundation to key issues in the international system: diplomacy, war, political economy, and climate. Ideal for the undergraduate level, this book is a gift to those who to want to learn to love their neighbor on the global stage.
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Unseen Existences : Of Heaven, Earth, And The Divine Mystery In All Things
$24.99Heaven: Why It Matters Here and Now
Have we forgotten heaven?
Bestselling author and pastor Brian Zahnd invites us to remember heaven, to experience and embrace the divine mystery of the spiritual realm in this lifetime. This slow and steady progression of a deeper Christian faith that draws us nearer to God-a “pilgrimage of the soul”-fosters in us a love for both the heavenly and the earthly.
For too long, the conversation about heaven has been caught between two extremes. On one hand, there is the shallow “escapist” theology that reduces salvation to a reservation for the afterlife, unconcerned with God’s good earth or issues of justice in the world.
On the other hand, many of us have overcorrected, hyperfocusing on the here and now and losing sight of the spiritual reality beyond-a fatal mistake if our Christianity is to have a compelling message in the twenty-first century. Our faith must once again speak confidently and humbly about the reality of the spiritual world-the reality of unseen existences.
In Unseen Existences, you’ll find
a fresh way of looking at heaven that pushes back against extremes,
a vision for life as a pilgrimage to our true home in heaven and union with God, and
encouragement to persevere through the injustices of this world with hope.
Unseen Existences will help you renew your faith, expand your perspective, and re-embrace the divine mystery of heaven. Though life can be uncertain and unjust, our pilgrimage is preparing us for the world to come, where we will see Christ face-to-face. With the company of our Helper, Advocate, and Comforter, we press on, trusting he will lead us home.
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Called To Be Dad
$19.99Founder of the Midnight Dad community Mark Pitts knows firsthand the unique challenges fathers face as they try to keep pace with the daily demands of work and family life. In Called to Be Dad, he addresses the questions he most often gets from dads about family and fatherhood, like- How can I be a good father? – How will I provide for my family? – What happens when I make a mistake?- How do I keep my marriage strong through the demands of parenthood?- How do I keep going?- And moreWith biblical wisdom and comforting examples from Scripture, Mark shows how each question a dad has points to God’s good design for fatherhood, offering powerful support and reassurance for the days where everything seems to be going wrong, and for the ones where dad feels like he’s firing on all cylinders.Because God is there for dads on the good days and the bad, and He is busy equipping you in the role He called you to.
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War Of Worldviews
$19.99Our culture is obsessed with safety and self. We are constantly assessing risks, prioritizing tasks, and categorizing people. We seek out security, efficiency, and comfort and avoid uncertainty, wasted time, and distress. We crave the known, the quantifiable, the safe. We resent people who interrupt us, challenge us, or need something from us. Ironically, the result of this mindset is always conflict. And in the midst of keeping everything on track, we miss God’s mind-transforming, life-altering, world-changing invitations to trust him fully, connect with others, and experience the freedom he made us for. Through nail-biting true stories of hearing, resisting, and ultimately giving in to God’s counterintuitive leadings in his life, former police officer and counterterrorism specialist Jamie Winship keeps you on the edge of your seat. He shows you how to see the world through God’s lens, stop resisting God’s promptings, embrace the unexpected, and live from a place of abundant, self-emptying love–even for your enemies.The result? Less stress, conflict, and separation, and more love, peace, and connection. And who doesn’t want that?
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My Apologetics Dinner Party
$24.99Faith Conversations for a Modern World
Have you ever wanted to look over the shoulder of an expert apologist as he has conversations about faith?
Louis Markos, acclaimed author of From Plato to Christ and Passing the Torch, gives you a seat at his table for an international potluck dinner held in his home, where guests from many faith traditions and walks of life engage in spirited discussion about faith, miracles, and the meaning of life.
My Apologetics Dinner Party presents a method of talking about Christian faith that is not based primarily on propositional logic or the defense of truth claims (though these features do show up). Instead, he aims to clarify what Christians actually believe through a winsome and engrossing narrative in the tradition of Socratic dialogue. The conversations in this book are rooted in real-life interactions Professor Markos has had with skeptics, seekers, and adherents of other faiths throughout a lifetime as a professional apologist for Christianity.
In My Apologetics Dinner Party, you will:
*get a unique opportunity to look over the shoulder of an expert apologist in action.
*observe a laid-back, conversational approach to evangelism built upon hospitality and designed for life in a modern, pluralistic society.
*see an example of how to engage in conversational apologetics among people of diverse cultural, educational, and religious backgrounds.
*hear dialogues, rather than debates, as creative narrative in the Socratic tradition.
You’ll be entertained as well as enlightened as you’re taken up in the banter, humor, and atmosphere of lively dinner conversation-only to find at the end that some of your deepest questions have been addressed. If you are looking for a book that will show you how to discuss your faith in a real-life setting with friends who have deep questions to ask but don’t want to hear a sermon, or a book you could give to curious seekers to read on their own, you’ll find it in My Apologetics Dinner Party.
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In The Beginning We Create
$21.99Connect Your Creativity with the Creator
In In the Beginning We Create, award-winning graphic designer and artist Nathan L. Nicholson reflects on God’s timeless patterns of creation, offering practical insights for how and what you create. Nicholson guides you through twenty-one reflective meditations inspired by God’s creative process, each paired with the author’s original artwork, uncovering how collaboration, creation, and rest are essential rhythms for expressing your unique creative vision.
Nicholson explores how God is the ultimate Creator, and his creative abilities are beyond compare. In the Beginning We Create invites you to explore God’s creative process and discover how you can emulate his creativity in the creative gifts he has given you. Using the book of Genesis as the foundation, you’ll dive into the story of God creating the universe and find inspiration for your own creative journey. If the Creator of the universe took time to rest, the cycle of creation and rest is necessary for our healthy creativity as well.
Key Features:
*21 inspiring reflections that draw from the Genesis creation narrative and other Scripture passages
*40+ original artworks by the author thoughtfully included throughout the book
*Insights for spiritual growth as you learn how the process of creating connects you with God and has purpose and meaning
Though this book, you’ll see how no matter the creative discipline you use, you can offer your creativity back to God, discovering new ways to reflect the Creator’s handiwork in your life.
If you yearn to create with intention and purpose, this book will help you view creativity through a new lens: aligning your creativity with divine purpose. Learn how you can honor God with every word, stroke, or melody you create with In the Beginning We Create.
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Spiritual Wayfinding : 33 Walking Meditations For Navigating Life With Embo
$17.99Step into God’s Presence with Spiritual Walking Meditations
From biblical times and throughout the ages, people of faith have walked and prayed. There’s something profoundly reorienting about integrating prayer with our embodied experience of forward movement. We engage our senses, breathe deeply, quiet our minds, and center our hearts. It’s a multisensory journey that integrates mind, body, and spirit as we notice God’s gentle leading, one step at a time.
In Spiritual Wayfinding, spiritual director Deborah Gregory invites you on a pilgrimage through thirty-three unique walking meditations exploring the core questions Where am I? and Where am I going? Each experience in this easy-to-use guide offers a creative approach to walking, specific prompts for reflection and prayer, and Ignatian contemplation of Scripture.
Walking practices in Spiritual Wayfinding include:
*Walking a labyrinth
*Night walking
*Collecting nature items to create outdoor art
*Using tree-growth patterns to navigate
*Walking barefoot
*And many more!Through these prayerful walks-which can be completed alone or with a friend-you’ll deepen your discernment of God’s presence, God’s voice, God’s leading, and God’s all-encompassing love. Awaken to God’s presence, step by step, as you discover who you are-and who you are becoming.
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When The Journey Hurts
$21.99Transform Your Suffering with Tools from Theology, Psychology, and Spiritual Formation
We don’t like pain.
So, we find creative ways to go around it. We try to ignore, minimize, or deny our suffering, but we’re still left hurting. The twisting and defiling work of sin on this world is overwhelming and shatters our assumptions about ourselves and our place in the world. And yet, the path forward is through suffering. Our afflictions present an opportunity to encounter God and allow him to redeem our suffering.
Drawing on six years of research, When the Journey Hurts untangles common misconceptions about suffering, instead helping you find meaning in it. The authors integrate theology, psychology, and spiritual formation to provide actionable steps and tools that teach you how to suffer well in relationship with God and others.
This book introduces seven key practices to help you uncover meaning in your suffering, equipping you to engage with suffering in a healthy, faithful way:
*Identifying with Christ’s suffering
*Lament
*Surrender
*Forgiveness
*Gratitude
*Memento mori (remembering our mortality)
*Weaving our story of suffering into God’s storyThese practices are supported by both theological insights and psychological research, providing a unique approach to navigating suffering. Rather than diminishing the weight of your pain, this book is designed to help you transform suffering into an opportunity for spiritual growth and deeper connection with God. With When the Journey Hurts, you’ll find that your pain can lead you closer to Jesus.
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Seeds Of Racial Healing
$21.99A Spiritual Journey Toward Healing and Justice for Christians of Color
You are born from a seed that cannot die.
In a world filled with discrimination, racially motivated violence, and miscarriages of justice, hope and joy can feel unattainable, and lies denying your personhood try to dim the truth that you are created in the image of God.
In Seeds of Racial Healing, counselor and spiritual director Sheila Wise Rowe offers you a season of rest and restoration. Her spiritually formative approach enables you to deepen your faith as you pursue healing from racial trauma, past and present.
Anchored in daily Scriptures, these fifty-two devotions help you become more aware of God every day, even as you confront interpersonal racism and systemic oppression. In each devotion, Rowe inspires readers to share your stories and reminds your weary soul that you are fearfully and wonderfully made.
In these devotions, you’ll find
*personal stories,
*prayer and encouragement,
*Scripture passages,
*questions for reflection, and
*actionable steps to help you pursue both healing and justice.If you’re a Christian of color looking for a an accessible, trauma-informed devotional, Seeds of Racial Healing will help you confront challenges, embrace your worth as a child of God, and sow seeds of healing and transformation, whether on your own or as part of a group. You’ll find encouragement to employ rest, resilience, and the power of faith to nurture growth in yourself and your community.
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To Live Well
$24.99You were told to live a meaningful life. But no one ever told you how.
Our lives are shaped by contradictions. Competing voices tell us who to be, what to want, and how to live. The result? A fragmented moral imagination. We’re handed a thousand broken messages and left to cobble together something resembling a life. But instead of clarity, we get exhaustion. Instead of wisdom, we get anxiety.
This leaves you asking yourself How can I get through when I feel alone and confused? How can I live well in this broken and chaotic world?
In To Live Well, Alan Noble shows you how you can not only endure but flourish in life. Through exploring the seven virtues of prudence, justice, fortitude, temperance, faith, hope, and love, you’ll learn how to:
*choose gracefully,
*act justly,
*suffer steadfastly,
*live moderately,
*believe soundly,
*hope resolutely, and
*love rightly.This book won’t give you a ten-step plan to fix everything. It doesn’t promise clarity overnight. But it will invite you into something deeper: an ancient, time-tested path of habits of heart and mind that shape who we are and how we live.
With honesty, theological depth, and a mentor’s heart, Noble names your confusion and offers an antidote-not by escaping the mess but by learning how to live faithfully within it. If you’ve ever longed for something solid in a world that just wants to sell you more temporary stuff, To Live Well is a good place to begin.
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