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4 Alls : A Fresh Look At A Methodist Heritage
$9.99A renewed vision of salvation that still transforms.
At a time when many Methodists find it challenging to express what sets their tradition apart, The Four Alls offers a compelling invitation to reconnect with the essential convictions that have always defined Wesleyan spirituality.
Early Methodists proclaimed a more accessible and powerful vision through what they called the Four Alls:
– All must be saved
– All can be saved
– All can know they are saved
– All can be saved to the uttermostThis grace-centered framework once ignited a transformative movement. Though nearly forgotten today, these Four Alls continue to hold remarkable power to renew conviction and strengthen witness in the church today.
The Four Alls by Michael Carpenter makes a thoughtful, well-researched case for reclaiming this foundational framework as bedrock for a new generation of Methodists. Written with clarity and pastoral warmth, the book helps readers understand:
– Who we are as people shaped by Wesleyan tradition
– What we believe about God’s saving grace and human transformation
– Why these beliefs matter in our contemporary context
– How we can live faithfully with assurance, purpose, and convictionAccessible yet historically rich, pastoral yet theologically grounded, The Four Alls is an essential resource for anyone seeking to understand, embrace, and live out the transformative vision at the center of Wesleyan faith.
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Correspondence Of The Rev Charles Wesley M A Volume 2
$77.99Part of the collection of Charles Wesley’s personal letters.
This is Volume 2 of a three-volume collection that gathers all personal letters written between 1750 and 1765 by Charles Wesley. It includes many items absent from any prior collection. The longhand letters, and those which survive only as Wesley’s record in shorthand of a letter sent, have been carefully reviewed against the surviving sources for accuracy. They are fully annotated, including: 1) events, persons, and places mentioned; 2) Wesley’s scripture quotations and allusions; 3) hymns and other literature quoted; and 4) current holding locations for manuscript sources.
The collection is titled the “correspondence” of Charles Wesley because the transcription and annotation of letters he wrote were prepared in parallel with the transcription and annotation of all letters written to Charles Wesley. These “in-letters” have been made available online in conjunction with the print publication of letters Wesley wrote, with notation in both settings indicating which are replies to one another. The in-letters are publicly available online via Duke Divinity’s Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition.
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From Genesis To Junia
$19.99Starting from a place of genuine searching, bestselling author Preston Sprinkle challenges assumptions and models gracious theological inquiry in this thoughtful exploration of what the Bible says about women in church leadership.
What does the Bible really say about women serving in positions of leadership in the church? It’s one of the church’s most debated and divisive topics. Many Christians read Scripture in light of preconceived conclusions, rather than engaging in a patient and thorough study of what the Bible actually says.
From Genesis to Junia offers something rare: an honest journey through Scripture that begins with questions rather than answers. With theological rigor and a pastor’s heart, Preston Sprinkle opens the Bible with fresh eyes and invites us along as he examines key passages from Genesis to Revelation–weighing historical context, interacting with a variety of scholarly perspectives, and holding familiar views up to Scripture. This informative and spiritually profound book provides:
*A respectful challenge to both complementarian and egalitarian assumptions
*Insightful analysis of texts such as 1 Corinthians 11, Romans 16, and 1 Timothy 2
*A model for navigating controversial topics in the churchThis open-hearted approach to a complex issue offers a healthy example for dialoguing about tough theological questions. Readers will walk away not with superficial answers but with biblical confidence, deeper understanding, and a gracious posture for engaging with others.
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Reading The Bible With 10 Church Fathers
$22.99How 10 Church Fathers Interpreted, Taught, and Preached the Bible:
– Explore the lives and writings of those who shaped the practices of Christianity as we know it today
– Discover a spiritual legacy that still resonates today
– A unique look at shared vision and purpose amidst remarkable diversity of perspective
By AD 100, all the original disciples had died and a new generation of preachers, teachers, and scholars had taken on the responsibility to preach, teach, and interpret the Scriptures. These men have become known as the church fathers. But who were they? When and where did they live? And, most importantly, what did they teach about how to read and understand the Bible?
Join professor and author Gerald Bray as he uncovers the fascinating history of the men who shaped the faith for the first few centuries after the apostles, including:
– Justin Martyr
– Origen
– Gregory of Nyssa
– Ambrosiaster
– John Chrysostom
– Theodore of Mopsuestia
– Jerome
– Augustine of Hippo
– Cyril of Alexandria
– Theodoret of CyrrhusThis compelling introduction reveals how early Christians read, preached, and understood the Bible, offering a unique look at their shared vision to spread the gospel with clarity amid remarkable diversity of perspective. Pastors, teachers, and thoughtful laypeople alike will find this book both educational and inspiring.
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Ordinary Time : The Season Of Growth
$21.99Discover the Beauty and Depth of Ordinary Time
Most days in Jesus’ life were ordinary. Most of ours are too. And that’s exactly where the power of Ordinary Time lies. It reminds us that normal is necessary, and routines are for things that matter-things worth repeating.
Ordinary Time by Amy Peeler invites Christians to see the beauty and significance in the longest, yet often overlooked, season of the church year. Far from being mundane, this season is a vital time for spiritual growth and maturity-a time when the routine helps sustain and nurture faith. This time in the church calendar isn’t just a placeholder-it’s a vibrant and essential season in its own right.
Amy Peeler skillfully explores the history and deeper meaning of what the church has historically called Ordinary Time, unpacking how this season fosters both personal and communal transformation. With pastoral wisdom and scholarly insight, this short but profound volume enriches understanding of the church calendar and inspires readers to engage deeply with their faith.
In Ordinary Time, Peeler:
*explores the history and practice of the season, inviting readers to engage more deeply with its observance,
*highlights how Ordinary Time fits within the larger context of the church calendar, and
*shows how the rhythms of the season teach us how to live faithfully in both the “normal” moments as well as the highs and lows of life.
Whether you’ve long walked in the rhythms of the church year or are just beginning to explore them, Ordinary Time will open your heart to the quiet, steady growth God invites us into every day. Get your copy today!
About the Series
Each volume in the Fullness of Time series invites readers to engage with the riches of the church year, exploring the traditions, prayers, Scriptures, and rituals of the seasons of the church calendar.
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Christian Intellectual Tradition From The Reformation To The Modern Era
$116.65This reader with commentary helps Christians understand and critically examine major arguments that have been made in the Western intellectual tradition through an examination of great texts. The book explores themes related to the natural world, human nature, politics, and God.
The core of a liberal arts education lies in the debates made possible by a shared set of texts and questions. Combining their expertise in science, theology, political science, and history, the authors guide readers through the most important sections of classic texts from the Reformation to the modern era, explaining their significance and the debates they sparked. The texts are organized around four themes: God, science, society, and human nature. Rather than simply summarizing the texts, this introduction presents them in a way that allows readers to engage directly with the material. The authors provide historical context, point out potential themes and connections, and encourage readers to explore the ideas and questions the texts raise. Reflection questions are included.
This book facilitates teaching for professors from a wide variety of disciplines and will work well for students in great books courses. In addition, it will be of interest to Christian classical learning organizations, including high schools.
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Dont Let Nobody Turn You Around
$25.99Choose Witness Over War
It’s possible to be faithful in the public square without joining the culture war. In fact, there’s a model. The Black church’s social action tradition has long rejected the idea that overcoming polarization means moral compromise. Its historic public witness has defied the culture war’s demands to treat opponents as enemies.
In his new book, Don’t Let Nobody Turn You Around, AND Campaign co-founder and president Justin Giboney explores a compelling vision of how the Black Church’s social action tradition can inspire hope and healing in the face of today’s polarized culture wars. The spirituals of the Black church, such as “Don’t Let Nobody Turn You Around,” were rallying cries during the Civil Rights movement, making clear the connection between faith and justice during marches and protests. These songs encapsulated the unwavering faith and resilience of the Black church, propelling ongoing advocacy for justice in the public square, rooted firmly in the Black church’s powerful public expression of faith.
Centered on faith, justice, and moral imagination, Don’t Let Nobody Turn You Around offers a blueprint for public witness that rises above division without compromising Christian values. Giboney thoughtfully examines the principles, motives, and accomplishments of the Black Church’s legacy, calling all Christians to a courageous and faithful engagement in the public square. This book challenges assumptions on both the Left and Right, presenting a bold model for how social justice and moral order can work together while resisting the demands of polarization and enmity.
In this book, you will:
*Discover the Black Church’s rich history of pairing orthodoxy and orthopraxy in its public witness.
*Learn how this history can transform today’s polarized politics.
*Explore how to value both social justice and moral order for a faithful Christian witness.
This book is not just for the Black church-it’s a call for the whole church to bear public witness in a distinctly Christian way. Whether you’re politically engaged or disillusioned by the brokenness of Christian public witness today, Don’t Let Nobody Turn You Around will inspire you to act with courage, conviction, and Christ-likeness. Choose witness over culture war, and get your copy today.
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12 Churches : An Unlikely History Of The Buildings That Made Christianity
$30.00Karen Armstrong meets Pico Iyer in this sweeping history of Christianity that visits a dozen places of worship on every inhabited continent to tell their often wild stories and examine their sometimes difficult legacies.
Christianity is the largest religion in the US with upwards of 200 million people, and its churches often possess an allure and beauty that fascinate even the most committed atheist. What fascinates Fergus Butler-Gallie is that each place of worship tells a story–of place, time, and most of all, people. It is in these sanctuaries that the complexities of life from birth and death to power, sex, violence, justice, and beauty are encapsulated, and here, in Twelve Churches, Butler-Gallie takes us on a fascinating journey through time to unravel the story of Christianity as told by the people who have lived it on every inhabited continent.
Beginning with the birth of Christ over 2,000 years ago in Bethlehem at the location marked by the Church of the Nativity–a confusing warren of a building–Butler-Gallie leads us to a remote stone outcrop in Mount Athos, Greece, where the monastic vow of celibacy is taken to an optimistic extreme by excluding all female animals. We learn that at Canterbury Cathedral, the stones have been soaked in blood that is both famous and infamous. On the coast of Japan, a cave like church marks the spot where Christian martyrs were tied to crosses at low tide–and left there. The 16th Street Church in Birmingham, Alabama, remains the site of one of the Ku Klux Klan’s most infamous bombings, and the meeting house in Salem, Massachusetts, remains a monument to the ways that a quest for purity can lead to mass murder. And in Nigeria we visit a church the size of an airplane hangar, where every Sunday it fills almost every one of its 50,000 seats.
An engaging blend of history, geography, travel, biography, spiritual reflection, and a wry sense of humor, Butler-Gallie shows us that despite its complexities and controversy, such a faith is still worth following, and that by acknowledging the past we can ultimately discover the path toward healing and hope.
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Story Of The Trinity
$66.65One God. Three Persons. But how?
– Discover the incredible true story of how Christians came to understand the doctrine of the Trinity
– Understand the Nicene Creed as a beautiful and balanced confession of our faith
– From a dynamic writer and respected professor
Christians believe in the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. One God in three persons. Yet many would be hard-pressed to explain why they believe this, or even where it might be found in Scripture. In engaging, accessible prose, The Story of the Trinity relates the settings, characters, and conflicts that led to the Council of Nicaea and the creation of the Nicene Creed, a simple yet beautiful statement of faith that expresses core Christian beliefs that continue to be affirmed worldwide.
Rather than getting bogged down in dry semantics, Bryan M. Litfin recounts the dynamic story of how the one God revealed himself as triune in both the Old and New Testaments, unfolding this core doctrine of the church so that it not only makes sense, but brings glory to God and expresses the true nature of the gospel.
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Wesleyan VileTality : Reclaiming The Heart Of Methodist Identity
$17.99Learn what it means to “submit to be more vile” for today’s Methodists.
Wesleyan Vile-tality calls us back to the roots of our identity. Centered on the moment John Wesley “submitted to be more vile” in spreading the love of God to all people, Ashley Boggan argues that Wesleyan vile-tality is at the core of who we are as Methodists. As rule-benders, rabble-rousers, and outcast-embracers, those early Methodists stood out and stood up. She traces how that original identity was lost as the predecessor denominations to The United Methodist Church grew and began to embrace respectability over “vile-tality.” In an accessible and engaging account of a fascinating history, these stories of our past call us to understand who we were, question who we are, and reclaim who we should be.
Each chapter includes questions for personal reflection or group study.
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Anti Greed Gospel
$66.65Racism is not about hate and ignorance. It’s about greed. And it always has been.
Black Christian historian Malcolm Foley explores this idea in The Anti-Greed Gospel, showing how the desire for power and money–what some call “racial capitalism”–causes violence and exploitation.
Foley reviews the history of racial violence in the United States and connects the killings of modern-day Black Americans to the history of lynching in America. He helps the contemporary church wrestle with the questions racial violence brings up: How can we become communities that show generosity and resist greed? What is the next step in the journey for racial justice?
Readers will walk away with a better understanding of how they can resist greed that exploits others, love their neighbor more completely, and build communities of deep solidarity, anti-violence, and truth telling.
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Easter : The Season Of The Resurrection Of Jesus
$21.99“He is risen indeed!”
Easter Sunday is the holiest day of the year, a day when even those who don’t usually observe the Christian calendar or attend liturgical churches greet each other with the proclamation “Christ is risen!”
But Easter is more than a day–it’s a season even longer than Lent. In fact, for the Christian who has died with Christ and been brought to life in him, Easter is the new, joyous, and radical way of living. The world is turned upside down. In this short volume, priest and New Testament scholar Wesley Hill explores the history and significance of Easter for the church and for our own spiritual formation.
This volume of the Fullness of Time series offers readers:
*An accessible, digestible introduction to the history and practice of the season of Easter
*Practical application of the Scriptural story and theology of Easter to our own spiritual formation, and
*A helpful contextualization of the Easter season into the context of the rest of the church calendar.
Each volume in the Fullness of Time series invites readers to engage with the riches of the church year, exploring the traditions, prayers, Scriptures, and rituals of the seasons of the church calendar.
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