Liturgies for Hope: Sixty Prayers for the Highs, the Lows, and Everything in Between

Author(s): Audrey Elledge
Publisher: WaterBrook
Price: $1.99      (Ends June 5)

ECPA BESTSELLER • Sixty contemporary, comforting liturgies that break through the chaos of modern life to offer a time-tested message of hope for readers navigating fear, burnout, loneliness, and other worries.

“Beautiful words to help us access the longings of our souls and bring them to God. If you’re looking for a jumpstart to your spiritual life, start here.”—Rich Villodas, lead pastor of New Life Fellowship and author of Good and Beautiful and Kind

Remind us, Jesus, that You lay sleeping in the boat, in the middle of the storm at sea. You are neither surprised nor distressed by the mounting chaos. You are not a God who panics.

When writers Audrey Elledge and Elizabeth Moore were inspired to create an anchor of hope for their own local community, they moved forward by turning to the past, to a time when Christians looked at the collapsing world around them and resolved to offer something beautiful—something true—through poetic prayers.

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Old Testament Theology for Christians

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Author(s): John H. Walton
Publisher: Intervarsity Press
Price: $2.99       (June 2-3)

Modern readers of the Bible often find the Old Testament difficult and even disturbing. What are we to do with obscure prophecies of long expired nations? Why should we read and study ancient laws that even the New Testament says are eclipsed by Christ? How can we reconcile Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount with the Old Testament’s graphic narratives of sex and violence? What does the Old Testament offer that is not surpassed and even made irrelevant by the New Testament?

John Walton has spent a career engaging deeply with the Old Testament’s text and ancient context. He has studied, taught, and written about the issues. His signature approach can be introduced in one sentence: The Old Testament was written for us but not to us. We must not conform it to our own understanding. We will fully grasp the Old Testament and its theology only when we are immersed in the ancient cultural current of Israel within its broader cultural river of the ancient Near East.

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Radical Discipleship

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Author(s): Hensworth Jonas
Publisher: Reformation Heritage
Price: $2.99       (July 1-2)

What does it mean to be a disciple of Christ? “Be ye holy; for I am holy.”—1 Peter 1:16

The modern church has replaced true discipleship with a soft, cowardly, perverted, and shallow iteration of Christianity. The radical departure of our generation from the truth in favor of an anemic Christianity must be answered with a radical return to doctrine and practice.

Pastor Hensworth Jonas’s new book, Radical Discipleship, challenges professing Christians to live out Christ’s call to stand out in a hostile, sinful world.

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Introduction

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NIV, Holy Bible, New Testament, Red Letter

Publisher: Zondervan
Price: $1.99       (Sept 4 Only)

Read the New Testament on your device just as if you were reading a physical book.

Special Note: This red-letter edition eBook has been optimized for reading on color screens, but will still function effectively on other devices.

The Bible is the bestselling book in history, and the New International Version (NIV) Bible is the most popular modern English translation available. This bestselling New Testament eBook is designed for an intuitive user experience. With quick page turns and a hyperlinked textual footnoting system that allows you to easily jump from Bible text to footnote and back again, this NIV New Testament eBook is fast and robust. And with the “How to Use This Bible” feature included, navigating the New Testament has never been easier.

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Religious Philosophy: Sept 26/25

Space God
Author(s): JD Lyonhart
Price: 2.99 (Ends Sept 30)

Henry More had an odd idea. Thinking about space, he realized it was invisible, for we see things in space but not space itself. It’s also immaterial, for matter exists in space but space is not itself material–try to grab it and it slips through your fingers. Space was also infinite and transcendent yet nonetheless omnipresent, for we cannot go anywhere except in and through space. But this was exactly how More saw God; God is invisible, immaterial, infinite, and transcendent, yet also omnipresent above, beyond, and within us. If God was somehow linked to space, he could be truly present while remaining immaterial, upholding the creator-creature distinction. He’d be near to us but would not be identical with us, just as space is distinct from the objects occupying it while remaining intimately close to those objects. What if space was, in some sense, divine?

Odder still, Newton soon erected his new physics upon More’s idea. Indeed, there’s real evidence that the modern scientific world was unwittingly grounded upon this theistic metaphysic. Of course, modern physics shed these underpinnings in the nineteenth century, and was itself relativized by Einstein in the twentieth. Yet this book seeks to reappraise More’s odd idea. Is divine space theologically orthodox? Can it provide a new argument for the existence of God? And does it have any philosophical merit for us post-Einstein–a Space God for a Space Age?

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The Artist as Divine Symbol
Author(s): Adam Edward Carnehl
Price: 2.99 (Ends Sept 30)

In critical yet appreciative dialogue with four different art critics who demonstrated theological sensitivities, Adam Edward Carnehl traces an ongoing religious conversation that ran through nineteenth-century aesthetics. In Carnehl’s estimation, this critical conversation between John Ruskin, Walter Pater, and Oscar Wilde, culminated in the brilliant approach of G. K. Chesterton, who began his journalistic career with a series of insightful works of art criticism. By conducting a close reading of these largely neglected works, Carnehl demonstrates that Chesterton developed a theological aesthetic that focuses on the revelation of God’s image in every human being. In Chesterton’s eyes, only those made in God’s image can produce images themselves, and only those who receive a revelation of truth are able to reveal truths for others. Art is therefore a rich and symbolic unveiling of the truth of humanity which finds its origin and purpose in God the Divine Artist.

NIV, Holy Bible, Red Letter

Author(s): Zondervan
Publisher: Zondervan
Price: $4.99       (Dec 31 only)

Read the Bible on your device just as if you were reading a physical book.

Special Note: This red-letter edition eBook has been optimized for reading on color screens, but will still function effectively on other devices.

The Bible is the bestselling book in history, and the New International Version (NIV) Bible is the most popular modern English translation available. This bestselling Bible eBook is designed for an intuitive user experience. With quick page turns and a hyperlinked textual footnoting system that allows you to easily jump from Bible text to footnote and back again, this NIV Bible eBook is fast and robust. And with the “How to Use This Bible” feature included, navigating the Bible has never been easier.

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NKJV, Holy Bible: Holy Bible, New King James Version

Author(s): Thomas Nelson
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Price: $4.99       (Ends Feb 28)

Commissioned in 1975 by Thomas Nelson Publishers, 130 respected Bible scholars, church leaders, and lay Christians worked for seven years to create a completely modern edition of the King James Version that would continue the classic tradition of the original King James. With unyielding faithfulness to the original Greek, Hebrew, and Aramaic texts, the translators applied the most recent research in archaeology, linguistics, and textual studies. The resulting work provides today’s Bible reader with an accurate and modern translation of the Scriptures with the stylistic beauty and memorable quality of the King James.

Features:

Enhanced eBook Navigation NEW!
Verse Style Layout (All Bible verses left-justified)
66 Bible Book Introductions
Parallel Passages
Full A-Z Concordance
New King James Translator’s Notes
Explanatory Notes
Textual Notes
Cross-References
Bible Section Introductions:

The Pentateuch
The Historical Books
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