Disruptive Witness: Speaking Truth in a Distracted Age

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Author(s): Alan Noble
Publisher: Intervarsity Press
Price: $2.99      

• 2018 WORLD Magazine Book of the Year – Accessible Theology

• 2018 ECPA Top Shelf Book Cover Award

★ Publishers Weekly starred review
We live in a distracted, secular age. These two trends define life in Western society today. We are increasingly addicted to habits—and devices—that distract and “buffer” us from substantive reflection and deep engagement with the world. And we live in what Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor calls “a secular age”—an age in which all beliefs are equally viable and real transcendence is less and less plausible. Drawing on Taylor’s work, Alan Noble describes how these realities shape our thinking and affect our daily lives. Too often Christians have acquiesced to these trends, and the result has been a church that struggles to disrupt the ingrained patterns of people’s lives. But the gospel of Jesus is inherently disruptive: like a plow, it breaks up the hardened surface to expose the fertile earth below. In this book Noble lays out individual, ecclesial, and cultural practices that disrupt our society’s deep-rooted assumptions and point beyond them to the transcendent grace and beauty of Jesus.Disruptive Witness casts a new vision for the evangelical imagination, calling us away from abstraction and cliché to a more faithful embodiment of the gospel for our day.

 

Of Gold and Shadows

Author(s): Michelle Griep
Publisher: Bethany House
Price: $3.99       (Ends Aug 1)

The shadows hold secrets darker than they ever imagined. . . .

In 1888 Victorian England, Ami Dalton navigates a clandestine dual life. By day, she strives to establish herself as a respected Egyptologist, overcoming the gender biases that permeate academia. But with a heart for saving black-market artifacts from falling into the wrong hands, she is most often disguised as her alter ego, the Shadow Broker.

After eight years in India, Oxford’s most eligible bachelor, Edmund Price, has come out of the shadows to run for Parliament and is in search of an Egyptologist to value a newly acquired collection. Expecting a renowned Oxford professor, Edmund instead finds himself entangled with Ami, the professor’s determined daughter. As they delve into the treasures, their connection deepens, but trouble emerges when a golden griffin–rumored to bear the curse of Amentuk–surfaces, and they’re left to wonder if the curse really is at play, or if something more nefarious is hiding among the shadows. . . .

“Don’t miss all the romance, adventure, and danger in [this] new page-turner.”–JULIE KLASSEN, bestselling author of Shadows of Swanford Abbey

 

Lessons from 1 & 2 Samuel

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Author(s): Paul Edward Miller
Price: $1.99       (Jul 14 – 18)

The Bible remains as relevant, applicable, and life-changing today as it was when it was first written. We need to get back to the Book—to read what God has said and to believe it and follow Him. Do you daily read God’s Word, seek Him, and desire to live His way in all things?

Lessons from 1 and 2 Samuel can help you as you read and consider God’s message in those books of the Bible for us today. You can use these lessons as examples of how to read the Bible, consider the relevance of God’s Word in your life each day, and continually grow nearer to Him in truth and holiness. Whether as an individual, as a family, youth group, small group, or group discussion, these lessons can help you in a practical way.

 

Teaching Jeremiah: From Text to Message

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Author(s): Bob Fyall
Publisher: Christian Focus Publications
Price: $2.99      

Jeremiah was called as a prophet to warn Israel that their rebellious hearts and rejection of God and his ways would lead to judgement. His prophecies of Babylonian exile and the destruction of the temple come to pass, but in among the bad news, he also brings the promise of hope – that God’s people will return to the land, that God will send his Messiah, and that all nations will one day acknowledge Israel’s God. Bob Fyall’s valuable addition to the Teaching series will help preachers and Bible study leaders to work through this Major Prophet and see the faithfulness of God in the face of the faithlessness of his people.

Ladies of the Lake

Author(s): Cathy Gohlke
Publisher: Tyndale Fiction
Price: $1.99       After the deep bond of friendship between two young women is torn apart, what will it take to bring them together again? In Ladies of the Lake, the beloved author of Saving Amelie and Night Bird Calling returns with a transformative new historical novel about the wonder and complexities of friendship, love, and belonging.

When she is forced to leave her beloved Prince Edward Island to attend Lakeside Ladies Academy after the death of her parents, the last thing Adelaide Rose MacNeill expects to find is three kindred spirits. The “Ladies of the Lake,” as the four girls call themselves, quickly bond like sisters, vowing that wherever life takes them, they will always be there for each other. But that is before: Before love and jealousy come between Adelaide and Dorothy, the closest of the friends. Before the dawn of World War I upends their world and casts baseless suspicion onto the German American man they both love. Before a terrible explosion in Halifax Harbor rips the sisterhood irrevocably apart.

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Answers to Your Questions about Heaven

Author(s): David Jeremiah
Publisher: Tyndale Momentum
Price: $2.99       (Ends Jul 31) What does the Bible really say heaven is like?

We all have questions about what heaven will be like. Fortunately, Scripture is filled with helpful information about our future home―we just have to know where to look.

Dr. David Jeremiah has spent a lifetime studying what the Bible has to say about heaven, and now in Answers to Your Questions about Heaven, he has done just that―provided answers to your most pressing questions such as:

• Is heaven a real, physical place?
• What will heaven look like, and what will we do all day?
• Is it possible for a Christian’s name to be “blotted out” of the Book of Life?
• What purpose do angels serve, and will they be in heaven?
• How should I live today in light of eternity?

This straightforward, easy-to-understand, biblically based book will provide comfort and hope for anyone curious about heaven or dealing with the grief and heartache of losing a loved one. A perfect gift for friends and family and a handy religious resource to keep on your own shelf, this handsome little book will ignite your imagination and whet your appetite for all the amazing experiences that await!

 

The Wings of Poppy Pendleton

Author(s): Melanie Dobson
Publisher: Tyndale Fiction
Price: $2.99       (Ends Jul 31)

In this compelling new time-slip mystery, a little girl goes missing from her family’s castle in the Thousand Islands of New York. Eighty-five years later, a journalist teams up with a woman living on Koster Isle to find out what happened to Poppy, once and for all.

1907. On the eve of her fifth birthday, Poppy Pendleton is tucked safely in her bed, listening to her parents entertain New York’s gilded society in their Thousand Islands castle; the next morning, she is gone, and her father is found dead in his smoking room.

1992. Though Chloe Ridell lives in the shadows of Poppy’s castle, now in ruins, she has little interest in the mystery that still captivates tourists and locals alike. She is focused on preserving the island she inherited from her grandparents and reviving their vintage candy shop. Until the day a girl named Emma shows up on Chloe’s doorstep, with few possessions, save a tattered scrapbook that connects her to the Pendleton family. When a reporter arrives at Chloe’s store, asking questions about her grandfather, Chloe decides to help him dig into a past she’d thought best left buried. The haunting truth about Poppy, they soon discover, could save Emma’s life, so Chloe and Logan must work together to investigate exactly what happened long ago on Koster Isle.

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