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Author(s): Sandra Maria Van Opstal
Publisher: Intervarsity Press
Price: $4.99
What happens when a diverse church glorifies the global God?
We live in a time of unprecedented intercultural exchange, where our communities welcome people from around the world. Music and media from every culture are easily accessible, and our worship is infused with a rich variety of musical and liturgical influences. But leading worship in multicultural contexts can be a cross-cultural experience for everybody. How do we help our congregations navigate the journey?
Innovative worship leader Sandra Maria Van Opstal is known for crafting worship that embodies the global, multiethnic body of Christ. Likening diverse worship to a sumptuous banquet, she shows how worship leaders can set the table and welcome worshipers from every tribe and tongue. Van Opstal provides biblical foundations for multiethnic worship, with practical tools and resources for planning services that reflect God’s invitation for all peoples to praise him.
When multiethnic worship is done well, the church models reconciliation and prophetic justice, heralding God’s good news for the world. Enter into the praise of our king, and let the nations rejoice!
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Author(s): Christopher J. H. Wright
Publisher: Intervarsity Press
Price: $4.99
We cannot know Jesus without knowing his story.
Today the debate over who Jesus is raged on. Has the Bible bound Christians to a narrow and mistaken notion of Jesus? Should we listen to other gospels, other sayings of Jesus, that enlarge and correct a mistaken story? Is the real Jesus entangled in a web of the church’s Scripture, awaiting liberation from our childhood faith so he might speak to our contemporary pluralistic world?
To answer these questions we need to know what story Jesus claimed for himself. Christopher Wright is convinced that Jesus’ own story is rooted in the story of Israel. In this revised and updated book, he traces the life of Christ as it is illuminated by the Old Testament. And he describes God’s design for Israel as it is fulfilled in the story of Jesus.
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Author(s): Timothy R. Jennings
Publisher: Intervarsity Press
Price: $3.99 (Ends Oct 16)
What you believe about God actually changes your brain.
Brain research in neuroscience has found that our thoughts and beliefs affect our physical, mental and spiritual health. Mind and body are interrelated, and we are designed for healthy relationships of love and trust. When we understand God as good and loving, we flourish. Unfortunately, many of us have distorted images of God and mostly think of him in fearful, punitive ways. This leads us into unhealthy patterns of self-defeating behaviors and toxic relationships. But our lives can change when God renews our minds with a truer picture of him.
Psychiatrist Tim Jennings unveils how our brains and bodies thrive when we have a healthy understanding of who God is. He dispels common misconceptions about God and shows how different God concepts affect the brain differently. Our brains can adapt, change and rewire with redeemed thinking that frees us from unnecessary pain and suffering. Discover how neuroscience and Scripture come together to bring healing and transformation to our lives.
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Publisher: Intervarsity Press
Price: $2.99 (Oct 3-4)
- Discerning Reader’s Best Book of 2003
We are not created to worship. Nor are we created for worship. We are created worshiping.
Too often Christians have only thought of worship in terms of particular musical styles or liturgical formats. But a proper view of worship is far larger than what takes place in churches on Sunday mornings. Worship is not limited to specific times, places or activities.
God is by his very nature continuously outpouring himself. Because we are created in his image, we too are continually pouring ourselves in various directions, whether toward God or toward false gods. All of us, Christian or not, are always worshiping, whether or not that worship is directed toward God. We are unceasing worshipers.
The fruition of a lifetime of study, reflection, and experience, this volume sets forth Harold M. Best’s understanding of worship and the arts. Widely respected as one of the foremost thinkers and practitioners in his field, Best explores the full scope of worship as continuous outpouring in all settings and contexts. With careful exposition and eloquent analysis, Best casts a holistic vision for worship that transcends narrow discussions of musical style or congregational preference. On this broader canvas, Best addresses popular misunderstandings about the use of music and offers correctives toward a more biblically consistent practice of artistic action.
Incisive, biblical, profound and comprehensive, Best’s landmark volume is one by which all other statements on worship and the arts will be measured.
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Gospel e-books is working together with Christian publishers to allow you to choose what e-books you’d like to have discounted. Cast your vote below and the book with the most votes in each poll will be placed on sale soon after. If there are less than 100 total votes in a particular poll, the winning book will not be discounted.
Book details:
Kregel: How Then Should We Choose?: Three Views on God’s Will and Decision Making by Douglas S. Huffman vs. What Are Spiritual Gifts?: Rethinking the Conventional View by Kenneth Berding
Crossway: Tempted and Tried: Temptation and the Triumph of Christ by Russell Moore vs. The Finished Work of Christ: The Truth of Romans 1-8 by Francis A. Schaeffer
New Leaf: Persuaded by the Evidence by Doug Sharp & Jerry Bergman vs. A Flood of Evidence: 40 Reasons Noah and the Ark Still Matter by Ken Ham & Bodie Hodge
Intervarsity Press: A Free People’s Suicide: Sustainable Freedom and the American Future by Os Guinness vs. Fool’s Talk: Recovering the Art of Christian Persuasion by Os Guinness
Christian Focus: 3D Leadership: Defining, Developing and Deploying Christian Leaders Who Can Change the World by Harry L. Reeder vs. God’s Servant: A Guide for Christian Leadership by Roslynn Bryant
Reformation Heritage: Riots, Revolutions, and the Scottish Covenanters: The Work of Alexander Henderson by L. Charles Jackson vs. Presbyterian and Reformed Churches: A Global History by James McGoldrick
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Publisher: Intervarsity Press
Price: $2.99 (Sept 26-27)
Everybody likes Jesus. Don’t they?
We overlook that Jesus was
- Judgmental―preaching hellfire far more than the apostle Paul
- Uncompromising―telling people to hate their families
- Chauvinistic―excluding women from leadership
- Racist―insulting people from other ethnic groups
- Anti-environmental―cursing a fig tree and affirming animal sacrifice
- Angry―overturning tables and chasing moneychangers in the temple
He demanded moral perfection, told people to cut off body parts, made prophecies that haven’t come true, and defied religious and political authorities. While we tend to ignore this troubling behavior, the people around Jesus didn’t. Some believed him so dangerous that they found a way to have him killed.
The Jesus everybody likes, says Mark Strauss, is not the Jesus found in the Gospels. He’s a figure we’ve created in our own minds. Strauss believes that when we unpack the puzzling paradoxes of the man from Galilee, we find greater insight into his countercultural message and mission than we could ever have imagined.
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Gospel e-books is working together with Christian publishers to allow you to choose what e-books you’d like to have discounted. Cast your vote below and the book with the most votes in each poll will be placed on sale soon after. If there are less than 100 total votes in a particular poll, the winning book will not be discounted.
Book details:
Kregel: 21 Things God Never Said: Correcting Our Misconceptions About Evangelism by R. Larry Moyer vs. Show Me How to Share the Gospel by R. Larry Moyer
Crossway: George Whitefield: God’s Anointed Servant in the Great Revival of the Eighteenth Century by Arnold A. Dallimore vs. Seeing Beauty and Saying Beautifully: The Power of Poetic Effort in the Work of George Herbert, George Whitefield, and C. S. Lewis by John Piper
New Leaf: Taking the World for Jesus: The Remarkable Story of the Greatest Commission by Kevin Swanson vs. Why Won’t They Listen?: The Power of Creation Evangelism by Ken Ham
Intervarsity Press: The God Conversation: Using Stories and Illustrations to Explain Your Faith by J. P. Moreland & Tim Muehlhoff vs. Telling the Gospel Through Story: Evangelism That Keeps Hearers Wanting More by Christine Dillon
Christian Focus: Rewriting Gender?: You, Your Family, Transgenderism and the Gospel by David Martin vs. The Grand Design: Male and Female He Made Them by Owen Strachan & Gavin Peacock
Reformation Heritage: Teaching Predestination: Elnathan Parr and Pastoral Ministry in Early Stuart England by David H. Kranendonk vs. The Spiritual Brotherhood: Cambridge Puritans and the Nature of Christian Piety by Paul R. Schaefer Jr.
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