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IN THIS ISSUE ▷ MAP GEEK? 4 ▷EVIDENCE FOR CHRISTIAN COUNSELING 6
▷THE CANON’S LOADED QUESTIONS 7
GOD WAS HERE.
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2 I V P B O O K C L U B . C O M
SURPRISED BY CIVILIZATION
FROM THE PROLOGUE
I had come to Oxford and this year
abroad in part to rest. . . . I wasn’t
burned out or washed out or strug-
gling with my faith. I wasn’t bitter orangry or trying to run away. I wasn’t
at a crisis point or lost or in need of
direction. Any of these would have
made a good story. But I was simply
worn out, depleted, like Bilbo in the
Lord of the Rings : “I feel all thin, sort
of stretched . . . like butter that has
been scraped over too much bread.”
I needed time away, to rest, and to
contemplate. . . .
What I really needed was spiritual
rest. I needed to take stock of my
life, rediscover where I came fromand where I may be going. I wanted
to take a year to walk in the steps of
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Jim Belcher (PhD, Georgetown) is associate professor of practical
theology at Knox Theological Seminary. He is the founding
pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church (PCA) in Newport
Beach, California, where he served from 2000-2010 and led a
period of steady growth. He is the author of the award-winning
book Deep Church.
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M A I N S E L E C T I O N
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my heroes, read their books again and
marinate in their lives—go deeper
into their stories and learn from them
all over again. It was going to be like
a pilgrimage, a time to spiritually and
experientially connect with the places
and people that had most influenced
me. And, most importantly, to recon-
nect with God. . . .
This book is about the pilgrim-
age my family took to England and
Europe from August 2010 to June
2011. When we set out for Oxford,
. . . all we knew was that the journey
would begin in Oxford. We had
plans to travel to Europe, but we did
not know if I would go alone or take
the family along. Where and when
we would go would have to unfold
as part of the pilgrimage. But this
was part of the adventure, enjoying
the serendipity of travel, learning to
depend on God, and being open to
new and profound experiences.
PRAISE FOR
IN SEARCH OF DEEP FAITH
“Winston Churchill famously said, ‘The farther
backward you can look, the farther forward you
are likely to see.’ . . . The fruit of Jim’s year-long pilgrimage throughout Europe, In Search of
Deep Faith is a personal, probing and provocative
adventure into the robust realism of the Christian
faith. Highly recommended.”
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author of One Way Love
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MAPPING HOLY GROUND
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4 I V P B O O K C L U B . C O M
MAPPING HOLY GROUND
FROM THE PROLOGUE
From creation to the exodus to the
birth of the church, this atlas maps
out the history of the Bible concisely
and comprehensively. All the greatcharacters of the Bible can be found
here in their own setting—Moses,
David, Solomon, Nebuchadnezzar,
Herod, Jesus, Paul and more. Now
their stories come to life in this con-
densed version of The IVP Concise Atlas
of Bible History.
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Paul Lawrence (PhD, University of Liverpool) is an expert in Akkadian, Hebrew
and Near Eastern archaeology currently working on Bible translations for SIL
International. His professional archaeological experience includes a dig in northern
Iraq along the Tigris River just north of ancient Nineveh.
Richard Johnson (PhD, Graduate Theological Union) is affiliate assistant professor
of church history at Fuller Theological Seminary. He has been the senior pastor at
Peace Lutheran Church in Grass Valley, California, since 1984.
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Unique among Bible archaeology books, this compact, eye-catching resource
combines history, geography and archaeology in one accessible and visually
absorbing package.
AMONG THE ATLAS’S MANY FEATURES ARE:
numerous full-color maps•
a variety of panoramic•
reconstructions
multiple site plans•
dozens of color photographs•
clear chronological charts•
an index and gazetteer•
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N E W A L T E R N A T E S
I V P B O O K C L U B . C O M
LUMINOUST. David Beck
Motivated by a life-altering experience of connec-
tion with Christ’s hands and feet in Port-au-Prince,
Haiti, pastor and missionary David Beck explores
the everyday, formational practices that push us
toward our center in Christ and cause us to shine
like stars in the world. Make no mistake: “God
intends for his children to be luminous.”
“A great guide for any who care about living their faith, not justtalking about it.”
—Tim Morey, author of Embodying Our Faith
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EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICES FORCHRISTIAN COUNSELING ANDPSYCHOTHERAPY
Edited by Everett L. Worthington Jr., Eric L.
Johnson, Joshua N. Hook and Jamie D. Aten
Trends toward professional acknowledgment in recent
years have created a demand for religious therapies to
prove their metal in a secular, evidence-based context.
While the research is still in its infancy, these essaysweigh the merits of existing faith-accommodative
treatments and approaches ranging from devotional
meditation to marriage and family therapy. Includes a
guide for conducting your own clinical trials.
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8 I V P B O O K C L U B . C O M
APOLOGETICS
Making a case for what cannot be contained
A JIGSAW GUIDE TOMAKING SENSE OFTHE WORLD
Alex McLellan
Alex McLellan shareshis proven method for
training and empower-ing Christian apologists.He encourages potentialtruth-tellers to proceedin piecing their world-view together, trustingthat our fragments oftruth will form theoutline of God’s greatpicture.
191 PAGES, PAPERBACK,3781, $15.00,
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THE SWEDISH ATHEIST, THE SCUBADIVER AND OTHER APOLOGETIC RABBITTRAILS
Randal Rauser
Come eavesdrop ona caffeinated debatebetween Randal Rauserand his atheist friend.As we follow them downrabbit trails and throughpersonal revelations, wewitness a paradigm shiftin apologetics—wherea familiar quibble over
terms becomes a mutualapprenticeship in thetruth.
229 PAGES, PAPERBACK,
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THE BEST THINGSIN LIFE
Peter Kreeft
“Any reader sitting downto peruse these dialogues. . . [will] find himself
roused, amused, entertainedand instructed. PeterKreeft does what all greatteachers do: he returns us,again and again and again,to what T. S. Eliot called‘the permanent things.’”
—Thomas Howard,author of The Novels ofCharles Williams
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THE BIOLOGY OF SIN
Matthew S.Stanford, PhD
Taking on majorChristian preconceptionsabout sin, addiction andthe role of the brain,neuroscientist MatthewStanford shares whathe has learned aboutbiblical perfectionism,biological determinismand the vast territory in-between.
166 PAGES, PAPERBACK,5613, $18.00,
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PARABLES
INTERPRETINGTHE PARABLES(SECOND EDITION)
Craig L. Blomberg
Craig Blomberg surveys the con-temporary critical approaches tothe parables—including those thathave emerged in the twenty yearssince the first edition. This widelyused text has taken a minority per-spective and made it mainstream,with Blomberg ably defending alimited allegorical approach andoffering brief interpretations ofall the major parables.
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PARABLES John White
These twelve studies by the late
John White lead us to reflect onthe parables of Jesus—how theytend to sneak up on us, catchus off-guard and topple oureasy assumptions. Each one ofthese masterful moral tales fromMatthew and Luke will take youand your group down a deceptive-ly familiar road, only to take anunexpected turn—exposing your
most basic thoughts to the healinglight of Jesus.
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THE PARABLESOF JESUS
David Wenham
The Bible’s most vivid portraits ofGod’s kingdom, with profound,millenarian reversals, come to usin the parables of Jesus. DavidWenham offers a nontechnical butcomprehensive study of dozensof these stories, drawing on theirfirst-century religious and socialsetting and illuminating their sig-nificance today.
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“[Parables] capture the listener and make him a participant, overturning his world view and leading him
to call into question his most basic values.”
–D. A. Carson
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SPIRITUAL FORMATION
Growth is no accident.
10 I V P B O O K C L U B . C O M
THE GIFT OFBEING YOURSELF
David G. Benner,
Foreword by M. Basil Pennington
“Slowly we are unpacking
the full implicationsof incarnation. DavidBenner does exactly thesame in this excellent book,using good theology, psychol-ogy and spiritual practice tomake the profound obvious.This is the work of all good teachers.”
—Richard Rohr, OFM,Center for Action andContemplation
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RUN WITHTHE HORSES
Eugene H. Peterson
In a series of profoundreflections on the life of Jeremiah the prophet,
Eugene Peterson exploresthe heart of what itmeans to be fully andgenuinely human.His writing is filledwith humor and self-reflection, insight andwisdom, helping to set acourse for others in thequest for life at its best.
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INVITATION TO A JOURNEY
M. Robert Mulholland Jr.
In the finest traditionof spiritual literature,Robert Mulholland
helps Christians newand old to understandthat we become likeChrist gradually, notinstantly. He reviewsthe classical spiritualdisciplines and demon-strates the importance ofundertaking our spiritualjourney with and for
others.173 PAGES, PAPERBACK,1386, $15.00,
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SANCTUARYOF THE SOUL
Richard J. Foster
Richard Foster equipsChristians to embarksuccessfully on the jour-
ney of meditative prayer.Featuring short chapterson the method of medi-tative prayer, insightsfrom classical Christianwriters and reflectionsfrom the author’s ownexperience with extendedprayer, Sanctuary of the Soul may be the last introduc-
tion to prayer you’ll everneed.
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THE CANON
“The church no more gave us the New Testament canon
than Sir Isaac Newton gave us the force of gravity.”
-J. I. Packer
THE CANON OFSCRIPTURE
F. F. Bruce
In this landmark study,distinguished exegeteF. F. Bruce recounts the
fascinating historicalprocesses that broughtabout the canonizationof the Old and NewTestaments and theensuing waves of scru-tiny as critical climateshave changed in ancient,medieval, early modernand modern eras.
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THE MAKING OFTHE NEW TESTAMENT(SECOND EDITION)
Arthur G. Patzia
Now revised and expand-ed, Arthur Patzia’s text-
book tells the unlikelystory of the origin,collection, copying andcanonizing of the NewTestament documents.You will be brought intothe work of numerousbiblical scholars whofollowed subtle clues andwhispers of evidence to
come to the full storyof the New Testamentcanon.
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OLD TESTAMENTTHEOLOGY
Paul R. House
A student-friendlyoffering geared to awide audience, Paul
House models a the-matic approach to OldTestament theology,moving book by bookthrough the Hebrewcanon.
“An invaluable resource for pastors and lay teachers ofthe Bible.”
—Tremper Longman III655 PAGES, HARDCOVER,
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IS THE NEWTESTAMENT RELIABLE?(SECOND EDITION)
Paul Barnett
Increasingly, the reliabil-ity of not just the New
Testament but any docu-ment of history is calledinto question. In Is theNew Testament Reliable? PaulBarnett defends the taskof the historian and theconcept of history, andultimately shows that wecan take confidence inthe New Testament, for
it tells us the truth.197 PAGES, PAPERBACK,2768, $16.00,
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The God-ShapedBrainTimothy R. Jennings, M.D.256 pages, paperback,
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An UnhurriedLife Alan Fadling 199 pages, paperback,
3573, $15.00,
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Hidden in Christ James Bryan Smith216 pages, hardcover,
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Mapping theOrigins DebateGerald Rau237 pages, paperback,
3987, $18.00,
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“A good book for betterunderstanding ourselves,the Christian world as itnow exists and the Bible.”
Mark A. Noll, Universityof Notre Dame
“A book that shouldbe read by everyoneconcerned with freedomof conscience.”
Peter L. Berger,professor emeritus,Boston University
Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes E. Randolph Richards and Brandon J. O’Brien240 pages, paperback, 3782, $16.00,
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The Global Public Square Os Guinness240 pages, paperback, 3767, $16.00,
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N E X T M O N T H
Carolyn Weber finds no time for God but the present, and
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