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Free In Christ
$18.99Add to cartSet the captives free! You’re about to discover the incredible joy, power, healing and anointing that is yours as a child of God! Pablo Bottari leads you through the steps of preparation for the ministry of deliverance that awaits you. You’ll discover how to help others enjoy complete spiritual freedom.
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Meditations For Vestry Members
$12.95Add to cartWho is this God who seeks us in so many ways, who calls us from our familiar and comfortable places and moves us into new roles? Part of the answer can be found within the Church. We come to know God better by serving as church members and in church ministries. God is present with us and in others all around us as we worship and serve.
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Hospitality The Sacred Art
$16.99Add to cartWe may think of hospitality as merely being polite to guests, but the ancients understood the profound potential hospitality holds for building and transforming lasting relationships-for binding families together, making strangers into friends, even turning enemies into neighbors.
This practical book provides you with the tools you need to cultivate the spiritual power of invitation and welcome in your life. Guided by Rev. Nanette Sawyer, you will discover the qualities of hospitality-receptivity, reverence, and generosity-and how these qualities can significantly deepen your self-understanding as well as your relationships with others and with God. Drawing from sacred texts and spiritual practitioners from all faiths, this book also addresses the major stumbling blocks that prevent you from becoming truly hospitable. -
Following Jesus In The Real World
$19.99Add to cartIn this guidebook for the post-college generation, Richard Lamb deftly blends scriptural insights, stories of recent graduates and his own life experience to offer sound advice and practical encouragement for a confusing time. From jobs to relationships to the ministry, he shows how spiritual growth can continue after you leave the college community.
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Passion For Pilgrimage
$23.95Add to cartUsing literature, art, and biblical texts as illustrations, Jones explores our search for light and love, repentance, and forgiveness in the context of the Passion and Easter stories. Includes study questions at the end of each chapter and makes an excellent group study during Lent or Easter as well as for individuals who would like to understand the Christian journey more deeply.
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Knowing Gods Will (Revised)
$22.99Add to cartHOW DO I RECOGNIZE GOD’S GUIDANCE IN MY LIFE? Is God’s will likely to be the thing I want least to do? Am I expected to think through God’s will? Or will he impress it on me in a supernatural way? Should I put our a “fleece”? How can I find personal guidance in the Bible? Must my motives be perfectly pure? What do I do when others tell me what God wants me to do? When do open and closed doors indicate God’s will, and when don’t they?
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Journeys Of Simplicity
$25.99Add to cartYou are invited to consider a more graceful way of traveling through life. With arresting clarity, Journeys of Simplicity offers vignettes of forty travelers and the few, ordinary things they carried with them-from place to place, from day to day, from birth to death.
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Grow Your Christian Life
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Being a Christian isn’t easy. The world sure isn’t out to help you. Sometimes neither are friends or family. Money, job, studies, bills, career, fun and the future all compete for your time and energy. If God is going to have a say in all this, you’re going to need all the help you can get. That’s where this book comes in. It provides you with a 30-minute daily workout with God. Along the way you’ll get practical hilp with issues you are concerned about like: Work-Persistent Sin-Your Emotions-Sex-Forgiving Others-Why God seems far away at times. And as you keep at it, you’ll be getting in better and better shape as a Christian. And even though you might discover how true “no pain, no gain” is, you’ll find out how wirthwhile the “gain” really is too.
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Adventure : Putting Energy Into Your Walk With God
$30.99Add to cartThe Christian life is an adventure. Every aspect is full of energy and light. Yet too often we stop at one point of interest–evangelism, spiritual disciplines, social justice–and go no further. Interweaving stories from a summer vacation, Jerry Sittser shows how our lives can include all God has in mind for us. In a book that is fun and challenging, Sittser restores wholeness to the adventure of Christian living.
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Families At The Crossroads
$25.99Add to cart1. Postmodernity: A New Battlefield For The War Over The Family
2. The Unnaturalness Of Family
3. Advanced Capitalism And The Lost Art Of Christian Family
4. Church As First Family
5. The Superiority Of Singleness
6. Whose Fidelity? Which Intimacy?
7. Welcoming Children And Other Strangers
8. No Christian Home Is A Haven
170 PagesAdditional Info
IVP Print On Demand Title“Scant decades ago most Westerners agreed that…lifelong monogamy was ideal…mothers should stay home with the children…premarital sex was to be discouraged …heterosexuality was the unquestioned norm…popular culture should not corrupt children. Today not a single one of these expectations is uncontroversial.” So writes Rodney Clapp in assessing the status of the family in postmodern Western society. In response many evangelicals have been quick to defend the so-called traditional family, assuming that it exemplifies the biblical model. Clapp challenges that assumption, arguing that the “traditional” family is a reflection more of the nineteenth-century middle-class family than of any family one can find in Scripture. At the same time, he recognizes that many modern and postmodern options are not acceptable to Christians. Returning to the biblical story afresh, Clapp articulates a challenge to both sides of a critical debate.
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What They Dont Always Teach You At A Christian College
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Prepare your high-school graduates for the challenges that await them as they enter college life! From time management to dating to living for Christ, this relevant resource will help them make faith-full decisions as they face the complex issues of life.
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Yearning
$25.99Add to cartPopluar psychology says we should be fulfilled. Advertisement tease us with dozens of ways we can be fulfilled. Many preachers and books promise Christian fulfillment. Craig Barnes suggests we weren’t created to be whole or complete. With a fresh reading of the early chapters of Genesis, he says that much of our pain and disillusionment arises from wrong expectations of the gospel and of life. Barnes writes for anyone who knows that faith must be tough enough to “hold up in the emergency rooms of life.” But he doesn’t merely help us face reality. He helps us see how our needs and limitations are gifts, the best opportunities we have to receive God’s grace.
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Discipleship Of The Mind
$30.99Add to cartChristians who are serious about their faith want to love God with all that they are-heart and mind and strength. Books abound on the devotional life, on commitment, on evangelism and practical Christian lining, but few take up what it means to love God with our minds. How do we learn to honor God in the ways we think? James Sire blazes a trail for Christians concerned about the discipleship of our minds. After looking at the atitudes toward God and ourselves necessary for the journey, he introduces us to the basics of the Christian world view. Separate chapaters discuss the foundations of knowledge and the relationship between knowing and doing. With an eye to the practical, Sire offers specific suggestions on getting to know what is good and getting to know the world. He also provides valuable insights on how Christians might approach various academic disciplines as disciples of Christ.
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Predestination And Free Will
$28.99Add to cartIf God is in control, are people really free? The Basingers present four views on this thought-provoking question: Bruce Reichenbach on God’s self-limited power, John Feinberg on God’s control through foreordination, Clark Pinnock on God’s self-limited knowledge, and Norman Geisler on God’s control by foreknowledge.
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Disciplined Life
$10.99Add to cartThe door to spiritual maturity can be unlocked by the key of discipline. In the day of easy living, when the cult of comfort yearns for the luxury and ease, here is a straightforward treatment that is vitally needed by everyone who names the name of Christ. The author is both forthright and sympathetic, pratical and yet weaves an a strong idealism.
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Black Mans Religion
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Is Christianity a “white man’s religion?” Keener and Usry say, “absolutely not!” In this extensively researched book, you’ll find the first pro-Christian interpretation of religion and history from a black perspective. Fascinating and compelling, this is must-reading for anyone interested in African-American culture and issues of faith.
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Contemporary Christian
$45.99Add to cartThe Contempory Christian, Applying God’s Word to Today’s World by John Stott from Intervarsity Press is now available in convenient softcover. John Stott makes a trumpet call to all disciples of Christ to be both contemporary and Biblical. The first means to live and move with the times. The second requires that we retain unswerving loyalty to God’s Word. Combining the two is not an easy task. Today people reject Christianity, not because they think it is false, but because they think it is irrelevant. Disciples, he says, can prepare for this task by cultivating a listening ear, embracing both mind and emotions, and finding God’s true guidance. In addition, he sympathetically uncovers the emptiness of secular men and women, demonstrating how the church can meet their quests with the truth and grace of Jesus Christ. John Stott is knwon worldwide as a gifted evangelist, preacher, scholar and Christian statesman. Among his books are Basic Christianity, The Cross of Christ, and Romans.
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Temptations Men Face
$32.99Add to cart1. SET FREE
2. THE TEMPTATION TO BE MACHO
3. THE TEMPTATION OF SEXUAL LUST
4. THE TEMPTATION TO HAVE AN AFFAIR
5. THE TEMPTATION TO WIELD POWER
6. THE TEMPTATION TO LOVE MONEY
7. THE TEMPTATION TO BE PERFECT
8. DELIVERANCE
9. HOW CAN I HELP MY MAN? A CHAPTER FOR WOMENAdditional Info
IVP Print On Demand TitleLike a rushing current in a dark river, temptations flood all around us. Every believer has felt the undertow. And some, even some prominent Christian leaders, have not been able to keep their heads above water.
How can a man stand against these forces? How do men experience common temptations and what can be done about them? Tom Eisenman gives a man’s perspective on these and other tough issues. In straightforward language he honestly discusses the difficulties he and others have had in avoiding common stumbling blocks in the Christian walk. More than that, in a personal and practical way he shows how deliverance is possible even from besetting sins.
He doesn’t stop there. In a chapter for women, he tells how they can keep from contributing to their husband’s problem and suggests what to do when a man resists help. Finally, he offers general strategies for all of us on how to oppose temptation and find freedom from the evil that binds us.
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Christian Spirituality : Five Views Of Santification
$25.99Add to cartThe nature of Christian Spirituality has been widely debated throughout the history of the church. The doctrine of sanctification was one of the main fissures separating Luther from the Catholic Church. Even today different groups of Protestant disagree on how we draw closer to God. To answer these questions Donald L. Alexander, professor of biblical theology at Bethel College, has brought together five scholars that represent each of the main historical Protestant traditions. With an introduction by Alexander and responses to each of the main essays by other contributors, this book provides a helpful and stimulating introduction to an important doctrine of the church.
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Disciplemakers Handbook : Helping Pelple Grow In Christ
$28.99Add to cartWhat does a healthy discipling relationship look like? What do you do together? In order to answer these and other questions, Alice Fryling gathered a team of experienced disciplemakers. Together they give us practical help in such ares as: overcoming our fears about discipling others; beginning a discipling relationship; how to be a friend; learning how people change; helping others share their faith. Many chapters include time-tested resources you can use in discipling relationships. A handbook for those who need help and encouragement in reaching out to others.
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Hard Sayings Of Paul
$32.99Add to cartAs even Peter observed, Paul’s letters ”contain some things that are hard to understand.” Brauch tackles forty-eight of them, such as ”Hand this man over to Satan,” and ”I do not permit a woman to teach.” By supplying background information and by putting each passage in the context of the whole of Paul’s teaching, Brauch helps you understand the importance of Paul’s sayings for Christian life today.
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When God Interrupts
$18.99Add to cart1. Losing Our Lives
2. Terrifying Opportunity
3. A Place You’d Rather Not Go
4. Abandoned 17y Success
5. Abandoned By Health
6. Abandoned By Family
7. Abandoned By GodAdditional Info
When you’re facing difficult times and unwanted changes—the death of a loved one, a child leaving home, an illness—doesn’t it seem as though God has moved far away? Barnes wants you to understand that the opposite is true. He promises hope without denying despair by showing that God is always right at your side—even in the middle of unwanted change. -
Commitment : 6 Studies Based On My Heart Christs Home (Adapted)
$12.99Add to cart1. The Study/Philippians 4:4-9
2. The Dining Room/] John 2:1 5 -1 7
3. The Living Room/1 John.]:] -7
4. The Recreation Room/John 2:1 -1 1
5. The Bedroom/Proverbs 5:1 A’-21
6. The Hall Closet/Psalm 1 3 9:1 -6, 2 3 -2 4Additional Info
Moving from room to room with him, we discover what he desire for us. Are we prepared to meet with him daily in our living rooms in our recreation room? in the study? What about that dark closet that needs cleaning out?These studies will take you through six of the rooms of your heart, helping you to see aspects of your Christian life as Jesus sees them. You will be stretched and enriched by your personal meetings
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Powers Of Darkness
$30.99Add to cartThe last two decades have witnessed a vast upsurge in occult activity. Scores of popular books have warned Christians of the dangers and urged them to do battle against these spiritual forces. Few books, however, have developed a careful biblical theology on demons, principalities and powers. Clinton Arnold seeks to fill this gap, providing an in-depth look at Paul’s letters and what they teach on the subject. For perspective, he examines first-century Greek, Roman and Jewish beliefs as well as Jesus’ teaching about magic, sorcery and divination. Arnold contends that the New Testament view is that principalities and powers are organized, personal beings which Jesus defeated at the cross and will bring into full subjection at his return. Arnold also suggests practical ways in which Christians today can contend with the forces of evil.
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Basic Discipleship
$25.99Add to cartBasic Dicipleship explains what it means for Christ to be Lord of your life. The author discusses why it is important and how it happens by laying the basic building blocks that can last our whole lives. Some topics include, living under Christ’s Lordship, remaining faithful, finding God’s will turning away from sin, nuturing humility, plus more.
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Soul Gardening : Cultivating The Good Life
$16.00Add to cartOpen the gate to the garden of your own soul. Learn to be present. Cultivate appreciation for the ordinary gifts of grace, the value of solitude, the art of listening, and the healing power of nature. Terry Hershey’s stories will lead your to nurture your soul and renew your sense of what it means to live “the good life.”
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Sold Out
$19.99Add to cartFrom Promise Keepers founder Bill McCartney, Sold Out is a roadmap describing how to live a disciplined life with eternal values in mind. By tapping into God’s transforming power, men can become man enough to make a difference in this world. Includes insights on marriage and relationships from his wife, Lyndi McCartney.
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Gospel According To Peanuts
$21.00Add to cart1. The Church And The Arts
2. “The Whole Trouble”: Original Sin
3. The Wages Of Sin Is “Aaaughh!”
4. Good Grief?
5. The Hound Of Heaven
6. Concluding Unscientific PostscriptAdditional Info
In this unique, engaging book Robert Short examines the insights to be found in the comic strip “Peanuts” and makes an expanded comment on these wonderfully imaginative parables of our times.Highlighting his remarks with selected cartoons, Short looks at the antics of Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, Linus, et al. from a Christian perspective, revealing a surprisingly prophetic meaning behind their otherwise hilarious activities.
While these lovable cartoon characters have enjoyed an almost unparalleled popularity–becoming pop culture icons of the highest order and entering the global consciousness practically as family members–Short’s book also has found a place in the hearts of many readers, with sales now totaling more than ten million copies.
Whether coming to the book for the first time or taking a second look, a delightful experience awaits in this modern-day guide to the Christian faith, fully illustrated with Peanuts.
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Priorities : 6 Studies Based On Tyranny Of The Urgent (Adapted)
$12.99Add to cart1. Urgent Demands/Exodus 18:13-24
2. Seeking God’s Priorities/Mark 1:21-39
3. Another Painful Decision/John 11:17-44
4. Community Guidance/Acts 5:33-6:7
5. Life Under New Management/ 2 Corinthians 5:11-21
6. The Secret Of Success John 8:26-38Additional Info
Every week we leave a trail of unfinished tasks. Unanswered letters, unvisited friends and unread books haunt our waking moments. We desperately need releif.These studies are designed to help you put your life back in order by discovering what is really important. Find out what God’s priorities are for you.
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SoulWinning : A Classic On Biblical Christianity (Revised)
$16.99Add to cartSoulwinning is the energizing, ennobling life. We have put into practice the truths shared in this book. For well over a half-century in more than eighty nations, we have communicated the good news publicly, out where the poeple are, addressing audiences of 20,000 to 300,000 people.
Discover the secret, the pleasure, the exhiliration of sharing God’s love in a hurting world. Experience new self-esteem. Winning others, you truly win Christ. Enriching people, your own life is enriched.
-T.L. OsbornI am convinced this is the finest book that my father has yet authored. As a world evangelist, a teacher, a pastor, and a bishop, I know of no other literary work that brings such biblical focus to pastors and leaders, and such practical insight and uplifting self-esteem to Christian believers.
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Peculiar People : The Church As Culture In A Postchristian Society
$30.99Add to cartContents
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Christians feel increasingly useless, argues Rodney Clapp, not because we have nothing to offer a post-Christian society, but because we are trying to serve as “sponsoring chaplains” to a civilization that no longer sees Christianity as necessary to its existence. In our individualistic, technologically oriented, consumer-based culture, Christianity has become largely irrelevant.The solution is not to sentimentally capitulate to the way things are. Nor is it to retrench in an effort to regain power and influence as the sponsor of Western civilization. What is needed is for Christians to reclaim our heritage as a peculiar people, as unapologetic followers of The Way.
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1 New People
$27.99Add to cartIf you are aware of the rich benefits of fellowship that crosses racial lines, but aren’t sure how to make that happen in your church, then this book is for you. Loaded with models from those who have done it, One New People will inspire you to broaden the ministry of your church. With questions to help groups process the material, it will give you everything you need to find the model that fits your situation so you can begin the process of change and growth. And if you are already in a multiethnic church, you’ll find ideas and principles for improving communication, developing new leadership and managing conflict from someone who has been there.
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Truth Is Stranger Than It Used To Be
$26.99Add to cartIn this book the authors survey postmodern culture and philosophy, offering lucid explanations of such difficult theories as deconstruction. They are sympathetic to the postmodern critique, yet believe that a gospel stripped of its modernist trappings speaks a radical world of hope and transformation to our chaotic culture. This book is for those who wonder what postmodernism is and how biblical Christians might best respond.
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Waiting : Finding Hope When God Seems Silent
$24.99Add to cartAre you waiting? For a spouse, for a child, for a new career, for healing, for relief in an unhappy marriage? Patterson uncovers two virtues of waiting patiently: humility and hope. You’ll learn how humility teaches us that we exist for God’s sake, not our own; and how hope assures us that there is something worth waiting for.
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Christian Ethics
$20.99Add to cartPreface
1. Choices
2. Goals
3. Rules
4. Virtues
5. Church
6. Society
Conclusion: Faith And Ethics
Notes
IndexAdditional Info
In this excellent outline of Christian ethics, Robin W. Lovin achieves a balance between the questions and issues which form the core of the study of ethics, and the life situations from which those questions arise.Eschewing a sectarian approach which dismisses other understandings of the moral life, Lovin nonetheless lays claim to a specifically Christian understanding of ethics. He begins with basic Christian convictions about the reality of God and human redemption and weaves these convictions into the fabric of moral concerns that are widely shared in contemporary society. He takes note of the problems that arise when Christians try to act on or enforce their convictions in a pluralistic society and recognizes the variety of theological and moral beliefs that are held within the Christian community, as well as in the wider society.
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Gospel Shaped Living Leaders Guide (Teacher’s Guide)
$19.99Add to cartPreface By Don Carson And Tim Keller
Introduction
How To Use This Course
1. Your Church: A Light In The Darkness
2. A United Church In A Divided World
3. A Serving Church In A Selfish World
4. A Generous Church In A Stingy World
5. A Truthful Church In A Confused World
6. A Joyful Church In A Suffering World
7. How To Be Church In The WorldAdditional Info
Gospel Shaped Church is a new curriculum from The Gospel Coalition that will help whole congregations pause and think carefully and prayerfully about the kind of church they are called to be.Gospel Shaped Living is a track that explores over 7 sessions what it means for a local church to be a distinctive countercultural community.
How should Christians live? The church should be a distinctive community of God’s people-but how different are we from the rest of the world? This track helps us untangle some of the false ideas and traditions that evangelicals have had in the past, and reveals the more deeply challenging picture that emerges from Scripture.
This flexible resource will train your whole church through teaching, preaching, daily reading and small-group Bible study and discussion-or any combination of those elements. The overall aim is that your church will embark on a journey to discover the kind of people they should be as they are shaped by the gospel of Jesus Christ.
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Choices At The Heart Of Technology
$34.95Add to cartWhat really drives the technologies that dominate our modern world? Ruth Conway here brings under scrutiny: the deceptive dreams of development, the masculine “voice and structure” of so much technology, the obsession with control that obliterates both recognition of human fallibility and sensitivity to the needs of “the other,” the inadequacies of technologies that fail to take account of the “wholeness” of life and what might constitute “justice” (right relationships) within the human community and with nature, and the impact of information and communication technologies on our ways of relating to one another.
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Real Followers : A Radical Quest To Expose The Pretender Inside Each Of Us
$18.99Add to cartMany Christians, disillusioned with lives of spiritual mediocrity that have been dampened by today’s rampant materialism and cafeteria spirituality, are asking the same question: “Where is the substance that can move our church beyond ho-hum Christianity?” This book shows how an ordinary church can be transformed into a radical community – a fellowship of everyday people who began looking for meaning and searching for authenticity. Michael Slaughter describes a movement that is hooked in various generations, from buster to boomer to builder. This resource also includes discussion questions.
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Love Disconsoled : Meditations On Christian Charity
$129.00Add to cartFew concepts are more central to ethics than love, but none is more subject to varying interpretation. This book explores several theological, philosophical, and literary accounts of love, focusing on how it relates to matters such as freedom and duty. Timothy Jackson also examines two concepts that are fundamental to Biblical ethical discourse–abomination and liberation–and relates these extremes to love, freedom and duty. Throughout this book he defends the moral priority of a distinctive type of love (“agape”), and argues for a realistic ethic of love.
