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Faithlife Ebooks Weekly Deals: May 14–17, 2019

Here are this week’s top deals, brought to you by Faithlife Ebooks. For more deals, visit our sale page or get our Free Book of the Month. Some of these deals are only good for a few days, so act fast to get these books at the sale price! [Read more…]

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What Have Our Social Imaginaries Fallen Captive To?

By Kevin Vanhoozer

One of the key prophetic tasks of theology is to free the church, a holy nation, from idols. This includes false ideologies and metaphors and stories that guide and govern a people’s way of life. That’s the negative task of theology: to call out false beliefs and false practices and the false ways of imagining the world that fund them. [Read more…]

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We Are Guardians of God’s Mysteries: A Corrie ten Boom Reflection

May 2 is national Days of Remembrance, an annual day to remember the six million Jews murdered by the Nazi regime and its collaborators in the Holocaust.

The Ten Boom family of Haarlem, Netherlands, hid, fed, and cared for Jews during World War 2 in their home above their father’s watchmaker shop. Eventually, the entire family was arrested and sent to concentration camps. Only Corrie ten Boom survived. [Read more…]

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Something Roaring Underneath: What Weddings Are All About

We’re approaching wedding season—full of June brides, scenic destinations, and as many gift cards and blenders as one heart could desire.

Yet as Matt Chandler points out in this excerpt from The Mingling of Souls (which happens to be May’s free book), weddings aren’t about the setting, the gifts, or even the bride and groom. [Read more…]

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Faithlife Ebooks Weekly Deals: April 30–May 3, 2019

Here are this week’s top deals, brought to you by Faithlife Ebooks. For more deals, visit our sale page or get our Free Book of the Month. Some of these deals are only good for a few days, so act fast to get these books at the sale price! [Read more…]

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The Mission Matters More Than Your Marriage

By Francis Chan and Lisa Chan

Truth be told, Lisa and I have very little in common.

I love sports, she doesn’t. She loves the mall, I hate it with a passion. She likes to sing, and I sound like a cow. I love weird Asian food, she thinks it’s creepy. I love to surf, she won’t go in the ocean. She likes serious conversations, I enjoy sarcasm. [Read more…]

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Everything Will Not Be Fine, But Love Remains

By Elisabeth Elliot

When I came to the realization that my husband was missing, not knowing for another five days that he was dead, the words that God brought to me then were from Isaiah the 43rd chapter, “When thou passest through the waters I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee; when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee. For I am the Lord thy God” (Isa 43:2–3). [Read more…]