Author: Dietrich Bonhoeffer Binding: Paperback List price: $15.00 USD Amazon price: $10.20 USD
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One of the most important theologians of the twentieth century illuminates the relationship between ourselves and the teachings of Jesus
What can the call to discipleship, the adherence to the word of Jesus, mean today to the businessman, the soldier, the laborer, or the aristocrat? What did Jesus mean to say to us? What is his will for us today? Drawing on the Sermon on the Mount, Dietrich Bonhoeffer answers these timeless questions by providing a seminal reading of the dichotomy between "cheap grace" and "costly grace." "Cheap grace," Bonhoeffer wrote, "is the grace we bestow on ourselves...grace without discipleship....Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again, the girl which must be asked for, the door at which a man must know....It is costly because it costs a man his life, and it is grace because it gives a man the only true life."
Author: Lee Strobel Binding: Paperback List price: $13.99 USD Amazon price: $11.19 USD
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The Case for Christ records Lee Strobel's attempt to "determine if there's credible evidence that Jesus of Nazareth really is the Son of God." The book consists primarily of interviews between Strobel (a former legal editor at the Chicago Tribune) and biblical scholars such as Bruce Metzger. Each interview is based on a simple question, concerning historical evidence (for example, "Can the Biographies of Jesus Be Trusted?"), scientific evidence, ("Does Archaeology Confirm or Contradict Jesus' Biographies?"), and "psychiatric evidence" ("Was Jesus Crazy When He Claimed to Be the Son of God?").
Author: Joseph Stowell Binding: Paperback List price: $12.99 USD Amazon price: $11.04 USD
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In a world full of religious options, the claims of Jesus are often seen as divisive and intolerant. That compelling reality poses a great challenge to followers of Jesus who desire to remain faithful to Him while demonstrating to their world that Jesus is "the way." How do we take the good news of Christ's liberating love to a world that thinks that our message is scandalous and exclusively arrogant?
The Trouble with Jesus leads us in the discovery and application of the strategy that Jesus left for early followers who thrived in a similar environment. Their unflinching commitment to this "salt-light strategy" in a resistant world won the hearts of their families, neighbors and friends, and eventually the Roman Empire. For all of us who want others to taste the love and life that we have found in Jesus, the "salt-light strategy" is ours for the taking. While living for Jesus has never been more challenging, showing Him to others has never been more compelling.
Author: John R. W. Stott Binding: Paperback List price: $16.00 USD Amazon price: $10.88 USD
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"The followers of Jesus are to different," writes John Stott, "different from both the nominal church and the secular world, different from both the religious and the irreligious. The Sermon on the Mount is the most complete delineation anywhere in the New Testament of the Christian counter-culture. Here is a Christian value-system, ethical standard, religious devotion, attitude to money, ambition, lifestyle and network of relationships--all of which are totally at variance with those in the non-Christian world. And this Christian counter-culture is the life of the kingdom of God, a fully human life indeed but lived out under the divine rule."
