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Through his writing and music, he has consistently sought to help Christians understand and live out the Bible more deeply.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"a-fragile-stone-study-guide-the-emotional-life-of-simon-peter-199114","title":"A Fragile Stone (Study Guide): The Emotional Life of Simon Peter","description":"A companion to A Fragile Stone, this study guide offers nine sessions for individuals or groups that highlight how the apostle Peter provides a model for our own transforming relationship with Jesus.","brand":"Koorong","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51565628621087,"sku":"9780830820696","price":15.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/8981\/8143\/files\/9780830820696_1106338.jpg?v=1769237451"},{"product_id":"a-fragile-stone-257681","title":"A Fragile Stone","description":"Winner of a Chicago Book Clinic 2004 Design Award!A Fragile Stoneexplores the dynamic life of the apostle Peter, revisiting well-known passages and revealing unexpected insights. 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God has created our bodies to fulfill the Great Commandment; we are hardwired to commune with God and to have compassion and community with other people. Moll explores the neuroscience of prayer, how liturgy helps us worship, why loving God causes us to love others, and how a life of love and service leads to the abundant life for which we were created. 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The Gospel of Matthew was written to a group of Christians who didn’t yet know who they were. They were faithful Jews in the synagogue community in Galilee who had found the Messiah. Jesus had changed everything. But how should they think of themselves now, as Jewish or Christian? What did it all mean? Matthew writes his Gospel to help his readers define their new identity as followers of Jesus the Messiah. Michael Card unpacks how Matthew’s emphasis on fulfillment confirms their Jewish connection to the Torah, while his focus on the kingdom helps them understand their new identities in Christ. Matthew presents this process of redefinition as an exercise of the imagination, in which Jesus reshapes who we are in light of who he is. Come alongside Matthew in this pilgrimage, and discover how your new identity in Christ fulfills all that you are meant to be.","brand":"Koorong","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51565683966239,"sku":"9780830838127","price":33.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/8981\/8143\/files\/9780830838127_0.jpg?v=1769239506"},{"product_id":"mark-the-gospel-of-passion-biblical-imagination-series-340305","title":"Mark: The Gospel of Passion (Biblical Imagination Series)","description":"\"Follow Me,\" Jesus told them, \"and I will make you into fishers of men!\" Immediately they left their nets and followed Him. --Mark 1:17-18 The Gospel of Mark is a book of action and passion. Events happen one after another, with a vivid sense of immediacy and urgency. Jesus’ emotions come through strongly--at times he is angry and distressed, other times filled with compassion. In this volume, Michael Card provides a lively tour of the Gospel of Mark. As a friend and interpreter of Simon Peter, Mark gives firsthand glimpses of the life and ministry of Jesus in vibrant and energetic narration. The first Gospel to be written, Mark is a \"pamphlet for hard times,\" encouraging Christians that all their sufferings were already endured by Jesus. Accompany Mark on his journey with Jesus. 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Throughout the life and ministry of Jesus, those who met him were astonished by their encounter, from the shepherds at the nativity to the disciples at the empty tomb. ??With careful attention to detail, Michael Card embarks on an imaginative journey through the Gospel of Luke. He introduces us to Luke the historian and imagines his life as a Gentile, a doctor and a slave. Card explores Luke's compelling account of this dynamic rabbi who astounded his hearers with parables and paradoxes. * What might Luke have experienced as he interviewed eyewitnesses of Jesus? * What leads Luke to focus on the marginalized and the unlikely?* Why does Luke include certain details that the other Gospel writers omit?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Join Michael Card in the work of opening heart and mind to the \"Gospel of Amazement\"?","brand":"Koorong","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51565684916511,"sku":"9780830838356","price":33.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/8981\/8143\/files\/9780830838356_1492060.jpg?v=1769239537"},{"product_id":"john-the-gospel-of-wisdom-biblical-imagination-series-413334","title":"John: The Gospel of Wisdom (Biblical Imagination Series)","description":"\"When the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all the truth.\" - John 16:13\"He who saw this has testified so that you also may believe. 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Like John before him, Card has written these words so that we may better believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by believing we have life in his name.","brand":"Koorong","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51565703758111,"sku":"9780830844135","price":33.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/8981\/8143\/files\/9780830844135_931677.jpg?v=1769240224"},{"product_id":"inexpressible-hesed-and-the-mystery-of-gods-lovingkindness-525733","title":"Inexpressible: Hesed and the Mystery of God's Lovingkindness","description":"God's identity is beyond what we could ever fully express in human words. But Scripture uses one particular word to describe the distinctiveness of God's character: the Hebrew word hesed. Hesed is a concept so rich in meaning that it doesn't translate well into any single English word or phrase. 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