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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

320 pages, paperback, 3774, $17.00,

CLUB PRICE: $11.90This book will ship automatically unless

you reply by December 23, 2013.

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.”

—Tullian Tchividjian, senior pastor,

author of One Way Love

WATCH A VIDEO OF JIM BELCHERON DIETRICH BONHOEFFER AT

ivpress.com/deepfaith

ALSO AVAILABLE

233 pages, paperback,3716, $17.00,

CLUB PRICE: $11.90



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MAPPING HOLY GROUND

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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.

192 pages, paperback, 2928, $20.00,

CLUB PRICE: $14.00This book will ship automatically unless

you reply by December 23, 2013.

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

208 PAGES, PAPERBACK, 3580, $16.00,

CLUB PRICE: $11.20

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.


CLUB PRICE: $21.00

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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,

CLUB PRICE: $10.50

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,

3778, $16.00,

CLUB PRICE: $11.20

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


CLUB PRICE: $10.50

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.


CLUB PRICE: $12.60

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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.


CLUB PRICE: $22.40

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.

64 PAGES, PAPERBACK, 3037,

$8.00,

CLUB PRICE: $5.60

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.

256 PAGES, PAPERBACK, 1286,

$20.00,

CLUB PRICE: $14.00

“[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.


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

114 PAGES, PAPERBACK,

3245, $13.00,

CLUB PRICE: $9.10

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.


CLUB PRICE: $10.50

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,

CLUB PRICE: $10.50

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.

165 PAGES, HARDCOVER,3555, $16.00,

CLUB PRICE: $11.20

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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.

349 PAGES, HARDCOVER,1258, $28.00,

CLUB PRICE: $19.60

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.


CLUB PRICE: $16.80

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,

1523, $40.00,

CLUB PRICE: $28.00

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,

CLUB PRICE: $11.20



The God-ShapedBrainTimothy R. Jennings, M.D.256 pages, paperback,

3416, $16.00,

CLUB PRICE: $11.20

An UnhurriedLife Alan Fadling 199 pages, paperback,

3573, $15.00,

CLUB PRICE: $10.50

Hidden in Christ James Bryan Smith216 pages, hardcover,

3575, $17.00,

CLUB PRICE: $11.90

Mapping theOrigins DebateGerald Rau237 pages, paperback,

3987, $18.00,

CLUB PRICE: $12.60

“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,

CLUB PRICE: $11.20

The Global Public Square Os Guinness240 pages, paperback, 3767, $16.00,

CLUB PRICE: $11.20

MISS A BOOK CLUB MAIN?

REWINDON MAINSELECTIONS

N E X T M O N T H

Carolyn Weber finds no time for God but the present, and

John Walton considers the enigma of the Word in a world

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