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Selection • Savings • Service • Inside & Online Advent/Christmas 2020 ReligiousThe BookClub $ Deal Because of 5 until 11/30/20 Bethlehem Max Lucado More than 140 million readers have found inspiration in Lucado’s writings. Here he addresses why there is so much hub- bub about the baby being born to Mary and Joseph. What does this birth have to do with us? Was Jesus Is- rael’s Messiah? Does God know what it’s like to be human? The gospel story in a nut- shell. 224 pages, hardcover. Nelson. The Courage to Stand CJ231349 Retail $22.99 ...... RBC $14.99 Russell Moore What the world admires is success, whether in terms of Seeing Jesus wealth, influence, beauty, or position. But in the topsy- turvy kingdom of God, Moore avows, true discipleship from the East means taking up our cross daily and finding integrity Ravi Zacharias & through brokenness, community through loneliness, Abdu Murray power through weakness, a future through irrelevance. In the West, Christianity 304 pages, hardcover. B&H. is viewed through the CJ998530 Retail $22.99 ...... RBC $13.99 lens of its Greco-Roman heritage, but in the East altogether different features surface. Here Zacharias and Murray emphasize such values as story, honor, sacrifice, vivid imagery, and re- ward. Instead of a linear, propositional Jesus, we encounter one who dramatically changes lives and priorities. 256 pages, hardcover. Zondervan. CJ531289 Retail $26.99 ...... RBC $16.49 New Testament Papyri Facsimiles: P45, P46, P47— 2 Volumes NIV Bible Speaks Today Study Bible The partially pre- Alongside the NIV text, more than 2,000 notes from the served Greek papyrus much-admired Bible Speaks Today series marvelously display codices P45, P46, and background, setting, and outlines for each book; cross- P47, dating back to references to parallel passages; themes that apply to the the third century, in- contemporary world; maps of key Bible events; and study clude passages from questions. Can be used in almost any setting. 1792 pages, all four Gospels, Acts, 6¤ x 9¤. InterVarsity. the Pauline epistles, CJ596133 Hardcover ...... 50.00 33.99 Hebrews, and Revela- CJ741392 Soft leather-look, black ...... 70.00 46.99 tion. These are among our earliest extant witnesses. Based on SHOP EARLY groundbreaking digitization at the Center for New Tes- AND BEAT THE tament Manuscripts. 544 pages total, two slipcased hardcovers (each with same content but different background color). Hendrickson. CHRISTMAS CJ708440 ...... RBC $399.00 Also available: RUSH! CJ073147 New Testament Papyrus P47: A Transcription 59.95

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400TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE MAYFLOWER

There are a number of interesting organizations pro- Mayflower moting literacy and reading. Have you heard of PJ Library? Voyage, Community, War Each year it distributes 2.2 million books to more than 200,000 children across the U.S. and Canada. It’s a Jewish Nathaniel Philbrick group and the “PJ” stands for pajamas, since so often “Philbrick knows that one reason parents read to their children just before bedtime. Children to analyze a myth is to explore as young as six months old can start receiving books, until how and when its elements got the age of eight. layered onto the facts,”—The The books are selected by a committee with the goal of New York Times. So, along with promoting Jewish values, traditions, and themes. Questions the story of the Pilgrims’ journey are posed: Is the story suitable to the age group? Is it engaging and first Thanksgiving, he re- to both children and parents? Will the book prompt family counts the legends of the slave discussions? Can the book be read again and again? A good ship Seaflower and the yet-to-be example is The Chameleon that Saved Noah’s Ark by Yael nation’s first bloody war. 496 Mochadsky. Sometimes the group reprints important out- pages, softcover. Penguin. of-print titles. In fact, the program has been so successful, it CJ111979 Retail $18.00 ...... RBC $16.20 even recruits writers and illustrators to come up with their own concepts. Through the Year Are there ways to encourage such groups or organizations in your church or community? Our catalog has plenty of with the Pilgrim Fathers good books for every age and interest; our website is even Edited by Stephen J. Poxon more expansive. With a little ingenuity and industry building Four hundred years ago the Pil- the right program, who knows what might happen? grims sailed for the New World to establish a fortress for genuine believers. Bad weather, poor crops, disease, and tensions with The Religious Book Club is a division of Native Ameri cans exacerbated Christianbook. their early struggles. Relive their ex pe riences through excerpts TABLE OF CONTENTS from original sources accompanied by appropriate Scriptures 400th Anniversary of the Mayflower ...... 2 and prayers. 384 pages, softcover. Monarch. Art & Literature ...... 27 CJ219701 Retail $19.95 ...... RBC $14.99 Advent & Christmas ...... 3–5 Bunyan, Baxter, Manton, Flavel, Watson . . . Bargains & Specials...... 34–36, 64 CJ706149 Day by Day with the English Puritans, Randall J. Pederson, ed...... 18.95 13.99 Bestsellers ...... 62, 63 Bibles ...... 60, 61 If You Sailed on the Biographies ...... 39 Mayflower in 1620 Church History ...... 40, 41 Ann McGovern Curiosity is a child’s middle Commentaries ...... 10–19 name, so McGovern con- C.S. Lewis...... 57 centrates on answering the Devotionals ...... 8, 9 kinds of questions young people typically have. She DVDs & Software ...... 48 describes clothing, agricul- Eastern Orthodoxy ...... 31 ture, housing, religion, sailing ships, Native Amer i cans, and more for 8- to 12-year-olds to fully ex pe ri ence 17th- For Children...... 26 century life. 80 pages, softcover. Scholastic. Issues & Ethics ...... 20, 21 CJ51618 Retail $8.99 ...... RBC $6.99 Jesus...... 58, 59 A rousing vignette for 2- to 5-year-olds: Judaism ...... 54 CJ918835 The Story of Thanksgiving, Nancy J. Skarmeas ...... 6.99 2.99 Language Resources ...... 46, 47 Liturgy & Worship...... 28 One Small Candle Music & Prayer...... 29 Francis J. Bremer Crisply written, exhaustively re- New & Notable...... 1, 6, 7 searched. Bremer highlights the New Testament Studies...... 44, 45 experiment in congregationalism Old Testament Studies ...... 42, 43 that was to be a blueprint for par- ticipatory democracy in the New Ordering Information...... 32, 33 World. He synthesizes important Paul ...... 56 modern scholarship, chipping away at centuries-old myths. Puts Popular Authors ...... 37 the faith of Puritans front and cen- Preaching, Pastoral & Church Resources ...22, 23 ter in his narrative. 272 pages, Reference Works...... 38 hardcover. Oxford University. Roman Catholicism ...... 30 CJ7510049 Retail $27.95 ...... RBC $23.99 “Delightfully rich,”—Chris tian History & Biography: Science & Philosophy ...... 49 CJ334555 Puritanism, Francis J. Bremer ...... 11.95 10.76 Spirituality ...... 24, 25 Theology ...... 50–53 QUALITY • SELECTION • VALUE World Religions ...... 55 We have more than 530,000 products available on our website—at great prices! GREEN stock numbers = FREE Standard Shipping to addresses in the U.S. Christianbook.com 2 Discover The 100 Most Important Events in Christian History on page 41! pg0203_RBC Advent Christmas 2020 9/21/2020 1:32 PM Page 3

ADVENT & CHRISTMAS

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The Master Plan NEW & NOTABLE of Discipleship Robert E. Coleman By plumbing the depths of Weep with Me the Book of Acts, Coleman How Lament Opens a Door outlines how the early church for Racial Reconciliation most likely made new con- Mark Vroegop verts and sought to refashion The prophet Ezekiel “sat where them into the image of they sat,” meaning he identified Christ. God doesn’t want closely with those he was speaking lukewarm benchwarmers, but to. Researching the psalms of people whose lives have been lament and African Ameri can spir- utterly transformed, eager to ituals, Vroegop calls for a deeper grow in grace and knowledge. understanding of the racial divi- 160 pages, softcover. Revell. sions in our land. Weep with those CJ739132 Retail $14.99 ...... RBC $10.99 who weep so as to build bridges Has instructed more than 1.5 million! of reconciliation. 160 pages, softcover. Crossway. CJ731221 The Master Plan of Evangelism, CJ567599 Retail $16.99 ...... RBC $12.99 Robert E. 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Studying the New Testament Through Inscriptions NEW TESTAMENT STUDIES D. Clint Burnett A first! One can find widely admired anthologies of translations of Greco- Between History and Spirit Roman and Jewish texts from the The Apostolic Witness first century that illumine the New of the Book of Acts Testament. This work, rather, focuses Craig S. Keener on important lesser-known inscrip- Keener’s 4-volume commentary on tions. In fact, five detailed case stud- Acts has won acclaim as a standard ies enable students to accurately de- work and is jammed with references cipher their meaning and significance. 216 pages, hard- to ancient Greco-Roman sources. cover. Hendrickson. Now he has pulled together major CJ071372 Retail $39.95 ...... RBC $23.99 essays dealing with questions of his- Hebrew/Aramaic/Phoenician/Moabite: tory, as well as issues relating to the CJ072096 Inscriptions from the World of the Bible, Holy Spirit. 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