The foremost names in Christian spirituality and biblical scholarship come together to provide a unique study Bible that rediscovers Scripture as living and active text of spiritual formation.

The NRSV Renovare Spiritual Formation Bible with the Deuterocanonical Books (With Deuterocanolical)

Religion & Spirituality

Peterson, Eugene H.

Willard, Dallas

FOSTER, Richard J.

Demarest, Bruce

Taylor, Catherine

Renovaré

Howard, Evan

Massey, James Earl

BRUEGGEMANN, Walter

Christian Books & Bibles

Harpercollins

Rediscover Scripture as living text and learn to live a "with-God life"
The NRSV Life with God Bible combines the depth of a study Bible with the warmth of a devotional Bible, offering a new way to discover the full riches of the Scriptures. According to Richard Foster, bestselling author (Celebration of Discipline) and the project’s editor, the Bible is all about human life “with God.” As we read Scripture, we should consider how God is with us in each story and allow ourselves to be spiritually transformed. Many people are looking for a new way to read the Bible, not as a text to be mastered. but as a story to enter into and a lifestyle to pursue.
This unique Bible, spearheaded by Foster and author Dallas Willard (The Divine Conspiracy), introduces the concept of life with God - or the “with-God life” - a model for seeing the whole of Scripture as the unfolding story of God’s plan for our loving relationship with the Creator. This central theme weaves throughout the essays, introductions, notes, and exercises, powerfully revealing how God is present to his people today and throughout history.
Yet our relationship with God should not be passive. Concrete practices - Spiritual Disciplines - have been used throughout church history to guide disciples of Jesus. The NRSV Life with God Bible integrates the Spiritual Disciplines into the Christian life by showing how they are central to the Bible’s teachings and stories. Abraham and Ruth, Moses and Deborah, Jesus and the disciples all provide amazing examples of the life-changing power of prayer, worship, fasting, celebration, and many other Spiritual Disciplines. Scripture thus becomes a primary means for the discovery, instruction, and practice of these disciplines as well as a tool for spiritual formation. Combining the highest possible biblical scholarship with the deepest possible heart devotion, this NRSV Bible seeks to nourish inner transformation by unlocking and revealing the profound resources within Scripture for changing our hearts and characters and bringing them in line with what God wants for our lives. 
Features:
<ul>
<li>Complete text of the New Revised Standard Version (Protestant canon), vetted by an ecumenical pool of Christian academics and renowned for its beautiful balance of scholarship and readability</li>
<li>Apocryphal and Deuterocanonical books placed between the Old Testament and New Testament</li>
<li>Previously published as The Renovaré Spiritual Formation Bible</li>
<li>Insightful introductions for each book of the Bible</li>
<li>Thousands of notes highlight main themes for the “with-God life”</li>
<li>Spiritual exercises - challenging and relevant exercises to deepen a reader’s encounter with God</li>
<li>Topical index - a glossary of Bible references designed to help with further study </li>
<li>15 Progressive essays on living the “with-God life”</li>
<li>Over 60 profiles of key biblical characters</li>
<li>16 Pages of maps</li>
<li>Concordance - an index to help locate familiar words phrases, and verses in the Bible</li>
<li>Double-column format</li>
<li>Sewn-binding</li>
<li>Ribbon marker</li>
<li>Leathersoft cover lays flat when open</li>
<li>Compact edition is ideal for carrying to work, school or travel</li>
<li>6.8-point type size</li>
</ul>

The Life with God Bible NRSV (Compact, Ital Leath, Brown): with the Deuterocanonical Books (A Renovare Resource)

HarperOne

Life with God Bible NRSV, The (Compact, Ital Leath, Burgundy) (A Renovare Resource)

Rediscover Scripture as living text and learn to live a "with-God life"
The NRSV Life with God Bible combines the depth of a study Bible with the warmth of a devotional Bible, offering a new way to discover the full riches of the Scriptures. According to Richard Foster, bestselling author (Celebration of Discipline) and the project’s editor, the Bible is all about human life “with God.” As we read Scripture, we should consider how God is with us in each story and allow ourselves to be spiritually transformed. Many people are looking for a new way to read the Bible, not as a text to be mastered. but as a story to enter into and a lifestyle to pursue.
This unique Bible, spearheaded by Foster and author Dallas Willard (The Divine Conspiracy), introduces the concept of life with God - or the “with-God life” - a model for seeing the whole of Scripture as the unfolding story of God’s plan for our loving relationship with the Creator. This central theme weaves throughout the essays, introductions, notes, and exercises, powerfully revealing how God is present to his people today and throughout history.
Yet our relationship with God should not be passive. Concrete practices - Spiritual Disciplines - have been used throughout church history to guide disciples of Jesus. The NRSV Life with God Bible integrates the Spiritual Disciplines into the Christian life by showing how they are central to the Bible’s teachings and stories. Abraham and Ruth, Moses and Deborah, Jesus and the disciples all provide amazing examples of the life-changing power of prayer, worship, fasting, celebration, and many other Spiritual Disciplines. Scripture thus becomes a primary means for the discovery, instruction, and practice of these disciplines as well as a tool for spiritual formation. Combining the highest possible biblical scholarship with the deepest possible heart devotion, this NRSV Bible seeks to nourish inner transformation by unlocking and revealing the profound resources within Scripture for changing our hearts and characters and bringing them in line with what God wants for our lives. 
Features:
<ul>
<li>Complete text of the New Revised Standard Version (Protestant canon), vetted by an ecumenical pool of Christian academics and renowned for its beautiful balance of scholarship and readability</li>
<li>Apocryphal and Deuterocanonical books placed between the Old Testament and New Testament</li>
<li>Previously published as The Renovaré Spiritual Formation Bible</li>
<li>Insightful introductions for each book of the Bible</li>
<li>Thousands of notes highlight main themes for the “with-God life”</li>
<li>Spiritual exercises - challenging and relevant exercises to deepen a reader’s encounter with God</li>
<li>Topical index - a glossary of Bible references designed to help with further study </li>
<li>15 Progressive essays on living the “with-God life”</li>
<li>Over 60 profiles of key biblical characters</li>
<li>16 Pages of maps</li>
<li>Concordance - an index to help locate familiar words phrases, and verses in the Bible</li>
<li>Double-column format</li>
<li>Compact edition is ideal for carrying to work, school or travel</li>
<li>6.8-point type size</li>
</ul>

The Life with God Bible NRSV (Compact, Trade PB) (A Renovare Resource)

Spiritual Disciplines: Growth Through the Practice of Prayer, Fasting, Dialogue and Worship

Zondervan

Soul Under Siege: Dealing With Temptation

In this insightful study, James Earl Massey offers an expanded version of the Twelfth Annual William E. Conger, Jr. Lectures on Biblical Preaching that he delivered at Beeson Divinity School in February 2004. Through a unique collection of informative lectures and illustrative sermons, the highly esteemed teacher and preacher considers four dimensions of the preacher as steward of the gospel story. Pastors will warmly welcome this book as it provides them with both practical guidance and insight about their identity as preachers.

Stewards of The Story: The Task of Preaching

Westminster/John Knox Press

In this volume James Earl Massey explores both the sense of burden and the sense of joy that accompanies the preaching task. He gives attention to the preacher's sense of the inward side of the task, next to the outward side of preaching. He then considers the togetherness that earnest preachers seek to experience with their hearers, followed by reflections on the planning necessary for the eventfulness that preaching was ordained by God to offer. After almost fifty years of preaching, Massey offers insight and reflection that will remind, inform, stimulate, and encourage all who bear the necessary and perennial responsibility to prepare and preach the Word.

The Burdensome Joy of Preaching

ABINGDON PRESS *

"As the title of this book indicates, these messages are sermons preached in the Tuskegee Chapel on Sundays of the academic school year during All University Worship services at Tuskegee University. . . . the messages included here reflect concerns I sought to address from the pulpit as Dean of the Chapel and resident preacher to the University."--James Massey, from the Introduction One of the country's leading preachers explores questions of the changing nature of moral and spiritual commitment, the awesome burden of human freedom, the overwhelming grace of God, and the way faith and learning must serve one another. Includes 25 sermons.

Sundays in the Tuskegee Chapel: Selected Sermons

Providing fundamental homiletical principles, this classic book gives readers all the tools they need to prepare a meaningful sermon. "Sermon design"--James Massey's contemporary, creative approach to shaping specific classifications of sermons--focuses on order (What is the preacher's goal?) and on movement (What structure is he or she using to get there?). The discussion of his approach begins with an appraisal of the sermon in context--in relation to goals, design, basic forms, contemporary concerns, and the "why" of it all. Dr. Massey's specific forms for designing sermons include the narrative/story sermon--a subject which is receiving renewed interest today; the textual-expository sermon; the doctrinal/topical sermon; and the special occasion sermon, for which he has chosen the topic of the funeral. Suggestions are included for studying the methods of master preachers as a resource for more effective preaching. And three of the author's own tested sermons are used as illustrations of sermon design possibilities

Designing the Sermon: Order and Movement in Preaching (Abingdon Preacher's Library Series)

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