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Best-selling author Richard Foster, along with the foremost names in Christian spirituality and biblical scholarship come together to provide a unique Bible that rediscovers Scripture as living text, rich with insights into how to live our lives more intimately with God.
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“This Bible is greatly needed.” Tony Campolo, author of It's Friday but Sunday's Coming
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“...Many original and stimulating insights for the spiritual lives of contemporary Christians.” Christian Century
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“This study Bible is both serious and accessible.” Tulsa World
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“This Bible helps us desire intimacy with God, not just know the typical facts and knowledge. Dan Kimball, author of The Emerging Church, and Pastor of Vintage Faith Church
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“The Renovaré Spiritual Formation Bible … is unrivaled as a classic work of biblical theology suffused with a pastoral heart.” Brennan Manning, author of Ruthless Trust
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“With great enthusiasm, I open The Renovaré Spiritual Formation Bible. One could not assemble a finer team to compile it.” Max Lucado, author of Come Thirsty and Traveling Light
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“…[T]he most spiritually-impactful Bible of our time.” John Ortberg, Teaching Pastor, Menlo Park Presbyterian Church, author of If You Want to Walk on Water, You & #8217;ve Got to Get Out of the Boat
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“[An] outstanding resource...Christians of many different traditions will appreciate this ecumenical resource devoted to spiritual renewal.” Publishers Weekly
Synopsis
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:
- 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
- Apocryphal and Deuterocanonical books placed between the Old Testament and New Testament
- Previously published as The Renovar Spiritual Formation Bible
- Insightful introductions for each book of the Bible
- Thousands of notes highlight main themes for the "with-God life"
- Spiritual exercises - challenging and relevant exercises to deepen a reader's encounter with God
- Topical index - a glossary of Bible references designed to help with further study
- 15 Progressive essays on living the "with-God life"
- Over 60 profiles of key biblical characters
- 16 Pages of maps
- Concordance - an index to help locate familiar words phrases, and verses in the Bible
- Double-column format
- Sewn-binding
- Ribbon marker
- Leathersoft cover lays flat when open
- Compact edition is ideal for carrying to work, school or travel
- 6.8-point type size
About the Author
Renovaré (from the Latin meaning "to renew") is an intrachurch movement committed to the renewal of the church of Jesus Christ in all its multifaceted manifestations. Founded by bestselling author and well-known speaker Richard J. Foster, Renovaré is Christian in commitment, international in scope, and ecumenical in breadth.
Richard J. Foster is the author of several bestselling books, including Celebration of Discipline, Streams of Living Water, Life with God, and Prayer, which was Christianity Today's Book of the Year and the winner of the Gold Medallion Award from the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association. He is the founder of Renovaré, an organization and a movement committed to the renewal of the church of Jesus Christ in all its multifaceted expressions, and the editor of The Life with God Bible.
Dallas Willard was a professor at the University of Southern California's School of Philosophy until his death in 2013. His groundbreaking books The Divine Conspiracy, The Great Omission, Knowing Christ Today, Hearing God, The Spirit of the Disciplines, Renovation of the Heart, and The Divine Conspiracy Continued forever changed the way thousands of Christians experience their faith.
Eugene H. Peterson, author of The Message, a bestselling translation of the Bible, is professor emeritus of spiritual theology at Regent College, British Columbia, and the author of over thirty books. He and his wife, Jan, live in Montana.Dr. Bruce Demarest is professor of theology and spiritual formation at Denver Seminary.