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I was having a conversation with my Old Testament colleague Bill Arnold, and I asked him, “Is God ever called ‘life’ in the Old Testament?” His answer was telling: “Nothing comes to mind. But that may be because of frequency of usage, since the noun ‘life’ (ḥayyâ) is relatively rare, whereas the adjective ‘living’ (ḥay)
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Yesterday, the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA) released its 2020 Christian Book Award finalists, and we’re excited to share that three of our titles have been selected as finalists! The Care of Souls: Cultivating a Pastor’s Heart is a finalist in the Ministry Resources category. Drawing on a lifetime of pastoral experience from author Hal
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We’re all holding our breath these days, waiting for the next shoe to drop in our national emergency. Officials from the White House down to local city halls and public works warn of a pending disaster of gargantuan proportions lurking just around the corner. Entire cities have gone on lockdown as the deadly, viral contagion
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Spring is finally here! And because many of us are stuck inside due to social distancing restrictions, now is a great time to dig into new book. We’re excited to announce the arrival of our Spring Catalog. Packed full of essential resources for students, pastors, academics, and general readers, there are a number of books
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In light of the COVID-19 crisis and its wide ranging impacts, we want to update you on Lexham Press. Our team is still going strong. Fortunately, in our digital age, most of us can continue to work remotely from home. Our production schedule is still on track, we are still printing books, and we continue
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The wisdom of Solomon is time-tested, but these days it’s timely practical wisdom: “There is a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing” (Eccl 3:5). This advice is necessary to avoid spreading the COVID-19 virus. We aren’t designed to live in isolation. It goes against our grain. For Christians, it flies in
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Gracious Lord! Nothing can reconcile us to you better than to humbly and patiently learn obedience in the school of suffering. We learn by knowing that Jesus, though you are the Son of God, in the eternity of your nature you were pleased in your human nature to learn obedience by the things which you
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I’ve been praying the sacred liturgy for seventy-some years, but it never struck me before as it did this morning—the first Sunday since coronavirus and its precautions have swept the nation. Before the service began, our pastor calmly and confidently introduced some changes in our practice to support our neighbors’ physical health in this time
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Lexham Press is proud to announce that Christian Mission has been selected by Outreach Magazine as an Outreach Resource of the Year in the Cross-Cultural and Missional category. This book also received a Book Award of Merit for Missions from Christianity Today. Here’s an excerpt from this award-winning book: The word mission is used today in a
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We often think of Paul as a theologian and writer—as the apostle whose letters established key teachings of the Christian faith. But Paul did much more than think and write. In the decades after Jesus’ death and resurrection, Paul planted churches throughout the northeastern Mediterranean region. His missionary work led to countless Christian converts, and
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