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    Embraced: Prodigals at the Cross
    Embraced: Prodigals at the Cross
    Embraced: Prodigals at the Cross
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    Embraced: Prodigals at the Cross

    By Steve Sherwood and Leonard Sweet

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    In a post-modern world leery of abstracted theology, might the answers to the deep question of why Jesus died on the cross be found, not in theology textbooks, but in the stories of the Bible? What if the playing out of one Hebrew word, hesed, tells us who we are, who God is, and what Jesus' life and death were all about? Embraced: Prodigals at the Cross tells the story of hesed, God's steadfast love, as it weaves its way from our creation for relationship, through our rejection of that relationship, to God's centuries-long pursuit of reconciliation. The story ends in embrace, the embrace of a good father who runs to his prodigal son, and a loving God who takes on human flesh to reach out to us on the cross. This book is God's story. This book is our story.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWipf and Stock
    Release dateFeb 1, 2010
    ISBN9781498272070
    Embraced: Prodigals at the Cross
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    Steve Sherwood

    Steve Sherwood is Assistant Professor of Christian Ministries at George Fox University and a twenty-five year veteran of ministry to young people in Young Life. He lives, with his wife and two daughters, in Newberg, Oregon.

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