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Matt Tebbe
Matt Tebbe has been in local church ministry for over twenty years. He holds a Masters of Divinity from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and worked as an adjunct professor at Trinity International University. He has written for Leadership Journal, Shattered Magazine, and contributed to the book What Pastors Wish Their Congregations Knew. He’s been a featured writer for Missio Allliance and writes regularly at Gravity Leadership, where he also co-hosts the Gravity Leadership Podcast. He co-founded Gravity Leadership and is co-pastor at The Table in Indianapolis.
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ebookLeading Across Cultures
Effective Ministry and Mission in the Global Church
by James E. Plueddemann
The worldwide church is more interconnected than ever before, with missionaries going from everywhere to everywhere. Africans work with Australians in India. Koreans plant churches in London and Los Angeles. But globalization also creates challenges for crosscultural tension and misunderstandings, as different cultures have conflicting assumptions about leadership values and styles. Missiologist ...
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paperbackJonathan Edwards and Deification
Reconciling Theosis and the Reformed Tradition
New Explorations in Theology
by James R. Salladin
The doctrine of deification or theosis is typically associated with the Eastern Orthodox tradition. Indeed, the language of participation in the divine nature as a way to understand salvation often sounds like strange music in the ears of Western Christians despite passages like 2 Peter 1:4 where it appears. However, recent scholarship has argued that the theologies of ...
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paperbackBeauty, Order, and Mystery
A Christian Vision of Human Sexuality
Center for Pastor Theologians Series
Edited by Gerald L. Hiestand and Todd Wilson
Humans are sexual creatures.
Our sexuality can be a beautiful and mysterious expression of what it means to be human. But it can also become distorted and sinful.
Perhaps no issue is as urgent for the church today, or confronts it with as many questions, as human sexuality: What does it mean to fulfill God’s will through our sexuality? To what extent should our sexuality ...
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hardcoverWhole Life Transformation
Becoming the Change Your Church Needs
by Keith Meyer
Foreword by Dallas Willard- 2011 Golden Canon Leadership Book Award winner
Ministry to others and growing the church were the center of Keith Meyer's life. And yet he was arguing with his wife about how many nights a week he was spending in meetings. His temper was short, and he was exhausted. Keith writes: "I can see that I was pursuing a twisted idea of 'success'--not in the ...
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paperbackRevelation
An Introduction and Commentary
Tyndale New Testament Commentaries
by Ian Paul
Series edited by Eckhard J. Schnabel and Nicholas PerrinThe Book of Revelation is a remarkable text. A fascinating piece of Scripture as well as an extraordinary piece of literature, its interpretation has affected our theology, art and worship, and even international politics. Yet it is widely neglected in the church and almost entirely avoided from the pulpit. In this Tyndale Commentary, Ian Paul takes a disciplined approach to the text, paying careful ...
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paperbackLeviticus
An Introduction and Commentary
Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries
by Jay Sklar
Preaching's Preacher's Guide to the Best Bible Reference
Levitical rules and regulations can at first appear irrelevant to contemporary Christians—but they provide important Old Testament background for understanding large portions of the New Testament. Leviticus describes a point in human history when God came and dwelt in the midst of the ancient Israelites and ...
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paperbackWhy Business Matters to God
(And What Still Needs to Be Fixed)
by Jeff Van Duzer
Jeff Van Duzer grew up thinking business was the source of much damage and evil in the world, the work of greedy capitalists polluting the environment. Thirty years later he was dean of a business school. In the course of that remarkable transformation, Van Duzer found cause for both hope and concern. He discovered many business people achieving a great deal of good for society as well as a lot ...
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paperbackThe Message of Ruth
The Wings of Refuge
The Bible Speaks Today Series
by David J. Atkinson
The book of Ruth tells the story of ordinary people facing ordinary events. We meet Naomi, who went through famine and bereavement but eventually won peace and security. We meet Ruth, a foreign woman from Moab who chose faithfulness to her mother-in-law, Naomi, and to Naomi's God. And we meet Boaz, who by marrying Ruth fitted into God's purposes for history. Both King David and ...
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paperbackRomans
Encountering the Gospel's Power
John Stott Bible Studies
by John Stott
With Carolyn NystromStudy Scripture with John Stott
The gospel has power: the power to save us, the power to change the world. In Paul's letter to the Romans he explains the power we've been given to be effective witnesses, overcome sin, be wholly committed to God, handle differences in Christ's body, and be responsible Christian citizens. The truth in Romans will transform your thinking and ...
Number of Studies: 20
