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Paperback10 Great Ideas from Church History
A Decision-Maker's Guide to Shaping Your Church
by Mark Shaw
Tired of following the latest church-growth fad? In many churches, building vision means embracing the ideas of the latest guru and jumping from one program to another. Ministry decisions are made according to the crisis of the moment or the pressures of the bottom line. Long-term planning can seem like an impossible dream.This book offers something different. Here are ideas that have stood the ...
PaperbackA Change of Heart
A Personal and Theological Memoir
by Thomas C. Oden
Preaching's Best Books for Preachers
Best Theological Memoir from Byron Borger, Hearts and Minds Bookstore
How did one of the twentieth century's most celebrated liberals have such a dramaticchange of heart?
After growing up in the heart of rural Methodism in Oklahoma, Thomas Oden found Marx, Nietzsche and Freud storming into his imagination. ...
PaperbackPocket Dictionary of the Reformed Tradition
The IVP Pocket Reference Series
by Kelly M. Kapic and Wesley Vander Lugt
Beginning to study Reformed theology is like stepping into a family conversation that has been going on for five hundred years. How do you find your bearings and figure out how to take part in this conversation without embarrassing yourself?
The Pocket Dictionary of the Reformed Tradition takes on this rich, boisterous and varied tradition in its broad contours, filling you in on ...
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LifeGuide Bible Studies
For over 30 years, LifeGuide® Bible Studies have been trusted for their solid biblical content and thought-provoking questions, creating a unique and meaningful Bible study experience for individuals and groups alike. With over 150 titles to choose from, there’s something for everyone—Old and New Testament books, character studies, topical studies, and more!
PaperbackLife on the Vine
Cultivating the Fruit of the Spirit
by Philip D. Kenneson
Many books--many fine books--have been published on the fruits of the Spirit. But none are quite like Life on the Vine.Philip Kenneson combines in this book rich, theologically grounded reflection on Christian life and practice with stunning analysis of contemporary culture. After a probing introductory chapter on the necessity and complexity of cultural analysis, Kenneson takes ...
PaperbackServing God in a Migrant Crisis
Ministry to People on the Move
Operation World Resources
by Patrick Johnstone
With Dean Merrill
Foreword by Stephan Bauman"God has used migration for millennia to achieve his purposes for his people," writes Patrick Johnstone. "He is doing so again in our time."
Millions are on the move, driven by war, drought, terrorism, poverty, failed states, environmental catastrophes, disease, revolutions, and the desire for a better life. Christians have a unique perspective on the migrant crisis: after ...
PaperbackChristian Apologetics in the Postmodern World
Wheaton Theology Conference Series
Edited by Timothy R. Phillips and Dennis L. Okholm
Evangelicals are beginning to provide analyses of our postmodern society, but little has been done to suggest an effective apologetic strategy for reaching a culture that is pluralistic, consumer-oriented, and infatuated with managerial and therapeutic approaches to life. This, then, is the first book to address that vital task.In these pages some of evangelicalism's most stimulating thinkers consider ...
PaperbackPiercing Leviathan
God's Defeat of Evil in the Book of Job
New Studies in Biblical Theology
by Eric Ortlund
Series edited by D. A. CarsonBiblical Foundations Book Awards Finalist
One of the most challenging passages in the Old Testament book of Job comes in the Lord's second speech (40–41). The characters and the reader have waited a long time for the Lord to speak—only to read what is traditionally interpreted as a long description of a hippopotamus and crocodile (Behemoth and Leviathan). ...
PaperbackEnough for Today
Forty Reflections for Surviving the Wilderness
by Donna Barber
Find Strength in the Wilderness
When life feels like a wilderness—a place of uncertainty, exhaustion, and spiritual stumbling—what do you hold on to?
For many of us the past few years have been clouded by plagues ofillness and dying, anger and violence, disillusionment and loss. And numerous pharaohs, from the church house to the courthouse to the White House, appear ...
PaperbackA Community Called Taize
A Story of Prayer, Worship and Reconciliation
by Jason Brian Santos
Foreword by Desmond TutuTaizé--the word is strangely familiar to many throughout the contemporary church. Familiar, perhaps, because the chanted prayers of Taizé are well practiced in churches throughout the world. Strangely, however, because so little is knownabout Taizé--from its historic beginnings to how the word itself is pronounced.
The worship of the Taizé community, as it turns out, is best understood ...
