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IVP Bible Background Commentary Set
This essential two-volume set illuminates the Old and New Testaments, providing the crucial cultural, historical, and social context needed for responsible and insightful Bible study in verse-by-verse format.
Authored by leading scholars, this series brings the ancient world of the Bible to life, unveiling the customs, beliefs, and historical events that shaped the sacred text. By understanding the original authors' concerns and purposes, you can discover a new depth and clarity in passages you have read for years.
PaperbackTheology and the Mirror of Scripture
A Mere Evangelical Account
Studies in Christian Doctrine and Scripture
by Kevin J. Vanhoozer and Daniel J. Treier
Evangelicalism has long been a hotly disputed label, and what counts as evangelical theology is often anyone's guess. Is evangelicalism a static bounded set defined by clear doctrinal limits, or is it a dynamic centered set without a discernible circumference?
In this Studies in Christian Doctrine and Scripture volume, Kevin Vanhoozer and Daniel Treier present evangelical ...
PaperbackRetrieving Doctrine
Essays in Reformed Theology
by Oliver D. Crisp
In this volume Oliver Crisp offers a set of essays that analyze the significance and contribution of several great thinkers in the Reformed tradition, ranging from John Calvin and Jonathan Edwards to Karl Barth. Crisp demonstrates how these thinkers navigated pressing theological issues in their historical settings and in what ways contemporary readers can draw important insights from the tradition ...
PaperbackIn Defense of Miracles
A Comprehensive Case for God's Action in History
Edited by R. Douglas Geivett and Gary R. Habermas
Rumors of deception have surrounded claims of Jesus' resurrection ever since the soldiers appointed to guard his tomb made their report to the Jewish authorities. But no one has led the philosophic charge against miracles quite as influentially as David Hume with his 1748 essay "Of Miracles." Refined, revised, restated, his arguments still affect philosophic discussions of miracles today.
During ...
PaperbackDiscovering Our Spiritual Identity
Practices for God's Beloved
by Trevor Hudson
Foreword by Dallas WillardEach chapter in this workbook by Trevor Hudson is peppered with "holy experiments," simple practices that bring us into God's presence and help us experience life as his beloved. At the end of each chapter is a set of questions which are ideal fordiscussion with one or two spiritual friends or a small group.
This practical and winsome book covers topics such as
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The Essentials Set
The Essentials Set is a series of in-depth workbooks that brings the essentials of Christian ministry into contact with the real life of your congregation. With books on discipleship, evangelism, leadership, and the Great Commandment, there is something for everyone at your church, from veteran ministry leaders to regular attenders. Unique among Bible study materials, the Essentials model seizes the great potential of small groups by calling individuals into intimate, accountable relationships centered on the essentials of God's Word.
PaperbackThe Hermeneutical Spiral
A Comprehensive Introduction to Biblical Interpretation
by Grant R Osborne
Christianity Today Critics' Choice Award
In this newly revised and expanded edition, Grant Osborne provides seminary students and working pastors with the full set of tools they need to move from sound exegesis to the development of biblical and systematic theologies and to the preparation of sound, biblical sermons.
Osborne contends that hermeneutics is a spiral ...
EbookThe Race Set Before Us
A Biblical Theology of Perseverance Assurance
by Ardel B. Caneday and Thomas R. Schreiner
Discipline.
Endurance.
Perseverance.The New Testament often describes the Christian life as a marathon, a race set before us. But what exactly is the prize? Do all those completing the race share in it? And can the prize be lost?
Tackling these and other vexing questions, Thomas Schreiner and Ardel Caneday offer in this book a serious, exegetical wrestling with the biblical ...
PaperbackThe Message of Ezekiel
The Bible Speaks Today Series
by Christopher J. H. Wright
Ezekiel comes to us as a stranger from a distant time and land. Who is this man? He is a priest who, on his thirtieth birthday, has a dazzling vision of God on a wheeled throne; an odd prophet who engages in outlandish street theater and speaks for God on international affairs; and a seer who paints murals of apocalyptic doom and then of a restored temple bursting with emblems of ...
PaperbackTeaching the Faith, Forming the Faithful
A Biblical Vision for Education in the Church
by Gary A. Parrett and S. Steve Kang
Foreword by J. I. PackerWhy does the church teach? And what should it teach? In recent years, traditional Sunday school and education programs have declined in influence and effectiveness. Education in the church is often sidelined by other competing priorities, and our efforts become haphazard and random. As a result, many Christians have not learned the fundamental doctrinal content of the faith. As a response, a growing ...
