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Missio Alliance has chosen five InterVarsity Press titles for its Top 10 Essential Reading List of 2015. The Missio Alliance editors wrote, “If you’re looking for books that seek to advance a theologically robust, diverse, and hopeful vision for evangelical witness amid the challenges and opportunities facing the North American Church in the 21st Century, we think these should be at the top of your list!”
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Josh Larsen
Josh Larsen is the co-host of the radio show and podcast Filmspotting, as well as editor and film critic at Think Christian, a faith and culture website. He’s been writing and speaking about movies professionally for more than two decades. Josh’s career began in the mainstream newspaper business, where he started out as a beat reporter for a weekly community newspaper and went on to become the film critic for the Chicago-based Sun-Times Media for more than ten years. In 2011, he joined the Christian media landscape as editor of Think Christian, and in 2012 he joined the long-running weekly podcast Filmspotting, aired on WBEZ in Chicago. A veteran of the Sundance, Toronto, and Chicago International Film Festivals, Josh has given talks on film and faith at various Christian colleges. He also led the “Ebert Interruptus,” a tradition established by Roger Ebert that analyzes a single film scene by scene over several days, at the University of Colorado’s Conference on World Affairs. Josh lives in the Chicago area with his wife and two daughters.
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Amy Orr-Ewing
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paperbackWhat God Thinks When We Fail
Finding Grace and True Success
by Steven C. Roy
What does God think of us when we fail? Does he think
- You're a loser.
- There's no hope for you.
- What a wimp!
- You're good for nothing!
Or does he think something very different? If you've ever lost a job or a relationship, let your friends down, seen your finances collapse, found your ministry crumbling or failed to meet your own ethical standards, you ...
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paperbackEvangelism Outside the Box
New Ways to Help People Experience the Good News
by Rick Richardson
It used to be that providing clear evidence for the resurrection of Jesus or the reliability of the Bible was a pretty effective way to reach people with the Good News. But today, many folks think all truth is relative, even our historical and scientific data about Christianity. So how can we reach them? We need new ways of telling people the old, old story. We need to look again at our usual mental ...
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paperbackIntroducing Paul
The Man, His Mission and His Message
by Michael F. Bird
Many Christians who know and love the Bible think they know the apostle Paul. He's a theological master, a pastoral mentor, a spiritual adviser and a missionary hero. Yet just when we think we have him in our grasp, he slips through our fingers. At the point where we suppose we have finally understood him, Paul again confounds us. But he also beckons us to explore God's ways more deeply. Michael ...
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paperbackTranshumanism and the Image of God
Today's Technology and the Future of Christian Discipleship
by Jacob Shatzer
We're constantly invited to think about the future of technology as a progressive improvement of tools: our gadgets will continue to evolve, but we humans will stay basically the same. In the future, perhaps even alien species and intelligent robots will coexist alongside humans, who will grapple with challenges and emerge as the heroes. But the truth is that radical technological change has the ...
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paperbackShapers of Christian Orthodoxy
Engaging with Early and Medieval Theologians
Edited by Bradley G. Green
- Irenaeus
- Tertullian
- Origen
- Athanasius
- The Cappadocians
- Augustine
- Anselm
- Aquinas
The best of evangelical theology has always paid attention to the key thinkers, issues and doctrinal developments in the history of the church. What God has done in the past is key to understanding who we are and how we are to live. The purpose ...
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paperbackHabits of the Mind
Intellectual Life as a Christian Calling
The IVP Signature Collection
by James W. Sire
A Christianity Today Book Award Winner What does it mean to love God with your mind? Can the intellectual life be a legitimate Christian calling? In this deeply personal book, James Sire brings wit and wisdom to bear on these questions. He draws from his own experience and the life of John Henry Newman to explore how to think well for the glory of God and the sake of ...
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paperbackMaking Spiritual Progress
Building Your Life with Faith, Hope and Love
by Allen Ratta
Foreword by Larry OsborneWe often think of "spiritual growth" as a matter of behavior. In reality spiritual growth is a matter of the heart. In Making Spiritual Progress Allen Ratta introduces a revolutionary system for monitoring your motivations—faith, hope and love, the virtues out of which spiritual growth grows. Fully integrated into the self-assessment and growth tools found at spiritualprogress.com, this ...
