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PaperbackKingdom Apprenticeship
Dallas Willard's Formational Theology and Missional Vision
by Keas Keasler
A Groundbreaking Analysis of Dallas Willard's Theology of Spiritual Formation
Dallas Willard’s formational theology begins with the claim that the aim of God in human history is the formation of a community of loving persons apprenticed to Jesus—and ends with the promise that such apprenticeship prepares us to share in God’s governance of the cosmos.
This apprenticeship ...
PaperbackBecoming God's Family
Why the Church Still Matters
by Carmen Joy Imes
Foreword by Esau McCaulleyChristianity Today Book Awards—Theology (Popular), Award of Merit
Hope for When the Church Feels Broken
Does the church still matter in our modern world?
After waves of disillusionment, #churchtoo movements, and political divides, it’s easy to question the value of investing in the church.
Trusted biblical scholar Carmen ...
PaperbackHumble Confidence
A Model for Interfaith Apologetics
by Benno van den Toren and Kang-San Tan
Christianity Today Award of Merit
Today's cosmopolitan, multicultural, and multifaith environments call for new approaches to apologetics. The world still needs the good news of Jesus Christ, but torelate the transcultural gospel to diverse and ever-changing contexts, we must free Christian apologetics from dominant Western habits of mind ill-suited ...
PaperbackJesus the Miracle Worker
A Historical and Theological Study
by Graham H. Twelftree
"Jesus went throughout Galilee, teachingproclaimingand healing every disease and every sickness among the people." (Mt 4:23)
Few today doubt that Jesus was viewed by many of his contemporaries as a miracle worker. And many scholarstoday would agree that Jesus was a healer and an exorcist. But what does this mean? Was Jesus simply a master at relieving psychological distress, a healer ...
PaperbackA Week in the Life of a Slave
A Week in the Life Series
by John Byron
"I appeal to you for my son Onesimus, who became my son while I was in chains. Formerly he was useless to you, but now he has become useful both to you and to me."
These words, written by the apostle Paul to a first-century Christian named Philemon, are tantalizingly brief. Indeed, Paul's epistle to Philemon is one of the shortest books in the entire Bible. While it's direct ...
PaperbackA Handbook for Engaged Couples
by Alice Fryling and Robert A. Fryling
You're engaged! And now you are knee-deep in planning the details of the wedding. But are you also getting ready for what comes after the wedding?Alice and Robert Fryling bring over twenty-five years of marriage experience to this workbook designed to guide you through open and honest communication about the things that will really matter in your marriage:
- money
- time
- communication
- sex
- family
- work
- faith ...
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 ...
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Mark Lanier is hailed as a "superstar among plaintiffs' lawyers" by the National Law Journal and "the top class action attorney in America" by U.S. News & World Report. Gaining national attention from courtroom battles with powerhouses such as Vioxx and Toyota, Lanier now applies his legal skills to the Christian faith in his new book Christianity on Trial, set to release in June 2014.
PaperbackGenesis in Space and Time
by Francis A. Schaeffer
Genesis is a book of orgins--the orgin of the universe, the origin of life and the origin of man. It places man in his cosmic setting, shows his particular uniquness, explains his wonder and his flaw, and begins to trace the flow of human historythrough space and time.Many today, however, view this book as a collection of myths, useful for understanding the Hebrew mind, perhaps, but vertainly not ...
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When IVP author Makoto Fujimura was weighing whether to write a book inspired by Shusaku Endo's 1966 classic novel Silence, a friend introduced him to Martin Scorsese, who had been considering a film about the same book for nearly thirty years. That conversation with Scorsese led Fujimura to move ahead with writing his book and to become a consultant for Scorsese's Silence, which is set for limited release on December 23.
