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In this fascinating interview, IVP authors Barbara Peacock, MelindaJoy Mingo, Terence Lester, Antipas Harris, and A. D. "Lumkile" Thomason share their ideas for new ways we can be celebrating Black History Month as well as their hopes for the future of racial reconciliation in America.
In his nearly four decades of pastoral, parachurch and nonprofit ministry leadership Steve Macchia has come to understand his own brokenness. He writes:"I've experienced great success and a few embarrassing failures. . . . In essence, as much as I like to view myself as a good or even a very good leader, I'm more truthfully a blessed and broken leader, one who is daily in need of being . . . redeemed ...
We live in a culture that doubts everything as a matter of principle. In such an environment, how can even faith be immune to doubt? Can I really trust in the gospel?Does God really love me?Can I really be of any use to God?We are taught to doubtbut commanded to believe. Somehow we think that admitting to doubt is tantamount to insulting God. But doubt is not a sign of spiritual weakness--rather ...
"He who has ears to hear, let him hear." Michael Card gives new meaning to these familiar words of Jesus in a new collection of songs inspired by the Gospel of Mark. Rendering the urgency of Mark's account into music, Card confronts us with the passionate appeal of God to humanity through the voice of Jesus.Flowing with the rich, melodic sound and thoughtful lyrics you've come to expect from Card, ...
"The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want."
"Thy word is a lamp to my feet."
"Search me, O God, and know my heart!"
Such phrases leap to mind whenever Christians lift their hearts to God. For many,in fact, the Psalms are the richest part of the Old Testament. Derek Kidner provides a fresh and penetrating guide to Psalms 1 through 72. He analyzes each ...
"The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want."
"Thy word is a lamp to my feet."
"Search me, O God, and know my heart!"
Such phrases leap to mind whenever Christians lift their hearts to God. For many,in fact, the Psalms are the richest part of the Old Testament. Derek Kidner provides a fresh and penetrating guide to Psalms 73 through 150. He analyzes ...
“For to me, to live is Christ,” (Philippians 1:21).
Many of us may have thought more about Paul's foundational theology than about how Paul learned more about Jesus and what it meant to obey him in the everyday tests of hisfaith. This ten-session LifeGuide® Bible Study guide leads us through the growth in the apostle Paul's knowledge of Jesus and how it changed his life, when ...
Number of Studies: 10
"To search the sacred Scripture is very good and most profitable for the soul. For, 'like a tree which is planted near the running waters,' so does the soul watered by sacred Scripture also grow hearty and bear fruit in due season," writes John ofDamascus in Orthodox Faith (4.17).
By helping us to read holy writings with ancient eyes, the church fathers help us drink deeply from the ...