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EbookThe Analogy of Faith
The Quest for God's Speakability
Strategic Initiatives in Evangelical Theology
by Archie J. Spencer
If God is transcendent, how can human beings speak meaningfully about him?For centuries philosophers and theologians have asked whether and how it is possible to talk about God. The shared answer to this question goes by the name of "analogy," which recognizes both similarity and difference between the divine being and human language. In the twentieth century, Karl Barth, Erich Przywara, Hans Urs ...
EbookEnding Human Trafficking
A Handbook of Strategies for the Church Today
by Shayne Moore, Sandra Morgan, and Kimberly McOwen Yim
Foreword by John Cotton RichmondAuthor Sandra Morgan awarded Wilberforce Award
Human trafficking is one of the most pressing social justice issues of our time, and in recent years there has been renewed interest among Christians, as many have beenstirred up to take their part in the ongoing battle.
This is a wonderful thing—and yet misinformed and misguided efforts can do more harm ...
EbookThe Possibility of Prayer
Finding Stillness with God in a Restless World
by John Starke
The world clamors for efficiency and productivity.
But the life of prayer is neither efficient nor productive. Instead, as we learn in the psalms, prayer calls us to wait, to watch, to listen, to taste, and to see. These things are not productive by any modern measure—but they are transformative.
As a pastor in Manhattan, John Starke knows the bustle and busyness of ...
EbookChildren's Ministry in the Way of Jesus
by David M Csinos and Ivy Beckwith
Foreword by John H. Westerhoff IIIAttract kids to church, the logic often goes, and you get parents in the pews. All that's left, then, is to get the kids out of the way. Here children's ministers David Csinos and Ivy Beckwith draw on research in human development and spiritual formation to show how children become disciples and churches become centers of lifelong discipleship. For too long, the local church has focused primarily ...
EbookExploring the Old Testament
A Guide to the Pentateuch
Exploring the Bible Series
by Gordon J. Wenham
Exploring the Old Testament: A Guide to the Pentateuch offers a clear overview of the "five books of Moses," as well as an introduction to the historical and textual questions that modern scholarship has posed and the answers it has proposed.This critically informed, textually sensitive introduction to the Pentateuch introduces students to
- the basic features of the Pentateuch
- the ...
EbookStarting Missional Churches
Life with God in the Neighborhood
Edited by Mark Branson and Nicholas Warnes
All mission is local—the people of God joining the work of God in a particular place. In Starting Missional Churches Mark Lau Branson and Nicholas Warnes introduce us to seven missional churches while examining common challenges regardingtheir genesis. Using stories, interviews with pastors and a look at common preconceived notions of church planting in the West, this guide brings together ...
EbookUnderstanding Postmodernism
A Christian Perspective
by Stewart E. Kelly
With James K. Dew Jr.Postmodernity has matured. But the challenge of navigating our contemporary culture remains. In order for Christians to make wise decisions, we first need to understand the many facets of our postmodern context.If René Descartes is often identified as the first truly modern philosopher in light of his confidence in human reason, then postmodernism has taken Descartes to the woodshed. Stewart Kelly ...
EbookSteward Leadership in the Nonprofit Organization
by Kent R. Wilson
Most approaches to nonprofit organizational leadership are borrowed from the for-profit sector. But these models are often inadequate to address the issues nonprofit leaders face. We need a new framework for nonprofit management that is rooted inhistorical precedent and biblical principles yet is also appropriate for the nonprofit context.Nonprofit consultant and researcher Kent Wilson presents ...
EbookEscape from Reason
IVP Classics
by Francis A. Schaeffer
Foreword by J. P. MorelandOver 100,000 Copies Sold!
Truth used to be based on reason. No more. What we feel is now the truest source of reality. Despite our obsession with the emotive and the experiential, we still face anxiety, despair, and purposelessness.How did we get here? And where do we find a remedy?
In this modern classic, Francis A. Schaeffer traces trends in twentieth-century ...
EbookFabricating Jesus
How Modern Scholars Distort the Gospels
by Craig A. Evans
Modern historical study of the Gospels seems to give us a new portrait of Jesus every spring--just in time for Easter. The more unusual the portrait, the more it departs from the traditional view of Jesus, the more attention it gets in the popularmedia.
Why are scholars so prone to fabricate a new Jesus? Why is the public so eager to accept such claims without question? What methods and assumptions ...
