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paperbackLocal and Universal
A Free Church Account of Ecclesial Catholicity
Studies in Christian Doctrine and Scripture
by C. Ryan Fields
In the words of the creeds, the church is the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic body of Christ.
Of those features, perhaps none is as misunderstood as the church's catholicity (that is, its universality)—because while the church is universal, it is also radically local, connected to a particular community or even found on a specific street corner. How might we reclaim the ...
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paperbackStruggling with Evangelicalism
Why I Want to Leave and What It Takes to Stay
by Dan Stringer
Foreword by Richard J. MouwWhen evangelicals make a mess, who cleans it up?
Many today are discarding the evangelical label, even if they still hold to the historic tenets of evangelicalism. But evangelicalism is a space, not just a brand, and living in that space is complicated.
As a lifelong evangelical who happens to be a biracial Asian/White millennial, Dan Stringer has felt both included ...
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paperbackThe Church in Exile
Living in Hope After Christendom
by Lee Beach
Foreword by Walter BrueggemannThe people of God throughout history have been a people of exile and diaspora. Whether under the Assyrians, Babylonians, Greeks or Romans, the people chosen by God have had to learn how to be a holy people in alien lands and under foreign rule. For much of its history, however, the Christian church lived with the sense of being at home in the world, with considerable influence and power. That ...
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paperbackAuthentic Communication
Christian Speech Engaging Culture
Christian Worldview Integration Series
by Tim Muehlhoff and Todd Lewis
Part of the Christian Worldview Integration Series
Whether setting about to love our neighbor, to settle a dispute, to share in the suffering of others or to speak up on behalf of the marginalized, we inevitably must engage in communication. And what could be more natural, more human, than communication?
But we all learn quickly enough that good communication is not always natural. ...
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paperbackRethinking the Police
An Officer's Confession and the Pathway to Reform
by Daniel Reinhardt
A former officer grapples with the reality of our broken police culture
Our society has long been stuck in cultural and ideological battles about police brutality and the police force's broken relationship with our communities. Rethinking the Police promises to start a more hopeful conversation.
Daniel Reinhardt spent twenty-four years as a police officer near ...
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paperbackHearing God Bible Study
IVP Signature Bible Studies
by Dallas Willard
With Jan JohnsonHow can we hear and understand God's voice? For over thirty years, Dallas Willard's Hearing God has helped thousands of readers learn to develop a conversational relationship with God. Now Hearing God Bible Study guides you deeper into biblical texts and themes that are woven throughout Willard's beloved book. With these six easy-to-use studies, written by longtime ...
Number of Studies: 6
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paperbackRecapturing the Wesleys' Vision
An Introduction to the Faith of John and Charles Wesley
by Paul Wesley Chilcote
Scholar and teacher Paul Wesley Chilcote provides a full and clear introduction to the dynamic faith of John and Charles Wesley. The vital theology of John is skillfully gleaned from his voluminous writings. The corresponding faith of Charles is culled from his enduring hymns. For students and general readers this book illuminates the vital balance the Wesleys found in Christian teaching that ...
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paperbackDisciplemakers' Handbook
Helping People Grow in Christ
Edited by Alice Fryling
How can you help others grow in their faith? What does a healthy discipling relationship look like? What do you do together? In order to answer these and other questions, Alice Fryling gathered a team of experienced disciplemakers. Together they give us practical help in such areas as overcoming our fears about discipling others, beginning a discipling relationship, how to be a friend, learning ...
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hardcoverThe Soul of Desire
Discovering the Neuroscience of Longing, Beauty, and Community
by Curt Thompson
Foreword by Makoto FujimuraA Spiritual and Neurobiological Redemption of Desire
We are people of desire.
In The Soul of Desire, psychiatrist Curt Thompson suggests that underneath all our longings is the desire to be known—and what's more, that this fundamental yearning manifests itself in our deep need to make things of beauty, revealing who we are to others. Desire and beauty go hand ...
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ebookContemporary Art and the Church
A Conversation Between Two Worlds
Studies in Theology and the Arts Series
Edited by W. David O. Taylor and Taylor Worley
The church and the contemporary art world often find themselves in an uneasy relationship in which misunderstanding and mistrust abound.
On one hand, the leaders of local congregations, seminaries, and other Christian ministries often don't know what to make of works by contemporary artists. Not only are these artists mostly unknown to church leaders, they and their work often ...
