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PaperbackRewriting Your Broken Story
The Power of an Eternal Perspective
by Kenneth Boa
How do you fix a broken story?
In this fallen world, life is often not how we thought it would be. Jobs vanish, relationships crumble, health fails. How do we find the hope to persevere?
We can make sense of our broken stories by seeing them in thecontext of a larger and greater story. Kenneth Boa shows how God can transform our lives with an eternal perspective, ...
PaperbackNow Choose Life
Theology and Ethics in Deuteronomy
New Studies in Biblical Theology
by Gary Millar
Series edited by D. A. CarsonThough written thousands of years ago, the book of Deuteronomy is unmatched in its relevance for the affluent Western church of today. Moses' words were meant to equip God's people for living godly lives in a prosperous, pluralistic world. The cultural changes now taking place in our own social setting make the parallel between Israel and the church—and what Deuteronomy has to say—both pertinent ...
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The Acts of the Apostles, the first in a three volume set of newly discovered commentaries by J. B. Lightfoot, has been published by InterVarsity Press (IVP) this month. Joseph Barber Lightfoot (1828–1889) was one of the great biblical and patristic scholars of the nineteenth century in any language, and certainly in English. IVP is thrilled to make these important volumes available.
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InterVarsity Press is thrilled to announce the release of the long-awaited three-volume Encyclopedia of Ancient Christianity.
This comprehensive set originated with the widely praised Italian edition: Nuovo dizionario patristico e di antichità cristiane (2006-2008). The English version—developed by a team of editors, translators, designers and typesetters—includes new articles and revisions that the previous Italian version did not publish, and is sure to be a major part of libraries and collections throughout the English-speaking world.
EbookThe Hopeful Skeptic
Revisiting Christianity from the Outside
by Nick Fiedler
Nick Fiedler (of Nick and Josh Podcast fame) decided to travel the world for a year or so, and in the process of figuring out what to set aside, what to carry along and what to throw out, heard a little voice telling him to set aside the faith ofhis childhood.So Nick changed his Facebook religion status from Christian to "Hopeful Skeptic" and set out to see where God would take him.If you find yourself ...
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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.
AudiobookFaithful Disobedience
Writings on Church and State from a Chinese House Church Movement
by Wang Yi
Foreword by Ian Johnson
Edited by Hannah Nation and J. D. Tseng
Read by Martin YehChristianity Today Book Award Finalist—Missions/Global Church
Reader's Choice Award Winner
Throughout China's rapidly growing cities, a new wave of unregistered house churches is growing. They are developing rich theological perspectives that are both uniquely Chinese and rooted in the historical doctrines of the faith. To understand ...
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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.
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J. B. Lightfoot
Joseph Barber Lightfoot (1828–1889), also known as J. B. Lightfoot, was an English theologian, preacher, canon of St Paul's Cathedral and bishop of Durham. His writings include essays on biblical and historical subject matter, commentaries on Pauline epistles and studies on the Apostolic Fathers as well as four posthumously published volumes of sermons. Lightfoot attended King Edward?s School in Birmingham before attending Trinity College in Cambridge where he was elected a Fellow of his college. He became a tutor of Trinity College in 1857 and later a professor of divinity, editing the Journal of Classical and Sacred Philology from 1854 to 1859. In 1871, Lightfoot became canon of St. Paul?s Cathedral, preaching regularly and participating in various ecclesiastical activities. He gained enormous popularity for his work Essays on the Work Entitled Supernatural Religion, a defense of the New Testament in response to Walter Richard Cassel?s Supernatural Religion. In 1870, Lightfoot became Bishop of Durham, where he continued his theological study, writing, and preaching. Lightfoot wrote commentaries on Galatians, Philippians and Colossians and Philemon, and his newly discovered commentary notes on Acts, John, 2 Corinthians and 1 Peter are being published in the three-volume Lightfoot Legacy set.
EbookBreaking the Rules
Trading Performance for Intimacy with God
by Fil Anderson
Foreword by Brennan ManningAfter years of living with a set of religious demands that he could never live up to, Fil Anderson found himself spiritually bankrupt and emotionally drained. Following a crash-and-burn in professional ministry, he experienced relief in learning to be with God rather than doing for God. Instead of desperation, he found healing, and a rich new life with God.In Breaking the Rules, ...
