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Blood from a Stone: A Memoir of How Wine Brought Me Back from the Dead, written by Adam McHugh, has made the longlist for the prestigious André Simon Food and Drink Book Awards.
PaperbackHear Ye the Word of the Lord
What We Miss If We Only Read the Bible
by Brent Sandy
Foreword by John H. WaltonECPA Top Shelf Book Cover Award
Long before the words of the Bible were written, God's communication through the spoken word rang out loud and clear. Jesus in particular commissioned representatives to speak on his behalf even during the time of his earthly ministry. And yet today we are a reading culture. It is easy for modern Christians to take ...
EbookWait with Me
Meeting God in Loneliness
by Jason Gaboury
"To be human is to be lonely." When his seventy-something spiritual director Friar Ugo spoke these words in a voice cracking with age, Jason Gaboury felt a deep sense of their truth. To the observer, Jason, a campus minister, active church member, and father with a young family, might not have seemed lonely. But it's how he felt. He has wrestled with loneliness ever since he can ...
PaperbackGod, Freedom and Human Dignity
Embracing a God-Centered Identity in a Me-Centered Culture
by Ron Highfield
Does God's all-encompassing will restrict our freedom? Does God's ownership and mastery over us diminish our dignity? The fear that God is a threat to our freedom and dignity goes far back in Western thought. Such suspicion remains with us todayin our so-called secular society. In such a context any talk of God tends to provoke responses that range from defiance to subservience to indifference. ...
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Some books are best experienced when you discuss them with friends! Perfect for book clubs and reading groups, these books include discussion questions or conversation prompts, either at the end of each chapter or in a group guide near the end. Choose any of these page-turners and your book club will thank you.
PaperbackPara subir hay que bajar
Olvidándote de ti mismo, llegas a ser tú mismo
by Marlena Graves
Translated by Ruth Goring“Ahora, con la ayuda de Dios, seré yo mismo.”
Estas palabras del filósofo danés Søren Kierkegaard impactan profundamente a Marlena Graves, una escritora, profesora y activista puertorriqueña. En estas páginas ella describe el proceso de vaciarse a sí misma que le permite subir hacia Dios y convertirse en la verdadera yo a que Dios la llama. Haciendo uso de las profundas tradiciones ...
PaperbackBloody, Brutal, and Barbaric?
Wrestling with Troubling War Texts
by William J. Webb and Gordon K. Oeste
Word Guild Award Shortlist — Biblical Studies
Word Guild Best Book Cover Award
Association of University Presses Design Show — Book, Jacket, and CoversChristians cannot ignore the intersection of religionand violence, whether contemporary or ancient. In our own Scriptures, war texts that appear to approve of genocidal killings and war rape—forcibly ...
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A Week in the Life Series
In imaginative historical fiction, splashed with informative sidebars and images, the volumes in A Week in the Life Series give us a new view of Jesus' world and Bible-era culture.
In these engaging narratives, New Testament scholars lead us behind the veil of centuries to see and experience the historical and social realities of the time when Jesus walked the earth. Drawing on what we do know from history, these biblical fiction books invite you to imagine possible events and explore the forgotten stories of the Ancient Near East.
PaperbackThe Other Side of the Wall
A Palestinian Christian Narrative of Lament and Hope
by Munther Isaac
A Palestinian Pastor's Invitation to Lament and Hope
Christians have lived in Palestine since the earliest days of the Jesus movement. The Palestinian church predates Islam. Yet Palestinian Christians find themselves marginalized and ostracized. In the heated tensions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the voices of Palestinian Christians are often unheard and ignored.
This ...
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InterVarsity Press is thrilled to announce the publication of three new series in its IVP Academic line of books. The series—Missiological Engagements (ME), New Explorations in Theology (NET) and Studies in Christian Doctrine and Scripture (SCDS)—further expand and deepen IVP Academic's reach into a broad range of scholarship.
