Baker Books imprint: 897 books
Red Letter Christians
A Citizen's Guide to Faith and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
In today's political environment, who speaks for whom is not always clear. Over the past couple of decades, evangelical Christians have tended to be associated with the religious right and the most conservative positions of the Republican Party. Rebelling against this designation are those who prefer...
Made Well
Finding Wholeness in the Everyday Sacred Moments
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Finding Wholeness through Tears, Joys, and the Everyday
From the woman fighting cancer to the man who has lost his child to the girl sinking into depression, so many of us are engaged in daily battles as we long for healing. When he walked the earth, Jesus said to an unwell man, "Do you...
Pastors in the Classics
Timeless Lessons on Life and Ministry from World Literature
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Throughout the history of English literature, church ministers have figured prominently in novels, plays, morality tales, and even poetry. Pastors in the Classics is a unique, unprecedented collection of relevant literary masterpieces in which the pastor's experience is a major part of the story.
Part...
When Life Hurts
Finding Hope and Healing from the Pain You Carry
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
We all experience emotional pain--and even devastation--in our lives, but few of us know how to deal with it properly. Our unresolved pain accumulates deep within the recesses of our hearts, in a place Jimmy Evans calls the "hurt pocket." The more pain we accumulate, the more we are mentally,...
A Concise Guide to Bible Prophecy
60 Predictions Everyone Should Know
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
A glance at tabloid headlines reveals that we have an almost insatiable desire to see into the future. In our search to know what is to come, many turn to the Bible for answers. Both the Old and the New Testament are loaded with prophets and prophecies. Who were these people who supposedly could predict...
Loving My Actual Christmas
An Experiment in Relishing the Season
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
The Christmas season is a particularly difficult time for women to slow down and relish what's right in front of them. An annual marker for many, it is a holiday that can often remind us how life is not going as we'd planned. Our family relationships remain strained, our finances stretched, and our...
by Norman L. Geisler, Jason Jimenez
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
Every believer has questions about God, the Bible, Jesus, and the purpose and meaning of life. The vexing problem is that so few believers are able to answer even the most basic ones. Without answers, doubt creeps in and the future of the church is in jeopardy.
With insight and precision, Geisler...
The Original Jesus
Trading the Myths We Create for the Savior Who Is
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
From hit songs to bumper stickers to eye-black, Jesus is trending high wherever you look. But at the end of the day, many "try Jesus" and come away disappointed in the experience. That's because the Jesus of popular culture looks much more like us than the God-man who appeared in the flesh...
What Would Jesus Ask?
10 Questions That Will Transform Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
What Would Jesus Do? or WWJD has become ubiquitous on T-shirts, coffee mugs, wristbands and church billboards. But when trying to define the Christian life Jesus intended his followers to live, a more valuable question is What Would Jesus Ask? Readers will find that, according to the Gospels, Jesus...
Knowing Jesus
150 Reflections on the Life and Teaching of Christ
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
In this unique devotional, readers will find more than just pious platitudes to start the day. They'll ponder the question of what Jesus has to say to his followers living in a deeply troubled and hurting world. They'll explore some of his most important teachings. And they'll see how Jesus calls...
Why People Don't Believe
Confronting Six Challenges to Christian Faith
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Religion is increasingly seen as a dangerous source of violence in the world, breeding a fear of faith in a very vocal group of critics. Most Christians are blissfully unaware of the litany of allegations being brought against religion, including that it is the cause of intolerance, imperialism, irrationality,...
The Atheist's Fatal Flaw
Exposing Conflicting Beliefs
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Most critiques of atheism focus on refuting head-on the claims of atheists. Instead, this unique book faithfully represents what atheists say they believe and stands back to watch as the natural inconsistencies in that worldview inevitably rise to the surface.
Norman L. Geisler, the apologetic...
Relaxing with God
The Neglected Spiritual Discipline
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
Jesus called his followers to exchange the heavy yoke around their necks for his light one. So why are so many Christians feeling weighed down and burned out? The simple answer is that they are being told from many pulpits across the country what they "should be" doing for God.
Bestselling...
ReJesus
A Wild Messiah for a Missional Church
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
ReJesus asks the following questions:
• What ongoing role does Jesus the Messiah play in shaping the ethos and self understanding of the movement that originated in him?
• How is the Christian religion informed and shaped by the Jesus that we meet in the Gospels?
• How do we assess the continuity...