Baker Books imprint: 897 books
God Loves Sex
An Honest Conversation about Sexual Desire and Holiness
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
We live in a sexually mad world where God's gift of sex has been distorted through pornography, promiscuity, prostitution, abuse, trafficking, and rape. The church's position on sexual matters has been made clear throughout history: all sexual activity outside the boundaries of Christian marriage...
Dynamic Women of the Bible
What We Can Learn from Their Surprising Stories
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Though we often focus more on the male heroes and villains in the Bible, the pages of Scripture are brimming with women who are edgy, strong willed, and controversial. Far from the stereotype of sweet and submissive, many women of the Bible steal the show despite being cast in the supporting roles....
by Dr. Tim Clinton, Bethany Palmer, Scott Palmer
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
The newest addition to the popular Quick-Reference Guide collection, The Quick-Reference Guide to Counseling on Money, Finances, and Relationships focuses on the ever-growing need for sound counsel on financial issues. It is an A-Z guide for assisting people-helpers--pastors, professional counselors,...
Designed for Devotion
A 365-Day Journey from Genesis to Revelation
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Devotionals are designed to bring the reader into a more intimate relationship with God. Dianne Neal Matthews knows no better way for believers to know God more intimately than to immerse themselves in his Word. To that end, her new daily devotional combines fascinating historical background information...
You Lost Me
Why Young Christians Are Leaving Church...and Rethinking Faith
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Close to 60 percent of young people who went to church as teens drop out after high school. Now the bestselling author of unChristian trains his researcher's eye on these young believers. Where Kinnaman's first book unChristian showed the world what outsiders aged 16-29 think of Christianity, You...
Chaos and Grace
Discovering the Liberating Work of the Holy Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
It's no secret that we are addicted to control. We work to control our time, our TVs, our weight, and even our faith lives. We strive for efficiency and quantifiable results. But all that control, we soon find out, is exhausting. And it is contrary to God's plan for us. In Chaos and Grace, Mark Galli...
Choose Love Not Power
How to Right the World's Wrongs from a Place of Weakness
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2009
The God who set aside power in order to live out love--fully expressing that love on Calvary's tree--is at the core of the Christian message to the world. Yet in the centuries since Christ's refusal to yield to Satan's temptation to establish his kingdom through economic, political, and religious...
Gospel-Driven Life, The
Being Good News People in a Bad News World
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
In his well-received Christless Christianity Michael Horton offered a prophetic wake-up call for a self-centered American church. With The Gospel-Driven Life he turns from the crisis to the solutions, offering his recommendations for a new reformation in the faith, practice, and witness of contemporary...
Dining with the Devil
The Megachurch Movement Flirts with Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1993
What shapes the message of the church? The Bible and Spirit? Or society and culture? Os Guinness points out perils of compromise in the church growth movement.
Every Little Thing
Making a World of Difference Right Where You Are
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
Everyone has had that moment--we see a need in our church, our school, our neighborhood, our family, or our world and we think, Someone really should get to work on that, never imagining that we might be the answer to that need. We don't have the time, the expertise, the money. We've got careers to...
Putting Amazing Back into Grace
Embracing the Heart of the Gospel
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
What does it mean to be "saved by grace"? Now revised and updated, this classic reminds readers of the Reformation's radical view of God and his saving grace, the liberating yet humbling truth that we contribute nothing to our salvation. It lays out the scriptural basis for this doctrine...
The Heart of the Gospel
The Theology behind the Master Plan of Evangelism
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
For more than forty years, Robert E. Coleman's bestselling The Master Plan of Evangelism has been the standard in evangelism literature. But what is the theology behind evangelism? And why is it important for Christians to understand? The Heart of the Gospel offers a systematic theology of evangelism...
The Answer to Our Cry
Freedom to Live Fully, Love Boldly, and Fear Nothing
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
We all long for freedom from anxiety, worry, and fear. We long to be free from sin and free to love others completely as God loves us. And yet we are shackled by insecurity, prone to selfishness, and wary of letting down our guard. That's not the life God designed for his followers. When his enslaved...
by Iain W. Provan
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Provan treats 1 and 2 Kings as a unified whole nestled within its canonical context. Kings constantly presupposes knowledge of the remainder of the story of Israel and invites reflection upon itself in the light of the prophetic writings and of the New Testament. It is examined here as narrative literature...