Brazos Press imprint: 204 books
by Scott Bader-Saye
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
Through politics, marketing, news programming, and popular culture we are taught to fear, often in ways that profit others. But what does all this fear do to our moral lives as it forms (or deforms) our character and our judgment? Drawing on Christian scripture and tradition, Following Jesus in a...
Death and Afterlife
A Theological Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Many people fear dying and are uncertain about life after death. In this engaging book, a Catholic theologian addresses perennial human questions about death and what lies beyond, making a Christian case for an afterlife with God. Nichols begins by examining views of death and the afterlife in Scripture...
Recovering Jesus
The Witness of the New Testament
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
In Recovering Jesus, Thomas R. Yoder Neufeld leads you through an honest and careful study of the testimony of Jesus's first-century followers, as well as more recent scholarly and popular witnesses. The result is a journey that will challenge you to move beyond the Jesus you think you know to a deeper...
Educating All God's Children
What Christians Can--and Should--Do to Improve Public Education for Low-Income Kids
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Children living in poverty have the same God-given potential as children in wealthier communities, but on average they achieve at significantly lower levels. Kids who both live in poverty and read below grade level by third grade are three times as likely not to graduate from high school as students...
The Forgotten Ways
Reactivating Apostolic Movements
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Alan Hirsch's paradigm-shifting classic remains the definitive statement of the church as dynamic missional movement. The bestselling first edition ignited a conversation about how to harness the power of movements for the future growth of the church. In this major update, Hirsch shares significant...
God Does Not...
Entertain, Play Matchmaker, Hurry, Demand Blood, Cure Every Illness
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Is God in the business of entertainment, matchmaking, time management, blood sacrifice, or medicine? If you listen to some messages both inside and outside the church today, you might think so. But in God Does Not . . ., several theologians challenge these and other widespread misconceptions of how...
iGods
How Technology Shapes Our Spiritual and Social Lives
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Today the world is literally at our fingertips. We can call, text, email, or post our status to friends and family on the go. We can carry countless games, music, and apps in our pocket. Yet it's easy to feel overwhelmed by access to so much information and exhausted from managing our online relationships...
Jesus and Money
A Guide for Times of Financial Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Widespread unemployment. Record home foreclosures. A vulnerable stock market. Government bailouts. In the wake of a sobering global recession, many Christians realize they need to rethink their approach to money. Here respected New Testament scholar Ben Witherington III explores what the Bible does--and...
Testing Scripture
A Scientist Explores the Bible
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Scientist and theologian John Polkinghorne is one of the world's leading authorities on issues of science and faith. In this compelling work, he provides a fresh, honest look at key themes of the Bible from an analytical and rational perspective, offering a series of insights that have helped him...
Eyes Wide Open
Looking for God in Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2007
Grounded in Christian principles, this accessible and engaging book offers an informed and fascinating approach to popular culture. William D. Romanowski provides affectionate yet astute analysis of familiar, well-loved movies and television characters from Indiana Jones to Homer Simpson, and he speaks...
Can We Still Believe the Bible?
An Evangelical Engagement with Contemporary Questions
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Challenges to the reliability of Scripture are perennial and have frequently been addressed. However, some of these challenges are noticeably more common today, and the topic is currently of particular interest among evangelicals.
In this volume, highly regarded biblical scholar Craig Blomberg...
Searching for Home
Spirituality for Restless Souls
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
Deep down it's easy to believe that the better job, the nicer house, or the more dynamic church will finally make us feel "at home." In Searching for Home, M. Craig Barnes challenges this belief. He reminds us that paradise is lost and we can't go home again. Our great comfort and hope,...
In the Ruins of the Church
Sustaining Faith in an Age of Diminished Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2002
Argues that the postmodern Western church is in ruins and that to be in the church is to embrace a "broken way of life"
Apocalypse and Allegiance
Worship, Politics, and Devotion in the Book of Revelation
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
In this lively introduction, J. Nelson Kraybill shows how the book of Revelation was understood by its original readers and what it means for Christians today. Kraybill places Revelation in its first-century context, opening a window into the political, economic, and social realities of the early...