Cascade Books imprint: 771 books
The Spirit Hovers
Journeying through Chaos with Prayers
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2011
This book is a collection of prayers based on the Old Testament texts--a good resource for worship leaders or generally for those interested in spirituality. The Spirit breathes life into us as we breathe and pray, thus granting us the hope that the Spirit can quicken and transform troubled waters...
The Spirit Intercedes
The New Testament in Prayers and Images
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
This volume provides a collection of prayers and artwork based on the New Testament texts, inviting readers to join in the Spirit's moving through words, figures, and colors. Yeo and Matheny offer this resource to worship leaders, those interested in spirituality, prayers, and artistic expressions...
by Nijay K. Gupta
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
In the first century, the Thessalonian church grieved deaths in their community, endured harsh persecution, and struggled with questions about the future. Paul offered them the comforts and reassurances of hope in the Messiah Jesus. But he offered far more than wishful thinking or pie-in-the-sky comfort....
Letters of Paul to the Early Church
A Contemporary Translation
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
What you are about to read comes from the heart of the Apostle Paul, that great missionary theologian of the first century AD. It is remarkable that our understanding of the Christian faith rests primarily on thirteen letters written by a convert from rabbinic Judaism. No other set of ancient manuscripts...
Jeremiah
Prophet Like Moses
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
This book on Jeremiah seeks to place before a broad audience of students and lay readers one of the truly great Hebrew prophets and extraordinary individuals of the ancient world. It lifts up major themes preserved in the book bearing Jeremiah's name, one of the most prominent being Jeremiah's understanding...
Divine Abundance
Leisure, the Basis of Academic Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
It's time to say a good word for the ten o'clock scholar. The recovery of a flourishing academic culture--which is not the same as being a major research center--lies in the recovery of leisure. The heart of this practice is contemplation and Divine worship. It names, furthermore, our lives as being...
Attending the Wounds on Christ’s Body
Teresa’s Scriptural Vision
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
The disunity of the church is a social and theological scandal for it betrays the prayer of Jesus that we will be one . . . so that the world will believe (John 17:21). As a Baptist whose academic background focused on the Orthodox Church and whose teaching has included Catholic and Protestant contexts,...
Judges
A Theological Commentary for Preachers
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
Judges: A Theological Commentary for Preachers engages hermeneutics for preaching, employing theological exegesis that enables the preacher to utilize all the units of the letter to craft effective sermons. This commentary unpacks the crucial link between Scripture and application: the theology of...
Under the Oak Tree
The Church as Community of Conversation in a Conflicted and Pluralistic World
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013
Two trends in the early twenty-first-century intersect to give this volume immediate relevance: 1) The emerging postmodern ethos in North America is calling into question many things we have taken for granted, including the purposes of the church; and 2) our time is increasingly fractious as groups...
Desire for God and the Things of God
The Relationships between Christian Spirituality and Morality
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
For many Christians, spirituality and ethics are in separate mental and experiential compartments. Spirituality may be understood as an inner experience, while ethics is focused on decisions or positions on issues. Both of these views reduce spirituality and morality in Christian faith and practice,...
Grace at Table
Small Spiritual Solutions to Large Material Problems, Solving Everything
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
Grace at Table advocates prayer at table as a way to solve everything. By everything we mean the dismay, dis-ease, and fear of the future that permeates way too many human souls. Addiction is one response to the moment, fear another, and despair a third. Widespread immobility and lack of focus come...
Pictures of the World
Three Views of Life, the Universe, and Everything
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
What is real? What is the foundation of right and wrong? How can we know? There are many ways to answer these questions--Western religious views in which humanity is part of God's creation, Eastern religious views in which delusion traps humanity in a cycle of reincarnation, and secular views in which...
Jesus, Revolutionary of the Poor
Matthew’s Subversive Messiah
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
Is Jesus relevant to the sufferings of the helpless, the voiceless, those dying of hunger, those traumatized by violence, people with learning difficulties? In Matthew, we see Jesus to be a man on the frontline, battling against the forces that stop the non-poor from living generously, and the poorest...
Authentically Emergent
In Search of a Truly Progressive Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2018
Are Brian McLaren, Tony Jones, Doug Pagitt, and Rob Bell "yesterday's news," as many evangelicals seem to think? Truth and the New Kind of Christian (2005) tried to provide a balanced assessment of McLaren's and Jones's views. But, they seem to be right about much more that is affecting...