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Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017
An idol is a good thing. It is good because God created it. Nothing exists that God did not create and God created all things good. So sex can be an idol, but before it was an idol it was a good creation of God. Materialism is an idol, but to have a material world was God's idea in the first place....
When You Are Weak
How Boasting in Jesus Makes You Strong
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2012
Only in the gospel of Jesus Christ does your weakness provide the platform for God's glory and grace. Jesus uses your weaknesses of sin and of circumstance to gloriously display the truth that his grace is sufficient for you and that his power is made perfect in weakness. When You Are Weak guides...
For the Love of God
Principles and Practice of Compassion in Missions
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
Compassionate missions constitutes a growing focus among evangelical denominations and agencies. Because of this, there exists a growing need to be guided by sound principles and best practices. This edited volume sets forth both the biblical foundations and preferred methods for churches wanting...
Green Shoots out of Dry Ground
Growing a New Future for the Church in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2013
All over Canada, from coast to coast, there is new life in the Christian church. In spite of declining numbers, every Christian tradition has stories to tell of new ministries, fledgling Christian communities, and fresh expressions of church springing up, sometimes in unlikely places. Here, seventeen...
The Games People Play
Theology, Religion, and Sport
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
In The Games People Play, Robert Ellis constructs a theology around the global cultural phenomenon of modern sport, paying particular attention to its British and American manifestations. Using historical narrative and social analysis to enter the debate on sport as religion, Ellis shows that modern...
Laughter in a Time of Turmoil
Humor as Spiritual Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2012
Here's a different angle on humor--it can be a spiritual practice, an expression of a theology of joy, hope, and grace. Humor is so valuable, for it offers self-care, healing, and renewal, precious gifts in times of pressure and tension. Olson begins by telling of three unforgettable friends who lived...
A First Step into a Much Larger World
The Christian University and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
How do Christian students approach their years at a Christian college or university? What are the connections between all those hours of study and the Christian life? A First Step into a Much Larger World invites students, parents, and educators into a broad conversation about faith and learning in...
Jewish and Christian Views on Bodily Pleasure
Their Origins and Relevance in the Twentieth-Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
At the beginning of the Common Era, Jewish renewal movements, including Jesus' ministry, had similar views: embracing moderate ascetic behavior. Over the next three centuries, however, they moved in opposite directions. Christianity came to firmly privilege anti-pleasure views and female lifelong...
The Word Became Flesh
A Rapprochement of Christian Natural Law and Radical Christological Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Is following Jesus natural? Many would say no, but this book argues yes. Saying no suggests that grace and human nature are alternate moral categories. Saying yes implies that our humanity is gracious in origin, capacity, and intent. Much of this discussion hangs on what is meant by "nature"...
Breaking and Entering
Unexpected Sermons for an Unfinished World
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
When Elizabeth Goodman first arrived at the tiny congregation that would become her home as a pastor--a congregation of about seven people in a town of just under a thousand--the longest-standing member told her that though the congregation was small, her preaching need not be. In this collection...
by John Raymaker, Godefroid Alekiabo Mombula
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2018
Bernard Lonergan is a world-renowned philosopher, methodologist, and theologian. The complexity of his work has tended to limit his accessibility to average readers. Bringing Bernard Lonergan Down to Earth seeks to remedy this limitation by showing how Lonergan did address problems of community life....
Singing with Jesus
The Lord’s Psalm
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
We shouldn't be too surprised if Jesus, the Son of David, was also a song writer. The Lord's Prayer is a psalm, and reading the prayer as a psalm opens up its meaning. To read the Lord's Prayer as a psalm, you have to be able to read a psalm as a psalm. So this book is first of all an adventure in...
Husband, Wife, Father, Child, Master, Slave
Peter through Roman Eyes
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
When the New Testament speaks of slaves and masters, is it affirming an institution that we find reprehensible? Biblical scholars across the theological and political spectrum generally conclude that the answer is "yes." And in the same passages the Bible seems to affirm male dominance in...
The Certainty of Uncertainty
The Way of Inescapable Doubt and Its Virtue
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2018
The world is full of people who are very certain--in politics, in religion, in all manner of things. In addition, political, religious, and social organizations are marketing certainty as a cure all to all life's problems. But is such certainty possible? Or even good? The Certainty of Uncertainty...