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Messy Beautiful Friendship
Finding and Nurturing Deep and Lasting Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
Women long for deep and lasting friendships but often find them challenging to make. The private angst they feel regarding friendship often translates into their own insecurity and isolation. Christine Hoover offers women a fresh, biblical vision for friendship that allows for the messiness of our...
Battle Ready
Train Your Mind to Conquer Challenges, Defeat Doubt, and Live Victoriously
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Too often we fail to prepare for our battles. So when challenges, troubles, or opportunities arise, we rapidly become burdened with limiting thoughts of self-doubt, fear, impossibility, and lack. But it doesn't have to be this way. We can train our minds to conquer uncertainty, beat insecurity, and...
Living by the Book
The Joy of Loving and Trusting God's Word
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1997
The universal goal of men and women is happiness . . .
"Blessed are they whose ways are blameless,
who walk according to the law of the Lord.
Blessed are they who keep his statutes
and seek him with all their heart."
--Psalm 119:1-2
. . . but how many know how to get there?
How...
by Tremper III Longman
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Leading Old Testament scholar Tremper Longman III provides students and pastors with expert guidance on choosing a commentary for any book of the Old Testament. The fifth edition has been updated to assess the most recently published commentaries, providing evaluative comments. Longman lists a number...
The Tentmaking Pastor
The Joy of Bivocational Ministry
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2000
Real-world guide to the challenges, rewards, and advantages of bivocational ministry. Excellent for individuals and churches exploring pastoring options.
Fieldwork in Theology (The Church and Postmodern Culture)
Exploring the Social Context of God's Work in the World
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
In this addition to the acclaimed The Church and Postmodern Culture series, leading practical theologian Christian Scharen examines the relationship between theology and its social context. He engages with social theorist Pierre Bourdieu to offer helpful theoretical and theological grounding to those...
Who's Afraid of Postmodernism? (The Church and Postmodern Culture)
Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
The philosophies of French thinkers Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault form the basis for postmodern thought and are seemingly at odds with the Christian faith. However, James K. A. Smith claims that their ideas have been misinterpreted and actually have a deep affinity with central Christian claims.
Each...
Introducing Radical Orthodoxy
Mapping a Post-secular Theology
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2004
Although God is making a comeback in our society, popular culture still takes its orders from the Enlightenment, a movement that denied faith a prominent role in society. Today, many are questioning this elevation of reason over faith. How should Christians respond to a secular world that continues...
Desiring the Kingdom (Cultural Liturgies)
Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Malls, stadiums, and universities are actually liturgical structures that influence and shape our thoughts and affections. Humans--as Augustine noted--are "desiring agents," full of longings and passions; in brief, we are what we love.
James K. A. Smith focuses on the themes of liturgy...
Imagining the Kingdom (Cultural Liturgies)
How Worship Works
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
How does worship work? How exactly does liturgical formation shape us? What are the dynamics of such transformation? In the second of James K. A. Smith's three-volume theology of culture, the author expands and deepens the analysis of cultural liturgies and Christian worship he developed in his well-received...
Awaiting the King (Cultural Liturgies Book #3)
Reforming Public Theology
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
In this culmination of his widely read and highly acclaimed Cultural Liturgies project, James K. A. Smith examines politics through the lens of liturgy. What if, he asks, citizens are not only thinkers or believers but also lovers? Smith explores how our analysis of political institutions would...
Who's Afraid of Relativism? (The Church and Postmodern Culture)
Community, Contingency, and Creaturehood
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Following his successful Who's Afraid of Postmodernism? leading Christian philosopher James K. A. Smith introduces the philosophical sources behind postliberal theology. Offering a provocative analysis of relativism, Smith provides an introduction to the key voices of pragmatism: Ludwig Wittgenstein,...
by Louis C. Jonker
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Louis Jonker's section-by-section commentary on 1-2 Chronicles is the newest volume in the Understanding the Bible Commentary Series. This user-friendly commentary series helps readers navigate the sometimes difficult terrain of the Bible. These volumes offer solid research in an accessible way, breaking...
by Eugene H. Merrill
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
From the origins and exodus to the restoration and new hope, Kingdom of Priests offers a comprehensive introduction to the history of Old Testament Israel. Merrill explores the history of ancient Israel not only from Old Testament texts but also from the literary and archeological sources of the ancient...