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by N. T. Wright
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
In this book of pastoral reflections N.T. Wright explores how the Lord's Prayer sums up what Jesus was all about in his first-century setting. Wright locates the Lord's Prayer, clause by clause, within the historical life and work of Jesus and allows the prayer's devotional application to grow out...
For All God's Worth
True Worship and the Calling of the Church
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
This insightful book by N. T. Wright explores both the meaning and the results of Christian worship. Part 1, "The God Who Is Worthy of Praise," focuses on what worshiping God actually means. Wright celebrates the greatness and beauty of God as the ground and reason for worship and shows...
Emblem of Faith Untouched
A Short Life of Thomas Cranmer
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
Relates one of the most remarkable lives in the tumultuous English Reformation
Thomas Cranmer (1489–1556) was the first Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury, the author of the Book of Common Prayer, and a central figure in the English Protestant Reformation. Few theologians have led...
by Theodore Friend
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Award-winning historian Theodore Friend recently set out alone across Asia and the Middle East on a quest to understand firsthand the life situations of women in Indonesia, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Turkey. Woman, Man, and God in Modern Islam recounts Friend’s remarkable journey and relates...
Night Driving
Notes from a Prodigal Soul
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
Journeys that begin in brokenness rarely follow a straight road to healing. There are twists and turns—and setbacks—on the path of repentance.
Night Driving tells the story of a pastor and seminary professor whose moral failures destroyed his marriage and career, left his life in ruins,...
by
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2011
For four decades, from 1951 to 1990, The Reformed Journal set the standard for top-notch, venturesome theological reflection on a broad range of issues. With a lively mix of editorial comment, articles, and reviews, it addressed topics as diverse as the civil rights movement, feminism, the Vietnam...
Room to Grow
Meditations on Trying to Live as a Christian
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Wise, encouraging pastoral reflections on growing in Christ
"When I clothe myself with Jesus, he leaves me room to grow — which is a good thing because, God knows, I'm still growing. I put on Jesus as I would a new and ill-fitting outfit — in order that someday it might fit and be...
by
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Crucial themes and issues explored by a premier missiologist
Johan Herman Bavinck (1895-1964) was a prominent twentieth-century Dutch Calvinist missiologist who wrestled with the tension between religious absolutism and relativism, as many Christians do in today's pluralistic context.
The...
Reclaiming Pietism
Retrieving an Evangelical Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
The historical movement known as Pietism emphasized the response of faith and inward transformation as crucial aspects of conversion to Christ. Unfortunately, Pietism today is often equated with a “holier-than-thou” spiritual attitude, religious legalism, or withdrawal from involvement in society.
In...
Being Disciples
Essentials of the Christian Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
Basic instruction in Christian discipleship from one of the world’s greatest living theologians
“Discipleship,” says Rowan Williams in this companion to his best-selling Being Christian, “is a state of being. Discipleship is about how we live; not just the decisions we make, not just...
Holy Days
Meditations on the Feasts, Fasts, and Other Solemnities of the Church
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2012
According to Pope Benedict XVI, "the liturgical year is a great voyage of faith on which the Church sets us out." The feast days in the Church's liturgical calendar follow the major events of Jesus' life as recounted in the Gospels. This cycle gives a rhythm to the life of the Church and...
Night Comes
Death, Imagination, and the Last Things
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
When he was 23 years old, Dale Allison almost died in a car accident. That terrifying experience dramatically changed his ideas about death and the hereafter. In Night Comes Allison wrestles with a number of difficult questions concerning the last things — such questions as What happens to us after...
Seeking Shalom
The Journey to Right Relationship between Catholics and Jews
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2015
The amazing, historic journey of Jews and Christians coming together.
In this book Philip Cunningham traces the remarkable developments in Catholic-Jewish relations over the last fifty years. Centuries of antipathy and suspicion, Cunningham says, have largely given way to a new, mutually enriching...
Liberty to the Captives
Our Call to Minister in a Captive World
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
Liberty to the Captives is a book for any Christians who want to learn how to bring hope and redemption to their communities — for those who are ready to step beyond their comfort zone, leave the status quo behind, and take up Christ's call to minister within a world crying out for the freedom only...