Langham Creative Projects: 145 books
Relational Preaching
Knowing God, His Word, and Your Hearers
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2017
Relational Preaching is a guide to help achieve greater depth in your preaching through developing a stronger relationship with the Lord, with Scripture, and with your listeners. Its message is direct and down to earth. Its style is devotional and prayerful. Preachers around the world will be blessed...
Transforming Missiology
An Alternative Approach to Missiological Education
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
Dr Fohle Lygunda li-M provides a thorough analysis of missiological teaching in theological institutions in Africa, with special reference to ten Christian universities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. His detailed examination of current teaching of mission theory and practice builds a solid...
Our Politeuma Is in Heaven!
Paul's Polemical Engagement with the "Enemies of the Cross of Christ" in Philippians 3:18-20
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
For many of whom I often told you, and even now am writing with tears, walk as the enemies of the cross of Christ: they walk to their final destruction, their god is the belly and their glory is in shameful things, their minds are earthly bound. But our πολίτευμα is in heaven from where...
The Structure and Function of the Prologue of Judges
A Literary-Rhetorical Study of Judges 1:1–3:6
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
In this book, Yohannes Sahile tackles the problem of Judges’ prologue, proposing that it is a single introduction with a narrative trajectory that begins with the death of Joshua. The prologue captures how, during the period of testing, the generation after Joshua’s death failed in their commission...
Jesus’s Identification with the Marginalized and the Liminal
The Messianic Identity in Mark
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2018
The first-century Judaic understanding of the identity and nature of the Messiah has been a much-debated topic among biblical scholars and preachers alike. So too has the messianic identity and nature of Jesus himself. Bekele Deboch informs these debates with fresh evidence outside the traditional...
by Bernhard Ott
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2016
Historically education has been driven from behind – the history, and above – the educational institution. Traditions and adherence requirements have led to inflexible models of school leadership that are focused on administration and rife with educational politics. In contrast, today’s theological...
Corruption Mocking at Justice
A Theological and Ethical Perspective on Public Life in Tanzania and Its Implications for the Anglican Church of Tanzania
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
The church has a duty to fight corruption and injustice. The increased awareness globally of corruption and the threat it poses to humanity has led many in the secular and Christian world to seek solutions to stamp out this scourge. Recognizing the crisis caused by corruption in Tanzania, his own...
Yahweh's Elegant Speeches of the Abrahamic Narratives
A Study of the Stylistics, Characterizations, and Functions of the Divine Speeches in Abrahamic Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
This work is a study in the attribution, aesthetics and representations of Yahweh’s speeches in the Hebrew Bible. It describes the literary elegance and beauty of the speeches of Yahweh in the Abrahamic narratives. Employing a synchronic reading of the Abrahamic cycle, it underscores the presence...
Insights from the Lives of Olive Doke and Paul Kasonga for Pioneer Mission and Church Planting Today
Insights from the Lives of Olive Doke and Paul Kasonga for Pioneer Mission and Church Planting Today
An Alternative Missionary Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2014
Insights from the Lives of Olive Doke and Paul Kasonga for Pioneer Mission and Church Planting Today deals with the question of the hand over process of pioneer missionaries to the first indigenous leaders in church planting missions situations. It recognises the fact this process when wrongly handled...
Ahmadi and Christian Socio-Political Responses to Pakistan’s Blasphemy Laws
A Comparison, Contrast and Critique with Special Reference to the Christian Church in Pakistan
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
The roots of Pakistan’s blasphemy laws can be traced back to the British colonial rule in India, but their harsher clauses were added to the Pakistan Penal Code during a wave of intense Islamization in the 1980s. Everyone in Pakistan is threatened by the misuse of these laws, even Muslims; however...
Global Kingdom, Global People
Living Faithfully in a Multicultural World
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
In an age of unsurpassed globalization, Melba Maggay reminds us of the beauty of unique cultures no matter how small their imprint on the world may seem. Yet these cultures do not exist in isolation, but have a complex interrelation with one another, be they monoliths such as western capitalism or...
It’s OK to Be Not OK
Preaching the Lament Psalms
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
How often have you seen a friend and been greeted with “How are you?” Almost always our automatic response is “Fine thank you” regardless of whether it’s true. We proclaim in church services that “God is good all the time . . . All the time God is good,” but there are often times when...
The Church
God’s Pilgrim People
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2014
In this day when Christians and churches are widely dispersed throughout the world, the ques- tion ‘Who is the church?’ could easily be dismissed as irrelevant. In this publication, Bishop David Zac Niringiye pleads that as Jesus warned, we should not be in haste to conclude that any community...
by Vladimir Ubeivolc
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Following a paradigm shift in his own personal understanding of mission, Vladimir Ubeivolc proposes the adoption of mission principles based on missio Dei to meet the social and spiritual needs of people in Moldova. Biblically grounded and insightful, the lessons to be learned from this book apply...