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PaperbackTending Soul, Mind, and Body
The Art and Science of Spiritual Formation
Center for Pastor Theologians Series
Edited by Gerald L. Hiestand and Todd A Wilson
Throughout his ministry, Jesus consistently demonstrated his concern and love for the whole person: soul, mind, and body.
That task is carried forward today by pastors and church leaders, who are called to care for people inthe midst of individual circumstances as well as seismic cultural shifts. How might that calling be informed by recent developments in psychology? How ...
PaperbackChristian Spirituality
Five Views of Sanctification
Spectrum Multiview Book Series
Contributions by Gerhard O. Forde, Sinclair B. Ferguson, Laurence W. Wood, Russell P. Spittler, and E. Glenn Hinson
Edited by Donald AlexanderHow can we grow closer to God? Is there a secret to spiritual life? Do we need a second blessing? Is sanctification God's work or ours? Is it instantaneous or is it a process?
The nature of Christian spirituality has been widely debated throughout the history of the church. The doctrine of sanctification was one of the main fissures separating Luther from the Catholic Church. ...
PaperbackThe Problem of the Old Testament
Hermeneutical, Schematic, and Theological Approaches
by Duane A. Garrett
Biblical Foundations Book Awards Finalist
For Christians, the Old Testament often presents a conundrum. We revere it as God's Word, but we don't always comprehend it. It has great truths beautifully expressed, but it also has lengthy lists of names that we cannot pronounce, detailed rules for religious rites that we never observe, and grim stories that we ...
PaperbackReconciling All Things
A Christian Vision for Justice, Peace and Healing
Resources for Reconciliation
by Emmanuel Katongole and Chris Rice
Christianity Today Book Award winner
Our world is broken and cries out for reconciliation.
But mere conflict resolution and peacemaking are not enough. What makes real reconciliation possible?How is it that some people are able to forgive the most horrendous of evils? And what role does God play in these stories? Does reconciliation make any ...
PaperbackI've Been Wondering
Conversations with Young Theologians
by Richard B. Steele
College and seminary students rarely have a voice in theological discussions. True, there are many books written for them. Introductions to the Bible, surveys of church history, anthologies of theological classics, overviews of Christian doctrine,and dictionaries of the various theological sub-disciplines abound. But it is one thing for professional theologians to answer the questions they think ...
PaperbackImpossible People
Christian Courage and the Struggle for the Soul of Civilization
by Os Guinness
- ECPA 2017 Christian Book Award Finalist
The church in the West is at a critical moment. While the gospel is exploding throughout the global south, Western civilization faces militant assaults from aggressive secularism and radical Islam. Will the church resist the seductive shaping power of advanced modernity?
More than ever, Christians must resist the negative cultural forces ...
EbookStructured for Mission
Renewing the Culture of the Church
by Alan J. Roxburgh
The church is living in a time of massive, unprecedented change. Traditional institutions and structures are unraveling in response to rapid social, demographic and economic developments. The existing ways of being the church are no longer meaningful to many. How should the church respond?Many seek to address this situation by tweaking the established institutions, finding new structures, reorganizing ...
PaperbackA Fragile Stone
The Emotional Life of Simon Peter
by Michael Card
Foreword by Brennan Manning- Winner of a Chicago Book Clinic 2004 Design Award
"The ultimate reason for getting to know Peter is so together we might better know Jesus. For the story of Peter is the story of Jesus. Perhaps, if you and I do our best, the same will be said of us someday"--Michael Card.
Simon Peter emerges from the pages of the Gospels with greater clarity and definition than any other person ...
PaperbackBetween Pacifism and Jihad
Just War and Christian Tradition
by J. Daryl Charles
Pacifism. Jihad. Militarism. Are these our only alternatives for dealing with global injustice today? J. Daryl Charles leads us to reconsider a Christian view of the use of force to maintain or reestablish justice. He shows how love for a neighborcan warrant the just use of force. Reviewing and updating the widely recognized but not necessarily well-understood just-war teaching of the church through ...
PaperbackThe Possibility of Prayer
Finding Stillness with God in a Restless World
by John Starke
The world clamors for efficiency and productivity.
But the life of prayer is neither efficient nor productive. Instead, as we learn in the psalms, prayer calls us to wait, to watch, to listen, to taste, and to see. These things are not productive by any modern measure—but they are transformative.
As a pastor in Manhattan, John Starke knows the bustle and busyness of ...
