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PaperbackReading Scripture with the Reformers
by Timothy George
In Reading Scripture with the Reformers, Timothy George takes readers through the exciting events of the sixteenth century, showing how this dynamic period was instigated by a fresh return to the Scriptures. George immerses us in the world of the Reformation, its continuities with the ancient and medieval church, and its dramatic upheavals and controversies. Most of all, he uncovers the ...
PaperbackA Just Passion
A Six-Week Lenten Journey
Contributions by Ruth Haley Barton, Sheila Wise Rowe, Tish Harrison Warren, and Terry Wildman
A Collection of Lenten Devotions from IVP Authors
Injustice is rampant around us. It is also present within us. To better confront oppression in the world, we must own that reality and look to Christ our liberator. Lent is the opportune time for this as we contemplate his suffering together.
With selections from a diverse range of IVP books, A Just Passion has ...
Number of Studies: 38
PaperbackDiscovering Church Planting
An Introduction to the Whats, Whys, and Hows of Global Church Planting
by J. D. Payne
Foreword by David J. HesselgraveIn Discovering Church Planting, J. D. Payne explores the biblical, historical, and missiological principles of global church planting as well as unfolding practical strategies for confronting contemporary challenges to our vital task in reaching a lost world.
This comprehensive introduction to church planting shows the reader how to apply effective, international church planting ...
PaperbackDiscovering Our Spiritual Identity
Practices for God's Beloved
by Trevor Hudson
Foreword by Dallas WillardEach chapter in this workbook by Trevor Hudson is peppered with "holy experiments," simple practices that bring us into God's presence and help us experience life as his beloved. At the end of each chapter is a set of questions which are ideal fordiscussion with one or two spiritual friends or a small group.
This practical and winsome book covers topics such as
- hearing and speaking ...
PaperbackJournaling as a Spiritual Practice
Encountering God Through Attentive Writing
by Helen Cepero
Whether you are a longtime journal keeper or someone who has never kept a journal at all, this book will help you go below the surface of your life with God. It is not about the art of writing, but about how journaling can form us spiritually. Every chapter combines descriptive text, illustrations from journals and the author's own experience with journaling practices integrated along the way to ...
PaperbackRepresenting Christ
A Vision for the Priesthood of All Believers
by Uche Anizor and Hank Voss
The priesthood of all believers is a core Protestant belief. But what does it actually mean?
Uche Anizor and Hank Voss set the record straight in this concise treatment of a doctrine that lies at the center of church life and Christian spirituality. The authors look at the priesthood of all believers in terms of the biblical witness, the contribution of Martin Luther and the doctrine of ...
PaperbackNecessary Christianity
What Jesus Shows We Must Be and Do
by Claude Richard Alexander
We live in a world of options, where we might do this or that if we feel like it. But for followers of Jesus, certain things are not optional, but necessary.
Bishop Claude Alexander unpacks the Gospels' statements of what Jesus said he must do. He must be about his Father's business. He must go through Samaria. He must go to Jerusalem.
Life ...
PaperbackThe Passionate Intellect
Christian Faith and the Discipleship of the Mind
by Alister McGrath
- 2011 Christianity Today Book Award winner
Alister McGrath, one of the most prominent theologians and public intellectuals of our day, explains how Christian thinking can and must have a positive role in shaping, nourishing and safeguarding the Christian vision of reality. With this in our grasp, we have the capacity for robust intellectual and cultural engagement, confidently ...
PaperbackThe Soul of Hip Hop
Rims, Timbs and a Cultural Theology
by Daniel White Hodge
What is Hip Hop?
Hip hop speaks in a voice that is sometimes gruff, sometimes enraged, sometimes despairing, sometimes hopeful.
Hip hop is the voice of forgotten streets laying claim to the high life of rims and timbs and threads and bling.
Hip hop speaks in the muddled language of would-be prophets--mocking the architects of the status quo and stumbling in the dark toward a blurred ...
PaperbackWhen Athens Met Jerusalem
An Introduction to Classical and Christian Thought
by John Mark Reynolds
Christian theology shaped and is shaping many places in the world, but it was the Greeks who originally gave a philosophic language to Christianity. John Mark Reynolds's book When Athens Met Jerusalem provides students a well-informed introduction to the intellectual underpinnings (Greek, Roman and Christian) of Western civilization and highlights how certain current intellectual trends ...
