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PaperbackWalking the Labyrinth
A Place to Pray and Seek God
by Travis Scholl
Foreword by Walter Wangerin, Jr.One day Travis Scholl discovered a labyrinth in his neighborhood. As he began to walk it, he found this ancient practice offered a much-needed path away from life's demands, allowing him to encounter God in quiet solitude.
In this meditative guide, Travis Scholl takes readers on a journey:
"The path is always new, because, as a spiritual discipline, the labyrinth is a tool for contemplation, ...
HardbackJoshua, Judges, Ruth
Old Testament Volume 4
Reformation Commentary on Scripture
by N. Scott Amos
"Where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God my God."
Ruth's response to her mother-in-law Naomi demonstrated both Ruth's loyalty to her family and her trust in God. The Reformers of the sixteenth century found theological significance in such Old Testament narratives. For example, German Lutheran pastor and theologian ...
HardbackProverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs
Reformation Commentary on Scripture
Edited by David C. Fink
"For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:
a time to be born, and a time to die..."
When the reformers of the sixteenth century turned to this well-known text from the Book of Ecclesiastes, they did not find a reason to despair, but rather confirmation of their hope and faith in God. For example, Martin Luther pointed ...
HardbackMatthew
New Testament Volume 1
Reformation Commentary on Scripture
Edited by Jason K. Lee and William M. Marsh
"As they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, 'Take, eat; this is my body.'"
How should one interpret these words of Jesus?
The sixteenth-century Reformers turned to Scripture to find the truth of God's Word, but that doesn't mean they always agreed on how to interpret it. For example, when approaching ...
Hardback2 Corinthians
New Testament Volume 9B
Reformation Commentary on Scripture
Edited by Scott M. Manetsch
"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come."
When the Reformers of the sixteenth century turned to this biblical text, originally written by Paul to the first-century church in Corinth, they found truths that apply to Christians regardless of their historical context. For example, Reformed theologian Wolfgang ...
PaperbackWhat Hath Darwin to Do with Scripture?
Comparing Conceptual Worlds of the Bible and Evolution
by Dru Johnson
Believe it or not, the book of Genesis might have been the most Darwinian text in the ancient world. And throughout the opening books of Scripture, we find ideas that would also become prominent insights of the biologist Charles Darwin interlaced with the Bible's one-of-a-kind origin story. Key plot markers come to the surface again and again, driving the history of Israel and the ...
AudiobookMastering Our Emotions
Biblical Principles for Emotional Health
by Kevin Chapman
Read by Christopher HamptonEmotions are a gift from God—yes, even the "bad" ones.
Anxiety can keep us up at night. Anger can cause us to fly off the handle. Sadness can drain us of energy. Shame can isolate us. Emotions like these are powerful. They can tax our relationships and distress our souls. No amount of sheer willpower or good intentions are sufficient to overcome them.
But God has a ...
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Tamara Park
Now back in the United States, Tamara Park is pastor of community at Warehouse 242, a church in urban Charlotte, North Carolina.
PaperbackPolycentric Missiology
21st-Century Mission from Everyone to Everywhere
by Allen Yeh
The Edinburgh 1910 World Missionary Conference was the most famous missions conference in modern church history. A century later, five conferences on five continents displayed the landscape of global mission at the dawn of the third millennium: Tokyo 2010, Edinburgh 2010, Cape Town 2010, 2010Boston, and CLADE V (San José, 2012). These five events provide a window into the state of world Christianity ...
HardbackIsaiah 1–39
Old Testament Volume 10A
Reformation Commentary on Scripture
Edited by Jeffrey Fisher
"And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, 'Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?'
Then I said, 'Here I am! Send me.'"
In his interpretation of Isaiah's vision of God and subsequent sending, the Anabaptist reformer Menno Simons perceived a pattern for all prophets, apostles, ministers, and preachers who are called and then sent out to spread the ...
