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PaperbackRetrieving Doctrine
Essays in Reformed Theology
by Oliver D. Crisp
In this volume Oliver Crisp offers a set of essays that analyze the significance and contribution of several great thinkers in the Reformed tradition, ranging from John Calvin and Jonathan Edwards to Karl Barth. Crisp demonstrates how these thinkers navigated pressing theological issues in their historical settings and in what ways contemporary readers can draw important insights from the tradition ...
PaperbackCross-Cultural Partnerships
Navigating the Complexities of Money and Mission
by Mary T. Lederleitner
Foreword by Duane H ElmerOne of the biggest challenges in global mission work is money?not merely the need for it, but working through cross-cultural differences surrounding how funds are used and accounted for. Cross-cultural missteps regarding financial issues can derail partnerships between supporting churches and agencies and national leaders on the ground. North Americans don?t understand how cultural expectations ...
PaperbackBridges to Islam
A Christian Perspective on Folk Islam
by Phil Parshall
In the acclaimed book Muslim Evangelism, Phil Parshall devotes one chapter to "bridges" which can assist in facilitating understanding between Islam and Christianity. In Bridges to Islam he expands that key chapter into a book. The most promising bridges can be found not in orthodox Islam, contends the author, but in "folk Islam", which is less well known in the West but which ...
PaperbackEncounter God in the City
Onramps to Personal and Community Transformation
by Randy White
Foreword by Raymond J BakkeGod is at work in the city. And he invites his people to join him. But the city is not merely a mission field for Christians to target. The city is also the environment where Christians are discipled and lives are forged into the image of Jesus.Urban ministry veteran Randy White shows how God transforms you when you answer God's call to the city. Urban life peels away your sin and self-deception ...
HardbackJeremiah, Lamentations
Volume 12
Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture
Edited by Dean O. Wenthe
General Editor Thomas C. OdenJeremiah, the weeping prophet, prophesied for four decades under the last five kings of Judah—from 627 to 587 B.C. His mission: a call to repentance. Among the apostolic fathers, Jeremiah was rarely cited, but several later authors give prominent attention to him, including Origen, Theodoret of Cyr, and Jerome, who wrote individual commentaries on Jeremiah, and Cyril of Alexandria ...
PaperbackJeremiah, Lamentations
Volume 12
Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture
Edited by Dean O. Wenthe
General Editor Thomas C. OdenJeremiah, the weeping prophet, prophesied for four decades under the last five kings of Judah—from 627 to 587 B.C. His mission: a call to repentance. Among the apostolic fathers, Jeremiah was rarely cited, but several later authors give prominent attention to him, including Origen, Theodoret of Cyr, and Jerome, who wrote individual commentaries on Jeremiah, and Cyril of Alexandria ...
HardbackMatthew 1-13
Volume 1A
Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture
Edited by Manlio Simonetti
General Editor Thomas C. OdenThe Gospel of Matthew stands out as a favorite biblical text among patristic commentators. The patristic commentary tradition on Matthew begins with Origen's pioneering twenty-five-volume commentary on the First Gospel in the mid-third century. Inthe Latin-speaking West, where commentaries did not appear until about a century later, the first commentary on Matthew was written by Hilary of Poitiers ...
HardbackMatthew 14-28
Volume 1B
Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture
Edited by Manlio Simonetti
General Editor Thomas C. OdenThe Gospel of Matthew stands out as a favorite biblical text among patristic commentators. The patristic commentary tradition on Matthew begins with Origen's pioneering twenty-five-volume commentary on the First Gospel in the mid-third century. Inthe Latin-speaking West, where commentaries did not appear until about a century later, the first commentary on Matthew was written by Hilary of Poitiers ...
PaperbackThe Cross and the Crescent
Understanding the Muslim Heart and Mind
by Phil Parshall
In this warm and personal book the author looks at what Muslims believe and how this affects—and often doesn't affect—their behavior. Phil Parshall compares and contrasts Muslim and Christian views on the nature of God, sacred scriptures, worship,sin, and holiness.
PaperbackThe Great Omission
A Biblical Basis for World Evangelism
by Robertson McQuilkin
In The Great Omission, respected missions thinker Robertson McQuilkin answers the question, "How is it—with so many unreached peoples, there are so few Christians going?" He investigates the reasons so few attempt to carry the message of Christ to the multitudes who have never heard of him. Not only is McQuilkin well-versed on trends and strategies in world missions, he also knows how to ...
