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As you journey deeper in the Christian pilgrimage, you come to realize that the Christian life is more than merely replicating particular spiritual disciplines or practices. You begin to understand that at the core of Christian faith is the transformation of your very identity. M. Robert Mulholland Jr. exposes the false selves that you may be tempted to hide behind and helps you to instead discover ...
A wanton and adulterous woman repeatedly spurns the love of her youth. Her betrayed and grieving husband offers forgiveness and seeks to restore the intimacy of their first love.Bold imagery indeed for telling the story of God and his people. Bolder still when God calls a prophet to enflesh this divine suffering and redeeming forgiveness in his own marriage. Yet this remarkable story sets the stage ...
¿Cómo sabemos que el Nuevo Testamento es confiable?
Es una cuestión importante, pero los debates sobre si el Nuevo Testamento es históricamente exacto pueden ser tediosos y abrumadores. Queremos tener la certeza de que losrelatos del Nuevo Testamento son verdaderos y dignos de confianza, pero las discusiones académicas sobre la autenticidad de los eventos narrados en las ...
For over thirty years, IVP has held select writing workshops to help developing authors hone their craft and write for publication. That experience is now available to the public as a weeklong writing workshop hosted at IVP's headquarters in the Chicago suburbs.
Everyone in a position of responsibility knows the tension of leadership. It may be between tasks or people, money or mission, the present or the future. One often neglected tension is between our inner spiritual longings and the outward needs ofthe group we lead.But we need not feel forced to choose between the two. Leadership has more in common with an ellipse with two focal points than a bull's-eye ...
Genesis is a book of orgins--the orgin of the universe, the origin of life and the origin of man. It places man in his cosmic setting, shows his particular uniquness, explains his wonder and his flaw, and begins to trace the flow of human historythrough space and time.Many today, however, view this book as a collection of myths, useful for understanding the Hebrew mind, perhaps, but vertainly not ...
"I cannot suppose any situation more distressing than for a woman of sensibility with an improving mind to be bound to such a man as I have described."
Mary Wollstonecraft's response to one of her early critics points to thefact that fiction has long been employed by authors to cast a vision for social change. Less acknowledged, however, has been the role of the Christian ...
For contemporary Western readers, it can be easy to miss or misread cultural nuances in the New Testament. To hear the text correctly we must be attuned to its original context. As David deSilva demonstrates, keys to interpretation are found in paying attention to four essential cultural themes: honor and shame, patronage and reciprocity, kinship and family, and purity and pollution.
Through ...