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EbookEvangelical Theologies of Liberation and Justice
Edited by Mae Cannon and Andrea Smith
For many evangelicals, liberation theology seems a distant notion. Some might think it is antithetical to evangelicalism, while others simply may be unfamiliar with the role evangelicals have played in the development of liberation theologies and their profound effect on Latin American, African American, and other global subaltern Christian communities.
Despite the current ...
EbookUnceasing Worship
Biblical Perspectives on Worship and the Arts
by Harold M. Best
One of Discerning Reader's Best Books
We are not created to worship. Nor are we created for worship. We are created worshiping.
Too often Christians have only thought of worship in terms of particular musical styles or liturgical formats. But a proper view of worship is far larger than what takes place in churches on Sunday mornings. ...
EbookDisability and the Way of Jesus
Holistic Healing in the Gospels and the Church
by Bethany McKinney Fox
Foreword by John Swinton2019 IVP Readers' Choice Award
What does healing mean for people with disabilities?
The Gospels are filled with accounts of Jesus offering physical healing. But even as churches today seek to follow the way of Jesus, people with disabilities all too often experience the very opposite of healing and life-giving community: exclusion, ...
EbookDisabling Mission, Enabling Witness
Exploring Missiology Through the Lens of Disability Studies
Missiological Engagements
by Benjamin T. Conner
In recent decades churches have accommodated people with disabilities in various ways. Through access ramps and elevators and sign language, disabled persons are invited in to worship. But are they actually enfolded into the church's mission? Havethe able-bodied come to recognize and appreciate the potential contributions of people with disabilities in the ministry and witness of the church?Benjamin ...
EbookReading While Black
African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope
by Esau McCaulley
Outreach Resources of the Year, Christianity Today Book Award, The Gospel Coalition Book Award
Biblical Interpretation from the Black Church Tradition
Growing up inthe American South, Esau McCaulley knew firsthand the ongoing struggle between despair and hope that marks the lives of some in the African American context. ...
Ebook1-2 Thessalonians, 1-2 Timothy, Titus, Philemon
New Testament Volume 12
Reformation Commentary on Scripture
Edited by Lee Gatiss and Bradley G. Green
"Since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep." (1 Thess 4:14).
The epistles of the New Testament provide unparalleled insight into the realities of the life of the early church, guidance for those called to lead the church, and comfort in the face of pressing theological questions. Among those ...
EbookFaithful Disobedience
Writings on Church and State from a Chinese House Church Movement
by Wang Yi
Foreword by Ian Johnson
Edited by Hannah Nation and J. D. TsengChristianity Today Book Award Finalist—Missions/Global Church
Reader's Choice Award Winner
Throughout China's rapidly growing cities, a new wave of unregistered house churches is growing. They are developing rich theological perspectives that are both uniquely Chinese and rooted in the historical doctrines of the faith. To understand ...
EbookWhen I Go to Church, I Belong
Finding My Place in God's Family as a Child with Special Needs
by Elrena Evans
Illustrated by Rebecca EvansIllumination Award Gold Medal
Help Children Learn that Everyone Has a Place in God's Family
Church is a place where everyone should feel welcome—but not every child experiences it the same way. When I Go to Church, I Belong is a beautifully illustrated story crafted for children with disabilities and for everyone who desires their churches to ...
EbookWalking Through Deconstruction
How to Be a Companion in a Crisis of Faith
by Ian Harber
Foreword by Gavin OrtlundChristianity Today Book Awards—Apologetics and Evangelism, Award of Merit
The Gospel Coaltion Award of Merit—Christian Living
However you define it, deconstruction is impossible todeny.
"I'm deconstructing my faith." As any pastor can tell you, hearing these words is simply a regular feature of ministry these days. ...
EbookThe Making of the New Testament
Origin, Collection, Text & Canon
by Arthur G. Patzia
The story of the making of the New Testament is one in which scrolls bumped across cobbled Roman roads and pitched through rolling Mediterranean seas, finally finding their destinations in stuffy, dimly lit Christian house churches in Corinth or Colossae. There they were read aloud and reread, handled and copied, forwarded and collected, studied and treasured. And eventually they were brought together ...
