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PaperbackForgotten Girls
Stories of Hope and Courage
by Kay Marshall Strom and Michele Rickett
Foreword by Lynne HybelsThink of the little girls you know: your daughter, a niece, a friend's child.And then think about this: little girls are tossed away every day.All over the world, women and girls face
- starvation
- displacement
- illiteracy
- sexual exploitation
- abuse
In fact, statistics show that the world's most oppressed are overwhelmingly female.Moved by their plight, ...
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 ...
PaperbackWhat Jesus Started
Joining the Movement, Changing the World
by Steve Addison
Foreword by Ed StetzerOutreach Magazine Resource of the Year
Sometimes we get so caught up in the power of Jesus shouting from the cross, "It is finished!" that we forget that Jesus started something. What Jesus started was a movement that began small, with intimate conversations designed to build disciples into apostles who would go out in the world and seed it with God's kingdom vision. ...
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has awarded Jamie Aten, coauthor of Disaster Ministry Handbook, with the Community Preparedness Champion Award, one of eleven honors given out as part of the 2016 FEMA Individual and Community Preparedness Awards.
PaperbackOld Testament Theology
by Paul R. House
The discipline of Old Testament theology continues to be in flux as diverse approaches vie for dominance. Into the stream Paul R. House sends this student-friendly offering that should prove useful to a wide audience. Following introductory chapters on the history of the discipline and his own method, House discusses the theological emphases of each book in the order of the Hebrew canon. Readers ...
PaperbackThe Message of Ruth
The Wings of Refuge
The Bible Speaks Today Series
by David J. Atkinson
The book of Ruth tells the story of ordinary people facing ordinary events. We meet Naomi, who went through famine and bereavement but eventually won peace and security. We meet Ruth, a foreign woman from Moab who chose faithfulness to her mother-in-law, Naomi, and to Naomi's God. And we meet Boaz, who by marrying Ruth fitted into God's purposes for history. Both King David and ...
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Dewi Hughes
Dewi Hughes is theological adviser to Tearfund, an international relief organization based in London, and a member of the Lausanne Movement's Theological Working Group.
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How do we reconcile the existence of evil and suffering with the existence of a loving and omnipotent God? These books explore philosophical questions related to suffering, the problem of evil, and the character of God.
PaperbackThe Nature of the Atonement
Four Views
Spectrum Multiview Book Series
Contributions by Gregory A. Boyd, Joel B. Green, Bruce Reichenbach, and Thomas R. Schreiner
Edited by James K. Beilby and Paul R. EddyA long history of biblical exegesis and theological reflection has shaped our understanding of the atonement today. The more prominent highlights of this history have acquired familiar names for the household of faith: Christus Victor, penal substitutionary, subjective, and governmental.
Recently the penal substitutionary view, and particularly its misappropriations, ...
PaperbackSeasons of the Soul
Stages of Spiritual Development
by Bruce Demarest
Every Christian is on an amazing journey.But the unfortunate truth is that many of us live largely detached from this fact. Days go by, but it can be hard to feel a sense of movement or growth. Sometimes, in periods of doubt and depression, we might feel stuck in the same place for months.Yet the truth remains that from the moment we give Christ control of our life, we set out on the most significant ...
