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PaperbackA Future for the Latino Church
Models for Multilingual, Multigenerational Hispanic Congregations
by Daniel A. Rodriguez
Foreword by Manuel OrtizMany assume that Hispanic ministry in North America still necessarily focuses on Spanish-language congregations. But over 60 percent of all American Latinos were born in the United States and are now English dominant.
Daniel Rodriguez argues that effective Latino ministry and church planting are now centered in second-generation, English-dominant leadership and congregations. Based on his ...
PaperbackEvangelical, Sacramental, and Pentecostal
Why the Church Should Be All Three
by Gordon T. Smith
Evangelical. Sacramental. Pentecostal.Christian communities tend to identify with one of these labels over the other two. Evangelical churches emphasize the importance of Scripture and preaching. Sacramental churches emphasize the importance of the eucharistic table. And pentecostal churches emphasize the immediate presence and power of the Holy Spirit. But must we choose between them? Could the ...
PaperbackStory-Shaped Worship
Following Patterns from the Bible and History
by Robbie F. Castleman
What is the right way to worship?Right worship does not require a return to the identical forms found in the early church or later in Rome or after that in Westminster. What it calls for is a faithful response today to the God of our salvation inlight of those biblically ordered and historically informed patterns.In this study Robbie Castleman uncovers the fundamental shape of worship. What she ...
PaperbackAn Explorer's Guide to Julian of Norwich
Explorer's Guides
by Veronica Mary Rolf
IVP Readers' Choice Award
Publishers Weekly Starred Review"All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well."
Julian of Norwich's Revelations of Divine Love is truly an astounding work: an inspired example of Christian mysticism, a unique contribution to Christian theology, the first book in English known ...
HardbackThe Thrill of Orthodoxy
Rediscovering the Adventure of Christian Faith
by Trevin Kyle Wax
Foreword by Kevin J. VanhoozerChristianity Today Book Award of Merit—Popular Theology
The Gospel Coaltion Award of Distinction—Popular Theology
Every generation faces the temptation to wander from orthodoxy—to seekout the jolt that comes with false teaching, and to drift with cultural currents. And so every generation must be awakened again to the thrill ...
PaperbackSpirit Outside the Gate
Decolonial Pneumatologies of the American Global South
Missiological Engagements
by Oscar García-Johnson
Throughout the history of the Christian church, two narratives have constantly clashed: the imperial logic of Babel that builds towers and borders to seize control, versus the logic of Pentecost that empowers "glocal" missionaries of the kingdom life. To what extent are Westernized Christians today ready for the church of the Pentecost narrative? Are they equipped to do ministry ...
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 ...
Hardback1-2 Samuel, 1-2 Kings, 1-2 Chronicles
Old Testament Volume 5
Reformation Commentary on Scripture
Edited by Derek Cooper and Martin J. Lohrmann
"Then David said to the Philistine, 'You come to me with a sword and with a spear and with a javelin, but I come to you in the name of the LORD of hosts.'" (1 Samuel 17:45) Reflecting upon David's victory over Goliath, Reformation translator, theologian and commentator William Tyndale compared it to Christ's victory over sin and death: "When David had killed Goliath the giant, glad tidings came ...
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 ...
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 ...
