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PaperbackOverturning Tables
Freeing Missions from the Christian-Industrial Complex
by Scott A. Bessenecker
Outreach Resource of the Year Recommendation
Best World Missions Book, from Byron Borger, Hearts and Minds Bookstore
We are more than the businesses we have become.
Muchof Christian ministry has been shaped to operate not according to the witness of the Scriptures, but according to the values of the free market. We adopt ...
Paperback2 Chronicles
An Introduction and Commentary
Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries
by Martin J. Selman
The Chronicler wrote as a pastoral theologian. The congregation he addressed was an Israel separated from its former days of blessing by a season of judgment. The books of 1 and 2 Chronicles bring a divine word of healing and reaffirm the hope ofrestoration to a nation that needed to regain its footing in God's promises and to reshape its life before God.The Chronicler expounds the Bible as he knows ...
HardbackHebrews
Volume 10
Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture
Edited by Erik M. Heen and Philip D. W. Krey
General Editor Thomas C. OdenDistinctive in form, content, and style, the epistle to the Hebrews offers a profound high Christology and makes an awe-inspiring contribution to our understanding of Jesus as our High Priest. The earliest extant commentary on theletter comes to us in thirty-four homilies from John Chrysostom. These homilies serve to anchor the excerpts chosen by the editors of this volume because ...
PaperbackHebrews
Volume 10
Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture
Edited by Erik M. Heen and Philip D. W. Krey
General Editor Thomas C. OdenDistinctive in form, content, and style, the epistle to the Hebrews offers a profound high Christology and makes an awe-inspiring contribution to our understanding of Jesus as our High Priest. The earliest extant commentary on theletter comes to us in thirty-four homilies from John Chrysostom. These homilies serve to anchor the excerpts chosen by the editors of this volume because ...
PaperbackEffective Discipling in Muslim Communities
Scripture, History and Seasoned Practices
by Don Little
Muslims who come to Christ face momentous spiritual, psychological and social obstacles that drive many to abandon their faith. Often conversion and discipleship are framed by individualistic Western models that do not acknowledge the communal cultural forces that constrain and shape new believers. Effective discipleship requires a more relational, holistic process of Christian identity development ...
PaperbackThe Next Evangelicalism
Freeing the Church from Western Cultural Captivity
by Soong-Chan Rah
- 2010 Golden Canon Leadership Book Award winner
The future is now. Philip Jenkins has chronicled how the next Christendom has shifted away from the Western church toward the global South and East. Likewise, changing demographics mean that North American society will accelerate its diversity in terms of race, ethnicity and culture. But evangelicalism has long been held captive ...
PaperbackInterpreting the Prophets
Reading, Understanding and Preaching from the Worlds of the Prophets
by Aaron Chalmers
The prophetic books are some of the most captivating and fascinating texts of the Old Testament, but they are also some of the most misunderstood. Interpreting the Prophets equips the reader with the knowledge and skills they need to interpret the Prophets in a faithful and accurate fashion. Beginning with the nature of the prophetic role and prophetic books in Israel, Old Testament scholar ...
PaperbackA Radiant Resurrection
Lent and Easter Readings from Ash Wednesday to Pentecost
With Jill Peláez Baumgaertner, Matthew Dickerson, John Leax, Ben Myers, Tania Runyan, Daniel Taylor, Jeanne Murray Walker, Walter Wangerin, Jr., Madeleine L'Engle, Scott Cairns, John Chrysostom, Winn Collier, Deborah Dickerson, Diane Glancy, Robert Hudson, Paula Huston, Liz McFadzean, Amanda DeVos Newell, Gina Ochsner, Robert Siegel, Richard J. Foster, Marilyn McEntyre, Eugene H Peterson, Luci Shaw, Lauren F. Winner, and Sarah Arthur
Foreword by Jessica Hooten Wilson
Edited by Paul J. Willis and Leslie Leyland FieldsA Companion for Your Journey from Ash Wednesday to Pentecost
"Let no one fear death, for the death of our Savior has set us free."—St. John Chrysostom
Lent is a pilgrimage of the soul when Christians have always commemorated the death and resurrection of Jesus with a season of reflection. Through poems, essays, and devotional readings, A Radiant Resurrection ...
PaperbackSpiritual Formation for the Global Church
A Multi-Denominational, Multi-Ethnic Approach
Edited by Ryan A. Brandt and John Frederick
The church is called to grow in Christ. Yet too often, it ignores the practical dimensions of the faith.
The church is one in Christ. Yet too often, it is divided by national, denominational, theological, and racial or ethnic boundaries.
The church is a global body of believers. Yet too often, it privileges a few voices and fails to recognize its own diversity.
In response, this ...
PaperbackIsrael & the Nations
The History of Israel from the Exodus to the Fall of the Second Temple
by F. F. Bruce and David F. Payne
The story of Israel is one of the outstanding tales of human history. Israel, occupying a narrow strip of land between sea and desert, was positioned on an international highway of commerce and warfare. This was a people whose future would be intertwined with the stories of nations great and small.
F. F. Bruce shapes the daunting complexities of this history, nearly fourteen hundred years ...
