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EbookFollowing Jesus
LifeGuide Bible Studies
by Douglas Connelly
In this study Douglas Connelly looks at various metaphors for how we grow more spiritually mature in Christ, including running a race, carrying a cross, constructing a building, fighting a battle and more.
This eight-session LifeGuide® Bible Study features questions for starting group discussions and for meeting God in personal reflection, as well as a "Now or Later" section following ...
Number of Studies: 8
EbookEncountering Jesus
LifeGuide Bible Studies
by Douglas Connelly
Jesus can change you, no matter what your life situation.
He can give you peace, hope and joy in the most desperate circumstances.
But you need a life-changing encounter with him.
In this eight-session LifeGuide® Bible Study, Douglas Connelly examines the stories of how eight people—among them a scholar, a failure, a blind man and an adulteress—found their lives changed ...
Number of Studies: 8
EbookMeeting Jesus
LifeGuide Bible Studies
by Leighton Ford
Once you've met Jesus, you are never the same again. His teaching challenges your thinking. His compassion softens your heart. His love turns your life around.
In this thirteen session LifeGuide® Bible Study, evangelist LeightonFord leads you through thirteen studies from the four Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke and John) that will open your eyes anew--or for the first time--to Jesus ...
Number of Studies: 13
EbookFabricating Jesus
How Modern Scholars Distort the Gospels
by Craig A. Evans
Modern historical study of the Gospels seems to give us a new portrait of Jesus every spring--just in time for Easter. The more unusual the portrait, the more it departs from the traditional view of Jesus, the more attention it gets in the popularmedia.
Why are scholars so prone to fabricate a new Jesus? Why is the public so eager to accept such claims without question? What methods and assumptions ...
EbookThe Essential Jesus
100 Readings Through the Bible's Greatest Story
by Whitney T. Kuniholm
Jesus is the most influential person of human history."Jesus never became a political, military or government leader; he never wanted to. He never owned a multinational corporation or acquired any wealth to speak of; he didn't need it. He never wrote a book, never staged a concert tour, never appeared on television and never had a radio talk show--or even his own blog. . . . What's so special about ...
Number of Studies: 20
EbookAt the Feet of Jesus
A Guide to Encountering Christ in the Gospels
by D. Bruce Hindmarsh and Carolyn Hindmarsh
Transform Your Prayer Life and Draw Closer to Jesus
At the Feet of Jesus isn't just another book about prayer. It's a guided adventure into the heart of the gospel story, inviting you to step into the lives of someof Jesus' closest friends—Mary, Martha, and Lazarus. Picture yourself sitting at Jesus' feet in faith, just like Mary did, or finding hope and love in his ...
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At a time when few of the nearly seven million English-speaking North American Native people have access to biblical resources, IVP now offers an indigenous translation of the New Testament with the August 31 release of the First Nations Version: An Indigenous Translation of the New Testament.
PaperbackThe Twelve Disciples
LifeGuide Bible Studies
by Douglas Connelly
How Time with Jesus Changes Everything
In only three years, Jesus molded a dozen fearful, faithless men into the pillars of a worldwide movement—the church.
Despite this brief window, the time the twelve disciplesspent in in Jesus's presence had a transforming effect on each of them, and they were forever changed. Through studying the lives of Jesus's disciples, you ...
Number of Studies: 10
PaperbackThe Cross & the Prodigal
Luke 15 Through the Eyes of Middle Eastern Peasants
by Kenneth E. Bailey
Preaching Magazine Year's Best Book for Preachers
Where is the cross in the parable of the prodigal son?
For centuries, Muslims have called attention to the father's forgiveness in this parable in order to question the need for a Mediator between humanity and God. In The Cross and the Prodigal, Kenneth E. Bailey--New Testament scholar ...
PaperbackHope Ain't a Hustle
Persevering by Faith in a Wearying World--Wisdom from the Book of Hebrews
by Irwyn Ince
Foreword by Christina Edmondson"This wonderful book is a pastoral, homiletical gift to those in need of encouragement. Diagnosing the problem of our era as a failure of hope, Irwyn Ince shares the fruit of his profound meditations, study, and preaching of the book of Hebrews. This is the kind of strong medicine needed to restore hope in a generation that has been disappointed by apathy, injustice, and scandal. He shows us that ...
