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PaperbackWorking from the Inside Out
A Brief Guide to Inner Work That Transforms Our Outer World
by Jeffrey Haanen
Many today are experiencing social isolation, deep anxieties about the future, and various difficulties in the workplace. For too many of us, work seems tedious, painful, or meaningless. And we don't know what to do about it.
Working from the Inside Out pulls back the veil on the deep emotional and vocational challenges faced by the majority of workers and shows how ...
PaperbackNow I Lay Me Down to Fight
A Poet Writes Her Way Through Cancer
by Katy Bowser Hutson
Illustrated by Jodi Hays
Foreword by Tish Harrison WarrenIn stirring verse and essays, Katy Bowser Hutson chronicles her battle with breast cancer and the complications of faith amid such a fight. Accentuated by the art of Jodi Hays, Katy's words lead us through the realization of cancer, the experience of chemotherapy and a mastectomy, relentless rounds of radiation, the uncertainty of ongoing treatment, and what comes after survival. ...
PaperbackThe Gospel of Peace in a Violent World
Christian Nonviolence for Communal Flourishing
Edited by Shawn Graves and Marlena Graves
"Blessed are the peacemakers."
The gospel of Jesus Christ is the good news of peace: peace between God and humanity, peace among humans. And yet it can be difficult to see that peace in our broken, violent world.
In this volume, Shawn Graves and Marlena Graves have gathered contributions from theologians, pastors, and practitioners on the importance and implementation ...
PaperbackThe Shape of Practical Theology
Empowering Ministry with Theological Praxis
by Ray S. Anderson
Too often in the life of the church, theological reflection and the practical matters of leading and serving have been considered independently. The result has been the impoverishment of both Christian faith and Christian practice. In this groundbreaking book Ray Anderson reflects theologically and practically on preaching, worship, ethics, social justice, therapy, family, homosexuality, ...
HardbackMatthew 1-13
Volume 1A
Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture
Edited by Manlio Simonetti
General Editor Thomas C. OdenThe Gospel of Matthew stands out as a favorite biblical text among patristic commentators. The patristic commentary tradition on Matthew begins with Origen's pioneering twenty-five-volume commentary on the First Gospel in the mid-third century. Inthe Latin-speaking West, where commentaries did not appear until about a century later, the first commentary on Matthew was written by Hilary of Poitiers ...
PaperbackMatthew 1-13
Volume 1A
Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture
Edited by Manlio Simonetti
General Editor Thomas C. OdenThe Gospel of Matthew stands out as a favorite biblical text among patristic commentators. The patristic commentary tradition on Matthew begins with Origen's pioneering twenty-five-volume commentary on the First Gospel in the mid-third century. In the Latin-speaking West, where commentaries did not appear until about a century later, the first commentary on Matthew was written by ...
PaperbackActs
N. T. Wright for Everyone Bible Study Guides
by N. T. Wright, Dale Larsen, and Sandy Larsen
The mysterious presence of Jesus haunts the whole story of Acts. Jesus is announced as King and Lord, not as an increasingly distant memory but as a living and powerful reality, a person who can be known and loved, obeyed and followed, a person who continues to act within the real world. We call the book "The Acts of the Apostles," but we should think of it as "The Acts of Jesus (II)." These studies ...
Number of Studies: 24
PaperbackActs 1–12
Part 1: God's Power in Jerusalem and Judea
LifeGuide Bible Studies
by Phyllis J. Le Peau
Do you ever feel powerless?
The people of the early church discovered what true power looks like. Jesus transformed their lives—and they changed the world!
Acts is the extraordinary record of what these early Christiandisciples did. The power that you see in action in this book is the same power that can transform your life. As Phyllis J. Le Peau leads you through the ...
Number of Studies: 12
PaperbackActs 13–28
Part 2: God's Power at the Ends of the Earth
LifeGuide Bible Studies
by Phyllis J. Le Peau
Sometimes we feel powerless and purposeless. Not so for the people of the early Christian church. Jesus transformed their lives, the Holy Spirit empowered them--and they changed the world! Acts is the extraordinary record of what they did.As we move through these studies on the book of Acts, we see transforming power in action. And we learn what God can do with us to change our own world.
Number of Studies: 12
PaperbackA Week in the Life of a Roman Centurion
A Week in the Life Series
by Gary M. Burge
Enter a world of warfare and treachery, of duty and honor, of love and loyalty, interwoven with the inner workings of a Roman centurion's household. And then trace it as the road curves toward little Capernaum.
Follow the story of Appius, aproud centurion, and Tullus, his scribe and slave. From a battle with the Parthians, through a tragic personal crisis, to the gladiator arena at Caesarea ...
