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InterVarsity Press was honored to have two titles make the shortlist for WORLD Magazine's 2019 Books of the Year.
PaperbackWanting to Be Her
Body Image Secrets Victoria Won't Tell You
by Michelle S Graham
How do you feel when you look at a magazine cover?
Do you ever look at the models and wish you looked like them?
Most women have had that experience. When you go to the health club, you notice how buff the woman to the left is and howskinny the woman to the right is. And when you go out, you see the guys flocking to talk with certain women and wonder if your looks stack up to theirs.
When ...
PaperbackUnleader
The Surprising Qualities of a Valuable Leader
by Jane Overstreet
What kind of leader would you be if you were suddenly handed more power? What if you got that promotion you wanted or a headhunter called tomorrow offering you your dream job? Would your leadership be an example of servanthood and justice, or would you give in to the temptations that power always presents?In the time it took Samuel to pour oil on each of their heads, Saul and David both moved from ...
PaperbackPaul and First-Century Letter Writing
Secretaries, Composition and Collection
by E. Randolph Richards
Traditional Christian art depicts Paul the letter writer, pen in hand, attentive to the Spirit. We might think we know better and imagine him pacing in agitation as he rapidly dictates to a secretary his letter to the Galatians. But in reality neither of these pictures is accurate.
In Paul's day, producing a letter was a time-consuming and costly business. And we have ample resources from ...
PaperbackWomen in Ministry
Four Views
Spectrum Multiview Book Series
Contributions by Robert Culver, Susan T. Foh, Walter L. Liefeld, and Alvera Mickelsen
Edited by Bonnidell Clouse and Robert G. ClouseShould women teach men? Should they exercise authority over men? What about ordaining women?
Even those who agree that Scripture must determine our answers do not agree on what it teaches. And too often differing sides havenot been willing to listen to one another. This Spectrum Multiview volume shares the views of four deeply committed evangelicals that focus the discussion ...
PaperbackEvangelism Outside the Box
New Ways to Help People Experience the Good News
by Rick Richardson
It used to be that providing clear evidence for the resurrection of Jesus or the reliability of the Bible was a pretty effective way to reach people with the Good News. But today, many folks think all truth is relative, even our historical and scientific data about Christianity. So how can we reach them?
We need new ways of telling people the old, old story. We need to look again at our usual ...
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 ...
PaperbackFollowing Jesus in the "Real World"
Discipleship for the Post-College Years
by Richard C. Lamb
What does it mean to follow Jesus after college?
If it was ever easy to graduate from college, choose a direction, and move on in life, it's not easy today. The terrain is unmapped, the destination uncertain, the stakes high.
To add to the pressure, Christians often find themselves looking back nostalgically on their school days. Then they knew genuine community, found time to pray, ...
PaperbackGrassroots Asian Theology
Thinking the Faith from the Ground Up
by Simon Chan
A dynamic chapter of church history is now being written in Asia. But the theological inflections at its heart are not well understood by outsiders. The published voices of elite academic theologians have drowned out the cadences of Christian faith as it is spoken, lived and prayed in the homes and churches of Tokyo or Shanghai or Madras. Now, in Grassroots Asian Theology, Simon Chan examines ...
PaperbackMapping Apologetics
Comparing Contemporary Approaches
by Brian K. Morley
Everyone believes something. But how and why do people believe? What counts as evidence? How much can be assumed or believed by faith alone? When it comes to religious faith, the questions become at once more difficult and more important. Over thecenturies, Christians have offered different approaches to explaining or defending the Christian faith, a discipline known as apologetics. But it has not ...
