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InterVarsity Press and Michael Card Launch Biblical Imagination Series at Johnsen & Taylor Bookstore
InterVarsity Press and Michael Card Launch Biblical Imagination Series at Johnsen & Taylor Bookstore
More than one hundred people came through the Johnsen & Taylor bookstore in Wheaton, Illinois, on January 29 to celebrate the launch of the Biblical Imagination Series from award-winning musician and author Michael Card, published by InterVarsity Press. Luke: The Gospel of Amazement and its companion CD, Luke: A World Turned Upside Down, are the first of four books and CDs in a series that invites readers and listeners alike to enter Scripture the way Card has done for years—through the imagination.
PaperbackMore Than Things
A Personalist Ethics for a Throwaway Culture
by Paul Louis Metzger
ECPA Top Shelf Book Cover Award
We live in a culture of commodification. People are too often defined by what they do or own; they're treated as means to an end or cogs in a machine. What goes missing is a deep sense of personhood—the belief that all humans are unique subjects with inherent worth and the right to self-determination in authentic communion ...
PaperbackKingdom Calling
Vocational Stewardship for the Common Good
by Amy L. Sherman
Afterword by Steven Garber
Foreword by Reggie McNealChristianity Today Book Award winner
Imagine the scenarios:
- a CEO successfully negotiates a corporate merger, avoiding hundreds of layoffs in the process
- an artist completes a mosaic for public display at a bank, showcasing neighborhood heroes
- a contractor creates a work-release program in cooperation with a local prison, growing the business ...
PaperbackBeyond Hashtag Activism
Comprehensive Justice in a Complicated Age
by Mae Cannon
The world is not as God intends it to be. God's heart is to make things right, and for the world to be just. But complex problems warrant more sustained attention than quick posts on social media. How can we actually make a difference?Activist Mae Elise Cannon takes us beyond the hashtags to serious engagement with real issues. God calls the church to respond substantively to the ...
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Margot Starbuck
Margot Starbuck is a writer and speaker in Durham, North Carolina. The author of The Girl in the Orange Dress and Unsqueezed, she is passionate about communicating God's great love for all of us. Keep up with heradventures at www.MargotStarbuck.com.
PaperbackThe Disciple
God's Word for Today
by John Stott
With Tim ChesterHow can Christians effectively engage today's world while staying true to Scripture? Calling us to listen well to both the Word and the world, John Stott shows how Christianity can preserve its authentic identity and remain relevant to current realities. With the God's Word for Today series, pastor Tim Chester has updated Stott's classic book The Contemporary Christian ...
PaperbackSeven Practices for the Church on Mission
by David E. Fitch
Jesus gave his followers seven key practices:
- The Lord's Supper
- Reconciliation
- Proclaiming the gospel
- Being with the "least of these"
- Being with children
- Fivefold ministry gifting
- Kingdomprayer
When we practice these disciplines, God becomes faithfully present to us, and we in turn become God's faithful presence to the world. ...
PaperbackRenaissance
The Power of the Gospel However Dark the Times
by Os Guinness
Logos Bookstores' Best Book in Christianity and Culture
Honorable Mention, Best Book of the Year from Byron Borger, Hearts and Minds Bookstore
We live in dark times. Christians wonder: Are the best days of the Christian faith behind us? Has modernity made Christian thought irrelevant and impotent? Is society beyond all hope of redemption and renewal?
In ...
PaperbackIs Reality Secular?
Testing the Assumptions of Four Global Worldviews
Veritas Books
by Mary Poplin
Foreword by Dallas WillardWhat is the nature of reality?At the root of our society's deepest political and cultural divisions are the conflicting principles of four global worldviews. While each of us holds to some version of one of these worldviews, we are often unconscious of their differences as well as their underlying assumptions. Mary Poplin argues that the ultimate test of a worldview, philosophy or ideology is whether ...
PaperbackCalling in Context
Social Location and Vocational Formation
by Susan Lynn Maros
"I don't care for vocational books written in the United States; they're too American." When Susan Maros heard this comment from a Malaysian colleague, she was initially taken aback. Isn't the concept of calling universal? Why wouldn't resources with a biblical perspective on vocation apply to everyone?The reality is that each of us encounters our questions of calling from within ...
