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PaperbackOld Testament Theology
Israel's Gospel
Old Testament Theology Series
by John Goldingay
ECPA Gold Medallion Award winner
In this first volume of a three-volume Old Testament theology, John Goldingay focuses on narrative. Examining the biblical order of God's creation of and interactions with the world and Israel, he tells the story of Israel's gospel as a series of divine acts:
- God Began
- God Started Over
- God Promised
- God Delivered
- God ...
PaperbackThe Beginning and End of All Things
A Biblical Theology of Creation and New Creation
Essential Studies in Biblical Theology
by Edward W Klink
Series edited by Benjamin L. GladdMany Christians think of the doctrine of creation primarily as relating to the world's origins. In The Beginning and End of All Things, Edward W. Klink III presents a more holistic understanding of creation—a story that is unfolded throughout all of Scripture and is at the core of the gospel itself.
From beginning to end, the theme of creation and new creation not ...
PaperbackReconciling All Things
A Christian Vision for Justice, Peace and Healing
Resources for Reconciliation
by Emmanuel Katongole and Chris Rice
Christianity Today Book Award winner
Our world is broken and cries out for reconciliation.
But mere conflict resolution and peacemaking are not enough. What makes real reconciliation possible?How is it that some people are able to forgive the most horrendous of evils? And what role does God play in these stories? Does reconciliation make any ...
PaperbackThe Image of God in an Image Driven Age
Explorations in Theological Anthropology
Wheaton Theology Conference Series
Edited by Beth Felker Jones and Jeffrey W. Barbeau
Whether on the printed page, the television screen or the digital app, we live in a world saturated with images.Some images help shape our understanding of ourselves and the world around us in positive ways, while others lead us astray and distortour relationships. Christians confess that human beings have been created in the image of God, yet we chose to rebel against that God and so became unfaithful ...
PaperbackLetters of John
Embracing Certainty in Times of Insecurity
John Stott Bible Studies
by John Stott
With Dale Larsen and Sandy LarsenWe live in times of insecurity.
New nations are coming to birth. Social and political patterns are evolving. Violence, terrorism, and war threaten the very foundations of civilization. These external insecurities are reflected in the internal world of the mind and of the spirit. There is widespread distrust of Christian faith and a preference for agnosticism or free thought. ...
Number of Studies: 10
PaperbackThe Mission of the Body of Christ
Retelling the Story Series
by Russ Ramsey
"God had not just sent his Messiah into the world. He had sent him to them. They were known. In all their guilt—intended and unintended—they were known and invited to find refuge in the grace of God, accomplished through the life, death, and resurrection of his Son. And the church continued to grow."
Jesus sent his followers into the world. Russ Ramsey's dynamic narrative traces ...
Number of Studies: 31
PaperbackKnowing the Holy Spirit Through the Old Testament
Knowing God Through the Old Testament Set
by Christopher J. H. Wright
We tend to think of the Holy Spirit as the straggler of the Trinity, a latecomer in God's interaction with the world. But our first introduction to the Holy Spirit is not the drama of Pentecost in the second chapter of Acts. We first meet the HolySpirit in the second verse of the Bible, hovering there, speaking the world into existence.
Christopher Wright begins here and traces the Holy Spirit ...
PaperbackPioneering Movements
Leadership That Multiplies Disciples and Churches
by Steve Addison
Foreword by Dave FergusonGod's mission needs movement leaders.
Jesus pioneered something completely new in human history—a dynamic missionary movement intent on reaching the world. His mission is as clear and as relevant today as in the days of the early church: to make disciples everywhere, baptizing them and teaching them to obey everything Jesus has commanded. But the potential of the church remains untapped. ...
PaperbackServing God in Today's Cities
Facing the Challenges of Urbanization
Operation World Resources
by Patrick Johnstone
With Dean Merrill
Foreword by Ed StetzerWelcome to the world's first urban century. How will you respond?For the first time ever, more people now live in cities than outside them. Cities offer both big headaches and vast opportunities, and agencies that once focused onrural work are increasingly turning their attention to urban centers. Join veteran researcher and missiologist Patrick Johnstone as he explores the fastest ...
PaperbackThe Church in Exile
Living in Hope After Christendom
by Lee Beach
The people of God throughout history have been a people of exile and diaspora. Whether under the Assyrians, Babylonians, Greeks or Romans, the people chosen by God have had to learn how to be a holy people in alien lands and under foreign rule. For much of its history, however, the Christian church lived with the sense of being at home in the world, with considerable influence and power. That age ...
