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PaperbackChurch, State and Public Justice
Five Views
Spectrum Multiview Book Series
Contributions by Clarke E. Cochran, Derek H. Davis, Corwin E. Smidt, Ronald J. Sider, and J. Philip Wogaman
Edited by Paul C KemenyAbortion. Physician-assisted suicide. Same-sex marriages. Embryonic stem-cell research. Poverty. Crime. What is a faithful Christian response?
The God of the Bible is unquestionably a God of justice. Yet Christians have hadtheir differences as to how human government and the church should bring about a just social order. Although Christians share many deep and significant ...
PaperbackThe Kingdom of God
LifeGuide Bible Studies
by Greg Jao
Jesus speaks often of "the kingdom of God."
What is it?
Where is it?
When is it?
Why is it so important?
Understanding and participating in God's kingdom on earth is central to the Christian life. In this study guide,Gregory Jao leads you through ten-session LifeGuide® Bible Study that explore God's kindgom—transforming your picture of God, Christianity and your role ...
Number of Studies: 10
PaperbackWhat Hath Justice to Do with Righteousness?
Reclaiming the Intersection of Protest and Prayer
by Charlie E. Dates
Foreword by Esau McCaulley“Dates doesn’t speak on his own authority. He takes us to the authority of God expressed in Scripture to demonstrate how the wrongful tearing apart of righteousness and justice within much of the church has also torn us apart.” — Beth Moore, founder and president of Living Proof Ministries
Justice is God's Righteousness in Action
Reclaim what was always ...
PaperbackFresh Vision for the Muslim World
by Mike Kuhn
After living for more than two decades in the Middle East, pastor, author and college Arabic instructor Mike Kuhn wonders if there can be a fresh vision for the Muslim world—one not rooted in media lies or personal fears but in the values of Christ's kingdom. Is the only option to fight, to eradicate, to judge? Or can the mindset of confrontation give way to one of incarnation?In Fresh Vision ...
PaperbackJesus, Paul and the End of the World
A Comparative Study in New Testament Eschatology
by Ben Witherington III
More than eighty years ago Albert Schweitzer posed a question of enduring debate for New Testament scholarship. Did Jesus--and later Paul--believe that the apocalyptic kingdom of God was about to appear, bringing an end to this world? Indeed, what were the eschatological teachings of Jesus and Paul? Is there any appreciable continuity between the two?Ben Witherington takes a hard look at the Gospel ...
PaperbackTo Alter Your World
Partnering with God to Rebirth Our Communities
by Michael Frost and Christiana Rice
- 15th Annual Outreach Magazine Resource of the Year - Also Recommended in Church
In Christ, a new world is being born and the new creation is unfurling all around us. God is directing history toward the future restoration, repair, and renewal of all creation. And our job is to cooperate with God in being a sign and foretaste of that coming world. Renowned missional leaders Michael ...
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Amy L. Williams
Youth ministry veteran Amy Williams ministers to teens involved in gangs and those lost in the criminal justice system with a key strategy of life-on-life mentoring. As a certified gang intervention specialist, she heard God's call to move into aLatino gang neighborhood in Chicago's Humboldt Park community to be a "Hope Dealer" doing street outreach and walking life with young people on her block. Amy is project coordinator at New Life Centers, bringing in restorative justice programming toyouth at juvenile prisons. Amy has been a youth pastor, a reentry coordinator, and a youth mentor and advocate. She is a graduate of both University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and National Louis University. She resides in Chicago and loves salsa dancing and is a true beach baby.
PaperbackTen Movements of the Jesus Way
Shifting from Worldly Self-Interest to Radical Discipleship
by Graham Hill
Walking the Radical Path of Jesus in Today's Fractured World
In our current cultural moment, we are fractured by political polarization, performative religiosity, consumerism, nationalism, and deepening inequality. Christians need to resist these forces with the alternative spiritual and theological vision of the Jesus Way.
Ten Movements of the Jesus Way is ...
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In this interview, IVP authors Carmen Joy Imes, Dorina Lazo Gilmore-Young, E. K. Strawser, Nijay Gupta, Rob Dixon, and Sandra L. Glahn reflect on Women’s History Month and the importance of hearing women—and what we miss when we don’t. Gilmore-Young and Gupta are hosts of the IVP podcast Hear Women.
HardbackHabits of Hope
Educational Practices for a Weary World
Foreword by Amos Yong
Edited by Todd C. Ream, Jerry Pattengale, and Christopher J. DeversIn the world of education, disorientation and uncertainty has been increasing for several decades, with the Covid-19 pandemic only exacerbating preexisting challenges. Christians called to academic vocations need authentic hope tosustain them in their work—and they need to be able to share that hope with a weary world.
Habits of Hope explores a Christian understanding ...
