John Mark Hicks: 9 books
The Cruciform Church, Annivesary Edition
Becoming a Cross-Shaped People in a Secular World
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
What is left of the Gospel if you take away the cross?
This central question, asked by C. L. Loos but tucked away in a nineteenth-century journal, launched The Cruciform Church twenty-five years ago. Read by a generation of ministers and church leaders, The Cruciform Church began a reimagination...
Come to the Table
Revisioning the Lord's Supper
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
Christian practice of the Lord's Supper is radically dissimilar from the the silent, solemn, individualistic eating of bread crumbs and drinking sips of wine that many churches practice today. Instead, says Hicks, our practice of the supper should be a joyous communal meal as it was in earliest Christianity....
Down in the River to Pray, Revised Ed.
Revisioning Baptism as God's Transforming Work
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
Combining careful Bible study with enlightening historical survey and practical suggestions, this book provides a rich resource for deepening and renewing a central practice of the Christian faith.
Surrendering to Hope
Guidance for the Broken
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Broken trust is not the end.
Have you ever felt like Job, watching God cure, calm, and care for others, while you remain crumpled on the floor looking for God in the darkness?
In Surrendering to Hope, you’ll find fifteen stories of heartbreak and tragedy told with unflinching honesty—brutal deaths...
Meeting God at the Shack
A Journey into Spiritual Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
How can wounded people come to believe that God deeply loves them?
Many have enjoyed William Young's The Shack, even if they puzzled over the book's actual meaning and theology. While some were quick to dismiss it as fiction, The Shack isn't really fiction at all. It's a modern day parable.
Meeting...
A Gathered People
Revisioning the Assembly as Transforming Encounter
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
As a companion volume to Come to the Table and Down in the River to Pray, this book completes a trilogy on the three "ordinances" of the Stone-Campbell Movement. A Gathered People is an in-depth biblical, historical, and theological study of the Christian assembly or Lord’s Day. It examines Hebrew...
Enter the Water, Come to the Table
Baptism and Lord’s Supper in the Bible’s Story of New Creation
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
A rich resource for renewing the practice of the sacraments in a way that encourages faithful discipleship in a hostile cultural environment.As evangelicals and other Christians continue the renewal and deepening of their practice of the sacraments, Enter the Water, Come to the Table provides an accessible...
by Mark Allison, Laura Beer, Michael Bentley
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
That Thomas Carlyle was influential in his own lifetime and continues to be so over 130 years after his death is a proposition with which few will disagree. His role as his generation’s foremost interpreter of German thought, his distinctive rhetorical style, his approach to history via the “innumerable...
Landing Together
Pacific Amphibious Development and Implications
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
Investments in amphibious capabilities by U.S. partners and allies in the Asia Pacific is altering the range of capabilities available in that region. It is also changing the types and frequency of exercises partner nations seek to undertake with the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps team. This study examines...