Baker Publishing Group: 4943 books
You Lost Me
Why Young Christians Are Leaving Church...and Rethinking Faith
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Close to 60 percent of young people who went to church as teens drop out after high school. Now the bestselling author of unChristian trains his researcher's eye on these young believers. Where Kinnaman's first book unChristian showed the world what outsiders aged 16-29 think of Christianity, You...
Chaos and Grace
Discovering the Liberating Work of the Holy Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
It's no secret that we are addicted to control. We work to control our time, our TVs, our weight, and even our faith lives. We strive for efficiency and quantifiable results. But all that control, we soon find out, is exhausting. And it is contrary to God's plan for us. In Chaos and Grace, Mark Galli...
Choose Love Not Power
How to Right the World's Wrongs from a Place of Weakness
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2009
The God who set aside power in order to live out love--fully expressing that love on Calvary's tree--is at the core of the Christian message to the world. Yet in the centuries since Christ's refusal to yield to Satan's temptation to establish his kingdom through economic, political, and religious...
Gospel-Driven Life, The
Being Good News People in a Bad News World
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
In his well-received Christless Christianity Michael Horton offered a prophetic wake-up call for a self-centered American church. With The Gospel-Driven Life he turns from the crisis to the solutions, offering his recommendations for a new reformation in the faith, practice, and witness of contemporary...
Dining with the Devil
The Megachurch Movement Flirts with Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1993
What shapes the message of the church? The Bible and Spirit? Or society and culture? Os Guinness points out perils of compromise in the church growth movement.
Finally Feminist (Acadia Studies in Bible and Theology)
A Pragmatic Christian Understanding of Gender
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2005
Discussions about gender continue in many Christian denominations. With good people and solid arguments on each side of the divide, there seems to be little hope for a synthesis or even constructive dialogue. In this brief book, John Stackhouse proposes a way forward.
Stackhouse provides biblical,...
Every Little Thing
Making a World of Difference Right Where You Are
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
Everyone has had that moment--we see a need in our church, our school, our neighborhood, our family, or our world and we think, Someone really should get to work on that, never imagining that we might be the answer to that need. We don't have the time, the expertise, the money. We've got careers to...
Putting Amazing Back into Grace
Embracing the Heart of the Gospel
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
What does it mean to be "saved by grace"? Now revised and updated, this classic reminds readers of the Reformation's radical view of God and his saving grace, the liberating yet humbling truth that we contribute nothing to our salvation. It lays out the scriptural basis for this doctrine...
Gift and Giver
The Holy Spirit for Today
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2001
In Gift and Giver, a substantial revision of his 3 Crucial Questions about the Holy Spirit, prolific author Craig Keener takes a probing look at the various evangelical understandings of the role of the Holy Spirit in the church. His desire is for Christians to "work for consensus, or at least...
The Heart of the Gospel
The Theology behind the Master Plan of Evangelism
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
For more than forty years, Robert E. Coleman's bestselling The Master Plan of Evangelism has been the standard in evangelism literature. But what is the theology behind evangelism? And why is it important for Christians to understand? The Heart of the Gospel offers a systematic theology of evangelism...
The Answer to Our Cry
Freedom to Live Fully, Love Boldly, and Fear Nothing
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
We all long for freedom from anxiety, worry, and fear. We long to be free from sin and free to love others completely as God loves us. And yet we are shackled by insecurity, prone to selfishness, and wary of letting down our guard. That's not the life God designed for his followers. When his enslaved...
by Iain W. Provan
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Provan treats 1 and 2 Kings as a unified whole nestled within its canonical context. Kings constantly presupposes knowledge of the remainder of the story of Israel and invites reflection upon itself in the light of the prophetic writings and of the New Testament. It is examined here as narrative literature...
The Imperfect Disciple
Grace for People Who Can't Get Their Act Together
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Too many discipleship books are written for clean, perfect people who know all the right Sunday school answers. The Imperfect Disciple is for the rest of us--people who screw up, people who are weary, people who are wondering if it's safe to say what they're really thinking.
For the believer...
by George L. Parsenios, Mikeal Parsons, Charles Talbert
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
In this addition to the well-received Paideia series, a respected New Testament scholar examines cultural context and theological meaning in First, Second, and Third John. Paideia commentaries explore how New Testament texts form Christian readers by attending to the ancient narrative and rhetorical...