Baker Publishing Group: 4943 books
A Trip around the Sun
Turning Your Everyday Life into the Adventure of a Lifetime
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
What happens when we take Jesus at his word when he says, "I have come that you might have life and have it to the full?" New York Times bestselling author Mark Batterson and his mentor Richard Foth have done just that with their lives--and in A Trip around the Sun, they show readers how...
The Grave Robber
How Jesus Can Make Your Impossible Possible
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
Do we believe that God still does miracles? Considering how difficult it is for many of us adults to trust in the miraculous power of God, how much more difficult can it be for a young person in the midst of struggles about identity and purpose in life?
With the help of his son Parker, bestselling...
One Little Yes Can Change Your Life
Excerpts from The Grave Robber
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
When Jesus walked out of the tomb, the word impossible was removed from our vocabulary. Highlighting the greatest miracle Jesus ever performed, One Little Yes Can Change Your Life shows readers that the miracle of the resurrection is both a historical event and a reality for our lives today. According...
by Curtis Mitch, Edward Sri, Peter Williamson
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
This engaging commentary on the Gospel of Matthew is the fifth of seventeen volumes in the Catholic Commentary on Sacred Scripture (CCSS), which will cover the entire New Testament. This volume, like each in the series, relates Scripture to life, is faithfully Catholic, and is supplemented by features...
by Francis Martin, William M. IV Wright, Peter Williamson
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
In this addition to the Catholic Commentary on Sacred Scripture, two well-respected New Testament scholars interpret the Gospel of John in its historical and literary setting as well as in light of the Church's doctrinal, liturgical, and spiritual tradition. They unpack the wisdom of the Fourth Gospel...
by Thomas D. SJ Stegman, Peter Williamson, Mary Healy
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
There is an increasing hunger among Catholics to study the Bible in depth and in a way that integrates Scripture with Catholic doctrine, worship, and daily life. Second Corinthians is the fourth of seventeen volumes in the Catholic Commentary on Sacred Scripture (CCSS), a new series that will cover...
by Mary Healy, Peter Williamson, Mary Healy
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Well-respected New Testament scholar and popular speaker Mary Healy unpacks the Letter to the Hebrews, making its difficult and puzzling passages accessible to pastoral ministers, lay readers, and students. Her commentary shows how Hebrews reveals the meaning of Christ's death in light of the Old...
Proclaiming the Scandal of the Cross
Contemporary Images of the Atonement
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2006
Because many modern Christians can offer a reasonable explanation of the meaning of Jesus' death on the cross, they find it hard to understand the confusion displayed by the disciples after the events in the last pages of the Gospels. But if Paul were alive today, he would find it inexplicable that...
Defending Substitution (Acadia Studies in Bible and Theology)
An Essay on Atonement in Paul
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
In recent decades, the church and academy have witnessed intense debates concerning the concept of penal substitution to describe Christ's atoning sacrifice. Some claim it promotes violence, glorifies suffering and death, and amounts to divine child abuse. Others argue it plays a pivotal role in classical...
Paul's Idea of Community
The Early House Churches in Their Cultural Setting, Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1994
Robert Banks's widely read Paul's Idea of Community: The Early House Churches in Their Cultural Setting is once again available to laypeople, pastors, and scholars alike. In this extensively revised edition Banks has rewritten chapters for clarity, taken into account recent scholarship on Paul's writings,...
A Case for Historic Premillennialism
An Alternative to "Left Behind" Eschatology
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009
Many evangelical readers who have learned the basics of eschatology from popular authors and more recently from novelists assume that dispensational premillennialism, with its distinctive teachings about the pretribulation rapture of the church, is the only reliable view of the end times and the return...
The Old Testament and Ethics
A Book-by-Book Survey
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
The acclaimed Dictionary of Scripture and Ethics (DSE), written to respond to the movement among biblical scholars and ethicists to recover the Bible for moral formation, offered needed orientation and perspective on the vital relationship between Scripture and ethics. This book-by-book survey of...
The New Testament and Ethics
A Book-by-Book Survey
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
This convenient text utilizes material from the well-received Dictionary of Scripture and Ethics to introduce students to the use of the New Testament for moral formation. This handy and affordable book-by-book survey of the New Testament contains key articles written by leading scholars and targeted...
At Home in a Strange Land
Using the Old Testament in Christian Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2009
The Old Testament is a problem for many Christians. Some find it puzzling, or even offensive; others seem to glibly misuse it for their own ends. There are few resources aimed at enabling ordinary Christians to understand the OT and use it in their lives as followers of Jesus.
In this book...