Baker Publishing Group: 4943 books
Making Disciples
Developing Lifelong Followers of Jesus
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012
The Great Commission is to make disciples. Renowned church planter and pastor Ralph Moore shows leaders why a focus on making disciples is the essential next step once a church is planted. This biblical, practical handbook will guide churches of any size to focus their ministries around Jesus's command...
by Ralph Moore
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
According to the author, perhaps our greatest responsibility is to evangelize our own generation. Yet established churches are not able to do that. In fact, rising generations of Americans live in ignorance of Jesus Christ and have no moral absolutes. Aggressive church planting, the author believes,...
How to Multiply Your Church
The Most Effective Way to Grow
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2009
Churches in North America are bigger than ever, but their slow rate of growth cannot keep up with population increases. Existing churches simply cannot add enough new believers! The good news is that by multiplying--steadily and strategically planting new churches that, in turn, plant new churches--the...
by Ralph Moore, Alan Tang
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2003
Everyone struggles with money at some point in their lives. Sometimes the problems run so deep that people mistakenly believe that "Money is the root of all evil." Nothing could be farther from the truth. Money is amoral--it is neither moral nor immoral. "The love of money," however,...
Early Christian Martyr Stories
An Evangelical Introduction with New Translations
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Personal narratives are powerful instruments for teaching, both for conveying information and for forming character. The martyrdom accounts preserved in the literature of early Christianity are especially intense and dramatic. However, these narratives are not readily available and are often written...
Exploring Catholic Theology
Essays on God, Liturgy, and Evangelization
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Robert Barron is one of the Catholic Church's premier theologians and author of the influential The Priority of Christ. In this volume, Barron sets forth a thoroughgoing vision for an evangelical catholic theology that is steeped in the tradition and engaged with the contemporary world. Striking a...
Ancient Near Eastern Thought and the Old Testament
Introducing the Conceptual World of the Hebrew Bible
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006
Much of the Old Testament seems strange to contemporary readers. However, as we begin to understand how ancient people viewed the world, the Old Testament becomes more clearly a book that stands within its ancient context as it also speaks against it. John Walton provides here a thoughtful introduction...
J. I. Packer and the Evangelical Future (Beeson Divinity Studies)
The Impact of His Life and Thought
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
J. I. Packer is one of the most significant evangelical theologians of the last one hundred years. In this book, a team of leading scholars--including Chuck Colson, Mark Dever, Timothy George, Bruce Hindmarsh, Edith Humphrey, James Earl Massey, Alister McGrath, David Neff, and Richard John Neuhaus--assesses...
Ethics for Christian Ministry
Moral Formation for Twenty-First-Century Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
This one-of-a-kind resource in professional ethics helps today's Christian leaders maintain a high moral character and lifestyle and sharpen their personal and professional decision-making skills. Two experienced teachers and pastors address both current and perennial ethical issues and offer guidance...
Fear Fighting
Awakening Courage to Overcome Your Fears
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
We all live with fear. It hangs around, whispering in our ears, reminding us of all we can't do or will never be. But that's not the end of the story. We also have a God who draws close to say, Fear not. I am with you. This Spirit transforms us into fear fighters--women breaking free of trepidation...
Healing the Wounded Heart Workbook
The Heartache of Sexual Abuse and the Hope of Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
First published in 1989, Dan Allender's The Wounded Heart has helped hundreds of thousands of people come to terms with sexual abuse in their past. Now, more than twenty-five years later, Allender has written a brand-new book on the subject that takes into account recent discoveries about the lasting...
Stronger
How Hard Times Reveal God's Greatest Power
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
When we think of success, we think of words like bigger, more, and better. Bigger paycheck, more security, better reputation. But what if God's perspective on success was radically different than our own? What if the things we seek to avoid--pain, suffering, weakness, insecurity--were the very things...
How Joyful People Think
8 Ways of Thinking That Lead to a Better Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
Two people can face the same type of adversity and have two vastly different reactions, even when they have the same background and worldview. What makes the difference when one person responds with joy and the other responds with bitterness? Perspective--the way they think about things. Right thinking...
God in the Gallery (Cultural Exegesis)
A Christian Embrace of Modern Art
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Is contemporary art a friend or foe of Christianity? Art historian, critic, and curator Daniel Siedell, addresses this question and presents a framework for interpreting art from a Christian worldview in God in the Gallery: A Christian Embrace of Modern Art. As such, it is an excellent companion to...