Graceworks: 29 books
by Rama Ramanathan
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
My purpose in this essay is to clarify my thoughts, to say at least tentatively, why I am attending the candlelight vigils – an illegal act in Malaysia. Why do I deliberately disobey the law? Why do I do it repeatedly? Why do I encourage others to do the same?
Vote!
Voting as a Christian Duty
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Some Christians wonder if it really is a Christian duty to vote. After all, there are no explicit directions to vote in the Bible. And aren’t we committed to seeing society changed through seeing individuals changed by the gospel? Such folks may see any political involvement as a distraction from the Church’s duty to preach the gospel. So why should Christians vote?
The Complete Book of Everyday Christianity
A comprehensive guide to following Christ in ever aspect of life
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2019
A lot has happened since the The Complete Book of Everyday Christianity was first published in 1997 by IVP. We felt that for the book to be really useful for the reader today, we had to add a few critical articles. Some of them include (author’s names in brackets):
Climate Change (Byron Smith)
Global...
by Soo-Inn Tan
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
How can we practise the discipline of spiritual friendship in today’s busy world?
Popular author and preacher Soo-Inn Tan presents a highly doable model for spiritual friendship in this groundbreaking book. 3-2-1: Following Jesus in Threes seeks to explain both the whys and hows of 3-2-1...
by Joshua Woo (ed.), Soo-Inn Tan (ed.)
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Christianity & Citizenship is a follow-up series to The Bible & the Ballot that focuses on Christians’ participation as citizens. Like the previous series, the present one is also a collective effort by Christians from different parts of the theological spectrum. Six writers weigh...
Help! I'm Growing Old
Tips on Embracing & Enjoying Your Senior Years
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Growing old is not easy. Faced with issues such as retirement, declining physical health and the loss of peers, many find the later years daunting. Urged on by a desire to help others, author Chuah Tong-Ik spent a year researching on aging-related topics and has sieved out useful tips into this...
Travel Mercies
Reflections from the Road Called Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Only those who suffer deeply and redemptively can walk the canyon floor alongside our depressions and afflictions. So this book provides good company and is a good guide through the disappointments, frustrations, and grief of our mortality. Yet the central message of this honest and indeed transparent...
Finishing Well in Ministry
Lessons from Paul
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
The personal well-being of pastors and church leaders is often taken for granted. There is an assumption and expectation that “spiritual” people are resilient and know how to look after themselves. Unfortunately, however, many pastors and church leaders around the world do not attend adequately...
Bribery and Corruption (2nd edition)
Biblical Reflections and Case Studies for the Marketplace in Asia
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
The external pressures faced by Christians in the marketplace in Asia are the same as those faced by Christians worldwide. Few of us have sufficient inner spiritual strength and pastoral support to deal with the relentless power of sin as manifested in the corporate world. Increasingly, too, in a...
Making Sense
52 Meditations for the Heart and Mind
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
‘If God is real He must be real in all areas of life. Any division of life into “sacred” and “secular” compartments is an approach to faith and spirituality that will not hold. Making Sense…is a collection of essays that struggles to apply a Christian mindset to the realities of daily...
by Mark Chua
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Sabbath for Pastors has much to say about our maddening, busy lifestyle — that we may truly understand what life and pastoral ministry is all about. Sabbath is a gift of life given to us, so that we may find our rest and renewal in God.
Let Sabbath for Pastors show you how to discover in Him a wellspring of joy and delight.
The Plate Spinner
A Little Book for Busy Young Adults
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2014
However lame the excuse, we still make it: “No time.” Dev Menon demolishes this excuse, not with a sledgehammer, not with one blow, but with a wit-by-wit series of chitchats, teasers and stories, matched by light-hearted images reminiscent of clowns and the circus. Readers will appreciate his...
Out of the Dark Night
A Collection of Short Stories from Asia
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
Unimaginable hardship and pain on a daily basis … unremittingly, with no ‘happily ever after’ in sight. Each one of the stories in this book will hit you like a punch in the gut. If you think that life has handed you lemons and you’re ready to pack it in, read just one story from this collection—any...
Naming Names
Can Preachers Tell You Whom to Vote For?
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Naming the powers is not an exercise in generality. And if the appropriate action following the act of naming is to cast a vote, then ipso facto political naming cannot be separated from electoral endorsement. But if a preacher should advise his flock on whom to vote for, would this mean that the Church has sold out to political partisanship?