Ivp Books: 515 books
The Jesus Prayer
A Cry for Mercy, a Path of Renewal
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
An ancient prayer for every day: "Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on me, a sinner." These words have strengthened and comforted believers for centuries. The Jesus Prayer comes to us from the Greek Orthodox tradition. In these pages, John Michael Talbot explores more of the roots of the prayer...
Christianity on Trial
A Lawyer Examines the Christian Faith
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
Who is God in light of astronomical and subatomic science?
How could divine inspiration of Scripture or Christs bodily resurrection be possible?
How should we see the nature of reality, free will and choice, ethics, morality and the idea of heaven and afterlife?
Christianity on Trial
Reconstructing the Gospel
Finding Freedom from Slaveholder Religion
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018
"I am a man torn in two. And the gospel I inherited is divided." Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove grew up in the Bible Belt in the American South as a faithful church-going Christian. But he gradually came to realize that the gospel his Christianity proclaimed was not good news for everybody. The...
by Amy Orr-Ewing
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
Is the Bible Intolerant?
Strangers Next Door
Immigration, Migration and Mission
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2012
Strangers Next Door
Beyond Colorblind
Redeeming Our Ethnic Journey
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
• 15th Annual Outreach Magazine Resource of the Year - Also Recommended in Racial Reconciliation
• 2017 Foreword INDIES Award Finalist
For a generation or so, society has tried to be colorblind. People say they don’t see race. But this approach has limitations. In our broken world, ethnicity...
by Robert A. Peterson, Michael D. Williams
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
What's wrong with Arminianism? Arminian theology is sweeping through the evangelical churches of North America. While most Arminians are good, sincere, orthodox Christians, authors Robert A. Peterson and Michael D. Williams contend that aspects of Arminian thought are troubling both biblically and...
The Gift of Being Yourself
The Sacred Call to Self-Discovery
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2015
"Grant, Lord, that I may know myself that I may know thee." —Augustine Much is said in Christian circles about knowing God. But Christians throughout the ages have agreed that there cannot be deep knowledge of God without deep knowledge of the self. Discerning your true self is inextricably...
Rewriting Your Broken Story
The Power of an Eternal Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2016
How do you fix a broken story? In this fallen world, life is often not how we thought it would be. Jobs vanish, relationships crumble, health fails. How do we find the hope to persevere? We can make sense of our broken stories by seeing them in the context of a larger and greater story. Kenneth Boa...
Disruptive Witness
Speaking Truth in a Distracted Age
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
What should Christian witness look like in our contemporary society? In this timely book, Alan Noble looks at our cultural moment, characterized by technological distraction and the growth of secularism, laying out individual, ecclesial, and cultural practices that disrupt our society's deep-rooted assumptions and point beyond them to the transcendent grace and beauty of Jesus.
The Messiah Comes to Middle-Earth
Images of Christ's Threefold Office in The Lord of the Rings
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
How can we grasp the significance of what Jesus Christ did for us? Might literature help us as we seek to understand the Christian faith?
J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings has generated much discussion about the relationship between Christianity and literature. It is well known that Tolkien...
You Welcomed Me
Loving Refugees and Immigrants Because God First Loved Us
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
"Wait, Dad. Are we for them or against them?" Kent Annan was talking with his eight-year-old son about the immigrant and refugee crises around the world. His son's question, innocent enough in the moment, is writ large across our society today. How we answer it, Annan says, will reveal a...
The Crucifixion of Ministry
Surrendering Our Ambitions to the Service of Christ
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2010
As a pastor, do you ever get the feeling that no matter what you try, nothing much seems to change? That is because the ministries themselves are not redemptive--they are not up to you. Only Jesus' ministry is redemptive. Jesus has to "show up." Theologian Andrew Purves explores at the deepest...
What Jesus Started
Joining the Movement, Changing the World
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
2014 Outreach Magazine Resource of the Year (Church Health) Sometimes we get so caught up in the power of Jesus shouting from the cross, "It is finished!" that we forget that Jesus started something. What Jesus started was a movement that began small, with intimate conversations designed...