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The Wisdom of Kierkegaard
A Collection of Quotations on Faith and Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Tucked away in the complicated prose that fills many of Soren Kierkegaard's books are numerous insightful declarations. They arrest the reader with their depth of understanding. They often are expressed in a lilting and lyrical manner. Encountering them makes working through the intricate prose eminently...
by Christopher Dreisbach
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2019
Your God is too somber if your posture before him lacks a spirit of joy and a commitment to rejoice as much as possible. While life has its sadness and tragedy, the good news of Jesus Christ is that God's kingdom has won; and the suffering we face for a time is shorter compared with the endless delight...
Burning Center, Porous Borders
The Church in a Globalized World
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2011
Burning Center, Porous Borders articulates what the church is and is called to be about in the world, a world now globalized to the point that the local is lived globally and the global is lived locally. The church must respond creatively and prophetically to the challenges-economic disparity, war...
Breathing Patterns
A Teacher's Reflections on Calling, Equipping, and Sending
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2010
Preaching to the choir is always complicated, but especially so when that choir happens to be a seminary community. In this collection of sermons, delivered in the chapel of the University of Dubuque Theological Seminary (PCUSA), Robert P. Hoch, Assistant Professor of Homiletics and Worship, weaves...
Children’s Ministry That Fits
Beyond One-Size-Fits-All Approaches to Nurturing Children’s Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2011
Children know God. They encounter God in diverse ways as they walk along the spiritual journey. Amidst this diversity, four distinct avenues for connecting with God emerge in the lives of children: word, emotion, symbol, and action. These are the four spiritual styles, broad approaches to spirituality...
The New Chosen People, Revised and Expanded Edition
A Corporate View of Election
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
Controversy rages on about God's choosing people for salvation. Are only the few elect? Rather than typically beginning with the preconceptions of systematic theologies, Dr. William Klein takes up this question by searching for a biblical theology of election. He surveys the OT contexts of God's choosing...
Following Rabbi Jesus, Study Guide
A Guide to Reflection and Response for Christians and Other Seekers Who Want to Take the Jesus of the Gospels Seriously
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Following Rabbi Jesus is a surprising exposure of who the Jesus we find in the Gospels really is, what he teaches those who dare to follow him, and how he models what it means to live God's radical-kingdom way. The reader of the book will discover in this exploration a very different Jesus from the...
Following Rabbi Jesus
The Christian’s Forgotten Calling
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2018
Following Rabbi Jesus is a surprising exposure of who the Jesus we find in the Gospels really is, what he teaches those who dare to follow him, and how he models what it means to live God's radical-kingdom way. The reader of the book will discover in this exploration a very different Jesus from the...
by C. FitzSimons Allison
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
God is in the dock. Shall we convict him or forgive him? Shall we replace the God of Scripture with another of our choosing, mock and deride him, or ignore him? Shall we replace revelation with the chaos of speculation? We perceive ourselves, rather than God, as the center of the world and this universal...
Abiding Mission
Missionary Spirituality and Disciple-Making Among the Muslim Peoples of Egypt and Northern Sudan
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2016
Abiding Mission presents the discipline of abiding as the first priority of the Christian and the base methodology of mission. Based on an exegesis of John 15, Abiding Mission illustrates the definition of abiding by examining the abiding mission lives of seven key pioneers in mission to Muslims in...
Her Gates Will Never Be Shut
Hope, Hell, and the New Jerusalem
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Everlasting hell and divine judgment, a lake of fire and brimstone--these mainstays of evangelical tradition have come under fire once again in recent decades. Would the God of love revealed by Jesus really consign the vast majority of humankind to a destiny of eternal, conscious torment? Is divine...
Christ and the New Creation
A Canonical Approach to the Theology of the New Testament
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
In Christ and the New Creation, Matthew Emerson takes a fresh approach to understanding New Testament theology by using a canonical methodology. Although typically confined to Old Testament theology, Emerson sees fruitfulness in applying this method to New Testament theology as well. Instead of a...
The Theology of Light and Sight
An Interfaith Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
And God said: Let there be light. And there was light. These words mark the first step in the creation of all life. The very genesis of light is tied to the nature and purpose of God--God as the author of light, as the pouring out of light, as light itself. Believers in the three Abrahamic faiths...
Embraced and Engaged
Grace and Ethics in American Foreign Policy
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
What do Joseph, Joab, Jeremiah, and the Beatitudes have to do with a Christian young person in American foreign policy? Can a Christian be a diplomat, a spy, a defense industry scientist? Can a Christian impact foreign affairs as a member of Congress? Amid counsels for Christians to withdraw from...