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Resident Aliens
Life in the Christian Colony (Expanded 25th Anniversary Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Only when the Church enacts its scandalous Jesus-centered tradition, will it truly be the Body of Christ and transform the world. Twenty-five years after its first publishing, Resident Aliens remains a prophetic vision of how the Church can regain its vitality, battle its malaise, reclaim its capacity...
by Larry W. Hurtado
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Analyzes the various New Testament conceptions of God and suggests how they can best contribute to a contemporary constructive theology.
In this important new volume in the Library of Biblical Theology, Larry W. Hurtado introduces the different understandings of God that arise in the books...
New Testament Theology
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
In this volume in the Library of Biblical Theology series, James D.G. Dunn ranges widely across the literature of the New Testament to describe the essential elements of the early church’s belief and practice. Eschatology, grace, law and gospel, discipleship, Israel and the church, faith and works,...
Becoming a Couple of Destiny
Living, Loving, and Creating a Life that Matters
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
It takes two. Even if men aren’t from Mars and women aren’t from Venus, they still have different takes on what make a relationship work.
In this he says—she says book, Bishop Joseph Walker and his wife Dr. Stephaine Walker tell you how to know when you’re in love and ready to take...
Growing Love In Christian Marriage Third Edition - Couple's Manual (Pkg of 2)
2012 Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
For use by couples for marriage preparation, either during pre-wedding counseling or with a mentor couple. The Couple's Edition is built upon four vital marriage themes; "Faith Through Covenantal Commitment,", the foundations, what the couple brings to their marriage; "Power Through...
by S. Clifton Ives, Jane P. Ives
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
The Pastor's Manual is a marriage preparation and ministry resource for pastors and other church leaders for pre-marital counseling and for comprehensive marriage ministries including guidelines for training mentor couples, working with couples in groups, and relationship education for all ages.
Includes...
by James C. Howell
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
If you were able to talk to St. Francis of Assisi, what would you ask him? “Perhaps,” says James Howell,” the first question I’d want to ask Francis would be something like this: How did you do it? Were you real? How much of your story really happened? And I’m asking because I am wondering...
Undone by Easter
Keeping Preaching Fresh
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Face the prospect of preaching your next Easter sermon with joy and confidence, rather than worry about finding something new to say.
Preachers dread the arrival of Easter, because these holy days bring the daunting task of finding new ways to tell the old stories everyone's heard so many times...
Ethics
Systematic Theology Volume 1, Revised
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
When it first appeared in 1986, James McClendon's Ethics laid claim to two compelling theological ideas: first, that a highly distinctive theological perspective characterizes the inheritors of the sixteenth century's radical reformation. At the heart of this perspective is what McClendon calls the...
I Was A Stranger
A Christian Theology of Hospitality
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Arthur Sutherland places before us our fear of meeting the “other” and the “stranger” in an increasingly global, and frequently dangerous, village. Various social, political, and historical factors have conspired to leave us in a veritable crisis: the decline of hospitality.
Why is...
by James W. Moore
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
In this 6-session study, Dr. Moore uses key scriptures that distinctively shape us as United Methodists. Each session also lifts up and uses core terms and life application topics taken from the Wesley Study Bible to help you grow as a faithful follower of Jesus as you practice your faith in everyday...
Assaulting the Gates
Aiming All God's People at the Mission Field
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Learn the “Big Picture” approach that will aim your congregation at the mission field in your back yard, or around the world.
Many churches want to make the transition from an inward to an outward focus, from catering to the needs of members to reaching out into the world to make disciples...
Black Preaching
The Recovery of a Powerful Art
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Henry H. Mitchell has completely revised and integrated his popular books The Recovery of Preaching and Black Preaching for seminarians and pastors--both Black and White--who are seeking to add power and vision to their sermons.
Mitchell persuasively demonstrates that Black culture and preaching...
African American Christian Worship
2nd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
In this update to her 1993 classic, African American Christian Worship, Melva Wilson Costen, again delights her reader with a lively history and theology of the African American worship experience. Drawing upon careful scholarship and engaging stories, Dr. Costen details the global impact on African...