Baker: 5223 books
Hour That Changes the World, The
A Practical Plan for Personal Prayer
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2002
The Hour That Changes the World, first published by Baker in 1978, is a classic book on prayer that offers practical suggestions on how readers can revitalize their prayer lives. Dick Eastman challenges Christians to spend one hour each day in prayer, and he outlines a twelve-step prayer program to...
by John Calvin
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2004
In this classic devotional, John Calvin urges readers to apply the Christian life in a balanced way to mind, heart, and hand. Rather than focusing on contemplative otherworldliness, the book stresses the importance of a devotedly active Christian life.
In style and spirit, this book is much...
Mormons
How to Witness to Them
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1997
Provides the basic tools Christians need to understand the non-Christian teachings of Mormonism and the information they need for witnessing to them.
by John R. Farkas, David A. Reed
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1992
One of the most thorough presentations in print on Mormon theology compares each teaching with what the Bible says. Designed for quick reference.
by Robert H. Gundry
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Delve Deeper into God's Word
In this verse-by-verse commentary, Robert Gundry offers a fresh, literal translation and a reliable exposition of Scripture for today's readers.
This letter contains a meditation on the high privileges of Christian believers, plus instruction on how they...
Willing to Believe
The Controversy over Free Will
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2002
What is the role of the will in believing the good news of the gospel? Why is there so much controversy over free will throughout church history? R. C. Sproul finds that Christians have often been influenced by pagan views of the human will that deny the effects of Adam's fall.
In Willing to Believe,...
I Suffer Not a Woman
Rethinking I Timothy 2:11-15 in Light of Ancient Evidence
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1998
Solid scriptural and archaeological evidence refutes the traditional interpretation used to bar women from leadership.
Women in the World of the Earliest Christians
Illuminating Ancient Ways of Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Lynn Cohick provides an accurate and fulsome picture of the earliest Christian women by examining a wide variety of first-century Jewish and Greco-Roman documents that illuminate their lives. She organizes the book around three major spheres of life: family, religious community, and society in general....
Christianity in the Greco-Roman World
A Narrative Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Background becomes foreground in Moyer Hubbard's creative introduction to the social and historical setting for the letters of the Apostle Paul to churches in Asia Minor and Europe.
Hubbard begins each major section with a brief narrative featuring a fictional character in one of the great...
The Text of the New Testament
From Manuscript to Modern Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
The Text of the New Testament is a brief introduction for the lay person into the process whereby the New Testament came to be. It describes the basics of ancient writing tools, manuscripts, the work of scribes, and how to think about differences in what the various manuscripts say. This is a revised...
by Peter S. Williamson, Peter Williamson, Mary Healy
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
In this addition to the well-received Catholic Commentary on Sacred Scripture (CCSS), seasoned New Testament scholar and popular speaker Peter Williamson interprets Revelation from within the living tradition of the Church for pastoral ministers, lay readers, and students alike. The seventeen-volume...
by Robert H. Gundry
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Delve Deeper into God's WordIn this verse-by-verse commentary, Robert Gundry offers a fresh, literal translation and a reliable exposition of Scripture for today's readers.These Pastoral Epistles were written in order to instruct and encourage the young associates of Paul, who is facing martyrdom in...
Ancient-Future Worship (Ancient-Future)
Proclaiming and Enacting God's Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
With the many models of worship available, choosing a style to worship God can be a bit overwhelming. Is it better to go with traditional or contemporary models? Christians may find themselves asking how early believers worshiped and whether they can provide insight into how we should praise God today.
Rooted...
High View of Scripture?, A (Evangelical Ressourcement)
The Authority of the Bible and the Formation of the New Testament Canon
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
Where did the Bible come from? Author Craig D. Allert encourages more evangelicals to ask that question. In A High View of Scripture? Allert introduces his audience to the diverse history of the canon's development and what impact it has today on how we view Scripture. Allert affirms divine inspiration...