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Jesus's Sermon on the Mount and His Confrontation with the World
A Study of Matthew 5-10
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
In his explanation of Jesus's teaching in Matthew 5-10, D. A. Carson clearly presents the call for every believer to live a pure life. He offers pastors and lay readers rich insights and practical life application from the Sermon on the Mount.
by Russell E. Spray
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1991
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1991
These 28 adaptable, idea-packed outlines help pastors prepare sermons with an evangelistic thrust and positive living undertones that teach listeners how to renew their intimacy with God.
World of Difference, A (Reasons to Believe)
Putting Christian Truth-Claims to the Worldview Test
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
Recent Barna research indicates that less than one in ten evangelical Christians hold a biblical worldview. A World of Difference seeks to change this disturbing fact by educating readers on how the Christian perspective is uniquely reasonable, verifiable, and liveable.
Author Kenneth Richard Samples...
God's Best-Kept Secret
Christianity Is Easier Than You Think
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
For many of us, the attempt to live for God can leave us feeling burdened rather than free. Yet that's not the kind of life God intends for us to experience. What if he never meant for us to try so hard? What if overcoming sin doesn't rely on our own self-control? What if loving others isn't about...
Dictionary of Latin and Greek Theological Terms
Drawn Principally from Protestant Scholastic Theology
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
This indispensable companion to key post-Reformation theological texts provides clear and concise definitions of Latin and Greek terms for students at a variety of levels. Written by a leading scholar of the Reformation and post-Reformation eras, this volume offers definitions that bear the mark of...
Divine Will and Human Choice
Freedom, Contingency, and Necessity in Early Modern Reformed Thought
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
This fresh study from an internationally respected scholar of the Reformation and post-Reformation eras shows how the Reformers and their successors analyzed and reconciled the concepts of divine sovereignty and human freedom. Richard Muller argues that traditional Reformed theology supported a robust...
The Evolution Controversy
A Survey of Competing Theories
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
In the emotional debate surrounding evolution, it is often difficult to cut through the competing agendas to gain an unbiased understanding of the scientific issues involved. The Evolution Controversy provides a resource for doing so. The authors leave aside the profound philosophical and religious...
Preaching Jesus Christ Today
Six Questions for Moving from Scripture to Sermon
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
This book approaches preaching as a theological practice and a spiritual discipline in a way that is engaging, straightforward, and highly usable for busy preachers. Bringing to bear almost three decades of practical experience in the pulpit and the classroom, Annette Brownlee explores six questions...
I Want to Believe
Finding Your Way in an Age of Many Faiths
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2008
In I Want to Believe, Mel Lawrenz ignites a latent desire in all of us--the desire to believe in something bigger than ourselves. Lawrenz takes an honest dive into topics that are true areas of tension--doubt, rebirth, faith and action, and the essence of Christian faith. A fresh and engaging style...
Reading Scripture with the Church
Toward a Hermeneutic for Theological Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
Theological interpretation of the Bible is key to the health and vitality as well as the belief and practice of the church. Just how it is done has been the subject of much discussion and debate over the centuries. In Reading Scripture with the Church, four leading biblical scholars make the case...
Union with Christ
Reframing Theology and Ministry for the Church
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Accomplished theologian J. Todd Billings recovers the biblical theme of union with Christ for today's church, making a fresh contribution to the theological discussion with important applications for theology and ministry. Drawing on Scripture and the thought of figures such as Augustine, Calvin,...
Gospel and Spirit
Issues in New Testament Hermeneutics
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1991
For those who believe the Scriptures are the inspired word of God with a message relevant for living today, nothing is more crucial than understanding sound principles of interpretation. Disagreement arises when people and groups differ over how one gets at that message and what that message is. In...
Opening Paul's Letters
A Reader's Guide to Genre and Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
It is sometimes easy to forget that the books of the Bible are not really "books" at all but individual documents composed in a wide array of literary genres. This clear, concise, and accessible text on the Pauline Letters orients beginning students to the genre in which Paul writes. The...
Violence, Hospitality, and the Cross
Reappropriating the Atonement Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
The cross is central to understanding Christian theology. But is it possible that our postmodern setting requires a new model of understanding the cross?
Hans Boersma's Violence, Hospitality, and the Cross proposes an understanding of the atonement that is sensitive both to the Christian tradition...