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Life Sentences
Short Stories
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
Whether from established authors or by writers new to fiction, the short stories in this volume explore life as change, using Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 as the lens. The writers come from different backgrounds, perspectives, and levels of familiarity with the short story, but what ties them together is a...
With God on Our Side
Towards a Transformational Theology of Rock and Roll
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2017
Rock and roll is more than just music. Rock is a culture and an ideology, which carries its own ethos. It is forcefully countercultural and exists as a bane in the sight of dominant Western culture. As rock engages and critiques culture, it invariably encounters issues of meaning that are existential...
The Forest and the Trees
Helping Teachers Integrate a Biblical Worldview Across the Curriculum
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
Why do we have to learn this? For as long as there have been students, teachers have been answering this question, but we haven't always answered it very well--for our students or for ourselves. We sometimes forget that everything we teach, whether sacred or secular, has value because it is part of...
Stop Worrying, He Reigns
A Study of the Puzzle Pieces of the Book of Esther
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2018
Stop worrying. That is easier said than done. One of the greatest struggles in many of our lives is anxiety, dread, fear, and the feeling of hopelessness. In Stop Worrying, He Reigns, we take a journey through the book of Esther to discover the timeless truths regarding the sovereignty of God and...
by Pierce Taylor Hibbs
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2018
We tend to look for God in the grand and spectacular, but most of our lives are filled with ordinary moments and routines: drinking coffee, reading a book, driving to work. Can we find God in the banalities of everyday life? In Finding God in the Ordinary, the author shows that we can, and that we...
The Speaking Trinity and His Worded World
Why Language Is at the Center of Everything
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
The Trinity is a speaking God: three divine persons who share the same essence and commune with each other in love and glory. How does this truth shape the way we view the world and our place in it? The Speaking Trinity and His Worded World explores these questions by presenting all of life through...
A Recipe for Disaster
Four Ways Churches and Parents Prepare Individuals to Lose Their Faith and How They Can Instill a Faith That Endures
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
The statistics speak for themselves; record numbers of individuals who at one time identified as Christians are deconverting from the faith and identifying as unbelievers. Why is this happening and what can be done to prevent it? A Recipe for Disaster seeks to answer those questions by focusing on...
Strengthening Families and Ending Abuse
Churches and Their Leaders Look to the Future
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
Strengthening families of different varieties and ending abuse in the myriad of forms through which it surfaces is God's way of bringing peace and safety to Christian homes across the world. We challenge congregations, their leaders, and the men, women, and youth who faithfully support them to consider...
Released Outward
Liberating Congregations To Do Justice, Love Mercy, and Live Faithfully
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018
Drawing from the experience of a church on Chicago's south side, Released Outward addresses the situation of congregations that have turned inward and become isolated from the needs of the world around them. It addresses the question of how churches, addicted to their cultural and ecclesial traditions,...
Walking Together
A Congregational Reflection on Biblical Church Discipline
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
Walking Together: A Congregational Reflection on Biblical Church Discipline is a study of the biblical concept of church discipline. It seeks to show that church discipline, rightly understood, is a ministry of mercy and grace that will bless churches that return to it. Walking Together reveals that...
Readings in Catholic Social Teaching
Selected Documents of the Universal Church, 1891–2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Readings in Catholic School Social Teaching: Selected Documents of the Universal Church, 1891-2011 is a curated collection of readings that form a short summary of the universal Catholic social teaching ranging between Pope Leo XIII's 1891 Rerum Novarum and Pope Benedicts XVI's 2011 pontificate. Organized...
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...