Wipf And Stock Publishers: 1811 books
by Paul O. Ingram
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2006
Wrestling With God is concerned with conceptualizing a Christian pluralist theology of religious experience primarily in dialogue with Buddhism, but also in conversation with Confucian, Daoist, Hindu, Jewish, and Islamic traditions as well as dialogue with the natural sciences. It is through such...
Apocalyptic Fever
End-Time Prophecies in Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
How will the world end? Doomsday ideas in Western history have been both persistent and adaptable, peaking at various times, including in modern America. Public opinion polls indicate that a substantial number of Americans look for the return of Christ or some catastrophic event. The views expressed...
Steps to Faith: Examine Faith—Explore Questions—Encounter God
Where Inquiring Friends Become Solid Disciples
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Everyone Has a Unique Pathway to Faith. Take the First Step! • Perhaps you are open to the Christian faith, but in no way convinced. You have legitimate questions or lingering doubts. • Perhaps you seek a spiritual rooting--that comes from deep beliefs. • Perhaps you hope to experience the living...
First Steps Discipleship Training
Leader’s Guide
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
When It Comes to Disciple Making . . . You Get What You Aim For! Because the church grows at the edges, discipling new believers may be one of the most important things you do! Jesus knew this. At the pivotal post-resurrection point, he took the newer-in-faith and synergized a movement. Yet the biblical...
Launch Point: Community Group Mission Guide
Moving Small Groups into Mission
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
What if Small Groups Embarked on Mission Together . . . In Their Own Backyards? Whereas small groups have traditionally focused internally, many Christians nowadays are hungering for much more! Seeking to make a difference where they live, Christians desire mission. The Community Group Mission Series...
Christianese 101
A Lexicon for New Believers
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
The lexicon of the church is confusing to those who are not a part of the culture. Given the great commission and our call to "make disciples" (Matt 28), I have thought a lot about how to explain some of the terms long time church attenders are very familiar with in a way that invites new...
From Disgrace to Dignity
Redemption in the Life of Willie Rico Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2019
From Disgrace to Dignity: Redemption in the Life of Willie Rico Johnson examines the life of Rico Johnson who became the head of the Conservative Vice Lords, one of the largest street gangs in the United States. In addition to highlighting his life, this work considers how redemption has affected...
The Original Ending of Mark
A New Case for the Authenticity of Mark 16:9–20
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Although traditionally accepted by the church down through the centuries, the longer ending of Mark's Gospel (16:9-20) has been relegated by modern scholarship to the status of a later appendage. The arguments for such a view are chiefly based upon the witness of the two earliest complete manuscripts...
Soul Whisperer
Why the Church Must Change the Way It Views Evangelism
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
What if we changed the face of evangelism? In a time when so many have a negative perception of evangelism, what if a new model was entirely biblical, loaded with skills, and more effective? Soul Whisperer shifts the emphasis from telling to a drawing paradigm. It develops biblically the pattern of...
A Prophetic Voice—David Smith Cairns (1862–1946)
An Intellectual Biography of One of Scotland’s Leading Theologians and Ecclesiastical Figures in the Early Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
This biography provides an exploration of the formative influences, development, and impact of the theology of David Smith Cairns, Scottish minister, academic, and writer, during the high point of British imperial expansion, and at a time of social tension caused by industrialization. It describes...
A Riff of Love
Notes on Community and Belonging
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2018
Surprising teachers. Tragic losses. Unexpected gifts. Every neighborhood has stories, and ways of singing the stories of their place. Start digging in, and you find all sorts of music. In a neighborhood skilled in improvisation, like Enderly Park, you also discover new ways to sing those songs, and...
John Stott’s Right Hand
The Untold Story of Frances Whitehead
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
The story John Stott hoped would one day be told. Frances Whitehead was working for the BBC when Stott asked her to become his secretary. For 55 years she was his right hand: gatekeeper, administrator, typist, encourager and enabler. In his Will, Stott named her as his 'friend and Executor'. Their...
by James Leo Garrett
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
James Leo Garrett, Jr. has been called "the last of the gentlemen theologians" and "the dean of Southern Baptist theologians." In The Collected Writings of James Leo Garrett, Jr., 1950-2015, the reader will find a truly dazzling collection of works that clearly evince the meticulous...
Patriot Dreams
Through Ten Generations
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2019
Jacob Klund, curious about what's in his deceased grandma's attic, snoops around. He finds a trunk full of old papers. Jacob's father, a history teacher, identifies this as a great treasure because of the dates on the papers, diaries, letters, and documents. The family decides to read through them...