Wipf And Stock Publishers: 1811 books
Dialogically Speaking
Maurice Friedman’s Interdisciplinary Humanism
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
What makes us authentically human? According to Maurice Friedman, world-renowned Martin Buber scholar, translator, and biographer, it is genuine dialogue. When there's a willingness for dialogue, Friedman says, then one must 'navigate' moment-by-moment. It's a listening process. Friedman addresses...
The Imitation of Saint Paul
Examining Our Lives in Light of His Example
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2013
The Imitation of Saint Paul takes us behind the headlines of his career and offers a fresh, compelling, contemporary look at the man who changed the world. When the exemplary apostle got into the face of his converts, he bluntly held up his own life as the pattern for theirs. How risky is that? The...
by Paul Chamberlain
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
This book addresses a growing need in apologetic literature. It is a response to the growing wave of Christian leaders who are rejecting Christianity and becoming some of its most ardent critics, often supported by a plethora of new organizations arising to encourage such people to cut ties to their...
Christ-Centered Leadership
The Incarnational Difference
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
If a leader is a Christian, what difference does it make? Giant strides have been made in secular leadership theory toward a Christian viewpoint. Priority is now given to character as well as competence, accountability as well as power, transformation as well as transaction, and servanthood as well...
Confessions of a Streetwalker
Molly, Me, and Jan Make Three
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
In 2005 my wife, Jan, and I moved into a condo along the shores of Lake Washington. Even though I had served as President of Seattle Pacific University back in the 1970s, I was unknown on the streets of the resort-like village of Kirkland, Washington. Each morning Molly, our Maltese puppy, and I went...
Christ-Centered Higher Education
Memory, Meaning, and Momentum for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2012
If the Christ-centered college or university did not exist, would it have to be invented? Back in the 1950s, the answer was in doubt. With few exceptions, Christian colleges wallowed in defensive self-doubt and divisive competition while under attack from the rising public sector. Students of American...
When God Laughs with Us
The Lighter Side of Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Lighten up! Most of us take ourselves too seriously. Christian leaders, in particular, are tempted by the position they hold, or the power they wield, to lose touch with their humanity, become arrogant, and alienate their followers. But what about our tendency to shoot ourselves in the foot, time...
The Succession Principle
How Leaders Make Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
Succession is the hot topic in leadership development, but the subject has rarely been addressed in Christian literature. As a college, university, and seminary president who experienced three successions in leadership, David McKenna is eminently qualified to speak on the subject. He begins by introducing...
The World in the Shadow of God
An Introduction to Christian Natural Theology
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
In The World in the Shadow of God, Ephraim Radner argues for a vigorous Christian natural theology and insists that such a theology must, of necessity, be performed poetically. The peculiar character of such a theology is found in its disclosing of the natural limits that indicate indirectly the impinging...
Struck from Behind
My Memories of God
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Struck from Behind is a memoir--but not the usual narrative of events. James Howell tells intriguing stories from childhood, romantic life, travel, friendships, tragedies, and wonders, and how God was there, although unnoticed or uninvited at the time. By sharing in retrospect how he now understands...
Worshipful
Living Sunday Morning All Week
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
What does it look and feel like to be worshipful? Can we find a way to worship in such a robust, thoughtful way that when we aren't in worship, the worship might linger and invigorate us? Is it possible to live in the world--doing the dishes, listening to music, being stuck in traffic, enmeshed in...
The Doctrines of Grace from the Lips of Our Lord
A Study in the Gospel of John
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
The doctrine of salvation is the watershed doctrine of Scripture. Flowing from that doctrine will be not only all other doctrine but also personal practice and Christian ministry. The major controversy concerning salvation is whether it is a result of the sovereign grace of God alone or a mixture...
Leadership in the Way of the Cross
Forging Ministry from the Crucible of Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2018
This book is for people who are serious about leading people--men and women who have accepted big challenges, who have passed through the fire of tough decisions, who have acknowledged they at times have failed, and have recovered for the next challenge, but do not want to repeat the past. The thesis...
Suffer the Children
How We Can Help Improve the Lives of the World’s Impoverished Children
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
We all say that we care about children. We all know that millions of children around the world, including in the United States, are suffering physically, materially, and emotionally and are unable to reach their full potential. Moreover, their material deprivation and physical ills often prevent them...