Outline : You can't stop us now. Our time has come. We're ready! Let's go! There's much to be done! Join New York Times bestselling authors Linsey Davis and Michael Tyler as they encourage and inspire the girls of the world to stand up and bravely show it is their time to shine! Girls of the World celebrates equality and fairness and encourages all children to use their voices, talents, and in…
Allen, an experienced scholar and hospital chaplain, is the first to use the Old Testament book of Lamentations to throw light on grief, and to use contemporary examples and discussions of grief to throw light on Lamentations.
Outline: How high in the sky is heaven? Could I go in a hot air balloon? If I float off today, past the big Milky Way, will I get to see Grandma real soon? How exactly DO you get to heaven? A staircase? A trampoline? A hot air balloon that floats through the sky? Come along on a child's imaginative journey to find the best way to get to this beautiful and joyful place called heaven!
Outline: Recent ferment in Luther studies has led to new appreciation of his thought and his significance in the emergence and shaping of the modern world. This exciting volume brings there perspectives on the Reformer into a systematic framework. Here new understandings of Luther's popular image, his effect on the Peasants' War, his contribution to language and letters, his chief theological i…
Outline: "Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might." (Ephesians 6: 10). Life can often feel like a daily cycle of struggle. Once you're convinced everything is under control, life forces you down - sometimes with trials which seem too difficult or painful to endure. How do you stay afloat during hardships - both big and small? Does your faith make a difference in those mo…
Outline : Our faces make a Rainbow, lots of colors all around. Shades of tan and melon skin and even chocolate brown! We are more alike than different ... just take a look and see! God made each of us unique - It doesn't matter if you are tall or small or have wavy hair or straight. God made us alike in one very special way. He gave us all ONE BIG HEART, and that's the most important part!
Outline: Dealing with a time when followers of Jesus were moving toward separation from the movement's Jewish origins, this inaugural volume of A People's History of Christianity tells "the people's story" by gathering together evidence from the New Testament texts, archaeology, and other contemporary sources. Of particular interest to the distinguished group of scholar-contributors are the oft…
Outline: "A quest for truth in its deepest sense, which draws in every element of human longing and aspiration" The Augustine Way retrieves Augustine's scriptural and ecclesial approach for a healing and hopeful apologetic witness for today.
Outline: The goal of this book is to secure our knowledge of the triune God by rightly ordering the theological language with which we praise him. Its reaches its conclusions about how the doctrine should be handled on the basis of the way the Trinity was revealed. As such, it is a study that offers dogmatic principles for Trinitarian exegesis. Half of the volume establishes the biblical exposi…
Outline: Buku ini sangat bermanfaat bagi mereka yang melayani anak-anak yang sedang sakit atau sedang menghadapi ajalnya, dan keluarga mereka. Kita pun dulu pernah menjadi anak, tetapi kebanyakan di antara kita sudah tidak seberapa ingat lagi bagaimana pikiran dan perasaan kita ketika itu. Para penulis buku ingin menolong kita mengerti trauma-trauma akibat penderitaan yang dialami ketika masa k…
Outline: The Oxford Handbook of Reformed Theology looks back to the resources of the past and surveys the present conversations that are vibrant and ongoing in Reformed theology. Firstly, the volume offers accounts of the great contexts of Reformed theology, the various relationships - ancient and modern - which it maintains and from which it derives. Recent research has shown the intricate tie…
Although this volume completes my commentary on the Book of Psalms, no work on the Psalter can be said to be complete. There still remain questions about difficult words and constructions, uncertainties about the translation of the tenses, and different proposals about the structure and setting of the psalms. And so there must be periodic updates with corrections and clarifications as research …
A certain established orthodoxy has settled over scholarly thinking concerning the relationship between the Christian church and political freedom. Consider the work of the political philosopher John Rawls, who has exerted a towering impact on a generation of political scientists, philosophers, legal scholars, practicing lawyers, public policy professionals, and judges. Rawls often begins his t…
A central figure in the reconception of early Christian history over the last three decades, Wayne A. Meeks offers here a selection of his most influential writings on the New Testament and early Christianity. His essays illustrate recent changes in our thinking about the early Christian movement and pose provocative questions regarding the history of this period.Meeks explores a fascinating ra…
Discover more than 85 of the most important ideas, movements, and events that have defined feminism and feminist thought throughout history with this original, graphic-led book. Using the Big Ideas series' trademark combination of authoritative, accessible text and bold graphics, this book traces feminism and the feminist movement from its origins, through the suffragette movement of the 19t…
Smart Skills for Critical Understanding and Writing 2E is a practical step-by-step guide to improving skills in analysis, critical thinking, and the effective communication of arguments and explanations. The book combines an accessible and straightforward style, with a strong foundation of knowledge. The text treats reasoning as an aspect of communication, not an abstract exercise in logic. Th…
Outline: Since his death in 1947, the writings of missionary Roland Allen have remained in constat demand. When Allen's careful analysis in Missionary Methods first appeared 82 years ago, it made a startling impression. And as Allen himself predicted, the true depth of his writings only began to be fully probed fifty years later. Profoundly biblical, Allen's "methods" are drawn from a scrupulou…
Outline: Since his death in 1947, the writings of missionary Roland Allen, have remained in constant of demand. When Allen's careful analysis in Missionary Methods first appeared 82 years ago, it made a strartling impression. And as Allen himself predicted, the true depth of his writings only began to be fully probed fifty years later. Profoundly biblical, Allen's "methods" are drawn from a scr…
Outline : Although the doctrine of eternal generation has been affirmed by theologians of nearly every ecclesiastical tradition since the fourth century, it has fallen on hard times among evangelical theologians since the nineteenth century. The doctrine has been a structural element in two larger doctrinal complexes: Christology and the Trinity. The neglect of the doctrine of eternal generatio…
Outline : This series seeks to retrieve the riches of classical Christian doctrine for the sake of contemporary theological renewal. NSD provides thoughtful, concise, and constructive treatments of major theological topics, expressing the biblical, creedal, and confessional shape of Christian doctrine for a contemporary evangelical audience. Many views holiness as accidental or expendable or ev…
Outline : The series seeks to retrieve of classical Christine doctrine for the sake of contemporary theological renewal. NSD provides thoughtful, concise, and constructive treatments of major theological topics, expressing the biblical, creedal, and confessional doctrine for a contemporary evangelical audience. The doctrine of justification stands at the center of our reflection on the meaning …
Outline : The series seeks to retrieve of classical Christian doctrine for the sake of contemporary, theological renewal. NSD provides thoughtful, concise, and constructive treatments of major theological topics, expressing the biblical, creedal, and confessional shape of Christian doctrine for a contemporary evangelical audience. The doctrine of justification stands at the center of our refle…
Outline: In this volume, the author examines the character and purpose of Luke and Acts and introduces Luke's social, historical, and literary context. He presents Luke's narrative as a "kingdom story" that both announces the arrival of God's reign in Jesus and describes the ministry of the early church, revealing the character of the kingdom as dramatically at odds with the Kingdom of Rome. …
Outline: Each volume in the Understanding the Bible Commentary Series breaks down the barriers between the ancient and modern worlds so that the power and meaning of the biblical texts become transparent to contemporary readers. They present a careful section-by-section exposition of the biblical books with key terms and phrases highlighted and all Hebrew transliterated. Notes at the close of…