Outline : The R.E.D.S. series addresses a spectrum of doctrines and contemporary theological questions. While the emphasis is on refining dogmatic formulation through rigorous exegesis and exploration into each doctrine's historical background, this is done alongside warm, earnest pastoral application - making these studies practically, as well as theologically, relevant. The corporate church o…
Outline : Will Jesus's return be preceded by a single world government? Will every person have a government-issued ID or mark? Does Christ return once or twice? Will believers go through a Great Tribulation? Will there be a literal battle of Armageddon? Does it even matter what we believe about future events? Biblical prophecies about the end times have confused, confounded, and even divided Go…
Outline: Ethnicity, nationality, and race are part of the fabric of life, but what are they and what are they for? Throughout history, misunderstandings about various forms of collective identity have led to division and hatred, even in the church. Many seek to dissolve difference through assimilation, mistaking unity for uniformity. Others speak about difference in ways that only seem to make …
Outline : For many people, their job is merely “the daily grind” needed to provide for family or pay the bills. In reality, our jobs - whether we're laying concrete or painting in a studio - are daily opportunities to display God's character and care. Pastor and author Bryan Chapell shares this biblical perspective on vocation, explaining how God gives purpose to our work by making it an in…
Outline : The venerable, time-tested guide to style, usage, and grammar - an indispensable reference informing the editorial canon with sound, definitive advice. With the wisdom of nearly 120 years of editorial practice and a wealth of industry expertise from both Chicago's staff and an advisory board of publishing professionals, the eighteenth edition of The Chicago Manual of Style is the go-t…
Outline : Few Reformed theologians have exerted the influence in both the church and the academy that Richard B. Gaffin, Jr. has shaping the theology and spiritual formation of generations of pastors and teachers. Until now, his most significant published works have been inaccessible to most theological readers, published in academic journals, denominational newsletters and out of print festsch…
Outline: Nurture and strength from fifty-two Christian devotional classics for individual study and group use - from RENOVARE, a movement committed to spiritual renewal. These fifty-two selections have been organized to introduce readers through the course of one year to the great devotional writers. The readings have been edited by James Smith, and each is accompanied by an introduction and me…
Outline: "Yang penting hanyalah percaya kepada Kristus, dan itu nyata dalam kasih kita kepada orang lain." Galatia 5:6b (BIS). Dalam buku ketiga dari Seri Pemuridan, James Bryan Smith membantu kita untuk mengetahui bagaimana kita hidup dalam relasi dengan orang lain sebagai murid-murid Yesus. "Murid Yesus bukanlah pelaku kebaikan paruh-waktu," tulisnya. " Murid Yesus hidup dalam hubungan yang k…
Outline : SERI PEMURIDAN. "Saya belum pernah bertemu seseorang yang memiliki tujuan untuk merusak hidupnya. Kita semua ingin bahagia dan menginginkannya terjadi sepanjang masa." James Bryan Smith membuka The Good and Beautiful Life dengan mengatakan bahwa masalah yang sering muncul dalam kehidupan orang percaya terjadi karena kita telah membawa gagasan palsu mengenai kebahagiaan dan kesuksesan …
Outline : "Tuhan ingin saya berusaha lebih keras." "Tuhan memberkati saya ketika saya baik dan menghukum saya ketika saya jahat." "Tuhan marah dengan saya." Kita semua memiliki pemikiran dalam diri kita tentang Tuhan dan bagaimana Dia bekerja dalam hidup kita. Sebagian bisa benar—tetapi banyak yang tidak tepat. James Bryan Smith meyakini pemikiran-pemikiran tersebut menentukan tidak hanya sia…
Outline: The Book of Daniel. Isn't ultimately about Daniel - it's about the Gospel of Jesus. Often we read the book of Daniel in one of two ways - either as a book about a heroic man whose righteousness should inspire us to keep the faith, or as a roadmap to the end times that can, through careful study, tell us the day and hour (or nearly so) of Christ's return. Both, says Bryan Chapell, are s…
Outline : Cerita apa yang diberitahukan pada Anda tentang Injil? Tentang Allah? Tentang kehidupan Kristen? Tentang Yesus? Tentang diri Anda sendiri? Jawaban Anda terhadap pertanyaan-pertanyaan di atas akan menentukan jalan hidup Anda. Jawaban tersebut menunjukkan kemampuan Anda untuk memercayai, mengasihi, berharap – bahkan kemampuan Anda untuk bersukacita. Setiap cerita yang diizinkan untuk …
Outline : DUNIA BISA TERASA SANGAT GELAP TETAPI, ADA JALAN YANG DIPENUHI SUKACITA. Kita diajarkan, "Pastikan terlebih dahulu dirimu sendiri aman" dan "Orang baik tidak akan berhasil." Tetapi, jalan itu membuat kita merasa sendiri dan cemas, bahkan bisa membawa kita ke dalam kehancuran. Ini bukanlah perjalanan yang menakjubkan. Ada sebuah jalan untuk ditempuh di dalam Kerajaan Allah yang tidak…
Outline: Hingga hari ini, wacana seputar relasi agama dan teori sosial masih menjadi penggalan pendek dari sejarah panjang peradaban manusia. Sejumlah pernak-pernik dari grand wacana hubungan panjang dan tak pernah berujung antara agama dan perubahan sosial ini dapat kita lihat secara jelas, misalnya dengan adanya fundamentalisme agama, konflik antaragama, dan lain sebagainya. Lantas, dimanakah…
Outline : Esther often seems like an anomaly - a book of the Bible that never mentions God or his direct intervention. Yet the book feels closest to many Christians' own experience; few of us have experienced divine intervention, and our world seems just as secular as Esther's. We are tempted to ask, of her world and ours - where is God in all this? If he is real, why doesn't he show himself…
Outline: In this book, based on lectures that the author was invited to deliver in Japan, the author traces the dominant contours of religion as perceived by the sociologist. His themes range from the study of sectarianism, on which he is one of the world's leading authorities, to the subtleties of the relationship between religion and culture in modern societies of the West and the East. Alt…
Outline: To many, the only remaining certainty in our world is uncertainity. Pluralism has convinced us that unchanging truth, if it exists at all, is entirely beyond our grasp. All we are left with is a circular argument in which all the answers come from us. Only the authoritative voice of Scripture can dispel such clouds of doubt and confusion. The author shows us that we can know truth, and…
Outline: In this groundbreaking work, the author examines the function of adoption in Pauline thought: its relationship to the doctrines of Christ, the Holy Spirit,