Outline : The authors of the New Testament regularly quote and allude to Old Testament passages that point to the presence, person, and work of Jesus. Jesus himself claimed that Moses wrote about him (John 5:46). And on the road to Emmaus, Jesus instructed the disciples from "Moses and all the prophets" regarding himself (Luke 24:27). Though Christians affirm that the Old Testament bears witnes…
Outline: Di sekitar kita ada pemangsa, hanya tidak terlihat. Namanya Setan: Iblis, ular, bapak segala dusta, ilah dunia ini. Sebagian orang Kristen meremehkan kuasanya. Sebagian lagi terlalu jauh dalam mengambil posisi sebaliknya, melihat iblis ada "di balik setiap pohon", bahkan menyalahkannya ketika mereka takluk dalam pencobaan. Sungguh menakutkan melihat wajah iblis dan menyadari bahwa dia …
Outline: Arranged in the order of Jesus' Jewish Bible and with helpful, one-page snapshots of essential information, this Old Testament survey has 13 maps, 80 charts, over 160 sidebars, and nearly 200 color photographs.
Outline: We've lost ourselves. Disconnected from the past and uncertain about the future, we are anxious about what our lives will be and troubled by a nagging sense of meaninglessness. Adrift in the world, many Christians have their identity completely wrapped up in work, and their definition of the "good life" is financial success. Fewer are staying committed to the Christian faith, finding i…
Outline: Confession and Politics in the Principality of Transylvania is a survey of the changing role the confessional element played in the foreign policy of this East Central European principality, which has traditionally been seen as a counterexample to the confessionalisation thesis even though its rulers were consistent supporters of the Protestant cause during the Thirty Years' War. The e…
Outline: Martyn Lloyd-Jones, commonly referred to as "the Doctor," had a successful career in medicine before abandoning it all to become preacher in London. His sermons-displaying the life-changing power of biblical truth-diagnosed the spiritual condition of his congregation and prescribed the gospel remedy. This study of Lloyd-Jones's life will encourage and exhort readers to consider the rol…
Outline : In late 17th-century England, James Owen, a nonconformist minister, along with a circle of moderate friends like Edmund Calamy, Philip and Matthew Henry, and Francis Tallents, sought to emphasize a Protestant ecumenism grounded in agreement on foundational truths, openness to differences on secondary issues, including ecclesiastical structures, and the pursuit of some kind of visible …
Martyn Lloyd-Jones, commonly referred to as “the Doctor,” had a successful career in medicine before abandoning it all to become a preacher in London. His sermons—displaying the life-changing power of biblical truth—diagnosed the spiritual condition of his congregation and prescribed the gospel remedy.
This study of Lloyd-Jones’s life will encourage and exhort readers to consider t…
Outline: The Qumran covenanters as a penitential community - Mark A. Jason offers a detailed investigation of the place of repentance in the Dead Sea Scrolls, addressing a significant lacuna in Qumran scholarship. Jason established the importance of repentance as a fundamental way of structuring and describing religious experience within the Qumran community. Jason shows that repentance was a c…
Outline: Challenges to religious liberty are increasingly common today as historical Christianity comes into conflict with a new, secular orthodoxy. In this thoroughly revised second edition of First Freedom, leading evangelical scholars present the biblical and historical foundations for religious freedom in America, and address pressing topics such as:
- Religious freedom and the exclusivity…
Outline: This book is for everyone who wants to learn how to observe carefully, understand accurately, evaluate fairly, feel appropriately, act rightly, and express faithfully God's revealed Word, especially as embodied in the Old Testament.
- Follow an extensively field-tested twelve-step process to deepen understanding and shape theology (biblical, systematic, and practical).
- Engage with…
Overview: John Calvin had a keen interest in what the Scripture teach about the nature and faculties, as well as the role and responsibilities, of human beings. For him, the proper way to understand human beings way by considering them as they were created: in the image and likeness of God. The author examines Calvin's explanation of the image Dei within the times and ecclesiastical circumsta…
Overview: In all his thought Peter Martyr Vermigli (1499-1562) sought to steer the middle course betweeen theological extremes in taking what was good and rejecting what was bad from each. Typical of this tendency to steer the middle course are his insights into the outward instruments of divine grace. According to Vermigli such instruments - the human nature of Christ, the audible words of Sc…