Outline : A Frist-Year Resource to guide introductory Hebrew courses, A Modern Grammar for Biblical Hebrew is a complete revision of Duane Garrett's previous textbook titled A Modern Grammar for Classical Hebrew. Written with the student in mind, this new textbook provides an innovative overview of the essentials of grammar while moving the learner into the original text as early as lesson eigh…
Outline : A Modern Grammar for Biblical Hebrew Workbook is designed for first-year Hebrew students and serves as the essential exercise companion to Duane Garrett and Jason DeRouchie's A Modern Grammar for Biblical Hebrew textbook. The "lay-flat" binding makes it especially easy to use time and again, and this hands-on volume also contains a four-page tear-out section withe full-color review sh…
Outline : The fresh riches of biblical poetry for communities of faith A New Song brings together a diverse roster of Jewish and Christian scholars to explore biblical Hebrew poetic texts within the context - and for the benefit - of communities of faith. Edited by Stephen D. Campbell, Richard G. Rohlfing Jr., and Richard S. Briggs, A New Song includes nine essays on the hidden intricacies of …
Outline : We're all looking for somewhere to belong - but we won't find true belonging anywhere in this world outside God's church. Reformed traditions emphasize church membership because it provides practical, spiritual blessings for our flourishing, yet the extent of those blessing isn't always evident to us. Here Pastor Jonathan Landry Cruse explain the nature, necessity, benefits and respon…
Outline : We have many reasons to be excited about prayer - and to pray with urgency! Guy Richard shows us that as we pour out our hearts to the Lord, we and the world around us will be changed. Informative, encouraging, and practical, this brief book will serve as helpful primer for pastors, elders, study groups, and Christians who seek encouragement and instruction on prayer and its blessings…
Outline : Why would Christians baptize infants? Jason Helopoulos lays out the Reformed perspective - the logic of baptism flows from a covenant- keeping God, who loves to bless his people. Informative and encouraging, this brief book will serve as a helpful primer and quick reference tool for parents, congregations, elders, and pastors. Written for the church, the Blessings of the Faith serie…
Outline : In Historical Theology for the Church, editors Jason Duesing and Nathan Finn bring together top contributors to survey key doctrinal developments in every era of church history. They not only trace the development of various doctrines within historical congregations; they also provide a resource for contemporary congregations. Steered by the conviction that historical theology serves …
Outline : The Old Testament makes up more than 75% of the Bible, but do Christians delight in it? In this accessible guide, you will discover how to make connections to Christ and practical application to the Christian life from every page of the Old Testament. Jason DeRouchie carefully interprets Scripture, demonstrating how Jesus secures every divine promise and how Jesus makes the law of Mos…
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: The Worlds of the Preacher helps students and pastors understand the worlds - biblical, cultural, and personal - that influence their preaching. Contributors include Victor D. Anderson, Jeffrey Arthurs, Patricia M. Batten, Scott M. Gibson, Matthew D. Kim, Duane Litfin, Steveb D. Mathewson, Haddon W. Robinson, Donald R. Sunukjian, and Scott Wenig.
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: The Islamic challenge to the Church, if not Western society, is no longer something in the far distance that can be ignored. It is in all of our cities and neighbourhoods - now. Islam and Christianity ae on a pathway of confrontation. "In the next fifty years, we will capture the Western World for Islam,' stated one key Muslim religious leader. In Mosque and Miracles, Robinson exhorts …
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 …
Paul's historical aspects relating to his background in life and education since childhood have had a great impact on Paul's theological mindset and concepts before and after his conversion. Pauline scholars gave much attention to early education in Tarsus and in Jerusalem which later made Saul a respected rabbi Pharisee. The Apostle Paul, formerly known as Saul of Tarsus, grew up in a Hellenis…
Berkeley i s generally regarded a s the inventor of subjective idealism; that is , of the theory that the physical world exists only in the experiences minds have of it. This is one version of the doctrine that reality i s wholly mental: the other version is pan-psychism (which is from the Greek, meaning 'everything mind-ism'). Pan-psychism holds that there are minds in everything.....
THE NEW TESTAMENT was written in Koine Greek during the first century AD. From the time of its original revelation, handwritten copies continually were prepared in order tomaintain and preserve that original text into the modern era. All copies made prior to the invention of movable-type printing were made by hand, resulting in various scribal alterations, most of these being of a minor nature.…
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: Volume 3 of The Annotated Luther series presents five key writings that focus on Martin Luther's understanding of the gospel as it relates to church, sacraments, and worship. Included in the volume are The Babylonian Captivity of the Church (1520); The German Mass and Order of the Liturgy (1526); That These Words of Christ, "Ths Is My Body," etc., Still Stand Firm Against the Fanatics …
Outline: Having discovered this sad state of affairs, Craig Blomberg, a committed Evangelical scholar, and Stephen Robinson, a committed Mormon scholar, set out to listen to one another and to ferret out the genuine agreements and disagreements between them. In the conversation that develops, you will read what each believes about key theological issues - (1) the nature and bounds of Scripture,…
Outline: Examining a series of processes (islamization, arabization, africanization) and case studies from North, West, and East Africa, this book gives snapshots of Muslim societies in Africa over the last 1000+ years. In contrast to traditions that suggest that Africa is not Muslim, or that Islam did not take root in Africa, author David Robinson shows the complex struggles of Muslims in the…
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…
Overview: In the author book, set forth a reconsideration of the sacramental Christian life that centered on the Word. His thesis is that the papacy had distorted the sacraments with its own tradition and regulations, transforming them into a system of control and coercion... Yet the author does not replace one tyranny for another; his argument for a return to the biblical understanding of t…