Outline : Barry G. Webb explores the book of Job as a reflection on the paradox of righteous suffering. Job confronts the troubling issues that life throws at us as we try to live in trusting obedience to God. Wisdom shows us how to live in relation to God when we don't have answers for all of life's problems. With detailed exegesis and biblical-theological synthesis, Webb explores Job's unique…
Outline : Joshua is not merely a story of conquest. It's a treasure trove of theology. David G. Firth interprets the book of Joshua with a sensitivity to its role as Christian Scripture. Joshua is marginalized in many churches, often because its message is misunderstood. Firth reveals that, rather than simply being a story of conquest, Joshua is concerned with matters of identity and faithfulne…
Outline : In a world defined by division, what would it mean to see people the way Jesus sees them? As a pastor, Terry Christ is committed to building deep relationships with people whose experiences are different from his own - people whom much of society rejects. Why? Because those relationships are where we see Jesus at work. Drawing fresh insights from the story of Jesus and the Samaritan w…
In this combative, controversial book, Terry Eagleton takes issue with the prejudice that Marxism is dead and done with. Taking ten of the most common objections to Marxism—that it leads to political tyranny, that it reduces everything to the economic, that it is a form of historical determinism, and so on—he demonstrates in each case what a woeful travesty of Marx's own thought these assum…
In The End of Science , John Horgan makes the case that the era of truly profound scientific revelations about the universe and our place in it is over. Interviewing scientific luminaries such as Stephen Hawking, Francis Crick, and Richard Dawkins, he demonstrates that all the big questions that can be answered have been answered, as science bumps up against fundamental limits. The world cannot…
Outline: This one volume presents a comprehensive overview of Christian education in today's churches and provides a step-by-step plan for establishing and maintaining an effective teaching ministry:
- Build from a powerful foundation - Presenting God as the ultimate teacher of all mankind and Jesus as the master teacher, The Teaching Ministry of the Church explores the roles of the Holy Spiri…
Outline: Thoroughly updated and revised - with half of the chapters new to the second edition - Missiology equips the reader with a vast resource on contemporary missions. This graduate-level introduction is divided into five sections (Introduction to the Study of Missions, Biblical Basic of Missions, Theology of Missions, History of Missions, and Applied Missiology) and offers essays on modern…
Outline: A thorough guide to recent scholarship on the Pastoral Epistles. After a lengthy period when little attention was paid to the Pastoral Epistles, an outpouring of studies on the subject has suddenly appeared in print. However, critical scholars have largely neglected evangelical scholarship on these letters. To fill this gap, Entrusted with the Gospel offers a deep collection of importa…
Outline: The heart of the Sermon - Through careful attention to the structure of Matthew's Gospel and the place of the Sermon within it, keen sensitivity to the patterns and themes of Israelite prophecy, and judicious comparisons with other Jewish and rabbinic lierature, Jack R. Lundbom elucidates the meaning of the Sermon and its continuity with Israel's prophetic heritage as well as the best …
Outline: Given the unique religious climate of the twenty-first century and the challenges to Christian mission it poses, Christianity Encountering World Religions proposes a new model for interacting with people of other faiths. The authors term this model "giftive mission," since it is based on the metaphor of free gift. They suggest that seeing mission activity as giving the greatest gift po…
Outline: Berabad-abad lamanya para teolog dan mahasiswa yang mendalami studi Alkitab telah bertatap muka dengan narasi (penceritaan) tanpa memahaminya betul-betul. Mereka sudah berulang kali membaca dan mempelajari Kitab-Kitab Injil, tetapi mereka tidak cukup menyadari bahwa kitab-kitab itu merupakan narasi. Para penulis seri buku ini mencoba menyadarkan pembaca dalam berhadapan dengan Kitab-K…
Outline: Hikmat duniawi berkata, Buatlah kelas Sekolah Minggu lebih menyenangkan! Atau, Buatlah menjadi lebih mudah! Tetapi Kenalkan Yesus pada Mereka menantang cara dunia mengajar dan mengudang para guru untuk mengajarkan dan menghargai kabar baik tentang Yesus dalam setiap pelajaran Sekolah Minggu. Pendekatan yang diajarkan penulis akan melengkapi dan memperkaya bahan Sekolah Minggu yang ters…
Outline: Contemporary controversies over the inspiration and authority of the Bible have left many people confused. The host of specialized studies makes it difficult for a reader to be introduced to the nature of Scripture without consulting a number or sources. Now the author has brought together in one volume much of the best that has been thought and written on the subject. In each of t…
Outline: This comprehensive handbook answers questions Christians might raise about religions not their own by presenting a Christian perspective on religion and its many manifestations around the world. Written by top religion scholars from a broad spectrum of Christianity, the handbook introduces world religions, indigenous religion traditions, and new religious movements, providing a concis…
In "The Voice of Our Congregation," Terry York and David Bolin challenge you to discover and claim the voice that is authentic to your congregation through Bible study, stories from a variety of congregations, and through probing questions. Perfect for individual and group study.