Outline: "PREDESTINASI," ide inilah yang memulai perdebatan di antara orang Kristen. Apakah Allah menentukan sebelumnya di mana kita akan berada di dalam kekekalan? R. C. Sproul pernah membenci konsep ini, tetapi pada waktu ia meneliti firman Tuhan secara teliti, maka doktrin yang indah itu pun muncul. Apabila Allah sungguh-sungguh berdaulat, dan apabila manusia telah berdosa secara radikal, ma…
Outline : Do you ever feel like your past is haunting you? Maybe it's a mistake you made that can't be made right or something that was done to you that can never be undone. You see the effects of it in your daily life, but struggle to know how to move forward. Sometimes you manage to forget for awhile, but it feels like you are never completely free of it. Stephen Viars walks through the vario…
Outline : Technology has more benefits than we can possibly list. As Christians, however, we have to look at its negative effects, especially on children. The data is as convincing as it is alarming. Technology is directly responsible for increased teenage anxiety and depression, exposure to pornography, sex trafficking and online predators, screen addiction, and more. What if parents had a fra…
Outline : AIlah pasti punya alasan khusus untuk merancang Kitab Suci-Nya. Allah Sehingga sepertiga seperti dari Perjanjian Lama mencatat peristiwa-peristiwa sejarah. la tidak sekadar menghibur para pecinta sejarah. Sebuah tinjauan tentang masalah-masalah yang mengelilingi raja-raja akan memberi kita beberapa petunjuk. Raja-raja Ibrani ini berkuasa selama empat abad. Seluruhnya ada empat puluh d…
Outline : Kebanyakan keluarga Kristen modern hidup dibayang-bayangi K dengan rasa bersalah gara-gara tidak punya kebiasaan melakukan renungan keluarga secara teratur. One Year of Dinner Table Devotions: 365 Renungan bagi Keluarga Kristen membantu para keluarga mulai membangun tradisi rohani-di meja makan-supaya firman Allah terjalin secara alami di dalam kehidupan dan percakapan keluarga. Sepan…
Outline : Allah telah berfirman dan bertindak di dalam Yesus Kristus. Ia telah mengatakan sesuatu. Ia telah melakukan sesuatu. Itu artinya kekristenan bukan hanya tentang percakapan mengenai kehidupan saleh. Kekristenan bukanlah suatu kumpulan gagasan religius dan bukan juga sebuah katalog yang berisi aturan-aturan. Kekristenan adalah "Injil" (yaitu Kabar Baik) - dalam perkataaan Rasul Paulus: …
Outline : For more than thirty years, The Christological Controversy has been an essential text for courses in theology, church history, and early Christianity. The volume gives modern readers an ideal entry point into the issues by presenting clear, fresh translations of the most important primary sources, along with simple and informative introductions to explain the context of the writings. …
Outline : Editors Denis Alexander and Alister McGrath gather other intelligent minds from around the world to share their startling commonality: Richard Dawkins and his fellow New Atheists were instrumental in their conversions to Christianity. Despite a wide range of backgrounds and cultures, all are united in the fact that they were first enthusiasts for the claims and writings of the New Ath…
Outline : Creation is waking to start a new day. The birds lift their voices. We hear what they say: "Good morning, God loves you!" Being reminded of God's love is the best way to begin and celebrate each day.
Outline : One of the greatest theologians of the twentieth century, Karl Barth is best known for his monumental Church Dogmatics, a work that changed the modern theological landscape. It is less well known that Barth taught three distinct cycles of courses in dogmatics during his lifetime. HIs first effort consisted of a series of lectures at the University of Gottingen in 1924-25. These provoc…
Outline : This book is a major intellectual biography of perhaps the most influential theologian of the twentieth century, Karl Barth. McCormack offers the first full-scale revision of the well-known theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar's seminal interpretation of Barth, which was first published in 1951. Drawing on a wealth of material, much of it unpublished during Barth's lifetime, as well as a…
Outline : This innovative collection seeks to build bridges between the theology of Karl Barth and contemporary American evangelicalism and provide the impetus for moving evangelical engagement with Barth to a new level. The scholarly insights offered here shed much light on current trends in Protestant theology and show how Barth's thought can enrich evangelical interaction with current theolo…
Outline : Recovering a forgotten theologian. Klaas Schilder was a prominent Dutch Reformed theologian, pastor, and professor in the early twentieth century. While his fame spread to North America in the 1940s, he is mostly forgotten today. In The Klaas Schilder Reader: The Essential Theological Writings, readers will rediscover this important Dutch theologian. Working in the tradition of Abra…
Outline : The death and resurrection of Joseph. Towards the end of Genesis, the narrative slows down to tell the story of Joseph. There is no dispute that Joseph's story is unique, but why does it deserve such focused attention? And how does this story relate to the rest of Genesis? In Figuring Resurrection, Jeffrey Pulse presents the view that Joseph is a death-and-resurrection figure. A clo…
Outline : Mental ill-health is far more common than many of us think. Statistics suggest that one in six people will have experienced a mental-health struggle in the past week. That means there are many in our church families battling with thoughts, feelings and even voices that distract them, drag them down and nudge them towards despair. But when it comes to helping, we often find ourselves u…
Outline : The Acts of the Apostle is a substantial book, sitting right in the middle of the New Testament, looking back to the four Gospels and on to the mission of the early church. It provides a framework for our understanding of the letters; but it does more than that. It offers a sophisticated and nuanced view of what it means to think of the gospel of Jesus, Israel's Messiah, going out int…
Outline : For Christians, the Bible is a book inspired by God. Its eternal words are transmitted across the world by fallible human hands. Following Jesus's departing instruction to go out into the world. the Bible has been a book in motion from its very beginnings, and every community it has encountered has read, heard, and seen the Bible through its own language and culture. In the Bible, Bru…
Outline : Perkataan anda, tindakan anda, sikap anda, hidup anda setiap hari mempengaruhi orang-orang lain. Soalnya apakah anda mempunyai pengaruh yang positif dan efektif terhadap orang-orang lain atau sebaliknya. Setiap orang Kristen sepatutnya rindu untuk melayani Tuhan dan sesama. Bagaimana caranya melayani dengan efektif? Ronald W. Leigh, penulis buku ini, dengan latar belakang studinya yan…
Outline : Pelayanan dalam lingkup gereja sering kali dibedakan menjadi dua; pelayanan oleh hamba Tuhan dan oleh orang-orang awam, atau pelayanan purnawaktu dan pelayanan paruh waktu. Sementara, beberapa orang tidak menyadari bahaya dari dikotomi ini, sejarah membuktikan bahwa gereja sering kali kehilangan kuasa dan otoritasnya ketika hanya memberi kesempatan pelayanan kepada mereka yang diangga…
Outline : Buku Seri Katekese Liturgi ini merupakan pengolahan secara baru atas bahan-bahan buku Bulan Katekese Liturgi (BKL) yang diterbitkan oleh Komisi Liturgi Keuskupan Agung Semarang selama 20 tahun, yakni dari tahun 1999 sampai dengan 2018. Pada ulang tahun ke-20 dari BKL inilah, Komisi Liturgi KAS ingin mempersembahkan sebuah terbitan dalam bentuk seri, yang berisi katekese liturgi yang k…
Outline: Spiritualitas reformatoris bukanlah antinomianisme atau suatu sikap yang membuang dan merendahkan hukum-hukum Allah. Spiritualitas reformatoris dengan jelas menjunjung tinggi hukum atau perintah Allah, dan di sisi yang lain tidak menggantungkan keselamatan atas kesempurnaan ketaatan kepada hukum itu melainkan atas kesempurnaan cinta Allah pada manusia sebagaimana yang Yesus ajarkan den…
Outline: Buku ini menyajikan pendekatan yang menyeluruh dan mendalam tentang bagaimana seharusnya agama berperan dalam hubungan sosial-politik di Indonesia. Sebagai teologi publik, Neo-Calvinisme sejalan dan dapat berkembang secara harmonis dengan ideologi Pancasila serta dapat diaplikasikan dalam konteks masyarakat Indonesia yang majemuk. Prinsip-prinsip Neo Calvinisme dapat diandalkan untuk m…
Outline : In Reading Backwards Richard B. Hays maps the shocking ways the four Gospel writers interpreted Israel's Scripture to craft their literary witnesses to the Church's one Christ. Hays demonstrates that it was Israel's Scripture itself that taught the Gospel writers how to understand Jesus as the embodied presence of God, that this conversion of imagination occurred early in the developm…
Outline : While many pastoral ministry books focus on the practical duties of the pastor, few actually consider how theological truth defines the pastor's role and responsibilities. Pastoral Theology constructs a theological framework for pastoral ministry that is biblically derived, historically informed, doctrinally sound, missionally engaged, and contextually relevant. Through careful integr…
Outline : From Book 1: From 1978 to 1998, Pastor A.N. Martin taught Pastoral Theology in the Trinity Ministerial Academy, a church-based ministerial training institution. Every Friday throughout the academic year, all the students would gather for two hours of teaching presented in a four-year cycle. Subsequently various series of the audiotapes were widely circulated. Many expressed their desi…
Outline : Hospitality is the heart of Christian Life and Ministry. In 1999, Christine Pohl’s now-classic, Making Room, blended biblical and historical- theological research with her own experience to make the case that hospitality is still at the heart of Christian life and ministry. Pohl's final writing for publication prior to her passing in March 2023 went into a new preface and a new afte…
Outline : There is a place that you can go where no one is ever sick. There are no doctor's offices or hospitals - no one there gets a runny nose or earache or an upset tummy. They don't fight or cry or get hurt feelings. This place is more beautiful and amazing than you could ever imagine. It is filled with love, light and joy. It's perfect because God made it that way. It's heaven. All the pe…
Outline : A scary invitation turns out to be very good news in this playfully illustrated, deeply biblical book for kids ages 5-9. Discover how David's grace to Mephibosheth is far surprassed by King Jesus's gracious invitation for us to feast with him in heaven.
Outline : That's what I believe. Join FatCat, the friendly feline, as he learns the traditional text of the Apostles' Creed―the earliest summary of the apostles' teaching. Enjoy vibrantly illustrated scenes of Jesus's life and search for FatCat on every page! Young readers and families will read a line from the creed along with a simple reflection to tuck into their hearts. With a list of Scr…
Outline : "I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made." Psalm 139: 14 Our little ones are on a journey of self-discovery, trying to figure out their place in our complex world. As they grow and develop, they learn their strengths and talents, preferences and quirks, and the tendencies of their emotions. Are these the things that define who they are? In this picture book, kids ages …
Outline : Long before nightlights, God made the glowing moon. And long before umbrellas, He planted trees to keep us dry. All our best ideas are inspired by His! Hannah C. Hall offers this fun look at how God's creative work can be seen everywhere—putting electric power in the lightning bolt, styling the crazy hair on a llama, and making the families who love us. For kids who love to tinker a…
Outline : Bible characters s come to in a & -charming my new way! Share these delightful stories about people in the Bible with loved ones, young and old! Faithful Friends combines Scripturally accurate accounts of Old and New Testament characters of the Bible with whimsical and timeless photos of handcrafted dolls made specially to reflect the theme of each story.
Outline : Mima is very sick, and just thinking about it makes Julian very sad and very angry. Julian is worried about Mima and wonders if God can hear her or if God cares. So Mima explains to Julian that God loves us and that God can be trusted―even when we are sad or angry. This gentle story of a grandmother's love for her granddaughter incorporates the timeless wisdom of Julian of Norwich; …
Outline : My God loves me and gives me life. His law protects the gifts he gives me. Join FatCat as he learns the Ten Commandments―how God’s children love. We love God because he first loved us. Jesus shows us how God loves us, Because Jesus obeyed His Father, we have forgiveness and life - and many other good gifts. God's commandments protect us and his gifts for us. When we love and obey…
Outline : Our Father in heaven, you love us just like you love Jesus. Join FatCat, the friendly feline, as he learns the Lord's Prayer―Jesus's prayer that teaches us how to pray. This simple yet profound prayer shapes children's love for God, need for forgiveness from God, and dependence on God for strength and protection. Learn the Lord's Prayer and search for FatCat on every page! Each peti…
Outline : For the Lord is good and faithfül. He will keep us day and night. We can always run to Jesus. Jesus, strong and kind. Respected pastor and author. Sinclair Ferguson uses the words of the popular children's song. 'Jesus. Strong and Kind', to help us understand that we can always run to Jesus when we feel afraid, lost, thirsty or weak. He shows that God is powerful, merciful, good and…
Outline : Sometimes, Wren and Gran didn't paint flowers or clouds and birds or trees. Sometimes, they painted their feelings. She and Gran called it "painting prayers." Gran's art's art studio is one of Wren's favorite places in the world. Not only is it where Wren and Gran paint, but it's also where they talk about all the good and hard stuff of life-to each other and to God. Join young Wren…
Outline : We're all different because God is creative. Each one of us is God's unique work of art. When Josey wonders why people are all so different, Dad helps her understand that our differences aren't a mistake. Josey learns that we all unique because God is creative! Children and the adults who read with them are invited to join Josey as she learns of God's intentionally and wonderfully div…
Outline : Yellow daffodils, flying seagulls, bright orange pumpkins, and swirling snowflakes - God's handiwork can be found all throughout nature, and every season is full of beauty and wonder. Everywhere we look, no matter the time of year, the wonders of creation remind us that God is always with us, always right here. Written by Kara Lawler and beautifully illustrated by Jennie Poh, this cel…
Outline : Each volume of the Doctrines of Grace series illuminates one of the five points of Calvinism, presenting the context, content, and various implications of the doctrine. Featuring essays from several respected theologians, these works help readers understand key aspects of Reformed orthodoxy in all their historical, biblical, theological, and pastoral richness.
Outline : Is the world better off without Christianity? Is religion a pernicious force in the world? Many believe so. Having spent the last decade reflecting on this question, historian John Dickson concludes: the skeptics, are right. Christian history reveals many dark things - violence, bigotry, greed, child abuse, and more. Christian have been bullies. But the critics are only partly right:…
Outline : This major statement on Proverbs by a Christian scholar provides a critical, virtue-ethics approach to a text laden with interpretive challenges for modern readers.
Outline : The Workplace of today is fast, digital and busier than ever. Work is increasing exponentially while its rewards and benefits are reducing. It is easy to complain, drag one's feet, and face daily tasks with an apathetic attitude. In A Good Return, however, John C. Lennox encourages Christians to view their work as an avenue of worship. He has crafted a book with thoughtful, biblical d…
Outline : Know the Theologians introduces the most important thinkers throughout church history and demonstrates their ongoing relevance for believers today. Professors Jennifer Powell McNutt and David W. McNutt survey more than a dozen theologians, including key Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholic, and Protestant figures, who represent the breadth and depth of the church's theology. Each chapter …