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 : The Integrated Life : Kehidupan Kristiani yang Seutuhnya merupakan sebuah Festschrift atau buku penghargaan bagi Dr. Yakub dan Esther Susabda. Dr. Yakub Susabda adalah rektor Sekolah Tinggi Teologi Reformed Injili Indonesia (STTRII) dan Dr. Esther Susabda adalah salah satu pionir dalam pengembangan konseling Kristen di Indonesia. Buku ini diterbitkan dalam rangka memperingati ulang ta…
Outline: The Cambridge History of Christianity offers a comprehensive chronological account of the development of Christianity in all its aspects - theological, intellectual, social, political, regional, global - from its beginnings to the present day. Each volume makes a substantial contribution in its own right to the scholarship of its period and the complete History constitutes a major work…
Outline: 160,000,000 street children around the world are facing a crisis on the streets. Who will weep for them? "My eyes fail from weeping, I am in torment within, my heart is poured out on the ground ... because children and infants faint in the streets of the city. Arise, cry out ... pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to him for the lives of you…
Outline: Like many believers, you may wonder how to integrate heartfelt worship into your private devotional times. Face to Face : Praying the Scriptures for Intimate Worship helps you bridge the gap between Bible reading and intimate, joyous worship. Adapting and personalizing select passages from the Bible, Dr. Kenneth Boa guides you through three months of daily prayers of Adoration, Confess…
Outline: Kenneth Cragg describes his authoritative book The Event of the Qur'an as "an exercise in religious enquiry and in trans-religious openness of the heart ..." in the common context of our single humanity and our separate histories." The question "what happens in the Qur'an?" holds profound historical fascination as well as being a matter of great religious sensivity to all readers, rega…
Outline: Three Middle Eastern village characters sit on a bench outside the wise man's house and discuss theology. Elder Yusef is the wise man. His friend, Abdu, asks the right questions. Abdu's sidekick, Baseat, is the "straight man" who never gets the point. After the manner of Job, these three characters, with the occasional help of some friends, discuss God ... The earlier edition of God Is…
The result of over thirty years of research and lecturing, Paul Through Mediterranean Eyes is a ground-breaking study of Paul's first epistle to the Corinthians. Bailey examines this canonical letter through the lenses of Paul's Jewish socio-cultural and rhetorical background and the Mediterranean context of the Corinthian recipients. In a set of connected essays, he draws the reader's attentio…
Rules for Effective Prayer Getting Answers from God In this important handbook on prayer, Kenneth E. Hagin shows believers how to get their prayers answered. Effective praying, he explains, is the results of following certain biblical principles outlined in this book. He shows from Scripture that results often come from exchanging the prayer of petition for praise. “We need times of waiting o…
The result of over thirty years of research and lecturing, Paul Through Mediterranean Eyes is a ground-breaking study of Paul's first epistle to the Corinthians. Bailey examines this canonical letter through the lenses of Paul's Jewish socio-cultural and rhetorical background and the Mediterranean context of the Corinthian recipients. In a set of connected essays, he draws the reader's attentio…
Answers questions pertaining to the teachings, rituals, practices, and history of Catholicism.
Having begun as an attempt to reform the perceived abuses and errors of the Catholic Church, the Protestant Reformation affected many aspects of daily life, including marriage and divorce, the role of the clergy, and the prevalence of persecution and bloodshed on both sides of the divide.
Scholars argue over where Hebrews fits in the first-century world. Kenneth L. Schenck works towards resolving this question by approaching Hebrews’ cosmology and eschatology from a text-orientated perspective. After observing that the key passages in the background debate mostly relate to the ‘settings’ of the story of salvation history evoked by Hebrews, Schenck attempts to delineate tho…
Beginning with Jesus' birth, Ken Bailey leads readers on a kaleidoscopic study of Jesus throughout the four Gospels. Bailey examines the life and ministry of Jesus with attention to the Lord's Prayer, the Beatitudes, Jesus' relationship to women and especially Jesus' parables. Through it all, Bailey employs his trademark expertise as a master of Middle Eastern culture to lead us into a deeper u…
Outline: Christianity and Islam are today in closer contact than ever before, both in world affairs and in the field of religion. In the political area, the West and Communism compete for the favor of emergent Muslim nations. In the field of religion, the historic faith of the Western world confronts the dominant religion of the Middle East. Yet lack of understanding between the two faiths is w…
Outline: Lebah mendengung dan flamingo berkoak, tetapi hanya manusia yang diciptakan untuk berbicara dengan Allah. Karena Dia mengasihi kita, kita dapat berbicara kepada Allah di gereja, di rumah, di tempat bermain, bahkan di bulan! Debby Anderson menjelaskan kebenaran yang menarik ini dalam sebuah buku yang penuh warna dan menyenangkan berdasarkan Firman Allah sendiri. Dia menyertakan referens…
Outline: Alkitab adalah buku terbaik di seluruh dunia! Firman Allah penuh dengan kisah-kisah nyata yang menakjubkan. Lebih penting lagi, Alkitab adalah buku panduan dri Allah untuk kita, yang mengajarkan kepada kita cara terbaik untuk hidup. Melalui Alkitab, kita belajar mengenai Yesus dan kasih Allah untuk kita. Apakah kamu tahu bahwa kamu dapat membaca Alkitab setiap saat dan dimana saja? Kam…
Outline: Dapatkah kau mempercayainya? Allah semesta alam tahu namamu! Sesungguhnya, Firman Allah merupakan pengingat yang lengkap tentang kepedulian-Nya yang lemah lembut bagi semua makhluk ciptaan-Nya, besar maupun kecil. Untuk membantumu memahami kebenaran-kebenaran yang agung ini, buku yang penuh warna dan mengasyikkan ini akan menghidupkan konsep-konsep tersebut dalam lima puluh teks Alkita…
Outline: It's Jesus' promise to you - the promise that you live triumphantly. But what keeps you from really walking in the joy of the Lord? The powers of darkness attach us daily. But, as Dr. Neil Anderson shows in Victory over the Darknes, you can have the power of conquer them by knowing who you are in Christ. In Victory over the Darkness you'll learn how to: - Realize the power of your ide…
Outline: What the New Testament Authors Really Cared About is a fresh approach to understanding what is really important in the New Testament. This introductory survey concentrates on the most imporant themes of each book and letter in the New Testament. By asking what Matthew (or any other New Testament author) really cared about when he wrote, we discover what to pay attention to when we read…
Outline: While the age of the Holy Spirit began with Pentecost, the twentieth century has seen as explosion in the Spirit's work through the remarkable growth of Pentecostalism and the changing face of global Christianity. The essays gathered in Spirit of God: Christian Renewal in the Community of Faith provide an ecumenical exploration of the Holy Spirit's person and work in biblical, historic…
Outline: Menolong orang agar bebas dari keterikatan dosa dan bertumbuh dalam Kristus. Dibangun di atas konsep-konsep yang ditemukan dalam Victory over the Darkness and The Bondage Breaker, panduan pelayanan konseling dari Neil Andersons ini memberikan informasi yang jelas dan contoh-contoh yang bagus untuk membantu Anda memahami apa itu konseling kemuridan. Jika Anda seorang pendeta, konselor a…
Outline: The New American Commentary is for those who have been seeking a commentary that honors the Scriptures, represents the finest in contemporary evangelical scholarship, and lends itself to the practical work of preaching and teaching. This series serves as a minister's friend and a student's guide. The New American Commentary assumes the inerrancy of Scripture, focuses on the intrinsic t…
Outline: Of all the books of the Bible, few are as fascinating or as bewildering as Revelation. Its images grip the imagination: four grim horsemen, the Antichrist, the ten-horned beast, the ultimate battle at Armageddon, and, of course, 666, the "mark of the beast," variously interpreted to signify everything from Hitler and Kruschchev to credit cards and the Internet. Is the book of Revelatio…
Outline: It's impossible to know a man well until you know what he believes. Americans who are concerned about the people of Asia must be acquainted with the religions of Asia. One of the most important of these faiths is Buddhism, which in some form or other holds the allegiance of millions of human beings from the Hawaiian Islands west to Japan, Thailand, Burma, India, and other countries in …
Outline: You're trapped. You don't know how you ended up in such a mess - locked in habits you can't seem to break or caught in sin. You're a Christian and this sort of thing doesn't happen to Christians ... or so you've been told. You are not alone. The Bible warns repeatedly that all Christians will struggle against Satan and his spiritual forces of darkness. While the spiritual conflict th…
Outline: The first of his works to be translated into English, Risalat al Tauhid, represents the most popular of Muhammad 'Abduh' s discussions of Islamic thought and belief. From its major arguments the general direction of current apology derives. The author died in 1905 but is still quoted and revered as the father of twentieth century Muslim thinking in the Arab world. Though timid and con…
Outline: For centuries Christian theology has suffered from myopia, focusing intently on Western history and culture but scarcely discerning the realities of Asia, Africa, or even Latin America. As a consequence most Christians in the United States and Europe are unaware that presently the areas of greatest church growth and theological ferment are in the Third World, where two-thirds of humani…
Outline: Muhammad ranks among the most influential single figures in human history. For Muslims he is incomparably the greatest. How should others see him? More particularly, how should Christians respond to the insistent Islamic desire for their verdict about him? This book is one man's venture of response reached out of long study of long study within Islam and of commitment to Christian fait…
Outline: Machine learning and data analytics are powering a wave of groundbreaking technologies. Is your company ready? If you read nothing else on how intelligent machines are revolutionizing business, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you understand how these technologies work together, how to…