Outline : In 1913, Dutch Reformed theologian Herman Bavinck (1854-1921) completed his Guidebook for Instruction in the Christian Religion. Although he originally intended it for high school students, Bavinck's ultimate goal was to educate the average churchgoer in the rich, deeo thoughts of Scripture as universally expressed in the Christian faith. An introductory systematic theology for anyone…
Outline : There are numerous models, theories, and resources on integrating psychology and the Christian faith. But practicing integration in the real world, embedded in our own communities and culture, is something else entirely. To move from theory to practice, we need learning informed by experiences, reflection on those experiences, and feedback from others. This integration process is a li…
Outline : The Big Ten : Critical Questions Answered is a Christian apologetics series which aims to address ten commonly asked questions about God, the Bible, and Christianity. Each book, while easy to read, is challenging and thought-provoking, addressing subjects ranging from hell to science. Atheists often level charges at the God of the Bible as being angry and hateful. They claim that God …
Outline : Our culture is obsessed with identity. Rather than being a new challenge to the Christian faith, however, the identity issue is a very old one; it is fundamentally one of idolatry. Who we are, who we think we are, and how God in Christ restores our knowledge of ourselves in covenant with him, are central Biblical themes. But we must have the courage to tackle the idolatries of our age…
Outline : What better time to share the Gospel than Christmas? Year after year, Lilly's mom uses a small wooden manger and cross to share the gospel with her family. She wants her kids and husband to know that because of God's first Christmas gift, every heart can be healed. But when a big change happens days before Christmas, the family must decide if the tradition will continue. Will the Ch…
Outline : I like to go to church because I know I'm always welcome. Finding my place in God's family as a child with special needs. Children with disabilities often struggle to fit in, but church can be a place where everyone is welcome and included! When I Go to Church, I Belong follows the story of six children, helping us better understand the experiences and feelings of those with special…
Outline : Sometimes, hard things happen. Sometimes, they happen to children. This simple picture book imagines that the hard thing in a child's life is a scribble following him everywhere. The child can't get rid of the scribble, no matter how hard he tries. His story offers reassurance to all readers, young and old, that God will take their own hard things and turn them into something beauti…
Outline : What spesial pairs are part of God's good plan? Join siblings Lila and Ethan at the beach as they discover that God not only made the sand and sea to go together, but He made men and women to go together too. In fact, they’re the pinnacle of His good creation! In this colorful picture book—a follow-up to the book God’s Signpost—author Sam Allberry offers a thoughtful look a…
Outline : The Psalter evinces meaningful arrangement. When psalms are read with attentiveness to their textual context, striking connections emerge. In The Arrival of the King: The Shape and Story of Psalms 15–24, Carissa Quinn approaches these psalms as a compositional unity. When read as a unit, Psalms 15–24 tell the story of God's kingdom, established through the suffering and deliveranc…
Outline : Quirky Critter Devotions sets you on an animal-themed expedition to uncover wildly weird facts, journal your thoughts, and gain hands-on experience with zoo-tastic activities! Discover a wide range of crazy-cool critters spanning seven animal categories: mammals, insects, amphibians, birds, fish, reptiles, and spiders. From familiar faces like turtles and honey bees to incredible cr…
Outline : The Exegetical Guide to the Greek New Testament (EGGNT) closes the gap between the Greek text and the available lexical and grammatical tools, providing all the necessary information for greater understanding of the text. The series makes interpreting any given New Testament book easier, especially for those who are hard pressed for time but want to preach or teach with accuracy and a…
Outline : The reality of God’s ultimate punishment is central to the gospel. Only by facing sin’s devastation can believers grasp the beauty of their salvation and help unbelievers confront their need for forgiveness. Offering a comprehensive analysis of final judgment, biblical scholar Thomas Schreiner examines themes of sin, death, and redemption in the New Testament and other passages of…
Outline : Why does Mark describe John the Baptist's clothing, but no one else's? Why does it matter that the grass was green at the feeding of the five thousand? Mark Through Old Testament Eyes is the inaugural volume in the Through Old Testament Eyes commentary series, focused on uncovering the Old Testament background to New Testament books. Author Andrew Le Peau explores the Old Testament …
Outline : You have a calling. In this classic book of vocation, Gordon Smith invites you to discover your calling by listening to God and becoming a coworker with him. Courage and Calling has helped thousands of readers explore questions such as these: - What is my calling? - Will my vocation change as I enter a new stage of life? - With competing demands, how can I craft a balanced way of …
Outline : " A Must-Read for scholars and students of philosophy and theology" This book brings together top scholars in the fields of theology and Christian philosophy to introduce five prevailing views on the topic of natural theology. John C. McDowell, Alister E. McGrath, Paul K. Moser, Fr. Andrew Pinsent, and Charles Taliaferro offer constructive approaches from major perspectives--contempor…
Outline : As war rages, personal battlelines are drawn. As the fall of 1944 begins, Claire finds World War 2 creeping closer to her family's orchard than she would like. With her older brother, Danny, fighting overseas, her father is taking advantage of a new US program that loans German POWs to farms as labor. While the extra help means Claire won't have to drop out of school - and can continu…
Outline : It's Little Lamb's first Easter, and she wonders what makes the day so special. Is it the baby bunnies? The tulips? The fluffy new chicks? Join Little Lamb as she discovers that Easter is special because Jesus is alive! With plenty of baby-animal sweetness, a glittery cover, and a bumblebee to find on each spread, this board book is a delightful way to celebrate Easter with your favo…
Outline : The Christian claim that the triune God is the creator of the universe is both exegetically grounded and theologically rich. Yet discussions about God's work of creation are often overwhelmed by questions such as the age of the earth and the relationship between divine creation and evolution. Without completely ignoring such issues, Peter Leithart offers a decidedly theological interp…
Outline : First published in German as Die rabbinschen Gleichnisse und der Gleichniserzähler Jesus in 1981―and now translated into English for the first time―this seminal work by Professor David Flusser remains an important and unparalleled contribution on Jesus as a storyteller in the Jewish rabbinic tradition. Using a literary approach to study extant rabbinic parables, Flusser argues th…
Outline : Reason is subordinate to Scripture but never at odds with it. Natural Law is everywhere. It impacts every aspect of daily life, from moral choices, such as obeying road signs, to maintaining fidelity to one's spouse. In Faithful Reason, Andrew T. Walker argues that developing a Christian ethic is not only a matter of appealing to biblical authority but also of understanding how God h…
Outline : What does one make of Christ? This is the vital question Herman Bavinck (1854-1921) posed over a hundred years ago and still presents to us today. This volume includes Bavinck's "Chrisitianity" (Het Christendom) from 1912, as well as his earlier essay "The Christian Faith" (Het Christelijk Geloof) from 1883, both of which are published here for the first time in English. In these writ…
Outline : Follow Elton the Old English Sheepdog as he rests in green pastures, walks through a dark valley, and enjoys the love of the Shepherd. Along the way, children will connect with the beloved words of Psalm 23 and know that they too are cared for and protected by their good God.
Outline : Everyone is a theologian―even your little one. Each board book in the For the Bible Tells Me So series offers kids ages 0–4 an introduction to key facets of the gospel and a glimpse at the joy found when children embrace Christ as their Lord and Savior.
Outline : Must we be free to truly love? When responding to objections that both evil and God can exist, many resort to a "free will defense," in which God is not the creator of evil but of human freedom, by which evil is possible. In God Reforms Hearts, Thaddeus J. Williams offers a friendly challenge to the central claim of the free will defense―that love is possible only with true (or libe…
Outline : Everyone is a theologian - even your little one. Each board book in the For the Bible Tells Me So series offers kids ages 0 - 4 an introduction to key facets of the gospel and a glimpse at the joy found when children embrace Christ as their Lord and Savior.
Outline : Believe it or not, the book of Genesis might have been the most Darwinian text in the ancient world. And throughout the opening books of Scripture, we find ideas that would also become prominent insights of the biologist Charles Darwin interlaced with the Bible's one-of-a-kind origin story. Key plot markers come to the surface again and again, driving the history of Israel and the Jes…
Outline : Evangelicals have a complex relationship with environmentalism. Some lament the church’s apparent disinterest in humanity’s negative impact upon the earth. Others denounce environmentalism as a distraction from the church’s mission. In the face of polarization over the issue, how should evangelicals steward creation well? Stewards of the Earth collects five decades of articles f…
Outline : Most people believe that hell is the final state of the condemned following the final judgment. At the same time, many people cannot comprehend why God created hell for the unsaved. Respected church fathers held a variety of views dating back to the early centuries of the church. This book explains views on why hell exists: unending suffering, the annihilation of the unrepentant, and …
Outline : "A gift from one of the most creative theologians writing today" What is our calling as Christians regarding the good life and engagement in the public sphere? In Mortal Goods, Ephraim Radner examines how we might more faithfully and realistically imagine our political vocation.
Outline : Mark Awabdy offers a substantive and useful commentary on the book of Numbers that is both critically engaged and sensitive to the theological contributions of the text. This volume is the second in the Baker Commentary on the Old Testament (BCOT) : Pentateuch series, which complements the popular BCOT : Wisdom and Psalms series. Each series volume covers one book of the Pentateuch, a…
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 : 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 : This volume is based on the 1959 MARTIN LUTHER LECTURES, sponsored by Luther College, Decorah, Iowa. These lectures were inaugurated in 1956; they will continue in future years, as Luther College observes its Centennial in 1961. Luther College is proud to present outstanding historians and theologians as this annual lectureship continues through the years. Creative studies in the sign…
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 : 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 : Making All Things New shows that God's kingdom breaking into this world through Jesus Christ has inaugurated a new creation, a reality that should shape pastoral leadership and be reflected in the life and ministry of the church.
Outline : Drawing on years of teaching experience, James F. White provides a unique, comprehensive overview of Protestant worship. He examines the origins, development, and present characteristics of nine traditions: Lutheran, Reformed Anabaptist, Anglican, Separatist and Puritan, Quaker, Methodist, Frontier, and Pentecostal. To capture the "reality of worship," White looks beyond the printed …
Outline : Resolved to be always discovering new ways to GLORIFY God in my life and increase both my joy in Jesus and that of others. In 1722, eighteen-year-old Jonathan Edwards began setting down seventy Resolutions, personal statements of intent, to which, by the grace of God, he resolved to hold himself accountable for the rest of his life, by reading them prayerfully once a week until his de…
Outline : The Trinity is one of the most essential doctrines of the Christian faith. The eternal God existing as three distinct persons―Father, Son, and Spirit―can be difficult to comprehend. While Christians often struggle to find the right words to describe this union, the Bible gives clarity concerning the triune God’s being and activity in nature (creation), grace (redemption), and g…
Outline : The gospel message is simple but not simplistic. Learning the gospel and its implications is a lifelong process, but modern evangelicals are often too focused on the moment of conversion while ignoring the ongoing work of sanctification. For John Wesley and George Whitefield, justification and sanctification were inseparable. In Born Again, Sean McGever maps Wesley's and Whitefield's …
Outline : "We are all very special, and God never makes mistakes! Not even little ones." This is the BIG message from Peabody, the world's smallest horse. So grab this book, snuggle up with someone special, and give your heart to Peabody and his friends.
Outline : Read the best news the world has ever been given about the most significant life in all history—Jesus Christ. In One Perfect Life, Dr. John MacArthur shares with us the complete story of the Eternal Christ from Genesis to Revelation. Using Matthew as the base text, Dr. MacArthur blends the gospels and other biblical material about Jesus into one continuous story that will help you b…
Outline : Today is the day the world gets to see the beautiful person God made you to be. Wherever you go, it's God's love you're expressing. So God sends you out with this special blessing. Introduce children to the blessing found in Numbers 6:22-27 ("The LORD bless you and keep you ...") with this poetic book that helps them understand how much God loves and cares for them, how special God m…
Outline : Gather up your confidence. Walk up and say hello. Smile and wave and share your name. Let your big heart show! Whether you're the new kid walking into the lunchroom or you're sitting alone in your bedroom, that lonely feeling won't last forever - especially when you know just what to do! This reassuring and empowering book helps kids realize that they can always have a place, offering…
Outline: Open the pages of I Dream a Dream for you and meet a family of red pandas who make their home in the forest. When it's time for bed, Mom and Dad tuck in their cubs, and dreams come to life through the vibrant pictures and story. Parents and grandparents will enjoy reading this sweet bedtime rhyme filled with hopes, dreams, and prayers for their little ones. This read-to-make story show…
Outline : Jesus was a great storyteller. He used stories about bridesmaids, farmers, and buried treasure to teach people about subject like prayer, forgiveness, and the Kingdom of God. Carine MacKenzie's gift for helping children understand the Bible shines through in this book as she unpacks the parables. With beautiful colour illustrations. this book will be a great addition to your family's …
Outline : Who is God? What is the Trinity? Does God Exist? How Did We Get the Bible? Did God Really Create Everything? Did Jesus Rise from the Dead? Why Does God Let Bad Things Happen? How Can I Be Saved? Why Don't My Fiends Believe? Samantha and her younger brother, Joshua, have some big questions about God, and their parents are ready to help them explore the answers. Join them as they find…