Outline : This is a book to help children to pray, and to help them see that every moment of their lives is lived in the circle of God's love.
Outline : What is the Bible? The Bible is like a letter from God! It tells the story of God's love for us. A Child's First Bible brings the wonderful story of God's love to a child's heart. Delightfully illustrated, favourite stories from the Bible are retold in a fresh, lively way. With interactive questions, special thoughts drawn from the story and a Bible reference for readers who want to f…
Outline : Knowing how to approach children and teens in counseling can be a challenge, but this practical workbook of expressive exercises will help counselors and other caring adults to build meaningful connections. Building Bridges allows counselors to enter a young person's world by engaging them in biblically wise and creative activities and includes reproducible resources.
Outline : Parents : Helpless, but not hopeless. Many parents today are searching for the "secret" to successful parenting. In Parenting by God's Promises : How to Raise Children in the Covenant of Grace, Dr. Joel R. Beeke presents the difficult truth : there is no secret. When it comes to giving children what they need most - new hearts that trust in Christ for forgiveness of sins - parents are…
Outline : Grandma was right. You've got to get the weeds by the roots, or they'll just grow back. So too with deep-rooted anger. You must uproot it from your heart, or it'll resurface. Uprooting Anger reveals how the Bible generates hope and help for all who struggle with this sin.
Outline : 2,000 Years of Christ's Power is a multiple-volume series on the history of the church. Academically reliable, yet written with an easy, even humorous style which makes it accessible to anybody with an interest, this work falls into a category all of its own. Thoroughly researched with beautifully-linked arguments, biographies, context and discussions, Nick Needham provides a riveting…
Outline : Trinitarian, Reformational, and Baptistic, Stephen Wellum's Systematic Theology models a serious evangelical engagement with the Scriptures while being grounded in church history and keenly aware of contemporary issues. Building on decades of research, Wellum formulates doctrine exegetically, covenantly, and canonically for a new generation of students, pastors, church leaders, and se…
Outline : New scholarship on the development of Luther's four solas. Volker Leppin explores the four "solas" of the Reformation - Christ, grace, faith, and scripture - as both anchored in the culture of late-medieval devotion and representing new, firmly demarcated formulae. Leppin helps readers understand that in the journey toward new theological understandings, continuity and discoutinuity…
Outline : Have you ever wondered what Reformed theology really is? Ask for a definition and you'll get many different answers. This brief book serves as a helpful primer for church leaders, study groups, and individuals who want a well-rounded and concise overview. Learn what makes Reformed theology distinctive and how its specific doctrines apply to everyday life. Written for the church, the B…
Outline : Covenant shapes our life with God. In Reformed Covenant Theology : A Systematic Introduction, Harrison Perkins shows how Christ and his work are the heart of that covenant relationship. Since God lives in covenant with his redeemed people, covenant theology provides a framework for Christians to grow in their life with God, to read the Bible, and to love the church.
Outline : Abraham Kuyper believed that Jesus is King of all creation, making it absurd to distinguish between Christian life inside and outside the church. In previous volumes of Pro Rege, Kuyper examined Christ's universal kingship and its implications for the life of the church and the family; in this third volume, he extends his analysis of Christ's kingship and rule to areas of society not …
Outline : At the beginning of the twentieth century, famed theologian Abraham Kuyper toured the Mediterranean world and encountered Islam for the first time. Part travelogue, part cultural critique, On Islam presents a European imperialist seeing firsthand the damage colonialism had caused and the value of a religion he had never truly understood. Here, Kuyper's doctrine of common grace shines …
Outline : Among Abraham Kuyper's many accomplishments was his founding of the Free University of Amsterdam, where he also served as president and professor of theology. This collection of essays and speeches presents Kuyper's theology and philosophy of education, and his understanding of the divine purpose of scholarship for human culture. Included are convocation addresses given at the Free Un…
Outline : Common Grace is often considered Abraham Kuyper's crowning work, an exploration of how God expresses grace even to the unsaved. Kuyper firmly believed that though many people in the world will remain unconverted, God's grace is still shown to the world as a whole. The second volume of Common Grace contains Kuyper's doctrinal exploration of the impact and implications of this aspect of…
Outline : Every four years, the International Calvin Congress gathers together a wide spectrum of presenters from leading scholars to early-career researchers to learn from each other through several days of plenary lectures, panel sessions, and discussions. The fruits of the 13th quadrennial International Calvin Congress are now available. Several contributions focus directly on the conference…
Outline : From pastor and New York Times bestselling author Timothy Keller comes the perfect gift for the Christmas holiday—a profoundly moving and intellectually provocative examination of the nativity story. Even people who are not practicing Christians think they are familiar with the story of the nativity. Every Christmas displays of Baby Jesus resting in a manger decorate lawns and churc…
Outline : John Flavel wrote extensively on the subject of human suffering and how it relates to divine sovereignty. He himself experienced great suffering through the deaths of three wives and a son and continual persecution from state officials. Because many of his writings deal directly with the theme of suffering and because of his own experience with it, Flavel is a significant resource for…
Outline : In The Inner Sanctum of Puritan Piety, J. Stephen Yuille demonstrates how the doctrine of the believer's union with Christ lies at the heart of the Puritan pursuit of godliness. He analyzes the whole corpus of Flavel's writing, showing how this mystical union is set upon the backdrop of God's covenant of redemption and established on the basis of the person and work of Jesus Christ. C…
Outline: Kajian tentang realitas komunitas Muslim di Wilayah Rote Ndao Propinsi Nusa Tenggara Timur seringkali diabaikan pada tataran akademis. Hal ini terjadi karena dalam realitas masyarakat, Rote Ndao seringkali diidentikkan dengan kekristenan. Melalui buku ini, Daud Alfons Pandie mengemukakan hasil penelitian yang dilakukan bahwa dari sisi historis, Islam telah hadir di Rote Ndao sejak akhi…
Outline : Allah Trinitas adalah doktrin yang paling dianggap sepi oleh pada umumnya orang Kristen (gereja), namun paling dipersoalkan sesama kepercayaan monotheisme, termasuk sejumlah theolog dan kelompok Kristen (oneness) yang menggali kembali "kuburan" ariniasme (semi-arinismeO, unitarianisme, sabellianisme, modelisme, subordinasianisme dan dwinitas. Doktrin ini dianggap tidak alkitabiah, pal…
Outline: Ketahuilah dan pelajarilah tentang 12 wanita luar biasa dari Alkitab! Siapakah saudara perempuan Musa? Siapakah yang cantik dan cerdas yang tertulis di dalam Alkitab? Siapakah nabiah dalam Perjanjian Lama? Bacalah buku ini untuk mencari tahu! Sebuah buku yang diteliti dengan cermat dan disusun dengan penuh pertimbangan untuk mendidik dan membangkitkan semangat anak-anak tentang wanita …
Outline: Hati Anda tidak akan menyelamatkan diri Anda. Andalah yang harus diselamatikan dari hati Anda. "Ikuti kata hatimu" adalah slogan yang dianut oleh miliaran orang. Ini adalah pernyataan iman dari salah satu budaya populer di zaman ini - suatu berita sukacita yang banyak dinyatakan dalam cerita, film, dan lagu. Sampai kita memikirkan bahwa hati kita memiliki kecenderungan sosiopat. Hati k…
Outline : Here, from a great scholar and gifted translator, is a landmark publication: the first single-author literary translation of the complete Hebrew Bible. Robert Alter's award-winning translation delivers the Hebrew Bible as powerful, finely wrought literature, registering the distinctive meanings and rhythms of the ancient Hebrew in a lucid, supple English. The accompanying commentary o…
Outline : Here, from a great scholar and gifted translator, is a landmark publication: the first single-author literary translation of the complete Hebrew Bible. Robert Alter's award-winning translation delivers the Hebrew Bible as powerful, finely wrought literature, registering the distinctive meanings and rhythms of the ancient Hebrew in a lucid, supple English. The accompanying commentary o…
Outline: Here, from a great scholar and gifted translator, is a landmark publication: the first single-author literary translation of the complete Hebrew Bible. Robert Alter's award-winning translation delivers the Hebrew Bible as powerful, finely wrought literature, registering the distinctive meanings and rhythms of the ancient Hebrew in a lucid, supple English. The accompanying commentary of…
Outline: Along with a loss of faith in reason and science, the twentieth century witnessed a loss of faith in the human self and society as a whole. Two devastating world wars left scant reason for Enlightenment optimism. Commencing with Frege, Husserl and Bergson, Alan Padgett and Steve Wilkens chart the course of twentieth-century philosophy on its journey toward postmodernism. The voyage is …
Outline : What does the Bible teach about how to live in today's world? Best-selling author and professor Wayne Grudem distills over forty years of teaching experience into a single volume aimed at helping readers apply a biblical worldview to difficult ethical issues, including wealth and poverty, marriage and divorce, birth control, abortion, euthanasia, homosexuality, business practices, env…
Outline: A Renewed vision of Christian life centered on grace, justice, and peace - applied to the most urgent and controversial social issues of the twenty-first century.
Outline : This book is a contribution to the Christian ethics of war and peace. It advances peacebuilding as a needed challenge to and expansion of the traditional framework of just-war theory and pacifism. It builds on a critical reading of historical landmarks from the Bible through Augustine, Aquinas, the Reformers, Christian peace movements, and key modern figures like Dietrich Bonhoeffer, …
Outline: Recognizing that faithful theological study is an integrative task, the Theology for the People of God series uniquely combines biblical and systematic theology in dialogue with historical theology and with application to church and life. This series addresses classic doctrines of systematic theology and other relevant topics, pairing careful scholarship with the practical understandin…
Outline : Modern theology claimed it ignited a renaissance in Trinitarian Theology. Really, it has been a renaissance in social trinitarianism. Classical commitments such as divine simplicity have been jettisoned, the three persons have been redefined as three centers of consciousness and will, and modern agendas in politics, gender, and ecclesiology determine the terms of the discussion. Conte…
Outline: Interpreting Scripture brings together N.T. Wright's most important articles on Scripture and hermeneutics over the last two decades. Many of the included studies have never been published or are only available in hard-to-find larger volumes and journals. This companion volume to Interpreting Jesus and Interpreting Paul is essential reading for all with a serious interest in the Bible …
Outline: Interpreting Paul brings together N. T. Wright's most important articles on Paul and his letters since the publication of his magisterial Paul and the Faithfulness of God in 2013. Many of the included studies have never been published or are only available in hard-to-find larger volumes and journals. This companion volume to Interpreting Scripture and Interpreting Jesus is essential re…
Outline : Interpreting Jesus brings together N. T. Wright's most important and influential articles on Jesus and the Gospels over the last three decades. Many of the included studies have never been published or are only available in hard-to-find larger volumes and journals. This companion volume to Interpreting Scripture and Interpreting Paul is essential reading for all with a serious interes…
Outline: Many familiar Gospel narratives are filled with geographic details that we gloss over because of our distance from the Holy Land. Yet climate, landscape, natural resources, and other features of geography leave a lasting mark on the societies and cultures that have developed within them. In a world of dirt roads and dry riverbeds, where shepherds watch their flocks in the hills and fir…
Outline: Rarely to theologians take up theme of God's beauty - even more rarely do they consider how God's beauty should shape the task of theology itself. But the psalmist says that the heart of the believer's desire is to behold the beauty of the Lord. In this book, the author restores aesthetics as not merely a valid lens for theological reflection, but an essential one. Jesus, our incarn…
Outline: Why did God institute two covenants? What is Israel's relationship to the New Covenant? What is a Christian's relationship to the Old Testament? Important truths for strengthening your faith and spiritual understanding. One of Christendom's most beloved writers answers these and a host of other intriguing questions in this devotional study of The Believer's New Covenant. Murray wrote,…
Outline : Penyusunan buku ini dimaksudkan sebagai upaya memberi pengantar latar belakang, isi, sifat sastra dan berita masing-masing kitab dalam Perjanjian Lama, namun tidak pula dimaksudkan sebagai pengganti Alkitab itu sendiri. Para penulis percaya sepenuhnya akan pengilhaman dan otoritas Alkitab dan menjunjung tinggi Alkitab sebagai kitab suci. Walaupun para penulis selalu berupaya mengerti …
Outline : The good news from the Minor Prophets is that, even in dire times, God speaks. While the Minor Prophets are among the most succinct books of the Old Testament, their theological richness has much to offer us today. And not only did they have something to say to their original audience, but God continues to speak through their words in ways that are of utmost importance for the contin…
Outline : Petrus van Mastricht’s Theoretical and Practical Theology presents one of the most comprehensive methods of treating Christian doctrine. In it, Mastricht treats every theological topic according to a four-part approach: exegetical, dogmatic, elenctic, and practical. As a body of divinity, it combines a rigorous, scholastic treatment of doctrine with the pastoral aim of preparing peo…
Outline: This thorough Commentary presents a coherent reading of 1 Corinthians, taking full account of its Old Testament and Jewish roots and demonstrating Paul's primary concern for the unity and purity of the church and the glory of God. Roy Ciampa and Brian Rosner's well-informed, careful exegesis touches on an astonishingly wide swath of important, sensitive issues and reinforces the letter…
Outline: This commentary by Scot McKnight expounds the often-vexing letter of James both in its own context and in the context of ancient Judaism, the Greco-Roman world, and the emerging Christian faith. Though interacting with the best available scholarly work on James, McKnight first connects deeply with the text of the letter itself, striving to interpret James's teaching rigorously in light…
Outline : The book of Numbers tells a story that has two main characters -- God and Israel. The way the story is told sounds odd and often harsh to readers today. The main point of the book is nevertheless of immense importance for God's people in any age: exact obedience to God is crucial. This comprehensive and erudite commentary presents a thorough explication of this significant Hebrew text…
Outline : If you are someone who thinks theology is hard to understand or boring, then Systematic Theology will likely change your mind. All 57 chapters in this new edition have been revised and expanded, while retaining the features that have made it the standard in its field: clear explanations, an emphasis on each doctrine's scriptural basis, and practical applications to daily life. New …
Outline : The Apostle Paul's Pastoral Letters ― 1 Timothy, 2 Timothy, and Titus ― have made an enduring contribution to understanding the role of leadership in the church. With a spirited devotion to the text, Robert Yarbrough helps unlock the meaning of these short but rich letters in this commentary. In keeping with the character of Pillar New Testament Commentary volumes, The Letters to …
Outline : A compelling exhortation to hold true to the faith in the face of adversity. A sermon full of iconic imagery and Old Testament allusions. A signal work of theology in the New Testament. Above all, the Letter to the Hebrews proclaims the high priesthood of Jesus Christ. Yet readers may find this central theme difficult to discern, given the epistle’s complexity and long history of in…