Outline: For those on the firing line in pulpits, classes, study groups, and Bible fellowship clusters, here is a distinctly different kind of commentary. Mastering the Old Testament combines rich resources of the historical setting and textual interpretation with practical application to aid in contemporary Bible study. This commentary provides critical textual exposition, corollary verses of …
Outline: A seeker's road map to the Quest for Meaning. Have you reached a point where you long for "something more"? Have the things you've been striving to achieve turned out to be far less than enough? Do you desire to unriddle life's mystery and pursue a life rich with significance? Long Journey Home is a seeker's road map to the quest for meaning. Rich in stories and profoundly personal as …
Outline: 'Offer yourselves as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God'. Life in Africa was full of surprise and drama for Helen Roseveare. She came to teach others about medicine and the love of God, but found her own faith being profoundly challenged: what did it really mean to love God with all heart, mind, soul and strength? Gradually - sometimes reluctantly - Helen learns how to be a 'l…
Outline: Rate the Following in Your Order of Preference ... - Being Healthy - Being Holy - Being Happy If you think about life in the same way Stuart Briscoe did when he was very young - and most of us, if we are perfectly honest, do - Being Happy will rate first, Being Healthy second, and Being Holy will rate a poor third. So, must you give up any hope of happiness if you decide to give y…
Outline: Let the Nations Be Glad! is an eloquent plea for the church to catch a God-centered vision for engaging in world evangelization. In this sequel to The Supremacy of God in Preaching John Piper draws on key biblical texts to show that worship is the ultimate goal of the church, and that proper worship fuels missions. The author addresses the role of prayer, universalism and annihilationi…
Outline: Hasil kedewasan rohani yang sejati bukanlah perasaan telah mencapai kedewasaan, melainkan kerinduan untuk bertumbuh menuju kedewasaan, melainkan kerinduan untuk bertumbuh menuju kedewasaan rohani. Menurut Perjanjian Baru ada tiga golongan orang Kristen: yang dewasa secara rohani, yant tidak dewasa secara rohani, dan yang rohaninya mundur. Kemungkinan yang tragis bagi seorang percaya ia…
Outline: If you're a Christian who wants to be more Christlike, how do you handle your natural selfish tendencies? It is really possible, in today's "look out for number one" world, to adopt the kind of servant lifestyle Jesus modeled for us? This was the personal conflict which motivated Charles R. Swindoll to do a two-year study on the biblical concept of servanthood. Improving Your Serve: Th…
Outline : Do you wish you knew more about what waits for you after this life? Heaven offers a refreshing and faith-filled picture of the glorious destination the Bible promises is waiting for all believers. And once you've caught a glimpse of heaven, you'll see earth in a whole new light. Joni Eareckson Tada has a heart tuned in to heaven. The wheelchair that seems to bind her closer to the har…
Outline: "The Wind Blows Wherever It Pleases." The Lord used a familiar image to help the seeker, Nicodemus, understand a mystery - the mystery of God's Holy Spirit dwelling in His people (John 3). In Grace to Go On, Jill Briscoe examines the various symbols that the Bible uses to describe the wondrous third person of the Trinity. Water, fire, oil, and wind - all beautiful pictures that can hel…
Outline: How many "genuine people" do you know? Once we look beyond the roles that family, church, and culture place on us, what do we find? Only as we understand God's intensions for us will we discover the meaning that transcends superficial definitions. Whether you are a man of woman, spouse or unmarried, parent or teenager, friend, or employee, God's Word gives guidelines for the kind of li…
Outline : THE BIGGEST STUMBLING BLOCK IN CROSS-CULTURAL MISSION IS USUALLY MONEY Nothing derails global partnerships more quickly than cultural misunderstandings about finances. North Americans don't understand cultural expectations of patronage, and Western money often comes with subtle strings attached. So local mission work is hampered by perceived paternalism, and donors are frustrated wit…
Outline: What happens when a nineteen-year-old boy leaves home against his parents' wishes and heads into the jungle to work with a murderous tribe of South American Indians? Capture, disease, terror, loneliness, torture... are these the results of a boy's dream of serving God? Bruce Olson discovers by trial and error how to bring the message of Christ to a savage nation without destroying the …
Outline: BEYOND SEDUCTION A sudden and unexpected revolution has begun. Some have hailed this revolution as a much-needed purification of the Church, while others are saying that it will lead to a major schism in Christianity. Since the release of the bestselling THE SEDUCTION OF CHRISTIANITY, Christians everywhere have come face-to-face with this undeniable truth: We must be certain that what…
Outline : This outstanding selection of excerpts from the most popular books of A.W. Tozer includes favorites from The Knowledge of the Holy and The Divine Conquest. Each chapter in this collection of favorites reflects the genius of a pastor whose words continue to reach the hearts of Christians everywhere. "Tozer," says Warren W. Wiersbe, "walked with God and knew Him intimately." Therein lie…
Outline : God's strength-where do we find it at work in today's world? Is God really in control, given the nature of humankind and the pervasive evil that seems to dominate so much of our society? In Almighty over All, pastor and writer R. C. Sproul Jr. methodically addresses various aspects of God's strength and discusses how a thorough understanding of his so peace to our lives. God is ultima…
Outline: It happened so subtly that few people noticed at first. Little by little, morality and freedom started to crumble. It came first in government, in education, in the media and finally it began to shake our families and our own lives. Something fundamental has changed. Law and government no longer provide a foundation of justice and morality but have become the means of licensing moral p…
Outline: Salah satu topik yang paling penting dalam perkembangan teologi masa kini ialah kontekstualisasi. Secara luas dan mendalam pengarang buku ini menjelaskan dan menilai pelbagai makna, metode dan model kontekstualisasi dari seluruh dunia. Buku ini adalah karya ilmiah, namun tujuannya bukan hanya menjadi bacaan para teolog saja melainkan untuk melayani semua orang yang ingin memahami firma…
Outline : Reading the Old Testament doesn't need to be a difficult journey through strange and bewildering territory. How to Read the Old Testament Book by Book walks you through the Scriptures like an experienced tour guide, helping you understand each of its thirty-nine books. For each book of the Old Testament, the authors start with a quick snapshot, then expand the view to help you better …
Outline: The understanding of personhood is one of the central issues of debate in many academic disciplines as well as in society at large. This collection of specially commissioned essays provides a modern theological exploration. Against a background of the renaissance of trinitarian thought, the authors explore the interrelationship between divine personhood, as it is expressed in the doctr…
Outline: Funny how we tend to act like the exceeding riches of God's grace run out the moment we're saved. From then on, we base our relationship with Him on our performance rather than on His grace. Of course, God still deals with us on the basis of His grace, whether or not we understand it. It's just that, when we don't fully understand grace, we miss out on the abundant freedoms that come f…
Outline: God doesn't demand hectic church programs and frenetic schedules; he only wants his people to know him more intimately, says D. A. Carson. The apostle Paul found that spiritual closeness in his own fellowship with the Father. A Call to Spiritual Reformation investigates the Epistles to see what lessons Paul taught in his "school of prayer." Christians today can still achieve the confid…
Outline: A Definitive Masterwork from the world's leading Christian Apologist. Throughout his career, Ravi Zacharias has faced some of the most difficult questions ever asked about the Christian faith. The most troublesome question of all, however, came from a Hindu friend. "If this conversion is truly supernatural," he asked, "why is it not more evident in the lives of so many Christians that …
Outline: This influential textbook, now substantially updated and revised throughout, offers a comprehensive introduction to theology that is biblical, contemporary, moderate, and fair to various positions. The third edition takes into account feedback from professors and students and reflects current theological conversations, with added material on the atonement, justification, and divine for…
Outline: Louis Berkhof's loyalty the well-defined lines of the Reformed faith, his concise and compact style and his up-to-date treatment have made this work the most important twentieth century compendium of Reformed theology. 'The work seemed particularly important to me', writes the author, 'in view of the widespread doctrinal indifference of the present day, of the resulting superficiality …
Outline: In this Very Short Introduction David F. Ford provides a balanced survey, for both believers and non-believers, of the central questions in contemporary theology. Considering the principles underlying religious belief, including the importance of salvation and the various concepts of God, as well as the issue of sin and evil, he probes the nature of experience, knowledge, and wisdom in…
Outline: Buku ini sangat bermanfaat bagi mereka yang melayani anak-anak yang sedang sakit atau sedang menghadapi ajalnya, dan keluarga mereka. Kita pun dulu pernah menjadi anak, tetapi kebanyakan di antara kita sudah tidak seberapa ingat lagi bagaimana pikiran dan perasaan kita ketika itu. Para penulis buku ingin menolong kita mengerti trauma-trauma akibat penderitaan yang dialami ketika masa k…
Outline: Does God have a perfect will for each Christian? Does it matter? Can you be 100% sure of God's individual will for your life? In an easy-to-follow narrative style, Friesen carefully examines the major views presented today, and rejects them to propose a different one - one he believes more accurately reflects the biblical teaching. Friesen takes up the very practical issues of choosing…
Outline : Everything we are. Everything we have. Everything we do. THE CALL For more than three decades, the subject of calling has burned in the heart of Os Guinness. Here he sets out the truth like a priceless gem, turning it toward the light, examining facet after facet. The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life is especially written for those who feel a deep longin…
Outline: Presbyterianism has a rich, robust, resilient history. Since Presbyterianism began in Scotland in the early 1560s, its adherents have spread to Europe, North America, Asia, Africa, Latin America, Australia, and New Zealand. In some locales and ears, Presbyterians have flourished; in others, they have struggles. Today an estimated 35 million Presbyterians live in dozens of countries. Th…
Outline : J. Oswald Sanders communicates in a new, fresh way the age-old message of how to enjoy intimate fellowship with God. Everything in our life and service flows from our relationship with God. Sanders says if this is not right, and we are not in vital fellowship with Him, every- thing else will be out of gear. But when our communication with Him is close and real, it is gloriously possib…
Outline: - What does Jesus mean when He says "Follow Me"? - If we are justified "apart from works of the Law" (Rom 3:28), does this mean that works are insignificant to our salvation? - Can we have Christ as Savior without having him as Lord? Is there salvation without obedience? The message proclaimed today by miny Christians is not the gospel according to Jesus. It is true that Jesus taugh…
Outline: We want to demonstrate to all the pious children of God, who from their hearts pray for the future of the kingdom of Christ, our own duty in this so deplorable scattering of the church. The fact that all people have been made by God and are God's creatures should therefore be reason enough for us to go to them, seeking with the utmost faithfulness to bring them to eternal life. This is…
Outline : Originally published in 1947, The Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism has since served as the manifesto of evangelical Christians serious about bringing the fundamentals of the Christian faith to bear In contemporary culture. In this classic book Carl F. H. Henry, the father of modern fundamentalism, pioneered a path for active Christian engagement with the world — a path a…
Outline: Sixteen internationally recognized church historians here examine Martin Luther in an uncommon way - not as Reformer or theologian but as pastor. After first introducing the pastoral Luther, including his theology of the cross, these chapters discuss Luther's preaching and use of language (including humor), investigate his teaching ministry in depth, especially in light of the catechis…
Outline: Do Trauma and Abuse have the last word? After forty years of counseling abuse survivors around the world, Dr. Diane Langberg, a world-renowned trauma expert, remains certain that what trauma destroys, Christ can and does restore.
Outline: The second coming of Christ is a matter of sharp disagreement among Christians. Many hold to premillennialism; that Christ's return will be followed by 1,000 years before the final judgement, a belief popularized in the best-selling Left Behind novels. However, premillennialism is not the only options for Christians. In this important new book, Sam Storms provides a biblical rationale …
Outline: This is John Flavel's classic work on union and fellowship with God. In a comprehensive and helpful manner Flavel helps us understand better what 'keeping the heart' means. He tells us why we should take this commission seriously and speaks about there being particular times when we need to be especially wary of being distracted from our goal. He then shows how we can go on to develop …
Outline: Like no other before it, Charts for a Theology of Evangelism compiles ninety-three unique visual learning aids based on Thomas P. Johnston's more than twenty years of practicing and teaching personal evangelism. Each chart - from "The Urgencies that Drive Evangelism" to "Five Interpretations of 'Salt' in Matthew 5 -13" to "Biblical Sages in Theological Drift" - includes a contextual se…
Outline: "An Honest, Well Experienced Heart" introduces us to the life and writings of Puritan preacher and author John Flavel (1627 - 1691). In his brief, introductory biography, Adam Embry discusses Flavel's background, ministry, and theology of keeping the heart, which, for Flavel, "is the great business of a Christian's life." Embry guides us through forty-two short passages from Flavel's w…
Outline: Encounter North American Evangelism from the great awakening to the present day. A History of Evangelism in North America guides readers on a tour through circuit riders and tent meetings to college outreach and online ministries. Academica research is combined with gospel faithfulness and love for the lost in this historical survey of evangelism methodologies and legacies from the ear…
Outline: This second edition of An Introduction to the Old Testament integrates and interacts with recent developments in Old Testament scholarship. Several distinctives set it apart from other introductions to the Old Testament: - It is thoroughly evangelical in its perspective - It emphasizes "special introduction" - the study of individual books - It interacts in an irenic spirit with th…
Outline : Pietism is the religious-theological movement which formed a bridge between the Reformations of the sixteenth century and the Enlightenment. This introduction to the Pietist theologians demonstrates the influence that this movement had on the religious, cultural, and social life of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and examines its lasting effects on modern culture and modern…