Outline : Editor Brandon Smith and a stellar cast of theologians demonstrate that trinitarian theology derives directly from Scripture and should produce both right doctrine and right living. The Trinity in the Canon is an appeal for the church to incorporate the Trinity into our preaching, our liturgies and worship, and our interactions with those outside the church. Pastors, scholars, profess…
Outline : What does it mean to be created in God's image? How has the fall affected this image? Who are the people of God? From Adam and Israel to the Church addresses these core questions about spiritual identity, From Adam and Israel to the Church examines the nature of the people of God from Genesis to Revelation through the lens of being created and formed in God's image. Benjamin Gladd arg…
Outline : How can sinful humans approach a holy God? In the book of Hebrews, Jesus Christ is celebrated as the great high priest who represents his people before the Father. Jesus' roles as priest and mediator are central to his identity and bring to completion themes woven throughout Scripture. In this fifth ESBT volume, T. Desmond Alexander considers the often-neglected themes of priesthood a…
Outline : It's no secret that we live in an increasingly isolated world. The pandemic has only exacerbated what was already a startling trend: loneliness and disconnection have been on the rise for a long time in our society. We long for a deep sense of meaning to make sense of our lives, but we don't know how to find it. Even worse, we often search for it in unhealthy ways that hinder the very…
Outline : The hour is critical. The American republic is suffering its gravest crisis since the Civil War. Conflicts, hostility, and incivility now threaten to tear the country apart. Competing visions have led to a dangerous moment of cultural self-destruction. This is no longer politics as usual, but an era of political warfare where our enemies are not foreign adversaries, but our fellow cit…
Outline: Understanding how to think and write about history in light of God's providence. In every major and minor incident a part of God's overarching redemptive plan? Scripture is filled with commands to remember history and teach it to the next generation. Though many people are inclined to leave the past behind, exploring the meaning of these events helps us glorify God's lordship in all th…
Outline : God promises that one day he will redeem his image bearers and renew the earth. In this addition to the Short Studies in Systematic Theology series, Graham A. Cole examines the concept of divine glory as well as God’s plan for redeeming individual believers, the church, and the universe. Through careful study of Scripture, he shows Christians how their future identity as glorified …
Outline: Why should anyone listen to the church? - What gospel is the church proclaiming? The gospel of success? The gospel of prosperity? The gospel of whatever feels right? - What is success? How does the church measure the success of its leaders? - Who is doing what - and for whose glory? - How is the leadership lifestyle affecting the church? - Does popularity guarantee a good characte…
Outline: Whatever Happened to Holiness? "There was a time," writes J. I. Packer in Rediscovering Holiness, "when all Christians laid great emphasis on God's call to holiness. But how different it is today! To listen to our sermons and to read the books we write, and then to watch the zany, worldly, quarrelsome way we behave, you would never imagine that once the highway of holiness was clearly …
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 : Warren W. Wiersbe explains what to do - and how to evaluate what you're doing - when you pursue the service of God, a service he calls "the greatest work in the world." This is for all God's servants, lay and professional. Within the structure of thirty "conversations," Wiersbe makes profoundly simple the basic principles of serving others in God's name. And he nourishes within the re…
Outline : Paul is known as a theologian, and indeed his writings yield rich theological insights. But Paul was foremost a missionary and a pastor who wrote to real people and churches. In this fresh approach to Pauline theology, respected scholar Joshua Jipp brings Paul's pastoral concerns to the fore, specifically his concern for human flourishing in his congregations. Jipp argues that Paul's …
Outline : Too often scholars impose on the past modern terms and theories. This is particularly evident concerning discussions of divine sovereignty and human responsibility, where libertarian and compatibilist notions of freedom obscure older understandings of concurrence. Providence, Freedom, and the Will is one historian’s attempt to help us interpret early modern documents in context with…
Outline : In Biblical Critical Theory, Christopher Watkin shows how the Bible and its unfolding story help us make sense of modern life and culture. Critical theories exist to critique what we think we know about reality and the social, political, and cultural structures in which we live. In doing so, they make visible the values and beliefs of a culture in order to scrutinize and change them. …
Outline: RZIM's goal is to reach and challenge those who shape the ideas of a culture with the credibility of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. In keeping with this goal, the purpose of his line of booklets is to give a succinct, popular-level response to frequently-asked questions about the Christian faith. In Ravi Zacharias' works, "What I believe in my heart must make sense in my mind,"
Outline: We Can't Fight What We Don't Understand. We live in the murderous hundred years in history, and we are the first generation to witness every human atrocity and every natural disaster as they happen. Now more than ever it is important to understand evil and how to deal with us. We cannot allow evil to triumph because good people do nothing.
Outline : In gospel proclamation today, the critical New Testament element of repentance can be far too often ignored, minimalised or dismissed. Yet John the Baptist, Jesus himself, and those he commissioned to spread his gospel all spoke of the urgent need to repent. Michael Ovey was convinced that a gospel without repentance quickly distorts our view of God, ourselves and one another by under…
Outline: Scripture reveals the nature of human violence in all its types, including interpersonal, structural, sexual, and political violence. To explore what the Bible says about human violence, Old Testament scholar Helen Paynter dives deeply into even the most problematic biblical narratives. Strating with the creation narratives in Genesis and moving to the conquest of Canaan, she investiga…
Outline: Understand the Bible through the lens of God's Covenants. This volume helps students of the Bible understand the big picture of God's covenant s with humanity as they play out in both the First and the New Testaments.
Outline: This accessible introduction surveys Christian thinking on an array of topics related to security and peace from a just war perspective.
Outline: A Theology of Marriage for the Contemporary Church. Darrin Snyder Belousek takes a distinctive approach to the same-sex-union debate by framing the issue as a matter of marriage and articulates a biblical-traditional theology of marriage for the contemporary church.
Outline: A Concise history of the Bible : its creation, use, and interpretation.
Outline: "Required reading for every current and future cross-cultural worker" Drawing on decades of teaching and mission experience, leading missiologist Darrell Whiteman helps people in ministry learn how to explore and understand their social, cultural, and religious context so they can more effectively witness to people in cultural different from their own.
Outline : "A contribution to Christology that is an edifying as it is scholarly" This book challenges reductive modern readings of the transfiguration and shows how the mountain scene is not only about Jesus's glory as man but about his glory as God.
Outline : When we read Scripture, we enter the divine classroom for sanctifying instruction. In Taught by God, Brandon D. Smith contends that Scripture is not simply a collection of historical facts or moral rules; it is an encounter with the living God. Engaging with figures such as Origen, Justin, Hugh of St. Victor, Aquinas, and Luther, Smith illustrates how a premodern way of reading Script…
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. The series addresses classic doctrines of systematic theology and other relevant topics, pairing careful scholarship with the practical understandin…
Outline : Recognizing that faithful theological study is an integrative task, uniquely combines biblical and systematic theology in dialogue with historical theology and with application to church and life. The series addresses classic doctrines of systematic theology and other relevant topics, pairing careful scholarship with the practical understanding that theology finds its focus within the…
Outline: What do the attributes of truth reveal about God and his word? Skeptics and moral relativists may debate universal truth, but Christians know that its characteristics - including omnipresence, everlastingness, and unchangeability - reflect the existence of the one true God. In fact, the concept of truth informs and confirms every area of systematic theology. In Truth, Theology, and Per…
Outline : VR TECHNOLOGY ISN'T JUST COMING... IT'S ALREADY HERE ARE YOU READY TO USE IT FOR CHRIST? When the printing press came along, Christians harnessed its power for the gospel. Then came radio. Television. The internet. Smartphones. All of these technologies have been used for good... but at what cost? Now it's virtual reality's turn. You might think VR and its related technologies are a…
Outline : For many people, their job is merely “the daily grind” needed to provide for family or pay the bills. In reality, our jobs - whether we're laying concrete or painting in a studio - are daily opportunities to display God's character and care. Pastor and author Bryan Chapell shares this biblical perspective on vocation, explaining how God gives purpose to our work by making it an in…
Outline: Undaunted Hope in a Post-Christian World We live in a post-Christian world. Contemporary thought―claiming to be “progressive” and “liberating”―attempts to place human beings in God’s role as creator, lawgiver, and savior. But these post-Christian ways of thinking and living are running into dead ends and fatal contradictions. This timely book demonstrates how the Christi…
Outline: In our world, we use the word heart to refer to our emotions. But the Bible uses the word heart to refer to the governing center of life. We need to grasp the true meaning of the heart in order to better understand ourselves, our sin, and our need for redemption. As we rediscover the heart as the source of all our thoughts, fears, words, and actions, we will discover principles and pra…
Outline: How can we believe the Bible is true? Why can't we just agree that love is love? Isn't Christianity against diversity? Going to school, hanging out with friends, or scrolling through social media feeds, teenagers are sure to face real challenges to faith in Jesus Christ. And whether you consider yourself a Christ follower or not, these questions can seem like deal breakers. Backed by…
Outline: Ethnicity, nationality, and race are part of the fabric of life, but what are they and what are they for? Throughout history, misunderstandings about various forms of collective identity have led to division and hatred, even in the church. Many seek to dissolve difference through assimilation, mistaking unity for uniformity. Others speak about difference in ways that only seem to make …
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: Reconciling the existence of God and evil has been a long-standing conundrum in Christian theology, yet a philosophical approach - rather than a theological one - dominates the discussion. Turning to the Bible's grand storyline, Scott Christensen examines how sin, evil, corruption, and death fit into the broad outlines of redemptive history. He argues that God's ultimate end in creatio…
In this title, Shirley Lucass examines the history of the concept of messiah in biblical, and post-biblical traditions. For 2000 years, Judaism and Christianity have been at odds with one another. The problem at the heart of the division is the concept of messiah. Shirley Lucass looks directly at the concept of messiah from an historical perspective and examines its roots in ancient Jewish lite…
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: An Urgent Call for Christians everywhere to explore the nature of Kingdom amid the political upheaval of our day. Should Christians be politically withdrawn, avoiding participation in politics to maintain their prophetic voice and to keep from being used as political pawns? Or should Christians be actively involved, seeking to control and utilize political systems to control the levers…
Outline: Originally published in 1520, The Freedom of a Christian is one of Martin Luther's most well-know and enduring treatises. In it, the German Reformer examines Christian ethics and how justification by faith alone liberates believers, while also developing ideas and doctrines that were key to the Reformation. Featuring a new translation from the original German into English by renowned R…
The modern chasm between "secular" work and "sacred" worship has had a devastating impact on Western Christianity. Drawing on years of research, ministry, and leadership experience, Kaemingk and Willson explain why Sunday morning worship and Monday morning work desperately need to inform and impact one another. Together they engage in a rich biblical, theological, and historical exploration of …
Outline : Christians are taught in their churches and schools that prayer is the most powerful way to experience God. But few receive instruction or guidance in how to make prayer genuinely meaningful. In Prayer, renowned pastor Timothy Keller delves into the many facets of this everyday act. With his trademark insights and energy, Keller offers biblical guidance as well as specific prayers for…
Outline: The question of why God would allow pain and suffering in the world has vexed believers and nonbelievers forever. In Walking with God through Pain and Suffering, Timothy Keller takes on this enduring issue and shows that there is meaning and reason behind pain and suffering, making a forceful and groundbreaking case that this essential part of the human experience can be overcome only …
Outline : Times are difficult. Disease, death, and the loss of a vision for a shared common good have shattered the idea of a bright and better future for everyone. How can we survive this moment together? HOPE. The Resurrection accounts of Jesus in the Gospels hold the key to the hope we all need to face the desperation of daily life. HOPE IN TIMES OF FEAR examines the life-changing meaning …
Outline: "To err is human; to forgive, divine," has long been aspirational. But out complicated modern world has questioned the benefits of forgiveness. Timothy Keller passionately defends the central role forgiveness has to play in our lives and shows readers how and why forgiveness is the only way forward in an imperfect world. Forgiving anyone is a meaningful way is one of the hardest thins …