Outline: Masalah yang selalu dihadapi oleh para pelayan Allah (pendeta) atau orang yang mendapat tugas dalam jemaat untuk melayani di bidang pastoral adalah: bagaimana menerapkan teori-teori pelayanan bimbingan pastoral yang sudah mereka ketahui? Untuk itulah buku ini hadir guna menjawab kebutuhan tersebut. Dengan demikian dapat membantu para pelayan dalam melakukan tugas bimbingan pastoral. A…
Outline: Salah satu pelayanan pastoral yang dianggap penting adalah pelayanan kepada orang berduka. Kedukaan terjadi saat seseorang kehilangan sesuatu yang ia cintai, entah itu orang, barang, atau bahkan peluang, dan lain sebagainya. Reaksi terhadap kehilangan ini juga tidak selalu sama. Ada yang bersikap pasif, yaitu menyerah dan memandang semua peristiwa sebagai "kehendak Allah". Ada yang be…
Outline: Apakah Penggembalaan itu? Gembala (budak angon) di dalam kehidupan sehari-hari sudah banyak yang mengenalnya. Tetapi, apakah yang dimaksudkan dengan gembala dan penggembalaan dalam kehidupan kekristenan? Apakah ada hubungannya dengan gembala (budak angon) tadi? Atau, dengan Gembala yang Baik dalam Yohanes 10? Jawaban atas pertanyaan-pertanyaan itu dapat Anda temukan dalam buku ini, bu…
Outline: French Jesuit Henri de Lubac (1896 - 1991) was arguably the most revolutionary yet underacknowledged theologian of the twentieth century. He proposed that Western theology since the early modern period has lost sight of the key to intergrating faith and reason -- namely, the truth that all human beings are naturally oriented toward the supernatural. Originally published in 2005, The S…
Outline: How are God and creatures related? How can one reconcile the sovereignty and power of God with creatures? capacity to act freely? Kathryn Tanner's important and original work seeks an answer in the features and limits of traditional Christian discourse. Her search for a unique kernal or regulative dimension of the Christian doctrine of God-world relations leads her to identify in the t…
Outline: For both Maximus The Confessor (C. 580-662) and Jurgen Moltmann (B. 1926), understanding what it means to be human springs from a contemplative vision of God. This comparative study explores suprising parallels between the theological anthropology of the seventh-century Byzantine monk and the contemporary German Protestant. Bingaman argues that Maximus and Moltmann root their understa…
Outline: A Revolutionary Message: "I've been married 35 years and have not heard this taught". "This is the key that I have been missing." "A lightbulb moment." "You connected all the dots for me." "As a counselor, I have never been so excited about any material." "You're on to something huge here."
A Simple Message: A wife has one driving need - to feel loved. When that need is met, she is …
Outline: Over twenty-five years in the making, this much-anticipated commentary promises to be the standard stury of Proverbs for years to come. Written by eminent Old Testament scholar Bruce Waltke, this two-volume work is unquestionably the most comprehensive commentary on Proverbs available. Grounded in the new literary criticism that has so strengthened biblical interpretation of late, Wal…
Outline: Over twenty-five years in the making, this much-anticipated commentary promises to be the standard stury of Proverbs for years to come. Written by eminent Old Testament scholar Bruce Waltke, this two-volume work is unquestionably the most comprehensive commentary on Proverbs available. Grounded in the new literary criticism that has so strengthened biblical interpretation of late, Wal…
Outline: The second of John Oswalt's two-part study of Isaiah for the NICOT series, this commentary provides exegetical and theological exposition for scholars, pastors, and students who seek to know the perennial meaning of the text in contemporary terms. Though Oswalt's main introduction to Isaiah is found in his commentary on chapters 1-39, this second volume opens with an important discuss…
Outline: For hundreds of years Christendom has been blessed with Bible commentaries written by great men of God highly respected for their godly walk and their insight into spiritual truth. The Crossway Classic Commentary Series, carefully adapted for maximum understanding and usefulness, presents the very best work on individual Bible books for today's believers. While other parts of Script…
Buku ini meneliti kehidupan sosial dan ekonomi di Timur Tengah kuno, dari awal munculnya perabadan tulisan (tahun 3100 SM) hingga kedatangan Aleksander Agung (332 SM). Wilayah yang diteliti meliputi Mesopotamia (Iran, Irak, Turki, Syria, Libanon, Israel) dan Mesir pada zaman modern ini.
Buku in mencoba merekonstruksi asumsi-asumsi dasar yang memungkinkan terbentuknya masyarakat pada zaman kuno…
Outline: Buku ini adalah adaptasi dari seri pendalaman Alkitab bertajuk Tujuh Dosa Maut yang mulanya dibawakan di GRII Kelapa Gading, GRII Pusat, acara In Conversation With di Reformed 21 TV serta beberapa acara lainnya. Di dalamnya kita akan merenungkan tentang apa yang telah disistematiskan oleh Paus Gregorius I sebagai "Tujuh Dosa Maut," yakni: Kecongkakan, Iri Hati, Kemurkaan, Kemalasan, …
Outline: Saat membahas misi, mudah untuk mengandalkan Perjanjian Baru dan mengabaikan pentingnya Perjanjian Lama. Penulis mengoreksi kecenderungan ini dengan menjelaskan pesan misioner dari Perjanjian Lama. Penulis mempertanyakan gagasan bahwa Perjanjian Baru mewakili penyimpangan dari maksud Allah yang seharusnya hanya menyelamatkan orang Israel. Penulis berpendapat bahwa -- bertentangan d…
Outline: Buku ini menjelaskan arti penting dari akal budi baik untuk memenangkan orang-orang lain kepada Kristus dan juga untuk mengalami perkembangan rohani pribadi. Penulis menantang kita untuk mengembangkan akal budi Kristen dan menggunakannya untuk memajukan kerajaan Allah melalui penginjilan, apologetika, ibadah, dan vokasi.
Outline: Buku ini berisi 12 tema ini disunting dari materi rekaman Kelas Pembinaan Orangtua dan Remaja & Kelas Pemahaman Alkitab yang disampaikan oleh penulis, di dalam 4 periode pada tahun 2018 - 2019, di GRII Bandung. Hikmat bagi para Ayah & Ibu:
1. Tempat bagi Manusia
2. Kesempurnaan Taman Eden
3. Menghadirkan Berkat-Nya
4. Hawa untuk Adam
5. Lidah Ular di Telinga Manusia
6. Me…
Outline: Yesus Kristus berkata, "Aku datang, supaya mereka mempunyai hidup, dan mempunyainya dengan segala kelimpahan" (Yohanes 10: 10). Pernyataan ini begitu tegas dan berani, tidak pernah dan tidak boleh diucapkan oleh tokoh agung atau pendiri agama mana pun, karena hanya Yesus Kristus satu-satunya yang dapat memberikan hidup bagi dunia. Apa yang dimaksud "hidup ... dalam segala kelimpahan…
Outline: Pancaindra rohani perlu dilatih sampai mengalami tingkat kedewasaan. Hal itu hanya dimungkinkan oleh adanya makanan rohani yang solid sekaligus pelita bagi kehidupan, yaitu firman Tuhan. Firman Tuhan perlu diterima tanpa banyak keluhan. Sungguh diperlukan kemauan dan kemampuan untuk melatih pancaindra rohani supaya berani mengambil sikap di tengah segala pilihan dalam dunia ini. M…
Overview: Is it okay to call God mother? The author's book explores this intriguing question, offering an evenhanded critique of inclusive languag of God. The author closely examines how the Scriptures address God and points out the critical differences between the Bible's gendered language for God and inclusive language. In addition, the author encourages the church to follow the Bible's m…
Outline: The Preacher in Ecclesiastes reminds us that life under the sun does not play out according to neat and tidy rules. He asks us to see the world around us in all its messiness and explores what that messiness reveals about us, our world. and God. The Preacher is plainspoken, because people line in the midst of this mess and we have to talk about it. The author gives us a meditation t…
Overview: In this book, the author - master teacher, deft exegete, committed churchman, and fully attuned contemporary intellectual - takes up this challenge with extraordinary energy and intelligence. The result is a capstone volume that puts all the pieces together both for students who read it straight through it at their own pace. For all who read it, the book will become a standard refe…
Overview: A long-awaited major statement by perminent analytic philosopher Alvin Plantinga, this book illuminates one of our society's biggest debates-the conflict between science and religion. Plantinga examines where this conflict is said to exist-looking at areas such as evolution, divine action in the world, and the scientific study of religion-and he considers claim by Daniel Dennett, Ric…
Outline: Each volume in the Understanding the Bible Commentary Series breaks down the barriers between the ancient and modern worlds so that the power and meaning of the biblical texts become transparent to contemporary readers. They present a careful section-by-section exposition of the biblical books with key terms and phrases highlighted and all Greek transliterated. Notes at the close of…
Outline: What can we believe about - and how can we believe in - Jesus Christ in light of the Holocaust and other atrocities of the twentieth century and the drift from religion that followed? In his urgent and provocative new book, the author traces centuries of religious history and theology to face this core challenge to modern faith, and to rescue it for the secular age. The author's sea…
Outline: In a groudbreaking historical work that addresses religious conversion in the West from an uncompromisingly secular perspective, the author challenges the conventional narrative of conversion as a purely spiritual journey. From the transformation on the road to Damascus of the Jew Saul into the Christian evangelist Paul to a twenty-first-century "religious marketplace" in which half …
Outline: Contours of Christian Theology is a series of concise introductory textbooks focused on the main themes of Christian theology. The authors introduce the perennial questions and their time-tested solutions while moving forward to explore contemporary issues and rework evangelical formulations of the faith. The word providence seems to have dropped out of our everyday Christian vocabu…
Outline: In appreciation of Carson's lifework, editors Andreas J. Kostenberger and Robert W. Yarbrough have assembled a team of his former students and colleagues to produce this volume of essays on contemporary New Testament studies. This book explores New Testament studies as they relate to special topics and ancillary disciplines, and it surveys the state of New Testament scholarship aroun…