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…
Outline: The word providence seems to have dropped our of our everyday Christian vocabulary. But questions about God's activity in our world - his provide-ence for us and his creation - are as alive as ever before. Providence is the point at which theologians and the broader Christian community find their intense conversations. Questions about God's activity in the world today, his guidance…
Overview: A fresh, inviting text on the content of Christian faith in our contemporary context, this one- volume systematic theology offers a splendid, orthodox explication of the Christian faith for students, teachers, pastors, and serious lay readers alike. The autors not only cover all the traditional themes -- God, creation, sin, Jesus Christ, Scripture and so on -- but also relate those cl…
Overview: This book offers a rich, unprecedented photographic depiction of the life of Dutch stateman and theologian Abraham Kuyper (1837 - 1920). Substantive, detailed captions accompany all of the more than four hundred illustrations - family photos, political cartoons, posters, pictures of important places in Kuyper's life - many of them never published before. Though there is little disagr…
Outline: Over the last sixty years, J.I. Packer has exerted a steady and remakable influence on evangelicalism. In this biography, well-known scholar Leland Ryker acquaints us with Packer's life, heart, and mind, tracing the outworking of God's sovereign plan through his childhood, intellectual pursuits, and professional life. Filled with personal anecdotes and little-known facts, this appre…
Outline: Christians are called to stand firm on the inerrancy of Scripture. Sadly, more and more people - not only from outside the church but also from within - are denying the complete truthfulness of God's Word. Edited by pastor John Mac Arthur, these commissioned essays by a host of evangelical pastors, theologians, historians, and biblical scholars contend that the Bible is completely t…
Outline: An important ongoling debate focuses on the present health and well-being of familites in American society. Much of the debate, however, is either ill-informed or consists of rhetoric that attempts to further particular political and social causes. The Family, Religion, and Culture series offers informed and responsible analyses of the state of the American family from a religious p…
Outline : Time and time again, God uses insignificant and desperately sinful people to fulfill his marvelous plans. In short, he uses people lis us! We find vivid examples of this truth in Isaac and Jacob, two men who couldn't live up to Abraham's example, let alone God's standards - yet God never abondoned them. The author's study of their stories in Genesis shows us how the gospel triumphs…