Outline : Mental ill-health is far more common than many of us think. Statics suggest that one is six people will have experienced a mental-health struggle in the past week. That means there are many in our church families battling with thoughts, feelings, and even voices that distract, drag down, and nudge them towards despair. But when it comes to helping, we often find ourselves unsure of wh…
Outline : The terms Christian and disciple should be synonymous. But they're not. Today, one may be regarded as a Christian even if he or she demonstrates few, if any, signs of discipleship. The message Jesus proclaimed was a call to faith with obedience. He doesn't want us to simply believe His teachings- He wants us to live them. If you are a Christian who wants to be a true disciple, The Joy…
Outline: Amy Carmichael went to South India in 1985 and remained there without a break until she entered into Life in January 1985. Was this only a great woman who did a great work? The impression left by this book is rather that she was the servant of a great God.
Outline: Melihat periodisasi perkembangan peradaban manusia, hampir dalam segala hal tradisionalitas dimaknai secara linear, sebagai bentuk kondisi yang lebih primitif disandingkan dengan modernitas yang selalu diartikan sebagai kondisi yang baru. Kebaruan inilah yang dipahami sebagai bentuk kondisi yang lebih benar. Namun, kondisi justru berbeda pada sejarah Indonesia abad ke-20, di mana tradi…
Outline: This book aim to give English speaking people the opportunity to master the basic essentials of "Bahasa Indonesia". The author introduced colloquial Bahasa Indonesia as spoken by the average educated Indonesian in daily life, as the majority of foreigners visit Indonesia as temporary residents. In the reading section, to give readers adequate practice material, the author provides simp…
Outline : What are the marks of a supernaturally changed heart? This is one of the questions the Apostle Paul addresses as he writes to the church in Corinth. He's not after some superficial outward tinkering, but instead a deep rooted, life altering change that takes place on the inside. In an age where pleasing people, puffing up your ego and building your résumé are seen as the methods to …
Outline: "Lord, in my luggage I have Scripture that I want to take to Your children across this border. When You were on earth, You made blind eyes see. Now, I pray, make seeing eyes blind. Do not let the guards see those things You do not want them to see." Brother Andrew prayed, and the guards passed his car bulging with Bibles across the Yugoslav border in 1957. He began his mission to bring…
Outline : "In the name of the Lord Jesus, I deliberately set my feet on the soil of Bali and claim it for Him." To that original faith claim, R.A. Jaffray later added, "The light of the gospel, preached by Sprit-filled missionaries, will drive out the millions of demons of darkness, and these people, enchained by the devil so long, will be set free," Rodger and Lelia Lewis were among those miss…
Outline : Sejarah Sriwijaya, kerajaan maritim terbesar di tanah Sumatra, sejak lama terkubur dalma berbagai prasasti dan piagam peninggalan masa lalu. Belum banyak penggalian sejarah yang dilakukan. Padahal, inilah pusat lalu lintas niaga yang paling tua sekaligus urat nadi ekonomi terpenting di Asia Tenggara. Karya ini merupakan rintisan pertama dalam penulisan sejarah Sriwijaya, yang merunut …
Outline : The account of the martyrdom of Jim Elliot and four other missionaries at the hands of the Auca Indians of Ecuador is one of the great missionary stories of modern times. Now, in this new edition of a contemporary Christian classic, Elisabeth Elliot uses to the full Jim's incredibly rich and revealing diaries and exposes the roots of what makes a person at the threshold of life commit…
Outline: "I think the rock on which I had the nearest made shipwreck of the faith was the writings of the mystics," wrote John Wesley to his brother in 1736, eighteen months before his evangelical conversion on Aldersgate Street. Mysticism, in essence, is the belief in a direct and intimate union of the soul with God through contemplation and love. The Mystic believes that one must partake of t…
Outline: Your worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God's grace. And your rest days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God's grace. We know we need grace. Without if we'd never come to Christ in the first place. But being a Christian is more than just coming to Christ. It's about growing and becoming more like Jesus - it's about pursuing holiness. The pursu…
Outline : More than a century after his death D. L. Moody remains a towering figure whose influence of his evangelism is still felt; the institutions he founded in America continue to flourish; his place in history is secure. But it is his personality that commands attention: rugged, delightful, compassionate, a man of total integrity, with a supreme gift for bringing Christianity before a whol…
Outline : Masyarakat luas memberi bermacam-macam tafsiran tentang etika. Begitu pula judul buku ini menimbulkan banyak pertanyaan. Di sini etika dilihat sebagai ilmu atau refleksi sistematik atas keseluruhan norma-norma dan penilaian-penilaian, yang digunakan oleh suatu masyarakat untuk mengetahui bagaimana manusia seharusnya menjalani kehidupannya. Buku ini merupakan usaha seorang ahli etika m…
Outline : Masalah pada kebohongan adalah hal itu seringkali tidak terdengar seperti kebohongan. Itu sepertinya tidak berbahaya dan kadang terdengar benar. Jadi, apa yang akan dilakukan oleh seorang Mama Beruang ketika anak-anaknya menyerap kebohongan-kebohongan budaya tanpa berpikir kritis? Buku Apologetika Mama Beruang adalah buku yang Anda nantikan. Buku panduan yang ditulis para ibu kepada s…
Outline : This accessible yet comprehensive primer on major issues in evangelical theology has been updated and revised throughout.
Outline: To truly know God, we must understand God as Trinity. But what if the Trinity we've been taught is not the Trinity of the Bible? In this groundbreaking book, Matthew Barrett reveals a shocking discovery: we have manipulated the Trinity, recreating the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in our own image. With clarity and creativity, Barrett mines the Scriptures as well as the creeds and confe…
Outline: "[A] concise and readable history of the rise of early Christianity" A noted New Testament scholar explores how the movement founded by Jesus transformed more in the first seventy-five years after his death than it has in the two thousand years since.
Outline : Written for students of worship and church history, Worship in the Early Church serves as a valuable guide to the historical developments that brought about Christian worship as we know it today. While other histories of Christian worship exist, Gonzalez and Gonzales focus on the formative period between the first and fifth centuries CE, when so many of the understandings and patterns…
Outline: Beginning as a marginal group in Galilee, the movement initiated by Jesus of Nazareth became a world religion within one hundred years. Why, among various religious movements, did Christianity succeed? This major work by internationally renowned scholar Udo Schnelle traces the historical, cultural, and theological influences and developments of the early years of the Christian movement…
Outline: The Ezra-Nehemiah narratives report how the hand of YHWH directed several Persian kings, thousands of Hebrew exiles, and a few Hebrew leaders, including Ezra and Nehemiah, to commit their lives to the difficult task of restoration; restoring people to Judah, worship in Jerusalem, the temple, the wall around Jerusalem, and the people's spiritual commitment to the essential theological p…
Outline : Was Paul silent on the injustices of the Roman Empire? Or have his letters just been misread? To what extent does Paul critique the Roman Empire in his letters? And how publicly critical could he have afforded to be? Having entered the conversation in 2015 with his book Hidden Criticism?, Christoph Heilig contributes further insight and new research in The Apostle and the Empire, reev…
Outline : A major study of John Calvin's conception of the church that traces his evolving thought throughout the course of his life and writings. In this fresh and original monograph on the ecclesiology of John Calvin, Tadataka Maruyama sifts exhaustively through the corpus of Calvin’s writings—in both Latin and French—to crystalize the French reformer’s conception of the Christian ch…
Outline : Nicholas Elder challenges misconceptions about ancient media practices - particularly as they relate to the composition and circulation of the gospels. Contextualizing the gospels in ancient Greco-Roman media practices. New Testament scholars have often relied on outdated assumptions for understanding the composition and circulation of the gospels. This scholarship has spread myth…
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 if the loving relationships of the Trinity are the ultimate, objective source for living morally? Adam Lloyd Johnson injects a fresh yet eternal reality into the thriving debate over the basis of moral absolutes. While postmodernism's moral relativism once temporarily disrupted the footing of classic moral theories like natural law and divine command, many nontheistic philosophe…
Outline : "The go-to book on dating the collection of texts now known as the New Testament" This paradigm-shifting study is the first book-length investigation into the compositional dates of the New Testament to be published in over forty years. It argues that, with the notable exception of the undisputed Pauline Epistles, most New Testament texts were composed twenty to thirty years earlier t…
Outline: Daniel is a book of exile and expectation. In a foreign land, God's people face confusion, uncertainty, and even death. Where is God? What is his plan? What is the future of us? The book's familiar stories and unsettling visions answer these questions with a simple but stunning truth: the God of Israel is sovereign king of a world-encompassing eternal kingdom. He is king of all kings, …
Outline: In Philippians, Paul addresses his dear friends in the church at Philippi in hopes of healing a people plagued by a lack of unity. Celebrating their partnership in his mission, the apostle points the Philippians to their heavenly citizenship, their need for self-sacrifical love toward one another, and their need for self-sacrificial love toward one another, and their need to stand toge…
Outline: The book of Habakkuk is most known for its theological value as a prooftext for Paul's gospel - "the just shall live by faith" - and its devotional value of hope, trust, and triumph in its closing verses. Indeed, theology and devotion come together as we engage with the prophet's personal faith journey. In the historical context of the looming Babylonian exile, Habakkuk struggles, as A…
Outline: Judges - Longing for a Leader: Faltering in Faithfulness. The refrain, "in those days there was no king in Israel, each person was doing what was right in their own eyes," unites the two themes in Judges, kingship, with all its promise and peril, and syncretism, the protection from which as the king's primary responsibility. Drawing on Hebrew narrative discourse, Boda and Conway highli…
Outline : The Persian Period proved particularly challenging to the small community living in Yehud. Expectations of a glorious restoration had waned as had their hope in the justice and faithfulness of God. The prophet Malachi speaks into such a moment, calling for a renewed sense of fidelity to their God, a fidelity grounded in right worship and exhibited through faithful living. With careful…
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: 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: A reassessment of the quests of the historical Jesus that promises to become the definitive history. Jesus of Nazareth ranks among the most important figures in history, yet contemporary scholarship finds little common agreement about his identity. It is accepted generally that there were three quests for the historical Jesus. The first was characterized by Albert Schweitzer and came t…
Outline: A reassessment of the quests of the historical Jesus that promises to become the definitive history. Jesus of Nazareth ranks among the most important figures in history, yet contemporary scholarship finds little common agreement about his identity. It is accepted generally that there were three quests for the historical Jesus. The first was characterized by Albert Schweitzer and came t…
Outline : This updated third edition of Old Testament Survey revises the original edition and greatly expands its attention to historical, methodological, and geographical topics. These are combined with the second edition’s focus on literature and narrative, and an increased number of improved maps are also included. In all, the book charts every major element that unifies the Old Testament,…
Outline : The Dictionary of Paul and His Letters is a one-of-a-kind reference work. No other resource presents as much information focused exclusively on Pauline theology, literature, background, and scholarship. This second edition is a thoroughly revised and updated version of the acclaimed 1993 publication. Since that groundbreaking volume was published, developments in Pauline studies have …
Outline: This concise, practical, and devotional introduction to Reformed systematics now features study questions, memory verses, and additional resources to help readers develop a thoroughly biblical framework for understanding and applying Christian doctrine.
Outline : We are people of desire. In The Soul of Desire, psychiatrist Curt Thompson suggests that underneath all our longings is the desire to be known―and what's more, that this fundamental yearning manifests itself in our deep need to make things of beauty, revealing who we are to others. Desire and beauty go hand in hand. But both our craving to be known and our ability to create beauty …
Outline : Long before the words of the Bible were written, God's communication through the spoken word rang out loud and clear. Jesus in particular commissioned representatives to speak on his behalf even during the time of his earthly ministry. And yet today we are a reading culture. It is easy for modern Christians to take for granted that the Bible was handed down in written form, but the wa…