Outline : You are different, but that's not bad. It's beautiful. When the popular girls invite Kiki to try out for the school's talent show with them, she's excited to be part of their group. But after a successful audition, Mom tells Kiki she can't sing the song the girls chose. Now Kiki has a big choice to make: stay with her new friends and ignore the bad feeling in her stomach, or take a ri…
Outline : Learning how to live in today's new social and cultural environment will require examination, trial and error, and adaptation over time. But there are ways to live with integrity and follow Christ today, even in a negative world. Since a peak in church attendance in the mid-20th century, Christianity has been on a trajectory of decline in the United States. Once positive toward Christ…
Outline : What does the Bible teach about how to live in today's world? Best-selling author and professor Wayne Grudem distills over forty years of teaching experience into a single volume aimed at helping readers apply a biblical worldview to difficult ethical issues, including wealth and poverty, marriage and divorce, birth control, abortion, euthanasia, homosexuality, business practices, env…
Outline: A Renewed vision of Christian life centered on grace, justice, and peace - applied to the most urgent and controversial social issues of the twenty-first century.
Outline: Along with a loss of faith in reason and science, the twentieth century witnessed a loss of faith in the human self and society as a whole. Two devastating world wars left scant reason for Enlightenment optimism. Commencing with Frege, Husserl and Bergson, Alan Padgett and Steve Wilkens chart the course of twentieth-century philosophy on its journey toward postmodernism. The voyage is …
Outline : A thorough investigation of the Apostle Paul's sayings and dealing with money. Beginning with the apostle himself, Paul and Money first explores what Paul had to say about supporting himself as a missionary and whether, and in what context, it was appropriate to ask for money from those to whom he was ministering. A significant part of the book examines the collection that Paul initia…
Outline: "A tour de force" Taking inspirations from Jonathan Edwards, Gerald McDermott traces the redeeming work of the Mesiah in the Bible and in Church history up through the new heavens and new earth.
Outline : Why the call to Love Thy Body? To counter a pervasive hostility toward the body and biology that drives today's headline stories: ● Transgenderism: Activists detach gender from biology. Kids down to kindergarten are being taught their body is irrelevant to their authentic self. Is this affirming--or does it demean the body? ● Homosexuality: Advocates disconnect sexuality from bi…
Outline: For centuries, the fruit of the Spirit has rightfully served as a wellspring of reflection on the virtues that epitomize the Christian life and character-building. However, the notion of the fruit of the Spirit is not limited solely to forming the biblical foundation of ethical living. Psychologist and theologian Zoltán Dörnyei argues that if we understand the nine attributes collect…
Outline : "Jervis's startling proposals require and repay careful attention by all serious students of Paul's letters." This major contribution to an ongoing debate about Paul's theology suggests that Paul thought not in terms of two ages but in terms of life in this age or life in Christ.
Outline : "A treasure of pastoral wisdom on a signature virtue of the Christian life" What is gratitude? Where does it come from? Why do we need it? How does it change us? Award winning author Cornelius Plantinga explores these questions and more in Gratitude. Celebrating the role of gratitude in our lives, Plantinga makes the case that is the very key to understanding our relationships with on…
Outline : This introductory textbook shows why Christians should study history, how faith is brought to bear on our understanding of the past, and how studying the past can transform our lives. The second edition contains updates throughout.
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 : 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 : The Beginner's Bible 100 Bedtime Devotions -- the perfect addition to your child's bedtime routine! End each day with a devotion and prayer, assuring your little one of God's perfect love for them while tackling the big questions and thoughts that always come at bedtime. With devotions covering topics on your little one's heart and mind -- courage, friendship, gratitude, and more -- t…
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 : The need for talented, vigorous leaders in the church today cannot be overemphasized. The world situation demands a strong voice from the church, and this can come only from leaders guided by God and devoted to Jesus Christ. Sanders writes that spiritual leadership is the blending of natural and spiritual qualities. He adds that even natural qualities are God-given, and their true eff…
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 : Carl Trueman analyses the theology of the great Puritan theologian, John Owen, paying particular attention to his vigorous trinitarianism. To understand Owen, we need to see him as a seventeenth-century representative of the Western trinitarian and anti-Pelagian tradition. Trueman demonstrates how Owen used the theological insights of patristic, medieval, and Reformation theologians t…
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 : How might premodern exegesis of Genesis inform Christian debates about creation today? Imagine a table with three people in dialogue: a young-earth creationist, an old-earth creationist, and an evolutionary creationist. Into the room walks Augustine of Hippo, one of the most significant theologians in the history of the church. In what ways will his reading of Scripture and his doctri…
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 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 : Through God may seem far off, or invisible to your eyes, if you take a look around, then you just might be surprised! God is always working. Cuddle up and connect with your child as you experience the joy and awe of discovering hidden images in the pages of He Is There. With flashlight in hand, kids will clearly see God at work in creation and in their daily lives. Pick up this Shine …
Outline: Fearfully and wonderfully made to be loved, Valuable just 'cause you're you, Uniquely designed, you are one of a kind. Little boy, do you know this is true? Snuggle up and remind your little boy how special and treasured he is.
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…