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 : 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 : Every Sunday, there's a battle for your heart. You understand the importance of attending church, but you probably find your attention being pulled away from Sunday services by distractions of schedule, work, family, finances, or other competing priorities. With so much going on in your life, how will you prepare your heart and mind to offer God the worship he deserves? Christians und…
Outline : J. Oswald Sanders communicates in a new, fresh way the age-old message of how to enjoy intimate fellowship with God. Everything in our life and service flows from our relationship with God. Sanders says if this is not right, and we are not in vital fellowship with Him, every- thing else will be out of gear. But when our communication with Him is close and real, it is gloriously possib…
Outline: This anthology invites Christians to find resources for faithful, creative thinking in the riches of the church's theological heritage and its worship traditions. Contributors include Robert Barron, Timothy George, Stanley Hauerwas, Alasdair MacIntyre, Mark Noll, and N.T. Wright, among others.
Outline: What are the origin and meaning of the words "greed is idolatry" found in Ephesians 5: 5 and Colossians 3: 5? In what sense are the greedy guilty of idolatry? Many different answers have been given to this question throughout the history of interpretation. In fact, a consensus exists on only one score - that the expression serves to vilify greed. Brian Rosner ably takes on the challeng…
Outline : This sixth volume of Hughes Oliphant Old's monumental, acclaimed study of preaching throughout history, The Modern Age, tells the story of preaching and worship from the French Revolution to the fall of the Berlin Wall (1789-1989). During this period preaching continued to support the historic Christian faith while the church under- took to resist secularization, come to grips with bi…
Outline: We Have Seen His Glory sounds a clarion call to worship in light of the coming Kingdom. Ben Witherington here contends that Christian worship cannot be a matter of merely continuing ancient practices; instead, we must be pre- paring for worship in the Kingdom of God when it comes on earth. The eight chapters in this thought-provoking book each end with questions for reflection and disc…
Outline : HUMANS ARE HARDWIRED FOR AWE.
Our hearts are always captured by something-that's how God made us. But sin threatens to distract us from the glory of our Creator. All too often, we stand in awe of everything but God. Uncovering the lies we believe about all the earthly things that promise us peace, life, and contentment, Paul Tripp redirects our gaze to God's awe-inducing glory-showin…
Outline : "Let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of bodyand spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God."
2 CORINTHIANS 7:1
We all have experienced fear at some point. And if we are honest, we don't usually think of fear as a good thing. So why does the Bible call us to fear the Lord? In this book, Michael Reeves explains that the fear of God is not a gloomy fear marke…
This book argues from Scripture that godly fear is the opposite of being afraid of God or his punishment as if he were a tyrant. Instead, it is the intensity of the saints' love for, delight in, and enjoyment of all that God is.
Around the corner from where I live, a house is for sale. In bold green letters the lawn sign reads: “I’m Gorgeous Inside!” The message is surprising. From the street, the house is thoroughly ordinary, even run-down........
The issue of idolatry has been with the human race for thousands of years; the subtle temptation is always to take what is good and turn it into the ultimate good, elevating it above all other things in the search for security and meaning. In this timely and challenging book, New York pastor Timothy Keller looks at the issue of idolatry throughout the Bible -- from the worship of actual idols i…
Outline: Formal and contemplative services in vast cathedrals are as much a part of Christian worship today as casual and boisterous services in refurbished warehouses. Yet this very diversity raises the question, Are all forms of worship equally pleasing of God? Worship wars have erupted over so many issues - musical styles and liturgical formats, as well as more serious concerns like whether …
Outline: What does worship look like? Is there just one truly right way to worship? Are there any wrong ways? To what extent should our unity as believers manifest itself in unified public worship? Sadly, disagreement over how we should worship our loving God has sparked some most unloving attitudes among Christians. Exploring the Worship Spectrum seeks to correct this. It provides a forum for …
Outline: In his study of the Greek cults of the Roman emperor in Asia Minor, Simon Price attempts to discover why the Roman emperor was treated like a god. He contends that ever since the emergence of Christianity within the Roman empire the problem has been misinterpreted; a Christianizing distinction between religion and politics has led to the cult being considered simply as a form of politi…
Buku ini lebih dari sekedar pengantar. Buku ini melacak serta menguraikan perkembangan praktik dan teologi dari berbagai bentuk ibadah Kristen dalam sejarah kekristenan dan pelbagai tradisi-Protestan, Katolik Roma, Anglikan, Pentakosta dan lainnya. Berbagai praktik ibadah Kristen, seperti doa umum harian, pelayanan Firman, sakramen, inisiasi Kristen, ekaristi, dan tahun liturgi dibahas dan diba…
Overview: This book samples the rich variety of worship practices in American history to show how worship can be a fruitful subject for historians to study and, alternatively, how past case studies can enrich our undestanding of worship today. This book gathers highly regarded historians and other scholars who usually are not read together because of the widely different subject areas in which…
Tata liturgi dan perayaan-perayaan liturgis yang ada di gereja-gereja kita saat ini tidak datang dengan sendirinya. Semuanya itu memiliki sejarah dan konteks kemunculannya. Hal inilah yang dapat kita baca dalam buku ini. Kita bisa mengetahui dan memahami bagaimana munculnya sebuah tata liturgi mulai sejak Gereja Kristen Mula-mula hingga kontekstualisasinya dalam gereja-gereja masa kini. Dengan …