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In Unafraid, selections from nearly thirty years of timeless, straightforward sermons are grouped according to the church year (Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, Easter, Pentecost) beginning with Christmas 1939. Reconstructed from Harald Ibsen's sermon notes by his daughter Joy, each sermon is followed by a listener's story (some autobiographical, some fictional) showing the relationship of the message to that person's life. To experience «The Living Word» between pew and pulpit...
| Автор | Harald Ibsen |
En la forma que Pablo le impartió a Timoteo su sabiduría, esta colección de cartas desde pastores de experiencia representan 480 años de ministerio en total. Los pastores jóvenes y más grandes valorarán este tesoro de asesoría amorosa y verdad que les guiará a través de los desafíos y gozos de su vocación en Cristo.Autores: Tom Ascol, Conrad Mbewe, Tedd Tripp, Ted Christman, Andy David, Martin Holdt, C.J. Mahaney, Bill Ascol, Mark Dever, Fred Malone, Raymond Perron, Ligon Duncan, Joel Beeke,...
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Today's college students have more knowledge available to them than can be absorbed; mastery of a subject area creates siloes where nearly every course is tailored to comprehending subject matter that may be outdated before they graduate. But learning is more than subject-matter expertise. Our fast-paced environment requires instantaneous reactions to complex questions. Our instant-messaging age champions quick response over reflection or thought–even the president governs by Twitter. Yet...
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Guía de conversación para padres y pastores Nuestra cultura está llena de mensajes confusos sobre género e identidad. Si usted es un padre o alguien involucrado en el ministerio de jóvenes o niños que quiere enseñar fielmente la Biblia, este libro es para usted, pues proporciona una guía práctica paso a paso para articular la enseñanza de la Escritura sobre el género a los niños y los jóvenes a medida que crecen. Cada capítulo contiene temas de conversación y consejos para cada edad y etapa,...
| Автор | Brian Seagraves |
Reading the Bible Badly exposes how American Christians misunderstand and misuse the Bible, reading Scripture through «lenses» that distort its true character. As Americans, we often read the Bible's stories and instruction unmindful of their historical and cultural settings, disregarding the testimony of our spiritual ancestors, and finding mostly a mirror image of our own values and selves in Scripture. Some of us insist that the Bible must be the «inerrant word of God,» historically...
| Автор | Karl Allen Kuhn |
The apostle Paul said, «Oh death, where is your sting?» (1 Corinthians 15:55) And yet when faced with their own end, most believers are very anxious. We know death is a fact of living, but we are not too keen to go through the pain and anguish associated with it. And it is how we address death's anguish that is the subject of this book. Through a close examination of the recently legalized «medical assistance in dying (MAID),» Levan suggests that Canadians can now face their own end with a...
| Автор | Christopher Levan |
Although many people today reject Christianity for intellectual reasons, greater numbers of people are rejecting Christianity because it does not engage their imagination. Christians must not only demonstrate that the Christian worldview is true, but that it is also good, beautiful, and relevant. The Good News of the Return of the King: The Gospel in Middle-earth is a book that endeavors to show the truth, goodness, and beauty of Jesus Christ, the gospel, and the biblical metanarrative by...
| Автор | Michael T. Jahosky |
Apocalyptic texts are often seen as either frightening or irrelevant, a tool for fearmongering and manipulation or for the lucrative doomsday industry. But Apocalypse When?: Interpreting and Preaching Apocalyptic Texts equips readers to understand these texts as sources of encouragement and strength for the church. As the world faces threats of war, poverty, climate and environmental crises, and political upheaval, churches can draw on the wisdom and courage of our biblical ancestors who faced...
| Автор | Jerry L. Sumney |
Las iglesias de América Latina han experimentado, en las últimas décadas, un rápido y notorio crecimiento numérico en un contexto de mutación religiosa y pérdida de confianza en los líderes y en las constituciones. Por consiguiente, uno de los asuntos clave de la agenda actual de las iglesias está relacionado con la necesidad de formar líderes capaces de responder tanto a los grandes desafíos dentro de las comunidades de fe como a los que emergen de la sociedad y cultura cambiantes. El propósito...
| Автор | James Lawrence |
To survey harsh criticisms against Brian Douglas McLaren (1956‒), readers gain the inaccurate impression that he is a heretical relativist who denies objective truth and logic. While McLaren's inflammatory and provocative writing style is partly to blame, this study also suspects that his critics base much of their analyses on only small portions of his overall corpus. The result becomes a caricature of McLaren's actual philosophy of religion. What is argued in this book is that...
| Автор | Darren M. Slade |
El autor asume en las páginas de este libro que el evangelio es una verdad pública y que, por tanto, es un mensaje que no queda circunscrito en los templos, ni se trata de un discurso religioso destinado a seres incorpóreos, sino un mensaje que confronta todos los factores que oprimen y cosifican a los seres humanos, y que produce una nueva humanidad en la cual desaparecen los prejuicios sociales y los mecanismos de discriminación que separan a los seres humanos. Se trata, pues, de un...
| Автор | Darío López R. |
Slave markets, temple courts, prophetic lawsuits, diplomatic treaties, imperial victory processions, dying and rising deities. These and more are the pictures painted by the New Testament writers as they search for language to describe their life-changing experiences of God through Jesus. Some of these pictures might still resonate with us; many do not. Pictures of Atonement surveys the six most important metaphors of atonement used in the New Testament with a view to, not explaining away the...
| Автор | Ben Pugh |
Escrito en un español muy ameno y ágil, el texto es suficientemente detallado sin abrumar al lector. Pastores, profesores, estudiantes y amadores de la literatura, la historia y el arte mundial se enamorarán de la forma en que el autor vincula lo sagrado con lo mundano, despertando incógnitas y pertinencias no antes consideradas. – Zaida Maldonado Pérez, – Asbury Theological Seminary (emérita) Esta Introducción al Nuevo Testamento, animada, atractiva y actualizada, ha sido...
| Автор | Mark Allan Powell |
A pilgrim spirituality for Holy Land travel, Jerusalem Bound resources the Christian traveler with biblical, historical, and contemporary images of the pilgrim life. Integrating historical sources, on-the-ground experience, and the voices of global pilgrims, Jerusalem Bound presents a fresh approach to pilgrimage, explores pilgrim identity and the Holy Land experience, offers ideas for Holy Land travel, and encourages pilgrims to focus upon the Other as much as themselves. Unique among Holy Land...
| Автор | Rodney Aist |
This book, written for college and seminary age students, is the distillation of reflection on the life and career of Jesus of Nazareth for over three decades. Such reflection needs no legitimizing since preoccupation with Jesus of Nazareth continues in one form or another till the present day. The arrangement of the pieces and fragments which make up the «mosaic» in part pursue the usual chronological order as appears in most editions of the Bible. But the interpretation of events within each...
| Автор | Roy A. Harrisville |
What does it mean to die? What is the role of death in human life? The theme of this novel focuses on these two questions in the medium of a duel between the god of death, Mowt, and Dr. Athenaion, a devotee of the god of love. In the course of delineating the duel, the author spotlights the meaning of death as a human phenomenon in the context of a truly loving family. Mowt inflicts several devastating calamities upon Dr. Athenaion, but in spite of this infliction, two love affairs sprout and...
| Автор | Michael H. Mitias |
How should the Methodist tradition continue to embody its evangelistic mission? Some believe effective evangelism requires ecclesial adaptation seeking relevance to attract outsiders. But does this strategy result in the church's embrace of consumer market practices, pandering to a world of church shoppers? Others suggest the most evangelistic thing the church can do is to be the church, displaying to the world the attractive beauty of a holy community. But could this ironically distance...
| Автор | Jeffrey A. Conklin-Miller |
The impact Jesus had on numerous lives during his earthly ministry is obvious from the Gospel records themselves. But what we do not have is personal testimonies by those persons whom Jesus helped, healed, befriended, or recruited as disciples. In this creative exploration of what sort of testimonies those original encounters might have produced, Ben Witherington paints a picture for us of what the well known and the less well known eyewitnesses might have said had they been asked. Drawing on...
| Автор | Ben Witherington III |
Against Empire analyzes the relationship between Christian theology and radical democracy by exploring how black prophetic thought, feminist theology, Latin American liberation theology, and peaceable theology offer plural forms of ekklesial resistance to empire: the black church (Cornel West), the ekklesia of wo/men (Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza), the church of the poor (Ignacio Ellacuria, Jon Sobrino), and the peaceable church (Stanley Hauerwas). These approaches to Christian political...
| Автор | Matthew T. Eggemeier |
While meaning and purpose are often seen as synonymous, this book argues that they sometimes are in opposition, the search for meaning at times suicidal, and living with purpose life-enhancing and invigorating. No people seemed to search for meaning in their lives more than did the ancient and classical Greeks. They were not content with living simple lives but oftentimes took on gargantuan tasks which resulted in a great deal of upheaval and unpleasantness in their everyday lives, and...
| Автор | Kalman J. Kaplan |
Is being a good American the same thing as being a good Christian? Are they the same thing? Are they opposed? Or perhaps they overlap in important ways. The «Christ and Culture» question is not new. It showed itself in the reaction of many Jews to Jesus. The early Christians had to find some way to relate to their Greek and Roman societies, with questionable results for their faith and their cultures. This problem has haunted Christians throughout history, and still is with us today. This book...
| Автор | Douglas Johnson |
Among the numerous sets of conferences that Thomas Merton presented to young prospective monks during his decade (1955-1965) as novice master at the Cistercian Abbey of Gethsemani is a wide-ranging introduction to biblical studies, made available for the first time in the present volume. Drawing on church tradition, teaching of recent papal documents, and scholarly resources of the time, he reveals the central importance of the Scriptures for the spiritual growth of his listeners. The extensive...
| Автор | Thomas Merton |
Are there sufficient evidences to plausibly warrant positing a global Noahic Flood within the auspices of a specific Old-Earth biblical paradigm? If so, what are they? It is our firm conviction that God has allowed the passage of time to cover the blatant earthen signs of the Noahic Flood in such a way, and just enough, as to require earnest seekers of truth to use their eyes of faith and their vision of the kingdom metanarrative–along with their empirical sight and senses–to view and interpret...
| Автор | W. Joseph Stallings |
I and Thou is a summons calling us to dialogue today. Like the call Buber himself received, the book invites us to encounter the Other, our counterparts both human and eternal. Buber's spiritual awakening, his engagement with his people and his times, his wide reading, and his grief are contexts that open up this call to us to join with him in the fullness of a life of dialogue. If we follow Buber into his study, into the struggle of his inner life, into his achievement of dialogical...
| Автор | Donovan D. Johnson |