We are so much more than we appear to be. The ""why"" of our existence is far more complex than the ""how"" of our being. Mysticism probes the hidden nature of who we are, why we are, and our relat...
Adolf Deissmann (1866-1937) studied at Tuebingen and Berlin. In 1897 he was appointed to a
professorship at Heidelberg where he taught until 1908, when he was called to succeed Bernhard Weiss at B...
First published as Word Biblical Themes: 1 Peter (Word Publishing, 1989), this volume explores Peter's effort to build a sense of identity and responsibility among the Christians to whom he wrote, ...
"How does the Christian faith actually work: as a worldview, as a story, as a larger vision of life within which the smaller categories of politics, ethics, and spirituality were designed to make s...
The Other Journal is a space for Christian interdisciplinary theological reflection that tackles the cultural crises of our time with verve and peculiar slant, advancing a progressive, ...
The outrageous idea of this book is that God wants to use professors as professors to reach others, transform the academy, and meet the needs of the world. God is on a mission to redeem and restore...
Two human streams flow through history. The Bible characterizes these streams as the sons of God and the sons of Men. They are first distinguished in Cain and Abel as either those seeking to please...
The People of God
Several factors make this a compelling and topical book:
- The anti-Jewish sentiments that can still disfigure much Christian teaching and writing
- The baffling fate and often ...
""Be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect."" What does it mean to be perfect? Is entire sanctification possible in this life? Such words evoke worry and wonder in this time. In this introduct...
God the Creator made a very unique and specialized realm in which we humans live. It is a realm of particles which cohere as what we call matter; it is also a realm of time, the flow of which he cr...
The Practical Art of Spiritual Conversation is about the art of when, if, and how to engage in a spiritual conversation. The whens and the ifs inform the how. Christians can be so concerned with ho...
Are you without an answer to an important prayer? Do you pray until you feel you cannot pray anymore? Do you feel discouraged because you have tried to measure up to God's expectations and still no...
Many of us long to see God move mightily in response to our prayers. We've heard of such stories. And some of us have experienced them. But how can we start a prayer ministry at our own church that...
In a world where everyone seems to be preoccupied with ""living their best life,"" some of us are just trying to make it through the day. We find ourselves in a season of life where the bad days se...
Something which draws the immediate attention of the reader is the abundance of psalm citations in the Epistle to the Hebrews. In the first chapter five out of the seven quotations are taken from t...
In The Registered Church in China, Wayne Ten Harmsel pulls back for Western readers the shroud of mystery surrounding Chinese registered churches. Through interviews with Chinese pastors, evangelis...
We think of rocks as unchangeable, hard as rock. But when Jesus met the young fisherman Simon and named him Ce'phas (Peter), meaning ""stone,"" he was seeing the process Peter would endure to becom...