Calvin O. Miller

A Violent Grace

Arts & Literature

“What Michael Card sings at this level I most need: The inaudible strains of warm truth that fly from heart to heart and nourish the soul where all too few have fed. Loving God is hungry work and only those who hunger enough can feed the rest of us. Michael Card knows how to set such a table.”

Choosing to Preach

Preaching & Worship

“We have but one great truth to preach, but there are as many ways to preach it as there are preachers. In this important volume, Kenton Anderson teaches us to cherish two things: well-spoken truth and our own glorious diversity.”

Effective First-Person Biblical Preaching

Preaching & Worship

“What a refreshing new marriage of biblical authority and compelling homiletics!”

In His Image

Christian Living

“Michael Wilkins has stepped the science of discipleship down to the heart level of obedience. His look at discipleship aims at our walking with Jesus until our lifestyles are indistinguishable from His.”

Insurgence

Christian Living

“Jesus Manifesto is the most powerful work on Christ I have read in recent years. The Christ of the Empty Tomb is back among us. Sweet and Viola have beckoned us to return to Olivet and renew our souls. I was hushed by its welcome authority. I found a lump in my throat as I read through page after page of biblical witness to the one and only, incomparable Christ in whom alone is our Salvation. You must read this book. All of us must, and then we must believe in this book, rise, and advance on our culture with the truth we have lately backed away from in our faulty attempt to play fair at the cost of our God-given mission.”

Jesus

Christian Living

“I’ve written a lot of books and read even more, but once in a while I catch myself reading a great book from someone who has lived a great life, and I stop here and there, look out wistfully through an open window, and say, ‘I wish I’d written that!’ Wayne Cordeiro puts me in that kind of envious mood. But even if I had written Jesus: Pure and Simple, it would not have been done nearly as well. Because a book like Jesus: Pure and Simple can only come from the heart of a man who knows his subject very well. This is a book that might have been titled Jesus Close Up. After any single paragraph you will know it was written by a man who lives his devotion to the Savior, and out of the depths of his Christ-neediness makes the poor in spirit wealthy.”

Living into the Life of Jesus

Christian Living

Foreword

(wrote the foreword)

ReGrace

Christian Living

“Jesus Manifesto is the most powerful work on Christ I have read in recent years. The Christ of the Empty Tomb is back among us. Sweet and Viola have beckoned us to return to Olivet and renew our souls. I was hushed by its welcome authority. I found a lump in my throat as I read through page after page of biblical witness to the one and only, incomparable Christ in whom alone is our Salvation. You must read this book. All of us must, and then we must believe in this book, rise, and advance on our culture with the truth we have lately backed away from in our faulty attempt to play fair at the cost of our God-given mission.”

Sacred Chaos

Prayer & Spiritual Formation

“Tricia Rhodes's walk of faith is a well-paced pilgrimage. You will find counsel enough in these pages to bleed the hassle from all frantic discipleship. And the soul at the center of your hurriedness will be a soul at rest, for you will have found that gentle pace that tells the world it will be good for them to be around you, for you have walked the edges of her wisdom.”

Scribbling in the Sand

Arts & Literature

“When Michael Card speaks on Christian creativity, the world listens. I think they listen first because he is a Christian whose faith is his reason to be. I think they listen next because he is creative. In every sentence he writes, His appetite for beauty devours his soul and leaves the rest of us hungry to acquire his taste. I think I personally admire him because he lives in that Promethean torture chamber where mediocrity is offensive and excellence exceeds the grasp. Yet it is his reaching toward aesthetic wonders that refreshes us with a widening vision of Christ. Then having caught the greater view of things, he generously passes the vision forward to us all.”

Storm

History & Biography

“The best novels are not to be read, but met. When I picked up Storm, the cover swung open on a rich era. Germany was all about me, and I was lost for hours in an exciting world of faith and courage.”

The Sermon Maker

Preaching & Worship

“fact that we should dig around with Hebrew and Greek word studies and the insights of various commentaries. These things always have been and always will be a part of good sermon study. I have written this book with many notes, to provide the reader with good information on preaching. These notes are not necessary to the stories, which stand on their own. But the notes can furnish the mind with strong arguments on the subject of sermon preparation. Some readers might prefer to ignore the notes during a first reading of the stories in order to better enjoy them without interruption, then go back and reread the stories, this time also reading the notes as they come to them. Others might find it easy enough to read the notes while reading the stories the first time through. One could even read the stories without the notes and then go back and read the notes without the stories. Read it whatever way works best for you. In this book I have set out to achieve a simple task: to consider how we can marry exposition and metaphor in such a way that people will listen. Most preaching books I pick up are books on how to write sermons. This one is about how people hear them.”