Dennis E. Johnson
Women
“Few issues in contemporary Christianity are as controversial and emotionally charged as those concerning the personal significance, role, and 'place' of women, the daughters of the King. In A Place for You, Kendra Dahl has given God's family (Jesus' sisters and brothers) a 'reframing' of the conversation that flows from reverence for and careful interpretation of God's Word; is discerningly conversant with cultural pressures; celebrates God's grace in Christ; and brims with transparency, realism, humor, and wisdom—all drawn from the joys and struggles of everyday life in home and church. You will come away from this book thinking, Kendra is a sister who understands, whom I can trust, who loves Jesus, and who has helped me discover the "place" He has given me, where I can flourish for His glory. You will be right.”
Theology
“After Emmaus beautifully blends the best features of evangelical biblical theology, exemplifying the hermeneutical benefit to be gained from following the New Testament’s redemptive-historical reading of the Old Testament. Tabb surveys major motifs in the theology of Luke-Acts, displaying how its Christology, ecclesiology, and missiology are enriched by Luke’s Spirit-enlightened saturation of heart and mind in God’s ancient Scriptures. Moreover, After Emmaus applies the Spirit’s instruction through Luke to the faith and life of Christians today. I enthusiastically recommend this study.”
Church Leadership & Ministry
“It is no easy task to preach sermons that exposit a biblical text faithfully, rightly connect it to Christ, and address hearers' deep needs for God's radical grace, all while communicating clearly and vividly. A good beginning is to grasp key principles and practices to be applied in crafting such rich and relevant messages. But watching a gifted preacher in action turns sound theory into transformative coaching. This is what Bryan Chapell's Christ-Centered Sermons offers to his fellow preachers. This collection is the next best thing to sitting across from Dr. Chapell in his pastoral study and hearing him talk through his process for composing sermons.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“Sidney Greidanus poured a lifetime of preaching Christ from the entire Bible and teaching others to do so into this guided tour of Scripture’s unfolding history of creation, redemption, and consummation. With brevity and clarity, he shows our beauty-creating God at work, bringing order to the ‘formless and void’ deep. Then, when Satanic lies and human rebellion injected chaos, disorder, desolation, and death, the Lord executed his eternal plan to redeem and reorder his creation through Jesus Christ. This study is full of God’s Word, set into context by Greidanus’s insightful comment. It offers fresh and ancient perspectives on Scripture’s unity and its central focus: Christ the Redeemer.”
Christian Living
“How can Christians find, keep, and enjoy sexual purity in a sex-crazed culture (first-century Corinth or twenty-first-century America)? Steps, programs, regret, fear of discovery, and willpower may apply brakes that slow the heart's momentum toward shameful fantasies and deeds. But they cannot break the tyranny of lust. Paul showed the Christians of Corinth that only the grace of God in Christ—redeeming, forgiving, transforming grace—can actually break the power of reigning sin and set its captives free. John Fonville's Hope and Holiness opens up for us, clearly, deeply, and movingly, the apostle's good news of liberty in Jesus. As the testimonies throughout affirm, believers who have been frustrated and disillusioned by the failures of other strategies will find new, true hope here—in the crucified, risen, ruling Savior and His ever-present Spirit.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“I count myself blessed to be among generations of seminary students who have ‘basked’ in the glory of Christ as we sat under Richard Gaffin’s instruction, hearing him unfold the rich theology of Acts and the Pauline epistles. Gaffin models careful attention to, and insightful exposition of, specific New Testament texts as he places each passage within the context of the fulfillment of redemptive history in Christ’s person and work. I thank God that this rich lecture material is now offered in print form to the people of God.”
Marriage, Family & Relationships
“Paul Tripp brings many years of counseling, growth as a husband, and deepening discovery of the liberating power of grace to this realistic and challenging guide to God’s engagement in redeeming marriages that are threatened by complacency, misunderstanding, and selfishness. The Bible’s message of the humbling and healing power of Christ’s mercy and the powerful presence of his Spirit in our homes comes through loud and clear. The daily practicality of gospel doctrine is made crystal clear by Tripp’s transparency about his personal missteps in becoming a Christ-reflecting husband and the many examples of couples who have discovered that they are sinners married to sinners. But that the third, divine Party in marriage gives hope and change when unrealistic expectations are shattered and when we confront our sin. But be warned: Tripp’s diagnostic questions are downright uncomfortable. Even those with strong marriages by God’s grace will find their deep tendencies toward self-coronation challenged!”
Theology
“With depth of insight and simplicity of expression, Vern Poythress’s Mediator displays the beautiful patterns interwoven throughout the Bible’s tapestry, designs that focus on and find fulfillment in Christ Jesus, the only mediator between God and humanity. If you have envied the apostles, who learned from Jesus himself how to read the Old Testament, or if you long to perceive the network that links all Scripture to the Savior, you will delight in Poythress’s accessible introduction to robust, redemptive-historical biblical theology. Better yet, you will delight in the all-sufficient Redeemer, whose glory and grace fill every page of God’s word.”
Preaching & Worship
“In Preaching Christ from Daniel Greidanus pays careful attention to the purpose and message of Daniel for its original audience, Judah's exiles in Babylon, assuring them that their God is still sovereign and faithful. Then he lifts our sights to the broader horizon of the completed Scriptures, tracing trajectories that lead to Jesus Christ, the glorified Son of Man, and through him into the lives of God's exiles on earth in the twenty-first century. Exegetically responsible and pastorally sensitive, this book offers insightful guidance on both the theoretical issues and the practical challenges of preaching Christ from Daniel.”
Reading the Word of God in the Presence of God
Theology
“Reading the Word of God in the Presence of God does two very hard things very well. First, it guides a spectrum of readers from an introductory listening to God speaking in Scripture into deeper explorations of the Word’s multifaceted witness to Christ. Second, this book exemplifies a radical, refreshing alternative to mainstream methods of biblical interpretation—an approach controlled at every point by the Bible’s claim to be the very Word of the ever-living, ever-present God.”
The Beginning and End of Wisdom
Christian Living
“The Wisdom Literature of the Old Testament poses one of the most daunting challenges for preachers whose resolve is to preach Christ from all the Scriptures. Pastor Douglas O’Donnell offers invaluable modeling and coaching to help us explore, in practical terms, how to preach Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Job in a way that both expounds the biblical texts with integrity and sets them into the larger context of the Bible’s unified witness to Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.”
Preaching & Worship
“Should contemporary preaching direct listeners to Christ . . . [s]hould preaching safeguard listeners from both moralism and antinomianism . . . [s]hould preachers meet listeners where they live, immersed in the atmosphere of postmodernism's pluralistic relativism, and then enlist them as actors in God's global drama? The Drama of Preaching makes the case that preaching can and must, and shows us how.”
Bible Studies & Devotionals
“Douglas Webster's meditations on John 14-16 shatter our illusions that following Jesus secures a comfortable life in this troubling world. Christ, the God who comforts, gives his disciples something better: through his sacrificial death and resurrection, his Holy Spirit and abiding presence, and the certain promise of his glorious return at history's end, Jesus is and will be with those who trust him. Ponder Christ's promises, and you will taste his joy.”
Theology
“Blending profound insight with clear explanation, Vern Poythress shows us that Jesus’s miracles are not merely random acts of kindness and power, but—most importantly—are signs pointing to the central events of his redemptive mission: his sacrificial death and mighty resurrection. Poythress leads us from the incarnation, healings, stilled seas, transfiguration, and other supernatural displays of Jesus’s identity as glorious God, last Adam, and promised Messiah to the cross and empty tomb. Then he leads us on to the application in our own lives and struggles with sin and suffering. I highly recommend this reader-friendly and Christ-glorifying study.”
Church Leadership & Ministry
“The Peacemaking Pastor is pastoral theology at its best. It is, first, theology, a profound biblical exploration of the gospel of God’s grace in the cross of Christ and of its power to overcome the conflicts that divide us and damage our witness. This is not, first of all, a handbook of negotiation techniques and communication skills, but rather an exploration of what it means for pastors to cast themselves on the mercy and heart-changing power of God, and then to lead people in conflict to do the same. And, because The Peacemaking Pastor is theological, it is profoundly pastoral and practical, peppered with illustrations from the author’s experience that show Christ’s power to smash our hearts’ idols, break down walls of suspicion and self-defense, and bring us together in surprising unity and love. Pastor, if you are looking for tools to make others behave better and to make conflict “just go away,” while you yourself remain unchanged, you should steer clear of this book. But if you are prepared to be challenged to live by faith in a God whose grace can heal relationships relationships in ways beyond our imagination, take up and read—and pray and preach and counsel.”
Christian Living
“Iain Duguid’s combined experience as a biblical scholar, church planter, and preacher makes Turning the World Upside Down a practical, illuminating, and challenging exploration of the achievement of the risen Lord Jesus through the Holy Spirit in the infancy of the church in its new covenant form. Duguid shows from the early chapters of Acts that both the planting and the thriving of churches are attributable not to our methods but to the sovereign power and presence of Christ himself—a message that both pastors and God’s people must take to heart.”
NOTE: Only includes books currently in our catalog; not necessarily a complete list.
Perfect Priest for Weary Pilgrims
Theology
See something wrong on this page? Report a problem