Eugene H. Peterson

Christian Living

“For decades now Marva Dawn's life has been shaped by the Psalms; as she writes out her Psalm-shaped experiences in prayer, we realize freshly and personally what a vigorous and reality-tested world of prayer the Psalms provide us.”

Never Mind the Joneses

Marriage, Family & Relationships

“Having children and raising a family rank high among the most complex and difficult tasks we will ever face. It can be lonely work, and companions are mighty useful along the way. My companion of choice, hands down, is Tim Stafford and his Never Mind the Joneses. Thoughtful, feet-on-the-ground practical, prayerful, wise, and--best of all--Christian.”

On Earth as in Heaven

Foreword

“Boers attests to the huge necessities of worship and prayer in our lives. He shares his much-tested conviction that a contemplative life is not an alternative to--but the root and foundation of--active life.”

One of Us

Fiction

“In 2005 the killer of ten persons was arrested in Wichita, Kansas. It had been 25 years since the tenth murder. The killer called himself BTK: Bind, Torture, Kill. He was a well- respected president of his Lutheran congregation, worshiping there every Sunday, a leader in the community. That much is fact. Novelist Diane Glancy explores the complex emotions of how a Christian community deals with and survives age-old issues of good and evil by creating four voices, two pastors and their spouses, as they work through their differing emotions and convictions. This is not a novel for the faint-hearted, but for those who stay the course the rewards in insight and compassion are well worth it.”

Paul, the Spirit, and the People of God

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Gordon Fee, one of our truly master exegetes, has put steel and sinew into the words Spirit, spirit, and spiritual--words that have become flabby through subjectivizing indulgence and lack of exegetical exercise. His accurate, fresh, and passionate recovery of the place and meaning of Spirit in Paul and for us Christians is a provocative stimulus and reliable guide to the recovery of the experienced presence of God in our lives. For those of us who want to live in continuity with all that has been revealed in Jesus and given in the Spirit, this is an eminently practical book.”

Peculiar Speech

Preaching & Worship

“For those of us who have been bullied into skirting the neighborhood of our distinctive Christian language and politics in favor of something supposedly 'relevant' and 'universal,' Willimon is a champion. He takes his stand on a single word, baptism, and sends the bullies packing. With the bullies gone we recover the powerful and unique identity conferred by baptism and are again bold to stick to the language and behavior that derive from it. Thank you, William Willimon — it's nice to have the neighborhood back!”

Planted

Science & Faith

Foreword

(wrote the foreword)

Powers, Weakness, and the Tabernacling of God

Church Leadership & Ministry

“This is the kind of writing and teaching that can save the church from being duped by the 'deceitful tongue' of slick contemporaneity — if we will only listen. Careful and honest exegetical work combined with years of frontline experience in dealing with the lies and illusions of our culture come together here as Marva Dawn brings clarity and urgency to the elusive 'principalities and powers.”

Prayer

Prayer & Spiritual Formation

“We no longer live in a praying world.. Meanwhile, Christians pray. But if we are to continue to pray out of the center of our lives, and not just timidly or occasionally from the margins, we need to take deliberate measures to counter the dismissal and trivialization of prayer that characterize our culture.. This book is such a measure, a deliberate counter to the assumptions of our culture that life is all about us, all about what we can do.”

Preaching

Church Leadership & Ministry

“A lifetime of preaching and teaching the art of preaching crackles and pops in this bonfire of a book. In sentences of heat and light—blazing passion, luminous intelligence—Calvin Miller, one of our best preachers and writers, tells us what he does best—and why and how.”

Relational Leadership

Work, Money & Leadership

Foreword

(wrote a foreword)

Risen

Christian Living

“Isn’t it an odd thing—that the death of Jesus gets far more attention than the resurrection of Jesus? But Steven Mathewson, pastor and scholar, is doing something about it. He has prepared an extensive immersion, fifty days through the season of Pentecost, in prayer meditation on Jesus’s resurrection. Join him on this Emmaus Road resurrection conversation.”

Romans

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Chronological snobbery--the assumption that our ancestors working without benefit of computers have nothing to teach us--is exposed as nonsense by this magnificent new series. Surfeited with knowledge but starved of wisdom, many of us are more than ready to sit at table with our ancestors and listen to their holy conversations on Scripture. I know I am.”

Sacramental Preaching

Theology

Foreword

(wrote the foreword)

Sacred Listening

Christian Living

“Many people own a Bible. A lot of people read the Bible. But the task of every Bible reader is to become a Bible listener so that we can then start living the text. Ignatius of Loyola’s Spiritual Exercises is one of the most influential guidebooks for directing us in listening. Sacred Listening skillfully guides us through these exercises—hopefully making listeners of us all.”

Sanctuary of the Soul

Prayer & Spiritual Formation

“Richard Foster diagnoses this generation's major threat to the mature life in Christ as distraction. In response he does again what he does so well: tunnels to the roots of our deep-rooted ancestors and makes us firsthand participants in the church's practice of a life of meditative prayer.”

Scape

Arts & Literature

Foreword

(wrote the foreword)

Seeking God's Face

Bible Studies & Devotionals

Foreword

(wrote the foreword)

Shaping the Prayers of the People

Preaching & Worship

“In our American culture where prayer is relentlessly individualized, Wells and Kocher gather us into a community understood comprehensively — public worship that takes seriously and devoutly both congregation and world. They pull us out of our private isolation into something large where God is working largely — and all of this written in prose that is both accurate and alive.”