Eugene H. Peterson
Prayer & Spiritual Formation
“Pastor Donna Schaper takes what is all around us, namely food and eating food, and joins it to what is deeply but invisibly within us, a hunger for meaning and joy. She develops an imagination that lives the unity between the inner and outer: namely, prayer. Read this witty and generous book. There is not a dull sentence in it; [the] words will quicken your taste buds and revive your spirit.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“Brings the ancient and powerful Word of God into the present so that it can be heard and believed with all the freshness of a new day.”
Theology
“Who are the damned? Who are the saved? The questions have a way of provoking controversy, often quite heated. Brad Jersak, self-identified as an evangelical who accepts the Biblical witness as authoritative, turns the controversy into a conversation, a quiet conversation. He listens. He listens to opposing voices. He listens to Scripture as God's last word on the subject. He listens to the scholars and theologians. Out of the listening something like a 'humility of hope' (Jersak's phrase) begins to replace dogmatisms and we find ourselves part of a conversation with Christian brothers and sisters who are seriously praying for the world's salvation.”
Christian Living
“Gritty realism, passionate love and humorous holiness fuse in these pages and energize mere reading into a lively conversation with [Pippert's] companions on the Way.”
How to Read the Bible to Hear God Speak
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“The Bible is the most important text we will ever read, so we better get it right. In getting it right we need all the help we can get. Dr. Seerveld’s help is as good as it gets—and not in the form of rules and principles, but by plunging into one of the more interesting stories in the Bible and showing us how it works.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
Foreword
“A couple of years before I entered his classroom, Professor Traina had written the book Methodical Bible Study. . . . Inductive Bible Study is an expansion of that early text by Professor Traina and his colleague Professor Bauer. As I read this sequel, memories of my first reading come alive again. I am giving witness to that early but never-diminishing delight. . . . The passion and patience that permeated that classroom instilled in me an inductive imagination: fiercely attentive to everything that is there and only what is there, alert to relationships both literary and personal, habitually aware of context—the entire world of creation and salvation that is being revealed in this Bible. And always the insistence that I do this firsthand, not filtered through the hearsay of others or the findings of experts. . . . The inductive imagination continued to develop into a biblical imagination. And not only for me. My sense is that this way of reading the Bible—and living the Bible—has been transformative for thousands; probably by now the number must run into the millions.”
Theology
“This book on the place of the Holy Spirit in the church and the Christian life is a tour de force. Jack Levison is, in my experience, the most competent scholar and clearest writer on the Holy Spirit that I have known. But he is far more than a scholar; he is a Christian who is passionate to bring biblical clarity and understanding to the church worldwide. . . . I have been on the lookout for colleagues like this as I have worked to counter the dichotomizing of the church over Holy Spirit issues. Levison has become for me the major voice, thoroughly scriptural and non-combative, in this company.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“Brings the ancient and powerful Word of God into the present so that it can be heard and believed with all the freshness of a new day.”
Christian Living
“We live in apocalyptic times. The media keeps us abreast of catastrophe: 9/11, suicide bombings, famine and poverty, degradation and exploitation, political corruption and economic rapacity. What the media doesn't do is deal with the accompanying suffering, so much of it invisible. Marva Dawn guides us into dealing with the suffering, using The Revelation as her text -- good news for a culture uncertainly divided between panic and complacency.”
Christian Living
“As theologian and pastor, Ray Anderson courageously probes the Judas experience in order to help us get in touch with the depths of despair and hopelessness within ourselves. He finds there, where we often least expect it but should dare to embrace it, the forgiveness of Jesus, the grace of the risen Christ.”
Work, Money & Leadership
“Rod Wilson and Peter Harris are two well-trained and practiced companions on the journey of enabling the Christian community to carry on its ministry faithfully. Their Keeping Faith in Fundraising is both accurate in its emphasis and motivational in its focus. It draws our attention to the centrality of our common mission as brothers and sisters to both give and receive money in a way that reflects Jesus.”
Learning to Pray Through the Psalms
Bible Studies & Devotionals
“The country of the Psalms—its soaring mountains, cascading streams, wildflower meadows of prayers—compels exploration. Jim Sire's wide-ranging intelligence, fused with his attentive spirit, makes him a welcome guide through this country, opening our eyes and ears—our hearts!—to these prayers that teach us to pray.”
Listening to the Spirit in the Text
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“These essays show Gordon Fee at his characteristic work, fusing exegetical accuracy and evangelical passion. Words are never mere words for this master exegete. I think of him as our 'resurrection scholar,' calling the words out of the text and setting them before us pulsing with life.”
Bible Studies & Devotionals
“is the right verb: The words are taken in, digested, and put to use. But there is another kind of writing that is itself a way of knowing, the words taking us beyond what we already know, probing mystery, carrying us into the interior of truth where intimacies are developed and covenants formed. This is the way the Word of God works as it is written in our Scriptures—not telling us about reality, but leading us into it, creating it in us. When we are using words this way, we have the sense that we are not so much using words as submitting to them. Writing in this way is a kind of praying: “Let it be to me according to your word” (Luke 1:38). This is the kind of writing I have always wanted to do; to use words not merely to add to the already considerable accumulation of information in the world, but to its life. If only a few of the words I have written do that, I am content.”
Fiction
“This book is a tour de force—an angle on understanding the life of both congregation and pastor that exceeds anything I have ever read. No directions, no programs, just an immersion into what really takes place in the life of a congregation and a pastor. Winn Collier’s writing is alive.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“This is the kind of commentary that I most want — a theological wrestling with Scripture. Frederick Dale Bruner grapples with the text not only as a technical exegete (although he also does that very well) but as a church theologian, caring passionately about what these words tell us about God and ourselves. Here he places his considerable teaching gifts at the service of the Christian community, caring as much about us as he cares about the text. His Matthew commentary is in the grand traditions of Augustine, Calvin, and Luther — expansive and leisurely, loving the text, the people in it, and the Christians who read it.”
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