Frederick Dale Bruner

Beatitudes, Not Platitudes

Christian Living

“I was most impressed with Paul Louis Metzger’s not only evangelical but also social-justice reading and interpretation of Jesus’ powerful Beatitudes. May his tribe increase!”

Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places

Prayer & Spiritual Formation

“What would a spiritual theology look like that came from the hands of a person who, after a long and faithful pastorate crowned by a remarkably fruitful professorate, had been immersed in translating the whole of Holy Scripture? It would look like Eugene Peterson's Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places. Completely free of gimmicks and cheap techniques, this book settles in convincingly at the center — in the God-honoring Sabbath of creation, the Christ-centered supper of salvation, and the Spirit-honoring meals of community building and evangelism. I believe this is the deepest meditation on spiritual theology in our time.”

Help Is Here

Christian Living

“Max Lucado’s honoring of Jesus’ Free Gift of the Holy Spirit to every Christian believer, apart from any deserving preconditions or ‘surrenderings’ whatsoever in order to ‘deserve’ this Spirit, is full of encouragements to be simply and daily alive to this Indwelling One! I warmly recommend Lucado’s wise counsel.”

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Movements of Grace

Theology

“It is refreshing to find a Christian who works passionately with adolescent youth (in 'Reality Ministries,' which he founded and leads) and who, at the same time, engages passionately with deep, serious theology (Barth, Bonhoeffer, the Torrances, and others). While I have some questions about Jeff McSwain's super-gracious convictions, I have no questions about his profound immersion in the main Christian questions.”

O Woman, Great is Your Faith!

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Douglas O’Donnell takes his readers down into the depths of the meanings of ‘faith’ in the Gospel of Matthew in ways that no other author I know has ever done. Using the Canaanite woman’s faith as his major model through all of Matthew’s multiple faith passages, one comes away from his Aberdeen doctoral dissertation longing to re-incarnate that dear woman’s spirit.”

Paradox Lost

Theology

“Meet a very serious pastor, a world missionary, and a deeply searching scholar. You will never be ashamed of paradox again. And Jesus Christ himself, the Paradox par excellence, will be more revered than ever.”

Sing Us a Song of Joy

“Distinguished Emeritus President Phil Eaton has written a book that goes to the very heart of the current question: how can modern Christians share the good news of Jesus Christ with an increasingly unbelieving world in a way that is both contemporarily responsible and faithfully undefensive? I am sharing Phil’s response, enthusiastically, with my family, friends, colleagues, and the ‘unbelieving world!’ I am deeply impressed.”

Singing and the Imagination of Devotion

Preaching & Worship

“This book makes me want to take singing lessons--really. Many contemporary churches are wracked by "worship wars" (controversies concerning the complex relation between music and devotion). Here in Susan Brown's book is a history of the early modern relation between these two deep realities that can help us find a way of the discordant sounds of war and into the healing and beautiful sounds of music.”

The God Who Comforts

Bible Studies & Devotionals

“Imagine hearing and learning Jesus' final sermon (in the upper room, John 14-16) through the teaching of a warmhearted, Christ-loving pastor and careful biblical scholar-teacher speaking to us in a this-worldly, earthy way. I came away from this experience saying, 'Lord, I want to be a Christian--in my heart.'”

Theology as a Way of Life

Theology

“The person you meet in this book is a deeply serious, self-critical Christian gentleman, who is passionately discipled to the person and work of Jesus Christ and who yearns for the discipline of theology to be taught compassionately, intelligently, and engagingly. If Neder were to write a comprehensive account of Christian theology, I would be as eager to read it as I once was to read Karl Barth’s Church Dogmatics.”