Garwood P. Anderson

An Invitation to Joy

Christian Living

“While there are books we enjoy and books we learn from, Dan Denk’s An Invitation to Joy is both and more. It is a book I needed. And I suspect (and hope) that I won’t be alone in this. A generation surfeited with would-be pleasures and awash in pain-avoiding diversions, we are nonetheless bereft of joy. But Denk shows us that joy is worthy of serious and sustained contemplation—more than that, a gift our rejoicing God wills to give us.”

It Takes a Church to Baptize

Christian Living

“Somebody has needed to write this book for some time, but maybe we were waiting for Scot McKnight. It Takes a Church to Baptize is just the right prescription for many Christians drawn to more deeply rooted expressions of the Christian faith but facing an obstacle of conscience: ‘Yes, eventually the church came to baptize infants, but can such a practice possibly be biblical? What, if anything, does that action actually accomplish—or does it merely signify?’ Having been on this journey himself, McKnight offers a more-than-biblical account of these and other questions, not merely with a scorecard of exegetical skirmishes but with a holistic biblical theology rendering the people of God and rehearsing the actions of a saving God. This finally will be the book I recommend to Christians asking these questions.”

Kingdom Come

Christian Living

“Though it is a central assertion of the New Testament and the storm center of much serious historical and theological scholarship, the claim that with Jesus the kingdom of God has been inaugurated has still too little captured the popular imagination of Christians. Instead, far too often 'kingdom of God' language serves as a kind of code for various agendas only partially overlapping with the grand vision standing at the center of the New Testament witness. Allen Wakabayashi, himself well apprised of the scholarly discussion, has performed a tremendous service by exploring the revolutionary implications of this crucial theme for the way we carry on our lives and our mission as followers of Jesus. This is an engaging, hopeful and refreshingly honest guide to life in the already-and-not-yet reign of God.”

Lent

Bible Studies & Devotionals

“Christians who might have thought Lenten observance was for somebody else will want to let Esau McCaulley guide them into the promise of this church season. Saturated with biblical wisdom, McCaulley's practical guide is the perfect introduction to newcomers to this practice of self-examination and renewal. Moving beyond the superficiality of 'giving something up,' McCaulley takes us into the life-giving purposes for which our forebears offered this gift.”

The Pastoral Epistles and the New Perspective on Paul

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“While a few scholars have noted the silence of the Pastoral Epistles in the dialogue around the New Perspective on Paul and a few have ventured tentatively to fill the gap, no scholar has taken up the questions with the care and thoroughness of Daniel Roberts. The Pastoral Epistles and the New Perspective on Paul demonstrates that an account of Pauline theology that does not encounter the whole of the canonical Pauline corpus will always come up short, and this contribution to the debates around Pauline soteriology must not be overlooked.”