Scot McKnight
Work, Money & Leadership
“A revolutionary and life-shaping book on kingdom leadership, one rooted not in outcome-based theories about leadership but in theology — a kingdom-saturated and gospel-based theology where the leader is first a follower whose character is transformed by God’s grace. The revolution of this book is that God’s transformation of us makes us God’s kingdom leaders, and this is just the kind of leadership we need today. Five stars!”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“The more Jesus we present the more gospel we present. Rediscovering Jesus is on that list of what I can enthusiastically recommend that is pure gospel! In this book you will encounter one description after another that is shaped by and focused on Jesus himself. What a gift this book is to the church and school!”
Remembrance, Communion, and Hope
Preaching & Worship
“A rich, thick, pastoral and theologically sensitive approach. . . . The Lord’s Supper needs to be baptized into the Bible’s most significant texts as well as into the riches of the deep traditions of the church. Todd Billings does just that! In Remembrance, Communion, and Hope we watch a sensitive Christian dip us into the death of Christ and then raise us up with Christ to discover a hope that swallows up death in victory.”
Theology
“Richard Beck's Reviving Old Scratch will first put your theory of Satan and demons and the powers to death, then it will make you wonder if there isn't more than social justice and activism and believing in real, personal demons and angels, and then it will put a real Old Scratch with a mask onto what you thought was dead, and then you will be armed for the deeper battles of life and justice and love. Beck's prison ministry with people who suffer at the hands of Old Scratch evokes authentic spirituality in a way no other book about the powers has done. #thinkagain”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“The moral problems of the Old Testament, including what justice means, how peace can be gained, and how love is to be known, can be examined from a number of angles. . . . The only acceptable approaches are those that struggle with the text as Scripture, as God's Word, and seek to find in that text what God might be saying to us today. Sacred Word, Broken Word is among the angels in pursuing this type of approach. Not all will agree, but I pray that this book will ignite a conversation about how to read the Bible better.”
Saint Paul as Spiritual Director
Prayer & Spiritual Formation
“In this wise, discerning, and pastorally suggestive book, Vic Copan unravels before our eyes how the theme of imitating Paul can reshape our spiritual direction to become more Christian in theory and practice. Believe me, there is no book like this on the market. Here is a true pastoral theology of Paul.”
Salt, Light, and a City, Second Edition
Theology
“If you want to know the theological conversation, and if you are tired (as I am) of everybody and her brother shooting up missional rockets that are supposed to solve all our problems (and don't), then Salt, Light, and a City will slow it all down to a genuine conversation with biblical foundations interacting with the major theologians and issues. This is the most important book I have ever read on the church and its mission. Graham Hill has a profound grasp of important theologians and he shows how each theologian contributes to a robust missional ecclesiology.”
Salt, Light, and a City, Second Edition
Theology
“Graham Joseph Hill is for me one of the leading voices of global Christianity and his approach is to bring diverse voices to the table for a conversation. Many talk diversity but their diversity becomes colonializing of the diverse voices into a single noise, but Hill has a capacity to bring these alternative voices to the table and let them speak their theology in their language. Having listened and listened, Hill then offers salient insights into the kind of unity and ‘conformity’ that God is accomplishing in our world.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“The only thing of interest to me as a theologian of the church when it comes to politics is something that dissects and decimates the current Christian alliances with American political parties. Someone once said the mainline church lost its grip among American mainline Christians because it was no longer distinguishable from The New York Times, and someone now needs to warn conservative evangelicals that it is losing its grip on its people because it is no longer distinguishable from Fox News. If you would like an alternative, read this tart, sassy and, yes, strategic book that presses us to see the church as a politic. Agree or not, he’s an equal opportunity critic.”
Women
“This book is fun, and sometimes downright funny. It's also serious--sometimes deadly serious. . . . Jackie's story maps the future for many women who have a voice that needs to be heard.”
Prayer & Spiritual Formation
“In Simple Prayer, we encounter a young man groaning for a deeper connection to God—a connection not to be gained by jettisoning his heritage among the charismatics, but one that will deepen what he already knows. Charlie Dawes discovered a simple prayer in the deepest pockets of the Christian tradition, and this led him to look for other simple prayers throughout the Scriptures. To read this book is to be challenged to go deeper with God through the simplest of prayers.”
Theology
“Research into Paul’s theology has recently unmasked the complexity as well as the profundity of the meaning of sin—sin as transgression against God’s will, sin against one another, and sin as a cosmic power as an agent intent on leading humans to death. But, the apostolic vision is that sin has been defeated and can be defeated and is being defeated—in Christ’s death that killed death and brought new life, in the Spirit of life that brings new life to God’s people. This book, Sin and Its Remedy in Paul, is a constant reminder of the good power of God to overcome what most ails us.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“A bold and adventurous book by a non-specialist Bible reader of uncommon determination . . . It is a wonder that someone has not suggested this theory before because, as anyone who reads Acts 10 knows, Peter was there and opened the doors for the Gentiles. I commend serious engagement with Kermit Zarley's proposal.”
Preaching & Worship
“Austin Carty is a new prophet for preachers. Not much of what a prophet says is new. Prophets build on other prophets, but as Willa Cather has said, the artist ‘must learn to distinguish what is his own from that which he admires.’ Behind Austin Carty I hear some Thomas Long and some Fred Craddock, but even more I hear the distinctive voice of a narrative preacher. The genius of Some of the Words Are Theirs will sneak up on the reader and the wannabe narrative preacher as they gradually recognize how the book performs what it teaches. Carty proposes constructing sermons with four panels. His four panels (opening images, exegesis, story, and theology) intermingle throughout the book as we are learning about the basics of preaching. Destined to be a textbook for homiletics.”
Bible Studies & Devotionals
“Please hear me out: Plan a retreat today, plan on taking this book, and plan on experiencing God's gracious care anew. Take your time, avoid the rush, just sit and read and listen and commune with God. You will find that opening yourself to God heals the soul. You will find the friendship of God.”
Theology
“There is a long history of Christians wondering if miracles are to continue. These wonderings are complicated by the reality that even most of those who do embrace the continuation of such Spirit-empowered actions do not themselves participate in such miracles and have not witnessed them. Stories of others bolster their sagging belief. In this book we have a full disclosure of the reality that God has continued to work marvelous deeds. Accompanying that history is a dismantling of the arguments for cessationism. This book will be a gold mine for class discussions and pastoral care.”
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Biblical Studies & Commentaries
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