Thomas G. Long

Feasting on the Gospels–Luke, Volume 1

Preaching & Worship

“Continuing in the great tradition of Feasting on the Word, the Feasting on the Gospels series is a welcome resource for preachers. Four scholars, each writing from a different perspective, address every passage in the Gospels, offering stimulation to the preacher’s imagination and lighting up the possibilities for engaging biblical sermons.”

Feasting on the Gospels–Mark

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“”Continuing in the great tradition of Feasting on the Word, the Feasting on the Gospels series is a welcome resource for preachers. Four scholars, each writing from a different perspective, address every passage in the Gospels, offering stimulation to the preacher’s imagination and lighting up the possibilities for engaging biblical sermons.””

Feasting on the Gospels–Matthew, Volume 1

Preaching & Worship

“Continuing in the great tradition of Feasting on the Word, the Feasting on the Gospels series is a welcome resource for preachers. Four scholars, each writing from a different perspective, address every passage in the Gospels, offering stimulation to the preacher’s imagination and lighting up the possibilities for engaging biblical sermons.”

Feasting on the Gospels–Matthew, Volume 2

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Continuing in the great tradition of Feasting on the Word, the Feasting on the Gospels series is a welcome resource for preachers. Four scholars, each writing from a different perspective, address every passage in the Gospels, offering stimulation to the preacher’s imagination and lighting up the possibilities for engaging biblical sermons.”

Feasting on the Word Guide to Children’s Sermons

Preaching & Worship

“This, thankfully, is not the usual book on children’s sermons. If you are looking for the customary collection of gimmicks, object lessons, and little moralisms that characterize this genre, this is not the book for you. Instead, the Bartletts present a vision of preaching to children that leads to faithful and contextually pertinent sermons—attentive to biblical texts, alert to what it means for children actually to worship, and expressive of the gospel. They challenge us to create sermons for children that are as carefully crafted and theologically profound as all sermons are supposed to be. In short, they call us to care about the children to whom we preach and the gospel we are commissioned to preach. If this book keeps even one preacher somewhere from grabbing a paper bag and a doll on the way out of her study or fastening on a fake beard and telling the children that he is James the son of Zebedee, the Bartletts will have accomplished their purpose.”

Following in the Way of Jesus

Christian Living

“In these fifty-two wise and beautifully written essays, Donald McKim describes the path for following Jesus and sets out torches to illuminate the way. McKim brings a wealth of theological learning, deep personal experience, and a feast of pastoral insight to this task. To read this book is to be summoned to a more profound life of faith.”

From Generation to Generation

Discipleship & Christian Education

“No one has more wisdom about congregational education than Charles Foster, and in this challenging book he turns to one of the most urgent questions of all: how can we enable our children to be formed in the Christian faith? He is aware of the obstacles--the shifting religious and cultural landscape, troubled denominational structures, theological amnesia, the decline in intergenerational mentoring--but fortunately, he is also able to describe a wise and hopeful path ahead toward equipping children with vital, imaginative, and courageous faith.”

Genealogy Theology

Christian Living

“The genealogies, like the purity regulations of Leviticus, are parts of the Bible readers are free to skip, right? No longer. In this highly original and profound book, Frank Honeycutt reveals how the biblical genealogies are must-read material, how they are bursting with human experience and holy wisdom, how they resound like tuning forks through the stories of our lives. Those who read this fine book will never skip over a genealogy again!”

Getting to God

Preaching & Worship

“Getting to God reminds us that sermons fail if they do not first ‘get to God,’ that is, point boldly to God’s action in life. Since God’s action is never abstract, the authors also sharpen our attention to the very particular contexts of preaching. Thus, by guiding those of us who preach to ‘get to God,’ they free us to preach in ways that show how ‘God gets to us.’ A stimulating and much-needed volume!”

Grace Sticks

Christian Living

“For most of us, the slogans of bumper stickers float banally on the surface of culture. But Kristina Robb-Dover has a sharper eye and a keener sense of discernment. She sees beneath the veneer of these popular epigrams a yearning for wisdom and a hungering after grace. Her book is a delight to read.”

Hearing John’s Voice

Church Leadership & Ministry

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Help My Unbelief, 20th Anniversary Edition

Apologetics

“It is extremely rare to find in any one preacher such deep faith, fearlessness before the powers that be, and deep humility combined with such crackling intelligence and stunning powers of expression. Fleming Rutledge is a gift to the Christian pulpit, and these sermons are life preservers thrown to a culture drowning in uncertainty.”

Holy Disruption

Bible Studies & Devotionals

“Daub has uncovered in Mark’s Gospel powerful resources for the waiting, the wonder, and the expectation of Advent. She calls us to a renewed faith, not one pasted up with sentimentality but one girded by a vision of Jesus doing the serious and disruptive work of redemption in our world of challenges and crises. She provokes us to reconsider the promise of Advent, encouraging us to lean forward into that hope and to live, as the old night prayer puts it, ‘that awake we may watch with Christ, and asleep we may rest in peace.’ Savor these beautiful and challenging meditations.”

How Odd of God

Preaching & Worship

“If Will Willimon had merely rendered the vexed and neglected Christian doctrine of election clear and accessible, that would have been contribution enough. But in this thoughtful and sustained conversation with theologian Karl Barth, Willimon has accomplished far more. He has made the doctrine of election fascinating, even urgent. Election, as he presents it, is a refreshing and revolutionary word, first to timid preachers that we are not charged with coming up with words about God, but instead ‘God has come up with words for us,’ and then to an over-confident and self-actualized culture that we are not as in control as we imagine, that, indeed, we can have hope only ‘because our lives are not our own.'”

Humor Us!

Preaching & Worship

“Sermons would be a lot more listenable, delightful, and effective if preachers followed the advice of this witty, theoretically solid, and eminently practical book. Alyce McKenzie and Owen Lynch give readers many fine gifts in these pages, but none is more profound or welcome than their invitation to a more joyful expression of the faith.”

In Season

Preaching & Worship

“In this nourishing and stimulating collection of homilies, Johnson, one of our generation’s finest interpreters of Scripture, brings texts from across the Christian year to fruition in proclamation. In a cultural moment of forced fasting, when meaning is starved, language demeaned, and truth devalued, the candor, beauty, honesty, and faithfulness of these sermons make for a feast indeed.”

Jesus and the Family

Marriage, Family & Relationships

“Honeycutt sees Jesus slowly turning his gaze toward American family life, and sure enough, bombs explode in every chapter. Honeycutt employs his wit, insight, and engaging writing style to disclose how the gospel of Jesus exposes the superficialities of our conventional family dynamics and continually calls us to a deeper faith and a richer life together.”

Kindling Desire for God

Preaching & Worship

“Kindling Desire for God is as unexpected and as refreshing as a sudden prairie rainstorm. It disrupts the dry and commonplace assumptions too many of us hold about sermons and brings a welcome renewal of the preaching landscape. Kay Northcutt invigorates the pulpit ministry by bringing us back to the central purposes of preaching: faithful guidance and orientation to God.”

Lay Me in God's Good Earth

“In this well-researched and compellingly written book, Kent Burreson and Beth Hoeltke thoughtfully address important, and sometimes difficult, end-of-life questions. They guide the reader well through the many options for caring faithfully for the bodies of the dead, and they make a compelling case for natural burial. A very provocative book!”

Learning to Dream Again

Christian Living

“This very wise and moving book about renewal, identity, and the hopeful shape of the Christian life is a rare accomplishment. Wells helps us to think deeply about the ordinary round of life — relationships, marriage, work, leisure, politics, death — while at the same time encouraging us to lift our sights and to dream again, even the dream of God.”