Wesley Hill
Biography
Wesley Hill wrote Spiritual Friendship.
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Preaching & Worship
“Many of us in the American church are addicted to preaching that makes us, the hearers, into the heroes. We listen to sermons to receive advice—about how we can do better or we can try harder or we can be stronger in this or that aspect of Christian life. For all of us suffering this theological addiction, Rutledge’s Advent: The Once and Future Coming of Jesus Christ is the rehab program we need. God is the saving agent here, and God’s coming in Jesus Christ to dismiss our efforts at self-justification is the recurring theme. Reading this book liberates us to enjoy a new theological sobriety.”
Christian Living
“come naturally to us, whether or not we’re Christian. But hope—our quiet confidence in the return of Jesus Christ and the fulfillment of God’s promises through him—doesn’t come naturally, which is why we need this book. In these pages, a humble and seasoned Christian pastor schools us in what Christian hope really is and how, as we fix our gaze on Christ, we may come to embody it.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“Although much of the ground covered here will be familiar to biblical scholars, classicists, and ethicists, what makes this book especially powerful is its relentless insistence on the sheer strangeness of the past. How can ancient scriptures guide contemporary faith and ethical life? If readers have never grappled seriously with the complexity of that question, this book will make it impossible to downplay it any longer.”
Christian Living
“A famous Christian once described preaching as 'truth through personality.' By that definition, Kelly Kapic's new book is powerful preaching indeed. Kapic presents a range of biblical expositions, all filtered through his deeply personal wrestling with the ongoing chronic pain of his wife and some of his other friends. Here is sermonic theology to comfort, console, and fortify your faith.”
Preaching & Worship
“Despite all the confident, boisterous pronouncements that old forms of worship are dying or dead, liturgical worship—anchored by ancient prayers, enlivened by historic hymns, and centered on the Eucharist—quietly refuses to disappear. In this personal, journalistic look at some of the young adults finding their way back to it, Winfield Bevins helps explain liturgy’s beguiling persistence. This book chronicles a remarkably hopeful trend in today’s churches.”
Christian Living
“If your church observes the Lord's Supper infrequently, you may wonder what all the fuss is about. Can eating bread and drinking wine in a worship service really make a difference in one's life with God? In this beautifully written book, Hannah Miller King demonstrates the power of Holy Communion by generously, humbly describing the difference it has made in hers. Profound, mature, instructive, and deeply consoling, this book is a gift for the people of God.”
Prayer & Spiritual Formation
“Christianity proposes not so much a set of beliefs as a way of life, a bid for the total transformation and fulfillment of human existence. Jared Boyd, a wise and experienced pastor, unpacks this proposal with insight, fervor, and a gracious sensitivity to contemporary questions and concerns. This book will be for many a welcome challenge and summons to a holistic encounter with God in Christ.”
Five Things Theologians Wish Biblical Scholars Knew
Theology
“I was trained in a method of biblical scholarship that insisted that as long as one employed the methodologies of historical-critical scrutiny of the Bible, one could arrive at the determinate meaning of the biblical text. But what if the overriding property of the Bible is that the risen Christ elects to speak through these texts? Hans Boersma here explores how that fundamental theological conviction makes all the difference. His case is largely convincing to this biblical scholar, and I hope it will be widely considered among my colleagues in the biblical studies guild.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Jake Meador is one of the most insightful evangelical writers of his generation. Without downplaying the severity of the crises that are currently crippling both our churches and our country, he nevertheless sketches what a quietly hopeful Christian witness in our troubled times might look like. By turns diagnostic, instructive, expository, and artful and with a disarming lack of cynicism throughout, this moving book channels Wendell Berry in arguing for the renewable dignity of disappearing virtues.”
Marriage, Family & Relationships
“At one level, this book may strike you as old hat. Yet another book on relationships and faith by an evangelical Christian author? But look closer. Here is a sensitive study of intimacy written by a seasoned pastor, informed by extensive fieldwork, leavened with wit and humor, and—above all—strikingly in tune with the overarching story as well as the micro details of the Bible's grand story of redemption in Christ. If you or someone you know longs for deeper friendships, and especially if you work with emerging adults, this book will enlighten, instruct, inspire, and equip you for the lifelong work of nurturing mutual love.”
Christian Living
“Tish Harrison Warren shows us what it looks like to be shaped and formed, in a book as down-to-earth and inviting as it is wise. I don't know of any book that's more winsome in commending a life lived in sync with the church calendar.”
Bible Studies & Devotionals
“For those who already cherish the words of George Herbert, this collection of meditations on his poems will be a welcome, cheering companion. And for those yet to discover this master of devotional frankness and spiritual adulthood, Suzanne McDonald’s book is the perfect introduction. It will have a cherished place on my shelf, next to Herbert’s poems themselves and the Bible and Prayer Book he knew and loved so well.”
Counseling, Grief & Mental Health
“As a Christian who has suffered acute psychological pain and has often struggled to find Christian writers who understand and can help, I am truly grateful for this book. It is frank but doesn't overshare; it gives pointed advice but doesn't hector. Most of all, it points to the One who has gone into the deepest furnace of human anguish and has come out the other side, bearing us all in his wake.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“While American culture at large continues to reckon with our nation’s past and present anti-Black racism, churches are (slowly) doing the same. This book is your ticket to a front-row seat for watching that reckoning unfold within the Presbyterian Church in America. . . . Partly an engaging oral history, partly an acute theological analysis, partly an insightful field guide for the ongoing work of justice seeking and reconciliation, this book is a gift and a galvanizing call to action.”
Bible Studies & Devotionals
“In times of stress, Christians are often driven to seek a deeper prayer life. This book is both the fruit of such a search as well as a guide to one. It is unhurriedly calming and quietly fortifying. In the shadow of illness, social unrest, and an uncertain global future, I plan to keep it on my nightstand and return to it often for nourishment and comfort.”
Prayer & Spiritual Formation
“In the tradition of Anglican poet-theologian memoirists like Elisabeth Elliot and Barbara Brown Taylor, Tish Harrison Warren offers a personal exploration of the evergreen problem of theodicy. And like the prayer from the Book of Common Prayer that it unfolds, this lovely book holds out the light of Christ to us at a time when the shadows in our world seem only to grow longer.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“It is enlightening, moving, and galvanizing to overhear these notes of appreciation and reciprocated encouragement from a son of the Black church to the Black ecclesial interpreters who nurtured and continue to nourish him. From here on out, this book will be required reading in any course on biblical hermeneutics that I teach.”
Christian Living
“Imagine G. K. Chesterton in the age of the Internet. Or, better, imagine Chesterton's knack for crafting witty aphorisms, Kierkegaard's contempt for pious bromides, Barth's relentless Christocentrism, and Rowan Williams' apophatic instincts, all united in one writer, in the age of the Internet. That will give you a sense of what awaits you in the pages of this book, the collected fruit of Benjamin Myers' maddening, stimulating, comforting blog.”
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Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
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