William H. Willimon
Theology
“Two experienced, inspired pastoral theologians have given us a thorough, judicious book that is sure to become the standard text on pastoral ethics. Trull and Creech not only show a deep understanding of the particular challenges faced by those called to be clergy but also offer sound, practical guidance that helps pastors make better decisions as we engage in ministry. Here's a book that enables contemporary clergy to hold to the highest standards of our high and noble calling. What a wonderful contribution to the field of pastoral theology and ethics.”
Evangelical, Catholic, and Reformed
Theology
“George Hunsinger is our finest contemporary interpreter of our greatest contemporary theologian, Karl Barth.”
Theology
“As one of our most well-informed and helpful theologians of evangelism, Stone has given us a wonderfully invigorating theological rationale for Christian evangelism in a pluralistic age. Here is an unapologetic (in the deepest, Barthian sense) call to evangelism in a world where many of us are intimidated by contemporary worldviews. Stone's discussion of evangelism and beauty is groundbreaking. This book enables the church to talk about the good news of Jesus in a manner that distorts neither Jesus nor the gospel.”
Faces By the Wayside—Persons Who Encountered Jesus on the Road
Bible Studies & Devotionals
“Barrie Shepherd is our most poetic of preachers. It is a joy to walk alongside Barrie and Jesus for these roadside encounters. A fresh, beautiful presentation of the gospels awaits us here.”
Church Leadership & Ministry
“I’ve enjoyed being called to pastoral leadership and have felt privileged to help a new generation of pastors into the vocation. But let’s face it: church can be demanding, difficult, and even toxic for those who try to lead. The research reported and skillfully interpreted in Faithful and Fractured can be of great help to those of us who oversee pastors and to pastors themselves. It offers tested, proven guidance for us to remain faithful even when we are fractured by the vocation to which God has called us.”
Christian Living
“Dana Robert has been that rare combination of renowned scholar and committed church mission leader. In this book, Dr. Robert does a marvelous job of reclaiming the practice of friendship as essential to Christian ethics and church life. I’ve just returned from a bruising at the United Methodist General Conference, full of talk of division and schism. I’m thinking, ‘Dana Robert’s guidance and wisdom, just when we need it. What a gift.’”
Preaching & Worship
“Through the lens of 'register' Jennifer Copeland offers us preachers a fresh look at the way we witness to the gospel in our congregations. Using sophisticated gender studies and linguistic insights in practical, revealing ways, she helps us preachers to reframe our preaching task. Particularly noteworthy in this book is the strong encouragement Copeland gives for the distinctiveness of women's voices in preaching.”
Christian Living
“In his own ministry, Bruce McNab has a passion for inviting and reaching young adults in the name of Christ. In Finding the Way, Bruce helps the church find its way back to a generation we have all too often ignored. More importantly, he offers a direct, straightforward, helpful way for all of us to find . . . a vibrant relationship with Christ and Christ's people, the church. Whether used for individual spiritual growth, or for a group seeking the Way together, this book is a wonderful, wise gift to all of us.”
Forgiving As We've Been Forgiven
Christian Living
“Forgiving As We've Been Forgiven is a beautiful testimony to the peculiar power of forgiveness in the name of Christ. Grounding their meditation on forgiveness deep in the experience of God's forgiveness of us in Christ, Jones and Musekura show the powerful, revolutionary, world-changing implications of a people who are enabled to forgive as we have been forgiven. Here is the Christian faith exemplified, practiced, engaged and proven by two vibrant, faithful theologians. The concluding study guide makes this book perfect for study, reflecting, and enactment in churches and small groups of those who have the courage to explore the implications of our forgiveness in Christ.”
Funny Things Can Happen on Your Way through the Bible, Volume 1
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
Foreword
“[I]n these meditations upon scripture, Charlie [Barrett] quickly, lightly opens up the sacred text to us in a way that--to my knowledge--has never been attempted in the entire history of the Christian faith. (Erasmus came closest, taking several stabs at it, but without the extensive and intense attention to scripture found here.) Through irony, pun, parody, spoof and joke Charlie reads some of the most serious scripture with tongue in cheek, a rhyme in his pen, and a smile on his face. If you ever wondered what the Bible would sound like if it were written by Ogden Nash (and who hasn't?) here it is, Charlie Barrett's religious rhymes.”
Theology
“Kierkegaard said that paradox is at the heart of the Christian faith. George Thompson has a keen sense of the joyful and sometimes bewildering paradoxes within Christianity. George pours a lifetime of skilled pastoral leadership into this book that is filled with insight, grace, humor, and faith. What a delight to explore the riches of our faith with George Thompson as our guide!”
Christian Living
“Three Lutheran pastors—the Jacobson brothers, Rolf and Karl, and Michael Pancoast—have given us a most heartfelt, honest, personal, practical, faithful, and funny book on how even human suffering can be a God-given opportunity to fall more deeply in love with God. In eloquent, truthful, disarmingly candid testimony, these three well-formed believers show the rest of us how to suffer like Christians. If there is a more engaging application and demonstration of Luther’s theology of the cross, I don’t know it. If and when it’s my lot to have cancer, and when someone in my church is suffering (and there are already many), God Meets Us in Our Suffering will be my friend and guide. Although I’m a Methodist, this book has made me want to suffer like a Lutheran. Thanks for this gift of a book, and thanks be to a crucified God who meets us in our time of suffering, especially there.”
Church Leadership & Ministry
“Jack Carroll has been listening to us pastors through his massive Pulpit & Pew survey. This illuminating book details what we have learned about ourselves and what this master church observer thinks about us as leaders in congregational formation.”
Church Leadership & Ministry
“While written for a broad readership, this engaging book gives preachers solid guidance on how to mount arguments in our sermons that are interesting, fair, and convincing. Though the art of oral argument has a noble history in Christian preaching, we haven't heard much on that subject lately. Holland and Forrest correct that, and those of us who preach will benefit from their efforts.”
Greed and the Dark Powers in Luke-Acts
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“Michael Blythe adeptly demonstrates how Luke portrays the early church as a political and economic assault upon the Greco-Roman world. His book provides a deep, revealing scriptural read that prods us preachers to confront the powers and principalities underlying what many Americans regard as normal economic functioning.”
Health, Money, and Love . . . And Why We Don't Enjoy Them
Christian Living
“Here he goes again! Applying his sharp justification-by-faith scalpel to overblown ‘religion.' Robert Capon cuts to the heart of the gospel. Here is theology as fun — outrageous, irreverent, fun in the service of gospel truth.”
Bible Studies & Devotionals
“Since God Almighty disrupted us by showing up as Jesus Christ, God with us, savior of the world, we’ve never been able to resume stability. Since we met Jesus, Prince of peace, we haven’t had a moment’s peace. Michael Bowe does a wonderful job of reflecting on how divine disruption, otherwise known as Jesus Christ, is nothing less than our salvation. Your days of Advent are sure to be divinely disrupted by Michael’s insightful, faithful, devotional insights.”
Theology
“We keep needing to be reminded that, instead of the God we feared we had, Jesus Christ offers us the God we didn’t know, a God who seems determined not to rule in eternity without us. Pastor Kubilus does a wonderful job of helping us discover once again the God who, though we may deserve hellish punishment, loves us in Jesus Christ so that we might let ourselves be loved eternally. A wise, funny, pastoral, vibrantly good news book. Hell? No!”
Preaching & Worship
“Strawn is one of our most fruitful, astute, honest interpreters of Scripture. Strawn and his Old Testament friends shake our preconceptions, rattle our cages, and boldly speak to subjects that often dumbfound the contemporary church.”
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