Filmspotting co-host Josh Larsen brings a critic's unique perspective to how movies function as expressions to God of lament, praise, joy, confession, and more. His clear expertise and passion for the art of film, along with his thoughtful reflections on the nature of prayer, will bring you a better understanding of both. When words fail, the perfect film might be just what you need to jump-start your conversations with God.
In this timely book, Timothy Muehlhoff and Rick Langer ask: How might we be persuasive and civil at the same time? How should we respond to those who ridicule and caricature us? How can we challenge the beliefs of other communities with love and respect? They present a vision for public engagement that is both shrewd and gracious.
Ken Wytsma, founder of The Justice Conference, unpacks what we need to know to be grounded in conversations about race, privilege, and justice. He helps us understand the origins of these issues and the reconciling role we are called to play as witnesses of the gospel.
Modernity is not one thing but many, encompassing multiple worldviews that contain both the source of our problems and the potential resources for transcending our present situation. Through an archaeological investigation and critique of four modern worldviews, Bob Goudzwaard and Craig Bartholomew demonstrate the need for new ways of thinking and living that overcome the relentless drive of progress.
Evangelicals are known for their emphasis on conversion. But what about life after conversion and beyond justification? In Called to Be Saints, Gordon Smith draws on a distinguished lifetime of reflecting on these themes to offer us a theologically rich account of our participation in the life of Christ.
Home is our most fundamental human longing. Jen Pollock Michel connects that desire with the story of the Bible, revealing a homemaking God with wide arms of welcome—and a church commissioned with this same work. This book offers hope to the wanderer, help to the stranded, and a new vision of what it means to live today longing for our eternal home.
The new creation is unfurling around us. God is directing history toward restoration, repair, and renewal. With ground-breaking ideas and practical illustrations from around the world, missional church leaders Michael Frost and Christiana Rice introduce the metaphor of midwives or birthing attendants--showing how we can be partners in God's world-altering mission.
Has the contemporary missionary/missional enterprise distorted our view of Scripture and church history? Is it time to abandon the word "mission"? Michael Stroope, missionary, scholar and teacher, investigates how the modern church has come to understand, speak of, and engage in the global expansion of Christianity. And he proposes a way forward.
Laurie Short, a pastor who has been a speaker with Youth Specialties and Compassion International, offers a simple, revolutionary idea: your perspective has the power to transform your life. She shows how you can reframe whatever comes your way to embrace both the good and the bad and to recognize that every detail of your life is fully in God's sovereign hands.
John Anthony McGuckin, one of the world's leading scholars of ancient Christianity, takes you on a fascinating journey from the second to the eleventh centuries, surveying Eastern and Western developments simultaneously and covering grand intellectual movements and local affairs in both epic scope and fine detail.