InterVarsity Press Books

What is God trying to do through your skin and bones? Spiritual director Tara Owens invites you to listen to your thoughts about your body in a way that draws you closer to God, calling you to explore how your spirituality is intimately tied to your physicality. Your body is not an inconvenience—it is a place where you can meet the holy in a new way.

Joshua Choonmin Kang presents brief and thought-provoking readings on the devotional life. This is classic wisdom literature for a contemporary context.

In this latest volume in the highly regarded Reformation Commentary on Scripture series, volume editor Beth Kreitzer introduces us to the wisdom and insight of familiar and unfamiliar reformers alike as they unpack the riches of Luke's inspired "narrative of the things that have been accomplished among us" (1:1).

The church in North America today lives in a post-Christian society. Lee Beach helps the people of God today to develop a hopeful and prophetic imagination, a theology responsive to its context, and an exilic identity marked by faithfulness to God's mission in the world.

Leadership coach Daniel Allen knows what it's like to be summoned by God. In this honest guide, he shares how he heard God's wake-up call on his life and how we can thrive in our faith, vocation and relationships, all while addressing common pitfalls that trip us up as men. God is shaping you into a leader, and he is sending you out to serve others.

In this companion volume to The Universe Next Door, James W. Sire offers his refined definition of a worldview and addresses key questions about the history of worldview thinking, the existential and intellectual formation of worldviews, the public and private dimensions of worldviews and how worldview thinking can help us navigate an increasingly pluralistic universe.

Why do Christians gather together? Theoretically, it's to root and establish their faith in the God of the universe and to spur one another on in love and good deeds. Often, however, it's because that's just what Christians do. Scott Boren helps you lead your small group into deeper community even as you follow Jesus into God's mission.

Why bother with a church? An unthinkable question just a generation ago, this is now the first theological hurdle not just for millennials but for people of faith from all sectors. Erin Lane mines her own complicated relationship with the church to give fresh insight into the complexities and possibilities of a shared faith.

For many, the Psalms are the richest part of the Old Testament. Derek Kidner provides a fresh and penetrating guide to Psalms 73—150. He analyzes each psalm in depth, comments on interpretative questions and brings out the universal relevance of the texts. Formerly part of the Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries series, this introduction and commentary will inspire and deepen personal worship.

Just like we do today, the writers and chief actors of the Old Testament felt a deep longing for the presence of God. Tracing the themes of Eden, the temple, God's presence and the new creation, this book seeks to add fuel to the fire of the church's passion to fulfill its mission—demonstrating God's abiding presence to the ends of the earth.