InterVarsity Press Books

In The Challenge of Easter, adapted from his bestselling Challenge of Jesus, historian, biblical scholar and author N. T. Wright takes a step back from the hoopla surrounding Easter to examine its earliest beginnings and radical claims. He shows how those claims extend even to our day, where to celebrate Easter is to receive an invitation to live as though God is among us, making everything new.

Psychologist and spiritual director David G. Benner illuminates the spirituality of self-discovery. He shows how understanding yourself leads you to better discern God's purposes for you, and, paradoxically, how becoming more like Christ allows you to become more fully yourself.

James Bryan Smith believes the gospel can transform your life, not just alter your eternal destiny. In the Apprentice Series he helps you to develop a discipleship that matters by replacing the flawed narratives of your heart with the truths God reveals in his word about himself, the Christian life and his Church. A Renovaré Resource.

The Gospel of Mark is a fast-paced narrative that seems to be designed to push the reader into a dramatic confrontation with the person and power of Jesus. The individual sessions in this study guide by Christopher R. Smith follow the natural divisions of Mark's text to help us see this great apologetic masterpiece for what it is.

This A to Z collection of countries and people groups makes a great beginner's guide to missional prayer and an exciting learning experience for kids. Short stories and attractive full color design help children in the West relate to foreign lands and people. Ideal for families, churches, and Christian schools.

Unique among reference books on the Bible, this series of Old and New Testament dictionaries presents the fruit of evangelical biblical scholarship--committed to the authority of Scripture, utlilizing the best of critical methods and maintaining dialog with contemporary research and challenges facing the church.

In this upbeat book Robbie Castleman shows parents how to guide their toddlers and teenagers to participate more fully in the worship of the church. This significantly revised and updated edition includes a new preface and new appendices with ideas for children's sermons and intergenerational community.

What does it mean to be Asian and Christian? Tom Lin provides twelve inductive Bible studies for Asian Americans, exploring themes of personal identity, parental expectations, perfectionism, shame, grace and more.

Operation World is the definitive global prayer and spiritual condition handbook that will help focus your heart and life towards God's passion for His glory.

The pain of the world demands our activism, but the urgency and pervasiveness of need distracts us from our own need to find ourselves in Christ, and makes us increasingly vulnerable to burnout--both personally and communally. In this book Phileena Heuertz tells one such story of a fragmented life, showing how God awakens us to the truth about us, and the truth about him, as we embark on the journey he lays out for each of us.