Explore how to do theology virtuously through the lives of biblical characters.For many who are not initiated into the discipline, theology can feel either overwhelming or just plain boring, especially when theological discourse is disconnected from the lives we live. But for centuries, theology wasn't a disconnected discipline--but an invitation to respond to God from the deepest parts of who we are.Theologian Tim Gaines invites readers into the adventure of theology, breathing life into the study of God. More than an intellectual pursuit, Walking the Theological Life explores the lives of key biblical characters pursuing their own theological paths, helping us learn and grow in our own understanding of how to do theology in a virtuous fashion. Enter into the stories of biblical characters and discover the joy of the theological journey.
Named Best Major Publication by Concordia Historical Institute During the anxiety-laden period from the Great Depression through World War II to the Cold War, Americans found a welcome escape in the new medium of radio. Throughout radio's "Golden Age," religious broadcasting in particular contributed significantly to American culture. Yet its historic role often has been overlooked.In Ministers of a New Medium, Kirk D. Farney explores the work of two groundbreaking leaders in religious broadcasting: Fulton J. Sheen and Walter A. Maier. These clergymen and professors--one a Catholic priest, the other a Lutheran minister--each led the way in combining substantive theology and emerging technology to spread the gospel over the airwaves. Through weekly nationwide broadcasts, Maier's The Lutheran Hour and Sheen's Catholic Hour attracted listeners across a spectrum of denominational and religious affiliations, establishing their hosts--and Christian radio itself--as cultural and religious forces to be reckoned with.Farney examines how Sheen and Maier used their exceptional erudition, their sensitivity to the times, their powerful communication skills, and their unwavering Christian conviction, all for the purpose of calling the souls of listeners and the soul of a nation to repentance and godliness. Their combination of talents also brought their respective denominations, Roman Catholicism and Missouri Synod Lutheranism, from the periphery of the American religious landscape to a much greater level of recognition and acceptance. With careful attention to both the theological content and the cultural influence of these masters of a new medium, Farney's study sheds new light on the history of media and Christianity in the United States.
In this embodied, practical approach to the integration of psychology and faith, students are guided through the process of constructing a culturally informed, organic model of integration that works for them and for justice in our churches, communities, and world, with particular attention to the marginalized and oppressed.
What is my calling? How do I best live it out? Will my vocation change? In this third edition of his popular book, Gordon Smith addresses these questions and more, providing rich insight for all who long to courageously follow God's call. This is your invitation to discover your calling by listening to God and becoming a coworker with him.
Filled with helpful charts, appendixes, and study aids, this essential guide explores the detailed and often perplexing conversations concerning Paul's view of the divinity of Christ, bringing guidance and clarity to scholars' various articulations, including Larry Hurtado, Chris Tilling, N. T. Wright, and more.
This volume of the Reformation Commentary on Scripture guides readers through a wealth of early-modern commentary on the first 39 chapters of Isaiah. Preachers, scholars, and students will hear from familiar voices and discover lesser-known figures from a diversity of theological traditions, much of which appears here for the first time in English.
Friendships are difficult. When conflicts and differences over serious issues divide us, it's easy to give up on people and just walk away. Bryan Loritts mines the book of Philemon for insights into how, with God's work and steadfast love, even the most painful relationships that have ruptured can be transformed into friendships that endure.
Megachurch pastor Matthew Goodman is tired, focusing on the demands of his work. What he doesn't know about his new assistant Trish Card and her real reason for appearing will dismantle his world. In the #ChurchToo era, this novel invites readers to see life's shadowed edges--isolation, power, and abuse--illumined by the light of truth.
In this ESBT volume, Stephen Dempster traces the themes of kingship and kingdom throughout Scripture, illuminating the challenges, pain, and ultimate hope that the Bible offers. The story of God's kingship is ultimately the fulfillment of a promise to defeat sin and death and to establish a world of peace and justice.
"As 'roots' and 'wings' show up in famous quotes, so they do in this book. Rooted in Christian thought and the long tradition of integration, the authors demonstrate a deep understanding of Christian mental health care. At the same time, they challenge us to grow wings, to be innovative and bold as we confront the needs of our world alongside beautiful possibilities for the church. The stories are poignant, the writing is effective, the reflection questions are wise and challenging, and the authors are leaders in the field. This is a fantastic book. Be inspired to imagine the possibilities Beyond the Clinical Hour."Mark R. McMinn, author of Sin and Grace in Christian Counseling and professor emeritus at George Fox University"Beyond the Clinical Hour by Sells, Trout, and Sells is a comprehensive and very helpful guide to how Christian mental health professionals can partner with churches to deal with the mental health crisis before us. It includes integration of Christian approaches to mental health and a biblical theology for the foundation of Christian care. It also emphasizes and covers in detail the topics of supervision, consultation, church development and evaluation, and the ethics and economics of care. Highly recommended!"Siang-Yang Tan, senior professor of clinical psychology at Fuller Theological Seminary and author of Counseling and Psychotherapy: A Christian Perspective"This is one of the most unique, timely, and long-overdue resources for those committed to meeting the pressing needs of the men and women in today's world. The authors give us a fresh and much-needed biblically based, socially informed, clinically sound, and comprehensive model of providing meaningful Christian care. In some ways it provides an invaluable paradigm shift for understanding the essential role of the counselor and the church working together. This encouraging, empowering, and vision-casting resource is a book that you'll be reading more than once and wanting to share with your friends."Gary J. Oliver, executive director of the Center for Healthy Relationships and professor emeritus of psychology and practical theology at John Brown University"An insightful look into the mental health crisis, this book offers innovative solutions that emphasize the collaboration of pastors and counselors. Rather than abiding by the current default of church and mental health systems working at odds with one another, the authors present a vision for teamwork and unity of purpose. Their ideas are truly integration in action, ushering in a new era of creativity for pastors and Christian mental health professionals. Rife with examples of strategic partnership, Beyond the Clinical Hour is a must-read for pastors, counselors, and churchgoers who want to think outside the box to address the mental health challenges we face."Kristen Kansiewicz, assistant professor at Evangel University and a licensed professional counselor
Over the course of his career, early Christian theologian Didymus the Blind wrote numerous theological treatises and exegetical works. This ACT volume presents Didymus's lectures on portions of the Psalms as they were originally presented to his students, allowing us to learn at Didymus's feet and find comfort in the Word of God.
In 1880, George MacDonald self-published a long poem in book form--seven-line stanzas for each day of the year expressing his longings, struggles, and joys in everyday life. Now in this deluxe edition, the complete text of MacDonald's classic devotional resource is available with blank journaling pages and new annotations by Timothy Larsen.
Most lawyers, from Wall Street to the county seat, spend their days drafting documents, negotiating with other attorneys, trying cases, researching the law, and counseling clients. How does this everyday law practice relate to Jesus' call to follow him in servanthood?With decades of experience in the law office, courtroom, and classroom, Robert F. Cochran Jr. explores Jesus' call on lawyers to serve both individual clients and the common good. Cochran pulls back the curtain with stories from his own career and from the legal community to address a wide range of challenges posed by law practice, including counseling clients, planning trial tactics, navigating tensions with coworkers, and handling temptations toward cynicism and greed. This honest and accessible bookshares wisdom from an experienced practitioner and master teacheraddresses real-world situations and relationships experienced by most lawyerscharts the way toward a truly Christian practice of everyday lawFor students considering a career in law as well as for seasoned attorneys, The Servant Lawyer casts an encouraging vision for how lawyers can love and serve their neighbor in every facet of their work.
Now with a larger format and larger typeface with a durable cover and sturdy binding, this pew format of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer: International Edition brings one of the most beloved liturgical texts in the Christian church to lay worshippers and churches for regular corporate worship.
Plenty of books diagnose our post-Christian malaise. Here's a dynamic solution.The post-Christian cultural turn is creating the conditions for a crisis of confidence in the church and in pastoral ministry. While such changes can be disruptive and disconcerting, our new cultural reality makes the present moment a uniquely exciting time to reimagine churches that bear witness to Christ. How do we move beyond cookie-cutter approaches (which may have worked in the past) to building the creative, compassionate, and incarnational churches we long for?Biblical scholar and accomplished jazz pianist Mark Glanville plays with a metaphor of improvisation to chart twelve themes as the key "notes" on which Christian communities play as they bear witness to God in the world today. Building on these two dynamic traditions--jazz music and Christian community--Improvising Church unfolds a biblical, practical, and inventive vision for churches seeking to receive and extend the healing of Christ.
How might we reclaim the universality of the church without losing its local situatedness? In this SCDS volume, C. Ryan Fields juxtaposes the Free Church tradition with its Episcopal counterpart, arguing that the Free Church tradition can helpfully inform our understanding of the one body of Christ while remaining true to its local roots.
Diversity is a high value for younger generations-but too often, they're not finding it in the church. This research-based, theologically informed, and practical book offers a wealth of practical experience and stories from the trenches of multiethnic ministry and holds out a vision for true diversity taken from the pages of Scripture.
Believe it or not, the book of Genesis might have been the most Darwinian text in the ancient world. And throughout the opening books of Scripture, we find ideas that would also become prominent insights of the biologist Charles Darwin interlaced with the Bible's one-of-a-kind origin story. Key plot markers come to the surface again and again, driving the history of Israel and the Jesus movement forward to its cosmic completion.Biblical scholar Dru Johnson calls us beyond typical creation-versus-evolution debates to explore the conceptual worlds underlying both Scripture and evolutionary science. He points toward remarkable continuities and discontinuities between the Bible's central concerns and those of Darwin and modern science--ideas so fundamental that they can easily escape our notice.The Hebrew creation accounts, Johnson argues, weave together three key themes on the origins and development of humans and animals, themes that are also essentially Darwinian: the connection among scarcity, cooperation, and violencethe fitness of creatures to their environmentsthe genealogical aims of sexual reproductionCan the ideas of Scripture and evolutionary science be mutually illuminating? When we enter deeply into the metaphysical imagination of the biblical authors, we discover surprising ways in which the two accounts converge--and conflict.
Children with disabilities often struggle to fit in, but church can be a place where everyone can belong! This beautifully illustrated children's book offers a message of inclusion and belonging, helping us understand the experiences and feelings of children with special needs and reminding us that we have so much in common.
One-third of our waking lives is spent at work. Work is where we make culture and come into contact with our world. Work is central to God's mission to redeem souls, systems, and structures. And God works through our work to bring hope to the brokenness and fallenness of our surrounding culture.The gospel of Jesus Christ is good news for the world, and that includes the transformation of our ordinary work into a sacred calling. Ross Chapman and Ryan Tafilowski show how work is a way to love God, serve our neighbors, and demonstrate the gospel. With a broader understanding of God's work in the world, we are able to engage our daily work as part of how God makes all things new.This guide invites you to reflect on the meaning and purpose of your life's work and to transform your work into service to those around you.
This accessible and compelling introduction draws us into the wide-ranging narrative of Luke-Acts to discover how Luke frames the life of Jesus and of the first disciples. These two books, when read together, tell a cohesive narrative about Jesus, the Church, and the mission of God-with implications for the whole our lives today.
Through personal experiences and the mentorship of Black Christians, former police officer Daniel Reinhardt's eyes were opened to the dehumanization, systemic racism, and brutality endemic to U.S. police culture. Laying out a history of policing in the U.S., Reinhardt offers a new model based on servant leadership, not dominance and control.
Women now have professional opportunities beyond what previous generations ever imagined. But as our roles in public life have grown, the church's vision for women's work and calling has not grown with us, leaving us feeling isolated and under-resourced. Christian women face multiple tensions between home and work, navigating complex gender dynamics in the workplace and social pressure to hold together picture-perfect lives.Joanna Meyer addresses a critical gap in Christian women's discipleship by speaking to the roles we play in public and professional life. Acknowledging the brokenness of workplaces and industries, she provides a theological framework for women's work and influence and offers resources for the challenges of working life. This book will help you: Ignite your vocational imagination, with a biblical framework for work and calling.Build strength from within, with emotional and spiritual health to support your work.Navigate common workplace challenges, with practical tools to help your influence grow.Pursue purposeful relationships, collaborating and building strong relationships with others.Learn from the lived experience of godly female leaders and discover how women can have a redemptive impact through our work.
We need to rediscover lament to heal and hope again.We've lost the practice of lament. Most people don't know how to process personal or communal mourning and instead struggle to honor their tears, vulnerability, and the full weight of these disillusioning times. But tending our grief might be exactly what we need to reimagine a way forward.Tracing her difficult experiences of a catastrophic home fire, a threat to her child's well-being, and other devastating losses and upheavals, Terra McDaniel offers a clear framework for expressing heartache and burdens. McDaniel says, "Lament is surprisingly hopeful. As strange as that may sound now, I promise it's true. It's an act of trust both that we can face pain and survive, and that God cares about our anger, confusion, doubt, grief, and fear. Lament refuses to bury pain or, just as dangerous, to give in to despair."Hopeful Lament makes space for the powerful act of crying out before a loving God and offers provoking reflection questions, embodied practices, and applications for families with children. Learn how to journey gently through suffering.
Christmas celebrates Christ's birth; Epiphany manifests his glory. Many of us associate Epiphany with the visit of the Magi but don't know much more about it. In this Fullness of Time volume, priest and theologian Fleming Rutledge expounds the primary biblical texts and narrative arc of the season, inviting us to discover God's glory anew.
In this volume of the Reformation Commentary on Scripture, Reformation scholar David Fink guides readers through a wealth of early modern commentary on Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Song of Songs. Drawing upon a variety of resources, this volume provides resources for contemporary preachers, scholars, and readers.
Israel neglected the needy, gained riches through exploitation, and indulged in inauthentic religious practices. With searing clarity and daring hope, Amos calls God's people to repent. This revised BST volume exposes and explains Amos's prophetic call for Israel's repentance showing the message's astonishing relevance for today.
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